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Leslie Phillips. No contest really. I have had several pints (on a couple of occasions) with someone who knows him pretty well, and he is apparently just as you'd expect him to be - utterly charming with a slightly roguish twinkle.

Fuck. I hope you're exaggerating with the Warrior comparison. Haven't seen TNA in ages. Will try to catch it soon. Is he abusing painkillers still? Sorry I don't keep up with wrasslin news either. Wasn't there a rumour for a while he had HIV?(!) He has looked terrible for about a decade now though hasn't he? From various arrests he has been hooked or still is hooked on alcohol , cocaine ,Heroin , painkillers and steroids . Yea he was supposed to have HIV but probably just a rumour maybe connected to his drug use. He actually started to look bad near the end of his wwe run which was around 2006 I think. He is going the same way as ultimate warrior sad but its history repeating itself over and over in the wrestling world with regards to these deaths. I would probably give TNA a miss for a month or two until the new channel learns how to put together and film a wrestling show ,chances are half the cameramen working that show have never filmed a show even remotely close to it before. Two months? Haha. Didn't think you were that confident of TNA's future. I thought you were trying to tell us "catch both TNA and angle while you still can" and "haha look at this trainwreck of a show". Oh well it's still got to be better than Mundane Shite Bore....... It has to survive until at least the end of January - we've got tickets to take our lad to see it live at Wemberley on 31 Jan (early birthday present for him). Hope it'll be worth it, especially as I've learnt this week that had I been free that day, I could've gone to "An Audience with Robin Askwith" instead...

No point in typing them out again, so my teams for 2015 are in my signature below. I don't feel as confident as last year, but who knows - might be a couple of unique picks in there...

Joint 29th, so a very respectable top 30 placing for one of my teams. The other was a bit lower down, in 237th... Still, onward and upward into 2015 And yes, congratulations Spade on another impressive win! EDIT: The final tot-up has actually left me in joint 31st and 248th. So not quite top 30, but still my personal best! And I did come first out of 2 teams in Wormfood Bingo...

Who the Dickens is that? Dunno, but I'd have great expectations of success if I picked him...

Casey Kasem, the voice of Shaggy off of Scooby Doo, is no spring chicken either at 77, and he's just retired from regular radio work.....

Seems like they all got it wrong... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BxBzu1YIQAEELwi.jpg:large

The dancers were above the age of consent but still... :puke: The phrase "ging gang goolies" springs to mind...

I don't know. Who the fuck are JP and BD? For JP, think dark-furred canines. I have no idea who BD is either, though. If JP is who I think you're suggesting, that'll go down like a l.... This could mean that BD is a typo and should read DB, due to the story of the groupie (LM) who lost her cherry to DB aged 13 before her "relationship" with JP at age 14. I'm not condoning underage nookie but there's a big difference between a consenting groupie who has boasted of her celebrity conquests in the era of free love (man), and the victims in the Yewtree cases. Or I could be barking up the wrong tree entirely.

That is a shock. And deep down I am really sad that it's true. You never can tell, can you? Not belittling in any way what their victims have suffered, but the one thing that we, the good public, have to miss out on when these celebs are finally found guilty of their vile crimes is their contribution to the world of entertainment. You never hear a Gary Glitter song played any more. We'll never again get to see when it was fixed for those boy scouts to eat their lunch on a rollercoaster, with the fat one throwing his drink everywhere... And now, we'll never hear "Two Little Boys" on the radio at Christmas again. Oh well, every cloud...

In the words of the Rolling Stones, "Get yer Zsa Zsas out."

With the demise of Francis "Captain Scarlet" Matthews yesterday and Casey "Shaggy" Kasem today, the same could be said for voice actors...

...or Peter Falk.

Really don't know what to say...

Genius.

Funnily enough, I was watching Cliffhanger on ITV4 last night, and the thought crossed my mind "I wonder if the old boy in the helicopter is still with us. Must be getting on now, he looked old then and this film's from the early 90s..." Timing.

I must say, watching the old reruns of Blankety Blank on Challenge and picking out panellists who are still (just) with us is proving useful for inspiration...

I thought DLT was only jiggling 'em as the colleague read the news...

I had to tell my 8 year old son off today (with a slight smirk) for visiting the DDP website at school to, in his words, "see how my Dad's teams are doing." It wouldn't be so bad but, as a school governor, I'm expecting a sarky (if not slightly concerned) comment from the head at our next meeting. Still, if they will teach kids to use the t'internet at school what do they expect..? :-/

I'm sure many of us are getting ready with the death puns based on Brucie's catchphrases for when he goes higher...or lower...

Looks like his advice to "take two aspirins" has stopped working for him...

Last year set a new personal best for me - one of my teams achieved my highest score to date (37 points, which put the team in a fairly unimpressive joint 151st place). Still not quite in the premier league of predicting celebrity mortality then...

Sabrina? 77? I remember her falling out of her bikini top on the video for her song "Boys Boys Boys" in the late 80s. She was wearing well then... Oh, not that Sabrina...

That is annoying. (S)he was a unique pick for me in the DDP and the one on whom I'd played my joker. But according to the ever reliable Wikipedia "Her funeral was attended by only six people and (on her instructions) was unpublicised - her death was not publicly reported until two years later, when a profile of her was printed in The Independent newspaper in October 2013."That's a cruel way to spoil our game...

Sounds like there's a scandal in the wind...