2025 Dead Pool
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Topic: 2025 Dead Pool
Posted By: ExceedAndExcel
Subject: 2025 Dead Pool
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024 at 11:18am
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It’s that time of year again when the moderators brace themselves for a flurry of frivolous complaints as the thread for the 2025 version of what is indisputably one of the greatest competitions in forum history makes its appearance. Since its humble beginnings several years ago it has grown and grown to the juggernaut we see today. How disappointing it must be for Hello Sunshine/Isaac Solomon! From the moment she labeled it “ghoulish” its popularity has done nothing but rise! And then there’s the guy who last year was so crippled by the forum remembering the lives of those famous people who have left us that he packed up and took his toys to Italy where the lack of internet provided the ideal safe space to avoid such offensive material. Through it all, this thread has continued to thrive and no doubt will go on to reach even greater heights!
And so, we begin……
Who is on the list for 2025? Which celebrities will depart us? Which will we share fond memories of? And who will take home the prize and etch their name on the Dead Pool virtual trophy for 2025?
Hall Of Fame: 2017: Saintly96 2018: Oneonesit 2019: Saintly96 2020: Brudder_A 2021: Baghdad Bob 2022: Passing Through 2023: Brudder_A 2024: TBA With just over two weeks to go until 1 January it’s time to get your entries in. Plenty of time to pour over the form guides and work out who will be visited by the grim reaper in the next 12 months. Entries close 11:59pm Sydney time 31 December.
Rules:
- List 10 people (celebrities preferably) who will kick the bucket in 2025
- No people with already known death dates (eg death row inmates) OR with pre-existing terminal illnesses where death is likely in 2025
- Death must be confirmed by a reputable source as occurring during 2025 in the location of their death
Scoring:
Correct selection = 10 points
Bonus points = 100 minus age at death (eg a 75 year old correct selections scores 100-75=25 bonus points. NOTE: If your selection is over 100 you will lose points here.
NOTE: Seeing as he continues to hang on I will allow Jimmy Carter this year despite the hospice care status.
Enjoy this wonderful competition!
ETA:Too easy when so clearly expressed, unlike most 
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Posted By: jujuno
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024 at 11:30am
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I'll just put up last year's list...with any notable omissions..
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Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes...
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Posted By: jujuno
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024 at 11:41am
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Mitch McConnell...wishful thinking... Rupert Murdoch...ditto, as above... Dick van Dyke...just gotta go...surely. Step in time, man... Mel Brooks...if Dick goes, Mel will go too, to complete the three amigo deaths, Carl Reiner having already carked it. Glynis Johns...she's already hit the century mark. Can't be long. Ten points for last year. Clint Eastwood...he's been in my list for two years... Christopher Lloyd...ditto for him. Bob Newhart...he already looks dead... Sixteen points for last year. William Daniels...same comment as for Newhart... Robert Wagner...surely Jill St John has worn him out by now... Time to join Natalie, Bob. Molly Meldrum. Joe Biden. Sorry Joe...
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Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes...
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Posted By: Shawy38
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024 at 2:00pm
2024 list still relevant in 2025
1. Scott Morrison 2. Joe Biden 3. Kerri Anne Kennerley 4. Melania Trump 5. Prince Andrew 6. Ghislaine Maxwell 7. Bill Cosby 8. Pete Evans 9. Kanye West 10. Britney Spears
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Posted By: jujuno
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024 at 2:08pm
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There is a definite winning score in that list, Shawy...if anyone goes.
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Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes...
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Posted By: ExceedAndExcel
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024 at 5:29pm
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Joe Biden is a big chance to go quickly once he leaves the White House. Looks on his last legs already and once he doesn’t have anything to do he will quickly fade further. If not 2025 then 2026 he will be a certainly.
