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  2. Posted

    Just checked the new rules:

     

    This year, "Theme Teams," or teams in which all the picks have something in common, are given an automatic bonus of three points if and when the team's first pick dies. Examples of such teams include "Picks are all from India", "Picks all suffer from stomach cancer", or "Picks all were orphans". There are endless possibilities, but I may deny your request if your team is too common, such as "Picks are all from the United States". Theme teams are just a fun way to perhaps edge out someone in the event of a tie with a few extra points.

     

    So picks from India are acceptable but from the USA not. Erm...does India not have a far bigger population? ;)

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    Martin O'Neill...

     

    Good job Villa didn't make the FA Cup final as the Queen will be there.

     

    An evil, evil man and the sooner Villa fans realise he was turned down for the England job because the FA were shown a dossier on his background, the better... :lol:

  9. Posted

    http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/bambampasses

     

    Bam Bam Bigelow passes away

     

    Written: January 20, 2007

     

    WWE.com has learned that former WWE Superstar Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow has passed away in Florida.

     

    Kevin Doll, the Public Information Director for the Pasco County Sheriff's Office confirmed that Bigelow was found dead early this morning in his home in Hudson, Fla.

     

    "We can confirm that Scott Bigelow was found in his home this morning. At this time the cause of death is unknown," Doll told WWE.com.

     

    Doll also confirmed that the Pasco-Pinellas Counties medical examiner has taken the body and an autopsy will be performed.

     

    Bigelow, 45, worked for WWE, ECW and WCW extensively throughout his 20-year sports-entertainment career. A former ECW Champion, ECW Television Champion and WCW Tag Team Champion, he is perhaps best known for his rivalry with Lawrence Taylor that culminated in the main event of WrestleMania XI in 1995.

     

    Stay tuned to WWE.com as more on Bigelow's passing becomes available.

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    Our 650th anniversary programme with Piers Sellers the British astronaut who came down here especially to do the programme is going on at five to two in the morning, and I am not pleased," he said.

     

    The man has a point - suggesting his faculties are still sharp enough. Even if they'd aired this episode at a survivable time on BBC3 and also its graveyard slot on the main channel, that would have been an improvement on this. I mean, there's loads of deadpickers want to keep an eye on Patrick!

     

    I saw it and he looked in pretty good nick. Shaved parts of his head, by the looks of it, too :ph34r:

  14. Posted

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_spor...rts/6242757.stm

     

    He's pulled out of his match with breathing difficulties.

     

    what a top-notch athlete. Unable to compete in an event which requires perhaps as little physical motion as any. Notice I'm avoiding the use of the word "sport", which darts isn't. Remember, if people can, and regularly do, smoke during the activity, then it's not a sport.

     

    I'm not too sure about that definition. You could quite easily smoke playing cricket, depending on where you were fielding, and Richard Bryant used to smoke while bowling.

     

    Snooker is surely a sport, and you can smoke, and Sir Jimmy Savile smokes cigars while running the marathon.

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    I hope he pulls through.I met him once and he seemed a decent man committed to peace-why couldnt it be Ian Paisley? :ph34r:

     

    Depends if what someone becomes is more important than what they were.

     

    Ervine was imprisoned in Long Kesh in 1974 while an active member of the UVF, after being arrested driving a car bomb to its presumed target of a pub frequented by Catholic civilians

     

    Paisley may be vocal, but...

  18. Posted

    Daily Record

     

    SICK FIDEL 'IN SPAIN'

     

    AILING Fidel Castro was rumoured to be in a Spanish hospital yesterday after being smuggled into the country.

     

    It was reported that the Cuban dictator, above, was in a Madrid clinic.

     

    He is said to have been flown in on the same plane as the Spanish surgeon who jetted to Cuba last week to treat him.

     

    The surgeon, Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido, has denied claims Castro has cancer.

  19. Posted

    Statement from the Office of Senator Johnson:

     

    U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) underwent an angiogram this morning at George Washington University Hospital.

     

    “Today’s angiogram revealed no evidence of residual arteriovenous malformation,” said Dr. Vivek Deshmukh, MD, neurosurgeon. “Senator Johnson continues to be responsive to both his family and physicians-- following commands, squeezing his wife’s hand, and understanding speech.”

     

    Senator Tim Johnson underwent surgery for an intracranial hemorrhage caused by an arteriovenous malformation at George Washington University Hospital on December 13th. As a consequence of the initial hemorrhage, Senator Johnson developed fluid in his lungs. Doctors placed him on a ventilator to assist his breathing. "His breathing has steadily improved and now he only requires ventilator assistance at night," says Dr. Deshmukh.

     

    “My family and I are so pleased with today’s angiogram results, and I want thank everyone for their constant prayers and support. Tim has had some challenging days since surgery, but step by step, he’s been making great progress. We know there is a long road in front of us, but Tim's determination will make all the difference and he’ll be back at work as soon as he can be. We ask that everyone keep us in their prayers,” said Barb Johnson, wife of U.S. Senator Tim Johnson.

