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Imagine how much of a cunt you need to be to want to work as a Bono impersonator.

And the official draws for round 2: Skinny Kiltrunner or Sir Creep vs JiroemonKimura or Old Crem Annami or Grobler vs John Key Engineer vs Grim YoungWillz vs Wormfarmer or Joemoneypenny Bibliogryphon vs msc Torva vs Reptile Banana vs Spade_Cooley Quim Reaper vs Deathray Maryport vs Deadsox Oldlady vs DeathByArsenic or Sean An Fear Bag or Markb4 vs Alt Obits Guy DDT vs Book Djemba Djemba or Yorkshire Banker vs Joey Russ Chorizo vs HDS or Great Uncle Bulgaria Death Impends vs LizLemon or Ethushishispushingupdaisies Clorox vs FixedBusiness or The Unknown Man

Henry Woolf is 90 today! Tom Baker is 86 today!

BEST VALENTINE'S EVER!!! Texas' El Paso Zoo said it will name a cockroach after your ex and then feed it to a meerkat during its "Quit Bugging Me" event on Feb. 14. "What's the perfect Valentine's Day gift? Naming a cockroach after your ex, of course!" the zoo announced on Facebook. To participate, just send the zoo a message on Facebook with your ex's name by Feb. 10. The zoo will post each ex's first name and last initial on Facebook, starting Feb. 11. Staffers will then feed the roaches to the meerkats at 2:15 p.m. MST on Valentine's Day. You can watch the event on Facebook Live or on the zoo's website. SC

For Christ sake, that's a typical house party in Detroit. Should I be posting the 450+ homicides from that city alone in 2020? I mean.... THREE, heavens. At one time? Good lord.

Sir Creep will GLADLY take on 4 of those 13 points. Are you people mad? A world class athlete in his 60s gets diagnosed in November and you don't think he will last 14 months? How many 80 year olds politicians with Panc C are we dealing since 2019 with who have shot past that mark? Hell, didn't we do this with your girlfriend Ruth Ginsberg last year - I put her #1 to prove a point? We did, and I kept my garage full of 5-lb coffee cans. That's it, YOO are all subject to my 5 pounds of coffee challenge for 2020. No way in hell (read: South Korea) is he dying this year. 2021 sure. Put a 'like' and if he dies and you liked this post I'll ship it to the address of your choosing (or donate to foodbank). I owe a photo to YWillz and I will honour that when I get home in a week (or maybe search out a food bank in Carlsbad NM this week). SirC

Now I'm not hosting, I guess I can speak freely... Skinny v Sir Creep in R1 a tough one, winner meets JK. Hard three way to call there. Good draw on paper for Willz. Torva on paper could easily be the "ups game to take on Reptile" annual name, she destroyed Dr T last year. Can't tell who'd be more annoyed at the Banana/Spade draw - there was only 1 point between them last year - could be a bit Brock v Rock Summerslam 2002. TQR will probably say something like "Arse burgers, I have less chances of survival than an octopus in a sushi bar" and then win. Bad draw for Book. Liz and Etushis fighting for the right to face DI - lucky sods.

Alright everyone, here are the official ties for round 1. JiroemonKimura vs Old Crem LizLemon vs Ethushishispushingupdaisies FixedBusiness vs The Unknown Man Annami vs Grobler HDS vs Great Uncle Bulgaria An Fear Bag vs Markb4 DeathByArsenic vs Sean Wormfarmer vs Joemoneypenny Djemba Djemba vs Yorkshire Banker Skinny Kiltrunner vs Sir Creep

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First work trip of the year. Cologne from Stansted Airport.

Here is David earlier in the morning.... alive and well. I just wanted him to have his 15 minutes.

