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I would respectfully suggest that Like A Prayer is Madonna's best eighties track and surprised that it is not doing better here. Have we got PSB fatigue after putting through two in the last round. Heart was written with the intention of offering it to Madonna but they feared rejection so recorded it themselves. In respect to Kylie surely I Should Be So Lucky is an iconic eighties anthem whereas I cannot even remember Hand on your Heart. If I Wanna Dance With Somebody can't get through to the final then no other WH track deserves to.

We’re six weeks into 2023. What’s the point?

Alright, I've added two more teams that were still out there, including yours, @TheKeysOfMarinus. These two teams actually lead to an expansion of the Drop 40. Glynis Johns and Stanley Baxter are now also in. The Drop 40 consists of 43 names now. Unfortunately for some, there are 3-4 names that have lost their uniqueness because a late added team has picked them as well. And with that, I'd like to close the gates shut for 2023. 519 teams, this is it. Admittedly, there was a personnel turnover and some need for getting accustomed to the teams submission process. But now in mid-February, I hope everyone has checked their teams, and so there is no more forgotten team out there. However, I will still check for name changes, and an update of the statistics. While one CAN do it all manually, I'd like to try a more automatic approach, meaning that in the ideal world, once the new game is up, the teams and celebrity info is perfect, and I can plug this new database for the year into a file that updates "name", "years in DDP" and "best rank" automatically. But since that is not required for the game to run smoothly, a rush to finish that is not needed (and not many people complained that some stats were outdated last year).

Depeche Mode yesterday in Italy first live performance from brand new single "Ghosts", a wonderful hommage to their friend Andy Fletcher. Love that song instantly.

31 Enya – Orinoco Flow +4 29 The Bangles – Eternal Flame 28 Belinda Carlisle – Heaven is a place on earth 28 Kylie Minogue – Hand on your heart 27 Soul II Soul ft. Caron Wheeler – Back to life (However do you want me) 25 Gerry Marsden, Paul McCartney, Holly Johnson & the Christians — Ferry `cross the Mersey 24 Lisa Stansfield – All around the world 24 Black Box – Ride on Time 23 Simple Minds – Belfast Child (Ballad of the streets EP) 23 S-Express – Theme from S-Express 22 Phil Collins – A groovy kind of love 22 Tiffany – I think we´re alone now 21 Yazz & the Plastic Population – The only way is up 21 Cliff Richard – Mistletoe and wine 21 Pet Shop Boys – Heart 21 Aswad – Don´t turn around 20 Kylie Minogue – I should be so lucky 20 Bros – I owe you nothing 20 Glenn Medeiros – Nothing´s gonna change my love for you 20 Jason Donovan – Too many broken hearts 20 Jason Donovan – Sealed with a kiss 20 Sonia – You´ll never stop me from loving you 19 Madonna — Like a prayer 18 Robin Beck – First Time 17 Wet Wet Wet – With a little help from my friends / Billy Bragg – She´s leaving home 17 Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan – Especially for you 17 New Kids on the Block – You´ve got it (The right stuff) 16 U2 – Desire 16 Whitney Houston – One moment in time 14 Fairground Attraction – Perfect 13 Marc Almond & Gene Pitney – Something`s gotten hold of my heart  9 Band Aid II – Do they know it´s Christmas? -6 6 Time Lords – Doctorin’ the Tardis 2 Hollies – He aint`t heavy, he`s my brother Nice to see the song about the young womble going sailing on top....

No state funeral for O Kuk-ryol, as if they were expecting a bigger death coming soon or very soon... Among the remaining major old timers Choe Yong-rim is wheelchair bound and visibly frail, Kim Ki-nam is suffering from "age related issues", Kim Yong-nam is rumoured to have severe dementia. Choe Thae-bok seems to be doing well, so probably the last one standing.

Maud Adams, the elegant actress and ex-model who travelled the world working for Eileen Ford, whose film career started with an uncredited work in the film "The Boys in the Band" (1970), widely known for her performance as Andrea Anders in "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974), and as the title role in "Octopussy" (1983), her second appearance in a James Bond film, who was born in Luleå, Sweden, is 78 today. Josh Brolin, the famed film and television actor, who discovered his interest in acting during his high school years, whose first big screen work was as Brand Walsh in the hit film "The Goonies", who was born in Santa Monica, California, is 55 today.

