Great Uncle Bulgaria

Little Richard for me too.

Little Richard my 3rd hit here

The same small number of irritating adverts that are playing continually - particularly 1.Teams, plus any others showing supposedly 'normal' people on split screen, usually going on about how they still care about all of us, 2. KJT's fat free yoghurt ad (although normally I quite like looking at her and fortunately they have realised after her last ad that the scouse accent is a turn off) 3. The ad where Jess Ennis invites you round to her place for some exercise with a winning smile but you know the only jogging you'll do when you get there will be vertical 4. Ads for the government and the NHS which hammer home a message we all got 7 weeks ago and represent a monumental waste of public money 5. Virgin, when he's laying off thousands of people in another part of his empire and furloughing thousands more at public expense.

Thanks for running. Think that's my third third-bottom performance in a pool in recent (last 6) months. I am nothing if not consistent.

1. Tom Smith 2. Anne Buydens Douglas 3. Rosalyn Carter 4. Roberta McCain 5. George McGavin 6. Jackie Stallone 7. Bernard Cribbins 8. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 9. Murray Walker 10. Renata Scotto 11. Leslie Phillips 12. Pete Murray 13. Vera Lynn 14. Beverly Cleary 15. Frank Williams (TV vicar) 16. Richard Bonynge 17. Teresa Berganza 18. Des O'Connor 19. Tommy Banner 20. Barry Briggs 21. Colin Thackery subs Leontyne Price Anders Michanek Thanks for running GUB

Shame for my lot currently (formerly) in a playoff position in National League South. Latest informed speculation/kite-flying says that non-league should be prepared to accept no football for the rest of 2020 and possibly not until 2021, which would wipe out most of non-league football. I know fans of Liverpool/WBA/Leeds etc will be annoyed about not getting what they think they deserve but at least they will still have a club to support - there is going to be absolute carnage lower down the pyramid.

Point a hit, first to ten wins?

The increase in cr*p on facebook (and probably other platforms that i'm not on), during this crisis, particularly 1. Name ten albums that have changed your life, here's my no 1 i nominate 'GUB' to list theirs too and tag someone else. No, I cant be bothered (and don't know how to tag anyone anyway) 2. Here are 6 people I have met/bands I have seen live. Which one is a lie? Who cares. 3. Meaningless exhortations to be nice to each other/stay safe etc. I know there is contributory negligence on my part for having accepted a friend request from these people at some point but come the end of this crisis there will be a list of so called friends that needs reviewing. Or maybe I'll just quit social media..

Stirling Moss goes two days too early for the lucky 7 bonus but still reduces my hitherto good chances of claiming the wooden spoon

hit for me too

tom smith

Er...30 of this year's list are over 90 and nearly everybody on the list is several decades past their peak/period of fame (excluding Bill Gates' dad and P-Orridge who weren't famous to start off with).

Yay, I got next death right (at last)! Oh..RIP obviously...

Boris isn't really ill at all, this saga is a con trick to boost sympathy/his popularity and give us all a coronavirus story with a happy ending (matron!).

October 31st

@Great Uncle Bulgaria if you mean Lotte Strauss (author) there is no problem b. 1913 august 2 (not much info really) thanks @SusanStoHelit Thanks Chilean and Susan, that was indeed who I meant. Chosen for the highly scientific reason of sharing a name with Lotte Lenya....

17 (and not just a woman)

tried to avoid looking at everyone else's but no doubt a lot of overlap. Only playinhg for the joy of submitting no 15 on my list really Olivis de Havilland - dead Daisy Langkoonan Amy Winifred Hawkin Anne Buydens Douglas Beverly Cleary Vera Lynn - dead Ruthie Tompson Kane Tanaka Bob Weighton - dead Pappakutty Bhagsvathar - dead Lotte Strauss - dead 11/9/20 Eleanor Solokoff - dead Boris Pakor Vance Trimble Marian Fuks (some going at 105!) subs Ida Keeling Arthur Smith Mary Ward Carmen Herrera

Not for me but like the sparks album title referencing

My pick Linda Lusardi was 'at death's door' with CV 2 days ago but is now on the mend, happily. Maybe it was my having picked her that saved her, does the trick for most of my selections. Got a lot of 1970s sex symbols on my team, don't want to see any of them die, not least because some of them aren't much older than me.

Write an English singing translation of Vivaldi's L'Olimpiade. View a load of (mostly obscure operatic) DVDs I've accumulated in recent years and never watched. Try to avoid watching too much of the Complete Ally McBeal box set that GAB is planning on watching. Try really hard to discourage GAB's notion that this is a great opportunity to have a massive spring clean/clearout. Try and do some fun things with the young wombles, who are going to have to spend a lot more time around GAB and I over the next few months than they had anticipated, particularly the older one who - having thoroughly enjoyed the first half of his first year at Uni - is now stuck back home with us for the next 6 months.

awaiting clearance to include a very well-known but as yet unannounced one? maybe someone whose son was announced to have got it today...

I agree, we can all laugh about having to buy the Sun to make up for the lack of loo roll (for a week at least) but at some point somebody somewhere (probably some idiot youtuber doing it for a 'prank') is going to start online rumours about a lack of basic foodstuffs, which will quickly go viral (pun intended) followed by (even more) stockpiling and we could be looking at food riots within a month.

Dead Kennedys - Kill The Poor - YouTube

Foster and Allen (remember them from late 70s?) resurfaced yesterday on an Irish-themed Pointless. Both looked in decent shape but Henry Kelly looked awful. Could be one for DL2021 if he makes it that far.