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  • Satchmo Distel
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    I started this one 12 months ago today so it would make sense to start 2020 now with a new thread. However I'm too busy so am inviting Kevin or another poster to do the honours and also score this 2019 contest.

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  • Kevin S
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    Bump?

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  • Guy Profumo
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    When do nominations for the new year open btw?

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  • Rogin the Armchair fan
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    Originally posted by longeared View Post
    Clive James
    Frank Bough
    Lady Gaga
    Michael Heseltine
    Des O'Connor
    And longeared springs into contention

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  • Satchmo Distel
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    Bennett was born earlier than his three colleagues but has outlived them.

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  • Rogin the Armchair fan
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    Like GO, my first thought on hearing this news was to go through this thread. None of us had Alan Bennett, either. He might not make it to the Christmas Pudding.
    Last edited by Rogin the Armchair fan; 27-11-2019, 13:52.

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  • Gangster Octopus
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    Anyone get Jonathan Miller?

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  • Satchmo Distel
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    Serious answer: All five of those picks are potential "faked deaths". The rule should therefore be Occam's Razor: he is dead because he is generally accepted to be dead, and Occam's Razor rules out the conspiracy theory alternatives because they need too many assumptions.

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  • Vicarious Thrillseeker
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    Originally posted by ad hoc View Post
    I'll stick with last year's pick

    Donald Trump
    Kim Jong Un
    Bashar Al Assad
    Tayyip Erdoğan
    Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
    Do you need to see the body before running around the room with your Wednesday shirt over your head?

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  • Sits
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    Have I found the Fantasy NFL thread?

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  • Kevin S
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    Oh yes, and if you submit your keepers in early December, and one of them dies before the 20th, you can't choose another one. But you do of course score a point for the 2019 game.

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  • Kevin S
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    The Gorbachev thread has naturally made me think of this one. I was wondering, rather than saying you can retain all of your choices from last year, shall we set a keeper deadline of, say, 20 December by which you need to nominate a maximum of three of your names that you want to keep.

    Any that you don't put on the 2020 keeper list will be first come first served for 2020 selection from the 21st.

    Just to clarify the event that someone dies in that period; if someone is in your 2019 squad and dies in 2019, you get the point even if another OTFer has picked them up for 2020. They will need to reselect.

    Any thoughts on this roryfsmithesque proposal?

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  • Kevin S
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    Originally posted by G-Man View Post
    I'll stick with last year's list

    Robert Mugabe
    Shirley Jones
    Joni Mitchell
    Olivia de Havilland
    Cardinal Angelo Sodano
    Point for G-Man.

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  • Guy Profumo
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    Anyone have Ross Perot Sr?

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  • ursus arctos
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    Laugh-In:

    The series was broadcast on BBC2 from January 1969 to 1974. Some episodes from seasons 1, 2 and 3 were retransmitted during late 1983 and early 1984. Early broadcasts had to be shown with a black border, as technology was not available to render the 525-line NTSC video recording as a full-screen 625-line PAL picture. This issue was fixed for later broadcasts.
    Gilligan's Island:

    In the UK Gilligan's Island had a very brief run on ITV in April of 1965 but was dropped after 13 episodes.

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  • Gangster Octopus
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    Originally posted by Guy Profumo View Post
    As for Laugh In, you might as well reference Gilligan's Island, because we didn't get that either...
    Au contraire, I remember both being on British television. Although Gilligan was on ITV so I couldn't watch it...

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  • Antepli Ejderha
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    Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan View Post
    What were his odds? 10-3 third favourite?
    One hundred to thirty Burlington berty me thinks.

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  • 3 Colours Red
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    Whatever they were, I think that's the first point I've ever scored on this.

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  • Rogin the Armchair fan
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    What were his odds? 10-3 third favourite?

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  • Satchmo Distel
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    Originally posted by 3 Colours Red View Post
    Katie Hopkins
    Val Kilmer
    Mel Brooks
    John McCririck
    Kirk Douglas (if he doesn't go this time, I'll concede that he must be the Highlander)
    Congrats on McCririck.

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  • Guy Profumo
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    Anyone have McCririck?

    McCririck, not McCrirrick.


    Apologies
    Last edited by Guy Profumo; 05-07-2019, 10:41.

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  • Amor de Cosmos
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    Originally posted by Guy Profumo View Post
    As for Laugh In, you might as well reference Gilligan's Island, because we didn't get that either...
    Oh yeah. It was huge in the UK in the mid-60s, unmissable in fact.

    Originally posted by Guy Profumo View Post
    Was the Mustang the one which would spontaneously burst into flames?
    No (that might have been the Pinto(?)) The Mustang was, and remains, a classic.
    Last edited by Amor de Cosmos; 04-07-2019, 19:36.

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  • Guy Profumo
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    Was the Mustang the one which would spontaneously burst into flames?

    As for Laugh In, you might as well reference Gilligan's Island, because we didn't get that either...

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  • Amor de Cosmos
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    Arte Johnson was a Laugh-In regular back in the 60s. Lee Iacocca was Ford Motors head of development in the same era, he introduced the notion of a "small" sporty saloon to the US market (the Ford Mustang). Later he worked for Chrysler and produced the 'K' car.

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  • Guy Profumo
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    Originally posted by WOM View Post
    Now Lee Iacocca and Arte Johnson. It's mayhem.
    WhoHellThey?

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