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Apparently as well as being Brexit Central, the Sunderland council is "fucking dire". Which remind me of DDP miss Stabber Watson.

Seems to be quite a few shock Green wins. Don't keep us in suspense, Toast!

Most things are pointless, the skill is in amusing yourself in the interim, I find. Tbh, I spent 10 seconds coming up with the team name, and then the rest of the time finding names as an excuse to use the name. It failed because it was trying to guess folks dodgy punt picks, and wound up with a bunch of uniques instead, but so it goes. Just harmless fluff. PS Saying that, a good chuckle seeing it ranked above 500 other teams!

Imagining the fate of a councilor who tried putting a £97 charge on a wheelie bin in Govan... Caused a bit of confusion for the press here in 2017 when in May, Glasgow voted to oust the council (Labour) after 35 years, then in June, produced significant swing from SNP to Labour in the general election. Whereas it was very simple: while many Glaswegians appeared won over by Corbyn to vote for him, they really fucking hated the council! Also, inside 2 years: building 2 new Clyde bridges, just announced a transport plan to reconnect the poorer suburbs to the city centre, reopening nurseries, lobbied for lottery funding to help conserve some of the old crumbling Victorian buildings etc etc ie all the stuff the last council said couldn't possibly be done. So yeah, boot out the dinosaurs, I say.

Garrison follows Tebbit Sr and gets on his bike oot of here. Joker points for Spade. Spade Cooley deadpool teams, they're not competitive guesses, they're "to do" lists for the Reaper... 1. The Quim Reaper vs Boudicca 0-0 2. Spade Cooley vs Death Impends 8-0 3. Reptile vs Banana 0-0 4. Clorox v Chorizo 4-0

Well, Clorox is off to a Flyer... 1. The Quim Reaper vs Boudicca 0-0 2. Spade Cooley vs Death Impends 0-0 3. Reptile vs Banana 0-0 4. Clorox v Chorizo 4-0

5 pensioner Glaswegian men vs one "survived a plane crash" Bobby Charlton. Bit unfair.

1. Anyone been sounded out/sounded out Spade about taking over so far? If so, what was their thoughts? 2. How feasible is changing the role of Host from Solo to a rolling collective? So 1 year, say, someone reads the emails, turns them into stuff which can be data entried, someone else (or several?) deals with data entry and so on. 3. What jobs actually need doing, how long do they take, what is the computing know how needed? Agreed with this. Skiving the uni Excel course on a technicality seemed like a good idea at the time! [Also IRL I have a friend who manages our website for me!] Willing to be delegated manageable tasks to help out, unable to be the person delegating the tasks.

Ok here's my team (PM'd earlier): 1. Kathleen Blanco 2. Breene Harimoto 3. Lee Noble 4. Tom Long 5. Jean Vanier 6. Alex Trebek 7. L Brooks Patterson 8. Sprent Dabwido 9. Steve Blackmore – Welsh World Cup rugby star 10. Karen Lewis 11. Sam Lloyd 12. Tommy Donbavand 13. Chris Doleman 14. Christopher Booker 15. Susan Bayh 16. Dr Bruce Reid 17. Chris Duncan 18. Jean Louis Trintignant 19. Ed Genson 20. Sunny Garcia 21. Theresa May

Semifinals 1. Spade OR DI vs Reptile OR Banana 2. Chorizo OR Clorox vs The Quim Reaper OR Boudicca

Qfinals 1. The Quim Reaper vs Boudicca 2. Spade Cooley vs Death Impends 3. Reptile vs Banana 4. Clorox v Chorizo TQR (Pei-tsun*, Kerslake, Dabwido, Gilber, Robucci, Blanco, Tanaka, Starling, Donbavand, Lloyd, Genson) Vs Boudicca – (Blanco*, Chapman, Dabwido, Donbavand, Evans L, McDonald, McGrath Nandi, Rehbogen, Starling, Tanaka) Spade - (Blanco, Crouch, DeVito, Garcia, Garrison*, Nandi, Noble, Huerta, Sizun, Toole, Vanier) Vs DI – (Blanco*, Dabwido, Tooth, Essex, Vanier, Ramalho, Huerta, Musitano, Thornton, Garcia, Shamsuzzaman) Reptile - (Dabwido*, Yudhoyono, Crouch, Harris, Vergara, McEwen, Geelani, Dones, Denis, Harris, Falzone) Vs Banana – (Vanier*, Weakland, Starling, Nandi, Blanco, Harris, Garcia, Dabwido, Evans, Donbavandd, Genson) Clorox – (Blanco, Dabwido*, Donbavand, Evans, Fleischman, Garcia, Long, Mansoor, Porridge, Shamsuzzaman, Vanier) Vs Chorizo – (Blanco*, Dabwido, Donbavand, Goldberg, Noble, Starling, Weakland, Pachano, Long, Ricksen, Marlin)

