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And here it is, the round 2 Masterlist: Mumia Abu-Jamal - deadsox Jack Arends - Joey Russ*, GreatUncleBulgaria, maryport, Book Arno - Djemba Eileen Ash - maryport Amitabh Bachchan - An Fear Beag Lynne Reid Banks - Yorkshire Zinnat Barkatuah - grobler Bob Barker - clorox Mick Bates - Annami Sonali Bendre - Wormfarmer Jana Bennett - GreatUncleBulgaria, deadsox, alt obits guy Tim Bilton - Wormfarmer, GreatUncleBulgaria, alt obits guy, Quim Kat Bjelland - deadsox, msc, alt obits guy, Quim, maryport, Chorizo, Reptile, Book, ThereWillBeDeaths7, BabyBlue*, Grim, DDT*, Annami, Spade, Perhaps, Banana, HDS, clorox Rob Bolland - Joey Russ, Grim Abdelaziz Bouteflika - Bibliogryphon*, theoldlady* Allan Bradford - Banana Borger Breeveld - An Fear Beag Jeff Bridges - Etush Lawrence Brooks - deadsox Karima Brown - DDT Denise Bryer - grobler Reuven Bulka - alt obits guy, Perhaps Gary Burgess - Joey Russ, BuffaloPhil, Quim Abdullah the Butcher - msc Anne Buydens - markb4, GreatUncleBulgaria, BuffaloPhil Paul Canoville - clorox Fernando Cardoso - grobler Pat Carroll - Bibliogryphon, DeathByArsenic Jimmy Carter - theoldlady, ThereWillBeDeaths7 Nadia Cattouse - Yorkshire Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk - BabyBlue, Fear Beag, Annami, Spade, CalebH Bernadette Chirac - DeathByArsenic Kim Chul-min - Chorizo Beverly Cleary - Bibliogryphon, markb4 John “Zip” Connoly - Book, HDS Joan Copeland - markb4 Jim Crockett Jr - Reptile, An Fear Beag, Spade, Perhaps, Banana, HDS Chris Croucher - Banana Michael Cullen - Etush, BuffaloPhil, Quim, Grim Wayne DaCosta - Spade, clorox Dennis DePerro - Banana Paddy Doherty - Joey Russ Shannen Doherty - Etush, markb4 Bob Dole - theoldlady, Wormfarmer*, GreatUncleBulgaria, deadsox, msc, BuffaloPhil, alt obits guy, Quim, Chorizo, Reptile, Book, ThereWillBeDeaths7, BabyBlue, Fear Beag, Grim, DDT, Annami, Banana, HDS, clorox Francisca Celsa dos Santo - Chorizo Derek Draper - alt obits guy Orlando Drummond - grobler TJ Ducklo - Wormfarmer Miroslava Duma - alt obits guy Luis Echeverría - theoldlady, Wormfarmer, Chorizo Edwin Edwards - BabyBlue Maria Farmer - Perhaps Emilio Fede - BabyBlue Hester Ford - deadsox Richard Franklin - Perhaps Bill Freehan - Wormfarmer Terry Funk - clorox Saturnino de la Fuente Garcia - deadsox Steve Gleason - Perhaps Jimmy Greaves - GreatUncleBulgaria Jungle Grrrl - Chorizo David Gulpilil - theoldlady, GreatUncleBulgaria, Djemba, msc, maryport, Grim, Annami, HDS Mustafa Ben Halim - Quim, Fear Beag, Grim, HDS Sarah Harding - Bibliogryphon, Etush, Wormfarmer, Yorkshire Alcee Hastings - Wormfarmer John Hemingway - maryport Marsha Hunt - Bibliogryphon Ion Illiescu - CalebH Emerich Jenei - CalebH Glynis Johns - markb4 Johnny Johnson - maryport Nabindra Raj Joshi - Book, Fear Beag, Annami, Spade, Banana, clorox Jyrki Kasvi - Joey Russ, deadsox*, Quim, Grim, Banana Elizabeth Kelly - Yorkshire Katherine, Duchess of Kent - Bibliogryphon Henry Kissinger - CalebH Dilip Kumar - BuffaloPhil Shanta Kumar - maryport