chomp my root Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 8 hours ago, Bully Wee Villa said: Sounds like he was an anti-vaxxer. Deadpoolers should really be given access to the vaccine status of every celebrity. Also, fingers crossed Bono hasn't had his. 4 hours ago, BillyAnchor said: And Elton John I'm sensing the beginnings of a whole new thread..... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Was anyone else certain that meat loaf was already dead or was that just me? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superwell87 Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 5 hours ago, throbber said: Was anyone else certain that meat loaf was already dead or was that just me? I thought was already dead mate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 13 minutes ago, superwell87 said: I thought was already dead mate. Same thing happened with Freddie Starr - I was certain he’s died in the 00’s and that I’d seen the joke about the hamster in a newspaper headline. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofarl Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Somewhat ironic what with covid starting with a bat. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 1 hour ago, Lofarl said: Somewhat ironic what with covid starting with a bat. Did it? Change the words to Pangolin Out of He'll. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 16 hours ago, Bully Wee Villa said: Sounds like he was an anti-vaxxer. Deadpoolers should really be given access to the vaccine status of every celebrity. Also, fingers crossed Bono hasn't had his. Fitbanorth are starting a deadpool, I'm definitely putting Van Morrison on my list. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyAnchor Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 Just heard this guy died during the week, Dallas Frazier. have to confess I had never heard of him but he wrote around 500 hit songs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Frazier 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 4 hours ago, BillyAnchor said: Just heard this guy died during the week, Dallas Frazier. have to confess I had never heard of him but he wrote around 500 hit songs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Frazier He wrote this song 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 On 22/01/2022 at 09:18, throbber said: Was anyone else certain that meat loaf was already dead or was that just me? Wikipedia thankfully proves otherwise, with what has become my favourite bit of unintended shade. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 Week 4 update Two deaths this week. First up is murderer Russell Bishop: ‘Babes in the wood’ killer Russell Bishop dies of cancer | UK news | The Guardian Quote Russell Bishop, who killed two nine-year-old girls in 1986 in a case that became known as the “babes in the wood” murders, has died of brain cancer. Bishop, 55, died on Thursday, 1,137 days after his conviction for the schoolgirl murders. He had been diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2020, which spread to his brain. In a long-running investigation, Bishop was convicted in 2018 for sexually assaulting and strangling to death Nicola Fellows and her best friend, Karen Hadaway, both nine, in woodlands in Brighton. He was sentenced to at least 36 years in prison in December 2018. “I have no doubt that you were a predatory paedophile,” the judge said at the Old Bailey. “The terror that each girl must have suffered in their final moments is unimaginable.” Bishop was a prisoner of HMP Frankland in County Durham. He died in hospital shortly before 9pm on Thursday, a Ministry of Justice spokesperson said. They said the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman had been informed. Bishop was previously tried in 1987 but acquitted due to errors by the authorities and forensic experts. In 1990 he was convicted of the abduction, molestation and attempted murder of a seven-year-old. While he was serving that sentence, the court of appeal in 2017 quashed his acquittal of Nicola and Karen’s murders. Going by his mugshot he was a rough looking 55. Dying at 55 makes him worth 70 Base Points. @Bishop Briggs gets a Deadly Duo bonus for 95 points, @Ned Nederlander gets those 95 plus a Vice-Captain bonus for a total of 130 points. ================ Second death this week was Meat Loaf: Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell singer dead at 74 | Meat Loaf | The Guardian Quote Aday was born in Dallas, Texas, on 27 September 1947. He was an only child, his mother a school teacher and gospel singer and his father a former police officer who developed alcoholism after being medically discharged from the US army during the second world war. Aday acted in high school productions, studied at Lubbock Christian College and later North Texas State University. After his mother’s death, he moved to Los Angeles – where he worked as a car park attendant and believed that he once picked up a hitchhiking Charles Manson – and formed his first group, Meat Loaf Soul, taking the name from a nickname given to him by a football coach. In Los Angeles, Meat Loaf turned down three early offers of recording contracts and the group plied their trade live, supporting acts such as Van Morrison’s band Them, Taj Mahal, Janis Joplin, the Who, the Fugs, the Stooges and the Grateful Dead. As band members came and went, the group changed its name with every new lineup – among them Floating Circus and Popcorn Blizzard. Popcorn Blizzard moved to Michigan, released an album in 1967 and sold 5,000 copies. Meat Loaf, however, told NME in 1978 that he was “going crazy out there in the woods” and so he moved back to Los Angeles and joined the cast of Hair. He was playing a long game, he explained, exploring other avenues of entertainment that he hoped would ultimately allow him to make music on his terms. “I went into the theatre ’cause I hate bars; I didn’t want to be stuck in a bar band and go sing Top 40 material. To me that’s as bad as selling out. Instead, why not do something that lets your mind be creative?” =============== Speaking to Mojo, he characterised the public perception of his act: “That I’m overblown, pompous, melodramatic, self-indulgent. I’ve heard it a million times. And the first person to describe me like that was me. It’s supposed to be overblown. The entire history of rock’n’roll is a comedy … Rock’n’roll was never meant to answer the questions of the universe. It’s a laugh. I’m a laugh. So laugh at me if you like. I have no problem with that.” I also found this in my youtube suggestions last night: What I'll always remember him for though is this: Well, that and HIS NAME IS ROBERT PAULSON, obviously. Loaf died at 74, so he's worth 51 Base Points for @Blootoon87, with a Solo Shot taking that up to 101 points. As a result, the standings look like this: 1. Ned Nederlander 313 2. Arbroathlegend36-0 255 3. Bishop Briggs 199 4. Indale Winton 183 5. chomp my root, sparky88, The_Craig 144 8. JustOneCornetto 143 9. Arch Stanton 135 10. cdhafc1874 130 11. gkneil, Savage Henry 104 13. Blootoon87 101 14. Hamish's Passenger, Moomintroll, The DA 31 17. Everyone else 0 The spreadsheet has also been updated with these scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mup1IJllKHs0a47J8G6IXUkvShJrV28Iuc-Kkn7RKuo/edit?usp=sharing 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomp my root Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 https://www.aol.co.uk/news/beyonce-kylie-minogue-lead-tributes-091330326.html No idea either but hey ho..... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 1 hour ago, chomp my root said: https://www.aol.co.uk/news/beyonce-kylie-minogue-lead-tributes-091330326.html No idea either but hey ho..... He'll be haute soon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Last Post Bugler for Mugler. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Natural selection in action. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 13 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said: Natural selection in action. I was sure it was actually Skrewdriver. Their first album was very good...then they went off their nuts. Possibly one for unpopular opinions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 8 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said: I was sure it was actually Skrewdriver. Their first album was very good...then they went off their nuts. Possibly one for unpopular opinions. Was that you at Firhill? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 Flight of the Phoenix (1965) is a great film. Now that Harry Kruger is gone, only Barrie Chase is still around and she was the only woman in the film. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 3 hours ago, SlipperyP said: Was that you at Firhill? Not this time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 1 minute ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Not this time. I thought he looked younger than you (have never met you or seen a photo). Sure it wasn't you getting the son all worked up for a trip to the big Glesga. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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