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Doesn’t actually have COVID. It was a diversion tactic so he could carry out a coup in Myanmar. It’s on Wikipedia so must be true, right?

Here we go then, the round 1 masterlist: Michael Adebowale - The Old Crem Michael Anthony - GuyFromFuture Jack Arends - GreatUncleBulgaria Arno - Joemoneypenny, BabyBlue, Djemba Djemba Anne Banker - Yorkshire Banker Lynne Reid Banks - Yorkshire Banker Ady Barkan - ThereWillBeDeaths7 Zinnat Barkatullah - BabyBlue Jason Becker - BuffaloPhil Harry Belafonte - GuyFromFuture Tim Bilton - BuffaloPhil Sepp Blatter - The Old Crem Rob Bolland - ThereWillBeDeaths7* Elisabeta Bostan - CalebH Stan Bowles - nantonian2013 Gary Burgess - BuffaloPhil* Anne Buydens - markb4, GreatUncleBulgaria James Caan - GuyFromFuture Juan Carlos of Spain - ThereWillBeDeaths7 Jimmy Carter - The Old Crem Rosalynn Carter - The Old Crem Constantino Chiwenga - ThereWillBeDeaths7 Beverly Cleary - markb4 Eugenia Cooney - Charles de Gaulle Joan Copeland - markb4 Steve Cotterill - The Old Crem Michael Cullen - BuffaloPhil Dai Davies - Yorkshire Banker*, GreatUncleBulgaria, BuffaloPhil, Djemba Djemba Narayan Debnath - The Old Crem Alain Delon - BabyBlue Dustin Diamond - ThereWillBeDeaths7 Shannen Doherty - markb4, nantonian2013 Bob Dole - GreatUncleBulgaria, nantonian2013 Derek Draper - The Old Crem Edwin Edwards - BabyBlue Winnie Ewing - Gooseberry Crumble Emilio Fede - BabyBlue Marian Fuks - GreatUncleBulgaria Sourav Gangulay - TheOldCrem Greg Gilbert - Charles de Gaulle Mikhail Gorbachev - Charles de Gaulle Louis Gossett Jr - Charles De Gaulle Milford Graves - BabyBlue Jungle Grrrl - CalebH David Gulpilil - Djemba Djemba Gail Halvorsen - GreatUncleBulgaria Sarah Harding - BuffaloPhil Amy Winifried Hawkins - GreatUncleBulgaria Gloria Henry - CalebH Nick Hitchon - BuffaloPhil Mary Holt - Gooseberry Crumble Hideki Hosaka - Joemoneypenny Tian Hua - Joemoneypenny Englebert Humperdick - The Old Crem Ion Iliescu - CalebH Antonio Inoki - Djemba Djemba Ironmouse - Charles de Gaulle Katherine Jackson - GuyFromFuture* Dilip Kumar - Charles de Gaulle, nantonian2013 Guy Lafluer - GuyFromFuture Cleo Laine - Yorkshire Banker Phyllida Law - Yorkshire Banker Rush Limbaugh - markb4, GreatUncleBulgaria*, Gooseberry Crumble, BuffaloPhil, ThereWillBeDeaths7, Djemba Djemba Norman Lloyd - markb4, ThereWillBeDeaths7 Lisa Lu - Joemoneypenny Tony Marchi - Yorkshire Banker Kenneth McAlpine - Yorkshire Banker Carlos Menem - CalebH*, Yorkshire Banker, Joemoneypenny, GreatUncleBulgaria, BabyBlue, Charles de Gaulle, TheOldCrem, ThereWillBeDeaths7, Djemba Djemba* Litsa Menounos - Joemoneypenny Terry Medwin - Yorkshire Banker Princess Mikasa - Joemoneypenny, Djemba Djemba Marga Minco - GuyFromFuture Captain Tom Moore - nantonian2013*, Djemba Djemba Gerd Muller - ThereWillBeDeaths7 Giorgio Napolitano - BabyBlue Alex Navalny - GreatUncleBulgaria Olivia Newton-John - Charles de Gaulle Linda Nolan - ThereWillBeDeaths7 Nancy Olson - nantonian2013 Yoko Ono - markb4, nantonain2013 Leonor Oyarzurn - GuyFromFuture Abel Pacheco - Gooseberry Crumble Tom Parker - markb4* Vicky Phelan - BuffaloPhil Prince Philip - markb4 Johnny Pierson - GuyFromFuture Lester Piggott - GuyFromFuture Micheline Presle - Joemoneypenny Thomas Pynchon - nantonian2013 Raoni - Charles de Gaulle Queen Ratna - Joemoneypenny, BabyBlue Harry Reid - nantonian2013 Maria Riva - Gooseberry Crumble Quando Rondo - GuyFromFuture Linda Rondstadt - Gooseberry Crumble Rodion Rosca - CalebH Art Rupe - Gooseberry Crumble Władysław Siemaszko - CalebH Renee Simonot - CalebH, markb4 Carlos Slim - The Old Crem Tom Smith - Charles de Gaulle, BuffaloPhil William Smithers - Gooseberry Crumble Mihai Sora - CalebH June Spencer - Yorkshire Banker Leon Spinks - CalebH, BabyBlue*, ThereWillBeDeaths7 Kane Tanaka - Djemba Djemba Tsin Ting - Joemoneypenny Peter Tobin - Djemba Djemba Ruthie Tompson - markb4, Gooseberry Crumble*, BabyBlue Bill Treacher - Gooseberry Crumble Jean Louis- Trintignant - nantonian2013 Desmond Tutu - Gooseberry Crumble Mary Ward- Yorkshire Banker Doddie Weir - GreatUncleBulgaria Tom Weiskopf - nantonian2013 James Whale - BuffaloPhil, Djemba Djemba Joanne Woodward - Charles de Gaulle Rhoda Wurtelw - GuyFromFuture Mila Ximenez - CalebH Qin Yi - Joemoneypenny*

Please tell me that Yorkshire hasn't picked his own Mum on a team I've just checked the rules, and apparently there is nothing to stop anyone bumping off a relative to get a hit in this game! (providing they get a QO of course) It would be bad form to do so just to win a first round match though. Now the final on the other hand .......

