Bibliogryphon

Who were the Belgians rebelling against? This is an area of history I know nothing of.

i'm sorry but i never heard of him, i doubt it would be a global shock if he dies :/ Parrot time

i never really like Elton, Bowie was my idol, but not Elton....he does seem to have a similar past with overdose, illness and stuff...when he dies the whole planet will praise him and adore him. I think he'll get Bowie/Jackson kinda reaction from the public although he never got my respect as an artist like the two mentioned. I need to take a minute here have you just put David Bowie and Michael Jackson in the same artistic category??? haha no, that was the media reaction basket, nothing related to their music, although jackson got more attention The attention Jackson got focused on him as an individual where Bowie sent all the 45+ journalists into a morbid sense of 'oh my god David has gone all my formative years were spend wishing I was one quarter as cool as he was everyone else must feel the same' However the focus was on him as an artist which like him or loathe him he certainly managed to balance between the commercial success and the avant garde experimentation.

The WWF has really gone downhill recently

He was enormously popular in the UK about 10-15 years ago with the Redwall series. Which ended up as a sort of Watership Down meets Lord of the Rings hybrid. Didn't get it myself but my nephews had them all.

You get nothing for a pair....

i never really like Elton, Bowie was my idol, but not Elton....he does seem to have a similar past with overdose, illness and stuff...when he dies the whole planet will praise him and adore him. I think he'll get Bowie/Jackson kinda reaction from the public although he never got my respect as an artist like the two mentioned. I need to take a minute here have you just put David Bowie and Michael Jackson in the same artistic category???

i thought about all of them, even some younger ones, but decided to keep it simple this time, and i went for shock death, outside ddp people don't really expect aretha franklin to die but i could always add some more names Aaaah I was probably not explaining my self well enough. The DDP is the Derby Deadpool which is the main off list game for us UK Deathlisters. Because each player is allowed up to three teams of 20 picks there are a very large number of names on here which makes it all the more shocking when someone who is off the radar goes because you expect at least someone to have them. Theme teams also add to that sense of shock.

Just seen something on fb about Elton John donating a piano to St Pancras station and he turned up and played a few tunes. Over the past year or so he has really turned on a charm offensive either he is concerned about his kids growing up and thinking he is a completely arrogant tosspot or he is concerned about securing his legacy. Saw what happened with Bowie and thought 'what would they say about me?'

There are a number of Osmonds you could have included. All four members of Abba? Bryan Ferry, Steve Harley, Suzi Quatro, Debbie Harry.......... I am not advocating another poll but a number of these have been quite popular in DDP terms. I was thinking those that didn't even show up on the DDP just like Bowie.

Ooooohh. They does seem to be a bit of a rumour cloud around Janet at the moment. How many of their kids will Joe and Katherine outlive?

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. Aye, that's my suspicion too; and probs a pisser if the growing kids are fancying that spare room for their band to practice in. That is so wrong but I laughed out loud at that one.

Were you in the UK on the day that Bowie died? They even asked the Archbishop of Canterbury to comment. Went for Cher. (SLD and all)

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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?

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.

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

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.

How did RadGuy like a Guest quote? There isn't even a button.....

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.

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