Rude Kid

Weatherman, are you saying Lady Bird Johnson might die this year? Y'know, I don't think you've ever mentioned that before. (But you better be right - I've gone and put her in my team...)

...which in turn reminds me of this:

And just to make you feel even better...someone tried to pick Pope Paul VI (RIP 1978) in this year's DDP!

They're thinking of appointing a 77-year-old Pope?? You'd think they'd have learnt their lesson after John Paul I lasted about 5 minutes in the job.

Dunno. We make the rules up as we go along But yep, I reckon deduction of points and the introduction of a sub would be in order.

I had him in my DDP2005 team, as did Notapotato! No-one's going to believe this isn't a fix though, as we haven't got round to posting the teams on the website yet...

He's been picked by 8 teams in this year's DDP, including mine - maybe not that much of an outsider after all!

Anubis, I don't know what I'd do for titles of DDP mails if it wasn't for you!

A quick bump for this - we've got 38 teams already, so it looks like we'll be beating this year's record of 43. Get yer entries in if you haven't already, and don't worry if we don't acknowledge them straight away - so long as you send them before midnight on 31 Dec, they'll be accepted.

And for those of us who don't speak Portuguese, Babelfish reckons Ninha is saying: Glad that's cleared that up then

So, Kate, while everyone else was out on the razz on the last Saturday night before Xmas, you were sitting at home in front of a computer, typing an angry little message to complete strangers...and you say we're sad and need to get a life??

There it is, Neil, right there!

That gets my vote!

Indeedy. We get so many crap drive-by postings that we should be thankful for an informative one from Good King Jon there. Bummer about Buster's weight loss though - that's another potential team member crossed off my 2005 list.

Nooo, don't mention the Weatherman! Can open, worms everywhere!! And I see that either someone's hacked his site, or he's making a brave confession for a 13-year-old.

I agree - he's certainly on the shortlist for my 2005 team. (BTW, Guest, I've merged your post with the existing thread, in case you're wondering where it went.)

Separated at birth??

6/9/1958, Hackney, London. He collapsed and almost carked it during a gig 3 years ago, but I haven't heard anything since.

20/12/1926, Port Talbot, South Wales. Any recent news on his health or otherwise?

A bit peaky, you say? Jesus, that bloke wouldn't look out of place among the winos down my local shopping precinct. If that's what one bad plate of sushi does to you, I'm going veggie.

Mais oui, definitely famous enough, I'd say. How old is he these days? - Enfant Impoli

What, you mean you're not knowledgeable about American sportsmen who retired 60 years ago? http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool200...s_N.html#nelsob

Unfortunately the chavs have still got The So Solid Crew to look up to (latest news on them). And there's about 30 of those buggers...

How annoying is this?? Arrange the fridge magnets Someone moved my R just as I was taking a screenshot...

There are so many bloody David Colemans (Colemen?) out there that I had trouble finding a good photo of him for the DDP site. A Google image search throws up a real motley array of them, including: and