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That explains those sods who always jump the queue at Iceland!

Well the kids wouldn't have been born otherwise.

Not quite. She needs 33, and has 17. But still a tall order, although 200 odd constituencies are yet to nominate. All 5 have made it onto the Deputy leader ballot: Rayner, Burgon, Butler, Murray and Allin-Khan. There are hardline Tories dreaming of a RLB/Burgon team...

"Arno, less well-known as Arno Hintjens" For some reason, that bit cracks me up...

The only actor I presume to have been in the original Twilight Zone AND How I Met Your Mother! Also a unique DDP pick. And an unnatural death bonus.

SARS was 774 for those keeping score at home. Then it's a big jump to 2035 confirmed deaths from swine flu.

Corrupt a Wish - win the DDP but die of coronavirus. Although...apparently there was a superflu pandemic in 2009 that killed about 203 thousand people worldwide? I have no memory of that whatsoever. I mean I have no memory of Russian Flu killing 1 million in 1889 either, but none of us (apart from LFN) were alive for that one.

Easier to help on the obit of someone you've been a huge fan of, as opposed to some one like Arap Moi. "Uh, he dictated in Kenya for years and drol hated him..."

As they wont (wouldn't?) confirm his medical history, I suspect he had something normally controllable like asthma? Hmm, how do you feel writing another 200 front page obits if this thing hits Glasgow then?

Former Funkadelic guitarist Harold Beane has died aged 73. Played guitar, wrote chunks of the songs, and even sang on America Eats Its Young.

He, Hackman and Duvall all have the feeling of folk who could last a good 6+ years on the DL themselves.

68 years ago... Libby has now been Queen for as long as my grandads lifespan was! PS "His long rest had not cured structural trouble" is such a 1950s way of saying "he was fucked to the gills with cancer"...

I was confused as to why he'd get arrested for that. "The arrest, for assault and assault with a weapon, happened on Monday (3 February)." So the arrest had nothing to do with the whole Fake Dead Girlfriend thing, which could be played off as a typical cliffhanger. Hey, she returned in a week. It took Bobby Ewing a whole year!

Didn't put my usual research in for this years teams tbh. Wont be the last error based on a mere glance at the headline.

Also his dabbling in Iraq/Iran area earlier in January. Gooseberry Reaper's an insatiable monster.

Yes, The Grim crumble has got rid of Kirk Douglas, Terry Jones, Nicholas Parsons, Derek Fowlds, Mary higgins Clark, Daniel Arap Moi, Chris Tolkien, Mad Mike Hoare, John Andretti, Jim Lehrer, Robbie Rensenbrink, Chris Doleman, Kobe Bryant, Roger Scruton, Rocky Johnson, Qaboos, Elizabeth Wurtzel, David Stern, Derek Acorah, Neil Peart, Seumas Mallon and many others inside 5 weeks.

Yeah I assumed QO issues. Shows what I know, he's got three of them inside 20 minutes! Mirror

And yet despite being at 0/3, Cat might still be favourite given candidates.

265. Fairly easy though - Kirk is 308th DL hit in history so its just a matter of axing the pre-97 deaths and Kirk himself... Also this is the fastest DL start since 2013.

It has surpassed mad cow disease but has a bit to go before SARS yet. Grimmest league table ever.

Drol did the old "Look Kirk Douglas died" trick and used the distraction to stab the crown out of my hands. Or something along those lines.

Exodus P-orridge.

Genuinely thought Allen was doing one of those "similar name" troll jokes that happen on here so often...

3/50 for DL in 36 days of 2020. We've seen worse starts...

https://www.tmz.com/2020/02/05/kirk-douglas-dead-dies-103/ TMZ have it too. Surprisingly low key for such a big figure so far...