YoungWillz

We are at the 7 month stage.

Ok, leaderboard updated (call it last Saturday's list, late!). The Dead Cow moves into 4th with his two uniques and Bibliogryphon slides into the top 20 with Hepton. Hopefully be back to normal service if the hits keep coming.

Fifteenth Leaderboard 2018: (*=Joker) 1st: Death Impends - 1408 Points [11/25] (Killen; Kit; Graham; Dorfles; Tajima; Maren; Francis; M. Wilson; T. Johnson; *Cappotelli; Carrington) 2nd: msc - 927 Points [12/25] (*Elias; Cryne; Alcock; Stokes; Miller; Nevin; Lafaye; DeKoven; Jowell; Francis; M. Wilson; Cappotelli) 3rd: gcreptile: 926 Points [9/25] (Manikan; Olivera; J Cooper; Elvy; Tajima; Camm; Yancik; Francis; Duroe) 4th: The Dead Cow - 875 Points [7/25] (Sawyer; Lafaye; B. Bush; Jowell; Francis; Loud; Dragojevic) 5th: Wormfarmer - 860 Points [6/25] (Sawyer; Nevin; Maren; Clark; Duncan; *Vader)  6th: NiceGuyEddie - 799 Points [7/25] (Cryne; Olivera; Miller; Shore; Tajima; Camm; *Projetto) 7th: Prophet - 767 Points [7/25] (Graham; Groening; Hawking; Tajima; R Wilson; Francis; Carrington) 8th: Captain Chorizo - 731 Points [10/25] (Monson; Elias; Alcock; Kit; L. Gilbert; Goodwin; Shore; Jowell; Francis; Cappotelli) 9th: Grim Up North - 714 Points [9/25] (Elias; Cryne; Alcock; Miller; Goodwin; Jowell; Bain; Francis; Anzaki) 10th: Grigori: 545 Points [4/25] (Kit; Hawking; Camm; *M. Wilson) 11th: drol - 470 Points [9/25] (Elias; Zarin; Cryne; Alcock; Miller; Tsvangirai; Nevin; Jowell; Francis) 12th: FujimoriNoMorey - 435 Points [5/25] (Cryne; Miller; Shore; B. Bush; P. Thomson) 13th: Book - 431 Points [4/25] (Le Guin; B. Bush; Coates; Jackson) 14th: Phantom of the Midway - 429 Points [5/25] (Smith; Tsvangirai; Fabray; Jowell; Cappotelli) 15th: the_engineer - 402 Points [6/25] (Falkholt; Sawyer; Miller; Graham; Jowell; Francis) 16th: Whoaml - 368 Points [5/25] (Malone; Graham; Bannister; Lucas; M. Wilson) 17th: Toast - 353 Points [5/25] (Elias; Miller; Bannister; B. Bush; Francis) 18th: John Key - 346 Points [3/25] (Graham; B. Bush; Carrington) 19th: Sean - 338 Points [3/25] (Graham; Jowell; M. Wilson) 20th: Bibliogryphon - 326 Points [3/25] (*Hauxwell; Bannister; Hepton) 21st: Sir Creep - 318 Points [5/25] (Elias; Falkholt; Miller; Podermanski; Jowell) 22nd: The Unknown Man - 288 Points [6/25] (Elias; Cryne; Miller; Tsvangirai; Graham; Jowell) 23rd: Torva Messor - 277 Points [3/25] (Elias; Jowell; Maren) 24th: Joey Russ - 212 Points [4/25] (Smith; Olivera; Graham; Tajima) 25th: Pedro67 - 206 Points [2/25] (Hawking; R Wilson) 26th: mr whit - 157 Points [2/25] (Graham; B. Bush) 27th: Widows Peak - 123 Points [2/25] (Graham; Hawking) 28th: Fixed Business - 113 Points [3/25] (Monson; Graham; Goodwin) 29th: Deathray - 106 Points [1/25] (B. Bush) 30th: YoungWillz - 0 Points [0/25]

Death Notice for Michael Lapage, British Olympic rower and Silver medallist in the eights from the 1948 Games and DDP pick, aged 94: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/226097/lapage

Gosh, it's a hard situation by the sounds of it. However, someone needs to know the prognosis so that plans can be made. If it's terminal as it seems to be, gotta know so you can get the help and assistance the family need. Somebody needs to be more insistent with the medics. Imo. Hope you and yours can get through this.

