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3 pointsIn view of these recently surfaced mitigating circumstances the court is on this occasion prepared to waive any immediate custodial sentence. However it must be stated that ignorance of the principle of Joint Enterprise law is not in and of itself sufficiently exculpatory to obviate punishment entirely. Furthermore, you could have closed your eyes and stuck your fingers in your ears and shouted "La la la, La la la" for 90 minutes, it wouldn't have killed you. Dons black cap......You will be taken from this place and made to watch 12 hours of Danny Dyer films straight and may that be a lesson to you. Bailiff take him down.
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3 pointsNobel Prize laureates aged 85+: (Age calculated at the beginning of 2020) Physics: 1957: Tsung-Dao Lee, 93 1957: Chen Ning Yang, 97 1972: Leon Cooper, 89 1973: Leo Esaki, 94 1973: Ivar Giaever, 90 1974: Antony Hewish, 95 1975: Ben Mottelson, 93 1977: Philip Warren Anderson, 96 1978: Arno Penzias, 86 1979: Sheldon Lee Glashow, 87 1979: Steven Weinberg, 86 1984: Carlo Rubbia, 85 1987: Karl Alexander Müller, 92 1988: Jack Steinberger, 98 1990: Jerome Isaac Friedman, 89 1996: David M. Lee, 88 1997: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, 86 1999: Martinus Veltman, 88 2000: Herbert Kroemer, 91 2002: Masatoshi Koshiba, 93 2005: John L. Hall, 85 2009: George Elwood Smith, 89 2013: Peter Higgs, 90 2013: François Englert, 87 2014: Isamu Akasaki, 90 2017: Rainer Weiss, 87 2018: Arthur Ashkin, 97 Chemistry: 1980: Paul Berg, 93 1980: Walter Gilbert, 87 1986: John Charles Polanyi, 90 1986: Dudley Herschbach, 87 1990: Elias James Corey, 91 1991: Richard Ernst, 86 1992: Rudolph Marcus, 96 1995: Paul Crutzen, 86 1996: Robert Curl, 86 2010: Akira Suzuki, 89 2013: Martin Karplus, 89 2019: John B. Goodenough, 97 Literature: 1986: Wole Soyinka, 85 2013: Alice Munro, 88 Peace: 1973: Henry Kissinger, 96 1980: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, 88 1984: Desmond Tutu, 88 1990: Michail Gorbačëv, 88 2002: Jimmy Carter, 95 Medicine: 1962: James Dewey Watson, 91 1977: Roger Guillemin, 95 1977: Andrew Viktor Schally, 93 1978: Werner Arber, 90 1978: Hamilton Smith, 88 1981: Torsten Wiesel, 95 1982: Bengt Samuelsson, 85 1986: Stanley Cohen, 97 1992: Edmond Fischer, 99 2000: Eric Kandel, 90 2008: Luc Montagnier, 87 2012: John Gurdon, 86 2015: William C. Campbell, 89 2015: Tu Youyou, 89 Economics: 1987: Robert Solow, 95 1990: Harry Markowitz, 92 1990: William Sharpe, 85 1998: Amartya Sen, 86 1999: Robert Mundell, 87 2002: Vernon Smith, 92 2002: Daniel Kahneman, 85 2006: Edmund Phelps, 86 2005: Robert Aumann, 89 2009: Oliver Williamson, 87
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3 pointsPerhaps even more disconcertingly to those of us locally who are now used to viewing your posts in awe of the intellectual wit contained therein, this supposes that in order to ascertain any likely effect upon its star, you are familiar with the content of this film and furthermore actually bothered to view it having presumably seen its predecessor. Oh and er, no, sorry. Me neither.
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3 pointsMaths = Mathematics. Nothing wrong with that. We also say meths for methylated spirits.
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2 pointsInterestingly, U.S. Census records reveal that Rip Taylor was born in 1931, not 1935 as previously reported, which in turn means that the two Rip Ts were born weeks apart.
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1 pointI remember a lady in my Grandads nursing home was 99 and determined to make 100 and said then she would be happy to go.She always said it was her last wish.She caught pneumonia a week before but recovered in time to celebrate her 100th in the homes dining room.Grandad died around that time but I heard a couple of years ago she was a month or two shy of 103 and still going.
