themaninblack

When I bought my mum a copy of Nigella Lawson's cookbook for her birthday a couple of years ago, she was a pit puzzled as to why there was a recipe for hash cake. Now it makes sense...

So tonight's TV show about the robbery will be some sort of tribute then?

Double helpings of porridge, then?

Musician/artist Don van Vliet AKA Captain Beefheart, died today in 2010...

If Camping is gone as well, then another update will be required as this is pretty important. It's not that I have other things to do or nuthin'...

I think we should get Chris Kamara up to Texas for the latest developments. "Unbelievable, Jeff. Price was a goner then, all of a sudden, he's back from the dead! Game on..."

I'll consult Schrödinger's cat...

Absolutely superb and no joker as well! This is the first time there's been a hit in December by a "winning" team (and indeed there would have to be should another hit occur that changes things) since DeathList's last gasp Artie Shaw hit of 2004. This has been a classic year for the Derby Dead Pool, the best in my time as host I think...

Can't help thinking about Martine McCutcheon at this junction...

Definitely owed them a beating...

Useful backup pun should Deathlist conjure up the same one as the one I have in mind...

The Currant Bun's list of so-called "laziest MPs" (which has cause a brouhaha because one of them was in fact on maternity leave - curiously just a few months after being elected!) also included some allegedly "seriously ill" MPs...

To be fair, they're showing the copper's side of events too. So it's the glamourisation of a collection of amoral, irresponsible and at times incompetent reprobates. Oh, and the train robbers as well...

A state execution is a state execution, no matter how "rogue", so the same rule applies. However, considering the swift justice being applied, they could count under the "Windsor" directive, by which a pick can be chosen before the year's end and proceed to be tried and executed. So as long as the pick has not already been sentenced to death, it would count as a point-scoring hit if it plays out in the way outlined above. However the unnatural points bonus would not be applied...

Doesn't count for this year. Obits from Huffington Post UK will be accepted from 01/01/2014.

...from our Country Music correspondent, Spade Cooley.

Seems like the sign language interpreter at the memorial service was a fake! I must admit, he did seem a bit odd to me at the time. His movements seemed far too stylised for an interpreter and they wouldn't normally be that close to whoever is speaking...

Not yet he doesn't. Perhaps someone else up there in the rankings has picked Price as well and has a youngish unique pick teetering on the brink... Also, I believe the man to decide this year's DDP may be none other than General Wojciech Jaruzelski. Hasn't it been a great competition this year? That's the defiance of a true winner... However you are running out of time. If this were Rugby, you'd need a try, conversion and possibly a drop goal to nick it, with less than five minutes left on the clock...

It comes as part of Yahoo, yes...

Intriguing isn't it? If Price snuffs it, Spade has it in the bag. If he lives to next year, he's a haul of points but the impact is negated...

If only there were more important news items that could interrupt 'Mrs Brown's Boys', Davey, if only there were more...

Oh yeah, ditto MSN and Yahoo...

That's prompted me to tweak the List of the Lost page as regards acceptable sources. It had said that "general Internet news pages (MSN etc)" were not acceptable, but I believe in the light of Pardee, that it's a dated clause, probably an overhang from the old days where there only US versions of said internet news sites. Huffington Post is now accepted. This is from next year... So the list is this: BBC (and that is any section that carries news items (News, Sport, Entertainment). If there is a celeb that is mentioned having died or is dead, then it counts and that includes items mentioned on the radio and televsion (as long as there is evidence of this - iplayer etc) In most cases these are followed up on news pages. Sky (Sky News and Sky Sports - same as the Beeb - a link to a visual mention of a celeb death is acceptable). Reuters UK ITV/ITN (same as BBC/Sky) Channel 4 (same as BBC/Sky) STV UTV Times/Sunday Times Guardian/Observer Telegraph Independent Mail Online Daily/Sunday Express Evening Standard Sun Mirror Daily Star Financial Times Scotsman Herald Scotland Daily Record Morning Star Huffington Post UK MSN UK Yahoo UK That is as definitive a list as possible...

Yes.

That would put you joint top, should the proper obit surface!* *However, if the situation remains at year-end, OOO wins by virtue of more hits... Can't see any of my other picks going either, would be nice to get the hit and move past the hundred mark though. Saying that, should the obit come through, the HTML generator will probably not recognise this and place you above OoO because of the name or below because of the name code in the database (as you changed your name, which was alphabetically lower that the Oc - phew!)