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    I am coming down on the side of his inclusion. People like Brian Cant and Tony Hart would have been acceptable inclusions and I has Ann Emery drafted in to one of my DDP for next year until her fortunate demise. If Casey Casem can be on the list then I think SKS can be as well. My wife worked in a preschool and Lazy Town was enormously popular among the children.

     

    We should not succumb to generational prejudice if the heroes of of our childhood TV are worthy of inclusion then so are those of later generations.

     

    ps does anyone know any health/career information on Adrian Hedley?

     

    You could always ask him directly. https://twitter.com/adysaintg

     

    I assume this is the one you mean. Noseybonk etc...

     

     

    When I have access to twitter again I will. Just really trying to give an example of someone who was a star of children's TV in the past but has faded from public view.

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    I am coming down on the side of his inclusion. People like Brian Cant and Tony Hart would have been acceptable inclusions and I has Ann Emery drafted in to one of my DDP for next year until her fortunate demise. If Casey Casem can be on the list then I think SKS can be as well. My wife worked in a preschool and Lazy Town was enormously popular among the children.

     

    We should not succumb to generational prejudice if the heroes of of our childhood TV are worthy of inclusion then so are those of later generations.

     

    ps does anyone know any health/career information on Adrian Hedley?

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    I looked up some clips of lazytown, cause I wanted to see what the show was like, and surprisingly (to me at least) I actually seen the show before. I knew nothing about the actors of course, but I have seen the show.

    So do the BBC export their kids shows to the US. I thought that sewer just contained one way traffic.

    Actually, I've seen it on nickelodeon when they had there educational time for the little ones.

     

     

    Clearly to little effect.

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    I looked up some clips of lazytown, cause I wanted to see what the show was like, and surprisingly (to me at least) I actually seen the show before. I knew nothing about the actors of course, but I have seen the show.

     

    So do the BBC export their kids shows to the US. I thought that sewer just contained one way traffic.

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    Too many nonentities spoils the game for me. Candidates should have a reasonable claim to fame or achievement - aside from fundraising or blogging about their illnesses, or merely being related to someone who does have such a claim.

    All relative Toastie.

     

    I don't have telly , so someone like Bracknell is a total nonentity.

    Yet Monty Brinson this year wasn't.

     

     

    No, I don't think it's relative (I see what you did there!)

     

    Leah Bracknell is an actress who was in a very popular programme. That's a fact whether you or I watched it or not.

    Same goes for this Stefan Stefansson, whoever he is. I never heard of him or Lazy Town, but I accept it was a popular programme watched by many over a number of years.

     

    Remind me again who Monty Brinson was. Ex-husband of someone who had been in a reality show, was it? Doesn't tick the fame box for me, not unless he had some notable achievements of his own.

     

     

    The way I look at it is that I have my own eligibility standards and I only play picks that meet them. I have still had a fair few uniques which I did not expect to get Gareth Thomas, David Jenkins and George Weidenfeld. I am probably not going to win the DDP but I am doing quite well in other games.

     

    Not the Hare's Deadpool though.

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    He always came across a bit Gladiator for me.

    'Husband of a murdered wife, father to a murdered daughter, I WILL have my revenge'.

    And this was 20 years after Banana Republic.

     

     

    And wasn't Paula @15 in that taxi in Paris ?

     

     

    I thought he was extremely dignified after Paula Yates' death especially when all the press were crawling all over the where is Michael Hutchence money. When interviewed he point blank refused to be drawn into any criticism of Paula and struck me as a man who still had strong feelings for her.

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    I must admit I am very lucky. My work allows me to visit places that I would never be able to afford to go under my own steam including China, Japan, America, India and numerous European cities.

     

    I am currently staying in a lakeside resort in Ethiopia.

     

    Admittedly I am spending most of the day in a conference but it is very beautiful.

    If they can afford to create a lakeside resort they can afford to feed their starving.

     

     

    The famine in Ethiopia during 1984/5 was a direct result of the actions of the military dictatorship punishing regions that defied them. It did not need to happen hunger was being used as a weapon.

     

    However the current democratically elected Government doesn't have a much better reputation with dealing with civil unrest.

     

    This resort is built by and named for the former Olympic Marathon runner Haile Gebrselassie and is essentially a way of bringing foreign tourists into the country.

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    You need to change Sheila Sim and Vivean Gray cause they're both dead.

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    Joey what does the headline say?

    I was presenting the evidence that my picks were unlucky not awful. YW has my 2017 team.

    DBAD

    I'm very tired and stressed and I have finals today. Apologies

    Good luck. Probably should go and revise.

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    I am a little disappointed in the performance of my team. I think that it was not a bad team to consider for death in 9-12 months time from this time last year

     

    Hare’s Deathpool 2016

    1.

    John

    Wakeham

     

    2.

    Tam

    Dallyell

     

    3.

    William

    Russell

     

    4.

    Sheila

    Sim

    19

    5.

    Jean

    Barker

     

    6.

    Vivean

    Gray

    210

    7.

    Murray

    Walker

     

    8.

    Doris

    Day

     

    9.

    Stephen

    Hawking

     

    10.

    Kenny

    Sansom

     

    11.

    Jenni

    Murray

     

    12.

    Annette

    Badland

     

    13.

    Pat

    Carroll

     

    14.

    Stiliyan

    Petrov

     

    15.

    Ted

    Robbins

     

    16.

    Ken

    Hom

     

    17.

    Bernard

    Hepton

     

    18.

    Martyn

    Lewis

     

    19.

    Judith

    Durham

     

    20.

    Mark

    Eden

     

    21.

    Jane

    Freeman

     

    22.

    Hannah

    Hauxwell

     

    23.

    Patricia

    Routledge

     

    24.

    Clifford

    Rose

     

    25.

    Peter

    Higgs

     

     

     

     

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    I must admit I am very lucky. My work allows me to visit places that I would never be able to afford to go under my own steam including China, Japan, America, India and numerous European cities.

     

    I am currently staying in a lakeside resort in Ethiopia.

     

    Admittedly I am spending most of the day in a conference but it is very beautiful.

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    Well, 2016 has taken the great and the good. Maybe 2017 will take the bad, the very bad and the downright nasty. Brady, Peter Tobin, Norman Tebbit....

    Josef Fritzl, Thomas Mair, Anders Breivik, Ian Watkins, Ian Huntley, Rolf Harris, Dennis Nilsen...

     

    And what did Norman Tebbit do that was so bad? Did he do anything worse than what the IRA did in the 80s?

    I like Tebbit seems a decent enough bloke.An opinionated old buffer but in my eyes he has a grumpy old uncle appeal like Tony Benn Dennis Skinner and Bill Cash.

     

     

    You weren't there, man, you had to be there to understand.....

     

     

    His reputation as Thatcher's attack dog was something he never shied away from.

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