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Everything posted by msc
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Yeah, shitloads of points for Maryport to add in the morning.
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Mirror QO Quite the cult pick in this years DDP.
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Mind Rule 6 in the original DDP? It might come back, with "stars" in place of "giraffes".
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Another possibility is John Nord, AKA The Berzerker. He got off a jail sentence for repeat DUIs last year due to being in a very bad way due to ALS.
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When the band retired there was talk it was down to Pearts health. Which I assumed was a long runner like arthritis or Parkinsons... Apparently it was brain cancer.
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Hah. I think the rules are quite clear on that sort of thing.
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Yes its Matthew Waterhouse AKA Adric, usually regarded by everyone who saw the show here as the single worst actor to ever be a BBC TV main show regular. Except Willz who thinks he's brill. Waterhouse once tried to give Oscar nominee, Dambusters and legendary grump Richard Todd acting advice. Somehow he still lives...
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Ah, good to see the thread update is for non-fatal reasons. Frazer often shows up on Facebook taking the light hearted piss out of friends on their walls. He's a laugh.
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A DDP pick! So keep watching the skies...or QOs.
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I've similar issues with Herb Alpert. My mind is also convinced, to the point it surprises me each time I read otherwise, that Duane Eddy is dead. I think my brain merges him into a combo of 1960s/70s deaths I read about as a kid in They Died Too Young series (Eddie Cochran/Gram Parsons/Duane somebody or other - presumably Allman)...
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Valerie Singleton is on this weeks House of Games, for those who don't tape game shows to watch when brain dead at midnight. Looking and sounding fab for her age.
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With 3 great-grandkids, 1 William and 1 Charles ahead of the rest I'm sure she's more interested in what happened to Gallifrey right now, and if Klopp can win the league title. The Queen being a Dr Who fan has been mentioned before of course, and according to Pele when he got to meet the Queen during the 1966 World Cup, all she would do is go on and on about her love for Liverpool FC.
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Cormac McCarthy was the one I thought had to be wrong and went to check, only to find every Cormac reference on site was for the late cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor.
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Tbh she's so obscure she wont be getting points, no matter if shes dead now or if she dies during 2020, so time and stress was better spent elsewhere.
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Sister of Juan Carlos? If so, yes someone picked her in 2020.
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Strangely I best recall Kovacevic from the year Real Sociedad nearly won La Liga and him and Nihat were lethal. Didn't he have to retire due to heart problems a few years after that?
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Former Hawkwind drummer Martin Griffin has died, according to the band.
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That went well...
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Right, this tedious argument breaks out in the various deadpool threads about once a fortnight, and it never goes anywhere because it's usually people arguing over the tops of each other. So, YOU, yes, you, what do you consider "famous for being ill"? We already know that some folk consider champions in sports like rugby or darts or the like that, whereas others can argue for obscure rugby players in New Zealand being "heard of". You may use folk on the DDP as reference points, but please do not use DDP players as reference points. Let's see if we can reach a point of consensus without resort to name calling, smugness or super defensiveness, etc. I'll start by stating that for me, fame is measured in promoted achievements. So actors, writers, performers, broadcasters, sports people, politicians all qualify easily there. Terrorists and murderers, sadly, are fairly notorious, so count. Famous for being ill is your cancer bloggers, and inspirational "last Christmasers" or those who want dosh to go traveling when they're at Oxford... Family members of more famous family members are reliant on the person: Angelil, Nolan and the Jacksons clearly all have some relative fame, Tracy McGiffin obscure and better known to long term watchers of some rubbish daytime show ("Oh my sister did this and that and the next thing..."), whereas few would have heard of Celine Dion's brother if not for his illness/death. Where I think I differ from some others is the belief that folk can move from being FFBI into being famous and ill, if the illness takes long enough and they become known for other stuff alongside being ill. To this category I put Dr Kate (OBE), Tomlinson and John's Diamond and Wilson from a while ago. My barometer for this is quite simple: if my old gran brings them up (before they die!), unaided, in conversation, they've clearly transcended into some level of national fame. (The only QO obit she sees is the Six O'Clock News...) My gut feeling is that everyone on here has picked, at some point, someone who others would consider "famous for being ill", so, yeah, let the debate commence. Or not.
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So far my shortlist and dropped names from various teams are kicking the arse of my actual 2020 deadpool teams.
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And on a less savoury note, apparently someone tried to get a 17 year old on their team. If it was you and you're reading this, have a word with yourself FFS.
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Predicting uniques ahead of time is a fools game. Best to be pleasantly surprised if they arrive. So the thing about adding in celebs now is its the folk who aren't on the system already ie have never been picked before now in the DDP. As a teaser, here are some of the names which genuinely surprised me to see were only debuting in 2020: Eleanor Bron Gary Player Alexei Sayle Stan Boardman (83 this year!!!) Simon Groom Peter Frampton Bertie Auld David Lynch Cormac McCarthy
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Again, a terminal case of being Scottish! Although tbf she was an MEP until something like 2003 so well into the time I started noticing political news. Still alive, but last I heard not in the best of health.
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She was my 2nd sub so didn't make the main team. Good luck with the unique hunt. She's one of the Angels of Death alongside Joanna Lumley and Angela Scoular.
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Only 80s MEP I could name without google is Winnie Ewing!