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Ideas can come from pretty much anywhere. Carmen Callil for example when she casually mentioned having lung cancer during a BBC4 doc. Other options include Google keyword searches (Dr Reid), random "and X has been unwell" TV/radio/news story references, blogs ( Kate Figes), Twitter (Billy Clayton), wrestling and/or Gallifrey Base posts (Howard Finkel/Nick Courtney), news on here and my personal favourite people posting their teams early on Deathlist Forum...

The Appeals Cmme has heard your complaint but refers to Ms McLean's awarding of the Queen's Service Medal (sort of the OBE for NZers) and her 50 year career in academia research. She is clearly a notable name in NZ historical and genealogical circles (which a Fnd a Graver would not be) and thus is more famous than that angler, the guy from Trinidad and D McE*. Just. *Did she die?

Oh she's threatened you with mod-ship, too, eh?

Can confirm Banana is Micah. Confused by JoeMoneyPenny putting forward Michael Bowie.

Wanted to be Alonso: Whereas tbf most of us Bracknell chasers have looked like this:

So Anne Boyle was chair of the Nebraskan Democratic Party before a massive stroke last week. Two players were quick on the draw to note the words "hospice care" after (that + stroke = ) and thus pick up 3 points here, and the lead in their respective ties. Banana appears to be a swiftly improving deadpooler, and Spade Cooley needs no introduction by now. So on Day 3 of Round 1, we already only have 2 goalless games in the round - Master Tech/Biblio and TUM/Bou. 1. JoeMoneyPenny Vs. Pedro 3-3 2. Nantonian 2013 Vs. Maryportfuncity 0-3 3. Gooseberry Crumble Vs. John Key 0-3 4. Spade Cooley Vs. Squonk 3-0 5. Markb4 vs Dr T 0-6 6. Banana Vs. Great Uncle Bulgaria 3-0 7. Yorkshire Banker Vs. Skinny Kiltrunner 3-3 8. Alt Obits Guy Vs. Time 3-0 9. Clorox Vs. Fixed Business 3-3 10. The Mad Hatter Vs. Exu 3-0 11. Master Tech Vs. Bibliogryphon 0-0 12. The Unknown Man Vs. Boudicca 0-0 13. Torva Messor Vs. The Old Crem 6-0 14. The Quim Reaper Vs. BuffaloPhil 3-3 15. Wormfarmer Vs. The Old Lady 3-0

tbh dated and slow moving is rather accurate about Wouk's books. Last night I finished Three Act Tragedy by the great Agatha Christie. Not one of her better works (brilliant last line however) but obviously far better than any Poirot adaptation by Sarah Phelps.

I think this puts me 4th in the DDP, my highest position ever - providing I've not missed some joker somewhere...

OK, Andrew McGahan, after much praise since 1988 for an acclaimed career, has had enough with the wonders of a Godless world, had his last drinks and gone underground into the white earth. Bingo! 14 teams scored, because we all love a nice quiet start to ease me into this. So, both Pedro and JoeMoneyPenny score, with this being the first Cup hit for Joe. Also for many others, like both Quim Reaper and BuffaloPhil in the same tie. Maryport, Wormfarmer and John Key take early 3-0 leads, as do two team we might hear a lot about this year in Alt Obits Guy and The Mad Hatter. Elsewhere, Banker/Skinny and FB/Clorox, two ties harder to call, are at 3-3 already. Two jokers were cashed in, and fittingly the winner of the 2018 Jokers Pool got the first ever DL Cup joker, Torva going 6-0 up. Also scoring with his joker after the in-out controversy is Dr T, with a 6-0 lead on Markb4. Who, incidentally, wanted me to reinstate Dr T - a great act of magnanimity, we can all agree. Oh, and we're doing Jokers because I wanted to try them out (and everyone I queried before hand was all "Great idea!"). If they work, they work. If no, they disappear for the next. Although never tell Rad the idea by comparing it to Mortal Kombat fatalities, he will think you ancient. Ahem. 1. JoeMoneyPenny Vs. Pedro 3-3 2. Nantonian 2013 Vs. Maryportfuncity 0-3 3. Gooseberry Crumble Vs. John Key 0-3 4. Spade Cooley Vs. Squonk 0-0 5. Markb4 vs Dr T 0-6 6. Banana Vs. Great Uncle Bulgaria 0-0 7. Yorkshire Banker Vs. Skinny Kiltrunner 3-3 8. Alt Obits Guy Vs. Time 3-0 9. Clorox Vs. Fixed Business 3-3 10. The Mad Hatter Vs. Exu 3-0 11. Master Tech Vs. Bibliogryphon 0-0 12. The Unknown Man Vs. Boudicca 0-0 13. Torva Messor Vs. The Old Crem 6-0 14. The Quim Reaper Vs. BuffaloPhil 3-3 15. Wormfarmer Vs. The Old Lady 3-0

