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    Music's Oldest

    Considering the shock that Bowie generated maybe you should take a different approach. Find 20 names of artists in the age range 55-70 who aren't DDP picks and then do a poll to decide who is going to be the next big shock.
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    Darwin Awards

    Condition worsening http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35481616?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook Now declared clinically dead This is an awful story.
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    Read Any Good Books Lately?

    My daughter read the Great Gatsby (because she wanted to) and loved it.
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    Michael Schumacher

    Aye, but it's non-specific and clearly coming from a source who feels it personally. Those closest to him clearly protect the information as much as they can. I'd say we can rule out Celebrity Big Brother, but he gets regular therapy, so could remain alive for a long long time from here. The news could be that there is little prospect of him getting better, not necessarily that he is getting worse.
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    Political Frailty

    Then that person deserves every point they get. He was not a household name, he was only elected to Parliament last year and I had not heard any mention of his cancer. Is that player a Yorkshire man by any chance?
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    Read Any Good Books Lately?

    Books I read for my exam in English language and literature: Kiss Kiss - Roald Dahl Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway The Third Man - Graham Greene Brave New World - Aldous Huxley Moby Dick - Herman Melville Animal Farm - George Orwell The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck The Lord of the Rings trilogy - JRR Tolkien Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig and two books I can't remember, presumably thin ones. That is quite impressive for a second language. It looks like you would have to have read more books than equivalent English kids. Going back to the original list why do people lie about having read books? Are they ashamed or are they just trying to pretend they are more intelligent than they are? I once went to a B5 convention (against my better judgement) but during one of the panels an actor revealed that he was auditioning for a part in the Lord of the Rings movie which caused a ripple of excitement in the audience. Someone then asked him which role he would like to play and it was fascinating to watch the moment of panic when he realised that it was obvious he had never read Lord of the Rings whereas most of the audience certainly had. The book I note which was not on the list was Wuthering Heights. Is it that people just don't lie about that one?
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    By-Election Bingo

    This by-election should be fairly straight forward. The seat has been held solidly by Labour in the whole of the post war period.It is David Blunkett old seat and although in 2010 (after the boundary changes) his share of the vote dropped by over 14% he still had over 50% of the vote. Harry Harpham clawed a little of that back but on a lower turnout. UKIP were second in 2015 with about 20% of the vote swapping places with the Lib Dems who were second in 2010. The Tories got the same votes (less than 70 difference) in both counts which is around the 11% mark (suggesting this is a core vote). Turnout will be down in a By-election timing might be an issue as they might want to avoid Easter. So March 17th could be a possibility or probably first week in April.
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    Julian Assange

    He speaks for the Lib Dems on Home Affairs so that would probably be the justification.
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    Music's Oldest

    I looked at the list and narrowed it down to four names Glen Campbell, Aretha Franklin, Brian Wilson & Joni Mitchell. Picked Glen. Just like everyone else.
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    1. Jimmy Carter

    How did RadGuy like a Guest quote? There isn't even a button.....
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    By-Election Bingo

    Unfortunately none of us had the foresight to include Harry in our picks. So his passing goes unmarked by scores in the By-election Bingo game. I think the rate is probably about right to get 18 or so in 5 years. The rate will increase the further you get away from the election.
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    Interesting Ways To Die...

    There are so many responses to this but it would be unchivalrous to say such things to a Lady
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    Deathrace 2016

    Shame we don't give bonus pts for honesty (and,no, I'm not going down that slippery slope of Hollywood Squares/porn/dead on a Friday complications). Thanks That is right keep the Deathrace pure. That's as in an honest competition, nowt to do with the ethnicity of the talent on the teams, right. (Far) Right on
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    Read Any Good Books Lately?

    Reading to the kids definitely counts. Reading to the kids definitely counts. I've read quite a few of Roald Dahl's books to my son, and I've started reading The Hobbit to him. MK, I think possibly the school syllabus has changed. For school we would have read 1984, To Kill a Mockinbird, Great Expectations, The Great Gatsby, and The Catcher In The Rye. None of the books I did at school were on the list. I did The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, A Kind of Loving, Lark Rise to Candleford and Billy Liar and the wretched Kes in English Lang.
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    Read Any Good Books Lately?

    Reading to the kids definitely counts.
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    Michael Schumacher

    Speculation on deteriorating health
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    Authors Last A Long Time, But....

    K M Peyton talking chirpily about how many books she has written. I bet she only gave this interview when she found out she was a unique pick on the DDP.
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    Read Any Good Books Lately?

    Oh dear I think I've only read about 4. Half a dozen if you count one I started and didn't finish. I read the first Harry Potter but not the rest. However The Lord of the Rings and Pride and Prejudice I have read several times so I can I count them for each time I have read them.
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    Joey Feek

    This is about a degree of fame. As an analogy there are probably some massive football fans who can name every player in the Premier League but only when the get capped by England (or whichever country they are from) do they break into the general consciousness. Likewise some people know all the actors who appeared in Doctor Who and think it is an grave injustice when they do not get a national obit.
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    Voice Actors

    That's All Folks
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    Ideas And Possibilities For 2017

    I think you are misreading the intention of my post. I was only trying to contrast the attitude that prevailed in the country at the time of Falklands with the much more divergent opinions that are visible now. I have never expressed the opinion that the US have not played a significant role in maintaining stability in post war Europe and the importance of the Marshall plan. Though some resentment may come from those who lived through it that if the US had entered the war earlier it may have been shorter and less expensive. You keep going back to that topic yourself. Me thinks the lady doth protest too much....
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    Ideas And Possibilities For 2017

    Point taken.
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    Abe Vigoda

    The two facts are not mutually exclusive.
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    Ideas And Possibilities For 2017

    The problem with patriotism in the UK is that it has been hikacked by the Far Right. Back in the early eighties most of the country were behind the Falklands War (although I would suggest you get a copy of Raymond Briggs' The Tin Pot Foreign General and The Old Iron Woman as a example how popular culture rebelled post conflict) the problem comes from the Iraq war. Tony Blair decided to follow George Bush into the war on scant evidence which many suspect was manipulated to make the threat appear greater than it was. This has corrupted the UK view of military action especially where we are a third party. In the Falklands there was a direct threat to British territory albeit a bloody long way away. What does Patriotism mean does it mean I love my country and want it to succeed or does it mean I hate every other country and don't want anything to ever change?
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    Joey Feek

    She has her own Wikipedia page which is the criteria I use to accept Wildcard entries (albeit shared with her husband). I let a rookie player off with Josie Cunnigham last year and another player complained (only because in previous years I have changed the rules to stop him picking Prince George)
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