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I gave you a 'like' for NOT posting a goddamn Bulgarian link like some people around here do with useless obits (see Dutch, Italian, Swedish). SC That's a bit harsh. There are Dutch and Swedish members in this forum, and for all you know there may be members or guests who are capable of reading Bulgarian. For example, I don't speak Dutch, but having spent quite a lot of time in that delightful country, I can usually get the gist of Dutch news reports.

You have put your finger on a small flaw in the DDP website. There are indeed rules, but for some reason the "rules and scoring" page is unavailable after entries for the current competition have closed. http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/general/rules_and_scoring.html

You've got a shirt list! Awesome. Wear that shirt to the next DLCon, there might be some names on there the rest of us will want to nick. I haven't got a shirt list, but I've got a shit list.

Sounds like me, apart from the cheque

It gets a bit annoying when the same death is posted in 4 or 5 different threads. Like some bit part actor that had a walk on part in Dr Who, then had a talking part on Blakes 7, and had a week or two in a soap. Fair point, but I still think that's no excuse for a death not to get a mention in "The Dead of [insert year]". As someone else put it, this thread should act as a one-stop shop, like a reference section, and be fully inclusive. That way there's no need to look at the other threads unless we wish to - no risk of missing a death. I don't mind the repetition myself. I see the more specialist threads as being a place for general discussions, which may range beyond the person who is dead or dying.

I do agree that ALL deaths should be recorded in the yearly thread, as well as in the appropriate and specific thread. Ideally the person who is first to post a death should post it in both. Nobody should be derided for posting a death here simply because it has been posted in another thread.

I do agree that ALL deaths should be recorded in the yearly thread, as well as in the appropriate and specific thread. Ideally the person who is first to post a death should post it in both. Nobody should be derided for posting a death in the year thread simply because it has been posted in another thread.

Well, it would be. (Disclaimer: I haven't looked at it. I don't do clickbait.)

The rom-com surely could be a Shallow Hal stylee job in which some slacker hell-bent on a clean sweep in the Rotten Dead Pool nails an early lead with a lucky snagging of aged celebs and a few who die in random accidents, at which point the only living person on his team is a Z-list reality TV bimbo down on her luck so far that she thinks she's in when he takes her out for coffee. A series of hilarious slapstick gags ensue as well-meaning passers by (played in cameo roles by well known faces) intervene to save her as his carefully laid plans to kill her in an apparent accident are thwarted. In the inevitable clinches and outbursts of crying that follow the near-death scrapes our anti-hero gradually develops genuine affection for the lady and the whole thing ends in the kind of mush-fest that puts the rom into the com, a la the final half hour of Three and Out, right? Don't get me wrong, I'm loving the Shatner idea above but my idea could cast anyone within reason and be filmed in any country harbouring celebrities and obitable talent. Genius. I'd watch that.

Jesse FREITAS (spelling) You could just have edited your first post. No need to post again.

Could that be called reanimation?

I got 6/7, but guessed a couple of them.

Me too! ...and female, working on a divorce, mother to four awesome children. In good lighting I can pass for about 34. I lurked on this site for about a decade, signed up in 2013 and only started posting recently. In good lighting? You must look ravishing in the dark then.

I understand this happened when both were young, but I only know (and have therefore only a mental image of) Reagan as prez. That makes the above sentence a rather disturbing idea. He doesn't look all that much younger when he was young, if you see what I mean. I wouldn't have.

I can go for the treble, as my granny died that weekend as well. Although I have a clear memory of all three events, it was many years before I realised that they all happened over the same two days. Weird.

So you put it in a Peaches Geldof thread.... As it's got nothing whatsoever to do with the Geldof family, I'm also a bit mystified why this thread was chosen. Surely it could have gone in the general thread for Australians, or the pop stars thread.

Already in use for something else

How come you're 'not willing to pick' people like her but you are willing to slag them off for "wasting" an incredibly relatively tiny amount of government money........? I don't see the connection. And anyway I can't see why it would cost £40,000 to nudge staff into introducing themselves. Surely an email would do the job. It's been a while since I regularly frequented hospitals, but staff used to wear name badges. Don't they do that any more? I find that as long as you know someone's name, there's no need for elaborate introductions - it just follows naturally.

Another sweepstake! I'll go for May 12th.

Dr Kate Granger wasting 40 grand of taxpayers' money. Looking pretty healthy.

I'd go with "Well, goodbyyyye"

Even his name sounds like a crime.

Perpetrator of this heinous musical crime: Among McKuen’s commercial successes in the 1960s and '70s were his reworking of Jacques Brel’s song "Le Moribond" for the English-language version of 'Seasons In The Sun', later covered by the Kingston Trio and Terry Jacks.

Just like old times