Bibliogryphon

24/4/24 84 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 39 Adele — Chasing Pavements 25 Taylor Swift — Love Story 19 Rihanna — Russian Roulette -6 15 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings +4 06 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody

Ready to do battle and steal those picks from your fellow players Its fast and fun but you need to be on the ball but if you miss a round or two you can join in at any time  Basically the aim of the game is to pick 20 candidates from the years 1924-1933.You need 2 from each year and you must have one male and one female from each year. Candidates only qualify if they have a national news article about their death in English and or an obituary. The game does not start until 1 January 2024 (UK Time Zone) and no teams can be posted before this time and will continue until the end of the year. As soon as one candidate from anyone`s list dies the pool will be immediately restarted and it is first come first serve. You can even be a bitch and steal someone`s entire list if you wish. Its a competitive game. The overall winner will be the person with most hits in the year. The pool restarts as soon as a link from the the qualifying article is posted verifying age of the deceased (by their own standard). No two players can have duplicate picks and the age given in the article will be accepted as soon as the article is published and pasted to this site. It has to be decisive at the time the news breaks. If the age they give is different to the year of birth you don`t get a hit unless it is amended before another death that meets the criteria of a hit. There have been a number of cases where two or more deaths break at about the same time. If a later breaking death occurs but it actually happened before the start of the new round you will be awarded the point if you had the earlier death in your team at the point that they died. I will do my best to be fair and even handed. There is no limit to the number of players and you can enter the round at any point. You may even miss some rounds if they are quick. You do not need an admin to confirm your pick if you have a QO to post your next round team but you may be challenged if it in any way suspect.

I have Jeanette Charles- sorry

After 15 hits Summer in Transylvania - 3 MariNisia -3 Doorslammer - 2 Lady Fiona - 2 Azreal - 2 WEP - 1 Bibliogryphon - 1 Tracy - 1

1924 William Russell/Eva Marie Saint 1925 Pete Murray/Ysanne Churchman 1926 Timothy Dudley-Smith/Gudrun Ure 1927 Sandy Gall/Jeanette Charles 1928 James Ivory/Queen Ratna of Nepal 1929 John Woodvine/Vera Miles 1930 Douglas Hurd/Edna O'Brien  1931 Ken Bates/Leslie Caron 1932 Roy Hattersley/Petula Clark 1933 Tinto Brass/Kim Novak

Terry Carter is a hit for Azreal New Round

Going to be manning the company stand at an exhibition in Telford for the next two days. I will still have my phone but it would be bloody typical if the pent up backlog of deaths hits whilst I am otherwise engaged

23/4/2024 84 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 41 Adele — Chasing Pavements -3 27 Taylor Swift — Love Story 26 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings +4 23 Rihanna — Russian Roulette -3 08 Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys — Empire State Of Mind 03 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody

Just noticed that Leslie Caron is my pick this round

Both the Conservatives and Labour are now both uneasy coalitions and Brexit has shot a bolt right through party politics I think now is the time where we have to reconsider the current voting system and introduce a form of Proportional Representation. It will free up the wings of the parties that disagree with each other to breakaway and we might get a more grown up approach to coalition. Politically the distance between Kier Starmer and Ken Clarke is a lot shorter than it is between Kier Starmer and Jeremy Corbyn or Ken Clarke and Suella Braverman

I agree it looks like a good primary line up but they are also including some of the Gogglebox cast which could be really cringeworthy

April 22nd 84 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 38 Adele — Chasing Pavements -3 33 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody 29 Taylor Swift — Love Story  24 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings +4 22 Rihanna — Russian Roulette -3 20 Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys — Empire State Of Mind 06 La Roux — In For The Kill

This endgame is going to be brutal but the foghorn appreciation society seem hell bent on upvoting Adele

Surely the death of Hayden Gwynne is part of the decision

21/4/24 80 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 38 Taylor Swift — Love Story  31 Rihanna — Russian Roulette -3 31 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody 31Adele — Chasing Pavements -3 26James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings +4 23 La Roux — In For The Kill 22 Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys — Empire State Of Mind

