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How did I do last time? Fucking useless iirc. Right then. Qatar 1-3 Ecuador England 2-1 Iran Senegal 1-2 Netherlands USA 2-1 Wales I gave Ecuador an extra goal so it wasn't just wall to wall 2-1!

78 The Sweet – Blockbuster +4 72 Alice Cooper - School`s Out 57 Nilsson – Without You 49 Suzi Quatro - Can the Can 43 Don McLean - Vincent 38 Wizzard - See My Baby Jive 32 10CC Rubber Bullets -6 10 T. Rex - Metal Guru  07 Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well I like 10CC but its clearly not making the top 4 now.

Yeah well known to DLy to A list is moving the goalposts rather!

We'll never notice after this imminent nuclear war.

The papers never revealed what sort of cancer Sandra Weir had, but looking up the Scottish government records, I can reveal that she has Stage IV esophageal cancer with advanced spread to the lungs.

DING GONE 20/50 8th November 2022 Well, goodbye... Legendary comic actor Leslie Phillips has said his final hello to a pretty girl, dying aged 98 after a looooong period of frail health. After his father's death, the child Leslie was sent to acting school, and made his film debut aged 14 in 1938. During World War Two, he served in the Royal Artillery, until being invalided out, and after World War Two, he dived headfirst into theatre and film alike. Leslie appeared in several classics of the 50s and 60s (Pool of London, The Longest Day, etc). He appeared in music halls, Pressburger films and alongside Gene Kelly, and in 1959, he took a small role in Carry on Nurse. Where the catchphrase "Ding Dong" was born, and his reputation sorted. Leslie Phillips only appeared in four of the Carry On films, but he became synonymous with their comedy style. Nobody could say "well, hello" quite like him. The Doctor films series followed, along with a host of 1960s British comedies. On radio, he performed The Navy Lark with his real-life friends Jon Pertwee and Ronnie Barker. And, playing on that reputation for roguish upper-class lovers, came Casanova 73. But while the public linked him to these roles for the rest of his life, Leslie Phillips himself became increasingly uncomfortable with them, and the portrayal of women in such films, and strove to break out of that typecasting. He played a prisoner of war in Empire of the Sun and was Lord Astor in the excellent Profumo scandal film Scandal. Phillips also received great acclaim for his Falstaff in a number of Shakespeare tours, and toured Chekhov's Cherry Orchard in the 80s. In his own 80s, he voiced the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter films, and played a Nazi sympathiser in Churchill the Hollywood Years, which allowed him to appear alongside Harry Enfield and Rik Mayall. His love life was as complicated as his earlier comedies. His first marriage ended after a stream of affairs, and he caused a family rift by refusing to go to the funeral of his first wife. However, he was devoted to his second wife, the actress Angela Scoular. He raised her son as his own, and he tried to protect her against her increasingly severe mental illness. In 2011, she killed herself, devastating the elderly actor. He was never the same after this tragedy, though he lingered on for some time. Leslie Philips had appeared on every single Crowdsourced Deathlist since the first.

BREATHLESS 19/50 28th October 2022 Jerry Lee Lewis celebrated his debut on The Crowdsourced Deathlist by snuffing it aged 87. The rock and roll wildman popularised wild piano scores such as Great Balls of Fire and Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On. However, his career was badly hurt when it was revealed he had married his 13-year-old cousin, and his nickname of The Killer looked unfortunate when two of his wives died within 14 months of each other in the 1980s. That's pure Robert Durst bad luck, that is. He was arrested for shooting his bassist accidentally, and for not killing Elvis in the 1970s. In later life he married his previous 13-year-old bride's sister-in-law, and had a different kind of stroke, which led to his spot on this list. In 2017, Vince McMahon, on a whim, decided to call a PPV Great Balls of Fire, assuming the song was out of copyright. Legal matters with the elderly rock and roll star were sorted ahead of time, however, when it turned out that Jerry Lee Lewis and wrestling commentator Jerry "the King" Lawler shared the same lawyer. Of course they did.

