Spade_Cooley

What a worker.

I think an informal "Rookie of the Year" gong has always existed. Maybe it could be recognised in Facts and Figures as well, idk. Maybe also a prize for the highest-scoring team who have at least 15 people more than 50% of the British population have heard of.

Yeah this is my thinking as well. On the other hand, maybe it's a bit of a fillip to the casual player that the real deep research picks effectively only have 51 weeks in the year to score. Want that former housemaster at Trinity College to give you the win? You got until December 11th to do it before the Times obit desk goes home for Christmas.

Weirdly enough, the only time a Scottish source would have made a theoretical difference for me was when I had Sinan Samil Sam, the Turkish boxer, as a potential captain for 2016. He instead died in 2015, and bizarrely only received a UK obituary in the Herald.

No, it's not the Times/Telegraph per se. It's the Times/Telegraph death notices: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/ Currently, these are acceptable obits. I'm not sure they should be. Leonard Rosoman was allowed as a scoring pick back in 2012 based on just a Times death notice (admittedly he then scored obits in the Guardian, Times, Indie and Telegraph in the following month, so he wasn't exactly obscure).

Why doesn't NWA's car have manual transmission? Because MC Ren controls the automatic.

My intentions are to keep the game identical to its current format, except I will consider removing death notices from The Times/Telegraph as a legitimate QO source as they are effectively a paid-for comments section. But do share your concerns here.

Mrs Mugabe not too impressed with the couple's hard partying sons. The new Uday and Qusay?

Peter Falk

William Phipps is the last remaining voice actor from Cinderella, I make it. Could be a nice "four people score points from...." in next year's DDP.

I can think of one reason....

As a kid I was meant to go and see All Dogs Go To Heaven at the cinema as a treat, but instead I got testicular torsion and had to go to hospital. I think both me and Judith suffered with that film.

Just off to buy a new suit for the inevitable media appearances I'll make ahead of this.

Gascoigne's in no way a horrible pick, the man clearly isn't going to turn his life around at any point soon and he's one of maybe 10 people in the UK whose deaths would guarantee multiple days of newspaper frontpages.

Judith Barsi joined the illustrious "10 Club" today in 1988.

Scorpio, Spade, and I like a girl with metastatic cancer and a guaranteed Times obituary.

Did Triple-O ever consider the fact that Willie McLean (USA, 1934) went missing? Admittedly, if he were still alive he'd be 113 this year so he probably is dead, but we don't have proof...

Great to see Charlie dying just in time for his dad to go in Celebrity Big Brother.

Not contemporary, but fell down a Wikipedia research hole today and discovered that the last person known to have died while attempting to defect from East to West Germany was Winfried Freudenberg, whose attempt to cross featured him holding on to a big balloon a la Up, except it ended in his death. He was 32 when he carked it and his name gives us 33 Scrabble points.

Scenes when Steve Ditko drops dead next week.

20 years since Brian Glover got his final kick up the Aris

Nope, I am within walking distance of the Mirror's offices though. Might pop my head around the corner and tell them to hurry up on ol' Jagraj.

He had a good innings. For women's cricket.

Again, Daily Mirror journo who lurks these forums, you fucked up and used a picture of the wrong Britain's Got Talent dancing dog in this story: That's Trip Hazard and Lucy, not Pudsey and Ashleigh.

2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the deaths of both Bobby Driscoll and Frankie Lymon. I'm hoping we see some 90s/00s child stars pay tribute by undertaking their own untimely departures from this planet.