themaninblack

They took the Mary Tyler No Moore pun, so you can try to come up with something better. Already have. I knew they'd have that one!

I always try to think of 2 puns for a dual DL/DDP hit just in case! Actually I wonder how many times in the last few years there's been a DL hit that wasn't a DDP one...

With the Drop 40 bonus, there's a decent chance the points record could be broken, the hits record will be harder to crack IMO...

How about P?

Who shall we go with, Clark or Shaw?

Any you're not sure about, just skip...

Hold your horses, TUM has contributed to that letter, but not all of them... Aah, K. Any gaps in the roster so I'm not overlapping? What about K?

Sure...

Hold your horses, TUM has contributed to that letter, but not all of them...

Shitty bollocks! Those teams who picked Holger Czukay have chosen the wrong member of Can! RIP: One of the greatest drummers of all time - a human drum machine!

The Evening Standard exists in that grey area of being a London paper but can be still distributed across the UK. I think I'll add it to the list of acceptables... ...but then again! You hardly expect to see a copy of the Standard turn up in Scotland and I've excluded their papers. Mind you, when was the last time we got an obit from that source?

Right, I'm down to Erich Ritter and off to have a break. Back on this soon. Hey hey hey wait a moment I haven't decided on what to do yet! On Saturday, I've done all the numbered ones (Anyone know who the artist 4000 was, I haven't a fucking clue!) and the quick 'n dirty minor letters (I, O, Q, V, Y & Z). The Unknown Man has contributed a few as have Biblio and I've added them in too. Still loads left though! I may decide on a slightly different approach. I have better information (the emails with some details on the picks) so if I send them out to you all letter by letter it could mean a few mistakes as with some celebs you wont know if it's this John Doe or another John Doe. So for my next "tranche" over the coming week, I'll sift through the obscurities (oh what fun). That'll will hopefully lead to some more recognisable and "Googlable" names to distribute for the rest of the volunteers to research while I do some other site-related stuff. So hold yer horses at least for the moment...

"Goodbye, Mr Trotter and good luck..."

I reckon as many as a couple of dozen teams have a chance.

Judging by the coverage on ITV, they're all shitting themselves!

You know, I originally wrote Khomeni, but is it a different spelling? I checked Wikipedia, he seemed to be the same guy but called Khameni. I'll check again, with another source... EDIT: I always get those two mixed up! Next time, I'll brush up on my Iranian politics...

George's cousin. I always remember him as Robocop's creator, Bob Moton...

Yes. No MIA's...

Latest update...

There's been a bit of a shake up with the Webmail. Madasafish has been replaced by Plusnet bu the account remains intact (sort of). Hopefully the interface will be a lot better as during the nomination period I had to re-direct emails to Outlook as the old Madasafish web server was soooooooooooooooooo slow. However, although I can locate the folder, the actual emails with all the entries for DDP 2017 have disappeared! As such, with one exception, there will be no added teams and anyone who weren't able to send a team, or I have missed out on entering for one reason or another will have to wait until next year....Sorry! EDIT: Just realised that the emails are there as I only moved the entries to another folder on Outlook, so they're safe!

https://www.spotlight.com/1572-8943-3926 Starring in "Pitmen Painters" at the Oldham Colosseum, apparently. He was also the racist copper in 'The Young Ones'...

Post of the year so far...

Shame. It's a great picture!

The 1st Drop 40 hit of 2017. Now fingers-crossed this will work, as it did with my testing a couple of months back. The D40 icon added to the picks suggest this will be successful but you never know...

I have received an email this morning which says that according to a Facebook post, Amber celebrated her 18th birthday on December 18th, so she makes the cut!