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The Rosters Banana 1.Kathleen Blanco 2.Alex Trebek 3.Tommy Donbavand 4.Beth Chapman 5.Scott Dureau 6.Mark Howard 7.Tom Long 8.Lee Kerslake 9.Sam Lloyd 10.Leah Bracknell 11.Lee Noble 12.Fernando Ricksen 13.Sprent Dabwido 14.Bill Freehan 15.Jean-Louis Trintignant 16.Doug Supernaw 17.Tim Conway 18.Genesis P-Orridge 19.Mark Gastineau 20.John Andretti 21.Alcee Hastings Bibliogryphon 1.Abdelaziz Bouteflika 2.Earl Cameron 3.I M Pei 4.Ennio Morricone 5.Willie Nelson 6.Kirk Douglas 7.Vera Lynn 8.Christopher Booker 9.Sheila Mercier 10.Freeman Dyson 11.Franco Zeffirelli 12.Bob Dole 13.James Ivory 14.Glynis Johns 15.Boris Pahor 16.Lee Kerslake 17.Peter Ackroyd 18.Larry Niven 19.Sheila Steafel 20.Barbara Knox 21.Ralph Bakshi Book 01 (500) Kathleen Blanco 02 (450) Sprent Dabwido 03 (400) Alex Trebek 04 (350) John Starling 05 (300) Beth Chapman 06 (275) Bob Hawke 07 (250) Jean-Louis Trintignant 08 (225) Anne Buydens Douglas 09 (200) Kirk Douglas 10 (180) Benedict XVI 11 (160) Renee Simonot 12 (140) Ed Genson 13 (120) Sam Lloyd 14 (100) Fernando Ricksen 15 (85) Greg Gilbert 16 (70) John McCririck 17 (55) Genesis P-Orridge 18 (50) Lee Kerslake 19 (45) Tommy Donbavand 20 (40) Johnny Clegg 21 (21) Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh  Bou1 1 Kirk Douglas 2 Robert Mugabe 3 Prince Phil 4 Vera Lynn 5 Pope Benedict XVI 6 Abdelaziz Bouteflika 7 Lucia Hiriart 8 Roberta McCain 9 Loretta Lynn 10 Angela Lansbury 11 Herman Wouk 12 Lee Karslake 13 Clint Eastwood 14 Jackie Stallone 15 Mijail Gorvachev 16 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar 17 Tun Tin 18 IM Pei 19 Yoko Ono 20 Larry King 21 Glynis Johns Captain Chorizo 1st Leah Bracknell 2nd Alex Trebek 3rd Fernando Ricksen 4th Katlheen Blanco 5th Johnny Clegg 6th Denis Goldberg 7th Genesis P-orridge 8th Bruce Reid 9th Tom Long 10th Greg Gilbert 11th Sam Lloyd 12th Lee Kerslake 13th Jean-Louis Trintignant 14th Roz Patterson 15th Sprent Dabwido 16th Jimmy Spicer 17th Herman Wouk 18th John Starling 19th Alf Smith 20th Rosita Quintana 21stLuis Echeverría Álvarez Clorox Bleachman 01 (500) Leah Bracknell 02 (450) Kathleen Blanco 03 (400) Sprent Dabwido 04 (350) Genesis P-Orridge 05 (300) Tommy Donbavand 06 (275) Sam Lloyd 07 (250) Lee Kerslake 08 (225) Alex Trebek 09 (200) Clive James 10 (180) Jean-Louis Trintignant 11 (160) Tom Long 12 (140) Denis Goldberg 13 (120) Susan Bayh 14 (100) Fernando Ricksen 15 (085) Ady Barkan 16 (070) L. Brooks Patterson 17 (055) Maria-Giuseppa Robucci 18 (050) Alf Smith 19 (045) Lucile Randon 20 (040) Gustav Gerneth 21 (021) Ellen Gibb Death Impends 1.Kathleen Blanco 2.Sprent Dabwido 3.Jean Vanier 4.Chris Doleman 5.Ed Genson 6.Alex Trebek 7.Tommy Donbavand 8.Tom Long 9.Rachel Zoll 10.Lee Noble 11.Helen Legh 12.Fernando Ricksen 13.Denis Goldberg 14.Jean-Louis Trintignant 15.Johnny Clegg 16.Susan Bayh 17.Leah Bracknell 18.Genesis P-Orridge 19.Lee Kerslake 20.Stanley Crouch 21.Sam Lloyd drol 1)Kathleen Blanco 2)Sam Lloyd 3)Greg Gilbert 4)Lee Kerslake 5)Rembert Weakland 6)Tom Long 7)Barry Du Bois 8)Jean-Louis Trintignant 9)Michael Robinson 10)Sprent Dabwido 11)Samu (wrestler) 12)Fernando Ricksen 13)Beth Chapman 14)Harry Reid 15)Stirling Moss 16)Harley Race 17)Tommy Donbavand 18)Jean Vanier 19)Genesis P-Orridge 20)Johnny Clegg 21)Nobby Stiles ebless 1) Hernan Wouk 2) Sheila Mercier 3) Julie Goodyear 4) Doddie Weir 5) David McCallum 6) Jerry Stiller 7) Honor Blackman 8) Harley Race 9) Stan