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What you're saying is that the untimely death of Matthew Garber aged 21 was actually a sacrifice to give everlasting life to the rest of the film's cast?

A certain other Mary Poppins star.

Another one for the "curse of Half Man Half Biscuit", having been namechecked on "Tonight Matthew I'm Gonna Be With Jesus" https://open.spotify.com/track/1WV4KevynvXJLA0tYETuZ6

And, obviously, the feud between the man who put competitive eating on the map - Takeru Kobayashi - and Major League Eating even has its own documentary. Contract tampering, racism, American exceptionalism and guerrilla eating contests all feature.

Offers himself up for experimental COVID-19 treatment in effort to get the West End open again.

It's not just Joe Public that gets into trouble as well. Michael Palin was disqualified from the 1993 Isle of Wight Conkers Championship for artificially strengthening his conker via vinegar.

Paapa Mensah still has active profiles on Facebook and LinkedIn

Which, for those planning on gaming the system, disqualifies the 102-year-old Emil Ramsauer as Switzerland didn't make it to the grand final in 2013.

Isn't this the plot of at least two movies - The Dead Pool, the Dirty Harry movie that introduced the concept of deadpooling (and Guns N Roses) to a wider audience, and the utterly awful looking Killing Hasselhoff with The Hoff, Ken Jeong and pretty much every other actor who would turn up for an appearance fee

The world of competitive Magic: The Gathering was rocked last year when two-time player of the year and former world champion Yuuya Watanabe was caught marking his cards. I quote from MTG's ruling body: Disgusting, I'm sure you'll agree. Thankfully Watanabe has caught a 30-month ban and been removed from the HoF.

That's why I was reticent about including it. I wouldn't include the King of Kong battle between Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell as that's clearly an actual sport, but the sheer chutzpah of Rogers' pulling numbers out of his arse and remaining unchallenged for the entire lifespan of Jose Antonio Reyes just about passes for me. On the other hand, the feud between John Moschitta Jr and Steve Woodmore for the title of world's fastest talker fits here, especially with Woodmore seemingly outright cheating on numerous occasions when the two go head-to-head.

Maybe a little too dramatic and energy packed for the thread's title, but I think we can just about sneak Todd Rogers' 30-year history of adding his own made-up high scores to the official Twin Galaxies arcade game high score tables here. Somehow nobody spotted he was cheating for three decades, despite - to pick a random example - his high score for Fathom on the Atari 2600 being 1,110,500, whereas the guy in second place's high score was... 142.

Turns out I was wrong: Franca Valeri got a QO.

I went through a long list on Discogs of every record label Cowell has run (Fanfare, IQ, S Records, Syco) to try and see if there was a defence for the man's output. And there really, really isn't. Even the people he had under his purview who had sporadic bursts of half-decent songs did so after leaving Cowell-owned labels (Will Young and Kelly Clarkson spring to mind). He also helped put out a hip-house track by Nigel Benn. It's not very good:

Prediction: in the next few years, a FFBI pick will join up on the forum and post taunting updates about how they're still alive and chemo's going well.

Pat Harrington was in the original One Day at a Time, which I don't recall ever being broadcast on UK TV. https://tvrdb.com/listings/ <---TVRDB seems to back me up, unless it was on BSkyB or something.

Had a look about for Tom Christie, weird that (if he is dead) he died without at least a mention from King's College or the Thames Rowing Club anywhere. He was removed from his positions in family businesses in 2017, but Company House says it was for "judicial" reasons. idk if that's legal slang for "dead".

The geopolitics behind the whole thing are pretty interesting. How does $1million's worth of ammonium nitrate get ordered by Mozambique, from Georgia, sailed by a Russian ship with a Ukrainian crew, and then when it gets held up in Lebanon Mozambique doesn't ask what's going on? My knowledge of sub-Saharan Africa isn't great, but I assume most companies in Mozambique don't have $1m lying about as couch money.

Death at 65 of Agathonas Iakovidis, who along with Koza Mostra represented Greece in 2013 with the debt-related track "Alcohol Is Free". They finished 6th.

If it's south of 200 I'd be stunned. The only thing stopping me make a guess is I have no idea how Beirut is laid out.

Feel like "firework factory" might be a euphemism here for "place where Hezbollah were storing a metric shit-tonne of weaponry"

We can replace him with someone who isn't a QO in the English-speaking world, but is of interest to some on the forum (and a former DDP pick iirc): Franca Valeri, Italian actress who despite a wide and varied career is still best remembered as the advertising pitchman for Pandoro Melegatti:

I've long been a drum-banger for Glynis around these parts and see absolutely no reason why she shouldn't be a DL callup: one of the last remaining leading ladies of 50s Hollywood, truly iconic role in a movie everyone has seen (Mary Poppins) and also one of the last remaining Batman 66 villains.

Obituary for LOTL member Brett Sinclair, except his name was actually Brett Hutchinson.