YoungWillz

John Cleese is 80 today! As it's Sunday, go out for a silly walk.

There's been a murder in relation to the points scoring with Ivan Milat's death. Several teams had him in their backpack, and as can be seen from the above; a massive change at the top. Bonuses: msc hits A Clubs - 5 Points; Pair of As - 10 Points - Total: 15 Additional Points. Grim Up North hits 4 Clubs - Pair of 4s - 10 Points; Two Pair (4s and Qs) - 15 Points; Two Pair (4s and 9s) - 15 Points - Total: 40 Additional Points. Death Impends hits 3 Diamonds - Pair of 3s - 10 Points; Two Pair (3s and 7s) - 15 Points; Two Pair (3s and 5s [5 Spades and Diamonds]) - 15 Points; Two Pair (3s and 5s [5 Spades and Clubs]) - 15 Points; Two Pair (3s and 5s [5 Diamonds and Clubs]) - 15 Points; Full House (5s over 3s) - 80 Points - Total: 150 Additional Points. Clorox Bleachman hits the A Spades - 5 Points; Straight (A, 2, 3, 4, 5 with 5 Diamonds) - 30 Points; Straight (A, 2, 3, 4, 5 with 5 Spades) - 30 Points - Total: 65 Additional Points. Sir Creep hits A Diamonds - 5 Points; Pair of As - 10 Points; Two Pair (As and 8s) - 15 Points - Total: 30 Additional Points. Captain Chorizo hits 7 Hearts - Pair 7s with 7 Clubs - 10 Points; Pair 7s with 7 Diamonds - 10 Points; Two Pair (7s and 4s with 7 Clubs) - 15 Points; Two Pair (7s and 4s with 7 Diamonds) - 15 Points; Three of a Kind (7s) - 20 Points; Straight (6, 7, 8, 9, 10 with 7 Hearts) - 30 Points; Flush (6, 7, 8, 9, 10 of Hearts) - 40 Points; Full House (7s over 4s) - 80 Points; Straight Flush (6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Hearts) - 150 Points - Total: 370 Additional Points. So Captain Chorizo now takes the lead with the highest set of bonuses so far, with gcreptile and Death Impends on the podium but with a bit of ground to make up. New Leaderboard above for a new page.

