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The All-England Tennis Club bosses are well known as a bunch of cunts.

Bruno's version is that Savile introduced him to a "friend" when Bruno was opening the gym at Broadmoor, and he only found out when the photo circulated that it was the Ripper. Given Frank Bruno's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and Savile was a cunt, I believe him.

Persoff had a nasty stroke which ended his full time career. This was in 1989. He's made of stern stuff. James Lovelock qualifies in my book but imo if they wanted him they'd have picked him by now.

Hey, its a tough job to beat Sean to that one...

He was in Arrested Development, a pretty big US sitcom a decade ago and Scott PIlgrim the comics film.

I've genuinely known who he was since 1996 thank to his cameo in the X-Files. We were huge fans of that show. He was also in Cheers and WWF but I saw those a bit later on. Similar length of time knowing about Bob Barker thanks to his role in Happy Gilmore.

Of course we don't. The answer's Roger.

He's also broken the Drop 40 record.

These things happen. When I ran that countdown of DLyness during the summer, one person had never heard of Sean Connery and called him "some American actor".

January 2021

Alex Trebek's death puts the Drop 40 to 16/40, a new DDP record.

Gone for Sutcliffe given the covid news.

I've not checked this because time/short etc but I've a feeling if you took the Dont Knows/Wont Say from the poll averages, and just added them to Trump, most of the recent state polls would be within normal margin of error? It did feel that if folk were "undecided" by this point they were really just hiding their pro-Trump vote. Luckily there was far fewer of them than 2016, and Biden was already hovering around 50% in them, not the sub 45% Hilary tended to level out at.

Dont worry, he'll be dead by then...

5-0 yes so far. Unusual optimism by forum standards!

The Jeopardy team confirm it. RIP to someone I know had a lot of fans on the forum.

Many of these are self-explanatory but if you've got a moment, maybe say why some were rejected. Basically, if Alice Munro has hitherto unknown to me Stage IV cancer that'd be useful info for my DDP team.

Ok, I missed this. Earlier in the year while talking up Jimmy Greaves ill health, Ian St John slipped in this bit to the Times where he reveals he's still having cancer problems: Liverpool did win the title this summer, this is from the run in.

Quant is 90 and going by recent media very frail these days so likely a good punt in other 2021 games. Just not this one!

Like the UK, US elections not decided on "popular vote" but a form of First Past the Post. Unlike here, where it's 650 constituencies so the party in the lead with votes tends to be the party in power, the US has a steroid version of it, where the winner takes all of a state's 10-40 odd votes even if they lost 9 out of 10 counties in the state but won the single one that had a big city. So you can get huge vote numbers/winners things going wrong. Last time that happened in the UK - the party who won the most votes lost the election - was 1951 which was an infamously close election decided by a few thousand voters in swing seats. Whereas it happened twice in the last 20 years in the US!

Just to comment on these two bits because you know my views on Farage already (I'm fairly consistent on not liking patronising well off hypocrites who pretends to care about the working class no matter what party they call their own). It looks like Biden will win the popular vote by about 7 million+ once California and other Dem states bother to count up their remaining votes, and if Arizona and Georgia go that way too as *currently* seems likely then he'll be equaling Trump's EC win from 2016 (which Trump called "a massive landslide" naturally!). The polls were wrong but then look at the exit polls - people thought they were better off than in 2017, the biggest issue for them was the economy and crucially, circa 49% of the population AGREED with Donald Trump's covid measures or lack of them. Add on the various reasons the hispanic vote jumped Trump's way in the south, and this was not a freebie election like everyone assumed, and I think most of the "better candidates" everyone wanted - me included - would have got gubbed. Joe Biden won because he campaigned in the right places, with the right messages (job protectionism in the rust belt, mostly) and ignored folk on his own campaign who wanted to focus on Florida more or expand their map to include Kansas or what not. Instead of Hilary, he focused singulary on the places he needed the votes. And so he won. PS North Carolina wont be called for a week yet, but if Biden wins Georgia, then he focused campaign in 9 states in the last 2 months, and looks like he'll have won at least 8 of them. Not too shabby. Almost Trump 2016 like, in fact...

I'm not one to go but literally 3 posts above you! Nureyev certainly thought so!

Richard Franklin has thanked fans for their support during his recent ill health and posted a picture from yesterday. Looks like hes been through the wars, somewhat!

Elstree Studios chairman announces death of British actor John Fraser - Repulsion, El Cid, Columbo, Dam Busters, A Study in Terror and, yes, Logopolis. We're losing a lot of stalwart character actors this year.