Ah, what hilarity we had when Sir Creep said exactly the same thing years ago!!! Which is exactly why we still have both threads....

Perennial Bibliogryphon pick Bernard Hepton has exited the stage. Leaderboard updated, no bonuses.

Hepton has gone Cold - Itz Points for one player. Actively considering updating the leaderboard now we've had some hits.

Cross-posting and giving Toast the credit, as it should be.

The English Courts baffle me. So they agree that someone in a PVS (persistent vegetative state) can have treatment withdrawn provided everyone agrees without legal permission, in a ruling announced by the Supreme Court today. Yet if everyone agrees that someone with locked in syndrome should go (including the person who is locked in) withdrawing sustenance would be a positive step towards euthanasia and is not allowed. Now, speaking as someone whose family member was in a PVS for over 20 years, I don't understand this. I can only think this is clearly an economic decision, giving weight to the right wing attitude that the taxpayer shouldn't be forking out for folk who, in their opinion, deserve to die or don't deserve treatment. (Next stop, fatties and fag addicts). Anyway, in Scotland, my family were given the option without any recourse to the Courts...it would have just happened if my parents had so decided. They didn't. Hmmm....

Time to close this thread I feel. Take it to the Drunk Psychopath thread in EC.

Tbh, you haven't read the posts properly then. AOGuy has explained his motivation. It's quite clear from what he said, he is here at least partially to make posts to receive the joy of seeing his named bod get a Wiki update. Instead of simply editing Wiki. He is not here to interest other Listers and quite rightly doesn't give two hoots if you like or are interested in his posts. Once you understand that motivation, you can accept that. Now it is a question of navigating the basic rules for him (links in English, at least one appropriate ongoing thread) and he's still learning. Up to the mods to police the Board, as drol quite rightly points out, why should we care what interests another poster?

Not a great day for Croatia...

Diane Keen is 72 today!

Dragojevic has Split* and is a unique hit here. *Split - Croatia....ah, never mind....

Heaven help them if they need to do an internal examination. I'm always getting lost in John Lewis....

Here's the interview on the BBC page with Carolyn Jones, who has reportedly just died: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4D8bbGqXYKM4pZs5n1149Hw/carolyn-jones-on-playing-ursula-titchener

Also, National Theatre actress and appeared in The Archers by all accounts, so obit possible....maybe...

msc is the only one to hit with Lietzke. No bonuses, leaderboard updated.

Just to clarify for anyone taking this seriously, different people. Me old dead mum used to watch Crossroads religiously in the 1970s, so this is a heartbreaker.

Carolyn Jones, who played Sharon Metcalfe in Crossroads, has reportedly died: Other credits include Z Cars and Within These Walls.

Report of the death of Herman Webb, brother of Loretta: Edit: http://www.wymt.com/content/news/Herman-Webb-brother-of-Loretta-Lynn-dead-at-83---489421941.html

I did see Alliss on the golfing highlights, on camera and everything. Yes, he sounded rough. He was walking with a stick He was talking about his issues with balance. Still looked and sounded less rough than Johnny Ball did on the last Daily Politics.

There's always Google Translate...not great I'll admit, but anyone who tries to understand teenagers these days should have no problem sorting out what the article says. OP takes two minutes to do that and it is more than helpful to the rest of us.

Tracey from Galashiels leans out her window: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-44987970/lightning-strikes-as-woman-films-at-window-in-galashiels