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And Jack Ramsay provides a 117 point boost for CaptainChorizo and Death Impends. This opens up a big gulf between 3rd and 4th place, are the main pack beginning to pull away or is our winner biding their time...
Death Impends 332 points
the_engineer 297 points
Captain Chorizo 289 points
Rotten Ali 123 points
Estuarian Float 87 points
The Unknown Man 10 points
US Funeral Director 10 points
maryportfuncity 7 points
Toast 4 points
Everyone Else 0 points
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Snookers finished for the day. So I've cured my boredom with a little potentials list.
World Championship Survivors since 1970
Qualification criteria, played in the main draw of a World Championship since challenge format ended. (1969 world championship - 2014 world championship) (People who don't have a wikipedia page, or there age can't be found by google excluded) Most of them won't be troubling the DL Commitee any time soon, but still interesting to note how snooker's first generation of real stars are still yet to get old and the majority of the generation before that are already dead. I'm sure this'll come in handy in 20 years time.
Rex Williams, 80
Ray Reardon, 81
Mark Wildman, 78
Perrie Mans, 73
Graham Miles, 72
Paddy Morgan, 71
Doug Mountjoy, 71
David Taylor, 70
John Virgo, 68
Jim Meadowcroft, 67
Silvino Francisco, 67
Terry Griffiths, 66
Cliff Thorburn, 66
Dennis Taylor, 65
Dave Martin, 65
Patsy Fagan, 63
John Campbell, 61
Joe Johnson, 61
Willie Thorne, 60
Jim Wych, 60
Warren King, 59
Steve Newbury, 58
Tony Drago, 58
Tony Knowles, 58
Eugene Hughes, 58
Steve Davis, 56
Kirk Stevens, 55
Bob Chaperon, 55
Tony Meo, 54
Mike Hallet, 54
Wayne Jones, 54
Tony Jones, 54
Alain Robidoux, 53
Steve James, 52
Peter Francisco, 52
Jimmy White, 51
Dean Reynolds, 51
Dene O'Kanne, 51
Neal Foulds, 50
Mark Bennet, 50
John Parrot, 49
Gary Wilkinson, 48
Mick Price, 48
Nigel Bond, 48
Stefan Mazrocis, 47
Darren Morgan, 47
Dave Harold, 47
David Roe, 45
Mark Johnston-Allen, 45
Martin Clark, 45
Brian Morgan, 45
Stephen Hendry, 45
Drew Henry, 45
Billy Snaddon, 44
Anthony Davies, 44
Danny Fowler, 44
Tony Chappel, 44
Nick Dyson, 44
Jason Ferguson, 44
James Wattana, 44
Joe Swail, 44
Peter Lines, 44
Ken Doherty, 44
Patrick Wallace, 44
Rory McLeod, 43
Barry Pinches, 43
Alan McManus, 43
Peter Ebdon, 43
Sean Storey, 42
Dominic Dale, 42
Fergal O'Brien, 42
Rod Lawler, 42
Jimmy Michie, 42
Mike Dunn, 42
Terry Murphy, 42
Anthony Hamilton, 42
Ian McCulloch, 42
Mark Davis, 41
John Lardner, 41
Nick Walker, 41
Marcus Campbell, 41
Joe Delaney, 41
Chris Small, 40
Mark King, 40
Andy Hicks, 40
Gerard Greene, 40
Mark Williams, 39
Stephen Lee, 39
Robert Milkins, 38
Joe Perry, 39
Robin Hull, 39
Michael Judge, 39
Stuart Pettman, 39
Lee Walker, 38
Simon Bedford, 38
Ronnie O'Sullivan, 38
John Higgins, 38
Jamie Burnett, 38
Alfie Burden, 37
Leo Fernandez, 37
Stuart Bingham, 37
Graeme Dott, 36
Marco Fu, 36
Matthew Stevens, 36
Quienten Hann, 36
Andrew Higginson, 36
David Gray, 35
Michael Holt, 35
Dechawat Poomjaeng, 35
Barry Hawkins, 35
Ali Carter, 34
Ryan Day, 34
David Gilbert, 32
Stephen Maguire, 33
Neil Robertson, 32
Martin Gould, 32
Andrew Paggett, 32
Shaun Murphy, 31
Ricky Walden, 31
Mark Selby, 30
Tom Ford, 30
Matthew Selt, 29
Jamie Cope, 28
Mark Allen, 28
Ding Junhui, 27
Lliang Wenbo, 27
Robbie Williams, 27
Jimmy Robertson, 27
Jamie Jones, 26
Ben Woolaston, 26
Sam Baird, 25
Xia Goudong, 25
Judd Trump, 24
Michael Wasley, 24
Liu Chuang, 23
Cao Yupeng, 23
Kyren Wilson, 22
Zhang Anda, 22
Jack Lisowski, 22
Michael White, 22
Luca Brecel, 19
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I think some of the guys in the commentary box might be worth a look. If Deathlist was ever going to repeat 1987's trick of having "any one Beatle", I would have "any one snooker commentator". Never heard such a crusty old collection of miserable sounding, wheezy buggers, they make cricket and golf commentators sound like dynamic fountains of youth.
