Bibliogryphon
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Hope is ill, Habgood isn't. I found the latter out AFTER picking him on the DDP grr
This year? Even taking into account my dyslexia the first entry under H is Margherita Hack. I will correct my list though eagle eyed one!
Hear sorry am to very that I
Said Susan Hampshire
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Hope is ill, Habgood isn't. I found the latter out AFTER picking him on the DDP grr
This year? Even taking into account my dyslexia the first entry under H is Margherita Hack. I will correct my list though eagle eyed one!
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Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, is having treatment for advanced prostate cancer...
Whilst adding Dr Sentamu to my long list I quickly decided to check if anyone had picked the two previous incumbants of the post who are still alive and noone had. They are David Hope (b. 1940) and John Hapgood (b.1927). They vill also go on zi list.
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The United Kingdom's pride and dignity died a shattering death on this day 10 years ago in Riga...
I think you'll find pride and dignity went years previously!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rdtglC5k320#t=99s
As Eurovision entries go this was quite predictable and most of the derision comes from the fact that they scored nul points but considering this was the year of the Iraq war how much of the scoring was politically based. It is sad to say that since thiis debarcle we have actually entered worse songs such as Scooch and the guy whose name I can't remember but he rapped sat on a school desk and his backing dancers were all dressed as school girls.
Edit: I have subsequnetly identified this as our 2006 entry "Teenage Life" by Daz Sampson.
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It will be his 92nd Birthday on Monday and he will be spending it in hospital.
Do you think we should send cake?
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Dunno if anyone was watching the UK Open, but fucking hell, Kirk Shepherd has "suicide risk" written all over him.
How's that?
Vicious attack with a marker pen!
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Swimming champion and Hollywood actress Esther Williams dies at 91.
She was sufficiently famous for her to be picked by a number of DDP teams.
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Dont apologise. I think we have slightly more in the way of wankers that visit here than investment bankers.
That is true even if all the ivestment bankers here were considered to be wankers they would only be a subset of the total amount of wankers on the site because the set of guests would have a large instersection with the set of wankers but it would not be a totally inclusive subset. I could go on but I promise I will not represent this on a Venn diagram!
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It's Biggles I feel sorry for. Fancy getting saddled with a name like that. Larkin was right, your parent really do fuck you up...
Biggles will grow up in a World inhabited by Livingstones, Tarquins and Eliza Doolittle Farquhars.
To put it into context, young Biggles will not stand out from the crowd and will live a life that is totally alien to the rest of us mere mortals.
This lad wasnt just born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he was born with a whole fuggin African Gold mine in his lil chops.
Fuck, does anybody REALLY think that this chap is going to go to Bash St School, leave at 16 without qualifications and work in McDonalds?
Yes but fast forward 25 years as all our bodies are collapsing around us and when we are in hospital being introduced to the nice new junior doctor - Biggles Jackson-Kew.
Fills you with confidence.
At least Posie can marry out of the name although she could take a leaf out of her mother's book and end up with a triple barrrelled or quadruple barrelled name.
Did Christian and Emily feel that their lives were so incomplete that they didn't want to saddle their offspring with uninspiring names?
I am sitting here shaking my head.
Spare a thought for the sister - Tuppence!!!
Doctor?!? Investment banker, you mean!!
Biggles is a middle to upper class chap, not the sort who will go into Politics and certainly not somebody who will become a Doctor.
His life will revolve around Sloane Square and his retreat in rural Gloucestershire, or summat.
I thought all investment bankers were called Worthless Arrogant w***er-Leech
With no apologies whatsoever to any investment bankers who may visit this site.
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The guilty plea has been accepted so it looks like he is off the menu.
Not very familiar with this case but I was surprised he didn't go down the insanity route.
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The Daily Beast is stoking the fire, though. Says concern is growing about Prince P.
A bit of a non-story I think Peter Phillips is just being honest.
I also did not think the Queen looked concerned more seething and furious.
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Those who are planning a memorial to Margaret Thatcher should take note - it looks like there is plenty of room for dancing there.
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Thought he looked alert at Westminster Abbey for the Coronation do, grey and ghoul like but alert.
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A couple who play my list at work did a deal he wouldn't pick Attenborough if she didn't pick Patrick Moore they agreed but she went behind his back and picked Moore anyway.
David Attenborough is a man who inspires great loyalty amongst his fans.
.................but Patrick Moore is dead......?!?
I didn't say it was in this year's competition!!
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Ooh awesome, there's always some whizz kid on every message board who can pump out amazing graphs or something isn't there....... look at the sophisticated graphics on that thing!
