Miguel Sanchez

Good thread this evening boys, well done.

RIP

I am up to date with my PMs. Please have your Captain and Vice-Captain at the top of your list. It's so much easier when I'm compiling them.

What the shuddering f**k is this Beethoven guitar thing?

Struan Farquhar is what I assume everyone from Inverness is called.

I sent you a reply to the first message you sent me and the second one. No idea what the problem is but your team is in.

There's a very thin line between "aloof, eccentric brilliant alien" and "Sheldon Cooper" and as the episodes go on Capaldi seems less able to fall on the tolerable side of it

I'm up to date with my PMs. Lots of new players so far this year, great to see.

I'm fucked if I can figure out how to do the squares but I got today's on the third try.

Clarissa Eden I'm blaming on the fact that anyone who picks someone who's older than 100 clearly doesn't want to win and doesn't care what their points are anyway.

I forgot Joan because I just looked to see if I had her, not if anyone else did. Hold on a minute. Third death this week is Joan Didion: Joan Didion obituary | Joan Didion | The Guardian Even though it's not one of the writers I've had on my team for the five years I've been participating in the Dead Pool, I actually have something personal to share about Joan Didion. The following is from one of my university notebooks: Of the three classes I took that term this might be the shortest entry for any text I studied. Mrs. Dalloway might run it close. The only thing I remember about whatever I read was a sequence where she was going on about being in a building where a bunch of people were watching The Doors practicing while she was alone and miserable. Absolutely horrible, from what I remember. A few months after these notes were written I entered an extensive depressive episode where I effectively became a recluse and cut myself off from all of my friends. Make of that what you will. Didion died at 87 so she's worth 38 Base Points for @Arbroathlegend36-0 who gets that doubled for Deadly December and gets an extra 50 for a Solo Shot and a total of 126. Meaning the standings actually look like this: 1. Ned Nederlander 713 2. Bishop Briggs 481 3. psv_killie 459 4. Arch Stanton 436 5. Savage Henry 429 6. Fuctifano 420 7. chomp my root 346 8. Indale Winton 332 9. Arbroathlegend36-0 325 10. Ludo*1 309 11. pub car king 301 12. Cardinal Richlieu 275 13. sparky88 267 14. Aim Here 255 15. Lofarl 243 16. choirbairn 240 17. senorsoupe 236 18. JustOneCornetto 233 19. Salvo Montalbano 229 20. Arabdownunder 226 21. buddiepaul 223 22. expatowner 217 23. ICTJohnboy 216 24. peasy23 210 25. Raidernation 209 26. 101 206 27. gkneil 203 28. sleazy 202 29. Sherrif John Bunnell 198 30. Sweaty Morph 196 31. D.V.T. 194 32. Willie adie 180 33. Bert Raccoon 179 34. jimbaxters 172 35. BillyAnchor, cdhafc1874, lichtgilphead 167 38. thistledo 165 39. doulikefish 163 40. qos_75 162 41. ThomCat 161 42. HI HAT 160 43. speckled tangerine 158 44. stanton 149 45. The DA 146 46. El Guapo 141 47. Moomintroll, ToBeSomeone 140 49. theportman 139 50. weejack 138 51. weirdcal, CountyFan 137 53. Billy Jean King 128 54. The_Craig 127 55. lolls, Mark Connolly 120 57. Curmudgeon 118 58. Enigma 112 59. TxRover 109 60. 10menwent2mow, Ben Twilly 107 62. Amandajoan 103 63. Bold Rover 102 64. dee_62 101 65. Empty It 94 66. amnarab 91 67. Lex, The Hologram 89 69. mathematics, tamthebam 86 71. nessies long lost ghost 84 72. Karpaty Lviv 76 73. Blootoon87, Sergeant Wilson 70 75. LoonsYouthTeam 62 76. Busta Nut, cambozpar, djchapsticks, Duszek 52 80. Bulbasaur, coprolite 51 82. dagane 42 83. The Master, Eednud, gingette, GTG_03, Melanius Mullarkey, microdave, mozam76, paulathame, Shotgun, The Naitch, thisal 26 94. ZERO POINTERS: @alta-pete, @get_the_subbies_on, @Hamish's Passenger, @HK Hibee, @Mr. Alli, @Miguel Sanchez, @pawpar, @Raven, @wellinwigan

I'm up to date with my messages. Everyone who picked Illingworth or Tutu either had subs or has sent me a message, so there will be no comedy picks there.

