https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/14/new-kenny-baker-r2-d2-named-as-scottish-actor-jimmy-vee

The actor who will replace the late Kenny Baker as iconic droid R2-D2 in the Star Wars films has been announced. Jimmy Vee, a 57-year-old Scottish actor who has appeared in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Pan will take on the role, having apparently learned the ropes from Baker himself.

Vee actually appeared as the droid in 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but went uncredited, with Baker named as the actor. The replacement’s first official outing in costume will be tStar Wars: The Last Jedi, to be released at Christmas.

Just met Jimmy Vee at dinner. Cool! Can't wait to have some more celebrity run ins.

It's mid-January already! I've felt lately that two weeks ahead of time has been in the right groove for these posts, so this is right on time. Mods have permission to sticky.

As motorsports fans, we all know what gets us through the winter blues. Rolex and Chill. Ladies and gentlemen, it is that time again. With convergence of prototype and GT3 regulations around the world, the 2022 Rolex 24 at Daytona is looking to have one of its biggest and deepest fields since the unification of Grand-Am and the American Le Mans Series. A capacity crowd of about sixty cars is expected to be on track at the end of the month, and that means an incredible number of seats will be filled by some of motorsports' biggest stars and weekend warriors, including dozens of drivers who have visited or made their home in the top ranks of American open wheel racing, be it IndyCar, CART, or ChampCar, as well as multiple 2022 rookie of the year hopefuls. You'll see plenty of your usual suspects, some young guns making their Rolex debuts, and even some deep cuts you maybe forgot have raced in an Indy car at some point.

With an open wheel class as deep as it often has been, there was no shortage of celebration for Indy car fans in 2021's running. Wayne Taylor's Daytona Prototype International (DPi) team conquered the high banks yet again and got Alexander Rossi and Helio Castroneves their first watches before Castroneves brought the house down at Indy for his fourth 500 title. ChampCar alum Ryan Dalziel helped the always colorful Era Motorsports earn top honors in the Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) class, and Spencer Pigot and Oliver Askew scored one for the young guns in the LMP3s' 24 hour debut. While there was no such luck in the swan song for the GT Le Mans category nor GT Daytona's (GTD) last season as a strictly pro-am discipline, the new GT3 rules have made it more inviting for factory and independent teams to run against each other, as the new GT Daytona Pro (GTP) class will augment the popular pro-am lineup.

As always, the maximum entry list for teams is dictated by the cars entered for the Roar Before the 24 test sessions earlier in the month. With concerns of the COVID-19 pandemic still in mind, driver changes may very well occur between the Roar and the race weekend proper. I will do my best to continually read up on entry changes that may necessitate this post to be edited, and to handle those edits as necessary. When all else is in doubt, consult the changelog at the bott

Round 16: 2021 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach

👋 Welcome to the r/INDYCAR race discussion thread for the 2021 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach.

📍 Circuit Information

• Location — Shoreline Drive, Long Beach, California
• Track Type — Temporary street course
• Length — 1.968 miles (3.167km)
• Turns — 12 (6 left, 6 right)

🏁 Race Information

• Laps — 85
• Distance — 167.28 miles (269.211km)
• Green flag — 12:45pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC−07:00)

📺 Broadcast Information

Broadcasts with 📼 indicate tape-delayed coverage.

Broadcast notes:

1. Late join to live coverage following NFL.
2. Late join to live coverage following NFL. Broadcast shown in full, Monday 7am or 3pm MSK.

📝 Starting Grid

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Hello lovely Taskmaster-mad people!While watching this series, I was having fun creating a list of people whom I realistically think could be on the next series of Taskmaster.Obviously, Alex has the ability to get big stars of UK comedy on the show... e.g. Frank Skinner in Series 1, Alan Davies in Series 12, and plenty of others in between not to be forgotten. But there are certain comedy favourites that often come up in surveys like this one, that we'd LOVE to see. E.g. Richard Ayoade, Sandi Toksvig, David Mitchell, Jimmy Carr, that could maybe say yes. But they have busy schedules and they host their own shows/have massive careers, so might be less likely to be on Taskmaster anytime soon.

Who would you love to see on Taskmaster in future AND you think would actually say yes if Alex asked them?

Here's a waaay too long and, admittedly subjective, list of possible contestants that I thought of (in no order whatsoever). Thoughts and feelings Taskmaster Community? And, even better, additions, people I've left out?