STATS AND FACTS The Inverse Dead Pool has dropped in participants compared to last year, with 36 players total (12 less than 2019 and identical to 2018). Donald Trump has usually been the top dog in the Inverse but he wasn't popular enough in the DDP this year to be Inverse eligible (the DDP - the one place where you wish Trump had popularity...). With Trump out, Gazza now sits atop the perch. There is also an unanimous pick this time around - every single team has at least some modicum of confidence in Angela Lansbury's ability to see the year out. Name Total Points Total # of Teams 1. Paul Gascoigne 742 33 2. Queen Elizabeth II 707 34 3. Linda Nolan 646 33 4. Billy Connolly 635 34 5. Dick Van Dyke 616 34 6. Angela Lansbury 601 36 7. Barbara Windsor 529 34 8. Bill Turnbull 490 29 9. Doddie Weir 472 29 10. Rolf Harris 457 32 11. Olivia Newton-John 440 30 12. June Brown 422 31 13. Betty White 408 33 14. Henry Kissinger 332 31 15. Pope Benedict XVI 321 28 16. Prunella Scales 296 30 17. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 293 24 18. Greg Gilbert 256 21 19. Little Richard 234 23 20. Olivia de Havilland 224 26 21. George Alagiah 207 19 22. Jimmy Greaves 200 19 23. Mikhail Gorbachev 196 22 24. Leon Spinks 189 18 25. Jill Gascoine 188 19 Last year's people's choice would have finished in 10th place with 38 points, with Doris Day, Marieke Vervoort, and Valerie Harper the trio of landmines. Which of the above will follow in their paths? Conversely, the community regards these ten as the most fecked: Name Total Points Total # of Teams 1. Tom Smith 7 1 2. Genesis P-Orridge 12 1 3. Yoo Sang-Chul 13 2 4. John Lewis 18 3 5. Alex Trebek 21 4 6. David Gulpilil 23 2 =7. Nobby Stiles 28 8 =7. Gianluca Vialli 28 7 9. Susan Bayh 29 4 10. John Andretti 32 3 Nobby Stiles has been in the bottom 10 for three years in a row. Will the community's continued lack of confidence in his stunning survivability be validated this year?

And that shuts the door on Inverse 2020 entries. Good luck to everyone and their picks. Stats now being tabulated...

Got a month to get my team into shape. Home tie, looking at March deaths - long month. Tbh, I'm dreading a starting eleven - because generally in my first entry it's a finishing eleven too!

Liza Goddard is 70 today!

1. He's 48, not 60. 2. The average survival for a 40 something DDP pick averages out at 9.5 months. This can extend to 18+ months, but the mean is within the year. Interesting those averages go up per decade until 70+, although the 60 year olds are boosted by Simon Hoggart and Johnny Clegg, two very long term cases. 3. The two biggest stats for me personally is I am 10 out of 12 in pancreatic cancer DDP picks being successful, and 0 out of 14 in shortlisted but not picked pancreatic cancer names surviving the year not picked. To the point one of my rules of deadpooling is "dont ignore pancreatic cancer, you idiot". After all, if I'd picked 3 of them I shortlisted but ignored in 2016, I'd have won the DDP! There's even a post somewhere on here from 2016 where I note those 3 misses and go "yeah but it's not going to cost me, I suck at the DDP!" only for the rest of my team to have a word and dropped dead! You *may* be right but the stats game point out to the risk.

Video of Bob Dole posted on Twitter saying he's attending the Super Bowl hyperlinked the video because apparently i don't know how to embed tweets

Father of late Metallica bassist Cliff Burton, Ray Burton has passed away aged 94 of pneumonia.

Especially as.....

Good call that.....well played. Madge though is a different person to MJ and the Purple One. She is I think quite normal (for her situation). Drug abuse? Dont think so.Life threatening illness?Possibly...but that could be any of us. I wouldnt be putting her on any DP lists for a while. She will outlive me I feel .

5p. The bat cost £1.05 and the ball cost £0.05 so it's £1.10 in total....

Cathryn Harrison (granddaughter of Sir Rex Harrison and daughter of Noel Harrison) died in late 2018. With 48 credits (many of them multiple appearances) to her on IMDb, the only news of her death seems to be a small mention in the In Memoriam section of Equity Magazine published in Spring 2019, not then available online. Two people picked up on it. Britmovie comment. Twitter comment.

That was the first 7 inch I owned. There’s an open goal for y’all.

Serge Gainsbourg with his daughter Charlotte - Lemon Incest I think she was nine at the time.