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Not only did he present the evening news when Alastair Burnet let anyone get a word in, Sandy Gall was also a frontline war correspondent for 50 years, covering everything from Vietnam to Iraq, and was one of the few Western journalists at various warzones like the Six Day war, for example. As a roving reporter earlier in his life, he covered the Mau Mau Rising (ie helped expose the British atrocities, and Suez, among many others. He also got arrested in Uganda for trying to uncover Idi Amin's crimes, is one of the foremost living authorities on Afghanistan (saying he respects the countries ability to repel any invasion), and made a number of interesting documentaries, not only on his exploits and charity work but also figures like the guy from Born Free. He also did a lot of charity work to raise money for people disabled in Afghanistan by bombs (all of them, be they Russian, Taliban or Western sent...), is a extensive whisky drinking Scot, and claims that live TV is actually scarier than facing live bullets on the ground. Also you know what he did after escaping a secret police camp in Uganda, after 3 days of being threatened with death? Reported on it immediately to the outside world, while still in Uganda. Dude's about as amazing as a war correspondent can be. That people on here don't know about him is their own fault and not his.

I was able to see him at church a couple of weeks ago, and I think that he's in excellent shape for his age. He was standing up and walking around the entire time he was teaching, which was about an hour. He was also aware of current issues, and actually compared them to verses in the Bible. There was a session before the Sunday School lesson where he had a few conversations with the people attending. Overall, a pretty fun experience.

Wouldn't it be fun if in some strange ironic twist, Hef got interred next to Marilyn Manson instead of Monroe?

Yeah but... He's never even met Katie Price or the Kardashians.

Well, surely the prop can be repaired. We know that condition, right?

Many Happy Returns 90 years old today!

I would rather have a dentist test out new types of drill bits on me than go to a marilyn manson concert

Louis Leakey became a fossil on this day 45 years ago, aged 69.

Another one on the Turner League. Absolute cunt.

R.I.P. Mr. Hall. An Icon in American Game Show History.

I have a vague recollection of Monty Hall being mentioned way back, but not necessarily his show. Whereas until I joined this forum, I had never ever heard of Bob Barker...

Him and Rosalynn, in a small party held in their honor in his home town in Plains, Georgia.

Dole

Is that a pig on a lead on the far left of that pic?!

Ernest Beesley reaches his 100th: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/30/watchveteran-celebrates-100th-birthday-waltz/ Survived the sinking of HMT Lancastria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lancastria

She was one of my first "celebrity" crushes.

Efrain Rios Montt (1926). Dementia and breathing problems.

CA, if you can't get up in the morning..... A decent site for highlights or the whole game. http://sportyhl.com/

I started watching that page a couple of years ago. 7 deaths per day was the minimum during that time. Though there was a time when far fewer deaths were reported, but celebrity culture keeps growing... that makes these days with fewer deaths even more notable.

Most important death of the year is probably Zoltan Sarosy okok serious time methinks I would consider Zhou Youguang among the most important deaths of January

I don't care the exact day, he need to go before 31 december 2017

He can't last too much longer... god needs to give that old bitch a break before his lungs burst.

The ratings are going be off the hook come Oct when this show starts

Oh shit...

Reminds me of the old Welsh joke... During WWII, a German spy was parachuted into Wales with instructions to contact a man called Jones in a certain village. He arrived early in the morning, walked down the main street, and the only person he saw was a policeman, who greeted him pleasantly. He thought: a policeman should know everybody in the village, so he asked for directions to the house of a man called Jones. The policeman replied: “Well boyo, just about everyone here has the name of Jones, so we go by our our occupations. There is Jones the Post, Jones the Baker, Jones the Plumber … as a matter of fact, I’m Jones the Police.” Ach so, thought the German, this policeman may be the man I am wanting. I will give him the password. “The sun rises in the east”, he said. “Oh”, replied the policeman, “it’s Jones the Spy you were wanting. Why didn’t you say so in the first place?”