Leaderboard

The White Zulu blacking out causes 7 teams, all no higher than mid table as is, to fall further. Would Juluka the new scoreboard? 1. drol 1 =2. Bibliogryphon 4 =2. CaptainChorizo 4 4. Phantom of the Midway 10 =5. markb4 12 =5. Mercarte 12 7. Sir Creep 14 =8. BuffaloPhil 15 =8. gcreptile 15 =8. machotrouts 15 =8. paddyfool 15 =12. An Fear Beag 16 =12. FixedBusiness 16 =12. GraveDanger 16 =15. Clorox Bleachman 17 =15. QTips 17 =15. Spade_Cooley 17 18. The Quim Reaper 19 19. Banana 20 =20. Dr_T 21 =20. Pedro67 21 =22. manuel 22 =22. Torva Messor 22 =24. charon 23 =24. The Unknown Man 23 =26. deadsox 24 =26. JoeMoneypenny 24 28. The Old Crem 25 29. Great Uncle Bulgaria 26 =30. Book 27 =30. Death Impends 27 =30. Skinny kiltrunner 27 =30. The Mad Hatter 27 34. Wormfarmer 28 =35. Joey Russ 31 =35. Newjack 31 =35. Toast 31 =38. Grim Up North 32 =38. YoungWillz 32 40. En Passant 33 41. theoldlady 34 42. Master Tech 40 43. Philip 55 44. Neobrakeon 59 45. Bentrovato 60 46. nantonian2013 76 47. Team Wean 82 48. msc 108

Just gone online to find: Uncharted territory! I'm top of the DDP! Ok, joint top and losing the "most hits" to DI. But top anyhow!

Apparently Savuka means "we have risen". Eight teams have risen now that Johnny Clegg has gone over The Crossing. 35 points for FixedBusiness. 30 for msc, drol, and Chorizo. Interestingly, all of drol's surviving main team also now have a current value of 30. 25 for Rad and Clorox. 25 sub points for Book. And 20 points for John Key. And so with that we have a new scoreboard. msc claws back the lead off the deaths of Arte Johnson and Johnny Clegg. 1. msc 232 2. theoldlady 195 3. drol 192.5 4. Sir Creep 186 5. CaptainChorizo 185 6. maryportfuncity 174 7. Phantom of the Midway 168.5 8. Wormfarmer 159 9. Lord Fellatio Nelson 153 10. gcreptile 140 11. markb4 126.05 12. John Key 125 13. Skinny kiltrunner 112 14. Prophet 98.58 =15. Pedro67 84 =15. Sean 84 17. YorkshireBanker 83.12 18. Book 69 19. Clorox Bleachman 65 20. time 63 21. FixedBusiness 60 22. The Mad Hatter 57 23. the_engineer 51.5 =24. Exu 50 =24. The Old Crem 50 26. Toast 45 27. nantonian2013 35 28. JoeMoneypenny 28 29. The Unknown Man 25 30. WidowsPeak 20 31. Torva Messor 12 =32. Everyone else 0

Points for Cleggers who no longer plays pop.

Amazingly there are currently 4 ex-cricketers alive who are over 100. The oldest is John Manners (born 24 September 1914) who is the only living cricketer who played first class cricket before WW2. He played for Hampshire & Combined Services. No other first class cricketer ever lived to 104 & he is closing in on his 105th run! Incredibly he played first class cricket way back in 1936 not in the summer of 1939. Archie Scott is 101 & was born on 26 January 1918. Eileen Whelan is a former women's English Test player and was born on 30 October 1911 so will be 108 later this year. Thelma McKenzie is a former ladies Test player for Australia and was born on 6 April 1915.

If it turns out to be the Earth I want a quiet word in a darkened room with @The Quim Reaper

Johnny's last Cleggs have fallen off and points are awarded all over the place - too many to mention! Welcome to the leaderboard to Great Uncle Bulgaria and Fixed Business. Yes, even after Clegg's death there are still teams on Norway points. Bonuses: Great Uncle Bulgaria's inaugural hit is A Spades (the A of Spades...) - 5 Additional Points. Toast makes a pair of 7s - 10 Additional Points. We have our first sub faller too. And it isn't Joey! Sir Creep gets lucky and draws the A Diamonds for 14 Points added to his total. Leaderboard updated.

I actually asked DI and centenarian expert Clorox if she were still alive 4 days ago, and thought it unusual a DL alumnus's aging widow to be alive a decade on! See, never put off a "surprised so and so is still alive" post till later because it can expire awfie quickly!

Just bumping this to the top. I have the following NINE teams entered (though fair to say I haven't checked if suitably 'celeb' enough yet, working on that the next night or two; 98% likely fine): Sir Creep YoungWillz Bibliogryphon Great Uncle Bulgaria RadGuy Yvonne YorkshireBanker Philip Etushispushingupdasies If you think you sent a list (didn't someone post one on the thread? It's gone! LOL) and don't see your name.....well guess what! Try try again. SirC EDIT: OK I have gone over the names for all the teams listed above and have sent out PMs asking for clarification and/or a new name in a couple instances. I EVEN POLICED MYSELF!! Only two names have I given the absolute AXE to , and those are Destinee McEwen (off of MY team lol) and Paddy Bassett. I let a couple others slide....I am old and weak and mentally frail. OBVS. So if you have a team entered and didn't hear from me you're all set. SC

Sweep! Who dies first, Bracknell or the Earth?!

The Express and their clickbait Bracknell health updates https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1153655/Leah-Bracknell-health-update-Emmerdale-Zoe-Tate-blog-cancer-news-lung-cancer "Time is running out" she says in the headline. But read the article (or her Instagram) and she's actually talking about the climate!

Johnny Clegg for me... and the Committee! 6 : 6

I don't think I can run an update until tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure that YoungWillz should now be in the lead. Are there any stats that people would particularly like with the next update? I was going to add a "points change" column, as in "points by which each player's score has changed this round".

Good ole Joey Russ tells me this will be good enough for Johnny Clegg here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-7253809/South-African-musician-Johnny-Clegg-dies-cancer-battle.html

Here you go

And that’s all. Except for Reptile.

Clegg a hit for myself. And the Unknown Man. And Banana. And Skinny, msc, drol, and Chorizo. SC, Book, Clorox and Roey. And John Key. GUN, Rad, DI, and finally Fixed Business. And Pedro. But that really is it. Apart from DDT.

Dead on Twitter. And indeed here: https://www.enca.com/news/johnny-clegg-has-died

Crosby is quite engaging on Twitter and regularly responds to queries, so it might be worth asking him straight out if he considers himself 2020 deadpool fodder. Someone else will have to do it though, because I'm not brave enough.

Committee pull ahead. YW - 5; DL - 6

Our long national GUN Away nightmare is over?