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  1. Posted

    13 hours ago, Death Impends said:

     

    Yes I'm still running it. Kissinger a popular pick and I'd been very clear he would count for a bonus and it ain't Hollywood Squares :D

     

    Would be happy to give him a "turbo crimes against humanity" bonus when I update... probably this weekend

    Please do. A big fat one. It would definitely be in the spirit of the inventor, as they say in Germany.

  2. Posted

    Is the Hartlepool Deadlypool still running?

    I'm prepared to permit a huge increase in the Crimes Against Humanity bonus for this one.

     

    Are there any other winners of the Nobel Peace Prize who would fall into this category? I'm inclined to nominate Obama.

     

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  4. Posted

    18 hours ago, time said:

    Giles Broadbent, husband of Diane-Louise jordan has died after a short illness, aged 51.

    I knew Giles. We worked together for a year or so back in the 90s. A really lovely bloke. 

    He was pretty well-known in his own right in musical circles.

    A couple of days before his death was announced his brother posted on Facebook that he'd gone missing. So there might be a moderately more dramatic story behind it than just "died after a short illness".

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  5. Posted

    On 01/10/2006 at 02:10, Tuber Mirum said:

    Did anyone notice I haven't been in for a couple of days?

     

    Didn't think so.

     

    I was helping the Army with their inquiries. The bastards used their most advanced sleep deprivation techniques on me and not only that, they tried to poison me. Bastards.

     

    I also met a very interesting man named Adolf Shipman.

    Is it normal not to remember things which happened nearly 17 years ago?

    I have no Idea what this was about.

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  8. Posted

    8 hours ago, CastAway said:

    The genie's out of the bottle, and it's not going to be corked up. LA already cut ~150 mil from the police budget, including the budget for 'hero pay' during Coronavirus. About a million places in Minnesota have cut contracts w/ the MPD, including the public school system in Minneapolis and UofM - and those are multi-million deals.

    That could potentially stoke some anger in those otherwise mild-mannered heavily  armed young officers.

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  10. Posted

    On 14/12/2019 at 20:02, Cat O'Falk said:

     

    Here she is in one of her Oscar winning performances as Cleopatra in a play what Ernie wrote.

     

     

    Seeing this reminded me of a post I made  nearly 13 years ago:

     

    If only Tony Benn had shown the same concern for his offspring...

     

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  11. Posted

    On 20/05/2020 at 13:07, Toast said:

     

    Then I think you should be restored to moderator status without delay!

    Let's wait and see if I intend sticking around for a while first :)

     

    PMs are now back at a manageable size. I archived most of them in a safe place.  There's still a lot of heavy late-night stuff to trawl through involving one of America's most original moralists, a certain Mr. B. Scream of New York.

     

    How is everyone anyway?

     

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  12. Posted

    On 19/05/2020 at 11:55, Miracle Aligner said:

     

    He last posted in March 2016 and just sorta disappeared. 

     

    Also your PMs are either full or off...

    My PMs are at 260%. Probably the size of my box was reduced when I was demoted from moderatorship.

    There's a lot of interesting stuff in there including some grand conversations with Banshees Scream, so I'm slowly working though them, deleting the less interesting ones. It should only be a matter of weeks before I'm reachable by PM.

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  13. Posted

    16 hours ago, Miracle Aligner said:

     

    Jesus. Anyone else want to revive themselves from the annals of Deathlist history?

     

    Rotten Ali, Margere Hein, Stayin Alive, 

    Is Hein Gone?

    I have fine, if somewhat unclear memories of getting severely guttered with him in a bar in Utrecht a few years ago. Nice chap.

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  14. Posted

    Hello all.

    Glad to see my baby (not to say brainchild) is still on the go.

    I'm still available to judge guilt of Crimes Against Humanity if anyone needs me to. I know I've got it well wrong before in at least one case. Luckily the corpse in question was dead already.

    Big thanks to Death Impends for keeping the show going. Is it too late to join in?

