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Rudolf Kucera has died aged 84.

They say the older you get, the more you start to look like your lover.

Will be visiting Kennedy Space Center on May 31 - June 1 to coincide with the 2024 U.S Astronaut Hall of Fame ceremony. I've not gone to KSC in a very long time and I don't know how the admission process is now and if the HOF ceremony is included in that, so I doubt I'll get to see it close enough to observe the astronauts. I should however be able to meet astronaut Tom Jones on the 31st, get my copy of his book "Sky Walking" signed and maybe have a chat if I'm lucky. I may know a lot about astronauts but I've never actually met one so it's going to be a great day either way.

This is great, but please allow me to do an atheist-friendly translation: Fire yourselves into the sun you bunch of corrupt, dangerous, immoral, irresponsble, stupid, odious, ignorant, greedy, despicable, inept, fraudulent, bigoted, fascistic, heartless, snivelling, delusional, treacherous, hateful, country-wrecking Tory cunts. Or just the simple and effective football chant..."DUH DUH DUHDUH, FACK THE TORIES, DUH DUH DUHDUH, FACK THE TORIES..."

Austrian court approves rapist Fritzl's move to regular prison (msn.com)

He really needs to get out more, chiefly so that he can get himself in the sea.

14/5/2024 64 Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris — We Found Love 61 Lady Gaga & Beyoncé — Telephone 60 Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg — California Gurls 54 Adele — Someone Like You +1 39 Cee Lo Green — Forget You 37 Yolanda Be Cool Vs D Cup — We No Speak Americano +1 35 Tinie Tempah — Pass Out 35 Tinie Tempah — Written In The Stars 33 Owl City — Fireflies 32 Rihanna — Only Girl (In The World) 32 Jessie J ft. B.O.B — Price Tag 30 Professor Green ft. Emeli Sande — Read All About It +1 29 B.O.B ft. Hayley Williams — Airplanes 28 Iyaz — Replay 28 Scouting For Girls — This Ain't A Love Song 28 Olly Murs — Dance With Me Tonight +1 26 B.O.B ft. Bruno Mars — Nothin' On You 26 Taio Cruz — Dynamite 25 DJ Fresh ft. Sian Evans — Louder 24 Example — Changed The Way You Kiss Me 24 Flo Rida ft. David Guetta — Club Can't Handle Me 23 Olly Murs ft. Rizzle Kicks — Heart Skips A Beat 23 Bruno Mars — Just The Way You Are 22 Roll Deep — Green Light 21 Nero — Promises 20 Bruno Mars — Grenade 20 Roll Deep — Good Times 20 Alexandra Burke ft. Laza Morgan — Start Without You 20 Example — Stay Awake 19 David Guetta ft. Chris Willis — Gettin' Over You 13 Little Mix — Cannonball 12 Pixie Lott — All About Tonight 11 The Wanted — Glad You Came 09 Kesha — We R Who We R 05 Usher ft. Will.I.Am — OMG -6 Have seen both Olly Murs and Little Mix live. Daughter is/was a fan. Normally opposed to any act that has been within a mile of a Simon Cowell show on principle but in fairness both put on a decent show.

May 13th at 1148pm 26 David Bowie- Life on Mars? 24 Suzi Quatro- 48 Crash 24 The Shangri-Las- Leader of the Pack 22 America- A Horse With No Name 22 Hawkwind- Silver Machine 22 Mott the Hoople- All The Young Dudes 22 T. Rex- 20th Century Boy 21 David Bowie- Drive-In Saturday 20 The Chi-Lites- Have You Seen Her 20 The Drifters- At The Club/Saturday Night at The Movies 20 Lindisfarne- Lady Eleanor 20 Faron Young- It’s Four in the Morning 20 Peter Skellern- You’re a Lady 20 David Cassidy- I Am a Clown/Some Kind of a Summer 20 Perry Como- And I Love You So 20 Medicine Head- One and One is One 20 Mungo Jerry- Alright, Alright, Alright 20 Limmie and the Family Cookin’- You Can Do Magic 20 David Bowie- Sorrow 20 Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers- Monster Mash 18 Carly Simon- You’re So Vain +4 18 Python Lee Jackson- In a Broken Dream 17 Gilbert O’Sullivan- Alone Again (Naturally) 14 Michael Jackson- Rockin’ Robin 14 David Essex- Rock On 08 The Partridge Family- Breaking Up Is Hard To Do 06 Donny Osmond- Why -6 I was wondering if the Osmonds charted over there as I looked forward to downvoting them.

