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Nah, he was a cunt, sorry. A cunt who not only abandoned his disabled daughter, but used the law to protect himself over her, in a tawdry attempt to stay relevant in high political office. I don't care how many affairs he had, if its between consenting adults, who gives a toss.

I quite liked Drop the Dead Donkey, when it wasn't trying to be overtly sentimental.

Good news for me then - Bonnie Brown's next on his list, alphabetically, and she's on mine too!

Well, someone had to say it first. I'd say what I think of the child abandoning contemptible bastard, but I'm too respectful to the recently deceased.

I guess there was something up when he retired suddenly then!

Good man, Spade. You must be aiming to break your own record of 15/20 in a year on this form. Six dead and ten circling the grave within 25 days is an astonishing performance even by modern DDP standards.

Brinson's dead? Well, that's most annoying.

Hooker is a crucial nail in the coffin of a repeat triumph here, as Sir Creep also has my joker (as you would expect!).

The Daily Mail to the rescue again. Who knew Deadpoolers would have something in common with Oswald Mosley's British Fascists of the 1930s?

You can pick them if they die of natural causes.....not being guillotined though. SC I think it is, yes.

I want to say "next weekend" to see how much it screws up the Australian Open if Murray is still in it. However, first time babies tend to be late arrivals these days, so I'll go with March 1st. Oh, and that it'll be a girl. Jane.

In 2007, there was a team called No Noose is Good Noose. It was made up entirely of death row inmates across the world, and was quite controversial. It started well, but tailed off as the teams with more clever picks overtook it. I expect the same to happen to Shameless, which will be further hampered by those who die and don't get obits, and those who defy the odds.

I just checked and it works here. This is nearly two hours after you asked, though, so whatever it was could well have been fixed.

Mostly because it's Scotland. Anytime they try to take breaks when the weather will be considered it's worst, it turns out to be quite pleasant, and then floods as soon as the football starts again. Sods law.

He mentioned it on one of the Legends roundtables, and Pat Patterson was a bit perturbed by it.

He's dying in the same most folk on here are dying, by moving closer to the eventual day each twenty-four hours. Beyond the cancer coming back, and the admittedly terminal case of being Glaswegian, I don't see him being that close to the grave yet.

I've never needed a brain tumour, alcohol or auto-correct to help posting demented bollocks online, myself.

[On second thoughts, uneasy with post so deleted. Apologies.]

Depends on the case. I suspect, though have no proof, that Jenny Diski was determined to keep going in this way to publicly demonstrate what this type of illness does to someone, even someone considered as intellectual as herself.

Tempted to take a screenshot of that joint 9th place and frame it for future generations. Biggest surprise, to me, in the Drop Forty is the number of people keeping faith with Helen Fawkes.

My great-gran died when I was ten. (I had three others, of course, but they all died in their 70s so well before my time!) I remember her quite well, she was a wee dotty old woman. She got to the age of 96, looked after five generations of her own family, and lived independently right up to the end - she died a few days after a sudden massive stroke. Some woman! I was lucky to get a chance to know her. Thoughts with you both though: anniversaries hit us even with the passage of time. It'll soon be three years since my uncle died aged 48. I've often replayed the last time I saw him - Christmas Day 2012 - in my head, and how he gave us a lift home. He looked like he had a cold (he had a heart attack a few weeks later) but then what can you do? That's life for you. My daughter never got to meet him, which is the worst bit of it, as they'd have got on like a house on fire.

With my dodgy maths, it looks like Feek has around 89 teams going for her, which would have put her at 11th place in last year's Drop Forty. Joost had 80 last year, and has around 90 this year, so perhaps its just the number of folk who casually notice the Daily Mail mentioning someone vaguely celebrity is very ill repeatedly?

That's a rather inconsiderate way to pay off my belief in his improving health when choosing 2016 teams.

The Drop 40 is part of that second update...

Known for being a health freak during his WWF days - that went well.