Bowles 10) Peter Oosterhuis 11) John Leslie (TV host) 12) Gene Hackman 13) Mel Brooks 14) Desmond Morris 15) Keith Richards 16) John Hume 17) Alex Trebek 18) Kenneth Cope 19) I.M Pei 20) Vera Lynn 21) Tony Bennett  Fixed Business 1. Alex Trebek 2. Leah Bracknell 3. Sam Lloyd 4. Johnny Clegg 5. Lee Kerslake 6. Greg Gilbert 7. Kathleen Blanco 8. Stuart Fraser 9. Sprent Dabwido 10. Kirk Douglas 11. Fernando Ricksen 12. Bob Hawke 13. Genesis P-orridge 14. John Mcririck 15. Bob Dole 16. Abdelaziz Bouteflika 17. Tim Conway 18. I.M. Pei 19. Clive James 20. Nobby Stiles 21.Jimmy Spicer Gcreptile 1. Kathleen Blanco 2. Tom Long 3. Lee Noble 4. Tony Mills 5. Christopher Booker 6. Stanley Crouch 7. Tommy Raudonikis 8. Jean-Louis Trintignant 9. Sprent Dabwido 10. Lee Kerslake 11. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho 12. Genesis P-Orridge 13. Alex Trebek 14. Johnny Harris 15. Doug Supernaw 16. Greg Gilbert 17. Ed Genson 18. Kerri Parker 19. Joe Kadenge 20. Johnny Clegg 21. Chris Doleman Great Uncle Bulgaria 1. J-l Trintignant 2. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 3. Kathleen Blanco 4. Herman Wouk 5.Nobby Stiles 6. Leslie phillips 7. Stirling Moss 8.Bernard Cribbins 9. Jackie stallone 10.Michael Schumacher 11. Jimmy Greaves 12.Frank Williams (Vicar) 13. Kirk Douglas 14. Rosalind Carter 15. Jimmy Tarbuck 16Tommy Banner 17.Mike Batt 18. Roberta McCain 19. Des O'Connor 20.Richard Bonygne 21. Vera Lynn GrimUpNorth 1st Sprent Dabwido 2nd Tommy Donbavand 3rd Lee Kerslake 4th Ed Genson 5th Kathleen Blanco 6th Genesis P-Orridge 7th Lee Noble 8th Chris Duncan (baseball) 9th Sam Lloyd 10th Tom Long 11th Fernando Ricksen 12th Johnny Clegg 13th Leah Bracknell 14th John Andretti 15th Greg Gilbert 16th Beth Chapman 17th Denis Goldberg 18th Brian Travers 19th Fred Rister 20th Herman Wouk 21st Jean Louis Trintignant GooseberryCrumble 1.Ruthie Tompson 2.Jeanne Little 3.Terry Jones 4.Herman Wouk 5.Loretta Lynn 6.Alex Trebek 7.Alanna Knight 8.Joyce Fairbairn 9.John Starling 10.Peregrine Worsthorne 11.Barbara Walters 12.Imelda Marcos 13.Jacques Chirac 14.Sam Lloyd 15.Belinda Gilfoyle 16.Kerri Parker 17.Johnny Briggs 18.Stella Stevens 19.Sandra Day O'Connor 20.Phyllis McGuire 21.Monica Vitti Jiroemon Kimura 1. Sam Lloyd 2. Alex Trebek 3. Kathleen Blanco 4. Doug Supernaw 5. Sprent Dabwido 6. Lee Kerslake 7. Fernando Ricksen 8. Tom Long (Aussie actor) 9. Lee Noble (boxer) 10. Alcee Hastings 11. Genesis P-Orridge 12. Denis Goldberg 13. John Starling 14. Tamara O’Brien (trampolinist) 15. Leah Bracknell 16. Michael Robinson (Liverpool)  17. Mark Warawa 18. Greg Gilbert 19. Anibal Pachano 20. Clyde Bellecourt 21. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho  JoeyRuss 1.Kathleen Blanco 2.Lee Noble 3.Tommy Donbavand 4.Leah Bracknell 5.Genesis P-orridge 6.Tom Long 7.Alex Trebek 8.Bruce Reid 9.Sam Lloyd 10.Chris Doleman 11.Chris Duncan 12.Denis Goldberg 13.Alcee Hastings 14.Susan Bayh 15.Ed Genson 16.Christopher Booker 17.Jean Vanier 18.Tommy Raudonikis 19.Greg Gilbert 20.Sheldon Adelson 21.Tim Conway markb4 1) Alex Trebek 2) Kirk Douglas 3) Herman Wouk 4) Ruthie Tompson 5) Roberta McCain 6) Sam Lloyd 7) Katherine Jackson 8) Katherine Johnson 9) Fernando Ricksen 10) Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 11) Leah Bracknell 12) Julie Gibson 13) Norman Lear 14) Norman Lloyd 15) Tim Conway 16) Pope Benedict XVI 17) Jimmy Carter 18) Barbara Windsor 19) Irene Papas 20) Ruth Bader Ginsburg 21) Bill Turnbull Msc 1. Kathleen Blanco 2.Breene Harimoto 3.Lee Noble 4.Tom Long 5.Jean Vanier 6.Alex Trebek 7. L Brooks Patterson 8. Sprent Dabwido 9.Steve Blackmore 10.Karen Lewis 11.Sam Lloyd 12. Tommy Donbavand 13. Chris Doleman 14.Christopher Booker 15. Susan Bayh 16.Bruce Reid 17. Chris Duncan 18. Jean Louis Trintignant 19.Ed Genson 20.Sunny Garcia 21.Theresa May RadGuy 1. Kathleen Blanco 2. Tom Long 3. Jean Louis Trintignant 4. Lee Noble 5. Sam Lloyd 6. Johnny Clegg 7. Fernando Ricksen 8. Alex Trebek 9. Greg Gilbert 10. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho 11. Sprent Dabwido 12. Lee Kerslake 13. Chris Doleman 14. Tim Conway 15. John Andretti 16. Barry du Bois 17. Bill Freehan 18. Leah Bracknell 19. Dilip Kumar 20. Beth Chapman 21. Herman Wouk TheOldCrem 1. Bob Hawke 2. Kathleen Blanco 3. Leah Bracknell 4. Shelia Mercer 5. Olivia Newton John 6. Olivia De Haviland 7. Vera Lynn 8. Loretta Lynn 9. Glynis Johns 10. John Hume 11. Sandra Day O’Connor 12. Gerd Muller 13. Barbara Windsor 14. Bill Treacher 15. Diana Serra Cary 16. Rosalynn Carter 17. Clarissa Eden 18. Larry King 19. Pope Benedict 20. Roberta McCain 21. Roberta Flack theoldlady 1st. Fernando Ricksen 2nd. Tim Conway 3rd. Beth Chapman 4th Kathleen Blanco 5th Lee Kerslake 6th Sam Lloyd 7th Bob Dole 8th Abdelaziz Bouteflika 9th Bob Hawke 10th Stirling Moss 11th Alex Trebek 12th Johnny Clegg 13th Jose Jose 14th Nobby Stiles 15th David Prowse 16th Clive James 17th June Brown 18th Kirk Douglas 19th Jean Louis Trintignant 20th Robert Mugabe 21st Greg Gilbert The Quim Reaper 1.Lee Kerslake 2.Leah Bracknell 3.Greg Gilbert 4.Sam Lloyd 5.Fernando Ricksen 6.Sprent Dabwido 7.Bob Hawke 8.Tim Conway 9.Kathleen Blanco 10.Alex Trebek 11.Terry Jones 12.George Alagiah 13.John McCririck 14.Pope Benedict XVI 15.Jean-Louis Trintignant 16.Herman Wouk 17.Kirk Douglas 18.Javier Perez de Cuéllar 19.Bill Turnbull 20.Danniella Westbrook 21.Lindsay Sandiford The UnknownMan 1. Alex Trebek 2. Javier Perez de Cuellar 3. Fernando Ricksen 4. Tom Seaver 5. Lee Kerslake 6. Valerie Harper 7. Leah Bracknell 8. Olivia de Havilland 9. Glynis Johns 10. Loretta Lynn 11. Herman Wouk 12. Kathleen Blanco 13. George Alagiah 14. Giorgio Napolitano 15. Sam Lloyd 16. Prince Philip 17. Doddie Weir 18. Tim Conway 19. Jean-Louis Trintignant 20. Bill Turnbull 21. Kirk Douglas Torva Messor 1.Kathleen Blanco 2.Lee Kerslake 3.Fernando Ricksen 4.Leah Bracknell 5.Bob Hawke 6.Sprent Dabwido 7.John Starling 8.Alex Trebek 9.Herman Wouk 10.Sam Lloyd 11.Beth Chapman 12.Harry Reid 13.Jean-Louis Trintignant 14.Roberta McCain 15.Robert Mugabe 16.Olivia Newton-John 17.Genesis P-Orridge 18.Chris Duncan 19.Renee Simonot 20.Tim Conway 21.Gershon Kingsley Wormfarmer 1 Sam Lloyd 2 Kathleen Blanco 3 Sprent Dabwido 4 Fernando Ricksen 5 John Starling 6 Tim Conway 7 Alex Trebek 8 Chris Duncan 9 Micah Bowie 10 Kane Tanaka 11 Leah Bracknell 12 Sheldon Adelson 13 Beth Chapman 14 Elieen Whelan(Ash) 15 Renee Simonot 16 Ruthie Tompson 17 Jimmy Greaves 18 Kirk Douglas 19 Genesis P-orridge 20 Charlie Trippi 21 James Randi The YoungWillz "State Street That Late Street" Team 01. Fernando Ricksen 02. Leah Bracknell 03. Alex Trebek 04. Lee Kerslake 05. Linda Nolan 06. Valerie Harper 07. Harry Reid 08. Clive James 09. Terry Jones 10. John McCririck 11. John Hume 12. Ennio Morricone 13. Ozzy Osbourne 14. Michael Lonsdale 15. Pete Murray 16. Sidney Poitier 17. Stirling Moss 18. Herman Wouk 19. Dilip Kumar 20. Sumner Redstone 21. Ric Flair