5/13/2024 24 The Shangri-Las- Leader of the Pack +2 23 Gilbert O’Sullivan- Alone Again (Naturally) 22 America- A Horse With No Name 22 Hawkwind- Silver Machine 22 Mott the Hoople- All The Young Dudes 22 David Bowie- Life on Mars? 22 T. Rex- 20th Century Boy 21 David Bowie- Drive-In Saturday 20 The Chi-Lites- Have You Seen Her 20 The Drifters- At The Club/Saturday Night at The Movies 20 Lindisfarne- Lady Eleanor 20 Faron Young- It’s Four in the Morning 20 Peter Skellern- You’re a Lady 20 Python Lee Jackson- In a Broken Dream 20 David Cassidy- I Am a Clown/Some Kind of a Summer 20 Perry Como- And I Love You So 20 Medicine Head- One and One is One 20 Mungo Jerry- Alright, Alright, Alright 20 Suzi Quatro- 48 Crash 20 Limmie and the Family Cookin’- You Can Do Magic 20 David Bowie- Sorrow 20 Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers- Monster Mash 14 Michael Jackson- Rockin’ Robin 14 David Essex- Rock On 14 The Partridge Family- Breaking Up Is Hard To Do 14 Carly Simon- You’re So Vain +2 14 Donny Osmond- Why -6 When Donny takes someone as lifelessly dull as Frankie Avalon and still manages to disgrace him!

I like to think that, in a parallel universe somewhere, Sunak and his wretched 'rump' government are currently being dismissed by a modern day Cromwell who, in my imagination, looks and sounds exactly like Jonathan Pie.

Just realized that I had OJ in this pool, -1 for me and Lewd_Squirrel.

14/5/2024 26 David Bowie- Life on Mars? 26 Hawkwind- Silver Machine 24 The Drifters — At The Club/Saturday Night At The Movies 24 Suzi Quatro- 48 Crash 24 The Shangri-Las- Leader of the Pack 22 Carly Simon- You’re So Vain 22 America- A Horse With No Name 22 Mott the Hoople- All The Young Dudes 22 T. Rex- 20th Century Boy 21 David Bowie- Drive-In Saturday 20 The Chi-Lites- Have You Seen Her 20 Lindisfarne- Lady Eleanor 20 Peter Skellern- You’re a Lady 20 David Cassidy- I Am a Clown/Some Kind of a Summer 20 Perry Como- And I Love You So 20 Medicine Head- One and One is One 20 Mungo Jerry- Alright, Alright, Alright 20 Limmie and the Family Cookin’- You Can Do Magic 20 David Bowie- Sorrow 20 Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers- Monster Mash 20 Python Lee Jackson- In a Broken Dream +2 19 Gilbert O’Sullivan- Alone Again (Naturally) +2 14 David Essex- Rock On 14 Faron Young- It’s Four in the Morning -6 08 Michael Jackson- Rockin’ Robin 02 The Partridge Family- Breaking Up Is Hard To Do What a great set of tunes, I bought several of them back in the day.. There's about 12 here that I wanted to give +4 but in the end just plumped for the two currently ranked the lowest.

14/5/2024 26 David Bowie- Life on Mars? 26 Hawkwind- Silver Machine 24 The Drifters — At The Club/Saturday Night At The Movies 24 Suzi Quatro- 48 Crash 24 The Shangri-Las- Leader of the Pack 22 Carly Simon- You’re So Vain +4 22 America- A Horse With No Name 22 Mott the Hoople- All The Young Dudes 22 T. Rex- 20th Century Boy 21 David Bowie- Drive-In Saturday 20 The Chi-Lites- Have You Seen Her 20 Lindisfarne- Lady Eleanor 20 Faron Young- It’s Four in the Morning 20 Peter Skellern- You’re a Lady 20 David Cassidy- I Am a Clown/Some Kind of a Summer 20 Perry Como- And I Love You So 20 Medicine Head- One and One is One 20 Mungo Jerry- Alright, Alright, Alright 20 Limmie and the Family Cookin’- You Can Do Magic 20 David Bowie- Sorrow 20 Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers- Monster Mash 18 Python Lee Jackson- In a Broken Dream 17 Gilbert O’Sullivan- Alone Again (Naturally) 14 David Essex- Rock On 08 Michael Jackson- Rockin’ Robin -6 02 The Partridge Family- Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

