Points Of Dead

ANDRÉS ESCOBAR* Haven't played it Bit of an own goal, this one
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Bit of an own goal, this one
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Bit of an own goal, this one
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A cappuccino, please
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And a bun
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Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh!
LORD LUCAN Nice name change
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Nice name change
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Can you direct me to the railway station?
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Second- class return to Notting- ham, please
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Make that Africa
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I'm a guest of J Mengele
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Who's going to look after the kids?
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Haven't played it
OJ SIMPSON Haven't played it Police Squad, more like
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I'd much prefer a driving game
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Haven't gone near the place
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Pull up at the next corner
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See you in Naked Gun 4
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See you in 25 years
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Haven't played it
HORACE DOVE- EDWIN Really quick
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Very quick
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Where's the ice-cream and stanozol?
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There's Linford in his car
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There's a small red demon with a pizza
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I think I've broken the time barrier
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My chest hurts
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Does this plane go to Sierra Leone?
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BEELZEBUB Great music
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Toe- tapping music
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Classical music
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Not enough music
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Spawn of the devil. You see?
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Haven't played it I don't remember leaving the door open Where's Hamble?
BOB Scratch
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Snuffle
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Forage
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Eat
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Sleep
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Trans- sexualise
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Fall ill Recover
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RAUL JULIA Diddly dum
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Click click
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Diddly dum
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Click click
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Diddly dum diddly dum diddly dum
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Thump   Haven't played it
STEVE THE PUBL- ISHER* Well that's it then - I'm off
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...
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Goodbye then
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...
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Erm, seeya!
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...
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...
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(Slam)
DENG XIAOPING Tora Tora Tora!
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Oh no, hang on, that wasn't us
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Bloody students
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Clever
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Uuughh
(Thud)
  Only joking
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Oh no!
WALT DISNEY You're fired, Ed And I hear you're a communist Kids love Disneyland I'm sure they were here a moment ago Commie pinkie sub- versive, more like Clarence Cancer   I'll be back
RONNIE KRAY We're mad, aren't we Reggie? We just don't know what we'll do next Evening, Jack Stabbity stab poke stab Gold! Always believing! Got 100 lights? Hnnnghh
(Clump)
Haven't played it
GINGER ROGERS Tappity tap tap
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Cigarette me, big boy
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Tappity tappity
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I said, cigarette me, big boy
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Fred? Fred?
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Tap... tappity...
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Clunk Haven't played it
PLUMBER I've come to sluice the tank
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Hooray, tankie tankie!
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Wheee!
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Wahey!
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Caramba!
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Ooof Phew! That was fun
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Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh!

Fewer games equalled fewer points.

DEAD PERSON Nobody funny has died this month So they're resorting to archetypes
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They think it's clever
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To mock the dead
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The celebrity needn't be dead
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But Hugh Grant's been overdone
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And Lee Clegg's out of the question
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UNITED NATIONS Um...
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Er...
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Um...
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Hmmm...
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Er...
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Phew, they're all dead Fancy a drink?
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WRECKLESS ERIC* When I was a young boy My mother said to me "There's only one girl..." "...in the world for you..." "...and she probably lives in Tahiti." KABOOM! That's that then
RED RUM And they're off
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And he's over The Chair
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And he's cleared The Stile
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And he's over Beecher's Brook
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And he's dead
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  Miaow
BIG CHIEF I-SPY I spy something beginning with H
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I spy something beginning with C
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I spy something beginning with F
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I spy something beginning with D
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Aaarghh!   Ooo, velvet
FRANÇOIS MITTERAND Bonjour, mes petits
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Répetez
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Qui a coupé le fromage?
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"Who has cut the cheese?"
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Je suis mort
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"I am dead"
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Aaarghh!
GENE KELLY I'm singing in the rain
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Splish splash splosh
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Just singing in the rain
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What a glorious feeling
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Actually, I don't feel all that glorious
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  Never played with it
BOB PAISLEY The boys done good
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We can play better
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The tactics were wrong
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No comment
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A vote of confidence you say?
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  Never saw it
DAISY Moo
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Moo
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Moo
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I am Lord Palmerston
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Bang   Burger anyone?
"ED"* (Enjoyable)
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(Explosive)
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(Exciting)
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(Ethereal)
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(Edible)
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(Erm) (Snip!)

And to show we don't begrudge our own brutal slayings, some new guests.

REV W AUDRY Toot toot
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Look out - leaves!
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Look out - snow!
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Look out - rocks!
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  We apologise for the delay   The Rev W Audry has been cancelled
DENG XIAOPING Haven't played it Haven't played it Haven't played it Haven't played it Haven't played it Haven't played it Haven't played it Haven't played it
DENIS COMPTON A six!
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A six!
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A four!
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A six!
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A two - but cheekily stealing a three!
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A six!
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  Ashes!
THE MRTA All right everyone - cheer for your side
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Pass, you dunder- head
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Shoot!
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Goal!
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Pity there's no bath
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Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Aaarghh! Surely that's a foul, ref?
ALLEN GINSBERG (Snap) Coffee
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(Snap) Coffee
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(Snap) Coffee
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(Slump) Deaddio
JACQUES COUSTEAU I am a wonder of the deep
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I frolic in my natural habitat
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I pounce upon my prey
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I dart among the splendour of the reefs
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I invent the aqualung
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With my deceptive colouring I elude predators
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I am endan- gered
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I am extinct
JEFF BUCKLEY Give me a C
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Breastroke, backstroke
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Butterfly and crawl
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Dog- paddle, belly- flop
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You can do them all
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Learn... to...
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  Sign my copy of Grace?
ROBERT MITCHUM The door burst open. I moved to cover the dame
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Three sneers walked in with hoods behind them
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One went to frisk me. I saw we weren't going to be friends
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I slapped the punk. His hip pockets bounced on the floor
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All three went for their guns, but mine was already here
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I held the dame as a material witness and because I liked it
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The case was closed
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I rode into the sunset
JAMES STEWART Waaaaal, now just hold on
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Waaaaal, there's no need for that
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Waaaaal, you know that's not true, honey
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Waaaaal, maybe we aren't rich, but we're happy
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Waaaal, now, that's better
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Waaaagh   Ting-a-ling
GIANNI VERSACE Suit you sir
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Sartorial elegance
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Functional but stylish
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A return for the pinstripe
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Clings where it hugs where it shapes
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More lycra for Signor Dredd
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Blam! Blam! Blam! This stain will never come out
JAMES GOLDSMITH Out!
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Out!
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Out!
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Out!
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Out!
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Of breath!
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I've lost my deposit Video for Mr Goldsmill?
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