• Catherine Bohart
• Ross Noble
• Sue Perkins
• Munya Chawawa
• Ahir Shah
• Miles Jupp
• Tom Allen
• Judi Love
• Rob Delaney
• Fern Brady
• Ed Byrne
• Ivo Graham
• John Robins
• Suzi Ruffell
• Matthew Crosby
• Angela Barnes
• Kiri Pritchard-McLean
• Jessie Cave
• Jack Dee
• Cariad Lloyd
• Phill Jupitus
• Marcus Brigstock
• Robert Webb
• Eshaan Akbar
• David O'Doherty
• Josie Long
• Bill Bailey
• Susan Calman
• Maisie Adam
• Sindhu Vee
• Andrew Maxwell
• Ellie Taylor
• Rachel Parris
• Chris Addison
• Isy Suttie
• Claudia Winkleman

EDIT (To include some further names and some of the awesome, and very possible, suggestions below, we'll have taskmaster line-ups ready to go up to Series 27 at this point, "Long May King Greg Reign!"):

• Adam Buxton
• Shappi Khorsandi
• Kiell Smith-Bynoe
• John Kearns
• Marek Larwood
• Sophie Duker
• Harriet Kemsley
• Paul Merton
• Darren Harriott
• Nick Helm
• Henning Wehn
• Dane Baptiste
• Zoe Lyons
• Diane Morgan
• Russell Kane
• Sam Simmons
• Holly Walsh
• Chris Ramsey
• Ronnie Ancona
• Andy Hamilton
• Tony Law
• Joel Dommett
• Rhys James
• Rick Edwards
• Jayde Adams
• Jason Manford
• Rachel Fairburn
• Sarah Keyworth
• Felicity Ward
• Mae Martin
• Elis James
• Margaret Cabourn-Smith
• Scroobius Pip
• Olga Koch
• Steen Raskopoulos
• Simon Bird
• Natasia Demetriou
• Jamie Demetriou
• Tiff Stevenson
• Andrew Hunter Murray
• Alice Fraser
• Rufus Hound
• Nathan Caton
• Stephen Mangan
• Alasdair Beckett-King

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

So it's been another pretty good year on the sub; not least that we hit 100,000 subscribers and are already at (looks right-->) nearly 120k.

I found a bot that has summarised the year on the sub. Unfortunately it can only read 1000 posts which misses off, roughly, the first 90 days of the year, but meh, it's good enough.

So without further ado (thanks again, u/subreddit_stats !):

Period: 275.14 days

###Top Submitters' Top Submissions

1. 7210 points, 32 submissions: /u/pairsofsox
2. Rinus VeeKay and Oliver Askew at Road America (709 points, 33 comments)
3. Alexander Rossi’s new livery for 2021 (383 points, 28 comments)
4. Happy Birthday Justin Wilson. You are deeply missed! (369 points, 6 comments)
5. Bobby Unser Jr. passes away (365 points, 14 comments)
6. A few more shots of Alexander Rossi’s AutoNation livery from the test session at Sebring (from Alexander Rossi’s Facebook) (319 points, 7 comments)
7. Felix Rosenqvist on Instagram: “Even watching this hurts 🥵 Damn that was a big hit! Impressive how safe and strong these cars are built, thanks @dallaragroup @indycar, and…” (294 points, 10 comments)
8. P2 in Indianapolis, all the action onboard - Romain Grosjean on YouTube (281 points, 34 comments)
9. 2.17 miles. 11 Turns. 1 bridge. 🌉🤠 Ride along with @RGrosjean for a full lap of @IndyCar racing around the streets of Nashville. #PoweredByHonda // #INDYCAR // #MusicCityGP - HPD-North American Motorsport on Twitter (264 points, 71 comments)
10. [MARCO ANDRETTI JOINS COUSIN JARETT ANDRETTI TO CO-DRIVE ANDRETTI AUTOSPORT'S NO. 36 IN THE IMSA WEATHERTECH SPORTSCAR CHAMPIONSHIP'S SIX HOURS OF WATKINS GLEN](https://www.andrettiautosport.com/news/marco-andretti-joins-cousin-jarett-andretti-to-co-drive-andretti-autosports-no-

There's quite a few names in this yearbook, so sticking with just the ones with fun nicknames, plus anything on the more unusual side.

Girls

Gertrude Ethel "Skirts"

Louise Virginia "Weesie"

Baylise Viola

Elizabeth Miriam "Giggles"

Willie Mae "Piggie"

Eleanora Madeline "Boots"

Florence "Little Bits"

Credella

Virion Cecelia

Frances Ingram "Bubbles"

Arlyn Juanda "Gipsy"

Jacqueline Winona "Giggles"

Ada Marlene Dietrich (seriously, Marlene Dietrich was the middle name--I love it haha)

Theadore Magdalene

Thelma Elizabeth "Teeny Weeny"

Helen Gertrude "Shef"

Ella Theophia "Hicky"

Mamie Fannie "Duck"

Charlotte Thirdinia

Audren Novella

Thelma Carleen "Piggy"