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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024 at 5:50pm
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Andy Taylor Linda Nolen Willie Nelson Ali Khamanei Angie Dickinson Benjamin Netanyahu Joe Biden Donald Trump Pope Francis Roberta Flack
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Posted By: horlicks
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024 at 6:01pm
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Rudy Giuliani Vladimir Putin John Major Steve Bannon Alex Jones John Howard Billy Connolly Newt Gingrich Jeremy Corbyn Bill Barr
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Posted By: Plastic letters
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024 at 6:34pm
 ExceedAndExcel wrote:
Joe Biden is a big chance to go quickly once he leaves the White House. Looks on his last legs already and once he doesn’t have anything to do he will quickly fade further. If not 2025 then 2026 he will be a certainly. |
Amazing the decline in Joe. Only a matter of weeks ago, he was as good as blokes half his age
Putin is an interesting tip, Horlicks….asassination?
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Posted By: horlicks
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024 at 8:21pm
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I do think it is possible PL
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Posted By: jujuno
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024 at 9:04pm
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Horlick's list looks like a wish list.
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Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes...
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Posted By: horlicks
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024 at 9:38pm
Posted By: stayer
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024 at 11:14pm
ExceedAndExcel wrote:
Joe Biden is a big chance to go quickly once he leaves the White House. Looks on his last legs already and once he doesn’t have anything to do he will quickly fade further. If not 2025 then 2026 he will be a certainly. |
Just have to point out that there were a few on here saying Joe was fine even after the debate disaster and months (years?) of evidence that he was going downhill fast. What was that neo-speak term the media and press secretary used to lie to the people about videos showing Joe's declined state of health? "Cheap fake" wasn't it? That was a useful term for a couple of months. Is it even used any more?
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Posted By: slowdown
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2024 at 6:45am
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agree that he should have kept to a one term Stayer. He probably cost the dems the election. Throwing Kamala in at the last moment was too much to ask. to only lose by 1.4% was a pretty good effort really. From what I can tell there was a 2% reduction in eligible voters voting. Possibly through the 2 choices or just that covid increased numbers last time. The problem was some of the footage was fake also from the likes of murdochs mob trying to show Joe wandering off into wherever when really he was heading over to speak with a serviceman. Both sides guilty there. From my whole experience I have found that you have to work through the information providers and see who gives a balanced, sane commentary on each subject. The likes of Fox who have been found to repeated to lies of ballot machines etc etc etc and then there are the dem focused youtube clips that are there for the clicks. It is pretty simple to work out who is bullshi tting and who can report witth honesty.
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The Spirit of Zero resuming. Raymond(Midnight) Resuming next week. Lulu (Rising) spelling. Alli - Spelling. Jeffrey spelling. Ambi Boo spelling. Sh'bourne Angel spelling.
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Posted By: furious
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2024 at 7:35am
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That's the trouble slowdown. I think every newsite seems to work to an agenda these days. Bit like war time propaganda. A little truth and a little lie and mix them altogether and what do you get. Some pretty confused people.
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Posted By: furious
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2024 at 7:41am
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Could say that truth is dead. It is the dead pool. It's not up to the different news channels to lead people by their noses. They are supposed to state the facts. Not the facts they like and leave out the others. And that happens on all sites both left and right. What happened to telling the news and letting people decide what they believe in.
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Posted By: slowdown
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2024 at 7:52am
agree Furious. partly they wanted trump to win . who is going to make more news over the next 4 years. trump or Kamala
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The Spirit of Zero resuming. Raymond(Midnight) Resuming next week. Lulu (Rising) spelling. Alli - Spelling. Jeffrey spelling. Ambi Boo spelling. Sh'bourne Angel spelling.
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Posted By: ExceedAndExcel
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2024 at 12:20am
stayer wrote:
ExceedAndExcel wrote:
Joe Biden is a big chance to go quickly once he leaves the White House. Looks on his last legs already and once he doesn’t have anything to do he will quickly fade further. If not 2025 then 2026 he will be a certainly. |
Just have to point out that there were a few on here saying Joe was fine even after the debate disaster and months (years?) of evidence that he was going downhill fast. What was that neo-speak term the media and press secretary used to lie to the people about videos showing Joe's declined state of health? "Cheap fake" wasn't it? That was a useful term for a couple of months. Is it even used any more? |
Laughable that anyone would say he was fine after the debate. That was an embarrassment. That said, he was much different four years ago. People saying he was unintelligible four years ago are just as delusional as anyone saying there wasn’t anything wrong with him at the debate. As usual the truth is somewhere in the middle.
