Cowboy Ronnie

En fuego, eejit, positively en fuego. Can you please submit a list of 50 top tips for next year this coming Christmas, so it can be used for DL 2010.

They do say that certain "genes" skip a generation.... While some genes go right from father to son. And he calls the guy who cleans the stables "Sweep" God bless the royal family for upholding some of Britain's noblest traditions.

Wow, Aussies have so much time on their hands they actually officially appoint their National Treasures, instead of just calling them out in the redtops, like we do here in Blighty. This sounded like a good idea until I checked out the list, The Kangaroo Court and there's like about a hundred of them. Rolf Harris, Dame Edna, Russell Crowe, Greg Norman and Nicole Kidman are all on there, but when you annoint about a third of the population as National Treasures, it loses some of its specialness. So who are Britain's National Treasures? Besides Chezza Cole, I mean.

I'm confused. Is the poem being addressed to mister pneumonia, as the first line suggests, or Patrick Swayze? You can't have it both ways, Yvonne. The Mr. Men should introduce a "mister pneumonia", who'd always be coughing and spluttering all over people, and causing those who already had some other illness to drop dead. The kids would love him.

What a loss to the culture

He may not have been low-hanging fruit, but nonetheless he died on the Vine.

Both Tennessee and the Giants lost at home. It has been a weekend of upset victories for the underdogs. Can you imagine the Premiership having Liverpool, Chelsea and Man United all losing, at home, to the likes of Everton, Wigan and Portsmouth, on the same weekend? European football would be so much interesting with a salary cap.

Another one bites the dust, as the Titans fumble away their chances and lose 13-10 at home to Baltimore.

Belated birthday greetings to both LFN and Banshees!! Now, go on and shock the world and wish each other one.

Interesting timing for a show called "Surviving Gazza". The average Palestinian probably has a better life expectancy. Debatable who gets bombed more often. He was extensively discussed for DL '09, just missed by the length of a footie stud.

OK, at the risk of violating innumerable Death Race rules and all sense of sportsmanship and fair play, may I submit the following: The Hole in the Ground Gang 1 Gertrude Baines 2 Beatrice Farve 3 Kama Chinen 4 Mary Josephine Ray 5 Manuela Fernández-Fojaco 6 Olivia Patricia Thomas 7 Neva Morris 8 Chiyo Shiraishi 9 Tomoji Tanabe 10 Maggie Renfro 11 Henry Allingham 12 Walter Breuning 13 Augusto de Oliveira 14 Jiroemon Kimura 15 Kiyoshi Igarashi 16 Aarne Arvonen 17 Takashi Hattori 18 Harry Patch 19 Susan Atkins 20 Abdelbaset Al-megrahi (aka Lockerbie Bomber) I didn't pick a DDP team in time, and the above wouldn't have scored very well due to the ages of the first 18 nominees, but if it's all above board MPFC, it's the team I'd like to put forth. The list nobly omits the already deceased.

So we can wait for people to die, then enter a team, including the dead? This game is easy. I'll go for the Travolta kid.

The new VW golf ad, where a German has a fight with ten different versions of himself, using car parts, to a death rock sound track. It doesn't help that they show it during every single ad break on Sky Sports 3. The Audi one where they make a car out of cardboard isn't much better. I blame humourless Jerry advertising agencies.

Good thing she died before Woody asked her out.

An Iowa state senator (note for non-Americans, this is not the same as being a US senator or congressman) won't make the English media when she goes. That selection CP, for DL purposes, would be considered the lowest of the low hanging fruit. Tomato-esque even. But as a DDP candidate, she sounds a very safe bet, so good luck.

Vigilante killer Ellie Nesler died. With a name like that, maybe she thought she was Untouchable Interesting story, especially the part about her son going on to become a murderer. She sort of reminds me of the evil nurse/mother in The World According to Garp, as played by Glenn Close in the film version.

Giants-Steelers Superbowl.

That doesn't seem unreasonable. It was a panto and she is Linda Lusardi, the National Treasure. Think of the children. Oh, and Farrah was discussed at the Committee meeting. Did she make it? We'll all just have to wait and find out.....

This might not end well Villa-in

For any particular reason? Or did you put a lot of old actors in a hat and pull out a name at random? Harry Morgan has been on the list before. He's a decent candidate. Look how old he was on MASH, and that show was on, what, 50 years ago? He'll be discussed at the selection special.

In the dead of Pinter

I got three pairs of bamboo socks, a jar of home-made banana chutney, and a finger football game. I'm thinking of holding a bonfire in my living room when I get home.

Hmmm, a speech televised in the UK by a world leader who has denied the existence of the holocaust (even speaking at a conference dedicated to it) and who publically opposes homosexuality. I'd be tempted to see if I can avoid watching Channel 4 for an entire year, except they have Celebrity Big Brother.

One of (I believe) three women to play Catwoman on the Batman TV show form the 60's. She also enjoyed a revival of sorts in the late 1990's when hers was the recorded voice encouraging passengers to buckle up whenever they boarded a New York city taxi.

In which case Lardy, why not submit an entry made up exclusively of people from DL 2008, and we'll have a bumper finish to the year. Nothing like taking one for the team.