This is about statistics and numbers not graphics. My nerdish 'qualities' do not extend to computery things. I had enough problems trying to get it to display at all.
By the way today is day 155.
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I have plotted on a graph the hits against progress through the year.
I have used 2013 (obviously), 2012, 2011 (poor year), 2008, 2003 (good years).
Because 2003 was very sporadic (three clusters of intense activity) I think the year to track performance against is 2008.
Our third hit at the beginning of Feb took us ahead of the 2008 line but they crossed again in the middle of March. We are now falling behind dramatically. However if we make the sixth hit before 150 days (30 May) and eight hits before 200 days (19 July) then I still think there is the potential for a good year but it could be 2003 all over again when all fourteen deaths occurred before the end of September.
I have managed to up load my graphic
Do you like it!
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Layla's the last track on the list. He's still locked up, as this delightful Californian Prison Service search engine will tell you:
Being as he played the drums on "Apache" by the the Incredible Bongo Band, he may be the second most-sampled musician of all time, just behind perennial deathlist possibility Clyde Stubblefield.
I obviously couldn't see the whole list.
Why don't we have a website like that? Though we do have the Daily Mail.
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A couple who play my list at work did a deal he wouldn't pick Attenborough if she didn't pick Patrick Moore they agreed but she went behind his back and picked Moore anyway.
David Attenborough is a man who inspires great loyalty amongst his fans.
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Cullen Finnerty(who)
The starting QB who led Gran Valley State(where) to NCAA Division III titles in 2003,2005 and 2006 and briefly played for Baltimore Ravens went missing Sunday on a fishing trip and his body was found in the woods about a mile away Tuesday night.
Kind of shocking Daily Mail would kind of go that obscure and not give a certain former NFL Coach a write up earlier in the year
Do I detect a sense of Bitterness?
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It's Biggles I feel sorry for. Fancy getting saddled with a name like that. Larkin was right, your parent really do fuck you up...
Biggles will grow up in a World inhabited by Livingstones, Tarquins and Eliza Doolittle Farquhars.
To put it into context, young Biggles will not stand out from the crowd and will live a life that is totally alien to the rest of us mere mortals.
This lad wasnt just born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he was born with a whole fuggin African Gold mine in his lil chops.
Fuck, does anybody REALLY think that this chap is going to go to Bash St School, leave at 16 without qualifications and work in McDonalds?
Yes but fast forward 25 years as all our bodies are collapsing around us and when we are in hospital being introduced to the nice new junior doctor - Biggles Jackson-Kew.
Fills you with confidence.
At least Posie can marry out of the name although she could take a leaf out of her mother's book and end up with a triple barrrelled or quadruple barrelled name.
Did Christian and Emily feel that their lives were so incomplete that they didn't want to saddle their offspring with uninspiring names?
I am sitting here shaking my head.
Spare a thought for the sister - Tuppence!!!
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You just wanted to bump a nine-year-old thread, huh? Unless we can find an excuse to post an update about Bill Deedes, then you'll have claimed the forum record.
Guilty as charged
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I can't remember if I mentioned this before on here, but in a moment of boredom I put together a Spotify playlist solely of songs by musicians who'd murdered someone. Unsurprisingly it's nearly entirely blues, country and west coast hip-hop.
They hang their heads and cry: a playlist of musicians who actually killed someone
I woulld have thought Layla might have made it in to the list. The co-writer, Jim Gordon, did time for the murder of his mother.
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This is the end, my only friend the end
Seems fairly possible but I'd give him a couple more illnesses before he goes. I'm gonna go out on a Pistorius and say he'll survive this year somehow. But it does seem like every time he goes outside for any length of time these days, he ends up in the hospital. Last year he got a bladder infection from the Queen's boat parade, now he goes to the Epsom Derby (inevitable pics from the Mail here http://www.dailymail...psom-Derby.html) and he's too ill to go to Elizabeth's latest anniversary party (how many does she have anyway?)
He does look pretty much like he's the second most sickly Greek thing in the world (No. 1 being their economy). Also why the fuck is Princess Beatrice dressed like she's about to pick up an Academy Award for her role in the world's first ever talkie? I know it's horse racing and that always involves dressing up stupidly but even so, christ....
Seems to me he uses it as an excuse to miss anything that might be too tedious to endure (Jubilee concert last year, Christmas with the family etc)
Prince Philip Duke Of Edinburgh
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On visit to BBC today when John Humphries said that the DoE looked well at the garden party yesterday the Queen retorted (Do your own voice) "That's because he isn't ill"
Make of that what you will!!!