Deaths So Far: Christopher Booker - 3 July Jared Lorenzen - 3 July John McCririck - 5 July Sutopo Purwo Nugroho - 7 July Michael Sleggs - 9 July Freddie Jones - 9 July Denise Nickerson - 10 July Hussain Muhammad Ershad - 14 July Johnny Clegg - 16 July John Paul Stevens - 16 July Andrea Camilleri - 17 July David Hedison - 18 July Beji Caid Essebsi - 25 July Kevin Roster - 26 July - No Obit Mad Marty Wilson - 26 July Harley Race - 1 August Brian Lochore - 3 August Alf Smith - 4 August Cecilia Caballero Blanco - 13 August - No Obit Kathleen Blanco - 18 August Fred Rister - 20 August Tim Fischer - 22 August Randy Romero - 28 August - No Obit Jim Leavelle - 29 August Valerie Harper - 30 August Derrick King - 1 September Roger Etchegaray - 4 September - No Obit Robert Mugabe - 6 September Chris Duncan - 6 September Chng Seok Tin - 6 September - No Obit Suzanne Whang - 17 September Fernando Ricksen - 18 September Tony Mills - 18 September - No Obit Jacques Chirac - 26 September Jose Jose - 28 September Leah Bracknell - 29 SSeptember Bat McGrath - 1 October - No Obit Diahann Carroll - 4 October Ginger Baker - 6 October Dorothy "Gwen" Payne - 15 October - No Obit Bill Macy - 17 October Marieke Vervoort - 22 October Gustav Gerneth - 22 October - No Obit Ivan Milat - 27 October Holly Clegg - 1 November - No Obit John Fordham - 10 November Clive James - 24 November Paul Volcker - 8 December Sheila Mercier - 13 December Martin Peters - 21 December Tony Britton - 22 December Captain Chorizo: 2000 Points (Lorenzen; McCririck; Nugroho; J. Clegg; Camilleri; A. Smith; K Blanco; D King; Ricksen; Whang; Bracknell; Milat; C James) Cards Played: Joey Russ: 1712 Points (Booker; Nugroho; Sleggs; J. Clegg; Essebsi; K Blanco; Duncan; Ricksen; Whang; Bracknell; Milat; C James; Volcker) (Sub: Chirac [2 Spades]) Cards Played: gcreptile: 1443 Points (Booker; Nugroho; J. Clegg; Essebsi; Wilson; K Blanco D King; Ricksen; Vervoort; Milat; Volcker) (Sub: Lochore [8 Hearts]) Cards Played: Clorox Bleachman: 1435 Points (Nugroho; Sleggs; J. Clegg; Camilleri; Essebsi; K Blanco; Ricksen; Whang; Jose; Milat; C James) Cards Played: Death Impends: 1435 Points (Nugroho; Sleggs; J. Clegg; Camilleri; Essebsi; K Blanco; Ricksen; Whang; Bracknell; Milat; Volcker) Cards Played: Grim Up North: 1225 Points (McCririck; Nugroho; Sleggs; J. Clegg; K Blanco; Rister; Duncan; Ricksen; Bracknell; Milat; C James) Cards Played: Banana: 1069 Points (Booker; J. Clegg; Camilleri; K Blanco; Fischer; D King; Ricksen; Jose; Milat; Fordham) (Sub: Essebsi [6 Diamonds]; Mugabe [A Hearts]; Bracknell [A Spades]) Cards Played: Sir Creep: 930 Points (Lorenzen; Sleggs; Camilleri; K Blanco; D King; Mugabe; Ricksen; Milat) (Sub: J. Clegg [A Diamonds]; Duncan [J Spades]) Cards Played: msc: 870 Points (Booker; Sleggs; F. Jones; J. Clegg; Whang; Bracknell; Milat; C James) Cards Played: The Old Crem: 835 Points (McCririck; Sleggs; Ershad; J. Clegg; K Blanco; Ricksen; Bracknell; C James) Cards Played: Fixed Business: 779 Points (J. Clegg; Stevens; K Blanco; Leavelle; Ricksen; Bracknell; C James) (Sub: Harper [9 Spades]} Cards Played: RadGuy: 718 Points (Nugroho; J. Clegg; K Blanco; Ricksen; Whang; Bracknell; C James) (Sub: Macy [8 Diamonds]) Cards Played: Sean: 710 Points (McCririck; Nickerson; J. Clegg; K Blanco: Ricksen; C James; Peters) Cards Played: Skinny Kiltrunner: 710 Points (Sleggs; Essebsi; K Blanco; Duncan; Ricksen; Whang; Milat) Cards Played: Torva Messor: 705 Points (McCririck; J. Clegg; K Blanco; Mugabe Ricksen; Milat; C James) Cards Played: Yorkshire Banker: 664 Points (K Blanco; Mugabe; Ricksen; Milat; Mercier; Britton) (Sub: Race [Q Spades]; G Baker [2 Diamonds]) Cards Played: theoldlady: 600 Points (McCririck; J. Clegg; Mugabe; Ricksen; Jose; C James) Cards Played: YoungWillz: 573 Points (Booker; Sleggs; K Blanco; Ricksen; C James) (Sub: Hedison [K Hearts]) Cards Played: Jiroemon Kimura: 508 Points (Race; K Blanco; Ricksen; Bracknell; Milat) (Sub: Fischer [3 Hearts]) Cards Played: Toast: 436 Points (McCririck; Sleggs; J. Clegg; Ricksen) (Sub: Chirac [9 Diamonds]; Mercier [Q Diamonds]) Cards Played: Death By Arsenic: 406 Points (Race; K Blanco; Ricksen; Bracknell) (Sub: G Baker [6 Diamonds]) Cards Played: Great Uncle Bulgaria: 332 Points (J. Clegg; K Blanco; Harper) (Sub: Peters [Q Hearts]) Cards Played: Gooseberry Crumble: 305 Points (Ricksen; Carroll; Peters) Cards Played: Bibliogryphon:100 Points (Mugabe) Cards Played:

DDP Pick Natalya Pugacheva, one of those dreadful Russian Grannies, reported dead: https://escbubble.com/2019/10/natalia-pugacheva-dies-at-83/

Paul Bircher, reportedly the last survivor of the GB Men's rowing eight who won silver at the 1948 Olympics, dead.

Dorothy Payne's death notice: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/236841/payne-dorothy-gwendoline

Well, technically it's never the death of an individual which grants the bonuses, it's the combination of cards drawn. gcreptile was essentially sitting on three pairs so drawing any additional card of any one of those pairs would make a huge bonus. It should be noted that if certain folk were to cash in their joker, bonuses will flow like milk and honey as well.

Phew, thanks Toast!

gcreptile has a unique with naughty Marieke (will anyone get this reference?). Gustav Gerneth has not yet obtained a QO so we'll keep a look out. Bonuses: gcreptile hits 7 Clubs so: Pair 7s (with Spades) - 10 Points Pair 7s (with Hearts) - 10 Points Two Pair 7s (with Spades) and 9s - 15 Points Two Pair 7s (with Hearts) and 9s - 15 Points Two Pair 7s (with Spades) and Js - 15 Points Two Pair 7s (with Hearts) and Js 15 Points Three of a Kind (7s) - 20 Points Full House (7s over 9s) - 80 Points Full House (7s over Js) - 80 Points That gives a massive bonus (largest ever I believe) of 260 Additional Points. Accordingly, that means gcreptile takes the lead for the moment. Leaderboard updated.