One of their games was on FreeSports the other week and I kept doing double takes as I was watching it

Many people have picked Ray Illingworth and Desmond Tutu. If you didn't have subs or you haven't PM'd me yet (I haven't checked in a few days and I'm about to have lunch), feel free to fire in a replacement.

Ned currently has 8.

Week 52 update Two deaths this week, both of which ruining many teams entered for 2022. First up, cricket man Ray Illingworth: Ray Illingworth, former England cricket captain and coach, dies aged 89 | Cricket | The Guardian That is certainly an assortment of cricket numbers. Illingworth died at 89, so he's worth 36 Base Points. He was a Vice-Captain and Solo Shot for @ToBeSomeone which along with the Deadly December bonus amounts to 140 points. Not bad for a Zero-Pointer. ====================== Second death this week was South African religious man and professional rhyming slang, Desmond Tutu: Anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu dies aged 90 | Desmond Tutu | The Guardian Not a good month for fans of the abolition of apartheid with both Tutu and F.W. de Klerk going. They made the world a better place. Isn't that all anyone wants? Tutu was 90 when he died, so he's worth 35 Base Points with a Deadly December bonus doubling that to 70 points for @CountyFan, @Moomintroll and @Salvo Montalbano. As a result, the standings look like this: 1. Ned Nederlander 713 2. Bishop Briggs 481 3. psv_killie 459 4. Arch Stanton 436 5. Savage Henry 429 6. Fuctifano 420 7. chomp my root 346 8. Indale Winton 332 9. Ludo*1 309 10. pub car king 301 11. sparky88 267 12. Aim Here, Cardinal Richelieu 255 14. Lofarl 243 15. choirbairn 240 16. senorsoupe 236 17. JustOneCornetto 233 18. Salvo Montalbano 229 19. Arabdownunder 226 20. buddiepaul 223 21. expatowner 217 22. ICTJohnboy 216 23. peasy23 210 24. Raidernation 209 25. 101 206 26. gkneil 203 27. sleazy 202 28. Sherrif John Bunnell 198 29. Arbroathlegend36-0, Sweaty Morph 196 31. D.V.T. 194 32. Willie adie 180 33. Bert Raccoon 179 34. jimbaxters 172 35. BillyAnchor, cdhafc1874, lichtgilphead 167 38. thistledo 165 39. doulikefish 163 40. qos_75 162 41. ThomCat 161 42. HI HAT 160 43. speckled tangerine 158 44. stanton 149 45. The DA 146 46. El Guapo 141 47. Moomintroll, ToBeSomeone 140 49. theportman 139 50. weejack 138 51. weirdcal, CountyFan 137 53. Billy Jean King 128 54. The_Craig 127 55. lolls, Mark Connolly 120 57. Curmudgeon 118 58. Enigma 112 59. TxRover 109 60. 10menwent2mow, Ben Twilly 107 61. Amandajoan 103 62. Bold Rover 102 63. dee_62 101 64. Empty It 94 65. amnarab 91 66. Lex, The Hologram 89 68. mathematics, tamthebam 86 70. nessies long lost ghost 84 71. Karpaty Lviv 76 72. Blootoon87, Sergeant Wilson 70 74. LoonsYouthTeam 62 75. Busta Nut, cambozpar, djchapsticks, Duszek 52 79. Bulbasaur, coprolite 51 81. dagane 42 82. The Master, Eednud, gingette, GTG_03, Melanius Mullarkey, microdave, mozam76, paulathame, Shotgun, The Naitch, thisal 26 93. ZERO POINTERS: @alta-pete, @get_the_subbies_on, @Hamish's Passenger, @HK Hibee, @Mr. Alli, @Miguel Sanchez, @pawpar, @Raven, @wellinwigan The spreadsheet has also been updated with these scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-OTo44wF_W7A4Q0NFnd1sX3qEDdxTLDobvjhhSgnzkg/edit?usp=sharing

After careful inspection I do not believe that is a twitter account of the British Turkey Council

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Do you still get a cake?

It's times like this I'm glad the Sanchez family isn't the most open in the world I'm pretty sure nobody would have had the nerve to mention doing a test. Which doesn't matter anyway because we're not having a Christmas this year.

Further to this, what on earth has happened to Jimmy Carr's face?

Rise of the Tomb Raider starts out with the strong independent woman killing animals and picking plants to survive then sort of abandons it, HZD doesn't. It's a solid open world timesink.