themaninblack

Ooh, a stewards inquiry. Interesting...

Are we starting a pedant's corner for the DDP now? Because if so, I'd like to point out it was Hassan Asif's mother who was denied a visa, not Hassan himself. You can tell I was in a hurry, can't you!

That is worth celebrating...

That reminds me. How is Tina Turner these days? She's 77 and I've not seen her in anything for ages...

I stand corrected on the 'Take it Easy' part (only only going by what Wikipedia says and it also says that Frey did not write 'The Heat is on' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heat_Is_On_%28Glenn_Frey_song%29.) As for 'Hotel California', that shuffling beat is definitely reggaeish to me and I'm no expert. Indeed the working title for the song was 'Mexican Reggae'.

And we're up again...

Cling? She romped it!

Yeah, it was getting bogged down in preparing that and the theme team league tables which has prompted the delay in the update...

Part Two of the update is being pushed back until tomorrow...

Looking at the original email, it's the former Governor of Louisiana...

This has to be the BEST Bowie tribute I've seen so far. There's a big part of me which thinks Bowie may have approved. There's also a big part of me which thinks nothing much ever happens in Timaru. Well as long as no-one follows up the line from It's No Game: "put a bullet in my brain and it makes all the papers" then we're fine!

I think I neglected to put Sim as dead on my master database after all that in-out-in-out shake-it-all-about regarding his death! Edwards will be sorted in the next update. One less newbie to write up...

And we're back!

Soon, folks, soon...

You should have got one, as I've sent it to everybody and have inputted your team...

Ironically there will be a whole team of "Blacks" but no Robert...

By the way. Well done everyone whose had a harvest in the opening two weeks. Absolutely sterling deadpooling. This could be the best batch yet, as Captain Beefheart once said...

Delpech will get hid obit, but for the moment I'll pass on this as it has been pointed out, it's a brief letter, not an article written by a journalist. That his name has been mentioned suggests that one will be probably be picked up. Right, some news... The database is complete, the only issue is once I get the deaths in and generate the pages, I'll see where there's any problems (the dreaded BOF!) I shall make TWO updates, one tonight, one on Monday (and thus make a subtle tribute to the great man Bowie, who I can confirm was a miss). The first will give the opening hits dated until January 9th and of course publish the teams. The second will publish the Drop 40 and the Theme Team League standings. Now, can anyone help me by listing the possible (an in most cases definite hits) hits that we have had so far? There has been so many deaths in the first two weeks, I've found it difficult to keep track of them all. Some of course will be misses. Some not even picked. Yes there's wikipedia to help me, but that doesn't include every one that's a hit. So, fire away...

Look, the DDP lasts a whole year, you know. Don't get all your hits in two weeks! (rant over)

Cancer is the new black...

As Rodney Trotter once said: "This is getting bloody stupid!"

PM me if you want to contribute to the bios (don't worry, I've cleared my message board!)

Does this count? http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/scotland/article4665030.ece Yes it does. Although I had no idea the Times had a Scottish section! Now someone will look at this and wonder why the BBC national/regional pages are excluded. The BBC is still the prime obit maker, by virtue of the ground it covers. But part of the obit rule shake up was to shift the focus back onto the the national press. What they put on their pages which qualifies as a hit is their prerogative, whether it's Scottish right-do-die campaigners or minor Hollywood actors. It's not perfect but theses are the rules for now and this obit stands as a decent road test of the new rules...

Not another one. It's going to be one BIG update on the DDP! Obit permitting of course!

No, a whopping 588 in 2013 s the record.