En Passant

Right, sorry I got that, but for some reason only posted that I don't see it personally - I also can't multi-task rationally it seems and worse, I've put 'there' when I meant 'their' . Not having a good day heh. I still haven't seen it, but then I go to The Guardian not BBC by default and seem to have missed it (not particularly because I'm a guardian lover but at least its not behind a paywall). Anyway.....

Which you would have to watch to know. Or any news, I get by with a brief glance online, no time for it to be 'presented' to me. I did say it may say more about me than anything else. I don't watch live tv at all.

55 Donna Summer – I Feel Love +4 52 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights 37 ABBA – The Name of the Game 37 Blondie – Heart of Glass 34 David Bowie – Space Oddity 14 Gary Numan – Cars 9 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody -6 Really really down to overplay. Nothing here I dislike for a while now. Tough and much less fun than downvoting absolute garbage.

To be fair, unless you go looking for it how would you know what #1 is? I didn't. I don't even know who lad baby are or what there song is either. Though all of that might say more about me than them or it.

Fucketty fucketty fuck. Done. Got. Stuffed. And Basted with 3 days to go. Pool night again, away in some crappy harvester eatery with delusions of still being a pub and yes it has xmas muzak and yes it had to play feckin Wham. Arseholes, so damn close 1st - 22nd. Bollocks.

49 Donna Summer - I Feel Love +4 45 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights 45 Blondie – Heart of Glass 38 ABBA - The Name of the Game 35 David Bowie – Space Oddity 26 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 25 Gary Numan – Cars 12 T.Rex – Get It On 3 ABBA – Knowing Me, Knowing You -6

Could you please tell me what this is? I'm not risking it

I want a recount on The Wurzels then.

49 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights 48 Donna Summer – I Feel Love +4 41 David Bowie – Space Oddity 37 ABBA – The Name of the Game 32 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 27 Blondie – Heart of Glass 27 Gary Numan – Cars 21 ABBA – Knowing Me, Knowing You 15 Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive 12 T.Rex – Get It On 9 Sweet – Blockbuster 4 Baccara - Yes Sir, I Can Boogie -6 Got to love the +4 / -6 scoring. For example the battle between The Old Lady and TQR will be pyrrhic for both tunes if continued ad-infinitum - yet what else could one do in such a situation?

44 Donna Summer – I Feel Love +4 43 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights 40 David Bowie – Space Oddity 31 Blondie – Heart of Glass 31 ABBA – The Name of the Game 30 Gary Numan – Cars 26 ABBA – Knowing Me, Knowing You 25 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 21 Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive 17 Baccara – Yes Sir, I Can Boogie14 T.Rex – Get It On 12 The Sweet – Blockbuster 8 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over Troubled Water -6 6 Alice Cooper – School's Out Overplayed. Criteria getting tight now.

44 David Bowie – Space Oddity 42 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights 38 Donna Summer – I Feel Love +4 33 Gary Numan – Cars 31 Blondie – Heart of Glass 30 ABBA – The Name of the Game 23 ABBA – Knowing Me , Knowing You 22 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 22 Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive 20 Baccara – Yes Sir, I Can Boogie 18 T.Rex – Get It On 16 The Sweet – Blockbuster 12 10cc – I'm Not in Love 10 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over Troubled Water 9 Nilsson - Without You 9 Alice Cooper – School's Out 3 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown -6 

Clown on a Crown

Including a correction to @Book's score where he repeated the old lady's +4 for the Alan Partridge song, and moved it up the ranking - but didn't actually change its points total. Too busy writing eulogies for Althea and Donna through the tears eh? Thus proving that even the game runner is only human like the rest of us who have messed it up on occasion. 37 Donna Summer – I Feel Love +4 34 ABBA – Knowing Me, Knowing You 33 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights 31 Gary Numan – Cars 30 David Bowie – Space Oddity 25 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 23 10cc – I'm Not in Love 22 Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive 22 Baccara – Yes Sir, I Can Boogie 22 Blondie – Heart of Glass 21 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over Troubled Water 20 Don McLean – Vincent 20 ABBA – The Name of the Game 20 Nilsson – Without You 19 The Sweet – Blockbuster 16 T.Rex – Get It On 13 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown -6 12 Alice Cooper – School's Out  12 Suzi Quatro – Can the Can  10 ABBA – Waterloo

Yeah, sort of knew, was just having a pop for having a pop's sake about their rather downmarket image. I buy all my sink plungers at John Lewis of course.

Probably on a continuous loop and with good reason. (beyond Covid that is) Ok, I'm kidding but I've only been in either of those only once or twice whilst I'm happy as Larry in Aldi's or Lidl. Not really sure why if I'm honest. Marketing probably.

To my knowledge neither Lidl nor Aldi have background muzak, none of the ones I've ever been to does. Tesco does. Home Bargains I wouldn't know, I do have some standards.

I was really close on Thursday night at the pool club. Thought I was done but it was the George Michael section of Do they know it's xmas..and it was his voice that had triggered me, mind I'd also had a couple by then. The whole pool team wanted to know why I was swearing the place up like a trooper (well more than I normally do). Had to explain, and that I apparently can't tell one bag of xmas shite from another at the first few notes after 2 pints of lager.

The further the better.

Which is from a song.... ... a great deal better than anything by the bay city rollers

Fiona mostly iirc. 33 Donna Summer – I Feel Love +4 29 David Bowie – Space Oddity 28 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights 25 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 24 10cc – I'm Not in Love 23 Blondie – Heart of Glass 22 Baccara – Yes Sir, I Can Boogie 22 ABBA – Knowing Me, Knowing You 22 Gary Numan – Cars 21 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over Troubled Water 20 ABBA – The Name of the Game 20 Nilsson – Without You 20 Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive 20 The Sweet – Blockbuster 20 T.Rex – Get It On 19 Don McLean – Vincent 19 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 17 Alice Cooper – School's Out 14 Suzi Quatro – Can the Can 14 Bay City Rollers – Bye Bye Baby 13 ABBA – Waterloo 10 Althea & Donna – Up Town Top Ranking 8 Blondie – Sunday Girl 4 Slade – Coz I Luv You 3 ABBA – Fernando -6

63 Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights 57 Althea & Donna – Uptown Top Ranking 51 Blondie – Heart of Glass 50 Gary Numan – Cars 21 Blondie – Sunday Girl 15 The Buggles – Video Killed the Radio Star +4 11 Bee Gees – Tragedy -6 7 The Police – Message in a Bottle 4 Bee Gees – Night Fever Trevor might be doomed - just too many of those -6 votes for those on that side of the marmite argument. But for once I'll fight on anyway it's the principle in this case the man is a legend.

France 2 - 1 Argentina 63 yellows - amending my previous guess down a bit since you can't have that many. This would leave one guy on the pitch from 22 players and 10 subs, assuming he didn't get a 2nd for abusing the ref or something. Could happen....

Ok, well that will do regardless

60 Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights 51 Althea and Donna - Up Town Top Ranking 50 Blondie – Heart of glass 49 Gary Numan – Cars 23 Blondie – Sunday Girl 22 The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star +4 21 Bee Gees – Tragedy 16 Police – Message in a bottle 13 Bee Gees - Night Fever 8 Ian Dury & the Blockheads – Hit me with your rhythm stick 6 ABBA – Take a chance on me -6 By no means the worst abba track but 7 SEVEN! already in the final? pfft.

Surely... It's 'the name of the game' Holy opportunities missed batman.