May hits John Bain Bessie Camm Ted Dabney Cornelia Frances Dean Francis Delphine Gibson David Goodall Tessa Jowell Jerry Maren David Shutts June Hits Lady Mary Wilson Matt Cappotelli Joe Jackson July Lindy Remingo Chiyo Miyako Bruce Lietzke August Charlotte Rae Karunanidhi Mary Carlisle John McCain Stefan Karl Stefansson Neil Simon Aretha Franklin Azreen Manan* Dead but no qualifying orbits as of now September Dennis Norden Kulsoom Nawaz David ChChiera October Doug Ellis November Kevin Austin Baroness Barker Stan Lee Devin Lima Ted Mack December George HW Bush June Whitfleld Richard Overton Georges Loinger Simon Ricketts Hector Timmerman Don Lusk January Diana Athill Sri Sri Feb Rosamunde Pilcher Li Riu April Le Duc Anh Bill Heine Jean 1 of Luxembourg In this update Li Riu-Drol Le Duc Anh-DeathImpends,drol,fuji,gun,Pan,YoungWilz Bill Heine-DeadCow,Pan,Prophet Jean 1-Book,Prophet Final Standings 1st place -Death Impends -2981 2nd-JoeyRuss-2771 3rd-gcreptile -2625 4th-Prophet-2585 5th- PanBreed- 2541 6th- DeadCow- 2516 7th-drol-2460 8th-captain chorizo-2340 9th-Gun Bust-2291 10th-Phantom- 2285 11th-Book-2180 12th-Clorox Bleachman-2090 13th -Fujimorey No Morey-2070 14th-YorkshireBanker-1775 15th-Fixed Business-1770 16th -The Unknown Man-1626 17th-theoldlady-1510 18th-Wormfarmer-1490 19th -Quim's Windy Witherers-1335 20th markb4-1245 21st -QTips-1,095 22nd -Bou1-1005 23rd-coffee_ and_ candles-950 24th YoungWilz-771 25th-Bibliogryphon-400 26th Gooseberry Crumble-21 Not much place movement from the final update besides Le Duc Anh pushing Gun to a top 10 finish. Congrats Death Impends,on yet another Deadpool Game win Well played everyone else too,as 1 or 2 names here and there could have been the difference for a lot of players.