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1 pointReese Witherspoon. One Sunday afternoon she'll be watching herself in Legally Blonde 2 on the telly, realise what an embarrassingly dreadful cash-in it was and top herself in shame. To answer your question, sorry, no.
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1 pointI vaguely recall (after the fact) hearing about some "not realistic" criticism of an early Brookmyre novel where the killer is a doctor who bumped off 10 patients. This was pre-Shipman. Mind you, I can strongly recall Harold Shipman being interviewed on TV as just someone involved in a death, and attacking the press for intrusion into his private life. Being quite young at the time, it was a right twist ending for me when it turned out hedunnit.
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1 pointWe also say wank as short for wanker. As in, “Sir Creep is a total wank”.
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1 pointShingler’s family tweeting about her death here. Basically confirming what you suggested, she put in her best effort to hang in to reach the milestone, knowing that she’d soon go.
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1 pointI see what you did there. Pasting my team here so I can keep track. 10/50 George Alagiah Roseanne Barr Michael Barrymore Tony Blair Gordon Brown Bill Bryson Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton Phil Collins Robbie Coltrane Steve Davis Les Dennis Janice Dickinson Recep Tayyip Erdogan Marie Fredriksson Dawn French Stephen Fry Mel Gibson George Galloway Susan George Liza Goddard Russell Grant Richard Hadlee Prince Ernst August of Hanover Peter Hook Lance Ito Bruce Jones (ex soap actor) Ray Kennedy (footballer) Val Kilmer John Landis Shane MacGowan Timmy Mallett Peter Mandelson Morrissey Paul O'Grady Genesis P-Orridge Victoria Principal Randy Quaid Chris Rea Nile Rodgers Paul Ross Kenny Sansom Tony Slattery Graeme Souness Leon Spinks Willie Thorne Bill Turnbull Rose(mary) West Rowan Williams Rita Wilson Ray Winstone
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1 pointWhich is? As a one-stop complete record for the year. Every notable death should be recorded in the current yearly thread, as well as in its appropriate specialised thread (where applicable).
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1 pointExactly. They need her only as a symbol, because nobody likes Charles.
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1 point2034 seems a good bet to me can’t see her living past 108, think she will live longer than her mum who lived to be 101 she seems fitter than her Mother was at the same age but the Queen Mother was an alcoholic. Will be Queen in name only I think once she passes 95, more and more responsibilities will be taken off her but she will never abdicate.
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1 pointPass the Dutchie to a fresh new grave (I said...) Just realized you can copy/paste this lovely one-liner for every entry in this thread. SC
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0 points(Two more horses have died since then, including one this past weekend. https://www.foxnews.com/sports/racing-accident-claims-23rd-horse-at-santa-anita-track Edit: You can add a 24th horse death. https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/24th-Horse-Dies-at-Santa-Anita-Since-Dec-26-510102131.html 25th death: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/25th-Horse-Death-at-Santa-Anita-Since-December-510186001.html 26th death: https://ktla.com/2019/05/26/another-horse-dies-at-santa-anita-26-thoroughbreds-have-died-at-the-track-since-dec-26/ 27th death: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/27th-santa-anita-horse-dies_n_5cf96e15e4b06af8b5058536 28th and 29th deaths: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Santa-Anita-Sees-28th-Horse-Death-Track-Denies-Request-to-Halt-Racing-511047972.html 30th death: https://www.espn.com/horse-racing/story/_/id/27032501/30th-horse-dies-santa-anita-trainer-banned 31st death: https://abc7.com/sports/31st-horse-dies-at-santa-anita-park-since-dec-26-/5548297/ 32nd death (first of the fall meet): https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/28/us/santa-anita-horse-death-emtech/index.html ) 33rd death: https://abc7.com/sports/33rd-horse-dies-at-santa-anita-park-since-december/5597343/
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0 pointsThe number of elephants in a Thai national park that died trying to save a baby elephant from drowning has risen to 11, officials said Tuesday. Thai authorities initially said six elephants were dead after a roughly 3-year-old elephant drowned at Khao Yai National Park, about 85 miles northeast of Bangkok. Five other elephants were thought to have jumped into Haew Narok Waterfall to try to save the baby. A drone has since located another five dead elephants near Haew Narok, the park's tallest waterfall. Fucking awful. SC
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