Tara Strong is 50.

It's 86 years since the death of (Arthur) John Priest. Nicknamed "The Unsinkable Stoker", he survived the sinking of The Titanic (1912), the Alcantara (in combat, 1916), Britannic (sunk by a mine, 1916) and the Donegal (sunk by a torpedo, 1917) all after surviving two collisions in 1908 (Asturias) & 1911 (Olympic). After the Donegal sinking, he retired from the marine, saying no-one wished to sail with him any longer. He died, aged 49, from pneumonia.

The Nobel Prize Dead Pool 2023/24 has now officially started. Good luck to all participants!

It’s on my Spotify playlist. Sad, I know.

New photo of Nguyen Thi Binh. Wheelchair bound but looks better than usual.

I think Jon Ha-chol is still alive and will get a mention when he dies.

As I said before, I really like this music period and I've got 16 of the 88/89 #1-songs on my playlist. And of course every Bunny-song

Joe Satriani's Unstoppable Momentum. Top Hits of the 1950's - compiled by Casey Kasem. Mama Cass Elliot and Dave Mason's album circa 1973, along with some other Cass Elliot classics. Plus making my own cd that will be the Best 25 Hard Rock Songs of all time. Almost done with that one and just above I find one of the songs posted - Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas. Nicely done TQR!

New Pro Football Hall of Famer Chuck Howley is dealing with advanced dementia, per show on NFL Network

Went for a drink after the Wimbledon vs Carlisle 0-0 nailbiter...

Erich Froelich dead.

Just had a look through the next round’s lineup. God in heaven, what a load of gash. Difficult to know where to begin with all the minus points (after we’ve put down the Bunny, anyway).

O Kuk-ryol dead at 93.

Hulk Hogan can not feel his lower body or legs due to a new surgery. He's also had tons of surgeries and health problems in the past years and will be 70 in August, around 94 for a professional wrestler. Would it be soon time to reinstate this thread after 17 years?

Damn, I even ctrl F to find people to make sure nobody had picked them. Clearly I shouldn't have copied whole names and just surnames. Physics: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Chemistry: Walter Gilbert Medicine: Ferid Murad Replaced with Mario Capecchi Literature: Louise Elisabeth Glück Peace: Albert Arnold Gore jr. (Al Gore) Economics: Eugene Francis Fama

Hugely successful american stage actress Marian Seldes, who won the prestigious Tony theatre awards five times, died on this day in 2014 aged 86. On this day in 1951 american industrialist and founder of the Kelloggs food manufacturing company Will Keith Kellogg, died aged 91.

For 2016 I had 16 out from 50, so 4 better than DL, Attached my personal DL 2017 1. Hosni Mubarak 2. Rev. Billy Graham 3. Mario Soares 4. Kirk Douglas 5. Nobby Stiles 6. Fats Domino 7. Helmut Kohl 8. Valerie Harper 9. Tommy Chong 10 Jimmy Carter 11 Herman Wouk 12 George W. Bush sen. 13 Prince Philip 14 Dick van Dyke 15 Shannen Doherty 16 Robert Mugabe 17 Charles Aznavour 18 Peter Sallis 19 Mary Tyler Moore 20 Doris Day 21 Glen Campbell 22 Joseph "Joe" Jackson 23 Olivia de Havilland 24 Vera Lynn 25 Jacques Chirac 26 Nicholas Parsons 27 Joost van der Westhuizen 28 Stan Lee 29 David Rockefeller 30 Colin Meads 31 Doug Ellis 32 Chuck Berry 33 Pierre Cardin 34 Javier Perez 35 Tony Bennett 36 Abu Bakr al Baghdadi 37 Bruce Forsyth 38 Michael of Romania 39 Lord Carrington 40 Henry Kissinger 41 I.M.Pei 42 Hugh Hefner 43 Jimmy Snuka 44 Leslie Philips 45 Jake Lamotta 46 Jerry Lewis 47 Daisy Berkowitz 48 Michael Anderson 49 Stephen Hawking 50 Angela Lansbury Happy new year to all of you!

A link to the article concerning Sherri's death for anyone who cares. For all the wrestlers some of us do consider as being at risk for an early casket call, someone we hadn't considered always seems to bite us when we're not looking.