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No wrath here, you're the boss. Besides, by removing Fringes players before sending you it, I'd already made the decision not to see if [name for DDP] was acceptable.

Re @YoungWillz, the Alt Obits deadpool.

He's the villainous Shipman type doctor in Audrey Pauley, which, iirc, is the only good episode in that final series of the original X-Files.

I get enough of the rules - predict the order, the more correct the order of death the more points, do pick Hollywood Squares/royals/other bonus winners but avoid American sport stars at all costs. That's been enough to get me through... 7 years of it. iirc you can feasibly get 450 points before bonuses (ie, everyone dies in order AND both subs die), but no one has ever come close. Most of the points are won on the many, many bonuses, I think.

Oh I have to replace a few names too, and most of them American too. Now I know how Sir Creep feels re British fame levels!

2018 Pan Breed team: 1. Charlotte Rae 2. Kathleen Blanco 3. Leah Bracknell 4. Rayya Elias 5. Clive James 6. George Bush Sr 7. John McCain 8. Tessa Jowell 9. Dean Francis 10. Lady Mary Wilson subs 11. Thomas Keneally 12. Nobby Stiles All familiar names on the forum, but in the interests of a 2018 game of some sorts going foreward...

Team in, pending host queries.

Have sent RadChap a team. Not a good one, but it is a team.

Went to Uganda. Jailed by Idi Amin, threatened with torture and worse. Released but coerced that it was just a misunderstanding. Phoned in his anti-Amin report to ITN while still in Uganda.

Brian Taylor (Scottish BBC political guy) was on Celeb University Challenge tonight (it's the 2017 one so relatively recent) and actually looks less like shit than usual. You know, for Brian Taylor of late.

^ They might be important, they might mean fuck all, I don't follow boxing. I do know the QO following him DO think they're important enough to mention though.

Misread? If I'm reading it of course, he means off his own shortlist as a name not mentioned on here. ie dude has cancer, could have been a DDP unique.

There goes the Drollercoaster unique.

My Hares team will be in as soon as I decide which of the 40 on the shortlist I aim to send! Buridans Ass, deadpool style.

This Christmas, I got asked what I wanted, and I said socks. Because I'd run out of them, you see. They just disappear in the wash, somehow. Anyhow, everyone got the same idea and I now have lots and lots of socks for presents this Christmas. Everywhere I turn, there is socks heading in my general direction. So many I had to put some away for later: one or two socks is OK but after 5 or 6 you start to make editorial house decisions for what to do with them. Anyhow, there's a completely off topic story about socks and me for you all.

Recovering ahead of new year, surprisingly sporting behavior.

^ Must be in denial, like the team that picked Jimmy Stewart circa 2004.

Why does Sandy get all this "boo boring pick" drive by people? He's not even the most boring person on this years list. This "woohoo we're so ignorant" stuff is so dull and counter to the Deathlist ethos we all know and love. Yours, Scrooge

PS All footballers are mercenaries. Any footballer who says "I love this club"? Getting a pay rise or going elsewhere at first chance. And tbf, it's a job like any other, so can't blame them! Like those folk moaning that the 3rd choice keeper at United made several million without playing. Genius work if you can get it, imo.

They market those youth Champions League matches and some right random bollocks, they should be OK. Though the key in that case is likely to sell it on the individual matches: Old Firm, Edinburgh, Aberdeen/Rangers/Celtic and so on. Same reason people tune in to random FA Cup ties or English club v Team that gub them in Europe, but on a lower scale, obv. Anyhow, SPL is BT's 3rd most popular live football service after Premier League and Champs League - it gets something like 3-4 times the viewers the French league, which is never off, gets (on average) - so yeah, BT should increase their money for it.

All that sums up is that the English league has far more money, tbh. Barca youth players go to fucking Stoke after all...

Woman allegedly saves Piers Morgan from cancer. Poor show, viewer, poor show. Worst news since I heard Noel Edmonds was alive and well.

Yes to both. Welcome back.

Aye, fair point, but Norway doesn't have the brains of the SPL and the like in charge of their TV deals, going to Sky with "I suppose you'll have to pay us less now" - who does that in TV rights anywhere? Idiots.

Put in reply here so folk don't go "oh is he dead?" but apparently it shall soon be Sir Ringo. Totally did a search to see if it had been mentioned before, so no Clive Dunning the messenger...