I'm Sorry if you haven't a clue who it is, but the President of the society for Italic Handwriting died 10 years ago today.
Humphrey Lyttleton achieved fame as a noted jazz trumpeter, but was also a cartoonist, and of course, radio game show host.
"Scoop" when it's used to mean "win".
I have a mental picture of multi-million £ lottery winners being paid out in small change and having to use those little plastic shovels from the pick'n'mix to collect their winnings.
So he had an 'accident' falling down the stairs? I hear it often happens to black folk whilst in the custody of the Metropolitan Police: meeting unhappy and unexpected ends on staircases.Well,
that's what the Plods tell the inquests: "it was the stairs wot done it,m'lud"
"I'm not really talking Olympians here and the ideas and possibilities thread for 2018 is closed but..."
Just a hunch, but maybe because the ideas and possibilities thread for 2018 is closed.
She was a public figure and had a wikipedia page before any known illness .She would count, I realize it's a bit of a contradiction but political spouses ,kids and parents often times are part of the dog and pony show of politics with a tangible role to play,unlike say if Adele's Mom popped up in a Daily Mail article cause Adele announced her cancer that's more a case ffbi/fresh corpse territory.
Obama sat next to Melania and got a natural looking smile out of her - not something she appears capable of producing when her husband is nearby. I'll bet that picture is driving Trump wild.