Quarterfinals Masterlist 1. Kathleen Blanco – TQR, Chorizo*, Clorox, Bou*, Spade, Banana, DI* 2. Milton Born with a Tooth - DI 3. Beth Chapman – Bou 4. Stanley Crouch – Reptile, Spade 5. Sprent Dabwido – TQR, Chorizo, Clorox*, Bou, Reptle*, Banana, DI* 6. Sergio Denis – Reptile 7. Tommy DeVito - Spade 8. Tommy Donbavand – TQR, Chorizo, Clorox, Bou Banana 9. Pau Dones – Reptile 10. Steve Essex - DI 11. Lois Evans - Bou 12. Rachel Held Evans – Clorox, Banana 13. Maria Falzone - Reptile 14. Bill Fleischman – Clorox 15. Sunny Garcia – Clorox, Spade, Banana, DI 16. Joe Garrison (GRT Race cars) – Spade* 17. Syed Al Geelani - Reptile 18. Ed Genson – TQR, Banana 19. Greg Gilbert- TQR 20. Denis Goldberg – chorizo 21. Johnny Harris - Reptile 22. Queenie Harris – Reptile, Banana 23. Cecilia Huerta – Spade, DI 24. Lee Kerslake – TQR 25. Sam Lloyd – TQR 26. Tom Long – Chorizo, Clorox 27. Eddie Marlin – Chorizo 28. Ahmed Mansoor – Clorox 29. Steve McDonald (Celtic musician) – Bou 30. D Mc3w3n - Reptile 31. Bat McGrath – Bou 32. Pat Musitano - DI 33. Subir Nandi – Bou, Spade Banana 34. Lee Noble – Chorizo, Spade 35. Anibal Pachano - Chorizo 36. Hau Pei-tsun – TQR* 37. Genesis Porridge – Clorox 38. Arthur Ramallho - DI 39. Johann Rehbogen - Bou 40. Fernando Ricksen - Chorizo 41. Maria Robucci – TQR 42. ATM Shamsuzzaman- Clorox, DI 43. John Starling – TQR, Chorizo, Bou, Banana 44. Ji Sizun - Spade 45. Kane Tanaka – TQR, Bou 46. Barry Thornton - DI 47. Mac Toole - Spade 48. Jean Vanier – Clorox, Spade, Banana*, DI 49. Jorge Vergara - Reptile 50. Archbishop Rembert Weakland – Chorizo Banana 51. Ani Yudhoyono - Reptile

Quick count DI/Spade share 4 Reptile/Banana -2 Clorox/Chorizo - 4 Bou/TQR - 5 And everyone has a unique except Banana.

1. Rachel Held Evans 2. Sunny Garcia 3. Natasha England 4. Ezra Castro 5. Jean Vanier

All 8 Quarterfinal teams are in! Which means... He drew in Round 1, but got back up again. He lost in Round 2, but got back up again. He lost in Round 3 and now, for Bibliogryphon:

I wasn't allowed Pancho Billa so I'll be annoyed if you are. Heyyy, after 4 month of the Cup, its fun to be on the other side of a complaint for once!

They were meant to un-break her heart!

