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Ah, one day I'll write a bit more in-depth about them on here (funeral director's commentary, if you will). But let me see.... 2013 was an amazing one, especially as I'd given up the ghost early on thanks to my scepticism over Chavez. But the slow clawing back, Millwall and Andreotti being two quintessentially DQSP picks and dying within 24 hours, the Bruno Metsu punt paying off and then the endless wait for Ray Price which was made all the more intense thanks to the two fake announcements of his death. And then the alley-oop with Klashnikov to round things up. 2014 was a workmanlike win, but it turned into a proper streetfight with Drunkasaskunk towards the end as we effectively traded some big blows with uniques and low-pick hits around October/November. Only three years ago but it's impossible to imagine a Marlise Munoz or a Yosra El-Essawy being a unique hit these days. Was proud of spotting Chen Ziming based off one solitary tweet about his cancer being pretty bad though. 2015 was a robbery, there's no doubt about it. But those are the rules so.... 2016 was absolute carnage but perhaps the one I was most confident about as the year ticked on, and was also the earliest a decisive hit wrapped things up for me. Abdul Sattar Edhi and Mother Angelica both playing in to my maxim that the elderly are underrated as DDP picks if you're guaranteed them going and obitting. So yeah, I'd take 2013 just for 1) it being my first 2) how unexpected it was considering the opening month 3) beating an old-school icon like OoO for it and 4) how crazy that final fortnight of Ray Price's life was.

Elected US Presidents spying on opponents, the idea!!

from Wikipedia.

Nancy Reagan could no longer say no to death one year ago today.

30 years ago, 193 passengers and crew killed when the Herald of Free Enterprise capsized off Zeebrugge,

Thanks. Like a moth to a flame: all that talk of trouser. SttG's more of a shoe person, but sends much love.

Nelson Eddy wasn't calling anyone after suffering a cerebral haemorrhage whilst perfoming on stage and dying a few hours later, 50 years ago. As well as leaving a legacy of a multitude of films (notably starring alongside Jeanette MacDonald 8 times) TV and music recordings, his name lives on in the pantheon of cockney rhyming slang.

Jean Baudrillard entred a new hyperreality this day 10 years ago, aged 77.

By spam. None of the other threads gets updated a lot either, unless it's health related of course.

The death of Jean Baudrillard did indeed take place ten years ago today...

I recently had a look at this website when I started this thread. It is the "Defcon" warning system. It is supposedly run by independent civilians to monitor threats: http://defconwarningsystem.com Of course, it only monitors threats to America, not the threat of America... Really, they don't seem to have been too worried about anything since I started looking so it will be interesting to see what they say about this incident.

Conan Doyle believing that is like Ben Carson and politics - proof that properly intelligent people can be thick as shit outside their own expertise. Anyhow, when we were taught oxymorons at school, one of the textbook examples was "an honest politician"!

Probably THE most famous case. It even had Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fooled. What a thick cunt he was!!!

That is one of the most famous cases of fake news - very apt

Every time I see a post on this thread I think maybe someones shot him. So many dissappointments

Well one reason COULD be that Trump was doing way better than expected and that the Democrats needed something substantial to derail his Presidency bid. Utterly impossible of course as Obama and the security services would never ever have done something like that, would they now.

Yeah, I mean, no administration has EVER wiretapped anybody, eh.........

I read her article about her husband.

Nothing quite like saying it like it is!

"African American" - a euphemism increasingly applied to people who are neither African nor American. If you mean black people, say so.

Why would they call him Darth Farmer then, if it was before Star Wars? Unless one of the other bouncers was George Lucas.

Oh Pooh :-(

I don't remember John Hurt being in Dumbo.

An absolute disgrace that this was started on 31 Dec What happened to "here's one I prepared earlier"?