There not actually that old, they've just lived snooker lifestyle which back when they played wasn't good for your health (Bill Werbernick must be the prime example of that.)
The BBC regulars are all under 70
John Virgo, 68
Terry Griffiths, 66
Dennis Taylor, 65
Willie Thorne, 60
Steve Davis, 56
John Parrot, 49
Stephen Hendry, 45
Ken Doherty, 44
Eurosports guys may be better at their jobs, but aren't much older;
Joe Johnson, 61
Neal Foulds, 50
Mike Hallet, 54
Dave Hendon, ??
Phil Yates, ??
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Has anyone been watching the world snooker championships?
None of the players are old enough to consider for deathlist but I think a few viewers might have been bored to death by that Wilson v Walden match.
Fancy Robertson for the title though.
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It seems like someone likes fucking with the pussy in the big apple more than Barney Stinston .
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After a April drought, we have a shower of celebrity perishers with Sandy Jardine (113 points to CaptainChorizo + the_engineer) and Arturo Licata (113 points to the_engineer) both passing away.
the_engineer 297 points
Death Impends 215 points
Captain Chorizo 172 points
Rotten Ali 123 points
Estuarian Float 87 points
The Unknown Man 10 points
US Funeral Director 10 points
maryportfuncity 7 points
Toast 4 points
Everyone Else 0 points
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Julian Wilson, the broadcaster has died aged 73.
Bugger. He was on the subs bench for my Toast of the Turf team.
By the way, could a mod sort out the ungrammatical and misspelt thread title, please?
And it's Clare Balding, not Claire, but I can't see that she warrants a thread to herself anyway. Just call it Horse Racing Personalities, or summat similar. Or Sods of Turf.
How about; The Grandaddy National
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Should we try this again with a rule specifying war dead/lists of casualties from disasters don't count?
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We've lost 40k somewhere
998,607 Seymour Cocks.
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956,939 Dale Hawkins
956,940 Donald “Duck’ Dunn
956,941 Rick Danko
956,942 Levon Helm
956,943 Richard Manuel
956,944 Paul Butterfield
956,945 Richie Havens
Kansas Hyatt hotel Skywalk disaster. 114 people died.
http://www.skywalkme....org/memory.pdf
957,114 - 957,227
Err What?
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Valeria Lukyanova(real life Barbie) claimed on Feb 28 she will no longer consume food or water
If true she's not going to be a 2015 pick;
http://www.livescience.com/32320-how-long-can-a-person-survive-without-water.html
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Well done you're only about 24 hours after everybody else with that joke...
Oh well, it happens.
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Nothing to see here.
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Margaret Thatcher died one year ago today...
Then why isn't today a national holiday?
Because thankfully we don't honour former PMs with national holidays, that would be a lot of national holidays.
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So I attended the wedding of a first cousin over the weekend and I thought for the most part it went reasonably well. However just discovered, via facebook uploads, that I have been photo-shopped out of all the photos taken with the family. There are a number of reasons as to why this must be the case, a lengthy feud between balkanised factions of the family (the details of which I will not bore you with here) meant that I was the only member of my branch to attend in the first place, my reason for going; I thought a wedding might be a good place to start reconnecting with estranged family members. Don't really know why I bothered now...everyone seemed happy to see me, was it all just a façade? an act designed to save-face in front of a crowd? clearly my presence there meant they had to confront issues instead of pretending everything was fine.
Got a good meal out of it though...and made off with two bottles of wine as I was leaving. so not a total loss.
Were you invited to the wedding?
To be honest they must really dislike you to have gone to the effort of photoshopping you out of every photo.
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2003 seems most like to provide us with the much awaited NONE.
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937,137 Slim Dusty
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Anyway, let's not forget her grandfather's contribution to the music industry:
FFS!!