OK, all weekend I was like: "I should give the results of the penalties earlier to avoid false hope etc and add some added KO drama ie X was now out UNLESS they scored.." But I didn't, and now I have woken up to a team from someone who has lost the coin toss. Mea culpa, a thousand apologies. Coin tosses Mad Hatter (head) v Boudicca (tails) - (Tails) 1-0 Bou - (Tails) 2-0 Bou - (Heads) 2-1 - (Tails) - Boudicca wins 3-1. Chorizo (heads) v Torva (tails) - (Heads) 1-0 Chorizo - (Tails) 1-1 - (Heads) 2-1 Chorizo - (Heads) 3-1 Chorizo So Torva and the Kid are out barring late shocks. And the Kid is likely out anyway due to personal issues we all genuinely wish him well with, so if his team scores, he eliminates both himself AND Bou, and brings back Luigi... Bibliogryphon. I think I've got a headache. Usual reminders sent out. I now have images in my head of a series of unfortunate events leading to a default final of TQR v Biblio in May, which the latter wins 0-0 on penalties...

Give George Wendt and Chris Langham time...

OK was going to say "I quite liked him as an actor", only to Google him... Apparently I have been mistaking Manic Friend of Stephen Fry Whose Line alumnus John Sessions for Manic Friend of Stephen Fry Whose Line alumnus Tony Slattery. Oops.

You know who doesn't like Peregrine Falcons? No righter fuckwits. Oh, and pigeons. I guess they have an excuse.

This is my fault, and a tip of the hat to the admin team. Right, you might have noticed that a whole variety of shows that put OAP celebs on the screen for flimsy reasons now infest the TV. Talking head Channel 5 “Greatest Moment Ever”, celebrity gameshows, Real Marigold and all its rip offs. So here’s a catch all thread for “Lionel Blair looks shit on Mastermind” type posts. In the last year, we’ve seen Fash the Bash and Pat Butcher share joints on Channel 4, a variety of no namers and Bobby George get sun burnt around the world on the BBC, and William Shatner get KO’d by the lean mean fat reducing grilling machine himself. Oh, and NFL HOFer Terry Bradshaw looking one to watch in that last one. Now, ITV have “OAPS Hard to Please”, in which old people try to use needlessly complicated technology. The stars: Amanda Barrie – looking great for her age. Can’t use a BBQ cleaning robot, mind. Lionel Blair – Looks fucked. Is 90 now. June Brown – Actually looks better than she has recently. Given she’s looked like death in recent past. Frail and old, but not rattlely for once. Thinks people should just use blow up dolls instead of sex robots. Sheila Ferguson – Obligatory young OAP in these shows who will outlive everyone else by a decade. Harry Redknapp – Looks like Harry Redknapp. Michael Whitehall – imo a outsider bet for next 5 years. John Sergeant – What’s he doing on this now? He’s 75? Fucking hell. Anyhow, more musings as more shows happen. Pointless have sitcom stars this weekend…

And a DDP miss for me, as it hadn't seemed ominous enough in December - clearly not taking colon cancer seriously. Anyhow, 4 points for you. Round 3 1. The Mad Hatter vs Boudicca 0-0 2. Rad vs Banana 12-13 3. John Key vs Death Impends 0-21 4. The Quim Reaper vs Book 3-0 5. Gcreptile vs Pedro 9-0 6. Chorizo vs Torva Messor 3-3 7. Bibliogryphon vs Spade Cooley 0-21 8. Deadsox vs Clorox 0-16

LUCKY LOSER STUFF SHOULD WE NEED IT* So last time I tried to give someone a lucky loser spot but never heard back from him till well after the fact - although I did get the funniest excuse ever for it. Hence random draw and frantic searching for last minute teams. So, this time, to avoid more fucking stress, with 5 days left, here are the three names chosen at random using Random.org who will be the Lucky Losers should someone not put in a team again. Lucky Loser draw 1. Bibliogryphon - I shit you not. 2. Pedro 3. Book or The Quim Reaper Now hopefully this WONT be needed this time, but fucking hell, its a random drawing website! Beginning to think Biblio has hacked either my laptop or Random.org tbh... This means the losers of any penalties between Kid/Bou and Chorizo/Torva will exit the competition - tense, eh, he says trying to drum up needless suspense... *You can take as read we might need it, hence provisions, but it would require a series of remarkably unfortunate events to befall several of us.

tbh looking over some of the Change/uKip/other irrelevant parties etc picks this week, Ann Widdecombe is probably one of the sanest people announced so far. Yeah, exactly...