OK, so I've been brainstorming this as it did not make sense. Checking stuff with a friendly Admin who was as stumped. But through a series of experiments with Reptile, we have come to the bottom of the problem. On DL forum, and I have never seen this on any other forum... If you delete a PM to make space, then no reply to that PM will come to you. So what I imagine has happened is Dr T sent his team into this original invitation PM, but as there is a 50 PM inbox limit for non-Admins, and there's a fuck lot of you sending in stuff, I basically record info and delete the original to free up space. Having never assumed that would block PMs, because who would? So, two things. First, please welcome the reinstatement of @Dr_T, victim of a forum bug. Second, if you send in a team from now on please make it a new PM and not a reply to anything. Thanks.

Oh aye, give yerself the best of the bunch, charon. I guess if we're going local it'd be Night Owl (Rafferty), though tempted by Faith Healer tbh. Anyhow, if you look to the Scottish Cup, you'll note it's still called "scratching" when a team gives up or can't put out a team in a round, and their opponents advance by default. Cant mind the last time that ever happened in the Cup proper though.

That's notorious in Who (and got him sacked from the role!!!), though he had a surly rep from before Keeping Up Appearances iirc... tbh given the above is the highly tedious Ben Cook interviewing him, I thought Clive was rather restrained, myself.

In the former he has one of the great last lines of any TV villain: "I would rather run away with my mother than a fawning little creep like you."

Notoriously grumpy man. I suppose as a notoriously grumpy DLer I should have more sympathy tbh...

Bit of a surprise, Drop 40 cert had he announced imo. One of those familiar faces. Also unlike so many modern comics (Michael McIntyre can be singled out), he seemed effortlessly witty. Apparently we all missed this tweet he subsequently tried to row back from? Then left twitter...

But, alas... he didn't. At least not to me, despite several "please re-send me your team messages" since. So unfortunately with the time limit in my last post (well and beyond the leeway given to any player in Cup history) I'm afraid my first action as 2019 host is to announce Dr T's disqualification, and that Markb4 has advanced to Round 2 to face the winner of Torva or The Old Crem. It suck, but so it goes.

OFFICIAL RULING ON DR T SITUATION Dr T said in here that he sent me his team. I didn't receive it, and despite multiple efforts from me, he hasn't sent in a repeat. In the spirit of fairness, given this is an alleged forum PM glitch I have myself suffered from in the past, and every other team is in, I am giving Dr T 3 hours (ie till 3am UK time) to publicly post his team here in this thread. Otherwise I will be forced to DQ him from the tournament despite this alleged error.

