Grim Up North

8 hands up her vagina - wow! Brings a whole new meaning to sloppy seconds.........

Quim scores (unwantedly) with Channing here. Joey's late entry point might not count....

1) Marieke Vervoort 2) Queen Elizabeth 2 3) Donald Trump 4) Billy Connolly 5) Bill Turnbull 6) Dick van Dyke 7) Paul Gascoigne 8) Linda Nolan 9) Prunella Scales 10) Bob Hawke 11) Doris Day 12) Valerie Harper 13) Henry Kissinger 14) Jimmy Carter 15) Betty White 16) Terry Jones 17) Olivia Newton John 18) Prince Philip 19) Olivia De Havilland 20) Vera Lynn 21) George Alagiah 22) Nobby Stiles 23) Pete Frates 24) Clive James 25) John McCririck SUB: June Brown EDIT: Haha - well at least I managed to miss Carol Channing - some of you have had a lucky escape!!

Ah that saves me reading all about his fishing trips with his son before each month of this year's Cup.

Well done - your turn.

Lets see what everyone is like at cryptic crossword clues. Very warm state captures the Spanish song (5,10) [obviously because it's on this thread the answer is the 'song' part of the clue so you only need to solve the first bit] PS Just in case anyone accuses me of plagiarism this clue (or similar) was in one of the newspaper crosswords about a week ago.

Jilted John

Haha - actually my nostrils and ears seem to be working on a solution.

Speaking as a baldy I've been laughing along for the last 25 years.

Spade I hope all these fuckers with the corrections are buying you heaps of coffee too!

I've got 2020 vision.

wow - that really is surprising - good luck with it must be a good chance he won't make it to 2020.

That doesn't sound good for her chances of seeing 30 on 9th April/29th April depending on which website you read.

Sri Sri Sri will have won a few sweeps in his time and I bet the bookies hate him.

BBC Article from 2005 Okay this is a 14 year old article but it predates this thread and I was amazed that the Derby Dead Pool had been covered on the BBC website - the comments section is good fun too. I also learnt that the 2000 DDP winner won it posthumously which I didn't know - hope it got posted in the Ironic Deaths thread

Awesome work - it's only the 11th January! Other than that the site is up so fast that my B team is still joint top of the scoreboard - WOOHOO need that screen grabbed. As for my team and others I'm pleased to see that Fatima Ali didn't make it to D40 status (so if she gets past her birthday the damage of missing her is at least limited), also that enough people kept faith with Marieke that she made D40 so my main team joker gamble gets full value if it comes off plus Andrew Fairlie, Johnny Clegg and Kathleen Blanco all made D40 which I wasn't expecting (maybe 1 of the 3). The one person who didn't make D40 when I put them in my team because I thought they would was John Hume. Looking at how few teams did pick him I got this massively wrong.

French surrendering even quicker than they normally do.

Shane MacGowan Won't See Another One Doctors Fail to Save Gordon Banks And for Honor Blackman - Pussy Passes

You just can't get enough Joey can you Mary?

No deaths to report but I notice in the scoreboard I'm in a Joey Russ sandwich and it's making me feel uncomfortable. Joey Russ - 725 Grim up North - 364 Joey Russ - 362

Must have malfunctioned.

https://www.finder.com/life-insurance/odds-of-dying As you will see they are available to all on t'internet. You'll notice my 42% should have been 40.4% - I read the 104 year old line in error. Women details are a click away at top of page. Cheers, GUN

Yeah sometimes I would be working at home and my wife would go to bed at about 10pm and I'd think to myself I'll just reward myself with a quick game of chess before doing the work. In the blink of an eye it was 4:30am and my eyes were red like the screen had burnt holes in them - couple of hours sleep (not great sleep because as you say having 1 or 2 minutes to make all your moves keeps your adrenaline levels pretty high) and I'd swear that was it for chess on the computer and then by 10:30am I'd be sneaking in another game at work. Once I looked at the total number of games I had played and then multiplied that by 3 minutes - I can't remember what it came to but I remember having to triple check it before I accepted it was the truth. The stats will still be there but I don't dare log in to have a look.......

Excited to get a mention in the final round up of the year. Thanks! And of course thank you for the countless hours you must have spent this year facilitating all this fun for all of us and also working on the site improvements. I have also enjoyed reading all your roundups - both informative and amusing. Very good. In amongst all this praise I found this sentence in your final round up quite amusing - I know what you were trying to say but you didn't quite write it. 'Mexican actress Rosenda Monteros and Disney animator Don Lusk died before any QOs came in for them' Keep up the good work - looking forward to 2019! Cheers, GUN

Deliberate?