The format of this game should actually depend on how good the music is because there is a definite and finite group. You have to choose which ones to promote or kick down. Sometimes it is finding the best of a bad lot but I have learnt quite a bit about eras that passed me by

I think the number of active players is closer to 15 than 20 and considering how close these are I an pushing out my prediction to Wednesday

20/Apr/2024 79 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 37 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody 34 Taylor Swift — Love Story 31 Adele — Chasing Pavements -6 30 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings 29 Rihanna — Russian Roulette 28 Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys — Empire State Of Mind 26 La Roux — In For The Kill 12 Sam Sparro — Black & Gold +1 12 Britney Spears — Piece Of Me +3

Gone to meet his....... .....oh wait

Ten songs left - Only four go through The bottom six songs have between them 163 which means there is a minimum of 28 posters before the round ends but more likely it will be around 80 posters At 20 posts a day this will take us to Tuesday

19.04.24 79 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 37 Adele — Chasing Pavements -6 33 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings 32 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody 32 Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys — Empire State Of Mind 31 Taylor Swift — Love Story 30 Rihanna — Russian Roulette 29 La Roux — In For The Kill 23 Sam Sparro — Black & Gold 14 Britney Spears — Piece Of Me +4 06 The Script — The Man Who Can’t Be Moved

Ready to do battle and steal those picks from your fellow players Its fast and fun but you need to be on the ball but if you miss a round or two you can join in at any time  Basically the aim of the game is to pick 20 candidates from the years 1923-1932.You need 2 from each year and you must have one male and one female from each year. Candidates only qualify if they have a national news article about their death in English and or an obituary. The game does not start until 1 January 2023 (UK Time Zone) and no teams can be posted before this time and will continue until the end of the year. As soon as one candidate from anyone`s list dies the pool will be immediately restarted and it is first come first serve. You can even be a bitch and steal someone`s entire list if you wish. It is a competitive game. The overall winner will be the person with most hits in the year. The pool restarts as soon as a link from the the qualifying Obituary is posted verifying age of the deceased (by their own standard).No two players can have duplicate picks and the age given in the article will be accepted as soon as the article is published and pasted to this site. It has to be decisive at the time the news breaks. If the age they give is different to the year of birth you don`t get a hit unless it is amended before another death that meets the criteria of a hit. There is no limit to the number of players and you can enter the round at any point. You may even miss some rounds if they are quick. You do not need an admin to confirm your pick if you have a QO to post your next round team but you may be challenged if it in any way suspect.

The current Conservative Party is a uneasy coalition of One Nation Tories and Brexit/Culture War nutters. They only stay together because neither one wants to give up the activist base (which is needed come election time). In a recent council by-election in my constituency the Conservatives won (albeit on a very low turnout)

Michael Portillo was meant to be the shining knight for the Tory Party who was going to shake them up and make them a credible opposition to New Labour but he lost his seat on that night in 1997. Most people outside the Tory party thought that Ken Clarke was the sensible choice for leader (especially after Michael Heseltine's Heart Attack) but for the party he was too pro-European so they went with the untested William Hague (who might have made a good successor to one of the names above but he was plunged in too quickly) for these decisions they spent 13 years in opposition. However we don't know whether Clarke would have been able to put up a credible fight at the 2001 election which hardly saw any seats change hands from Labour to Conservative. As to members of the cabinet who elicit respect. The discussion around who will lead the party after the election does not throw up names that inspire confidence. A lot will depend on the size and make-up of the rump of Conservative MPs left and who would want the job. By saying Penny Mordaunt sounds like the best of a bad bunch is really just demonstrating how bad things are

I think he was astonished (and possibly a bit disappointed) to win in 1992. As the Parliament progressed divisions over Europe and a few scandals meant things looked dire by 1997 the writing was on the wall especially after John Smith was replaced by Tony Blair