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  2. Posted

    With Asplund's death, that will be Tempus' 4th DDP hit. Uk obit, I hear you ask? Guardian

     

    Greedy so-and-so, some of us are still on one.. or less. <_<

    I'm not sure where that puts him in the scoreboard, as Roberts & Woods have to be updated later this week too.

     

    Rukeyser watch 7th May:

    Still zilch, so far.

  3. Posted

    [i can't wait for him to die now so I can, at last, be the first to announce a death on a message board. <_<:D

    I'd better not die first. That'd just be really annoying.

     

    What happens, God forbid, you both die at the same time?

     

     

    I've asked my sister to send an e-mail to everyone on my contact list - that should cover everywhere & everyone I know. Also, I'm on holiday at the end of May, so don't worry if I go missing for over a week - not that anyone would notice. :blink:

  4. Posted

    Yes, he was a great player - in fact the greatest player to ever grace the sport.

     

     

    What utter, utter, UTTER rubbish.

     

    Absolute tosh.

     

    Best didn't even play at the World Cup, the pinnacle of that sport's achievement.

     

    Pele, probably was. I would rate Duncan Edwards higher than Best. Maybe Maradona & Garrincha too, like Best, flawed geniuses on & off the pitch. I always felt Sir Stanley Matthews, Sir Tom Finney or even the seemingly now forgotten Wilf Mannion were greater than Best.

    Puskas too, di Stefano maybe, Leonidas or Zico, maybe, Platini or Cruyff, Eusebio and Gerd Muller, too, definitely up there alongside.

     

    Best was Northern Ireland's greatest, definitely. One of the greatest, again, yep. But THE greatest, no. It's not your fault, son, you're a young lad, so you never saw any of the above play, and in both all the post-death tributes, and today's video-DVD age, when Mannion & Puskas get overlooked, its easy to think he was, but he wasn't.

     

    Hell, Best couldn't even score versus my club Reading, when they played each other in 1970!

  5. Posted

    Two things...the BBC report was before all of the facts had been released.

     

    And I presume you mean benign...

     

    Yep, good thing I'm not a Doctor, hey! <_<

     

    My ire was at the Mirror, not you, Dr. H. Sir Bobby is not exactly "battling cancer for the third time". It was looked at, removed, and Sir BR is as fit as a fiddle for a man his age. If you read that Daily Mirror report alone, you'd think something quite differently.

  6. Posted

    yes thats right I cvan confirm that Australian tv host Richard Carlton has died suddenly at 61.

     

    Australian Channel 9 Journalist Richard Carelton dies during live TV interview at a "miraclous mine rescue" in Tasmania

     

    Guys, guys. Let's try & get the surname right, hey, it's the least the man deserves. He was Richard CARLETON.

  8. Posted

    Rukeyser watch:

     

    I find it strange that he's got obituaries in India, Romania and North Korea, but not one that I could find for the UK. :(

     

    Yep, still nothing.

    I possibly think that too much time has elapsed for say, a BBC or general news obit, so it might depend solely on broadsheets. We shall see.

  9. Posted

    palin03.jpg

     

     

    But then I found out that this person was also born on your birthdays and, well, if I have to try any harder than this to find sexiness on your birthday, it just wouldn't be worth it. Enjoy!:

     

    (P.S. May be a bit obscure on the other side of the pond, but I'm hoping OoO will back me up on this one)

     

    fishel.jpg

     

    Yep, CP, a fine looking girl, and certainly well known, or at least she is for my gender & age. :( I wouldn't have known her real name, but instantly went "Oh, that's Topanga".

     

    Palin is my 3rd favourite hero of all time, behind G"C"G OTS & Stevie Coppell. A very happy birthday to him. I hope I can be as active as he at 63.

  12. Posted

    A triumvirate of birthdays today!

     

    Firstly, verminarrd, 33 today. Apparently his interests are Fantasy books, Poker, and football.. what else is there in life?

    Sex, Mr V.

    Food. Taxes. Work. Sleep. The list could be endless.

     

    TLC is the youngest, at 32. Typing in "Lando" and "birthday" revealed this picture: mir%20birthday1th.gif

    which is as good as any for celebrating your birthday.

     

    and esteemed Moderator Football Fan is the grand-daddy of them all. As he supports Manchester United, this is the most suitable. bdb002.jpg

  15. Posted

    Yuji Ide has been replaced at Super Aguri bar the much more talented & experienced Frenchman Franck Montagny.

    But Ide, who'll now be third driver has certainly made an impression, albeit a non-favourable one:

     

    From Autosport:

    McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen sounded relieved to hear the news that Super Aguri will replace Yuji Ide from this weekend's European Grand Prix.

     

    The Formula One newcomers have replaced struggling Japanese rookie Ide with France's Franck Montagny on advice from the sport's governing body.

     

    Ide, 31, will take up Montagny's role as driver of the team's third car in Friday practice only.

     

    Ide's Formula One career has been troubled from the start.

     

    At the last race at Imola, he was reprimanded by the stewards for causing a spectacular accident that sent Midland's Dutch driver Christijan Albers barrel-rolling into the gravel on the opening lap.

     

    He also hit a mechanic at a pitstop in the Bahrain season-opener. Several teams and drivers have voiced safety concerns about his driving and the reaction on Thursday was equally unflattering.

     

    "In Monaco it could have been a bit disastrous," Raikkonen told reporters. "He's a nice guy but he was quite slow and then he was spinning quite often so you never knew if he was going to spin in front of you when you were close to him."

     

    "Without judging Ide's driving, I don't think it will change a lot if he does more testing," said BMW Sauber's Nick Heidfeld.

     

    "Sometimes he has really different lines to us. Maybe that's because they drive on the other side in Japan," added Red Bull's Austrian Christian Klien.

     

    Ide, a runner-up in last year's Formula Nippon championship, had barely any testing under his belt and was never at ease in an uncompetitive car derived from a four-year-old Arrows.

     

     

    <_<

    Never fear MPFC, Massa is still crashing. :P

  17. Posted

    I'll send an e-mail saying the same to RK & SB but William Roberts, WWI veteran has died. That's a unique pick for Above Average For Norfolk, who certainly needs the extra points after choosing a WWI veteran who was already dead (Robinson)

     

    Rukeyser watch:

    5pm Thurs: No broadsheets. There is one only mention - the US-geared Monsters & Critics site. However the broadsheets tend to get their US news from AP or Reuters. Still could be up in the air this one - 1 sole mention in the UK in two days is a bit worrying for the teams who chose him.

  19. Posted

    Beat you to to it not once, but twice. Once in the Ideas and Possibilities for 2007 Thread, once in the DDP 2006 thread.

     

    Granted, perhaps not where they belonged, but their placement there was a) relevant and <_< avoided me getting into the "Near Miss, Not Famous Enough" argument. :P

     

    Oh, sorry, CP. But when I saw the original news of his passing, there wasn't anything on here. I went downstairs to get a drink & finished the posting, by which time you had posted twice. That's my excuse anyway :D , we're talking minutes here, not days like some cases.

  24. Posted

    With the death of Louis Rukeyser, The Raven now moves into second place on the DDP.

     

    I wonder if he'll get a UK obit?

     

    Well, he hasn't yet (yet being 3.30pm 3/5). 243 North American mentions though - strange that so many in one, not in another, but then John Lyall wouldn't get many obit mentions in America, for example.

    I have a feeling that one of the broadsheets might mention his death in one of those "In Brief" deaths in the coming days, but it depends entirely on how many famous people die in the next few days. If there's a few, it might just push him down the obituary ranks.

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