Veral

Marserlene "Wicky"

Arbutus Virginia

Ada Flemontine "Snooks"

Willa Lee "Tiny"

Eleanor Eloyce

Virginia Ellen "Ginger"

Gonevia Vee "Bish"

Veryl Estelle "Peaches"

Vivian Odessa "Minnow"

Alexina Ruth

Yvonne Ferebee

Portia James "Jimmy"

Martie Ann "Boots"

Pauline Louise "Tippy"

Elmatee "Tallyho"

twin sisters Dorothy Francina and Francina Dorothy

Rosine Mahelen

Odessa Allena Marie "Dolly"

Olive Marie "Dimples"

Inez "Nezzie"

Gloria Ann "GAS"

Boys

William Lawrence "Bubby"

Harry Joseph "Cutie on Duty"

Frances Leroy "Stringbean"

Napoleon Clarence "Ricardo"

Earl Louis "Red"

Frederick Edward "Runt Radcliffe"

Cornelius Alexander "Stix"

Gerald William "Bill Litmus"

Robert Edward "Lucky"

Dwight "DeWitt"

William "China"

Norman Henry "Nubby"

Matthew Grienberry "Elder"

Clarence Herbert "Baby Charles"

Charles Edward "Knowledge"

Hayes "Champ"

Benjamin Maltravious

Robert Lenwood "China"

Jospeh Commodore "Mack"

Norman Wilson "Flip"

Bradford Aurelius

Samuel James "Joe Blow"

Clyde Marvin "Brutus"

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

The doctor says it terminal.

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Put it on my bill

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

Round 15: 2021 Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey at Laguna Seca

👋 Welcome to the r/INDYCAR race discussion thread for the 2021 Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey at Laguna Seca.

📍 Circuit Information

• Location — WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Salinas, California
• Track Type — Permanent road course
• Length — 2.238 miles (3.602km)
• Turns — 11 (6 left, 5 right)

🏁 Race Information

• Laps — 95
• Distance — 212.61 miles (342.163km)
• Green flag — 12:30pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC−07:00)

📺 Broadcast Information

Broadcasts with 📼 indicate tape-delayed coverage.

Broadcast notes:

1. Tape-delay coverage available on Sport1+ at 12:20am CEST.

📝 Starting Grid

Round 11: 2021 Big Machine Music City Grand Prix

👋 Welcome to the r/INDYCAR race discussion thread for the 2021 Big Machine Music City Grand Prix.

📍 Circuit Information

• Location — Nissan Stadium, Nashville, Tennessee
• Track Type — Temporary street course
• Length — 2.17 miles (3.492km)
• Turns — 11 (7 left, 4 right)

🏁 Race Information

• Laps — 80
• Distance — 173.6 miles (279.382km)
• Green flag — 4:45pm Central Daylight Time (UTC−05:00)

📺 Broadcast Information

📝 Starting Grid

Round 14: 2021 Grand Prix of Portland

👋 Welcome to the r/INDYCAR race discussion thread for the 2021 Grand Prix of Portland.

📍 Circuit Information

• Location — Portland International Raceway, Portland, Oregon
• Track Type — Permanent road course
• Length — 1.964 miles (3.161km)
• Turns — 12 (4 left, 8 right)

🏁 Race Information

• Laps — 110
• Distance — 216.04 miles (347.683km)
• Green flag — 12:42pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC−07:00)

📺 Broadcast Information

Broadcasts with 📼 indicate only tape-delayed coverage available.

📝 Starting Grid

Round 12: 2021 Big Machine Spiked Coolers Grand Prix at IMS Road Course

👋 Welcome to the r/INDYCAR race discussion thread for the 2021 Big Machine Spiked Coolers Grand Prix at IMS Road Course.

📍 Circuit Information

• Location — Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Speedway, Indiana
• Track Type — Permanent road course
• Length — 2.439 miles (3.925km)
• Turns — 14 (5 left, 9 right)

🏁 Race Information

• Laps — 85
• Distance — 207.315 miles (333.641 km)
• Green flag — 1:00pm Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−04:00)

📺 Broadcast Information

Broadcast notes:

1. Tape-delay coverage available on Sport1+ at 10:05pm CEST.

📝 Starting Grid

Round 7: 2021 Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix Race 1

👋 Welcome to the r/INDYCAR race discussion thread for Race 1 of the 2021 Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix.

📍 Circuit Information

• Location — Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Michigan
• Track Type — Temporary street course
• Length — 2.35 miles (3.782km)
• Turns — 14 (5 left, 9 right)

🏁 Race Information

• Laps — 70
• Distance — 164.5 miles (264.737km)
• Green flag — 2:00pm EDT

📺 Broadcast Information

📝 Starting Grid