Tonight I finally made a spreadsheet I've been toying with in my head for a while. A garden of remembrance if you will, it's a list of people I've known personally who are now gone. Like it or not I've reached an age where that's a pretty long list of people I've known that I'll never see again. Sub pages for relatives near and far, friends, and even people that I just knew peripherally such as "Mick down the pub" who for reasons I wish I'd paid more attention to at the time strung himself up in his garage. It just all seems so tragic. I am starting to hugely sympathise with that saying from old folks "I've had enough, everyone I ever knew is already gone". Don't get me wrong, there's still plenty of folks still around that aren't on the sheet and I'm not 90 so there's some time yet and life to be lived, but, ha, we're probably all slightly morbid (realistic?) souls or we'd not be here. Note to self: even though you don't drink that much these days, 4 tins and a bunch of minor key songs is sometimes a worse idea than just hitting the sack.

Thanks Captain for running this game and congrats to DI. (I'm guessing if you search "congrats DI" or "Congratulations Death Impends" or some combination, you get a screed of hits only matched by "cunto")!

Someone else will need to hold Evans now. Points for Banana and Clorox. 1. The Quim Reaper vs Boudicca 3-3 2. Spade Cooley vs Death Impends 8-0 3. Reptile vs Banana 0-6 4. Clorox v Chorizo 7-3

Coincidence? Or is it

WaPo isn't listed under the US QOs for this pool

Right, let's do this.... The latter, but I'm happy to hear any suggestions for the former. Yeah, this is where I'm leaning to as it stands. We have had the DDP run by a duopoly before - and although that was before my time, from what I understand it ran well enough. So the question is what does a gamerunner do throughout the year? As it stands, I suppose the gamerunner's job is split into two main parts: setting the game up and running it. Setting the game up entails: Writing up updated rules Sending out invitation, "game starts on January 1st" emails Responding to people to let them know their entries have been received Checking entries for duplicates/already dead people Entering entries into (currently a spreadsheet that has numerous possible places for error) Entering entries also involves adding new players to a separate database, along with updating running statistics Processing the game to generate the first full team lists/lists of celebrities Writing pen portraits/DoBs Finding pen pics Running the game entails Checking to see who's dead Updating (as it stands) spreadsheets and processing them Uploading the resulting HTML files to the site Writing frontpage obits List of the Lost/Missed/News/Theme Team league stuff (all manual) Correcting errors Dealing with any other queries throughout the year And, although I've not had this yet, one of DDP's bains: emails from people included in the game asking to be taken down. I think that's everything.

The BBC called him Emperor Emeritus Akhito when reporting on Naruhito taking the throne.

BBC give well traveled Sensational Alex Harvey Band guitarist Zal Cleminson an interview on his 70th birthday. Interesting and of interest to locals, but hes nowhere near death, so into "cool online things" it goes.

