Miguel Sanchez

MON LANDO

Jermaine Jenas. It'll get him off the telly.

Good stuff from Legreg at the start

I knew he reminded me of someone.

Spuds.

The onion bears, upon reflection:

I only watched game 7. Benoit was good and sacrificed the body enough. None of the rest of them seem able to pass or skate with the puck with any urgency. It's all just so... slow.

Watched the game. Sort of. Beyond boring. Mitch Marner is a disgrace. Not a single Leafs defenseman would make the Avalanche.

Pray for Torpar.

Week 18 update Two deaths this week. Up first golf man Peter Oosterhuis: Peter Oosterhuis obituary | Golf | The Guardian I also enjoyed this closing line: Have any of the golf punters on here been stuck behind someone with a pair of binoculars ticking off birds in a book? Oosterhuis died at 75 so he's worth 50 Base Points for @The DA, with a Solo Shot giving him a total of 100 points. ========== Second death this week is the writer Paul Auster: Paul Auster, American author of The New York Trilogy, dies aged 77 | Books | The Guardian I have read one of Paul Auster's books. The one namechecked in that article's title, the New York Trilogy. It's a collection of three stories, ostensibly detective fiction but also extremely postmodern, with the reader quickly going from wondering what's happened to wondering just about everything else - who is this, where are they, can I trust anything that's being said? I read this book when I was in third year at university. I read it again a few years ago having forgot pretty much everything except the basic premise and I was taken aback at how much it resonated with me. My fourth year at university - and the summer prior to that and effectively a full year after that - was spent having a nervous breakdown about various things. Much of it was caused by the weight of realisation of what the literature I was studying was telling me about the world and my own place in it. While other, more consequential texts followed the New York Trilogy and contributed to this period, upon reflection years later it was easy to see how relatable I found it at the time, even if I couldn't see it at the time. When I read it again I made note of some passages which stood out to me. One of these is going to be the lead quote to next year's thread, but I'll share another here since it fits well with the Dead Pool: Auster died at 77 so he's worth 48 Base Points for, er, me. I get a Solo Shot taking that to 98 points. As a result, the standings look like this: 1. mozam76 402 2. Billy Jean King 380 3. Moomintroll 346 4. psv_killie 335 5. Indale Winton, The DA 328 7. lolls 316 8. Forest_Fifer 297 9. sparky88 291 10. Ned Nederlander 282 11. lichtgilphead 279 12. The_Craig 254 13. pub car king 238 14. JustOneCornetto 225 15. blackislekillie 216 16. The Naitch 213 17. Arch Stanton 207 18. parxyz 206 19. cdhafc1874 204 20. Oystercatcher 198 21. Bully Wee Villa 194 22. weirdcal 191 23. Melanius Mullarkant 176 24. amnarab 169 25. El Guapo, mathematics 164 27. Salvo Montalbano 163 28. TxRover 157 29. alta-pete 156 30. choirbairn, Desp, peasy23 150 33. tamthebam 144 34. Savage Henry 134 35. Arbroathlegend36-0 126 36. Lofarl, qos_75 119 38. Arabdownunder 117 39. buddiepaul, chomp my root, scottsdad, Trogdor 113 43. sleazy, Sweaty Morph 100 45. Miguel Sanchez 98 46. Craig fae the Vale 95 47. ThomCat 94 48. pawpar 90 49. invergowrie arab, Karpaty Lviv, Ray Patterson 78 52. DG.Roma, Mark Connolly, sensorsoupe, Sergeant Wilson, Shotgun 75 57. ICTChris 74 58. D Angelo Barksdale 71 59. Raidernation 60 60. Florentine_Pogen 58 61. Aim Here, Darren 51 63. BillyAnchor, doulikefish 49 65. Enigma, LoonsYouthTeam 44 67. stanton 25 68. Everyone else 0 The spreadsheet has also been updated with these scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CsroU6IlQNJOesOqCc5gsI7SCw8ywBS-PUzQwLTJe4g/edit?usp=sharing

Go back to 2021 and tell the Covid thread that the baldy, specky tube will be FM within three years. What a time we're living in.

Surely giving the referee a tablet or something would help in situations like this.

The suit guy on twitter is essential, but life-ruining content:

Unlucky, everyone who picked Mark Steel: Mark Steel: Comedian 'immensely relieved' to be cancer-free as he praises doctors - BBC News

I'm being punished for all the posts in the other thread. Cigarette Smoking Man is the father of Scully's baby. This is a fever dream and isn't real. I choose to believe that none of it exists.

I feel as if there should be a picture of the officer in question holding up a scarf in front of an empty stand.

Definitely not fanfiction.

Saw a good tweet a week or two ago, roughly along the lines of "one of the most exhausting things about modern life is phoning up Sky every 18 months and pretending you're going to leave so you can keep paying the same amount for your broadband." The system's a nonsense.

I had never heard Penny Lane by the Beatles until I heard it in Tesco a few years ago. I've never heard it before or since in any other context or location. Considering how highly thought of it is in their canon, it's pretty forgettable. Whenever you see mentions of the Beatles' best songs, I've not (knowingly) heard half of them.

Queen are too ubiquitous for me to consider them music. Don't Stop Me Now, I Want to Break Free, Radio Gaga, We Are the Champions, We Will Rock You, Bohemian Rhapsody, A Kind of Magic, Somebody to Love, You're My Best Friend (I'm looking up their singles and I didn't even realise this was them), Bicycle Race, Another One Bites the Dust and I Want it All are all inescapable in British culture, at least in my lifetime. I've never purposely sat down and listened to one of these songs, yet I'm pretty much completely familiar with how they all sound from beginning to end. Throw in the (largely American) apparent mass agreement on the internet that obviously Bohemian Rhapsody is the best song ever and obviously Freddie is the best frontman ever and obviously Live Aid is the best performance ever and... go away. I'm not interested.

The character is believed by some to have initiated a phenomenon referred to as "The Scully Effect," as the character's role as a medical doctor and FBI Special Agent inspired many young women to pursue careers in science, medicine, engineering, and law enforcement, and as a result brought a perceptible increase in the number of women in those fields.[68][69] At the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International, Anderson noted that she has long been aware of "The Scully Effect" and stated: "We got a lot of letters all the time, and I was told quite frequently by girls who were going into the medical world or the science world or the FBI world or other worlds that I reigned, that they were pursuing those pursuits because of the character of Scully. And I said, 'Yay!'"

I'm watching the new X-Files episodes. I had an inkling they wouldn't be very good but I'm most surprised by the production quality. I feel as if I'm watching one of those films Channel 5 shows at 2 in the afternoon.