Round 1 1. JoeMoneyPenny Vs. Pedro 2. Nantonian 2013 Vs. Maryportfuncity 3. Gooseberry Crumble Vs. John Key 4. Spade Cooley Vs. Squonk 5. Markb4 vs Dr T 6. Banana Vs. Great Uncle Bulgaria 7. Yorkshire Banker Vs. Skinny Kiltrunner 8. Alt Obits Guy Vs. Time 9. Clorox Vs. Fixed Business 10. The Mad Hatter Vs. Exu 11. Master Tech Vs. Bibliogryphon 12. The Unknown Man Vs. Boudicca 13. Torva Messor Vs. The Old Crem 14. The Quim Reaper Vs. BuffaloPhil 15. Wormfarmer Vs. The Old Lady JoeMoneyPenny (Ricksen*, Anh, Trintignant, Ho, Tinsulanonda, Slick, Little Richard, McGahan, Carr, Gibb E, Bowie) Vs Pedro (Trintignant, Blanco*, Robucci, L Johnson, Capon, Jackson K, McGahan, Ricksen, Stiles, Kerslake, Gascoine) Nantonian 2013 (D Butler*, Bosbach, Hoare, Ricksen, Dent, Wouk, Dole, Zafke, Eden, Kamala, Turnbull) sub – K Jackson, J Hume Vs Maryportfuncity (Pratley*, Blanco, G Jones, T Conway, N Conway, Stiles, Robucci, Trintignant, Ricksen, McGahan, Gerneth) sub - McCain Gooseberry Crumble (Rupe*, Bracknell, Wouk, Tompson, Fyfe, Cameron, Little, Prowse, H Reid, Chirac, Benedict) sub – V Lynn Vs John Key (Bracknell*, Mugabe, Vervoort, Kerslake, Chapman, McGahan, Kumar, Blanco, Quinn, C James, Buydens) Spade Cooley (F Robinson*, Ricksen, P O’Reilly, McGrath, Conway T, Rister, Cain, W Jones, A Ali, Kerslake, A Boyle) vs Squonk (Ricksen*, Blanco, McCain, C James, Hawke, Anh, H Reid, Redstone, Porridge, Dole, Benedict XVI) Dr T - (McGahan*, Capon, Conway T, Gerneth, Ginsberg, Kerslake, McCain, Murphy, Spicer, Tanaka, Trintignant) Vs Markb4 (T Conway, R Tompson*, K Douglas, McCain, J Gibson, Wouk, GD Jean, Philip, Bracknell, Turnbull, N Lloyd) - sub K jackson Banana (W Jones*, F Robinson, Bowie, McLean, Boyle, Tobin, Ricksen, Capon, Rehbogen, Powlison, Kadir) Vs Great Uncle Bulgaria (Trintignant, Tork, Anh, Hawke*, Reid, Bowler, Wouk, Tompson, Gerneth, Criibbins) sub - Hume Yorkshire Banker (T Conway, McGahan, DeHavilland, Lynn V, Bassett, Trintignant, Barrie, Caldow, Lynn L, W Jones*) sub - Pei Vs Skinny Kiltrunner (W Jones*, Ricksen, H Reid, Kerslake, K Lewis, Coleman, Bayh, Dixon, Blanco McGahan) sub - Capon Alt obits Guy (C Duncan, Hawke, Howard M, Kerslake, Levine, McGahan, Mzembii, Nugroho, Parrikar, Robinson F*, Spicer) sub - Ricksen Vs Time (Barker*, Mercier, Holbrook, Leyton, Russell, Lotterby, O’Connor, Longthorne, Moyne, Wouk, K Douglas) Clorox (Dones, Jones*, Kerslake, Lockridge, McGahan, S Andre, Ricksen, Robinson F, Hanh, Walker J, Watson) sub - Mzembi Vs Fixed Business (Pratley, Nanh, Kerslake*, Chapman, Bracknell, Stiles, Samu, McGahan, Philip, Blanco, Spicer) sub – T Conway The Mad Hatter (F Robinson*, Kerslake, Andretti, McGahan, Blanco, Ginsburg, ONJ, Ricksen, Woodward, Moss, H Reid) Vs Exu (Ricksen*, Manners, Lauda, McCririck, Mccain, Hawke, Clegg, Muller, Stiles, Greaves, K Douglas) sub - Mugabe Master Tech (McCain, Bracknell, Cleary, Pratley, Ginsberg, Gascoine, Barker, De Havilland, Jackson*, Trintignant, Wouk) Vs Bibliogryphon (Watson*, Pei, Porridge, Dyson, Greaves, Hume, Bracknell, Cleary, Jose, Moss, Yarrow) sub - Hawke The Unknown Man (Ricksen*, Cuellar, ONJ, Kerslake, Harper, Day, Napolitano, Nakasone, Kilmer, Alagiah, Bracknell) sub - Turnbull Vs Boudicca (Ginsburg, Clegg, Ricksen, Stiles, Blanco, Hawke, Fraser, Kerslake*, R O’Donnell, Reid H, W Jones) sub - Andrett Torva Messor (McGahan*, Hawke, Cocks, Palau, Gerneth, Trintignant, Ricksen, Strain, Blanco, Tompson, Tanaka) sub - Simonot Vs The old Crem (de Havilland*, Philip, Cleary, Buydens, Kerslake, Jose, Flynn, Shah, Lynn V, Redgrave, Price K) sub - Strain The Quim Reaper (N Conway, H Reid, Robucci-Nargiso*, Trintignant, Flynn, McGahan, Jackson K, Ricksen, Blanco, T Conway, Stiles) Vs BuffaloPhil (Jackson*, McGahan, Anh, Philips, Ricksen, Buydens, WT Johnson, Tanaka, Cameron, Rister, Gendle) sub - Trintignant Wormfarmer (Hawke, Barker, T Conway, Chapman, Blanco, Trintignant, McGahan, Alagiah, Turnbull, W Jones, Ricksen*) sub - Tanaka Vs The Old Lady (Mugabe*, T Conway, Fujimori, Ricksen, Trintignant, Tork, Clegg, Hawke, Li Rui, Anh, McCririck) – sub - Chapman

