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He said he would die before the election, and he did. Staggering example of a statesman keeping a promise in an election year.

Another hit.Things are hotting up.

1. 1917 – Earl Cameron 2. 1920 – Arnold Yarrow 3. 1923 –Nicholas Parsons 4. 1924 – William Russell, Donald Pelmear, 5. 1925 – David Graham, Morris Perry, Ysanne Churchman, James Garbutt, Laurie Webb, Glyn Houston 6. 1926 – Andre Maranne, 7. 1927 – Geoffrey Palmer, June Brown, Frank Windsor, 8. 1928 – Mark Eden, Ian Frost, Peter Cellier, Michael Craig, Georgine Anderson 9. 1929 – Colin Jeavons, Steve Machin, Frank Mills, Damaris Hayman, John Woodvine, Clifford Rose, Philip Latham, John Nettleton, Thelma Barlow 10. 1930 – Henry Lincoln, Shirley Cooklin, Richard Martin, Roy Evans. Alan Curtis, David Garfield, Henry Woolf, 11. 1931 –Stanley Price, Godfrey James, Cy Town, Kenneth Cope, John Fraser, June Bland 12. 1932 – Sonny Caldinez, Carmen Munroe, John Gorrie, Jolyon Booth, Edward de Souza, Roy Scammell, Vera Fusek, Gabriel Woolf, Antony Carrick, Barbara Shelley, Vilma Hollingberry 13. 1933 – Bernard Lodge, Michael Allaby, Geoffrey Frederick, Patrick Godfrey, Donald Douglas, Michael McStay, Derek Martin, Rhoda Lewis, Richard Easton, Sheila Hancock 14. 1934 –Mary Peach, Jeremy Young, Billy Cornelius, Ann Davies, Robert Aldous, Jean Marsh, Kenneth Ives, Arthur Cox, Gilbert Wynne, Vernon Dobtcheff, Christopher Benjamin, Tom Baker, Wendy Williams, Roy Macready, Slyvia Syms 15. 1935 – Tristan de Vere Cole, George Roubicek, Derren Nesbitt, Julian Glover, Michael Imison, Glenn Beck, Terrence Dicks, David Prowse, Derrick Goodwin, Wanda Ventham, Susan Engel, Michael Jayston, Janet Henfrey, Anne Reid, Mona Hammond, Donald Tosh 16. 1936 –Ralph Watson, Philip Voss, Timothy Combe, Douglas Sheldon, David Savile, Richard Franklin, Tessa Shaw, Tim Barlow, Brian Blessed, Tony Scoggo, Richard Wilson 17. 1937 – Derrick Gilbert, Michael Kilgarriff, Tony Caunter, Eileen Helsby, Michael Ferguson, Clive Scott, Hugh Fletcher, Donald Gee, Tom Georgeson, Brian Grellis, David Bailie, Geoffrey Hinsliff, Davyd Harries, Colette O’Neil, Maurice Roeves, Sheila Reid, Gawn Grainger, William Gaunt, Ian Hogg, Barbara Windsor, David Daker 18. 1938 – Tina Packer, Milton Johns, Brian Hodgson, Warris Hussein, Spencer Chapman, Frances White, John Tillinger, David Weston, Tim Goodman, Christopher Dunham, Richard Kane, Christopher Robbie, Christopher Coll, Leslie Schofield, Trevor Ray, Louis Mahoney, Laurence Harrington, Tim Preece, Julian Fox, Roy Boyd, David McKail, Eleanor Bron, John Savident, Philip Martin, Tony Selby Incomplete, as some folks ages just aren't available. Martin Cort is alive and at least 85 now. Ditto John Rolfe. Also at some point I should look into New Who in case of oldies.

I've mentioned him a few times here, but this is a photo from his radio show the other day. Has he now beaten Jim Neidhart to the record of the man with the highest blood pressure in history?

