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Looks well for someone with stage IV pancreatic cancer........

Rafiq Tarar finally dead.

Nadungamuwa Raja, main casket bearer of the procession of Esala, The Festival of the Tooth dead at 68/69 from a heart attack: http://www.adaderana.lk/news/81029/ceremonial-tusker-nadungamuwa-raja-dies https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sri-lankas-most-sacred-elephant-dead-68-stuffed-posterity/ Yes, the elephant. Due to his important role in that festival, he had his own armed guards. The President of Sri Lanka has issued directives to name him a national treasure.

Frank O'Farrell finally posts the hit: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/frank-ofarrell-former-manchester-united-manager-dies-aged-94-p839ctqhx Edit: DDP Pick obvs.

Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929-2022) Remember when I said I would take Shahabuddin Ahmed before you? Yes, you said it! you said it! I lied (Last exchange between the Reaper and Tarar) Age at death: 92 Known health issues: Come on, that picture was taken in fucking 2017! Cause of death: Heart attack. Alignment: He had the guts to stand up against Musharraf.

Meeting an Arabian diplomat nonetheless.

Well £800,000 might pay for a few months in a nursing home

Ta-rah to Tarar gets a boom today QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-10585357/Former-Pakistani-President-Rafiq-Tarar-dies-92.html

Josephine Veasey QO: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/03/06/josephine-veasey-british-mezzo-soprano-became-great-favourite/

It was a combination of factors that dragged you down: Quite a number of your picks not hitting any bonuses, and thus not scoring a lot of points. Negative bonuses for "shameless" picks (not in play in 2022 as they are now banned from the DDP) Missing out on a few of the high-scoring picks (Jill Gascoine, Olivia De Havilland, William Frankland) Not hitting some high-scoring picks with your wildcards. It a cruel pool, the Jokers.

Frank O'Farrell is a hit here for me

A wild stab in the dark got me today's Worldle in 3!

Reported to have died yesterday, probably the 4-1 defeat that did it.

At work but publisher has replied to my email to confirm her death. I will post screenshot of email when home so I can edit personal details out.

Jimbeau Hinson (Wiki), American county music singer-songwriter dead at 70 He wrote the 1981 #1 Hit Country Songs hit, "Fancy Free", for The Oak Ridge Boys' album, Fancy Free. The album was also a #1 on the Top Country Album chart and peaked at #14 on the Billboard 200

Ivan Lendl, one of the greatest tennis players of all time, who won eight Grand Slam singles championships is 62 today.

Though I tend to agree that’s what they meant, another reading could be: when renovations are completed she will be 101 and would be extremely unlikely to return in the event she’s still alive.

It's doors.

Congratulations Book! As for me, 2nd most hits, 13th place? Oh wow... and es far as I can tell, I already received negative bonusses this year as well...

