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It's to stop FFBI picks: traditionally the uniques in title-chasing DDP teams have been of the "brave mother of two enjoys last Christmas before dying of cancer" that then get picked up by the SWSN service and sent to the national press.

All emails now sent, if anyone thinks they should have had an email that hasn't let me know. I'm wearing my "I'm New Please Be Patient" badge right now, like the one Pret employee with the Slovenian flag emblem.

Although Carl Anthony Wuco, Patrolman Larry, seems to have lived a pretty interesting life. He used to fly planes blindfolded as a publicity stunt and was later found with 1,000lbs of cannabis.

IMDB lists four actors from it as still alive (two credited, two uncredited), but they're all people who could be dead and unreported. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0212553/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t17 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm8604139/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t27 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0831798/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t28 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0030838/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t5

What do you reckon then? Alcohol? Coke? A stroke? Parkinsons? Official explanation is a "dry mouth".

Serious thanks for T-Mib for his handover notes by the way, he's still going to be the MVP of DDP 2k18 even without hosting. It's like when you start a new job and the previous employee actually left a decent list of instructions for what you have to do in the gig.

Egg-chasing legend Graeme Langlands makes a pitch for your 2018 outfits: "too unwell" to attend a hearing relating to allegations of noncing.

I thought Los Lobos were the longest-running band with all their original members (1973 to present day), but Wikipedia seems to think they changed drummers at some point.

Best gimmick was The Ashes Urn's inability to pun in the death anniversary thread. I don't think I've been so successfully trolled on the internet in the past decade.

Henning Jensen, Danish footballing great, dead at 68 following a short cancer battle. Was Allan Simonsen's partner upfront for both Borussia Monchengladbach and the national team, and later moved to Real Madrid where he won two Ligas.

So as any fan of dead celebrities should know, the entire jury in 12 Angry Men has been dead since Jack Klugman's passing in 2012. There are six other (very minor) roles in the film (excluding the extras in the crowd scene at the end). IMDB lists deaths for four of them. John Savoca, who only appeared in one film in his life (he is the accused they spend the film talking about) seems to have died on 29 June 2005. That only leaves the guard, who brings the requested evidence to the room and causes some annoyance by locking the door. Unfortunately, the actor playing him was called James Kelly, a completely ungoogleable name. He had a very small career, lasting only seven years. You would assume he's dead (he looks at least mid-40s in the film, putting his date of birth surely before the start of WW1) and has been for some time. But can anyone prove it?

Bollocks.

Another day, another cancelled appearance due to "ill health".

"I told her, 'We're brothers under the skin, Of that there can be no doubt.' So she said, 'Why don't you go back in And send your brother out.'"

Have some sympathy for us poor hacks who have already resigned ourselves to cancelling holiday to cover next year's election.

Some nice review lines picked out from the dregs of Lommel's oeuvre here:

Dave Taylor, long-time sports writer and Italian football expert, dead after a long battle with cancer.

Understood. The new thread is coming within a short period of time. The only rule change for 2k18 will be the banning of death notices as QOs.

There you go Joe.

Always thought a good DDP theme team would be a mock "entry-level deadpooler" side featuring the sort of people that only get picked in someone's first year deadpooling. Keith Richards, Ozzy Osbourne, Lindsay Lohan, Courtney Love etc.

So a second-round exit to Colombia for England then?

Former Independent science editor Steve Connor has died. Seems to have been rather sudden as he was nominated for an FPA award for science writing three weeks ago.

Goddamn Cannavaro's got fat.

G'wan Rabbi Einhorn, one of only two rabbis in Taiwan