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    The Pie and Bovril Dead Pool 2024

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    Week 38 update

    One death this week, the actor David Graham: David Graham obituary | Television | The Guardian

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    Graham was born in London to Leah (nee Aarons) and Solomon Graham, who sold life insurance. Following service in the RAF as a radar mechanic in 99 Squadron during the second world war, Graham worked for a short time as an office clerk before his sister, who had married an American GI, invited him to New York. He trained there as an actor at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, picking up an American accent that would later prove invaluable in his voice work. However, on returning to Britain to act in rep, he was told to lose it.

    With Sylvia Anderson providing the voice of Lady Penelope – International Rescue’s London agent – Graham completed the British end of the operation. Thunderbirds, which ran for 32 episodes over two series (1965-66), featured the adventures of the American Jeff Tracy, based on Tracy Island in the Pacific, with his five sons, who take on dramatic rescue missions in their hi-tech craft. Graham provided up to seven different voices in each episode, including that of Kyrano, the Tracy family’s loyal servant.

    As well as voicing more than 100 characters in six puppet series produced by Anderson, Graham assured himself another place in the television history books by joining Peter Hawkins in 1963 to provide the first Dalek voices in Doctor Who. Their harsh, staccato delivery was processed electronically to give a grating effect. This partnership continued on television until 1966 and in the film spin-offs Dr Who and the Daleks (1965) and Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150AD (1966).

    Parker, the Daleks and a cartoon pig. Scores of actors would kill to have just one role as recognisable as those.

    Graham died at 99 so he's worth 26 Base Points for @GordonD with a Solo Shot giving him a total of 76.

    As a result, the standings look like this:

    1. Ned Nederlander 797
    2. The Naitch 593
    3. Billy Jean King 536
    4. mozam76 528
    5. psv_killie 527
    6. lolls 514
    7. Moomintroll 502
    8. The_Craig 494
    9. Indale Winton 484
    10. JustOneCornetto 470
    11. El Guapo 457
    12. chomp my root 450
    13. sparky88 447
    14. choirbairn 438
    15. The DA 436
    16. pub car king 430
    17. Savage Henry 415
    18. mathematics, Melanius Mullarkay 404
    20. TxRover 397
    21. weirdcal 378
    22. Lofarl 370
    23. Forest_Fifer 369
    24. Arch Stanton 363
    25. buddiepaul, cdhafc1874 360
    27. lichtgilphead 351
    28. peasy23 348
    29. Bully Wee Villa, Darren 347
    31. Desp 342
    32. sleazy 340
    33. Arbroathlegend36-0 324
    34. Arabdownunder 318
    35. scottsdad 307
    36. Aim Here 306
    37. HI HAT 276
    38. nessies long lost ghost 276
    39. Oystercatcher 270
    40. Mark Connolly 262
    41. amnarab 258
    42. Craig fae the Vale 251
    43. Sweaty Morph 244
    44.  Shotgun 231
    45. LoonsYouthTeam 222
    46. senorsoupe 219
    47. Sergeant Wilson 218
    48. blackislekillie 216
    49. parxyz 206
    50. qos_75 203
    51. gingette 187
    52. invergowrie arab 186
    53. pawpar 179
    54. tamthebam 171
    55. Molotov 170
    56. 10menwent2mow, 101, Guy Incognito, Shipa, throbber 168
    61. Raidernation, Salvo Montalbano 163
    63. Karpaty Lviv, Ray Patterson 162
    65. DG.Roma 159
    66. alta-pete, Miguel Sanchez 156
    68. ThomCat 152
    69. get_the_subbies_on, Polarbear, Scorge, The Master 144
    73. Cheese 143
    74. Florentine_Pogen 140
    75. Enigma 128
    76. Trogdor 113
    77. sophia 85
    78. dagane, The Hologram 84
    80. 19QOS19 81
    81. GordonD, Suspect Device 76
    83. ICTChris 74
    84. Ash1990, Bert Raccoon 72
    86. Richey Edwards, superwell87 57
    88. stanton 51
    89. BillyAnchor, doulikefish 49
    91. falkirktheinvincible 27
    92. Everyone else 0 

    The spreadsheet has also been updated with these scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CsroU6IlQNJOesOqCc5gsI7SCw8ywBS-PUzQwLTJe4g/edit?usp=sharing

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    Huw Edwards

    in The General Nonsense Forum

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Hedgecutter said:

    How can Thursday be up for debate?  It's very obviously:

     

    Monday: Mohn-day

    Tuesday: Tuh-ess-day

    Wednesday: Wed-ness-day

    Thusday: Thurz-day

    Friday: Fri*-day  (*like in 'fridge')

    Saturday: Setter-day

    Sunday:  Sun-day.

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    Ingrained in your head.

    in The General Nonsense Forum

    Posted

    On 19/09/2024 at 17:45, jimbaxters said:

    Similar happened to me last week when a guy I was talking to said, "Of course we can pay in dollars. If we wanted to we could in bloody Chinese..." and fumbled for the currency. I shouted "Remnimbi!". He actually got a fright.

    Thanks Linda.

    All of Chewin the Fat is permanently in my head but "a receptacle for refuse" is right up there.

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    Huw Edwards

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    3 hours ago, Hedgecutter said:

    Eta: it's said wed'nsday for me.

    Yes

    2 hours ago, Cosmic Joe said:

    Is it not weedgies? With a silent "d".

    You yokels can argue amongst yourselves what it is, absolutely nobody from Scotland's greatest metropolis cares.

    55 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:

    Now ive had this debate with many Germans over the years. Mittwoch would suggest that the week begins on a Sunday.

    Which of course, is how Jimmy Savile, Gary Glitter and Adolf HItler all planned their weeks. 

    It's also how Americans plan their weeks, do with that what you will.

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    The F1 Thread

    in All Other Sports

    Posted

    FIA want ‘dirty language’ intervention to stop F1 drivers becoming like ‘rappers’ (planetf1.com)

    “I mean, we have to differentiate between our sport – motorsport – and rap music,” Ben Sulayem said.

    “We’re not rappers, you know. They say the F-word how many times per minute? We are not on that. That’s them and we are [us].”

    “In the heat of the moment, when you think you are upset because another driver came to you and pushed you…

    “When I used to drive in the dust [and something like that happened], I would get upset. But also, we have to be careful with our conduct. We need to be responsible people.

    “And now with the technology, everything is going live and everything is going to be recorded. At the end of the day, we have to study that to see: do we minimise what is being said publicly?

    “Because imagine you are sitting with your children and watching the race and then someone is saying all of this dirty language. I mean, what would your children or grandchildren say? What would you teach them if that is your sport?”

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