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Boney M are genuinely great fun. That's how I like my manufactured pop. (And tbf Liz Mitchell carried them.) Less said about Milli Vanilli the better though.

Is a DDP pick but not for Sir Creep.

I thought I'd replied to this with "he's a hard bastard" but forgot, so even though its a week later: he's a hard bastard, you know.

Gooseberry Crumble's Neverending Enema Thread?

Never mind the FFBI ban, terrible pun headlines for every hit is what I'm most proud of, re the DDP. Although had I been around in 2023, I'd have learned you just needed to go the whole "DDP Host Is A Ghost" route for hundreds of them!

I put a DDP team together in late 2011, then saw I needed a team name, panicked, and just wrote Pan Breed (as in "deid") and by now there's no point changing it.

How many right wing Pats does America have? I swear they must breed or something.

Indeed, The Salmon Mousse used to be a DDP regular run by either Salmonmousse or TheSalmonMousse, to the point that when Salmon Mousse showed up, yours truly originally thought it was the old team back until corrected.

Given he was on my final shortlist and no sod picked him I feel similar.

Tbf its impressive he's still alive. He was a hefty chap most of his life yet is pushing 76.

If John was known to be ill I'd have let you know. He has a habit of forgetting to eat and sleep at a reasonable hour getting too excited about stats and is a Scottish male OAP now. Tom Devine is a better shout for aging Scottish academics. The great Owen Dudley Edwards (Irish but lived in Scotland for decades now) is 86 this year but seems in good health still. TC Smout is frail. All three will go before John imo.

Glanville was still writing into his eighties but is now retired. His obits are polished archive ones. Incidentally I've done a @Gooseberry Crumble. Glanville was a regular pick of mine but not unique for years so I've dropped him and no one picked him! He's now doomed.

Catching up on this week's Emmy awards, Carol Burnett showed up to present an award. Looks and sounds amazing for someone on the verge of 91, still standing without aide and making jokes.

I approve of this rare occasion where Crem gives us good political news!

Reminder a while ago you pointed out to me that some of my Oldies/Dr Who team picks are blatantly only go to be hits if I pick them, like Dick Taverne for example. You have a fair few of these yourself! On another note, Lizzy Musi picked by two people, me and some randomer. Kathy Brown is on so few teams that if they weren't contenders I'd be worried.

1. Donald Trump 2. Michael J Fox 3. Janey Godley 4. Phil Collins 5. Billy Connolly 6. Andy Taylor 7. Bruce Willis 8. Dick Van Dyke 9. Shannen Doherty 10. Dave Myers 11. Rupert Murdoch 12. Buzz Aldrin 13. Tim Bilton 14. Toby Keith 15. Joanne Woodward 16. Yoko Ono 17. Prunella Scales 18. Frank Field 19. Robert Wagner 20. Dennis Skinner 21. Cleo Laine 22. Stanley Baxter 23. Roberta Flack 24. David Attenborough 25. James Whale sub Clint Eastwood

Draper got 150 points, his final downturn was publicised after a number of people who might have picked him had already submitted. Bardot just missed by 4 points from Tom Lehrer, and your host gave Lehrer 10 points back in November which proved crucial at the end. In fairness, had I know my Lehrer points would be crucial I'd have given him far more.

It appears my dropping Tommy McGoran from the Oldies team late in December has made him unique for Jocks Away. Nice.

Amazing work!

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/25372121/brian-barczyk-the-reptarium-owner-dead/amp/ An hour before you posted your question in fact!

Well, a lot of our number play this game, and Gcreptile currently leads it on Day 3 after Thomas Monson (related to Gorilla, right?). Given the Rotten Dead Pool appears to have gone the way of the dodo, and this pool gets talked about a fair bit - I found it via DDT - I thought it could have its own thread? Where we cheer on any of our lot against the (nearly) unstoppable Mr Tierney and co. The points system is similar but different to the DDP, and their criteria is somewhat America, but it's all good fun. Home Page Standings Who's Dead so Far Deathlisters playing in 2018 include Gcreptile, deadsox, Joey, me, Jireomon, Death Impends, Toast, and others I don't immediately spot. In 2017, Deathlister JiroemonKimura won, ending the reign of terror of Gerard Tierney, who won the 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 editions. Good luck everyone. PS We should have started this thread in December and swamped it with DDPers but hey, always 2019, right?

Slagging off Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac might be the most egregious thing I've seen on this forum in years (apart from all the Nazis). Piss off with that.

Scenes when William Russell winds up somehow surviving all of them.

It's genuinely a waste of life worrying about when the next big world war will or won't happen. If it does, it does. If it doesn't, it doesn't. Four years on, we are not at war with China last I checked.

Leela is one of the greatest Doctor Who companions, played by the wonderful Louise Jameson (Tenko, Bergerac, RSC stuff). She was once called the most accomplished actress to play a Dr Who companion and tbh the only real argument is if you count Jean Marsh as a official companion or not imo!