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    Time Added

    Despite Ranieri, Fulham look doomed too. So it's likely down to Cardiff and Newcastle (a bunch of Championship players somehow managed by a top manager) for the last spot imo.
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    The 2019 Deathlist Cup

    Could be a good omen. No doubt I will be corrected here but iirc only player to need 2 or more subs before Round 1 last year was charon, who still won his tie comfortably.
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    The Joker's Dead Pool 2019

    Clorox has allowed me to make Tim Conway a replacement wildcard, for the record.
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    Inverse Dead Pool 2019

    Early lead for me! No, hang on a minute...
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    Derby Dead Pool 2019

    First of many, I'd assume. Congrates. (And Cup subs are a fairly common thing...)
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    Dead Pop Stars

    Tara Simmons, Australian musician who was on my 2018 longlist due to battling Stage IV breast cancer, dead aged 34 from said cancer. Forgot all about her tbh.
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    Derby Dead Pool 2019

    Btw, a belated thanks to Spade now I've noticed it. Twigged Ignacio Trelles was my first sub for the Rafferty team. Who didn't make it? Well, alas the great historian David Fieldhouse died in October 2018. Bar one mention on Jesus College's website, completely off the radar (to the point my finding this out has surprised some of his actual former colleagues). Mea culpa for assuming that one of the most highly regarded British historians of the 20th Century would get a proper Times/Telegraph/Guardian/anything notice, or I'd hear from folk who knew, and thus just did a cursory check in late December.
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    Celebrity Chefs

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-46958875 I like how you can just quote BBC obits as QO again instead of worrying where on the site it is.
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    Celebrity Chefs

    In which case, congrates to Willz, who was adamant Fairlie was going to make the Drop 40, and jokered him.
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    Time Added

    Plane disappeared (ie went down) in the Channel near Jersey yesterday, in Winter. Search called off at 2am, says Beeb. He is 100% dead.
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    Z Cars

    Edge of Darkness is fantastic. That's the 6 part series and not the 90 minute film with Mel Gibson, naturally. Oh, and so is An American Werewolf in London. Armageddon Factor is less fantastic, mind you. Top actor. Similar vintage to the also seen in bloody everything Geoffrey Palmer.
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    Sweepstakes

    RBG - 2nd February 2021* This jumps to 2025 if Trump wins next year.
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    So .. What Do You Watch On TV?

    Now seen 2 of the 3 episodes. So far... shite. It has the title, it has some characters from the book, and that's pretty much it. Although it does amuse me that for how much Phelps is meant to have modernised Christie and made her stories all "woke" or whatever they call it by include subtext already in the fucking book, Phelps managed to axe two strong female characters in the book, so as to focus on another female role she has expanded and harpy'd up.
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    The 2019 Deathlist Cup

    Seeing as you murdered some fine deadpoolers last year on route to the final, I suspect folk will bemoan drawing you as much (if not more) than you drawing them.
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    The 2019 Deathlist Cup

    What Grim said. Luck of the draw. Or no luck of the draw, if yer me! I think Reptile is overdue giving someone a revenge thumping tbh. Some killer ties, yes, but for all we know the new Heef Award winner* is waiting in Round 1 right now as we speak. And so ties not pictured as killer actually will be... Best Newcomer - previous winners Heef, Sir Creep. I think there's also the Most Improved Player, which was Willz in 2018 iirc.
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    The 2019 Deathlist Cup

    Round 2 DRAW (matches to be played in March) 1. Rad Vs. Yorkshire Banker OR Skinny Kiltrunner 2. Chorizo Vs. Grim Up North 3. Clorox OR Fixed Business Vs. Alt Obits Guy OR Time 4. Nantonian2013 OR Maryportfuncity Vs. The Quim Reaper OR BuffaloPhil 5. DDT Vs. Death Impends 6. The Dead Cow Vs. Deadsox 7. Charon Vs. Engineer 8. Deathray Vs. The Mad Hatter OR Exu 9. Gcreptile Vs. msc 10. Joey Russ Vs. Banana OR Great Uncle Bulgaria 11. Sir Creep Vs. Spade Cooley OR Squonk 12. Torva Messor OR The Old Crem Vs Dr T OR Markb4 13. Master Tech OR Bibliogryphon Vs. Book 14. Gooseberry Crumble OR John Key Vs. Heef 15. Young Willz Vs. JoeMoneypenny OR Pedro 16. Wormfarmer OR The Old Lady Vs. The Unknown Man OR Boudicca
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    The 2019 Deathlist Cup

    Round 1 (ties to be played in the month of February) 1. JoeMoneyPenny Vs. Pedro 2. Nantonian 2013 Vs. Maryportfuncity 3. Gooseberry Crumble Vs. John Key 4. Spade Cooley Vs. Squonk 5. Dr T Vs. Markb4 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 Teams may now be submitted for these matches. Closing deadline for that is midnight on the 31st, as usual.
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    So .. What Do You Watch On TV?

    Doctor Who (yeah, sorry everyone, but its actually an on topic point) is a very rare example of a UK show having Seasons rather than Series. Which I think is down to creator Sydney Newman being Canadian and bringing US style TV over to the UK in the 1950s/60s. (See also The Avengers, but 60s Who has fade outs around the 12 minute mark designed in line with 30 min US TV drama at the time like Twilight Zone and their designated ad-break). Of course, when they brought back the show in 2005 with Christopher Eccleston and real people watching (not just geeks) they've used Series for that. Just to confuse folk.
  19. I don't really get the emotional support animal thing (isn't that in general...a pet? Who gets a pet dog because dogs stress them out?). However, here's a story about an "emotional support" alligator visiting a nursing home. Which I felt should be shared. Because it exists. PS This story is so going to get a sequel in the Animal Deaths thread one day...
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    The Dead of 2019

    Called this one 18 months ago as one to watch: Then promptly forgot until you just mentioned it there. It happens!
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    So .. What Do You Watch On TV?

    Oh, I thought Steve Pemberton was quite good in it, actually (the character itself was as you say...very scripted). Apparently they're filming a new series of Inside No 9. I like that one.
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    So .. What Do You Watch On TV?

    Netflixery: Better Call Saul - Much better than Breaking Bad, as it kept the interesting characters (basically, Saul and Mike) and got rid of everyone else. Gotham - Sometimes good, sometimes awful. The chap playing The Penguin is quite good. I saw one series of Happy Valley before it became just too grim for my liking. Currently getting my way through the new Luther. Still think the show ended perfectly on Series 3 finale, and has been treading water since tbh.
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    Windsor Davies

    Well he was skeletal in... hang on, I made that joke last week! Btw, Sean, yer PM box is full!
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    Stairway To Heaven/ Highway To Hell

    Hearing from mutual pals, and its all over his Facebook wall: Ted McKenna, drummer for The Sensational Alex Harvey Band and then for Rory Gallagher, apparently dead after a sudden hemorrhage. EDIT - obit, and on BBC Scotland now https://www.loudersound.com/news/ted-mckenna-drummer-with-rory-gallagher-sahb-michael-schenker-dead-at-68
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