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Well, that sucks.

Right on cue, tonight's Pointless repeat had an ABBA round!

I'm quite happy to sacrifice Knowing Me Knowing You to keep Name of the Game in play. But even that's a warm up act for Winner Takes It All. The Quatro song is a good one. Not "top 10 of the decade" but one I don't mind hearing. At the risk of losing my Scottish card, my least favourite left is Baccara.

Ignoring games and extra-curricular, I rarely post new threads, unless that the person is noteworthy and very sick, or very DLy and old. Or, on one occasion, solely to piss off Deathray.

Thanks for opening this number stats thread, @gcreptile - you ever thought of running a deadpool?

I do like Genarians which is one of ye olde research websites from a foregone age which is somehow still being updated some 24+ years after I first became aware of it for school homework! Our new friend, on the other hand. I don't want to say I'm not sure they'd pass a Turing test, but I am thinking it...

40 David Bowie – Space Oddity 38 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights 34 Donna Summer – I Feel Love 31 Blondie – Heart of Glass 29 ABBA – Knowing Me , Knowing You 29 Gary Numan – Cars 28 ABBA – The Name of the Game +4 22 Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive 22 Baccara – Yes Sir, I Can Boogie 20 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 19 The Sweet – Blockbuster 16 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over Troubled Water 14 T.Rex – Get It On 14 10cc – I'm Not in Love 13 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 12 Nilsson - Without You -6 09 Alice Cooper – School's Out 4 ABBA – Waterloo If one ABBA song lasts to the end, I much prefer Name of the Game. Also, Without You, great song, depressing as all hell though. With or without the context!

Matt Lucas tweeted about it. Case closed! This chap was a regular BBC/Guardian go to expert in his field but not for a number of years now. Hmm. Alas for his quite young family, it sounds like he wont see the new year.

Shocked. They still make Buzzcocks?

That's the worst sort of cancer. The secret one. You're quite happy sitting watching TV in a darkened room when suddenly it jumps out from a corner and goes "Boo! I'm Pancreatic Cancer!"

Keeping a semi-regular eye on Nikki Six, whose heart is on borrowed time, and missed that Mick Mars retired in October from Motley Crue amid frail health. He's had issues for ages. Ankylosing Spondylitis isn't a terminal illness, of course, but given he was very much a keep going till you drop type, maybe watch this space?

Not specifically 100, but she did say she never planned to quit the role of Dot as it kept her alive and she didn't think she'd survive if she had to leave the show. This was Desert Island Discs, about 5-10 years ago.

So did June Brown once. Give him 5 years.

Nobody's perfect!

28 David Bowie – Space Oddity 27 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights +2 22 ABBA – Knowing me, knowing you 22 Donna Summer – I feel love 22 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody +1 22 Gary Numan – Cars +1 21 Blondie – Heart of glass 20 ABBA – The name of the game 20 Baccara – Yes Sir, I can boogie 20 Bay City Rollers – Bye bye baby 20 Don McLean – Vincent 20 Nilsson – Without you 20 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 20 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a clown 20 Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive  20 10CC – I´m not in love 20 The Sweet – Blockbuster 20 T.Rex – Get it on 18 Alice Cooper – School´s out 17 Suzi Quatro – Can the can 16 Althea & Donna – Up Town Top Ranking 15 ABBA – Fernando 14 Blondie – Sunday Girl 14 ABBA - Waterloo -6 6 Slade – Coz I luv you - Jeez, Noddy Holder pissing in some of you lots cornflakes was a tactical error.

Society as a whole seems to have gone "yeah Michael Jackson was probably dodgy but the fuck are we losing Billie Jean over it..."

Editorial comment - bloody glad you and me banned such picks from the DDP.

63 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights 57 Althea & Donna – Uptown Top Ranking 51 Blondie – Heart of Glass 50 Gary Numan – Cars 21 Blondie – Sunday Girl 11 Bee Gees – Tragedy -6 9 - The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star -6 8 Bee Gees - Night Fever +4 7 The Police – Message in a Bottle

He does to me, but tbf, his kids book illustrations are part of my childhood.

It's not a very flattering official photo tbh.

Me by PM the other week - you'd really love writing a Mihaljovic DDP obit. Talented but dodgy mad bastard. DI to me - Actually, he wasn't even picked this year! Me - WTF? Well hopefully he is next year. My apologies to everyone's shortlists...

Unique pick for Alliteratively Named No More.

Had just about settled on my Oldies team for DDP 2023 when one of the subs appeared on the TV looking even frailer than they usually do. Now something's similar has happened with the main team.

See, that's my thought (see also Michael McIntyre) but, like McIntyre, she has an insane amount of fans.

Janey Godley's cancer spreads, still hopeful of doing her tour next year but expects it to be her last.