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"The widow Ogedegbe" would have served just as well.

I predict the election will be won by a bunch of Neoliberal business consultants and their religious bigot friends.

Just updated the site for Susan Atkins. A glance at the old Scoreboard shows that the top of the same is pretty close with the first three all within 25 points of one another. The competition is still fairly wide open. One or two teams who already have a lot of hits could still win, or perhaps not. And all the teams which have no or very few points could also still win. One or two other teams (you can work it out for yourselves) are no longer in the running. That's the mysterious beauty of the Hartlepool Deadlypool. No one really knows if or how it works. But you have to get the deaths in the right order to win.

I voted for Maggie. Because I don't usually vote in these polls, but got it right the last time.

What the hell is a resondetra? It's how Yorkshire folk speak French. Oh quelle journee du bas de la terre. Je suis tres fatigue demain Vera.

As you can possibly imagine StarCrossed, my perception of the best interests of this site includes protecting its valued members' feelings against the pompous vitriol of the severely deluded. Your kind of imperious behaviour is truly damaging to Deathlist as opposed to any de-intellectualising taking place according to your (and only your) diseased fancying. If this site isn't what your perversely arrogant imagination would like it to be or feels it might once have been then feel free to go away and never come back. If it were up to me you would be banned immediately.

Brentford? That's quite near Twickenham, isn't it?

I'd be very happy if this chap came along. Apparently he can be hired for events and does quite a good speech on just about any subject as long as it's strange. Oh yes: Six, you may not like the content of that link.

Putting on my random guessing language hat, I'd go for keelhauling which if I am not mistaken is dragging a wrongdoer underneath the ship from the keel. I'm off to Groningen in a couple of days, perhaps I'll conduct a survey but I am sure you must have had your own pirates too. Nice place. If getting utterly slaughtered on Belgian beer in cosy little bars is right up your alley then 't Paard van Troje is certainly up an alley. Hein reccommended it to me. Enough said. Doesn't somebody on DL live in Groningen?

The above is seen to, as is the giving out of points for the death of Patrick Swayze.

Happy now? Yes, thank you Tempus Fugit. You are a gem among men.

I've just looked to see if a recently dead friend is on my list - think he was, but not now. You can see these Facebook pages becoming virtual shrines to the dead. Doing updates, I suppose, is a bit like talking to someone who has died at their grave, an attempt to breath life in to the dead. Why did you accept him as a friend if he was dead? That's a bit odd isn't it? Yes it is. To be honest I can't remember. I'm also no longer sure whose idea it was. The fellow in question was Client Services Personnel (a janitor) at the place where I studied. He died of cancer at a fairly young age and his widow is using his page to raise awareness for Cancer Research and suchlike. So I suppose it's a good thing in many ways. I haven't invited him to take any quizzes.

That's a shame, he wrote some very funny stuff (if not recently). The first book I remember making me laugh out loud was "Billy Liar". Shame he turned into a right-wing old bore, but then they all do in the end... I think it might have been some kind of illness because he wrote his last article for the Daily Maul a few weeks ago and it was promoted as such. I must send some flower's to his funeral! Fond of beer, was he?

Be careful what you vote, he has a bear with him!

A thing that I have been devoting some thought to recently is the fact that one of my facebook friends is a dead person. He was dead before he became my facebook friend and he continues to be so, nonetheless posting regular updates regarding his activities or lack of them. I mean obviously it's not him, it's his wife trying to keep his memory alive, but I mean it's a bit odd isn't it?

Misch is looking absolutely fit as a fiddle on the BBC today. Sprightly and lucid as a 92 year old deadpool candidate oughtn't to be. There's another 10 years in him at least, barring assassination or accident.

Thanks to Rotten Ali for pointing out that I'd missed out a whole load of deaths. I went back and recalculated everyone's score from the beginning, including remembering to multiply the bonuses (nice big bonus for Mollie Sugden as original pick, Celebrity Squares and pantomime participant). This now means that not only is everyone's score probably correct, but I can also tell you how I arrived at it. If anyone has any gripes, then don't hesitate to drop us a line.

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Although that particular petition is neither spin nor propaganda, but an expression of an earnest wish from a very large section of the population based on genuine concerns, I think the current government couldn't be accused of pots and kettles if they called other people ignorant leftie scum. Apart from the "ignorant" bit obviously. And "scum".

I think honez should get a capital letter, since he's such a pedant in many other respects.

Hmm. Giving points to THe Unknown Man for Cory Aquino before I did Bobby Robson is causing some headaches for me. Particularly since I appear to have forgotten the Unique Pick Bonus for Aquino, and I can't quite work out how he manages to have 95 points. I'll have a stiff drink later and give it some thought. Perhaps I should keep notes.

Do you mean I awarded points for robson to some but not to others? I hope not. Anyway, I know there's work to be done and I daresay I'll get round to it soon. That Kennedy woman's death probably means some points for somebody too. Not to mention Bob Novak.

If I'm very much mistaken, the first Mungo was the 6th Century saint, also known as Kentigern to whom Glasgow Cathedral is dedicated. He can be seen along with his four miracles (one of which seems to have been lighting a fire) on Glasgow's coat of arms. Died in the bath apparently. Or fell into a font, depending on which version you believe.

All the more so, since it was an online petition.