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Vonda McIntyre, SF author, has died aged 70. Wrote some of the first authorised Star Trek books, you know, and gave Sulu his first name. Now she is Su-long, DI gets joker points. That's two DDP heavyweights with 8 point leads already, are we due a Clash of the Titans in the Quarterfinals? At least, that was my speil until it came out that Mahendran, one of the most acclaimed directors in Indian film (and believe me, that's quite an accolade), has died. So Spade actually has 11 points. Somewhere someone's handed a poisoned chalice to Biblio, and Joey is breathing a sigh of relief I didn't go for Best Losing Score! Death Impends also had Mahendran, so do we have a Quarterfinal set already on April 2nd? The directors death gives more usual score leads to Banana and Clorox. Round 3 1. The Mad Hatter vs Boudicca 0-0 2. Rad vs Banana 0-3 3. John Key vs Death Impends 0-11 4. The Quim Reaper vs Book 0-0 5. Gcreptile vs Pedro 0-0 6. Chorizo vs Torva Messor 0-0 7. Bibliogryphon vs Spade Cooley 0-11 8. Deadsox vs Clorox 0-3

I'm usually quite content to let everyone else moan on both sides here, but since DDT spoke out, a brief bit: One of my closest pals, suffering from a killer but stable incurable illness, has been told by both the NHS and Department of Health that, on a No Deal Brexit, the medicine keeping their condition stable will not be imported into the UK, due to price/commonality of need. The prognosis is 6 weeks without it. All the sexy killer illnesses medicine (you know, breast cancer, asthma, etc) have a route FOR NOW due to necessity and numbers, through English stockpiles and Ireland, naturally, can't harm those big salaried charity bosses. Anyhow, this is not the fault of Corbyn, Remain voters, the SNP, Lord Fellatio Nelson leave voters or any other potential media scapegoat. Solely the guilt of the current Westminster government, who have had 3 years to plan in case of emergencies and done FUCK ALL. Anyhow, even though the medicine that helps keeps me alive is safeguarded for now, I am 100% opposed to no deal Brexit. Turkeys, early Christmas, voting, etc...

It was fun while it lasted

Yeah that would work too but less Bercow action with your option so I prefer mine. Or or even better they could have a Brexit options World Cup with the top 32 possibilities all drawn into 8 groups of 4 and playing off against each other in a series of round robin votes with top 2 in each group going through to last 16 and it being straight knockout from there through to final. Ooooh the drama.............

I quite like the idea of the sharp shock as a result of No Deal and then watching as society recalibrates itself. If the unfolding catastrophe is as bad as some have predicted (it won't be) then I maintain that a subsequent election will deliver us a left-wing rather than a right-wing government. Indeed I can see some parallels here with Labour's landslide victory of 1945. There will be blood on the streets if we end up subverting the will of the people by cancelling Brexit. There is nothing wrong with giving the Establishment a good kicking every now and again and I'm afraid I don't have much time for a rather shrill minority of Remainers who seem to have temporarily eschewed the very notion of democracy in order to loudly dictate what should happen next. That said, I do recognise that this is a subject which continues to raise strong emotions and I have some sympathy with those who are upset about the referendum result. Their experience seems to me to mirror the five stages of grief; denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance...this clamour for a new referendum looks distinctly like the bargaining stage to me. Sadly, I fear it may be a very long time before many progress to acceptance.

Maybe I’m a bit ignorant, but how is this ironic?

I doubt very much that a "Corbynite utopia" or a lack of faff is what a No Deal would lead to. 1) Leaving the EU, especially with a No Deal exit, is more likely to push the country to the right than the left. Something like 98% of the MPs pushing for no deal are thoroughly right wing; the ERG etc like the idea of a hard brexit partly because the EU in general is to the left of the UK, partly because they have a vision for the UK post EU where it becomes about as right wing as Singapore and partly because it avoids upcoming EU legislation to limit tax avoidance. And any economic harm the UK suffers will likely be used to justify more cuts and austerity to avoid "unaffordable" payments. 2) Leaving the EU with no deal also creates a ton of extra faff for the country which will further distract from sorting out other issues for years to come. Faff from legal battles with our erstwhile allies in Europe pursuing us for the funds we'd previously committed for, eg, the pensions funds for people working for us within the EU; faff with determining our WTO status; faff with renegotiating trade deals with the rest of the world; and faff with recreating independent versions of all the institutions and agencies where we'd previously pooled our resources with the EU (see here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agencies_of_the_European_Union). If you want lack of faff and a more leftwing path for the UK, the best option is revocation of article 50, eg with a second ref, and remaining.

First hit I am aware of. Shane Rimmer was best known as a film actor, appearing in a number of Bond films as bit part actors as well as many other films however he also appeared as Joe Donelli who took Stan Ogden hostage and shot himself in the late 60s and Malcom Reid, Audrey's son Stephen's father in 1988 in Coronation Street. Basic 5 points Age Bonus 1 point Triangle Bonus 3 points As the World Tunes In 5 points Survival Bonus 6 points Total 20 points Leaderboard YoungWillz 20 points Everyone Else 0 points

I will keep my March team. The April team will become May's team. No-one is judging you. :-)

Bob geldof what a cunt.

Hayit's the leader of a Tajikistan political party, Gryb is a jailed terrorist (or at the very least, hes in jail for the crime).

Surely that's not appropriate when you're one of the people doing the Squonking!

April Cleo Laine Gustav Gerneth Eileen Whelan Margaret Stuart Barry Sheila Mercier

Ha I thought you had your head in the clouds but it was wedged elsewhere.

Well any hope that gave me didn't last long.

Let them stand in front their electorates. Local authorities using the last of their money to strengthen the lampposts from which many will swing. Feel you aren't listened to or represented at Westminster? Welcome to Scotland, 1978-present day.

Come back Guy Fawkes, and have another go.

This also obviously means there will be no late penalties, as no teams are required for April. March teams can ride. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Sorry. Not only did I misread theoldlady's question, I messed up with my own carryover rule. I thought she was asking about adding new names to the game for the new month. I already had several April lists PM'd to me, and forgot that the rule was to carryover when no hits occurred in a prior month. SO . . . I have make a bit of a mess of it. To be fair, I will allow old (March) teams to stand, OR I will accept new teams already submitted (including mine unless someone protests, it really doesn't matter to me which of my teams I go with), for April. New April teams still have to follow the rules for no names reused from the previous month and only max of 5 from Feb. Does anyone have a big concern about this for April?? Sorry, everyone. I have a new girlfriend keeping me busy and my mind has been elsewhere the last two weeks.

Some news found on instagram

Leading lady of Seven brides for seven brothers MGM musical star Jane Powell celebrates her 90th birthday today.

Cheers mate.

I will have a thread for 2019-2020 season probably Thurs or Friday,rules will be about 99% the same

As reported elsewhere, Vonda McIntyre has died.

Billy Adams, a Rockabilly Hall of Fame member, has died. He was 79. https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2019/04/01/rockabilly-hall-famer-billy-adams-dies-79/3335499002/