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    Glen Campbell

    Adi... nah, too obvious, really.
  2. ADIOS TO THE RECORD 15/50 8th August 2017 Country music singer Glen Campbell has died after a long battle with Alzheimer's, to give The Crowdsourced Deathlist another success. He was perhaps best known for his song Rhinestone Cowboy, but also had a number of private life shenanigans which kept the gossip columns talking. After a career spanning over 50 years, Campbell was 81, and making his first appearance on the list. This is the record breaking 15th hit for this years list, an amazing achievement by the team, but more of an achievement for Glen Campbell, who did the leg work here. PS Joey, I was just getting there!!!
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Oh that is a shame. Hopefully he is on the mend, agreed. Rather good comic timing in LOTSW, and one of the few bright spots once Sallis became too old and the rest of the stars all started dying.
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    Stefan Karl Stefansson

    Should he stay or should he go? If he goes it will be (13 points on the DDP) trouble. If he stays it will be (a 26 point joker next year) double...So the cancer oughta let him know, should he stay or should he go. The indecison's not really bugging me, though.
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    Sinéad O'Connor aka Shuhada' Davitt

    What did the poor people of Calcutta ever do to you? Haven't they suffered enough?
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    DDP 2018 Town Hall

    Helps to look at who posted a suggestion, to twig if the suggestion is a serious one or not, Joey!
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    DDP 2018 Town Hall

    I'd never heard of Connie a year ago, but she must be famous with 700 QO articles about her ailing health...
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    Holiday Thread

    Times like this, the forum misses Cat and the Flight Radar. I mean, anyone else could look it up, but somehow it's just not the same...
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    DDP 2018 Town Hall

    Oooh, any chance you'll say who? The names, not who sent them in, of course.
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    DDP 2018 Town Hall

    Apologies, I misread your intentions. It was "concentrating the minds" bit which suggested intent wss decreasing the types of pick available. In order 1. I'd much rather keep the Mail than add in CNN or the NYT. 2. No, silly, the BBC local pages should come back. Who doesn't want far more ex-Thistle players showing up with QO? 3. My rules for the Deathlist Cup were best. Known for anything before terminally ill, even if not widely known = ok. Although, Stephen Hawking is the perfect outlier for how some folk can become legit famous after the terribly ill bit. Also, FFBI is subjective term: one of my team last year was considered that, but I knew of her long before she was ill for her line of work! 4. This year is first year I've picked people I'd acept are FFBI. They both died. No obits. Lesson learned.
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    DDP 2018 Town Hall

    But... what that'd do is lower the Qualifying threshold for Americans but not FFBI types, or Australian A-listers (well, by Australian standards) but not cancer mums. The last cull kept the cancer mums but culled the number of eligible Scots, like we'd become independent already. Although knowing that my FFBI definition is wildly at odds with others on the forum, and have no intention of opening that Pandora's Box again. Andrew Millwall got a QO through a mention on Sky Sports New iirc. It's a loophole, but I applaud players who sneak in that way. And when one loophole is shut, another opens elsewhere. If Spade (who is the boss after all) actually wants to reduce the number of X type of picks, he can make it a "please only pick X amount of these types of picks" rule. Rather than trying to eliminate the problem via eliminating the Qualifying obits, because you know, journalists play this game. They'll just shift the QOs to the QO sources...
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    DDP 2018 Town Hall

    Just putting myself on the record as being uneasy with the idea of yet more QO sources being axed.
  13. Aye, but I mean more: This is the sort of post I mean. It crops up a lot. Clutter. Maybe have them in their one place, instead of in many threads, many many threads. (No offence intended Shaun btw - example of a post rather than poster) I'd say it's just me being a grumpy sod, but then, we all know I'm a grumpy sod.
  14. I mean, I can't be the only person who goes to check the Ideas thread only to see very very long lists of people. And they're cool enough, it's fun to see how accurate Shaun was in bumping off half his AUgust 2016 list for example, but if they're all in the one place, they're both easier to find for bragging rights, and less cumbersome? I dunno.
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    Sheikh Down

    A big name.
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    The Fringes Of Fame/family Of The Famous

    The Monty Brinson of 2018.
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    Yoko Ono

    Some video footage of Yoko at that event a few months back.
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    The Dead Of 2017

    Yes, I wonder if former Royal Navy Commodore Laurie Brokenshire, 30 year Navy man, charity fundraiser, renowned collector and foster support network organiser will get a QO.... Telegraph. 90 hours from now, at the latest.
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    Tony Booth

    Not to the "I wouldn't vote for them" extent! T'is a matter of tact rather than accuracy. And yes, but you would think that!
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    Tony Booth

    Well, COPD!? Also, don't laugh, but his comments about Labour under Miliband were the first inklings his mind was going going gone. Was unlikely a mentally able Booth would publicly slate the party like that.
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    Derby Dead Pool 2017

    Didn't pick him.
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    Tony Booth

    Sleeping most of the day, trouble eating, even short term cognition fucked. Hope he's not really looking forward to next years World Cup...
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    Derby Dead Pool 2017

    Catherine Nevin still going to supreme court to get her husbands estate. Article in Irish Business Post, behind paywall. No references to ill health in the public court documents. Vojislav Seselj comes to mind.
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    Ronnie Wood

    Yeah, no idea why.
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