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59 minutes ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

A long time ago, I vaguely remember reading that 1/4 American presidents were shot at some point. Obviously most survived.

I think they've all dodged the bullet since Reagan, which is progress of a sort.

VP Dick Cheney liked to git his defence in first.

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3 hours ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

A long time ago, I vaguely remember reading that 1/4 American presidents were shot at some point. Obviously most survived.

I think they've all dodged the bullet since Reagan, which is progress of a sort.

Don't think that statistic is right. Sitting US Presidents have been struck 6 times by bullets, with 4 fatal (Lincoln, Garfield, Mckinley and Kennedy) , and 2 non-fatal injuries(T Roosevelt and Reagan). The highest ratio of shot presidents to presidents is 2/13, after Teddy Roosevelt.

If we include the two shooting attempts where the gunman was close enough to aim a gun (Jackson and Taft), it goes up to something like 2/9, which is more or less 1/4. Maybe I missed one.

A few have been wounded in military service prior to taking office (not sure how many were shot), and Andrew Jackson was famously shot in a duel prior to taking office (though you should have seen the other guy).

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12 minutes ago, Bishop Briggs said:

Oh dear! ToBeSomeone had Frank Windsor.

Oh dear! So did @Musketeer Gripweed!

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/02/frank-windsor-obituary

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A policeman’s lot is not a happy one for the actor stuck playing him for most of his professional life. Frank Windsor, who has died aged 92, was, as DS John Watt, one of the longest-serving coppers on the TV beat – in Z Cars and its BBC sequels and spin-offs from 1962 right through to 1978.

At this point, Windsor returned to the theatre to play a dotty doctor in Tom Stoppard’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the Mermaid theatre – music by André Previn, direction by Trevor Nunn – revealing another side of his talent altogether, that of an incisive and hilarious comic actor; he’d given us a taste of that when he took over briefly from Patrick Stewart as an absurdly barnstorming Vladimir Lenin in Stoppard’s Travesties at the Aldwych (1974).

But it proved impossible for him to shake off the long arm of the law enforcer. Z Cars was indeed one of the great programmes of its time, and few dramatic double acts on the small screen – outside of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise – matched that of Stratford Johns as the blunderbuss, truculent DI Charles Barlow and Windsor’s stern and more sympathetically malleable Watt as they chased down the criminals in Newtown, a fictional version of the overspill town of Kirkby housing in Merseyside.

This is usually where I say what I know a deceased actor for. I have absolutely nothing. I've never heard of any of them and his last role was eight years after I was born. Z Cars is on youtube, if you're interested in finding out what it is or in going down memory lane.

Frank died when he was 92, so he's worth 33 Base Points. @ToBeSomeone also gets that, plus the 25 Deadly Duo bonus for 58 points total.

As a result, the standings look like this:

1. Bishop Briggs 475
2. JustOneCornetto 417
3. Ned Nederlander 342

4. chomp my root 337
5. thistledo 314
6. Aim Here 300
7. Musketeer Gripweed 256

8. peasy23 253
9. Melanius Mullarkey 245
10. sparky88 241

11. The_Craig 239
12. pub car king, ToBeSomeone 232

14. Savage Henry 219
15. psv_killie 206
16. alta-pete 202
17. Lofarl 189
18. paulathame 188
19. sureiknow 184
20. Mark Connolly 183

21. Arch Stanton 164
22. Arabdownunder 159

23. Karpaty Lviv 156
24. weejack 140
25. Billy Jean King 132

26. dee_62 139
27. ICTJohnboy 129
28. statts1976uk 123
29. Bold Rover 122
30. weirdcal120

31. lichtgilphead 119
32. Ben Twilly 107
33. 101 103
34. sleazy 99
35. CountyFan 98
36. Hamish's Passenger, choirbairn, The DA 94
39. cdisaaccie 86
40. microdave 84
41. Fuctifano 83
42. Speckled Tangerine 80
43. expatowner 78
44. Sergeant Wilson 71

44. lolls 67
45. 50/50 Winner 65
46. The Naitch 64
47. Bobby Skidmarks 63
48. Blootoon87 60

49. 19QOS19, dundeefc1783 58
51. LoonsYouthTeam 49

52. Ludo*1, mathematics 48
54. doulikefish,  cambozpar, LondonHMFC, microdave 44
58. Indale WInton 42
59. pawpar 40
60. D.V.T. 34
61. Cardinal Richelieu 33
62. Flybhoy 32
63. HI HAT, Meden89, 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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Went through the 'long list' yesterday and a fair few had karked it, some have made recoveries that would make Ernest Saunders blush. Its a lot tidier and assuming they see out this year I've a few 'young thrusters' to fill the (too few) gaps for next year. This covid thing had better bloody pick up or what's the point of it. 😡

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