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Note to oneself: If one's being photographed in a line-up make sure one's standing at either end or slap bang in the middle.

Better read your article title then mate Could it be some buffoon can't type a person's name then? His name was AZAB 11 fucking times in that article you stupid self-righteous ass.

Your "friend' was Harold Shipman? Figures.

Could it be because his name is Azib rather than Azab?

Sure enough. Here's a picture of Kat Moller signing an autograph for my friend at the March 2015 races, so she's 21 in this photo. 22 perhaps. Still can't believe it.

Peter Mayhew might be worth a punt. Retired from his Chewbacca role a few years ago, will be 75 next year, and people of his height (7'3") don't tend to live long. Been hospitalised this year for spinal surgery. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Mayhew

He does get mentioned on "I'm sorry I haven't a clue" on a regular basis. Who they will replace him with if he kicks the bucket could be interesting.

Who's that Guyana ground with a self-inflicted gun shot to the Temple? Why it's Reverend Jim Jones, 30 years ago (47).

Lionel Blair turns 90 next month and isn't mentioned much, which is strange considering he will get full QO honours. He appeared on Michael McIntyre's Big Show tonight and cocked up an entire hidden camera setup within 15 seconds of being on-screen!

Congratulations on the solo hit. I had him on my theme team list for next year! Such is life, or, you know, death. RIP, I liked him.

Slam Guide #14 ex-WWE star DJ Gabriel This is your pick, right, Joey? Oops, wrong DJ!

There were 9 "dancers". Parkinson Aspel Baker Bough Jenkinson Norman Whitmore Waring Woods. Dont know why Parky isn't in that one. Parky wasn't in it despite what IMDb say. There were seven 'dancers' plus Eric and Ernie with Peter Woods appearing at the end. Aspel, Bough and Whitmore are the only ones still alive.

Germany reality TV star Jens Büchner dead at 49: https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/jens-buechner-ist-tot-goodbye-deutschland-star-mit-49-gestorben-58469710.bild.html (german link) Basically the star character of reality show "Goodbye Deutschland" that told the stories of german emigrees in their new country, their absurd business ideas and culture clashes. He died rather sudden after a period of extreme weight loss. My guess: pancreatic cancer. But nothing is official yet.

Yes, though not in this thread so you’re fine...

He was one of the 'dancing sailors' in that famous Morecambe and Wise routine wasn't he. Without watching it again I wonder how many from that are still around. I think Michael Aspel might have been one of them?

Good grief. I've printed this out and given it to my mum to take to her next Women's Institute meeting. She was only saying the other day that topics of conversation there had become a bit stale.

Sad news People of a certain age might also remember him as the narrator of Mary Mungo and Midge. I could have sworn he was on the list once but maybe I'm getting him mixed up with Kenneth Kendall.

Five pounds please Committee! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46246049 Or some DL Boxers in lieu....

21st Sept Denis Norden - TV broadcaster Diane Leather - first woman to run the sub-5 minute mile Johnny Kingdom - nature broadcaster and DDT pal. Fenella Fielding - legend 28th Sept Chas Hodges - singer MJ Long - Architect, British Library Arthur Mitchell - ballet dancer Rick Turner - archaeologist who found Lindow Man Rachid Taha - singer 5th october Charles Aznavour - singer Charles Kao- Nobel Prize Elizabeth de Mauny Wainwright John Cunliffe - Postman Pat creator 12th October Ray Galton - Hancock's Half Hour/Steptoe and Son creator Prof Gerald Russell - psychiatrist who discovered bulimia. Evelyn Anthony - British author Sir Roger Gibbs -Wellcome Trust and Arsenal FC director Montserrat Caballe - singer 19th October Paul Allen - Microsoft Mary Midgley - theologian Leon Lederman - Nobel Prize Roger Mainwood - Ethel and Ernest director 26th October Anthea Bell - translator, Asterix Captain Michael Howard - Nazi hunter Baroness Hollis - Blair government minister and political biographist Cicely Berry - RSC Tony Hiller - songwriter 2nd November Wanda Ferragamo - shoe manufacturer Wim Kok - Dutch PM Ntozake Shange - American playwright/feminist Mohamed Sahnoun - Algerian diplomat apparently massively influential in Africa. Keith Kilby - a pacifist. 9th November Lord Heywood - former top civil servant and 2019 Pan Breed lock. Pamela Lonsdale - Producer of Rainbow Sangharakshita - controversial Buddhist leader Tom Jago - distiller, Last Drop, created Johnnie Walker and Baileys Irish Cream. Francis Lai - composer

This thread died a death. Oh well, on this week: Aubrey Manning, zoologist and BBC nature broadcaster – BBC2’s Earthstory (we appear to have missed this?) Max Levitas – Cable Street veteran Babs Beverley Janet Paisley – Scottish poet Stan Lee

Oh, the double slit experiment... if only I had a penny... I'll try to explain it simply. We have a double slit where the distance between the single slits is very short. We send to the slit electrons, one by one. We put a screen behind the slit and when an electron hits the screen it leaves a sign. If we send only one electron it seems to behave like a bullet and hits the screen in a random point. We send an infinite number of electrons. Surprisingly we will find on the screen behind a whole interference figure typical of waves and not of particles. Bullets would distribute on the screen with a simple (double) Gaussian probability. So electrons are waves, we think. Now we want to know which of the two slits was crossed by the electron. We put a simple measurement system, a lamp that lights the electron (physically it sends a photon to the electron) whenever it passes through a slit. Well we use the goddamn lamp and obtain a Gaussian curve, exactly as if electrons were bullets! So we think it's the energy of light that changes the system. We use a low intensity lamp. If we do that we obtain the interference pattern but can t say where electrons passed because there are not enough photons. So we try to keep intensity constant and use a large wavelenght (red for example) for the lamp. We do obtain the pattern but now d<<wavelenght with d distance between slits so we can't distinguish slits anymore as the detector sees them as an only slit. Conclusion: we can see only the pattern (wave aspect) or from which slit they passed (corpuscolary) but never both together. This is because the measurement system changes the system! You may know measurable properties of a quantic system are associated to Hermitian operators known as Observables. The eigenvalues of this observables are the possible result of a measurement. The system is not usually prepared in an eigenstate but in a linear combination of the eigenstates as they are a complete (and orthonormal) base. Every eigenstate will have a coefficient Ci that expresses its contribute to the complexive state. Ci^2 is the probability to obtain the eigenvalue related to that eigenstate |i> of the observable. Sum of Ci^2=1 if the state is normalyzed. Now we can imagine electrons are the combination of two states |wave> and |particle > with ci= √2/2 obviously for both. Measurement will NEVER restitute the complexive state but only one of the two states (in form of the eigenvalue). That' s the exact point. Measurement makes the system collapse into a single eigenstate. And after the system collapses if you repeat measurement you only obtain that eigenvalue. I don't introduce the concept of expectation value but I hope you at least understood why the double slit experiment does not fucking mean things behave differently if you watch them.

Not sure how reliable the source is, but it does look fairly cast iron. John Bluthal has reportedly died: https://tvtonight.com.au/2018/11/vale-john-bluthal.html Q with Spike Milligan, Help with The Beatles, Benny Hill, Kenny Everett, etc etc. Not just a Pickle. If this is true, this is sad news. Also a pick for me in the Hares Pool.

More info about that almost-dead episode: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/3495270/rangers-hero-fernando-ricksen-almost-died-blunder-scottish-hospital/ He was lying flat for two hours which can kill him - because usually, his lungs are being emptied three times a day...

Dead according to TMZ. http://www.tmz.com/2018/11/12/stan-lee-dead-dies-marvel-comics/