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3 minutes ago, peasy23 said:

Billy Connolly and Margaret Thatcher both trending on Twitter which was a tad worrying. Fortunately Billy is still very much alive and the witch is still dead.

She was in For Your Eyes Only along with another annoying c**t Sheena Easton

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Week 32 update

Two deaths this week. Up first is the wrestler James "Kamala" Harris: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53720494

Last year when I ran this competition for the first time I was amazed by all the wrestlers that people were throwing in. I'm not going to kid on I know who this guy is or was, but this Bleacher Report look at his life - from childhood, to stardom, to a diabetic double amputee in a wheelchair - is quite the read. Definitely worth ten minutes of your time.

Harris died at 70, so he's worth 55 Base Points. He was a Deadly Duo pick for @Meden89 and @sjc for a total of 80 points each.

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Second death this week was the classical guitarist Julian Bream: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/14/julian-bream-british-classical-guitarist-dies-aged-87

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Julian Bream, the British guitarist regarded as one of the finest exponents of the classical style, has died aged 87. The news was confirmed by his management company, who said he died “peacefully at home”. No cause of death was given.

Bream was born in Battersea in 1933, the son of a father who played piano and jazz guitar – a self-built electric version – and taught Julian the rudiments of each instrument. Bream’s talent earned him a scholarship at the Royal College of Music, where he studied piano and cello. But he was largely self-taught on his primary instrument, the guitar. He played his first public guitar recital in Cheltenham in 1947, aged 13.

That year his father chanced upon a sailor walking through London carrying a lute and asked what it was. The sailor sold it to him and Bream began learning it, eventually helping to revive wider interest in the instrument and Elizabethan music.

Let's have a listen:

Get this guy a distortion pedal and watch him shred, I say.

Bream died at 87, so he's worth 38 Base Points. He was a Solo Shot and a Vice-Captain for @50/50 Winner 2.0 (who himself seems to have died at some point this year), so he's worth a total of 109 points.

As a result, the standings look like this:

1. Bishop Briggs 423
2. JustOneCornetto 417
3. chomp my root 337
4. thistledo 314
5. Aim Here 300
6. Ned Nederlander 285
7. sparky88 241

8. The_Craig 239
9. Savage Henry 219
10. peasy23 215
11. psv_killie 206
12. pub car king 205
13. alta-pete 202
14. Musketeer Gripweed 198
15. Melanius Mullarkey 193
16. paulathame 188
17. sureiknow 184
18. ToBeSomeone, 50/50 Winner 2.0 174
20. Karpaty Lviv 156
21. weejack 140
22. dee_62 139
23. ICTJohnboy 129
24. statts1976uk 123
25. Bold Rover 122

26. lichtgilphead 119
27. Ben Twilly,  Arch Stanton, Mark Connolly 107
30. 101 103
31. Meden89 102

32. sleazy 99
33. CountyFan 98
34. Hamish's Passenger, choirbairn 94
36. cdisaaccie 86
37. microdave 84
38. Fuctifano 83
39. weirdcal 82
40. Speckled Tangerine, sjc 80
42. lolls 67
43. Arabdownunder, The Naitch 64
45. Bobby Skidmarks 63
46. 19QOS19, dundeefc1783 58
48. Ludo*1, mathematics 48
50. doulikefish,  cambozpar, LondonHMFC, microdave, Sergeant Wilson 44
55. Indale WInton, Lofarl, The DA 42
58. expatowner, pawpar 40
60. D.V.T. 34
61. Cardinal Richelieu 33
62. Flybhoy 32
63. Blootoon87,  HI HAT, LoonsYouthTeam, Scotty Tunbridge, shuggz, Perkin Flump, The Master 22
70. Everyone else 0 

The spreadsheet has also been updated with these scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V64rLXKhrmZf-6K4D3RyN3cR5Z_i2rh-ztODUB_dQyI/edit?usp=sharing

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7 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

What porpoise is served by passing on such news?

I think he was trying to orca-strate a round of sympathy, but obviously a mob of callous, indifferent deadpoolers like you aren't going to blubber over a dying z-list disk jockey.

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4 hours ago, Savage Henry said:

James Whale is not exactly having a whale of a time.

James Whale: Radio host reveals cancer in kidney, spine, brain and lungs https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53804942

 

While he knew cancer is a Killer it must still have come as a bolt from the Blue.

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