********* STOP THE PRESS ******** It's here - it's finally here!! The scoreboard that absolutely nobody has been waiting for! Like a hibernating bear rousing itself from its long slumber only to find that it is still freezing winter outside, the 2020 Jokers pool has emerged from its dormant state, and looked around to discover that the world is in an even shittier state that when it was last awake. So before it shrugs its shoulders and crawls away to die alone in a dark corner, it will yield its results to finally put closure to its miserable existence. Because everyone has long forgotten whether they even entered, here is a quick recap. 24 teams entered in total (original host Clorox Bleachman did not enter a team). 1. An Fear Beag 2. Annami 3. Banana 4. Bibliogryphon 5. Book 6. Clorox Bleachman 7. CaptainChorizo 8. Chilean way 9. DeathByArsenic 10. Death Impends 11. Etushispushingupdaisies 12. Great Uncle Bulgaria 13. Gcreptile 14. Joey Russ 15. msc 16. Old Crem 17. theoldlady 18. Pedro67 19. RadGuy 20. Sir Creep 21. Skinny kiltrunner 22. Torva Messor 23. Toast 24. The Unknown Man 25. YoungWillz There were 253 Jokers to choose from, of which 188 were selected. 253 was evidently not enough for Skinny Kiltrunner, who selected Stirling Moss despite him not being on the list of Jokers 46 Jokers obligingly carked it during the year. They were as follows: 28/01/2020 90. Doleman, Chris 30/01/2020 17. Andretti, John 30/01/2020 91. Donner, Jörn 04/02/2020 21. arap Moi, Daniel 05/02/2020 92. Douglas, Kirk 17/02/2020 117. Gray, Henry 23/02/2020 244. Watanabe, Chitetsu 24/02/2020 137. Johnson, Katherine 04/03/2020 181. Pérez de Cuéllar, Javiér 06/03/2020 195. Richard, Henri 14/03/2020 189. P-Orridge, Genesis 02/02/2020 103. Frankland, William 05/04/2020 55. Blackman, Honor 10/04/2020 171. Obayashi, Nobuhiko 28/04/2020 110. Gascoine, Jill 28/04/2020 197. Robinson, Michael 29/04/2020 178. Paniagua, Guido Munch 30/04/2020 150. Lloyd, Sam 04/05/2020 209. Shula, Don 18/06/2020 160. Lynn, Vera 28/06/2020 73. Cisovsky, Marian 01/07/2020 93. Downs, Hugh 03/07/2020 65. Cameron, Earl 17/07/2020 149. Lewis, John 21/07/2020 215. Smith, Tim 22/07/2020 212. Sisson, Gemma 24/07/2020 123. Hagen, David 26/07/2020 85. de Havilland, Olivia 28/07/2020 155. Lotterby, Sydney 03/08/2020 132. Hume, John 20/08/2020 34. Banali, Frankie 15/09/2020 217. Smullen, Pat 18/09/2020 112. Ginsburg, Ruth Bader 19/09/2020 144. Kerslake, Lee 21/09/2020 221. Stallone, Jackie 14/10/2020 101. Fleming, Rhonda 21/10/2020 70. Champion, Marge 30/10/2020 223. Stiles, Nobby 08/11/2020 233. Trebek, Alex 13/11/2020 225. Sutcliffe, Peter 02/12/2020 180. Patterson, Pat 06/12/2020 239. Vazquez, Tabare 10/12/2020 252. Windsor, Barbara 13/12/2020 210. Shultz, George 22/12/2020 120. Griffiths, Lisa 30/12/2020 27. Atkins, Ronald At first glance, it seems like we had a straightforward winner. Book racked up an impressive 27 hits, 4 more than the nearest challengers Captain Chorizo, Death Impends, GC reptile, MSC, and Sir Creep. However all is not straightforward in the Jokers pool. The myriad of hidden bonus and penalties can play havoc with the most straightforward of scoreboards, and so it proved here. When all of the in-game bonuses had been totted up, Book still has the lead, but it had become a much more close-run thing. Book 182 points, Death Impends 180, Torva Messor 180. And still we were not finished. There were also the pre-game bonuses to add in. Death Impends and Torva Messor each gained an extra point, but Book gained 2 to stretch the narrow lead out to 3 points. But was there to be one last sting in the tail? On the last line of the unseen rules was a penalty for the player who got the most hits (don't blame me - I didn't write the rules!). How much of a penalty? MINUS 2. Book hangs on by the skin of their teeth !! The final tally was as follows: Book 182 27 Hits Death Impends 181 23 Hits Torva Messor 181 22 Hits Sir Creep 179 23 Hits CaptainChorizo 178 23 Hits msc 178 23 Hits An Fear Beag 172 21 Hits Banana 170 21 Hits Pedro67 169 22 Hits The Unknown Man 167 21 Hits Etushispushingupdaisies 163 19 Hits Gcreptile 159 23 Hits Joey Russ 152 20 Hits Skinny kiltrunner 149 19 Hits RadGuy 147 18 Hits The Old Crem 146 19 Hits Toast 146 19 Hits Great Uncle Bulgaria 144 19 Hits Bibliogryphon 143 19 Hits The Old lady 143 19 Hits Chilean way 138 16 Hits Annami 134 14 Hits DeathByArsenic 127 13 Hits YoungWillz 122 16 Hits As the scores were so close, I went back and checked and double checked, which is what took me so bloody long to get this finished. But at the end of it all, I could have saved myself about 2 weeks of grief by just awarding victory to the player with the most hits As with all pools, there is a grace period given after the game has finished for players to alert the runner of further hits, and challenge the scoring. As this pool officially finished on 31.12 2020, players have until 07.01.21 to submit any objections There was an internal stewards enquiry on one of the bonuses in this edition of the pool. 1 bonus point was given for anyone who submitted their team in alphabetical order. Book was awarded the point, which ultimately proved crucial. Torva Messor submitted a team in perfect alphabetical order, but with 6ix9ine at the bottom of the list in 50th spot. As 6ix9ine was listed first on the original list of Jokers, the harsh score-keeper (moi) deemed that he should have been first on any team submitted, and thus Torva was denied the bonus point which would have tied for the lead - small margins eh! (Book would have won the tie-breaker on total number of hits I will not reveal all of the hidden bonuses, as were are using the same bonuses for the 2022 edition of the pool. However, I do hope to reveal the bonuses on that pool over time, and hopefully have some changes to the bonus structure for future games, to make things clearer (and thus fairer) for the players. ) So it gives me great pleasure to officially announce the winner of the 2020 Jokers Pool as: BOOK

Does The Old Crem work as a US and UK spy?

He's looked like that for years

OK, there may be an issue here. The Harambe Stars aren't a club football team - it's the nickname for the Kenyan national team. And... I'm struggling to find any evidence that he actually played for Kenya. Let me break it down: Quote from his brother from this CBC news story: So the tournament is called African Nations Cup, its the African Cup of Nations. And he couldn't have watched it last summer... because as everyone knows AFCON is held in January. It fucks up mid-table Premier League teams every two years because half their team flies out to Mogadishu. Maybe he meant the qualifiers? Except there were no qualifiers for AFCON last summer either. There were two qualifiers in March 2021, maybe he meant that? There was no Tevin Obiga in the squad for either their 1-1 draw away to Egypt, or their 2-1 win over Togo. There is no Tevin Obiga in the "recent squad callups" for the Kenyan national team on Wikipedia. There is no Tevin Obiga on TransfrMarkt. There's 300,000 players in the FM22 database - there is no Tevin Obiga. Kenya might not be a football powerhouse, but they're not a pub team. There's data on them online and none of it includes Tevin Obiga. The only photo of him in any of these articles of him doing something football-y is this: Which doesn't appear to be any of the shirts the Kenyan national team launched in 2019: It's also weird that he is only referred to as playing for the national team and not a club side. I'd have said someone good enough to play for Kenya's national team could easily walk into a club contract in Canada. Ah, wait for the next post.

Frankie Boyle joked in late 2020 and at the height of covid: "Please look after yourself your majesty, because there's f**k all point having a week off during this."