Guy Lafluer - Joey Russ Rainer Langhans - Book Bruno Latour - DeathByArsenic, DDT Jeanette Lee - HDS Norman Lloyd - markb4, BuffaloPhil, Annami Peter Lorimer - GreatUncleBulgaria*, Djemba*, BuffaloPhil*, alt obits guy*, DeathByArsenic*, maryport*, Chorizo*, Reptile*, Book*, ThereWillBeDeaths7*, msc, Quim*, BabyBlue, Fear Beag*, Grim*, DDT, Annami*, Spade*, Perhaps*, Banana*, CalebH*, HDS*, clorox* James Lovelock - DeathByArsenic Terry Lubbock - ThereWillBeDeaths7 Steve Ludzik - alt obits guy, ThereWillBeDeaths7 Josip Manolic - Bibliogryphon Doreen Mantle - Yorkshire Robert Marchand - DeathByArsenic Pat Martino - Joey Russ, Grim Ally McLaws - ThereWillBeDeaths7 Philipp Meckenbaucker - alt obits guy Litsa Menounos - msc, Chorizo, Reptile, Book Princess Mikasa - Djemba, msc, CalebH Sandra Milo - BabyBlue Margo Minco - CalebH George Mitchell - Djemba Yu Mo Lin - Chorizo, Reptile, DDT, Annami, Fear Beag Gerd Muller - Etush, ThereWillBeDeaths7 Tony Murray - Djemba Alexy Nalvany - Etush Giorgio Napolitano - BabyBlue Zak Nilsson - Reptile Lee Noble - Chorizo, Book, DDT, Perhaps Linda Nolan - ThereWillBeDeaths7 Helmut Oberlander - grobler Yoko Ono - markb4 Leonor Oyarzum - Yorkshire Boris Pahor - Bibliogryphon Tom Parker - Etush, markb4*, theoldlady Luis Palau - msc*, alt obits guy, Grim, Spade, HDS Trevor Peacock - Yorkshire Nehemiah Persoff - grobler Prince Philip - Joey Russ, grobler*, markb4, theoldlady, Yorkshire*, Etush*, Djemba, deadsox, DeathByArsenic, Quim, Chorizo, Book, ThereWillBeDeaths7, DDT, Perhaps, Banana, HDS, clorox, Fear Beag Leslie Phillips - Bibliogryphon, theoldlady, GreatUncleBulgaria, BabyBlue Song Ping - Yorkshire Micheline Presle - DeathByArsenic Sarah Lilian Priest - grobler, maryport Kumala Pujari - Fear Beag, Grim, Perhaps Albert Raboteau - Reptile Lucille Radon - deadsox Julia Reichert - Joey Russ Archie Roach - Reptile Rodion Rosca - Joey Russ Yoo Sang-chul - Etush, Wormfarmer, BuffaloPhil Jaya Sawant - Reptile Gregory Scarpa Jr - msc Uwe Seeler - Yorkshire Mohammed Sharif - Book Rene Simonot - markb4, Annami, CalebH Pat Simms - Spade Queen SiriKit - BabyBlue Tom Smith - Bibliogryphon, theoldlady, BuffaloPhil Mihai Sora - BabyBlue Rae Spoon - Perhaps Chicky Starr - Spade Susie Steiner - Reptile, Spade Belinda Sykes - GreatUncleBulgaria Kane Tanaka - Djemba, maryport Peter Tobin - Djemba Ruthie Tompson - grobler, markb4, theoldlady, Djemba, BuffaloPhil, maryport Rose Tremain - deadsox, DeathByArsenic Jean Louis-Trintignant - GreatUncleBulgaria, DeathByArsenic Maire Mhac an tSaoi - CalebH Joe Tunnell - Spade, Banana Miguel Van Damme - Joey Russ Esteban Volkov - CalebH Mary Ward - Yorkshire Ghulam Nabi Waseem - clorox James Watson - Bibliogryphon Rembert Weakland - msc Doddie Weir - ThereWillBeDeaths7 Tom Weiskopf - Etush, Wormfarmer James Whale - grobler, Etush, theoldlady, Wormfarmer, Djemba, BuffaloPhil, Quim, Annami, clorox Betty White - grobler Frank Williams - DDT Ken Wilkinson - DDT Mila Ximenez - DeathByArsenic, Quim, HDS Goodwill Zwelithini - msc, DDT Stefan Zywotko - CalebH