THE LADY VANISHES 18/50 11th October 2022 Much loved actress Angela Lansbury has died to give The Crowdsourced Deathlist another success. The granddaughter of Labour party giant George Lansbury, Angela was an early success as an actress, appearing as the maid in Gaslight when still a teenager. (She had claimed she was three years older than she was to get her start in theatre!) By the time she was twenty, she had been nominated for two Oscars, although it took her until 2013 to finally win an Honorary award from the Academy. In the 1950s, she didn't stop working, acting in theatre, radio, TV and film alike. Typecast in older roles from her 30s on by studio executives, Lansbury instead used this to propel her career to greater highs. First came The Manchurian Candidate, where she played a devious pro-Communist planning to overthrow the US government. This comes as one hell of a twist if you are used to cuddly old Angela Lansbury, everyone's TV gran, incidentally. Candidate earned her a third Oscar nomination, but she lost out to Patty Duke playing Helen Keller. Yes, folk were losing to Oscar bait material even then. In the 1970s, she starred in what many rightfully call a film far better than Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Miss Price, the trainee witch, takes on a family of evacuees during the Blitz, tangles with a cartoon lion king, and defeats a Nazi invasion. I must have watched that film about 500 times as a kid. Also in the 1970s, she convincingly played a drunk witness in the all-star cast Death on the Nile, the Peter Ustinov Agatha Christie film. Her love for Agatha Christie led to playing Jane Marple herself in The Mirror Crack'd, a surprisingly decent adaptation of one of Christie's later books. Lansbury may not have been Joan Hickson, but she proved herself well above the Julia McKenzie category. And that led to playing a Marple like figure on screen for twenty years. Created by the brains behind Columbo, Lansbury was so interested in playing a Marple like sleuth she took the role over a sitcom one offered, and Jessica Fletcher, crime novelist turned murderer finder, solved TV murders for years. While not exactly taxing dramas, no one watched Murder She Wrote for the whodunnit plots. They watched it to see Jessica Fletcher solve them with panache. Although I swear Cabot Cove had more deaths than Midsummer, Taggart's Maryhill and your average Dalek invasion combined. It would be remiss to mention Angela Lansbury without Beauty and the Beast, or Gypsy, or Sweeney Todd, or The King and I, or A Little Night Music. (Send in the Clowns, best musical song, or best musical song?) She was at home equally in Hamlet, Disney or TV melodrama. Her dexterity in talents put her among the best. The Academy eventually gave Angela Lansbury an honorary award in 2013. Lansbury also failed to win a BAFTA, and infamously was nominated for EIGHTEEN Emmys without a single win, by far the most in that category. It was theatre which rewarded her talents most. She won 5 Tony awards for her roles in musicals, and an honorary award for being a legend in old age. She won 6 Golden Globes, and perhaps more pertinently, the Olivier and Gershwin awards for theatre, which probably meant a lot more than an Oscar. (They gave Oscars to Three 6 Mafia but none to Peter O'Toole or Alfred Hitchcock, fact fans.) A devout socialist, Angela Lansbury used her fame to promote domestic abuse charities, and other charitable causes, and was an early supporter of AIDS sufferers in Hollywood. And, having been rejected as a leading lady in her youth, she went onto be a trailblazer across multiple media for actresses, musicals and the elderly. Angela Lansbury died shortly before her 97th birthday, and such was her strong health well into her 90s, that this is only her second appearance on the Crowdsourced Deathlist.

70 The Sweet – Blockbuster +2 68 Alice Cooper - School`s Out +2 57 Nilsson – Without You 49 Don McLean - Vincent 45 10CC Rubber Bullets 44 Suzi Quatro – Can The Can 30 Wizzard - See My Baby Jive 19 Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well -6 16 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize 12 T. Rex - Metal Guru

Mixed martial arts, which folk used to try and convince me to watch as "it's like pro-wrestling but real" - completely missing the point of why I liked the wrestling in the first place.

