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Local places here tend to be better too, quality and taste wise, and cheaper than the pizza chain places.

Emma Hannigan, author, was on 11 teams... Death Impends vs Heef 6-6 Gcreptile vs Sir Creep 3-7 Joey Russ vs Grim Up North 6-6 Phantom of the Midway vs The Dead Cow 6-6 Sean vs Charon 0-0 Roverandout vs DDT 0-6 Captain Chorizo vs Young Willz 0-0 msc vs Deadsox 6-7 Well done to Sean/Charon and Chorizo/YWillz though - 20 scoring teams over 2 celebs today, and yet both of their games somehow remain goalless. Well, till Vervoort dies at teatime at this rate, anyhow.

He got his car out this morning btw.

Joey, meet BCAlum. He's significant round these parts.

Funny old game when 0% of the obit/50-50 gambles came in for me in 2017, and so far in 2018 I'm 2/3 (Bloody Times et all not going back to mention Toothill...). Looks like a (brief?) return to the top 10, perhaps even the top 5? For now, anyone.

As Spade points out, Gianni Brera said the perfect game of football would end 0-0. As with football and this game, he's slightly wrong. The perfect game would end with the opening goal being the last kick of the game for your own side.

Well done, Sir Creep. Lots of unique picks in this game, but not so many unique hits. And Mr Creptile didn't have Vanessa Goodwin either, so Sir Creep is 4-0 up early on in what the pundits expect to be a very close game over the month. What else has the untimely passing of Goodwin done to the game? Well, Joey and Grim share points in their hotly contested grudge rematch. Two other top deadpoolers who share points in their game are Rad and The Dead Cow. Yet another game with shared points is the hotly anticipated rematch between two of last years Semifinalists - a game we might remember nearly went all the way... Great minds think alike or something? Two other teams managed to score on Goodwin's death, without their opponents. That'll be DDT, who goes 3-0 up on Rover "conqueror of Spade Cooley" Andout. Tough for Rover? Well, he did go behind in the first round too... And, yours truly reduces the Deadsox deficit to 1 point. I have now equaled the number of hits ANYONE got against Deadsox in any round last year. (Only two people scored against Deadsox last year, and he kept a clean sheet against DDT - a herculean task...) This leaves only two goalless ties. Sean/Charon, and... yes, Chorizo/YWillz. Will YWillz be the Greece of this years competition? Hell, will he be the 1990 Argentina and sneak through on penalties each time? Only one way to find out, and that's in further episodes of the 2018 Deathlist Cup Death Impends vs Heef 3-3 Gcreptile vs Sir Creep 0-4 Joey Russ vs Grim Up North 3-3 Phantom of the Midway vs The Dead Cow 3-3 Sean vs Charon 0-0 Roverandout vs DDT 0-3 Captain Chorizo vs Young Willz 0-0 msc vs Deadsox 3-4

No, just around it (and around, and around...)... people who do actually go there (the land of concrete centre) don't come back...

Middle of the last decade, I had the great idea to arrange a lift up to Aberdeen to watch Thistle play, by jumping in a minibus with a bunch of folk I'd never met in my life. And yet I'm still alive. Anyhow, Thistle won (in itself a shocking event) and a lot of booze was drunk on that bus on the way back - after a lengthy pitstop for dinner/drinks in a pub in some random village I can't mind the name of. So we get to Cumbernauld at stupid o'clock, and for some reason - to drop someone off, I think - bus goes off the motorway into Cumbernauld itself. Round one roundabout, and another, and even that it was bloody dark and I was a bit pissed, I was getting a sense of deja vu the third time we passed the same fucking roundabout. Basically, if you take the wrong route, there's a section of roundabouts which all lead back to each other like an Escher painting. Driver was getting pissed off and at the fourth time of asking took a sharp turn and wound up going in the wrong direction. So had to turn the bus round.. back into Cumbernauld. This is how I wound up spending TWO HOURS in that town. And all the booze had been drunk by then, too.

Anyone mentioned Cumbernauld yet? If not, I will. So soulless, it feels like a left over set from a George Romero flick. The only way to escape its road system is to pray you roll a double six. Here's the town centre.

The news he won some Latin Grammys makes me wish the best of health for Jose Jose Jose Jose, as I don't have him on my bloody DDP team. Anyhow, this game is full of people trying to stretch the definitions of the categories (I know I certainly did, and wont be the only one, so glasshouses etc) and if none of the rest of us thought to ask Biblio if Jose Jose (Jose Jose, Jose, Jose!) was OK along with whatever 142 year old Mexican singer dude with terminal pancreatic ALS alongside... well, that's not Biblio's fault and it's more power to YB for being that sly within the rules. End of the day, host's say is final. When people argue the rules on the Deathlist Cup, I listen patiently to them, and then decide I was right. Biblio's game, his final say.

He gave up again. Three days of this so far.

Well I'm not arguing with Facebook AND John Betjeman here... Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough It isn't fit for humans now.

He's trying to get his car out of the drive way again.

In the universe, yes. And indeed, if I find that the aliens in another universe start an English obit internet newspaper, I'll consider it too.

Arse, losing in the Cup. Err, I mean, thanks!

The thumping begins... Death Impends vs Heef 0-0 Gcreptile vs Sir Creep 0-0 Joey Russ vs Grim Up North 0-0 Phantom of the Midway vs The Dead Cow 0-0 Sean vs Charon 0-0 Roverandout vs DDT 0-0 Captain Chorizo vs Young Willz 0-0 msc vs Deadsox 0-4

Awaiting: 14. Qualifying obits? Every single English language newspaper or magazine (ie Bleeding Cool for example) in the universe. Also Le Monde, Le Figaro, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, El Pais and El Mundo. If you still can’t get a QO, well, really… For Carlo Ripa di Meana. No need to hurry yourselves, though.

Hmm, indeed (a slip up tbh), though I'd expect a QO before too long for him.

A quick glance at their prices online has some of the stuff we got for the wean last birthday going for nearly twice the price we got it off Amazon or in the town. No bloody wonder they're going bust then.

It's been lying here since Tuesday/Wed night. Spectator sport this week has been watching the guy across the road get his car out of a pile of snow, then go indoors, only for more snow to fall on top of it.

Aye, it's a joke... though I refer you to the 2011 DDP, when DDT had an (as it turned out) unassailable 30-40 point lead by about mid-March.

As in mine, but I have him down as a young 106 years old in a fortnights time?

Checking notes, leaves Elder Roma Wilson as the only notable (spurious use of notable) person living born in 1910? Unless anyone's got another hitherto unknown to me (which is always possible, hence the asking)?

One of those deadpooling names that seemed to go on forever.