Toast

Wish you'd stop doing this. Every time it gives the impression that the person has died, especially as it takes time to scroll down to the actual news.

That it's sad.

I really just meant a complete list of people picked by our ?mourners? -so that we all know who to cheer on from the sidelines, as it were.

Will you be posting a master list so we can keep tabs on pool hits? (Still not really sure how this works)

Why wouldn't we? We're only picking from a limited pool, not going to be any surprises. Better to get it out of the way than wait, forget, and miss the deadline.

Thanks, Cat, I'll try that. Doesn't seem to have worked, unfortunately. Says it's a Firefox bug, so it may get sorted out.

Yes, it's like "star" in the tabloids.

Glad it's not just me. It's a new quirk though, has only started happening in the last couple of weeks. BIB, that's what I've been doing. I just left that last one as an example to demonstrate the issue. And I still can't get the list of unread posts to display in condensed form. That's recent too.

Example here: Windows 10, Firefox.

Here's another weird thing that's started happening. If I copy a list from a spreadsheet and paste it into a post, the site treats it as an image. It still asks if you want rich text or plain text, but whichever you choose, it posts as an image, not text.

I'm new to this, so didn't really know how to play it. I couldn't think of many younger people, so concentrated on avoiding the very old. Some of my picks are long shots. The ones in italics are uniques.

We are not worthy

Think it was the other way round, none of them wanted the royalty job.

I bet they would if they only talked about horses. Not for the first time, I don't understand what you're on about.

No, self-promoting "Welcome to my channel" types do not pass my fame test. I don't care how many sad sacks "follow" them on Youtube or Twitter.

I'm sorry? People were actually predicting that this complete nobody would be on the DL?

This would have been the positive side of banning BBC local obits.

I think the point being made is that the report of him being "bedridden" is inaccurate.

Here are Toast's 25 To Stay Alive (more likely I have condemned some of these poor souls to death) Still! it's nice to hope that your selections don't die, for a change. Linda Nolan Paul Gascoigne Doddie Weir Dick Van Dyke Barbara Windsor Pope Benedict XVI Billy Connolly Queen Elizabeth II Rolf Harris Angela Lansbury Olivia Newton-John Little Richard Bill Turnbull Greg Gilbert Henry Kissinger June Brown Betty White John Andretti Lee Kerslake David Gulpilil Prunella Scales Leon Spinks John Lewis Mikhail Gorbachev Ruth Bader Ginsburg Sub: Olivia de Havilland

Icehouse! Loved them.

No matter, my expectations are low, so not for the first time I have lamented the absence of a "shocked" reaction It would probably get more use than the "confused" one.

My email address is the only detail I gave that wasn't a lie. Of course I only gave them one of my B-list email addys. I hate sites that demand too much personal information for no good reason.

Cheers, accepted! Yes, I was surprised nobody had used Arya's List, but correct grammar paid off this time

OK, I've registered - with some difficulty as the username Toast was already taken! The impudence of some people! So if you would like to invite me, @Skinny kiltrunner I have registered as Arya's List. I thought I would be able to see the database of names, but it appears not, it's trial and error. Hmmm, quite angry to see some of the people that they've refused. Insular fuckers.

Thank you. I had Sultan Qaboos too, so he makes it 80.