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Posted By: Gay3
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2024 at 9:58am
Olivia Hussey, star of Romeo and Juliet and Black Christmas, dies aged 73
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It takes a wise man a lifetime to grow a tree and a fool five minutes to kill one.
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Posted By: ExceedAndExcel
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024 at 12:23am
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A couple more days till this kicks off. May or may not make the time to come up with my own list. Who knows. Do have a few specials though.
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Posted By: Shawy38
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024 at 8:25am
Jimmy has fallen off the perch just before the 2024 deadline
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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024 at 8:27am
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He was banned from the comp anyway.
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Posted By: VSP.
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024 at 11:12am
I'll stick with my 2024 list and give a further kiss of life to:Willie Nelson
Liza Minelli
Alan Alda
Mel Brookes
Bill Clinton
Rod Laver
Ken Rosewall
Michael Caine
Danny DeVito
Imelda Marcos
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Posted By: Freefall
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024 at 11:15am
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Apart from Imelda VSP, some of my favourites 😀
Hope you’re wrong.
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Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024 at 11:36am
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1 Mickey Rourke 2 Michael Douglas 3 Clint Eastwood 4 Jeff Bridges 5 Gene Hackman 6 Robert Duvall 7 Nick Nolte 8 Sally Field 9 Shelly Long 10 Jessica Lange
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Posted By: marble
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2024 at 12:03pm
Imran Khan
donald trump steve bannon alice cooper mickey rourke jack nicklaus keith richards tom cruise prince Andrew Gary Busey
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Posted By: Brudder_A
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2024 at 1:41pm
Terry Bradshaw
Mel Brooks
vladmir putin
Rod Laver
Alan Greenspan
Dick Van Dyke
Clint Eastwood
Willie Nelson
Barrie Robran
Alan Mullery
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Posted By: jujuno
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2024 at 4:06pm
Terry Bradshaw was looking pretty healthy the other day.
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Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes...
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Posted By: acacia alba
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2024 at 11:07pm
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Geez how do you all come up with the list ? I reckon Clint Eastwood must be close, and Willie . How long can they go on ?? What about Mick Jagger ? He looks 10 days older than water. And I thought Rod Laver was already gone .  Shows you what I know. And,,,Oh PLEASE, Vlad P. 
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animals before people.
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Posted By: VOYAGER
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2025 at 7:23pm
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I know I am late but will put a top ten in.
One older, international politician - Benjamin Netanyahu One older musician - Ross Wilson (Daddy Cool & Mondo Rock) One older sportsperson - Dawn Fraser One older entertainer - Clint Eastwood One older business person - Gina Rheinhart Younger musician - Justin Beiber (he is my hail mary for the year and also wishful thinking selection) Younger Sportsperson - Ezra Mam Younger Actor - Renee Zeigler (actress from the horrible live action Snow White film) John Major Ken Roswell
Good luck to all the players!
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Remember, it might take intelligence to be smart , but it takes experience to be wise
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Posted By: jujuno
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2025 at 9:27pm
VOYAGER wrote:
I know I am late but will put a top ten in.
One older, international politician - Benjamin Netanyahu One older musician - Ross Wilson (Daddy Cool & Mondo Rock) One older sportsperson - Dawn Fraser One older entertainer - Clint Eastwood One older business person - Gina Rheinhart Younger musician - Justin Beiber (he is my hail mary for the year and also wishful thinking selection) Younger Sportsperson - Ezra Mam Younger Actor - Renee Zeigler (actress from the horrible live action Snow White film) John Major Ken Roswell
Good luck to all the players! |
Rachel Zegler you mean? 
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Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes...
