DevonDeathTrip

I would like to suggest Miss Wyoming World 1973, Joyce McKinney, just because she hasn't been mentioned before. McKinney was accused of kidnapping a missionary, driving him to Devon and keeping him as a sex slave, resulting in the infamous 'manacled Mormon' case which kept the British press happily occupied in 1977. Since then, she has occasionally made the news again; for cloning her deceased pitbull in South Korea, aiding and abetting a teenager to commit a burglary to raise funds to buy an artificial leg for her horse, before more recently being arrested for vehicular homicide after allegedly running over a holocaust survivor.

What's on Chris Rock's face? Fresh Prints!

Basil and Mr Roy reunited for the day.

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill sells his soul to the devil and backs Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Meanwhile, in Kiev, the 93 year old Patriarch Filaret of the breakaway Ukrainian Orthodox church soldiers on. He survived covid last year, but his secessionist tendencies have annoyed Putin, so a sudden demolition of the cathedral while he is inside can't be ruled out.

An interesting new development

Covid is so 2020/21. I thought this year we were giving nuclear war a chance instead.

Just use the search facility? Then you could skedaddle over to Google and search for 'superiority complex', because I reckon you have quite a bad case of it

No longer blowing bubbles...

One of my squad, Les Jenkins, also known as Stupid Evil Bastard, dead. Chances of anything approaching an obituary rather negligible I would have thought

Also on Twitter, a photo of a downed Russian pilot who is believed to have previously bombed Syria has been released.

Thanks for dropping by and sharing this bold prediction with us. Going forward, please try and evidence your cerebral function by posting sensibly. Many thanks!

$1million reward on offer to assassinate laughing Vlad. I would have thought if that reward snowballed, it might gain some real impetus. Then there could be retaliatory measures, with Johnson, Macron and Biden all being taken out via sniper rifle before Christmas

Dogger was my go to book as a child and, later, I loved reading it to my own children. RIP Shirley Hughes.

@Spade_Cooley your inbox is full.

David Lynch, possibly my favourite human, veers off from his weather-forecast to warn Vladimir Putin about the dangers of karma (once he has contained his excitement about it being Friday again)

We could have some serious action on the Scrabble thread in weeks to come.

Not a death, but Finnish cross country skier Remi Lindholm suffers 'unbearable pain' defrosting his penis after the particularly chilling 50km event.

No obituary yet, but Ivor Doble, former Exeter City owner and chairman, has died. Will be interested to see if he obits, as I thought of picking him for the DDP. Edit - obit from local news site https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/exeter-legend-ivor-doble-died-6699643

BBC news says Brenda is continuing with "light duties". Presumably she's been given a day off her shift at the foundry then If she were to go expire, would the planned double bank holiday for the jubilee go ahead?

Man has leg cut off with circular saw in public park and succumbs to injuries shortly afterwards A 'friend' has been arrested for murder. This appears to have been a mutually arranged activity, although details are still emerging. The article doesn't state what happened to the removed leg.

It's pretty blowy on the North Devon coast right now. I know this because I've just walked along about a mile of it.

Indeed I do. Hence the "where nobody admits responsibility" bit of my post. Anyway, Putin is a bit of a connoisseur of extrajudicial killings on foreign soil. An irony he may even get to consider for a brief moment, before life slips away.

I wonder if there is any possibility that the sanctions which will inevitably follow conflict in the Ukraine may include personal sanctions against Vladimir Putin, and perhaps even the ultimate sanction? Taking him out may create a power vacuum which might in turn strengthen the West's hand. An assassination - perhaps by sniper rifle - where nobody admits responsibility could make things interesting.

I've never even heard of Ladbaby. What am I missing?

This Zouma cat thing made me think of Panamanian footballer Luis Moreno, who fatally attacked an injured owl, eventually resulting in a sentence of community service at a zoo.