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Thanks to all of those running this year's game. After a couple of years in the deathlisting wilderness, I have entered Pity Da Foolz once again. For those interested: Clare Marx (J) George Alagiah Bob Barker Jana Bennett Russell Bishop Gary Burgess Shannen Doherty BIll Hayden Alwen Hughes Olivia Newton-John Linda Nolan Tom Parker Frank Pritchard (a NZ rep rugby league player who was "fighting for his life" with Covid early on New Year's Day Brisbane time-but has since largely recovered so most likely a wasted pick, but good on him ) Carol Raye (English actress who made her name in Australia on Blankety Blanks amongst other things) Vic Seixas Tom Smith Micky Stewart Doddie Weir Tom Weiskopf James Whale I've tried for a few uniques (Pritchard, Raye. Stewart, Seixas, Hughes) and most others will be Drop 40 but I've stumbled tactically by selecting Marx who will be neither as my joker. Good luck to all competitors, administrators and, of course, those selected on all the teams. Too late for poor old Gary Burgess. Cheers Dr_T

Yep. A backwards shithole country.

I have said this before but Republicans need to start having the conversation now about the future of the monarchy because their voices will be drowned out in an orgy of nationalistic eulogising when the Queen dies

Instead of just throwing random names on to the thread, perhaps you can explain why you're making that suggestion and who they are, also what they're famous/infamous for. No point in saying they're getting old, that's no excuse.

Yesterday the 3rd Baron Monk Bretton (wiki), who is 97, broke the record to become the person who has held a peerage for the longest time ever (88 years and 158 days). He used to sit in Parliament… from 1948(!) to 1999.

Voted Buzz. Shatner has had too many alien encounters and has benefitted from superior medical treatment.

100% this is Katherine (actress) died in 2001 https://radaris.com/~Katherine-Fricke/1393929347

Tommy Wiseau, if that counts as a "younger" ""star""

Come on Goose... she only gets mentioned on this Forum about 6-8 times a year!

and I see someone just mentioned George Lucas as the greatest living director and now I have to lay down and think about it for the next 45 minutes.

Not at all, but you may have missed the point that the Star is so low-brow it's fairly popular in some high-brow places on the back of it's entertainment value (summat Star journalists are well aware of). I'll confess to buying the shape shifting lizards edition yesterday just to see how they wriggled out of the committment on the headline (skilfully as it goes - by quoting an opinion poll and making it clear what percentage of younger people were more likely persuaded by that shite and how the internet was impacting people's beliefs in some quarters). To be fair, other than the shit wages writing for the Star would be great - read some interesting stuff, knock out about as many words as a long post here, and go home well before anyone on a proper paper was allowed to check out.

Other than two goes at calling us "vile" they're actually praising the accuracy and clear about the rules of the top 50 - tbh I'd say they're doing us a favour re generating some traffic.

Let's get things going with the first scoreboard of the year! It looks nice. Gary Burgess and Igor Bogdanoff, look who's on top. Rank Team Score 1 Toast 199 1 Cpt. Chorizo 199 3 gcreptile 150 3 CalebH 150 3 Great Uncle Bulgaria 150 3 Death Impends 150 3 Book 150 3 MariNisia 150 3 Joey Russ 150 3 Sean 150 3 An Fear Beag 150 3 msc 150 3 Banana 150 14 Salmon Mousse 124 15 YorkshireBanker 75 15 Guy From Future 75 15 JohnKey 75 15 Predictor 75 15 Torva Messor 75 15 Theoldlady 75 15 drol 75 15 Pedro67 75 15 Wormfarmer 75 15 Annami 75 15 Kenny 75 26 Baby Blue 49 27 The Spinosaurus 0 27 Bibliogryphon 0 27 JoeMoneypenny 0 27 chilean way 0 27 markb4 0 27 Famous6Eva 0 27 The Unknown Man 0 27 Hell 0 27 Captain Hemlock 0 27 Gooseberry Crumble 0 27 Doulton 0 27 YoungWillz 0 27 The old crem 0 27 Buffalo Phil 0 27 The Daredevil 0 27 Liz Lemon 0 27 keltos31 0 27 DevonDeathTrip 0

And now Igor Bogdanoff dead too !!

Simon's done a decent bit of homework (I'd say at least 15 minutes' worth), but he does need a thesaurus to help with synonyms for 'vile' - which he's used three times. So it's only a 3/10 from me, sorry Si.

Is that advice addressed to Sir Creep, or to people reading Sir Creep’s posts?

Hilton Cheong-Leen dead at 99. Presumably a unique for me in AO Deadpool.

I am put in mind of the Horrible Histories George IV song "As true King my Reign began, Though I was now older than your Nan"

4 time Olympic hammer thrower, Jud Logan, who was hospitalised on Christmas Eve with covid related pneumonia, dead at 62.

Ooh the star are after us. Twats

Last update. Feeling normal, and can return to work this week. But this shite virus has been a horrible experience.

2022 list: Player Games Cups Birthdate - Deathdate Steve Wochy 54 GP 0 December 25, 1922 Emile Francis 95 GP 0 September 13, 1926 - February 19, 2022 Val Delory 1 GP 0 February 14, 1927 - November 5, 2022 Tom McGrattan 1 GP 0 October 19, 1927 Edward Leier 16 GP 0 November 3, 1927 - November 25, 2022 Marty Pavelich 633 GP 4 November 6, 1927 Phil Samis 2 GP 1 December 28, 1927 - January 11, 2022 Jack Gordon 36 GP 0 March 3, 1928 - June 27, 2022 Louis Denis 3 GP 0 June 7, 1928 - October 11, 2022 Ed Sandford 503 GP 0 August 20, 1928 - October 25, 2023 Steve Witiuk 33 GP 0 January 8, 1929 - November 30, 2022 Joe Crozier 5 GP 0 February 19, 1929 - October 11, 2022 Vic Stasiuk 745 GP 2 May 23, 1929 - May 7, 2023 Reg Abbott 3 GP 0 February 4, 1930 Bob Chrystal 132 GP 0 April 3, 1930 - January 27, 2023 Jackie McLeod 106 GP 0 April 30, 1930 - December 8, 2022 Guyle Fielder 9 GP 0 November 21, 1930 Paul Masnick 232 GP 1 April 14, 1931 Ron Hurst 64 GP 0 May 18, 1931 Len Haley 30 GP 0 September 15, 1931 Glenn Hall 906 GP 1 October 3, 1931 Bruce Cline 30 GP 0 November 14, 1931 Willie Marshall 33 GP 0 December 1, 1931 - June 2, 2023 Fred Hucul 162 GP 0 December 4, 1931 Don Marshall 1176 GP 5 March 23, 1932 Dave Gatherum 3 GP 0 March 28, 1932 Don Poile 67 GP 0 June 1, 1932 Jean-Guy Talbot 1066 GP 7 July 11, 1932 Pete Conacher 229 GP 0 July 29, 1932 Gene Achtymichuk 32 GP 0 September 7, 1932 Marcel Bonin 545 GP 4 September 12, 1932 Alex Delvecchio 1550 GP 3 December 4, 1932