Rebecca Kotane, widow of ANC stalwart Moses Kotane, prematurely dead at 108.

Ernst Gottfried Mahrenholz, former judge and politician, has died. https://m.tagesspiegel.de/politik/minister-funkhausdirektor-verfassungsrechtler-ernst-gottfried-mahrenholz-ist-im-alter-von-91-jahren-gestorben/26870142.html He was a former Minister for culture in Lower Saxony, former director of Hannover's broadcasting station "Funkhaus Hannover", a former judge at the Federal Constitutional Court and a former DDP-Pick as well: http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2019/celebs_M.html#mahreney19

Well, the time has come. Congratulations to Annami and Perhaps. Both of you will compete in round 2 and I apologize that you had to spend time getting a team together for naught. Masterlist to come up in a bit...

So now there’s under ten minutes left to go, and I am still waiting on two teams who seem to have gone completely MIA, and frankly I doubt either of them will submit at this point. This is not the first time that someone did not submit their team on time if it still holds up, but it would be the first time it happened in round 1. This is really unacceptable from the two non submitters, and I’m not just saying this just because I’m the host. I have now sent four messages to both of the remaining members who have yet to send in a team, and they did not even respond to the messages I sent. So they will get disqualified if they don’t send in a team very quickly. Beyond that though, this sort of thing is really much more stressful in round 1. In the past when a team did not submit on time, there is usually a loser of some kind who gets brought into their place to replace the non submitted team, but because this is the first round, I can’t do that. So two teams now get a bye in round 1, and while it may be good for them to relax a bit, they also had to go through the pain of getting together a team, only for nothing to happen with them. Which means they wasted time to get something together. Beyond that, not only is it disrespectful to those two competitors, but had the two members not say they were competing only to go MIA, then two different members could’ve gotten a bye this time. Instead, because of their irresponsibility, the two members who would’ve gotten a bye had they not said their in were forced into this round that could’ve completely not happened. So four different people are affected by this one way or another and this is really disrespectful to all four of them. Now sometimes IRL stuff does happen, and it could prevent you from submitting a team. I understand that things do come back, but if this happens in the future you need to be honest with the host that you are unable to submit something on time so that they can prepare for the next round ahead of time without last minute stress. Needless to say, neither of these individuals will appear on a bye list for the 2022 cup and will be forced to compete in round 1 if they decide to enter. In fact, I am pretty tempted to bar both of them from competing in the cup again, but since banning hasn’t happened in the past with non submitters I won’t do that. I just want to make it very clear that not communicating with the host may not only affect the stress of their work but it could also affect other competitors as well as this time shows.

He is awful.

Yes, she was worth keeping an eye on when younger, but now she is sadly dead.

Great quiz for football fans. I got 11/18 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55575537

Yes he does. He is the 50th person on the Death List for 2021 - and now his page is now linked to that. The original page was actually made earlier in 2020.

Iconic.

Do we go back to saying Burma as well?

Hugh Fraser looks a bit like Nicholas Parsons, but I agree they all look fine health wise.

Thought you weren't coming back.

I know who they all are, bar about ten. But some of those sound vaguely familiar, and some are probably "Oh, him/her" type names.

Reading his Wiki (I know) page, seems he had a bit of trouble similar to Pele in the marital department earlier in his life. But fair play judging by age of his daughter he managed to "get the train into Paddington station" sometime in his fifties....

Well after raising all that money for covid it’s only fair he has a go with it.

Even if by some miracle he survives this and returns home shortly he is going to be weakened by this as after all he is 100, will be surprised if he makes it to his Birthday in April and amazed if he makes it into next year, just a matter of time. Although i wish him well and hope he recovers, the coverage over Sir Tom Moore's exploits have gone well over the top, a Knighthood for essentially walking up and down your Garden with a walker and all the other accolades, he personally didn't donate a penny to the NHS it was the public who sent the money in. It did get to the stage when he was never off the TV, crazy really, their are people who have done a hell of a lot more for this country during the pandemic than Tom Moore did but don't get the recognition because they are not old and not a media darling like Tom Moore is.

Nobody should be flying anywhere, nor should they have been since the start of this. If you leave those corridors open, the physical distances are entirely irrelevant. Anybody who can't forego a foreign holiday for a year is a self centred twat. 80% of flights are taken by 20% of people i.e. those who have the funds AND the time, so not only well off, but not well off because they are working 24/7. Business travel? My arse, do it on the phone or zoom videoconferencing. Nobody who runs an airline is poor, a load of them are state owned anyway, other businesses are going bust left right and centre, yes they provide some jobs, so do a lot of other things. It's not like we shouldn't be cutting it out for climate reasons anyway.

Whatever else Henry Kissinger is, I doubt he is poor.

Who's Halsey? Anyway, she's pregnant. Yes, I'm this bored.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lee-rigby-killer-29-fighting-23377940 Michael Adebowale, one of the convicted Killers of British soldier Lee Rigby ,is on oxygen in hospital after contracting coronavirus.

The Vice President takes over.