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Thrown together with bollocks all effort, frankly. Maybe the lack of toil that went into creating my entry will help my case? We shall see... Quim's Windy Witherers (Running score total: 1,335) 1) Leah Bracknell 2) John McCain 3) Kirk Douglas 4) Tessa Jowell 5) Clive James 6) José José 7) Aretha Franklin 8) Bill Turnbull 9) Danniella Westbrook 10) George Alagiah 11) Nabi Tajima (died before start) 11) Olivia Newton John 12) George H W Bush 13) IM Pei 14) Stefan Karl Stefansson 15) Billy Connolly 16) Linda Nolan 17) Prunella Scales 18) Prince Philip 19) Sri Sri Sri Shivakumara Swamigalu 20) Javier Perez de Cuéllar 21) Lindsay Sandiford (moved from sub no.1) SUBS: Olivia de Havilland Yoko Ono Iain Lee Sinead O'Connor

Oh yes, I love listening to that clattering old arse tumour doing some serious earnin' (no 'g'). Tim Smith and Janey Lee Cunt can piss off too.

Yeah it must be brilliant, imagine the size of the lines she can do now!

Have you listened to his Talk Radio show? Most of his fucking callers make me want to kill myself out of despair.

BBC confirmation of this.

One home in Seattle smelled a lot worse than teen spirit as Kurt Cobain was found having joined the 27 club, 24 years ago today

Yep. Shambles. I'd be very surprised if she or her fake septum saw her 50th birthday.

When my teachers went on strike about their already pretty good pensions in the late 00s over here, I told each and every one of them when they came back that they're selfish, snivelling little arseholes. #fightforeducation

Lots of concern and sympathies for him on the Maily Dail:

He's now the British/Greek answer to Sri Sri. He'll be fine.

You've just described, with a stunning degree of accuracy, exactly the sort of thing I get! I often consider whether it might be easier to shave myself a receding hairline, borrow a tragic old leather jacket off my dad and just pretend I'm fucking 52.

As a sidenote with regard to the "fkin liar in the how old are you thread" claim... Ahem.

Very true, because as everyone knows, people under the age of 35 are idiots.

They WERE, in their thousands. But it's understandable, she was under a lot of pressure. Pish. I'm under a lot of pressure in my life, and I haven't kidnapped, tortured and slaughtered that many people at all. Good riddance to the heinous old terrorist.

If this is just a case of breathtaking naïveté on your part, search for necklacing on Google images, and as a mental caption bear in mind her infamous words "With our matches and our necklaces we will liberate this country". Not enough? Look up Stompie Moeketsi.

L'ancien Président de Français Georges Pompidou est mort en fonction quarante-quatre ans il y a aujourd'hui, à l'âge de soixante-deux. Il avait des sourcils incroyables, et un nom de famille très satisfaisant pour parler. (Désolé pour nos amis français, ma compréhension de la langue française est horrible. J'ai cherché "sourcils" et "en fonction" sur Google Translate, et en fait toute cette phrase.)

See below for why her anti-apartheid campaigning may justifiably be slightly overlooked:

I heard through the grapevine that Marvin Gaye was gunned down in an incident of filicide on this day 34 years ago, one day before his 45th birthday.

Has anyone entertained the possibility that maybe he simply can't be bollocksed to go to all these fucking languid services anymore?

I'd say it's safe to assume MK and Souza aren't getting back into it...think they've only entered 1 month out of 4 so far. To be fair, I don't think this is overly complicated (the fact that a busy bugger like myself is taking part is testament to that). All it takes is like 1 min worth of checking. But I do agree that the first entry should be the one that's taken, otherwise you're just rifling through loads of revisions, and, like it has been for the past couple of months, myself and theoldlady have had to act as fucking moderators. I think overall as a dead pool, it's a great concept and is working well!

Just a swap around would do; theoldlady has thwarted a prospective team once again Pos. 1 & 2 taken for Clive, just 4 for Leah.

Try again. YB already has José² at No.1, Fuji has him at No.2, theoldlady at No.3 and Ice at No.4. He's immeasurably more popular in these charts than the music ones, it transpires.

You may want to rethink their positions; theoldlady has beaten you to them. Spaces 1-4 are taken for José José, and 1-2 for Stefan Karl.

It was goodnight from him as Ronnie Corbett died 2 years ago today, aged 85.

Harry Patch, the WW1 veteran and supercentenarian, died on the same day I became a teenager. He was 111.