Masterlist Round One (Its Alphabetical except for the bits that aren't) * denotes Joker 1. George Alagiah – TUM, Wormfarmer 2. Alauddin Ali - Spade 3. Soeur Andre - Clorox 4. John Andretti – Mad Hatter 5. Le Duc Anh – Squonk, old lady, GUB, Phil, JMP 6. Paddy Basset – Banker 7. Barbara Barrie - Banker 8. Bob Barker – Wormfarmer, Time*, Tech 9. Susan Bayh - Skinny 10. Benedict XVI – Squonk, Crumble 11. Kathleen Blanco – TQR, Torva, Squonk, Wormfarmer, Skinny, maryport, FB, Mad Hatter, Bou, Pedro*, Key 12. Wolfgang Bosbach – Nantonian 13. Michael Bowie – JMP 14. Micah Bowie - Banana 14. Kate Bowler – GUB 15. Anne Boyle – Spade, Banana 16. Leah Bracknell – Mark, Biblio, TUM, Crumble, FB, Key*, Tech 17. David Butler – Nantonian* 18. Anne Buydens – Phil, Crem, Key 19. Paul Cain - Spade 20. Eric Caldow - Banker 21. Earl Cameron – Crumble, Phil 22. Edmund Capon – pedro, Banana, Dr T 23. Pearl Carr - JMP 24. Beth Chapman – Wormfarmer, FB, Key 25. Jacques Chirac - Crumble 26. Johnny Clegg – Exu, old lady, Bou 27. John Cocks – Torva 28. Norm Coleman - Skinny 29. Noel Conway – TQR, maryport 30. Tim Conway – Mark, TQR, old lady, Wormfarmer, maryport, Banker, Spade, Dr T 31. Bernard Cribbins - GUB 32. Doris Day - TUM 33. Javier Perez de Cuellar – TUM 34. Olivia de Havilland – Banker, Crem*, Tech 35. Frederick Dent – Nantonan 36. Ricky Dixon - Skinny 37. Bob Dole – Nantonian, Squonk 38. Beverly Cleary – Biblio, Crem, Tech 39. Pau Dones - Clorox 40. Kirk Douglas – Mark, Exu, titme 41. Chris Duncan – AO Guy 42. Freeman Dyson - Biblio 43. Clarissa Eden – Nantonian 44. Paul Flynn – TQR, Crem 45. Stuart Frazer - Bou 46. Alberto Fujimori – old lady 47. Robert Fyfe - Crumble 48. Jean (Grand Duke) – Mark 49. Jill Gascoine – Pedro, Tech 50. Tanya Gendle – Phil 51. Ellen Gibb - JMP 52. Julie Gibson – Mark 53. Jimmy greaves – Exu, Biblio 54. Gustav Gerneth – Trova, maryport, GUB, Dr T 55. Ruth Bader Ginsburg – Mad Hatter, Bou, Tech, Dr T 56. Valerie Harper - TUM 57. Bob Hawke – exu, Torva, Squonk, old lady, wormfarmer, GUB*, Bou, AO Guy 58. Stanley Ho - JMP 59. Mad Mike Hoare – Nantonian 60. Hal Holbrook – Time 61. Mark Howard – AO Guy 62. John Hume – Biblio 63. Clive James – Squonk, Key 64. Katherine Jackson – TQR, Phil*, Pedro, Tech* 65. Leonard Johnson - Pedro 66. WT Johnson - Phil 67. Grace Jones - Maryport 68. Walter Jones – Wormfarmer, Skinny*, Banker*, Bou, Clorox*, Spade, Banana* 69. Jose Jose – Biblio, Crem 70. Wafa Abdul Kadir - Banana 71. Kamala – Nantonian 72. Lee Kerslake – TUM, Skinny, FB*, Mad hatter, Bou*, AO Guy, Clorox, Crem, Pedro, Spade, Key, Dr T 73. Val Kilmer – TUM 74. Dilip Kumar - Key 75. Niki Lauda – exu 76. Rocky Lockridge - Clorox 77. Sydney Lotterby – time 78. Emily Levine – AO Guy 79. Karen Lewis – Skinny 80. John Leyton - TIme 81. Jeanne Little - Crumble 82. Norman Lloyd – Mark 83. Joe Longthorne - time 84. Loretta Lynn – Banker 85. Vera Lynn – Banker, Crem 86. John Manners – Exu 87. John McCririck – exu, old