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  1. Posted

    8 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

    Well, about 2017 leftovers...

     

    Simon Ricketts was in intensive care a couple of weeks ago. Recovering for now, and it seems he has won this round. But for the next time, I'm not so sure...

    Oh, that was always going to be the case. He was recovering from an operation which, as he mentioned on his blog, would leave him in intensive care 'for about four days', that's why I picked him in the Deathrace, just in case the operation went awry.

  2. Posted

    10 minutes ago, drol said:

    Update on Bernard Tapie. He has lost 20 kilos, but what's more important, his cancer has metastasized and he is starting massive chemiotherapy to fight it.

    :pop:

     

    Hey, with him and Tsvangirai seemingly fucked, maybe it'll turn out to be a good thing that Dudley and Willow didn't make the starting line, as if they had I would have probably only gained 10 points due to Willow not obiting, and now I'm likely to pick up 15 points.

  5. Posted

    Oh well, I still think I've got a reasonably strong team with Whitfield, Goodwin, Ayres and Crider among my differentials.

     

    Another of my unique picks, Olisa Metuh, is most likely lying/exaggerating, so I reckon I've fucked up there as well

  7. Posted

    12 hours ago, Joey Russ said:

    Is it Spade or The Dead Cow the last team to send? 

    It's me.

     

    But I'm in now! Research has been mostly last minute this year, just haven't had much time on my hands. Hopefully I'll still manage at least a respectable performance, but I don't consider myself a competitor this year.

     

    Good luck Pedro

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  8. Posted

    Don't know if it'll spur a QO, but Jeff Prestridge from the Mail on Sunday just tweeted about Ian Toothill.

     

    Also, outside chance of an obit if Sheffield Wednesday either do stupendously well or draw Sheffield United in the FA Cup?

     

    I'm not giving up on the belief that he'll get a QO in the end, because he will, trust me.

  10. Posted

    Was just looking through the bios for my theme team and I was surprised to find that I shared the pick of the American feminist philosopher Sandra Harding with Deathray's Corrie themed Cobbles to a Coffin.

     

    I think Deathray meant to pick Sarah Harding.

     

    Edit: Also, the bio has Sandra Harding listed as 20 years younger than she actually is, having been born in 1935 rather than '55 as stated.

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  11. Posted

    1. Diana Athill
    2. Satoru Anzaki
    3. Matt Cappotelli
    4. Dean Francis
    5. Rev. Billy Graham
    6. Clive James
    7. Barys Kit
    8. Dilip Kumar
    9. Stefan Karl Stefansson
    10. Catherine Nevin
    11. Herman Wouk
    12. Franco Zeffirelli
    13. Leah Bracknell (joker)
    14. Morgan Tsvangirai
    15. Saul Kripke
    16. Stan Lee
    17. Marieke Vervoort (joker)
    18. Greg Gilbert
    19. John McCain (joker)
    20. Jose Jose
    21. Vanessa Goodwin
    22. Noel Conway
    23. Joss Ackland
    24. John Cocks
    25. Ginger Baker
    26. Paul Alcock
    27. William Frankland
    28. Devin Lima
    29. Stirling Moss
    30. Amy Price
    31. Simon Ricketts
    32. Fernando Ricksen (joker)
    33. Kate Adie
    34. Nobby Stiles (joker)
    35. Charlotte Rae
    36. Sidney Poitier
    37. Liam Miller
    38. Jerry Maren
    39. Glynis Johns (sub for Ingvar Kamprad)
    40. Earl Cameron
    41. Peter Alliss
    42. Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi
    43. Hank Aaron
    44. Dr John
    45. Tessa Jowell
    46. Carl Reiner
    47. Nabi Tajima
    48. Bobby Shantz
    49. Peter Higgs
    50. Jill Gascoine

  13. Posted

    1. Dick Van Dyke
    2. Paul Gascoigne
    3. Linda Nolan
    4. Donald Trump
    5. Jimmy Carter
    6. Angela Lansbury
    7. Catherine Nevin
    8. Queen Elizabeth II
    9. Robert Mugabe
    10. Olivia Newton-John
    11. Val Kilmer
    12. Prince Philip
    13. Henry Kissinger
    14. Prunella Scales
    15. Alberto Fujimori
    16. Doris Day
    17. Betty White
    18. Bob Barker
    19. Little Richard
    20. Vera Lynn
    21. Olivia de Havilland
    22. Terry Jones
    23. Jimmy Greaves
    24. Aretha Franklin
    25. Devin Lima

     

    Sub: Chris Rea

     

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  14. Posted

    4 uniques for my B-team, including Brian O'Connor which surprises me.

     

    Although it should be 5, as the David Fisher picked by me is not the recently deceased scriptwriter whom Bibliogryphon picked, but rather this FFBI dude.

     

    Regardless of that mistake, thanks for the update Spade, you've done a good job of it.

  16. Posted

    10 hours ago, Joey Russ said:
    On 1/10/2018 at 19:22, gcreptile said:

    Out of about 1300 living people on my longlist, only 11 currently have the 100% (for 2018):

    John McCain, Lindy Remigino, Ron Villemaire (Star Wars fan), Kevin McAllister (DWTS something of a something), Nicki Flood (cancer mum), Spanky Manikan (who doesn't know him?), Vanessa Goodwin, Bobby Zarin, Morrie Boogaart (hat-knitting guy), Bill Crider and Franco Zeffirelli.

     

    One down, ten to go...

    Make that nine...

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  18. Posted

    8 minutes ago, msc said:

    "Anthropocentrism is is the belief that human beings are the most significant entity of the universe."

     

    One day Rad is going to subconsciously put that into a school exam and Deathlist will be responsible for his subsequent university career. :D

    If he subconsciously puts 'is is' into a school exam then I'd be rather concerned.

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  23. Posted

    33 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

    It's certainly one of the gambles that need to go to The Dead Cow's favor. Ian Toothill is a bit of a risk as well, because of obitability, in my opinion. And Mike Willesee is a so-so pick. But for the moment, I think he's ahead, as long as we don't know the non-forum teams.

    I hear what you're saying re Willesee, he was my last minute 'futharc' pick (see Fujimori 2017, Frank Lucas every year previous). Literally added him as I wrote my team out in my Email to Spade and dropped Tessa Jowell to the B-team. Also, he kind of reminds me of Dave Strader a few months before he died.

     

    As for Toothill, he'll obit, I'm sure of it.

  24. Posted

    4 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

    Shameless led after the first update in 2016 with the Love Boat at 4th. Shameless' lead lasted a couple of weeks.

    Aye, and MPFC's Carkers Convention led after the first update of 2017, I seem to remember.

     

    I can't remember if I led the DDP at some point last year or not.

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