Sudden death I can take, but was there really any call for inflicting this without warning?
Especially when we see where Hughie Green's beloved capitalist dream has got us in the end. w***er.
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Agree with the sentiments above, whilst I couldn't care less about her as a person in her life; it is incredibly sad that she's died so young.
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Hawking, if I keep voting for him I'll get it right eventually.
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There's always Hartfield III, last in Division 11b of the Mid-Sussex football league. That's a polite way of saying their the club at the very bottom of the English football league pyramid.
lost their last two games 9-0 and 8-1.
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Okay that's your interpretation of the "maths".. The bookies actually say a hung parliament is most likely.
What I'm interested in is reasons to vote for Ed Miliband and there don't really seem to be any other than to get Cameron out. I wonder how many times people in the eighties said that Kinnock would win the next election when he used to have big leads in the polls and then he didn't. How can you be so confident when Miliband is down?
This is a bit harsh on Miliband; energy price freeze, jobs guarantee for long term unemployed and reduction in tuition fees. There's three reasons to vote for him, still not really enough to get my vote on his name in 2015 yet though.
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Anyone reckon Cameron's shambolic handling of this Maria Miller fiasco could see him out on his ear in a months time?
Er.......... I wish it could but no. They're not going to ditch him for something as small as this especially this close to an election. I hold hopes that they might get rid of the wankstain next year and replace him with Boris. But that'll probably only happen if they lose so it doesn't make too much difference anyway I guess.... and I have absolutely no fuckin' idea who will win the election.
All Labour need to do to win the election is come up with some policies, to be frank that's just to sure up victory.
There electoral constituency fiddling hasn't been reversed yet so will take care of the rest.
Oh, come the fuck on Deathgray. Edward Milibland is a spluttering, spittle-flinging, lisping dweeboid who has the charisma of a fucking dead kipper. Okay, being a bit of a wet nerd didn't stop John Major becoming PM..... or winning his own election, even. But Ed is way worse. He makes Major look like Elvis Fucking Presley by comparison. And he's not even pledging to reverse the welfare cuts which obviously would be the biggest vote winner. As far as I can see Labour's most, erm, "eye-catching" policy going into 2015 seems to be..... the idea that the political parties will be funded by the taxpayer. Because the Labour party is such a fucking worthless shambles they can't even get the unions to bankroll it any more(!!). And how many people are going to want to vote for that?
So... yeah the only reason why Ed is even in with a chance is because IDS, Osbourne and Cameron come across like escaped mid-level Nazis running a poverty-stricken South American country in the 1960s/70s and the leader of the opposition is traditionally seen as the "best chance" of ousting a sitting PM. But they don't even have a significant poll lead any more for fuck's sake. In fact I think Cameron might be ahead in some of them.
Except the poll lead doesn't matter, seats matter. Ed Miliband might be a moron with no policies and look like a shitty wet nerd but Cameron needs something like a 5% poll lead to get a majority, something he didn't even manage in 2010 with Gordon Brown run the country, the idea he could then manage that 5 years later is laughable. The fact of the matter is Nick Clegg lost the tories the 2015 election in response to them refusing to budge on lords reform, an astute move on his part as it gives him a shot of a coalition with Labour in 2015 and the ability to carry on in government (heaven forbid.)
It's the electoral math that means labour are guaranteed to win, not anything they've actually done. I'm not a Labour supporter (or a Tory supporter for that matter btw).
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Anyone reckon Cameron's shambolic handling of this Maria Miller fiasco could see him out on his ear in a months time?
Er.......... I wish it could but no. They're not going to ditch him for something as small as this especially this close to an election. I hold hopes that they might get rid of the wankstain next year and replace him with Boris. But that'll probably only happen if they lose so it doesn't make too much difference anyway I guess.... and I have absolutely no fuckin' idea who will win the election.
All Labour need to do to win the election is come up with some policies, to be frank that's just to sure up victory.
There electoral constituency fiddling hasn't been reversed yet so will take care of the rest.
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Apparently some people died, I'll give a OP update later but scores on the doors are now;
102 for Fred Ho to Death impends
121 for Efram Zimbalist Jr for CaptainChorizo + The Unknown Man
Table;
Death Impends 434 points
Captain Chorizo 410 points
the_engineer 297 points
The Unknown Man 131 points
Rotten Ali 123 points
Estuarian Float 87 points
US Funeral Director 10 points
maryportfuncity 7 points
Toast 4 points
Everyone Else 0 points