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Posted By: ExceedAndExcel
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2025 at 4:10am
ExceedAndExcel wrote:
A couple more days till this kicks off. May or may not make the time to come up with my own list. Who knows. Do have a few specials though. |
Looks like I was indisposed so didn’t get my entry in. Suppose that will happen when on holidays with better things to do than log in here every night. |
Posted By: Shawy38
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2025 at 7:07am
Chad Morgan, country music legend, 91
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Posted By: Plastic letters
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2025 at 9:19am
ExceedAndExcel wrote:
ExceedAndExcel wrote:
A couple more days till this kicks off. May or may not make the time to come up with my own list. Who knows. Do have a few specials though. |
Looks like I was indisposed so didn’t get my entry in. Suppose that will happen when on holidays with better things to do than log in here every night. |
Oh but you did log in and post…..on a thread taking the piss over dead people👐
Get back to your “holiday” looks like you’re having fun😆😆
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Posted By: jujuno
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2025 at 9:29am
ExceedAndExcel wrote:
ExceedAndExcel wrote:
A couple more days till this kicks off. May or may not make the time to come up with my own list. Who knows. Do have a few specials though. |
Looks like I was indisposed so didn’t get my entry in. Suppose that will happen when on holidays with better things to do than log in here every night. |
There has always been late entries.
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Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes...
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Posted By: Whale
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2025 at 10:13am
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May be too late, anyway see how these go.
Richard PuseyJohn Singleton Andrew O'Keefe Sam Newman Rudy Giuliani Marjorie Taylor Greene Judi Dench Derek Jacobi Chris Christie Jim Sensenbrenner
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Posted By: Whale
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2025 at 10:14am
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Never thought I would enter this competition, amazing what boredom does
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Posted By: jujuno
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2025 at 11:12am
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It was roundly criticized the first year...but it isn't all that macabre.
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Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes...
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Posted By: marble
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2025 at 6:12pm
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chad morgan - 91, a good innings. as the old saying goes, he could eat an apple through a picket fence
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Posted By: marble
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2025 at 6:15pm
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sorry - shawy had already mentioned Chad
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Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2025 at 9:18am
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Chris Hoy Michael J Fox Ananda Lewis - former MTV VJ and "Teen Summit" host Sanjay Dutt
Ronnie Wood James Van Der Beek Shirley Chung - " https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2024/03/20/kristen-kish-top-chef-host-talks-season-21/73016736007/" rel="nofollow - Top Chef " star Erik Jansen - Walking Dead Lance Armstrong Elon Musk
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Manners are of more importance than laws
Edmund Burke
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Posted By: VOYAGER
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2025 at 6:08pm
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Saw Chad on a cruise 18 months ago and he was just as entertaining and creative as any of the artists on that cruise that were half his age.
Great storyteller of Australiana, up there with Patterson, Lawson and Dusty.
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Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025 at 12:16pm
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Hollywood screenwriter and
director Jeffrey Baena, the husband of Aubrey Plaza, died by suicide,
the Los Angeles county medical examiner says. Baena, 47, died at his home on January 3.
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Manners are of more importance than laws
Edmund Burke
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Posted By: jujuno
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2025 at 11:00am
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Peter Yarrow, 86.
Of P, P and M fame.
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Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes...
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Posted By: stayer
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2025 at 11:37am
Posted By: stayer
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2025 at 11:39am
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Meh not working. Was just the Puff the Magic Dragon scene from Meet thr Fockers.
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Posted By: jujuno
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2025 at 12:48pm
Some youtube videos get blocked, especially from tv channels.
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Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes...
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Posted By: jujuno
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2025 at 12:51pm
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Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes...
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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2025 at 9:08am
Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 10:42am
David Lynch 79. Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks etc
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Manners are of more importance than laws
Edmund Burke
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Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 10:52am
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wow that puff the magic dragon video, I haven't heard since I was a kid, but immediately remembered every single word to the song when I played it. I find it so nuts, how your brain can readily fish stuff up from the bowels of your grey matter from 50 years ago with consummate ease, and I can't remember squat from yesterday ??
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Posted By: jujuno
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 10:55am
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It's called 'getting old', Fiddles.