Two Hawke-eyed late-swooping players benefit from Bob's death... Normally he would not be accompanied by any bonus, but it so happens he died on May 16, Notapotato's birthday. And so MPFC gets 20 base points plus 8 bonus for 28, and Book gets 10 base plus 4 bonus for 14.

Well done to Funeralopolis and Bibliogryphon for guessing Hawke. Thread closed.

You have a very naughty sense of humour! I like you!

Well Congrats @Book on getting a hit here for Bob Hawke. Next round... 1920 Fanny Waterman /Arnold Yarrow 1921 Elizabeth Kelly/ Ray Lawler 1922 Betty White/Rex Richards 1923 Gloria Whelan/ Freeman Dyson 1924 Zizi Jeanmaire/Christopher Tolkien 1925 Ysanne Churchman/Pete Murray 1926 Gudrun Ure/Leonard Fenton 1927 Mary Higgins-Clark/Frank Windsor 1928 Estelle Harris/Tommy Docherty 1929 Patricia Routledge/Eric Carle

Incurable, though. How long? *shrug* Mainly picked her cos she's a local pick for local people....

Wouk's got the Philosopher's Stone! It all makes sense now......

Bob Hawke a success for me too in this pool.

Bob Hawke is my first hit after 5 and half months.

Maybe a summer deluge to counterbalance the drought earlier in the year is actually a realistic hope now...?

So Earl Cameron is the only one then. Hope he lasts a while then !

Bob Hawke a fourth hit for me here.

Looks like the point re Machiko Kyo is moot and Book gets our congrats with a valid QO. Next Round: 1920 - Michael Shaw, Baron Shaw of Northstead/Clarissa Eden 1921 - George "Jonny" Johnson/Nexhmije Hoxha 1922 - Norman Lear/Lucia Hiriart Pinochet 1923 - Bob Barker/Baroness Jill Knight 1924 - Robert Solow/Cicely Tyson 1925 - Sydney Samuelson/Nan Winton (died 11 May, new pick) Angela Lansbury 1926 - Johnny Beattie/Doreen Mantle 1927 - Pope Benedict XVI/Margaret Stuart Barry 1928 - Richard M Sherman/Sally Oppenheim-Barnes 1929 - Bob Newhart/Thelma Barlow Hits: Harry Leslie Smith Stanley Donen

You got your wish !

Bruce Hawke Down!

I'm beginning to think he isn't going to get one. I notice there is a new rerun of Scream Street starting on CBBC on Saturday - if they show a tribute to him in the end credits and I get a screen shot does that count as a QO? I'm thinking it's effectively a BBC written QO? But I don't want to be watching kids TV on Saturday afternoon if it isn't a QO.

The funny things are that there are no high rise buildings in Wagga Wagga. It is a regional city of about 50,000 people. While there may be a few building in the centre with maybe 3 or 4 storeys I doubt there would be anything that remotely qualifies itself as a high rise (although this may just be because building was temporarily suspended by the workplace tragedy described in the aforementioned post). Fosters is barely sold in Australia. You may be able to find 6 packs at the very large bottle shops but by and large it doesn't really exist in Australia. I remember drinking it when I regularly visited Melbourne about 20 years ago where there was a pub I knew that sold schooners (405 ml) for $2. My memory of it was that it is a very nondescript Australian lager, perfectly drinkable but not very interesting. Wikipedia notes that while it is in the top ten most consumed beers globally, it is not widely consumed in Australia. Considering that these guys are tradies who are still on the tools working in NSW I would say that their beer would be most likely be Toohey's New.

Uggggghhhhhhh !!! I HATE when I do that (which is often enough). Just a brutal feeling. SC

RIP A beautiful lady.

You're deadly serious about that aren't you? Even if I flew the things, I'd not know that. I often park in Tesco's but couldn't name the space from a picture.

Heathrow here Sir Creep comes. And Laaandon was never the same again....

Anybody else mentally substitute his name for 'shag a lesbian? No? Oh, ok, just me then.