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Sir Creep gets a pass on Lakovic.... Although in fairness, another 50/50er I am pretty sure me and DI were both going for, went in late December without a single British obit. Sods law, really.

Think that might be a wee bit too painful at the moment for him, tbh.

It's no Curse of Fenric: vampires, WW2, poison gas, Norse mythology, Nicholas Parsons, and much of the plot nicked from The Fog. Great stuff. All of which is on topic for Prince Philip, of course.

A mini-update of sorts is that according to twitter he's in hospital currently with an antibiotic resistance UTI.

Holmlund's recovering. Least likely to go on the entire Pan Breed shortlist. Serves me right for going ghoulish instead of safe with a Wetton or Hewlett.

Oh yes, sorry. Mind you, the "cream of Scotland Yard" line has always raised a chuckle here. That old Scottish black humour.

^ Yeah I know that's a Dr Who joke only DJL, YW and perhaps Biblio will get, but sod it.

Next up: Java?

Great name for a journalist.

Hah, my shortlist has about 30 dead on it - most of them not on my team. D'oh!

This makes Still Life a contender, imo.

He took on a whole lot of crap criminals, really.

Could probably work out basic longevity expectations off various forms of wrestling and drug taking now.

I'm more annoyed that it used to take 30 mins, and they now stretch it to an hour to ask the same number of questions. I don't give a toss if Dan from Bromley once met Peter Ustinov, I only want him to not know the capital of Qatar and crash out in Round 1 swiftly as possible.

Chris Rea is basically permanently fighting cancer relapses and other stuff for rest of his life.

I think RadGuy;s deficit here might be larger than the Greek one.

Done well with some 50/50ers: Aikman (on my shortlist but just didn't trust instincts), Fawkes, Stewart and Joost. Stiles/Michael/James/Harper are also 50/50ers. Karl and Hart are whens, not ifs.

I assumed you were taking the piss, tbh. Ah good, not just me who thought that, then!

I noticed the error some time ago, but decided it'd be unfair to correct it.

Too reliant on atrocious sources...

I didn't know much about Pirsig, but I had vaguely heard of his book and I have since read it. Whereas Gall is fairly known (and respected?) in this part of the world. Certainly he passes the "my mum's heard of him" test. Perhaps he's a bit healthy for a spot on the list - I dunno - but hes fairly traditional Deathlist stock.

I have only just now found out that Deadsox is Deceased Hose from the DDP.

Blimey, with 10 days left of the Cup, Deadsox has so far proved quite good at shutting down opponents.

What a prick.

Leah: Christ, after 30 verses, even I'm getting sick of fucking Kumbaya...