Vervoort has ended up like my chances now. Her race and mine are over! I can only hope everybody picked her....

We all know Bawjaws loves a quickie.

Summary: Bog off Bawjaws and Rees-Mogg.

Chicago mobster Joseph Lombardo dead: https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20191020/chicago-mobster-joey-the-clown-lombardo-dies-in-prison A minor pick for the Crowdsourced alas little attention.

While taking the time to wonder exactly what Vaagheid was saying about this guy ten years ago, it should be noted that he's seeking re-election in Bolivia until 2025: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/world/americas/bolivia-election-evo-morales.html

Wow, this hasn't been updated in a long time. Reveals she never got a penny for her lads' mags shoots, went bankrupt in 2017, was tearful about Keith Flint's death and is now looking for love with a man who loves her baldness: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7547009/Gail-Porter-reveals-never-got-paid-penny-infamous-FHM-nude-shoot.html

Colin Jeavons is 90 today!

I think this is almost fair, but the underlying reason Cameron did so well in 2015 is exactly the point of this thread. Wrapping himself in the Union Flag, off he went to Europe, saying how he was going to be magnificent in coming back with EU reforms (the equivalent of Thatcher re-negotiating the rebate). He came back with virtually nothing. Then he said to himself, I know I'll offer a referendum on the EU at exactly the point he shouldn't because he had just made it look like the EU had humiliated the UK. He thought he' win that because of the Scottish referendum result. The flag waving public, taken in by this apparent snub to the UK's divine right to be right always, grasped at that and voted him in. I'm actually surprised he didn't get a larger majority given how Labour and the LibDems ran their campaigns, but that lack of huge majority showed the weakness of the Tories on austerity and other issues at the time. Now here we are and here are your choices: 1. Tory Party Islamophobic, Labour Party Anti-Semitic. 2. Tory Party divided, Labour Party divided. 3. Tory Party deselecting long-standing MPs, Labour Party driving out long-standing MPs. 4. Tory Government borrowing at an all time record, Labour prospectively borrowing at an all time record. 5. Both major parties claiming to be Unionist, yet policies followed by their devolved branch offices differing markedly from their national policies. And so on. Your choice of either is the equivalent of drinking from a cess pool or eating from landfill.

This is an interesting analysis. Corbyn's job has not been to oppose for months imo. As soon as Bawjaws looked like an evasive, blibbering, lying, law-breaking toerag, and had no majority, his job was to make himself and his party look electable. Let's not forget that despite Cameron being revealed as a total cunt who penetrated pork, Theresa May as a home secretary who was prepared to send the vans round effectively saying "go home paki" while deporting British citizens, George Osborne as Chancellor keeping his money offshore, etc etc, they got elected with a small majority. As I recall, Cameron and his ilk would have been at uni at the same time as I was, and I recall the Young Conservatives calling for the execution of Nelson Mandela - wouldn't surprise me if a number of the 2010 Tory government had their participation in that little scumbag operation covered up as soon as they got the keys to the castle. History's a problem for Corbyn. For example, there was Kinnock, being a strong leader rooting out Militant Tendency and where did that get him? Party divided and all that. Corbyn's problem should be his future, not his past. There's no doubt he's an effective campaigner on bread and butter issues. That's what a General Election should look like. Past Labour leaders would have swept people like Bawjaws aside easily. Both major parties look divided, both look unelectable, both are really not fit for 21st century Britain, in or out of the EU. They both need a grand old kicking at the polls. But who will give that kicking to them? I'm sorry to say it's the public who look on with horror at Westminster and what it has become, then stick their cross in a box with one or the other. Then wonder why the shitshow continues. I say as always, use your vote, and think hard before that cross goes down.

Not sure, around those couple of years it really was head down in the books, then heading to Strathclyde Uni during that period. Remember Jenkins getting elected though. Was more worried about being conscripted for the Falklands if it got out of hand. No way was I fighting for Thatcher's war!

Meantime, if you are driving by any ditches on Sunday, have a quick look for the PM.....

Russian player Alexander Volkov reportedly dead at 52: https://www.atptour.com/en/news/alexander-volkov-obituary-2019 1994 Davis Cup finalist, former coach to Marat Safin. Longevity only good if you are a champ?

RadGuy had Bill Macy as a sub and draws 8 Diamonds for 8 Points added. Leaderboard updated.

You probably know: Bill Macy Mirror Obit: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-maude-star-bill-macy-20650538

General Mattis hits back at Trump calling him the most overrated general. "I earned my spurs on the battlefield, Donald Trump earned his spurs in a letter from his doctor."