lady, 88. Andrew McGahan – TQR, Torva*, Wormfarmer, Skinny, maryport, Phil, Banker, FB, JMP, AO Guy, Clorox, Pedro, Key, Dr T* 89. Bat McGrath – Spade 90. Heather McLean (historian) - Banana 91. Sheila Mercier - Tiime 92. Stirling Moss – Biblio, Mad Hatter 93. Baron Moyne - time 94. Robert Mugabe – Old lady*, Key 95. Gerd Muller – Exu 96. Michael Murphy - Dr T 96. Walter Mzembi – AO Guy 97. Yasuhuro Nakasone – TUM 98. Thich Nhat Han – FB,Clorox 99. Giorgio Napolitano - TUM 100. Olivia Newton-John – TUM, Mad Hatter 101. Sutopo Nugroho – AO Guy 102. Des O’Connor – time 103. Randell O’Donnell – Bou 104. Philip Leo O’Reilly - Spade 105. Little Richard - JMP 106. Luis Palau – Torva 107. Manohar Parrikar – AO Guy 108. IM Pei - Biblio 109. Prince Philip – Mark ,FB, Crem 110. Leslie Philips - Phil 111. Genesis P-orridge – Biblio, Squonk 112. David Powlison - Banana 113. Marsh Pratley – Maryport, FB, Tech 114. Katie Price -Crem 115. David Prowse – Crumble 116. Bishop Francis Quinn – Key 117. Roberta McCain – Mark, Exu, Squonk, Tech, Dr T 118. Vanessa Redgrave – Crem 119. Sumner Redstone – Squonk 120. Johann Rehbogen – Banana 121. Harry Reid – TQR, Squonk, Crumble, Skinny, GUB, Mad Hatter, Bou 122. Fernando Ricksen – Nantonian, Exu*, TQR, Torva, Squonk*, old lady, Wormfarmer*, Skinny, maryport, Phil, Mad Hatter, JMP*, Bou, Clorox, Pedro, Spade, Banana 123. Fred Rister – Phil, Spade 124. Frank Robinson – Mad Hatter*, AO Guy*, Clorox, Spade*, Banana 125. Maria-Guiseppe Robucci-Nargiso – TQR*, Maryport, Pedr 126. Li Rui – old lady 127. Art Rupe – Crumble* 128. William Russell - Time 129. Samu – FB 130. Amit Shah - Crem 131. Grace Slick - JMP 132. Jimmy Spicer – FB, AO Guy, Dr T 133. Julie Strain - Torva 134. Nobby Stiles – exu, TQR, maryport, FB, Bou, Pedro 135. Kane Tanaka – Torva, Phil, Dr T 136. Peter Tobin - Banana 137. Ruthie Tompson – Mark*, Torva, Crumble, GUB 138. Peter Tork – old lady, GUB 139. Jean Louis Trintignant – TQR, Torva, TUM*, old lady, Wormfarmer, maryport, GUB, Banker, JMP, Pedro, Tech, Dr T 140. Bill Turnbull – Mark, Nantonian, Wormfarmer 141. Marieke Vervoort - Key 142. Johnnie Walker – Clorox 143. James Watson – Biblio*, Clorox 144. Joanne Woodward – Mad Hatter 145. Herman Wouk – Mark, Nantonian, Crumble, GUB, time, Tech 146. Hubert Zafke – Nantonian 147. Arnold Yarrow - Biblio

Yep, so the only team not in is @Dr_T. 20 mins to go.

Update. Down to 3. Stop doing that voodoo chanting, Biblio...

Yes...

24/30 teams in. Still waiting for: Pedro, John Key, Spade, Dr T, Banana, Master Tech.

1. Billy Clayton 2. Edmund Capon 3.WT Johnson 4. Tanya Gendle 5. Kathleen Blanco

I was tempted to find ancient Americans based on that mega list, but feck it, I'll stick to my promise of picking 10 names I've heard of... 1. June Brown (wildcard) 2. Johnny Briggs 3. Peter Dean 4. Eileen Derbyshire 5. Leonard Fenton 6. Barbara Knox 7. Sheila Mercier 8. Sandy Ratcliff 9. Bill Roache 10. Bill Treacher sub 1. Beverley Callard