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An Indian magician, who attempted to recreate Harry Houdini's famed trick by jumping shackled into a river, is feared dead. Chanchal Lahiri was meant to escape and swim to safety but did not emerge from the Hooghly river in West Bengal state. Spectators who had gathered to watch him take the plunge on Sunday informed the police, who say they are searching for him. SC the audience cheers] Bugs Bunny : [starts clapping] That's terrific, Daffy! They loved it. They want more. Daffy Duck : [as a ghost rising to heaven] I know, I know, but I can only do it once.

When I was told the former President of Egypt had died I couldn't believe it had finally happened ! Until I realised it hadn't … https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-48668941 Well not the one we wanted it to be anyway !

Evonne Goolagong?

A single mother who was shunned by her local community for having a mixed-race child out of wedlock, Lynott went on to become a vocal advocate for LGBT rights, an integral figure in getting a statue of her son erected in Dublin, and found time to tell Mitt Romney to fuck off in 2012 when he tried to use “The Boys Are Back In Town” as an election campaign song. That last part is really fucking amazing of her.

Yeah, I rate him Hope he recovers enough to see 1 Jan

Anderson Cooper just tweeted to say his mother has died. I hope he is OK. I know how close he was to her.

Gloria Vanderbilt gives me my eighteenth hit on this pool. BBC Obit should be a formality?

Dead on the wires.

Paul Weller at Bedgebury last night. Beautiful forest setting, full moon hanging in the sky and a strange willingness to play Jam #1 hits! Brilliant, basically

Aye, just like us. We have stable forum names and in real life we have posh normal names like Dick Jockstrap or summat.

Aye, may well be - weeks after she confirmed he was still going at 102

Why does that not surprise me.

Racehorses have a stable name and they also have a posh name. For instance in the stable he could be called Storm and then on the race track or being interviewed he could be known as Indian Rainstorm

Just sent my list of names!Fingers crossed I do a bit better this year!

I just stumbled upon a message she recorded for the 75th anniversary of D-day. She doesn't sound so well unfortunately. Especially compared to a few years ago.

Apologies for not putting Zeffirelli’s obit up quickly. I do not have access to a computer at this point and time, and it is difficult to write one on a mobile device for me. I will try to get it up (and any other deaths that might arise very soon) ASAP.

By incredibly popular demand: Dill Pickle Soup (zupa as the Poles say, and to my knowledge they invented this): Plenty of photos so that the Admins can hate me. Any you can too! But remember who walked you through this so that you could enjoy the best soup ever. Note 1. The recipe, Zosia’s, can be found online. My changes are noted, and the idea was to make it as close to the restaurants of Hamtramck, MI as possible. Note 2. Buy a 14-cup (3.3L) Cuisinart food processor w **proper blade attachment** (pictured below). This ain’t no time to play...this is serious shit. But if you are serious about anything in your kitchen you have this appliance already. If you don't have one, you can search for one or marry a person who has one. Just sayin. Note 3: ALWAYS get the celery veins the F outta there no matter what, I don’t care if you’re serving a salad, or celery and cream cheese. NO ONE wants to floss with celery. Note 4: Carrots already done did. Adding the celery. Note 5: Get four rather large spuds; utensils for scale. Don’t get wee spuds. Note 6: About the right thickness. Cube dat! Note 7: Calls for 5 pickles, I wrote 4. So the jar had 6, so I chopped yellow areas away and figured we were at about 4-1/2, close enough. Note 8: BTW we are doing all the pickle prep and other creamy mixes during the 25 or so minutes the first part is cooking. Lagniappe: Note the ARMSTRONG tartan teacup. Aye, my clan weren't just North of the Wall, they WERE the fucking wall! Note 9: Milk + flour. Pour the flour into the milk, numbskull, not the other way around. Oh, and borrow your child’s whisk (if you can't find yours).... Note 10: Temper it (add couple ladles hot soup) 3-4 times and pour it in Note 11: Ok add some of dat pickle jar juice (could have been done way earlier but whatever—at any time during the process is fine). BE CAREFUL. I’d say 3/4 cup. Probably more but taste it, don’t want to cross the imaginary line of salty destruction. I've thrown out an entire batch of dill pickle zupa before at this stage. No fun. Note 12: Temper dat sour cream egg slop, 3-4 times, throw it in dare. Note 13: In it goes and you're done basically. Pepper, fresh dill or parsley if you like (I rarely do it), I used dill weed small sprinkle. Absolutely Fabulous! Serve in some depression glass from 1941 you have laying around, proving you're an 80-yr old woman trapped in a man's body.

Netflix know the truth about what happened

Maybe when he is killed he can team up with jade goody and form an hilarious comedy double act .

A military coo

A near 40% mortality (and QO) rate in under a year? Not many people could have foreseen that. In particular, @The Old Crem, who believed Gloria was 'Bilt to last.

Tam, the last male Sumatran Rhino in Malaysia, died recently, leaving the critically endangered species in peril. There are less than 80 Sumatran Rhinos thought to be alive in the wild and are the most endangered of all rhinoceros species. SC