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  15. Posted

    This bloke https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/27/george-mcrobie-obituary?CMP=share_btn_link

    George McRobie has died. Interesting to me because he was my great uncle. I never actually managed to meet him but he was clearly a top fellow. Tomorrow I'm going to visit the house near Moscow where he spent part of his childhood and to meet my cousin three times removed for the first time who was Uncle George's first cousin. All very exciting. It seems I have a few ancestors and distant relatives who were actually good for something.

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  18. Posted

    I'm going to change the manor of the penalty. Instead, no bonus points will be awarded. Since having the unique bonus is a feature of having overstepped the rule about being a notable qualifying celebrity (which I quite frankly don't buy) This will be a little more harsh. Thus Mr Glenny will score Maryportfuncity 45 basic points, rather than 53.2 points as previously considered, post initial reduction from a total of 84 points.

     

    Leader Board:

     

    1st - 66 points - Maryportfuncity

    2nd - 11 points - STAB in the DARK

    3rd - 1 point - Deathray

    4th - 0.375 points - LFN

    =5th- 0 points - everyone else but

    20th -1point - Banshees Scream

     

    This is appauling: "quite frankly" is clearly a sub-clause and, therefore, needs commas on either side and "This is more harsh" simply continues the sentence so the "t" should be lower case!

     

    This from someone who thinks "peddling" has something to do with riding a bicycle :)

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  21. Posted

    Well.

    I'm reminded of something I wrote a week or two ago about Rule 5:

     

    "I think the spirit of the law in this case intends to penalise those selecting very young, low hanging fruit of the tabloid variety."

     

    Admittedly he isn't extremely young, though far too young to die.

    I can't imagine how he could be more tabloid than he is. I mean his widow's name is Cola for pity's sake. I don't know, I've been out of the country for 20 years, but back then you would have got in the papers just for being called Cola.

    Low hanging fruit definitely.

     

     

    Which brings us to the question of his celebrity.

    Taking the rule literally. it follows that since his death was reported in the paper he must be famous enough to qualify for celebrity. Unfortunately his death was reported in the Mail, an organ which no intelligent person in the world, never mind Notapotato, could consider to be a reliable, respectable source of international news. So that's definitely an infringement, unless someone can find an obit somewhere else.

    The rules don't specify the penalty for breaking rule 2 but the tacit implication is that the candidate is not a valid choice and thus scores no points.

     

    Include with this the penalty for breaking Rule 5 and Mary should actually be getting minus points for his candidate.

     

     

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

     

     

    That was me summarily ridiculing MPFC. Others should feel free to join in.

     

    PS: I'll leave it up to Rotten Ali to decide what really to do. He does a grand job and is probably a bit fairer than me.

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  23. Posted

    5. Anyone selecting tender-aged sufferers of terminal diseases or anyone under sentence of death or highly likely to be sentenced to death at the start of the year will be summarily ridiculed and very likely penalised in an arbitrary and unpleasant way should their candidates actually die or be killed.

     

    She was 29. I'm only 25.

     

    In my view, that makes her ancient.

    I don't think Notapotato would consider 29 to be a tender age. 25 might be a different matter.

     

    Clearly, this may expose a pick choice but...

     

    "Tender years" and "cancer" in the same sentence of the rule book isn't totally clear and Kristen Hallenga, battling the disease and raising money for charity is one of a number of 20 somethings who might be in the frame re national obits etc.

     

    Could we agree "tender years" end on your 21st birthday? Or summat.

     

    I think the spirit of the law in this case intends to penalise those selecting very young, low hanging fruit of the tabloid variety.

    The above exchanges sort of imply that Notapotato's definition of tender years is a somewhat higher age that I would have expected. Nevertheless, I don't think Hallenga falls into this category.

     

    Just to keep things fair, I'd like to propose a new rule:

     

    "Notapotato reserves the right to ridicule any participant at any time for any or no reason. In the absence of Notapotato this task may be performed by anyone else so inclined."

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  25. Posted

    Hi NAP. As you're passing, could I trouble you for your opinion on the eligibility of the late Hakimullah Mehsud for a Crimes Against Humanity bonus? He was somewhat lacking in diplomatic tact, to put it mildly.

     

    Hmm. Hard to say.

    Give me some examples.

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