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1981: 1. A prince in England gets married 2. Liverpool wins the Champions League 3. The Pope dies 2005: 1. A prince in England gets married 2. Liverpool wins the Champions League 3. The Pope dies 2018: 1. A prince in England gets married 2. Liverpool loses the Champions League 3. Popes Francis and Benedict become Madridistas

103 today!

I already imagine in the year 2026, Dame Olivia de Havilland will be turning 110 and you will still be putting her on your list

OldWillz recently discovered our original Atari 2600: Wanted to throw it away. Told him to keep it, should be worth summat...

95 years old today!

You mean her sister who died almost five years ago? and whom she notoriously hated for decades? Oh the sadness and trauma...

Look what I found:

Eh? Feeding the birds was always a popular pastime when I was a child, whether it was ducks on the pond, city pigeons or a bird table in the garden. Mind you, they tell us now that bread isn't very good for birds.

I know this is an old post but do see the original: The Great Escape - the motor-cycle Escape scene with Steve McQueen was ground-breaking for that time period and he did his own riding. A young Charles Bronson, McQueen and the other huge stars are rare to see in one film. I suggest you see Mary Poppins twice. See it, then see Saving Mr. Banks (with Tom Hanks, who is actually related to Mr. Disney) about the author of the Mary Poppins books and how Walt Disney persuades her to let him film it. Most memorable song is Feed the Birds - animal protection, which was rare for those times. Then see it again. (Children like the film and Julie Andrews is wonderful in it.) Sound of Music really does showcase the singing voice of Julie Andrews - maybe just listen to the sound track on YouTube of the music. The story, like in Casablanca and Great Escape, are propaganda, so take it with a grain of salt.

I wonder if she took her wig off when jeremy was about to blow his communist cum all over her crazy face, to avoid a sticky barnet. Then again maybe that's what she used for the adhesive.

The Grim Reaper caught the midnight rider (Gregg Allman) one year ago aged 69.

The Pope is safe ! Real Madrid won 3-1 edit-having said that he'll probably drop dead tomorrow now

Loren Karius?

Ted Dabney dead: https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/26/17398682/ted-dabney-atari-co-founder-obituary

Knowing how good she is with numbers she’ll probably offer him a 34!!

Tom Wolfe, Philip Roth, Patricia Morison, Clint Walker, Robert Indiana, Bernard Lewis, Ray Wilson, Margot Kidder, Tessa Jowell... this was a great month. But the most significant death was indeed Big Bully Busick.

Replaced Bain and Francis with Bruce Anstey and Claire Wineland (both have a Wiki page, I checked before I picked them)...

Update #12 Hits: 12 May - Tessa Jowell (b. 1947) - FixedBusiness, The Unknown Man, Gooseberry Crumble, msc, drol, Joey Russ, Book, Grim Up North, gcreptile, Torva Messor, Captain Chorizo, Banana, DeathImpends, DevonDeathTrip 24 May - John Bain (b. 1984) - msc, Sean, Book, Grim Up North, DeathImpends, Prophet 25 May - Dean Francis (b. 1974) - msc, Sean, drol, Joey Russ, Book, Grim Up North, gcreptile, CaptainChorizo, Banana, Toast, DeathImpends, DevonDeathTrip, Prophet (J) Scoreboard: gcreptile 889 CaptainChorizo 705 Grim Up North 695 msc 687 drol 658 Joey Russ 636 DeathImpends 606 Book 600 Sean 593 Prophet 541 DevonDeathTrip 525 Banana 412 FixedBusiness 379 The Unknown Man 338 Toast 269 Torva Messor 231 John Key 178 YoungWillz 164 Gooseberry Crumble 100 Wormfarmer 92 Grigori 48 mr.whit 43 Bibliogryphon 18

Er, I thought Tessa Jowell was only worth 350 points for me since I had her at #4, not 450 (which is the #2 spot). Obviously I want to win, but I also want to win fairly and not win by a mistake...

It’s a sad indictment of humanity that you exist

Newsbeat. See, there's another anomaly with the DDP accepting the BBC's teenagers section as QO, but not grown-up news from Scotland, Wales etc. Anyway, this TotalBiscuit bloke. I assume his illness involves his digestive system? He sounds like quite a tough cookie.

Sumner Redstone now communicates via IPad and three pre-recorded voice messages saying "Yes", "no" and "Fuck You": http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/billionaire-media-mogul-sumner-redstone-uses-an-ipad-to-say-yes-no-and-fk-you/news-story/2bd9f8c9dbbdfc82a16a3f6017b61c00 Otherwise, his health now only allows him to communicate via grunts.

Well then... the Bubolic Plague thread around 1350. Hampered by two facts: no celebrity culture yet, and a third of the forum dying from it. Well, and that there was no Internet.

A shameful admission but, until I trawled the random recordings on the digibox tonight as Mrs MPFC was out at her yoga, I'd never seen The Wicker Man (she saw it years ago and wasn't greatly interested in a re-run.) Suffice it to say it's nuts in a truly impressive way and all the more so since it's collision of the wilfully surreal and politically incorrect would be harder to create successfully today.

Never seen Casablanca, The Great Escape, The Sound of Music or Mary Poppins. Of those the only one I'd be interested in is Casablanca.