14/5/2024 64 Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris — We Found Love 61 Lady Gaga & Beyoncé — Telephone +4 60 Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg — California Gurls 59 Adele — Someone Like You 39 Cee Lo Green — Forget You 36 Yolanda Be Cool Vs D Cup — We No Speak Americano 35 Tinie Tempah — Pass Out 35 Tinie Tempah — Written In The Stars 32 Rihanna — Only Girl (In The World) 32 Owl City — Fireflies 32 Jessie J ft. B.O.B — Price Tag 28 Professor Green ft. Emeli Sande — Read All About It 28 Iyaz — Replay 28 Scouting For Girls — This Ain't A Love Song 28 B.O.B ft. Hayley Williams — Airplanes 27 Olly Murs — Dance With Me Tonight 26 B.O.B ft. Bruno Mars — Nothin' On You 26 Taio Cruz — Dynamite 25 DJ Fresh ft. Sian Evans — Louder 24 Example — Changed The Way You Kiss Me 24 Flo Rida ft. David Guetta — Club Can't Handle Me 23 Olly Murs ft. Rizzle Kicks — Heart Skips A Beat 23 Bruno Mars — Just The Way You Are 22 Roll Deep — Green Light 21 Nero — Promises 20 Roll Deep — Good Times 20 Alexandra Burke ft. Laza Morgan — Start Without You 20 Example — Stay Awake 19 David Guetta ft. Chris Willis — Gettin' Over You 19 Bruno Mars — Grenade 13 Little Mix — Cannonball 12 Pixie Lott — All About Tonight 11 The Wanted — Glad You Came 11 Usher ft. Will.I.Am — OMG  09 Kesha — We R Who We R -6

Patrick Nilan, who competed in field hockey for Australia at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics, has died. He was 82. https://www.hockey.org.au/news/vale-pat-nilan

14/May/2024 26 David Bowie- Life on Mars? 24 Suzi Quatro- 48 Crash +4 24 The Shangri-Las- Leader of the Pack 22 America- A Horse With No Name 22 Hawkwind- Silver Machine 22 Mott the Hoople- All The Young Dudes 22 T. Rex- 20th Century Boy 21 David Bowie- Drive-In Saturday 20 The Chi-Lites- Have You Seen Her 20 The Drifters- At The Club/Saturday Night at The Movies 20 Lindisfarne- Lady Eleanor 20 Faron Young- It’s Four in the Morning 20 Peter Skellern- You’re a Lady 20 David Cassidy- I Am a Clown/Some Kind of a Summer 20 Perry Como- And I Love You So 20 Medicine Head- One and One is One 20 Mungo Jerry- Alright, Alright, Alright 20 Limmie and the Family Cookin’- You Can Do Magic 20 David Bowie- Sorrow 20 Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers- Monster Mash 18 Python Lee Jackson- In a Broken Dream 17 Gilbert O’Sullivan- Alone Again (Naturally) 14 Michael Jackson- Rockin’ Robin 14 David Essex- Rock On 14 Carly Simon- You’re So Vain 12 Donny Osmond- Why 08 The Partridge Family- Breaking Up Is Hard To Do -6

I was just gonna say, I have a hit, for OJ.