I can remember running to my grandmother's house at age two...but struggle to remember what we had for dinner last night.
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Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes...
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Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 11:55am
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I remember sitting in a baby walker, & standing next to it and using it for support when I was 14-16 months old ? My mum claims I couldn't possibly but I can I assure you.
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Posted By: jujuno
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 12:31pm
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Some of us have advanced memory.
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Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes...
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Posted By: acacia alba
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 12:46pm
Fiddlesticks wrote:
wow that puff the magic dragon video, I haven't heard since I was a kid, but immediately remembered every single word to the song when I played it. I find it so nuts, how your brain can readily fish stuff up from the bowels of your grey matter from 50 years ago with consummate ease, and I can't remember squat from yesterday ??
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Thats what age does to the grey matter, Fiddles. Back when Mum was 88 with dementia she couldnt remember 5 mins ago but could name every kid in her class at school.
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animals before people.
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Posted By: furious
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 1:00pm
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I couldn't even do that when I was at school. Mum would ask who was in my class and I'd look at her blankly. Can never keep names there they just leak away.
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Posted By: Brudder_A
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 10:14pm
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Bob Uecker - former pro baseballer and more notable as a commentator (50+ years @ Milwaukee Brewers) and lightweight comedian - 90
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Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.
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Posted By: Brudder_A
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2025 at 7:48am
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Denis Law, 84
Huddersfield, ManCity, Torino, ManUtd, SCOTLAND great footballer
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Posted By: jujuno
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2025 at 10:30am
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Dame Joan Plowright....aka Lady Olivier...at 95.
Next one to go will probably be Judi Dench. The famous dames are all going, one by one...
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Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes...
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Posted By: Foxseal
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2025 at 5:10pm
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One of my favourite rock bands - Whitesnake
Whitesnake guitarist John Sykes dies at 65
The British rock guitarist John Sykes, who played with Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy, has died aged 65.
In 1984, he joined Whitesnake at the invitation of founder and frontman David Coverdale, recording parts for their Slide It In album and later for their self-titled 1987 release which was a critical and commercial success. Sykes appeared on two Whitesnake albums and co-wrote some of the band's best-known songs, including Still Of The Night and Is This Love.
A statement on his website said Sykes "passed away after a hard fought battle with cancer".
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Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2025 at 6:11pm
Foxseal wrote:
One of my favourite rock bands - Whitesnake
Whitesnake guitarist John Sykes dies at 65
The British rock guitarist John Sykes, who played with Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy, has died aged 65.
In 1984, he joined Whitesnake at the invitation of founder and frontman David Coverdale, recording parts for their Slide It In album and later for their self-titled 1987 release which was a critical and commercial success. Sykes appeared on two Whitesnake albums and co-wrote some of the band's best-known songs, including Still Of The Night and Is This Love.
A statement on his website said Sykes "passed away after a hard fought battle with cancer".
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fk hate seeing this, it just keeps on killing us in huge numbers and we still haven't found a cure ?? how is that possible ??
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Posted By: Second Chance
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2025 at 6:35pm
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Well certainly not for absence of research Fiddles, that's for sure and certain. Particularly considering that cancer for whatever reason develops in different cells for apparently different reasons.
Find a universal cure and there's multi millions to be made.
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Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2025 at 8:34pm
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be nice to just preserve peoples lives another 10 to 20 years you know, we work hard all our lives then get taken out by a shtty celluar growth like cancer, so cruel it really is.
I'm just annoyed at the moment as I have a nasty little growth on my face that looks very melanoma like, it's only tiny at the moment but I know what they look like by now, could be a BCC, hope so, but I am concerned and want it looked at asap. The earliest I can get into my clinic is just under 3 weeks, I'm counting the days.
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Posted By: stayer
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2025 at 8:44pm
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If you were a surfer you'll probably have a few scares coming up at your age, fiddles. Just get anything you notice looked at ASAP and yearly whole-body checks etc. You can't see your back in a mirror.