Frank Mills Death Notice: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/248250/mills Billy Williams in Corrie, Fig Newton in Rumpole, in Terrror of the Autons etc etc. DDP Pick. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0589992/

In other words - stuff may or not have happened, come back in 5 mins for more news on stuff which may or may not have happened from our correspondant on things which may or not happen, Crem.

Commiserations go out to Joemoneypenny, natonian2013, The Old Crem, Charles De Gaulle, Gooseberry Crumble, and GuyFromFuture. Better luck next year? On to round 2!

We won’t. But don’t fret, when it does happen, Crem will link us to 14,000,000 tweets about it.

What's that hat?

@The Old Crem, was 4, no wait, 5 fucking posts really necessary? Also, include a brief summary of the tweet’s content either before or after you link it in your post in case the tweets are deleted. (Not just ‘update’)

Yes, I've always (ALWAYS!!) wondered about this. I mean, the House terminology was always very precise, i.e. House of York / Lancaster even though they were both basically House of Plantagenet. Or more similarly, House Windsor (or Saxo-Coburg-Gotha) was House Hanover, until the death of Queen Victoria. So yes, with Charles House Mountbatten would begin. Yet, I think they are not going to change it. The male line is a bit anachronistic today. I think they originally moved to goalposts because nobody liked the Moutbattens (who were Battenburgs until 1917) because they were too foreign. Churchill hated the idea of a House of Mountbatten. If you look at every major house in peacetime, they ‘ended with a lass’. The Tudors ended with Elizabeth I. The Stuarts ended with Queen Anne (although it could be claimed the House of Orange ended the House of Stuart in 1688/9). The Hanoverians ended with Queen Victoria. The only practical reason I can see for not allowing the House of Mountbatten to succeed is the recent change to allow female born heirs to be placed in order of birth before younger brothers because: a) if you had three Queen Regnant in a row like in Holland the royal house would have to change more frequently. b) let’s say William was a girl and he married Mr Middleton. As Royals start marrying more middle class do we want a House of Middleton or a House of Smith? These are the things that keep me awake at night...

"Could have been an email"

As mentioned yesterday: Today is the day. Happy 94th Birthday!

In my defence, I was at work all day and it was a pretty obscure name, so obscure in fact there's no mention of it on Google.

Oh yeah, and who’s ready for the round 3 draw. I’m sure not. But here it is: DevonDeathTrip or Annami vs BuffaloPhil or CaptainChorizo Spade_Cooley or Grim Up North vs HDS or Clorox Bleachman Perhaps or ThereWillBeDeaths7 vs Gcreptile or Baby Blue Grobler or msc vs Book or An Fear Beag Banana or GreatUncleBulgaria vs Djemba Djemba or alt obits guy Markb4 or maryportfuncity vs Bibliogryphon or EtushIsPushingUpTheDaisies Quim Reaper or Wormfarmer vs Theoldlady or deadsox DeathByArsenic or Joey Russ vs YorkshireBanker or CalebH

I once knew someone who had a one clawed crab for a pet. I never understood why...

Your suspicions are correct. This is definitely him as there are no other matches in the records even remotely similar: 1940 United States Federal Census: Name: Dean Higuchi Age: 7 Home: Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii So born 1932–33.

Pandemic or no pandemic, that's a long retirement by one of the Funk Brothers standards!

Wouldn't have thought they'd use a regular ambulance for that though

A picture of the discharge.

More than likely Phillip and the way they are covering it all up pretty obvious he is going home to die as usually when he is discharged they make a big song and dance of him walking out even when he looked like they had dug him up a couple of Christmases ago.

One hit in January, back up to 6 hits in February. Back in business. QR: 8 CS: 5 DL: 4 EDIT: Total up to 8 with Trevor Peacock’s death.

Hetty Wainthorps brother in law too. You'd expect an obit before long.

Grobler and I have a rarity in Cup play by looks of it - 22 seperate picks among the two teams. (He has more outright uniques however.) Good luck to all.

Monday:

Given Woods' history, it was disappointing to hear the sheriff say in his press conference that blood would not be taken for toxicology. Guess cars just roll themselves violently, in California, when a celebrity is behind the wheel. This actually speaks to why this thread may have some legitimacy: everyone enables him. When he destroyed his own car in Florida while all pilled up and was subsequently arrested the sports media was quick to let bygones be bygones as soon as his PR team released a form-letter apology. Do not recall anything resembling real apology, for his actions, ever crossing his lips. Nobody in the golf world held him accountable for completely blowing off Arnold Palmer's memorial service after he spent the days before getting busted up at the Ryder Cup. Hell, you're not even allowed to ask about that. The protective PR bubble in which he's been allowed to live has been his downfall.