     

    Senator Johnson’s overall medical condition has improved steadily over the past three weeks. The next phase of his recovery is expected to take several months and focus upon rehabilitation and physical therapy.

  20. Posted

    He is still alive and recently received another award:

     

    Bernard Matthews, the famous Norfolk turkey farmer, who already has a CBE, is also made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) for services to the Duke of Edinburgh's Award.

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    I don't think that there is much information about her available. I have not been able to find a source with more than a paragraph on her anywhere.

     

    May have just solved that problem. Here's an interview with her.

     

    http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=oid%3A69975

     

     

    The life of a matriarch

    Ruby Muhammad

     

    By Sonia K. Saini

     

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    Ruby Muhammad lives comfortably with family in Rancho Cordova, but it wasn’t always that way. She grew up in Americus, Ga., not knowing any family. Her mother passed away when she was young; she didn’t know her father until she met him by chance as a teenager. Raised by a woman whom she knew to be her aunt--though she now doubts that she was--Muhammad spent her childhood working in the fields. She has since lived through World Wars, the sinking of the Titanic, the Great Depression, various social movements--basically, the entire 20th century. And at 109, she’s still going strong. One highlight of her life was joining the Nation of Islam in 1946; she credits it with giving her the internal strength to live for so long. In 1986, minister Louis Farrakhan named her the “Mother of the Nation of Islam.” Sixty years after joining it, she is still a devoted member. She now lives with her granddaughter and grandchildren, and proudly said, “I live with the family I created.”

     

    Is Sacramento a good place to grow old?

     

    It is. I've had no problems here. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to live here and get old.

     

    What has been the best part of your life so far?

     

    1969, when I met my second husband. My second husband was the type of person who gave me everything that I needed and some of the things that I wanted. After he left me, I found myself going back into the condition that I came out of.

     

    I had no one to tell me what was right and what was wrong. Then, when I met this man who gave me everything that I needed, my life changed. I had what I wanted, and I thought I was living in another world. Then when he left me, I felt my world went back to the beginning of my life, and I went into a depression. My family thought that I was going to lose my mind. I shut myself out of my family's life; he was gone, and he was my life.

     

    I decided to come out of the house about three months after my husband passed and take a walk. I stepped on a little seed, and the next couple of days when I came out of my house to sit in the yard, I happened to step on that same little seed. And I picked it up, I put it in my pocket, and I took it in the house. The thing that broke me out of that period was the poem I wrote about that seed. I began to write poems from that, and I'm back to myself again.

     

    You joined the Nation of Islam in 1946. Are you still very active with it?

     

    Islam is not a religion; it's a way of life. As a black person, not having anything, being abused from the beginning of my life by the white man, by the people who had control of my life, I couldn't take care of myself. I couldn't defend myself. Islam came into my life to tell me who I actually was. Who am I? Not someone who wants to be beat up. You have a mind, and your mind controls you. You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be. That's the way I see Islam. The Lord came and gave me the mind to take care of myself, a free mind. I can do what I want to without anybody telling me anything. I got control of my own life.

     

    Farrakhan named you the “Mother of the Nation of Islam." How does that feel?

     

    Wonderful! This is the best thing that ever happened to me. Coming from where I came from, not knowing any member of my family, not even knowing any member of my father's family until I was a mother myself, I was out there by myself. Here I am now, the Mother for the Nation of Islam, traveling, talking to people, doing things that I want to do. I did it myself. See? You can do anything that you want to for yourself. I don't care what you want to be--if you make it up in your mind that that's what you want, then that's what you'll do. I came from nothing to something.

     

    I know this is a popular question for people over 100, but what’s your secret for a long life?

     

    I don't really have secrets for a long life. I'm just blessed by Allah to be 109 years old. I've never drank, never smoked, and I've always taken care of myself. I don't drink soda, and I don't eat pork. I get up in the morning and have a cup of coffee and a piece of toast. I eat salad and rice and string beans. People judge me by my age. I don't know anyone else that can do the things I do at 109. I don't know anyone else who can get up and fix a meal at 109. I swim. I exercise. I don't need a walking stick or a wheelchair. This is something that blows everyone's mind. You'll probably come back and interview me two years from now. My goal is to be the oldest black woman that ever walked the planet without a wheelchair. I'm going to make it because I'm determined to do that.

  25. Posted

    To be fair, if it is a quiet news day he'll get in.

     

    Either way, as CP as said I can imagine this thread becoming somewhat interesting.

     

    As for the legitimately biggest crowd in 1992 - it was given as 80,000 or so at Wembley but with all the seats taken and seats on the pitch, I honestly believe it was more like 100,000 - but they didn't want to beat the fake crowd for Wrestlemania III (where my avatar is from) so they knocked it down.

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