Because folk like Robin Cook and Donald Dewar died off and were replaced with folk like Michael McCann and Alex Rowley... oh hang oh, rhetorical.

Was shortlisted to run in Tam Galbraith's old Glasgow seat originally. Lost in 1987 to Tommy Graham, the horrid bigot behind the alleged blackmailing that led to Gordon McMaster's suicide.

64 The Sweet – Blockbuster  62 Alice Cooper - School`s Out +4 55 Don McLean - Vincent 55 Nilsson – Without you 46 Wizzard - See My Baby Jive 46 10CC - Rubber Bullets 34. Suzi Quatro – Can the can -6 28 Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well  28. Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize 17 T. Rex - Metal Guru  11 Lieutenant Pigeon - Mouldy Old Dough

Also, if Tanaka was the 7th of 8th children as various Japanese and other news sources reported over the years, there's no way her mum was born in 1886. Just saying.

I have two cousins (siblings) who are born 11 months apart. It happens fairly regularly in the world. More so in the past when families had lots of babies because some would die due to illnesses we've stamped out nowadays. I'd note that the Guiness Records lot claim Tanaka was a premature born baby too, which means your timeline is wrong.

I've not actually listened to the songs tbf.

Ah, remember the first year of this when you were the only Vera Miles voter. Well, I can confirm that you are not the only Vera Miles voter so far. You are though the first voter for a deadpool fave, but still plenty of time to go yet. Many of the regulars dont even think about their lists till Christmas!

7 months later, Scotland didn't qualify, so I guess they cancelled this... No, wait, it's starts in 10 days time... No point starting a new thread if Sir Creepy did one already. Who do folk fancy? I mean for the Cup, not Gillian Anderson. At heart, I'm a cheery romantic. That's a complete lie. But even so, I think this could Argentina and Messi's moment.

Sorry to hear of your family's loss. Best wishes.

That cunt LadBaby probably has a copyright trademark out on new ones.

The other song is Roy Wood, not Slade. Though, Noddy Holder didn't like Merry Xmas either. Thought it was cheesy rubbish. Until, as he later said, he saw his first royalty checks from the sales, and then he decided it was amazing! (I know Biblio ninja'd me by a whole ten minutes but I was adding that bit about the Slade royalties and I'm sticking to it!)

tbh, I can believe it. There are stories about him and his interests going back decades. In fact, I thought this was someone known, but the ages don't match up.

Slade are a very popular British band. They aren't liked by 2 or 3 people who play this game. That is all.

60 The Sweet – Blockbuster  60 Alice Cooper - School’s Out +4 53 Don McLean - Vincent 53 Nilsson – Without you 48 Suzi Quatro – Can the can 45 Wizzard – See My Baby Jive 42 10CC - Rubber Bullets 29 Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well 29 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize 23 Lieutenant Pigeon - Mouldy Old Dough - 6 17 T. Rex - Metal Guru  3 Chicory Tip - Son of my father -

Sad news but not unexpected - we knew he was old and in frail health. David Butler wasn't just the greatest in his field, he created his own field. There wouldn't be your Nate Silvers and John Curtices without him. He changed how the entire world views election data, and even how political campaigns work with the idea of voting swing ie how many net voters in 100 need to change votes from the previous election to shift a result. He also had knowledge about the political systems of most countries better than their own politicians and was frequently called on for expert advice across the world. Despite this, he spent most of his time praising other people for their work over claiming praise for his own. He used Twitter briefly, to discuss the 2017 general election, and was taken aback by the number of academics, experts in their field, who bowed to his knowledge, wisdom and expertise. He'll be missed as an intellectual presence and as a communicator, but he lived a long, good life and he made millions of people smarter on a key subject. RIP. Btw, he hated the phrase "psephology". It derived from Greek (pebbles, as in watching the pebbles, divining the odds, etc) as a joke term among academics, and Richard Dimbleby (David's dad) used to push it to David Butler's discomfort. Of course, now it's stuck!