14/May/2024 64 Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris — We Found Love 63 Lady Gaga & Beyoncé — Telephone +4 60 Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg — California Gurls 51 Adele — Someone Like You -3 39 Cee Lo Green — Forget You 38 Tinie Tempah — Written In The Stars 35 Tinie Tempah — Pass Out 32 Yolanda Be Cool Vs D Cup — We No Speak Americano 32 Rihanna — Only Girl (In The World) 32 Owl City — Fireflies 32 Jessie J ft. B.O.B — Price Tag 28 Iyaz — Replay 28 Scouting For Girls — This Ain't A Love Song 28 B.O.B ft. Hayley Williams — Airplanes 26 B.O.B ft. Bruno Mars — Nothin' On You 26 Olly Murs — Dance With Me Tonight 26 Taio Cruz — Dynamite 25 DJ Fresh ft. Sian Evans — Louder 25 Bruno Mars — Grenade 25 Professor Green ft. Emeli Sande — Read All About It 24 Example — Changed The Way You Kiss Me 24 Flo Rida ft. David Guetta — Club Can't Handle Me 23 Olly Murs ft. Rizzle Kicks — Heart Skips A Beat 23 Bruno Mars — Just The Way You Are 22 Roll Deep — Green Light 21 Nero — Promises 20 Roll Deep — Good Times 20 Alexandra Burke ft. Laza Morgan — Start Without You 20 Example — Stay Awake 19 David Guetta ft. Chris Willis — Gettin' Over You 15 Kesha — We R Who We R 13 Little Mix — Cannonball 12 Pixie Lott — All About Tonight 11 Usher ft. Will.I.Am — OMG 11 The Wanted — Glad You Came 09 Jason Derulo — Don't Wanna Go Home -3

14/5/24 45 Edwin Starr — War 37 The Four Tops — A Simple Game 29 Lynn Anderson — Rose Garden +4 27 Creedence Clearwater Revival — Up Around The Bend -2 0 Not Elvis — Can’t Help Falling In Love -4 Done! Had CCR been in a position to be eliminated, I would have got rid of that ahead of Andy Williams. But what can you do? I'd have put Indian Reservation through ahead of both of them. Not usually a massive country fan, but Rose Garden jogs along nicely, it was in my top 4, along with War and Simple Game.

Darren Young the Stirling Albion manager sacked after their relegation from League 1 via the play-offs https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cljddnr8r93o A solo pick for @diego

This is an amazing fact! Nice on RTD!

Changed to Elaine May and Alfred Moisiu.

May 13th at 1214pm 63 Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris — We Found Love 59 Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg — California Gurls +4 58 Lady Gaga & Beyoncé— Telephone 52 Adele — Someone Like You 39 Cee Lo Green — Forget You 37 Yolanda Be Cool Vs D Cup — We No Speak Americano 34 Tinie Tempah — Written In The Stars 31 Rihanna — Only Girl (In The World) 31 Owl City — Fireflies 31 Tinie Tempah — Pass Out 30 Jessie J ft. B.O.B — Price Tag 30 Professor Green ft. Emeli Sande — Read All About It 28 Iyaz — Replay 28 Scouting For Girls — This Ain't A Love Song 28 B.O.B ft. Hayley Williams — Airplanes 26 B.O.B ft. Bruno Mars — Nothin' On You 25 Olly Murs — Dance With Me Tonight 25 Bruno Mars — Grenade 24 Example — Changed The Way You Kiss Me 24 Taio Cruz — Dynamite 24 Flo Rida ft. David Guetta — Club Can't Handle Me 23 Olly Murs ft. Rizzle Kicks — Heart Skips A Beat 23 DJ Fresh ft. Sian Evans — Louder 23 Bruno Mars — Just The Way You Are 22 Roll Deep — Green Light 21 Nero — Promises 20 Roll Deep — Good Times 20 Alexandra Burke ft. Laza Morgan — Start Without You 20 Example — Stay Awake 19 David Guetta ft. Chris Willis — Gettin' Over You 19 Little Mix — Cannonball 16 Nicole Scherzinger — Don't Hold Your Breath 15 Kesha — We R Who We R 14 Jason Derulo — Don't Wanna Go Home 12 Pixie Lott — All About Tonight 11 Usher ft. Will.I.Am — OMG 11 The Wanted — Glad You Came -6

Esteemed motorsport commentator and author of bloody good motor racing books, Neville Hay has died. He was 85. https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/vale-neville-hay/

de Filippis BBC Obit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/35272662 and Sky Sports: http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/10124372/formula-ones-first-female-driver-maria-teresa-de-filippis-dies-at-89