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Posted By: Fiddlesticks
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2025 at 11:23pm
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I was a surfer all my junior years, from the time I could paddle a KFC foamy and boogie board, I lived for it, its all we did as young lads. If the surf was good school was jigged, simple. We checked every beach and headland on the mid north coast religiously for waves, we hunted waves every single day we could. There were some days when we were piling 8 of us into an old HK holden, 3 on the front bench and 5 squeezed on the back seat. All our boards stacked up high on the roof of the car, held down by the leg-ropes on shtty cheap roof racks. We'd chip in a couple of bucks for fuel each, grab a chicko and some chips at the servo and we were gone all day.
There were some days were the surf was so good that we only came in to take a quick break of a ciggie and a swig of water, we'd be soo sunburnt, red faces, bleached blonde, long ratty hair, the only sun protection being some zinc on the nose and lips. It got so bad on me one time I had big watery sun blisters all over my arms and shoulders, skin would peel off in sheets off our backs and noses. In the end I had to wear n old long sleeved skivvy with roll up neck under my spring suit to protect my arms and neck as my skin just couldn't take it anymore.
Now as as a old git, my skin is covered in scars from multiple small operations to remove sun cancers.
I've have had at least 30 minor operations to remove various sun cancers, I get a full body check up from the bottom of my feet to my scalp every 12 months now for the past 15 years, I'd be dead by now if I didn't for sure. Whenever the doctors check me over they go 'oh wow you really were out in the sun when you were young eh' ? They see one, they se another, mark me with purple felt tips, they say oh we are going to have to cut these out, but it won't look pretty. I'm like are you serious ? do I look like I care what it looks like ?
I couldn't care less what it looks like, cut them out, make sure you don't miss/leave any in there, ( that's happened twice before ) then sew me up and keep me alive thanks.
I had half my face taken off with one operation, couldn't believe how big this one BCC got on my face/side of my head, they took loads of skin grafts off all around my neck to help seal that one up, it was around the size of a 50 cent coin. That one was 12 stitches down my neck for the grafting and other 8 running up around the side of my face, and a few others to seal up the wound.
I never in my wildest dreams ever thought I'd have something like happen to my face, it's not so bad now, I point it out to people before they stare and then when they see it they go oh wow oh yeah I see damn that's huge. But that's sun cancer, its insidious and doesn't care about your looks. |
Posted By: acacia alba
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2025 at 11:30pm
Those among us who rode a lot need to watch backs of hands and arms. Baaaad area for skin cancers.
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Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2025 at 10:11am
Garth Hudson, 87. The Band are all dead now.
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Manners are of more importance than laws
Edmund Burke
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Posted By: Whale
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2025 at 10:13am
Michael "Mick" Turner, a former Geelong Football Club captain and player development manager, died from pancreatic cancer in December 2024. He was 70 years old.
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Declaration of Independence, signed after The Civil War. Trump said so.
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Posted By: Whale
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2025 at 10:14am
Ken Newland ex Geelong footballer 75
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Declaration of Independence, signed after The Civil War. Trump said so.
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Posted By: stayer
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2025 at 10:43am
Tlazolteotl wrote:
Garth Hudson, 87. The Band are all dead now.
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Posted By: stayer
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2025 at 10:48am
Garth the mad monk on the keys.
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Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025 at 3:21pm
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Sam “The Punisher” Abdulrahim - 32
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Manners are of more importance than laws
Edmund Burke
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Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025 at 3:23pm
"At just 32, Abdulrahim had been the target of three murder contracts, a prison bashing, three assaults, a dozen firebombings and seven shootings. He’d already survived one attempted hit after being shot eight times, and another where he escaped a hail of 17 bullets."
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Manners are of more importance than laws
Edmund Burke
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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025 at 3:24pm
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Was he the bloke shot a number of times in the chest a few years ago?
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Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025 at 3:30pm
A gunman pumped at least eight bullets into Abdulrahim, four of them across the chest, but he managed to drive to a local police station and survived again.
