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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.

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!

Pistol whipped?

LOL at 5.25 onwards in Toast's video posing the question I had all along watching it...

I had heard of Bob Barker through WWE and Happy Gilmore, but hadn't heard of Hall until I visited this place. In fact, originally I thought it was a strange American nickname for "not yet discredited back then" Stuart Hall!

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...

Jimmy Carter: The fourth American president to reach the age of 93.

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

Dole

I'm interested purely from my background in musical theatre. Of course, I was hooked for years simply on the promise of Brucie doing a Tommy Cooper live on TV.... *runs finger down list of previous contestants for possible addition to DDP team 2018*

We needed a spare, in case we lost one. And now we have. We have to be careful with our remaining Johnny Mathis.

She was one of my first "celebrity" crushes.

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

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.

My original thought was no. On second thought, however, I think he can. But I don't think he'll last more than a month afterwards. I've had this feeling for a while now that Bush Sr is 2017's Nelson Mandela: he's known to be ill before 2017, he's going to be hospitalized a lot this year (he's already been hospitalized 3 times?), but he'll eventually keel over in early December. I guess the only thing that's different is that it isn't life threatening yet unlike Mandela...

We have a single payer system in Norway and it is wonderful. EVERYONE pays for health care through their jobs, unemployment or retirement pay. We chose our own doctors, can change them up to twice a year. You can chose the hospital you want to be treated in - most chose the local hospital though since driving times are far in Norway. Small co-payments for doctor appointments and emergency room visits - free when the 350 dollar limit is reached each year. No costs for hospitalization. Free prescriptions AFTER one pays that first 350 dollars each year. Everyone is covered. It requires that everyone be legally registered to live in Norway and have a Social Security (Person ID) number. (Free clinics for illegal aliens, they somehow get registered off the books - a sore point for those who pay for the health care system.) I paid more taxes when I lived in the USA than I do now in Norway. Cheap in the long run when everyone gets treated at earlier stages in their diseases/illnesses. Carter is a visionary.

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?”