I just had an idea tonight.I realized I no longer had any fear about dying anymore!Is it the fact I have been dead pooling for some time?Perhaps it is..Do not get me wrong I am not suicidal and hope not to die for many years to come but I kind of feel at this moment in time that whenever the time comes I will be at ease when the inevitable happens.I mean there are many things I want to do before I go but somehow I can`t help feeling immune to the fear of deathOf course I fear how I will die and also have a fear of the unknown afterwards but the notion of dying no longer concerns me as it did a few years ago.I wonder if anyone else thinks that dead pooling on a regular basis makes you more content/comfortable with the concept of your mortality or not?Because I no longer have a fear of no longer being around anymore.I view death as something not worth worrying about and even in a sense a release from the difficulties which seem almost inevitable at the end of someones natural life. I guess in short I wondered what other members perceptions are surrounding death if it was their demise looming.Is it something to fear and fight until the bitter end or is it a release that is necessary for keeping a sense of reality in spite of a dire prognosis?

Carrie Fisher wasn't a miss. She had some mental health problems in the 2000s and some drug problems in the 80s, but I don't consider her as a miss. I don't think Kenny Baker was one either. He was only 82 and his only known health problem was Dwarfism, but there are people who can get over 100 with this disorder, and we wouldn't put Peter Dinklage or Warwick Davis on the Deathlist too. I don't know if Peter Mayhew was a miss, he had some serious health problems in the last years, but if he was a miss he wasn't a big miss. I think it would be okay to put James Earl Jones on the list next year, there are certianly worse picks on the list this year than him (like Dick Van Dyke, Shane MacGowan or Tina Turner), but I think there would be better picks than him.

I note that had the Deathlist went with a random old person who survives the year rather than Z lister Dai Llewelyn in 2009 it would only be one hit so far. And that list made it to 12 hits! So don’t give up too soon...

Me waiting for the next Deathlist hit

Looks like he allergic to steak.

Can you give me details of your dreams just before the opening of the MMMDP?

Was posted two hours earlier in the Star Wars thread. Bit of a miss there. SC

Feeder was my favourite band when I was a littlun. I still love it 2 decades later. As a side note, I've kept in my notes a list of songs I've posted on this thread to make sure I don't post them again. This is my 100th contribution to this ever-growing DL playlist here. I'd just like to apologise profusely.

Is this yet more pointless allusion to the cloak and dagger situation regarding member no-one dares to name and the silks or another argument between you two? If the former, can you just fucking leave it out until you can actually provide details and save the rest of us the petty oneupmanship bollocks. Thanks.

God, you really are a creep. We don’t take any pride in babies dying. Maybe you do.

Very funny indeed. And while we're distinctly on-topic, I just thought I'd add that "Slide, upon ice, Patrick Moore!" is an anagram of "Uno, a moon cricketer, slipped!" Yeah, f**k it, let's just all have a good old whoring session in the Paddy Moore thread. "Look mummy, it's snowing outside!" "Well don't just stand there, go and post in the Patrick Moore thread to see if you can get a rise out of Star Crossed." Words fail me. Actually no, no they don't. Nor have they, or will they. Words fail you, if you're in here and off-topic, trying to be the new Windsor or mpfc, or summat. Next time a Mod prunes this thread, can they include mpfc's off-topic weather-related rubbish as well, please? In fact, delete all posts up to my last one, and just keep doing that every month or so. Or, better yet, make me the Moderator just for this one thread so I can show you all how to run a thread properly. Windsor and his merry band of irritating chucklecunts'll soon get bored wasting their sensitive fingertip-skin when I delete them to within an inch of their pathetic little posting-lives. "The more you complain, the more they'll post-whore, just to wind you up." That's one argument, yes. The argument of some spineless f*****g cretin who thinks that the answer to the world's problems is just to let everyone do anything they want. That's not a solution, that's just anarchy. I think we've all learned our lesson from the Niemeyer squid ranter; anarchy leads to anagrams, as the latest annoying splinter in our collective consciousness, Redmega, has proven so contrivedly above.

She was on a military charter from Guantanamo Bay to Jacksonville Naval Air Station. She overran the runway by about a thousand feet and ended up in the river. Weather wasn't good; thunderstorm overhead with 0.63 inches (16 mm) of rain falling in the 23 minutes prior to landing. The runway isn't grooved so there were puddles.. She landed with a tailwind rather than into the wind. There are reports of service families' pets and possibly working dogs in the hold - below the waterline.