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Manners are of more importance than laws
Edmund Burke
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Posted By: Whale
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025 at 3:44pm
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Sam “The Punisher” Abdulrahim - 32
why the
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Declaration of Independence, signed after The Civil War. Trump said so.
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Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025 at 4:10pm
He was a boxer.
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Manners are of more importance than laws
Edmund Burke
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Posted By: acacia alba
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025 at 4:19pm
Among other things, obviously 
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animals before people.
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Posted By: Whale
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025 at 4:36pm
Succinct
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Declaration of Independence, signed after The Civil War. Trump said so.
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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025 at 5:33pm
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He was a mobster, now he is dead, oh well.
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Posted By: Second Chance
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025 at 5:35pm
Sh1t happens:
January 6 rioter Matthew Huttle shot dead by police during traffic stop just days after Trump pardon
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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025 at 5:50pm
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Wonder if the cop recognized him?
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Posted By: Freefall
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025 at 6:16pm
Posted By: acacia alba
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025 at 7:40pm
Passing Through wrote:
He was a mobster, now he is dead, oh well. |
Who cares
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animals before people.
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Posted By: jujuno
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2025 at 9:02am
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Souths legend, Gary Stevens. 81. Gaz played 228 games for Souths, including 161 in first grade. He was a member of our '70 and '71 winning Grand Final teams.
Also, a really good bloke.
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Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes...
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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2025 at 8:00am
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Marianne Faithful aged 79.
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Posted By: stayer
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2025 at 8:02am
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How the hell did she live that long?
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Posted By: Whale
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2025 at 9:38am
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Declaration of Independence, signed after The Civil War. Trump said so.
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Posted By: jujuno
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2025 at 2:17pm
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Troy Sellwood, 40.
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Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes...
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Posted By: Gay3
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2025 at 9:51am
The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the world's Ismaili Muslims, has died at age 88
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It takes a wise man a lifetime to grow a tree and a fool five minutes to kill one.
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Posted By: Bonjour
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2025 at 12:31pm
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And a thoroughbred breeding Icon! God knows how many Gr1 winners the man bred, what a loss.
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Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2025 at 12:39pm
Do Ismaili Muslims worship at casinos or the track?
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Manners are of more importance than laws
Edmund Burke
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Posted By: acacia alba
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2025 at 1:30pm
Does he have heirs who will carry on his racing and breeding ?? Having visited Gilltown Stud in Ireland it would be aweful to see it broken up.
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animals before people.
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Posted By: Bonjour
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2025 at 1:44pm
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chances are his daughter, Zahra, will carry on....lets hope so.
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Posted By: horlicks
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2025 at 3:53pm
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Former WC Eagles premierdhip player Adam Hunter aged 43.
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Posted By: Whale
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2025 at 10:12am
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Philip Brady 85 Cancer
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Declaration of Independence, signed after The Civil War. Trump said so.
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Posted By: acacia alba
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2025 at 10:55am
David Merrick.
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animals before people.
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Posted By: acacia alba
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2025 at 11:26am
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Margaret McDonald, the mother of Cranbourne-based trainer Clinton McDonald, has died aged 76. Clinton McDonald said his mother, who was the daughter of trainer Bon Hoysted, passed away in her sleep on Sunday night. Margaret
McDonald was born into racing, with her grandfather Fred Hoysted the
trainer of Rising Fast and her father preparing the great Manikato. She
married trainer Ross McDonald, who died in 2014, and was by her
husband's side as he oversaw the careers of Courtza, Imposera, Tristarc
and the brilliant Weekend Hussler. Margaret McDonald was present
in the training career of her son Clinton, who became a third-generation
Blue Diamond winning-trainer with Hayasugi in 2024.
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animals before people.
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Posted By: Bonjour
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2025 at 12:14pm
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Some would say the brains behind that operation, I got to meet Margaret quite a lot and you wouldn't meet a nicer person, a lovely lady and could have been a champion trainer in her own right. Best wishes to Clinton and the family.
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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2025 at 12:19pm
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Gerald Ridsdale aged 90 in prison.
Rot in hell.
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