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A priest, a Rabbit and a Minister walk into a bar. The barman asks the Rabbit, "What do you want?" The Rabbit replied, "I don't know, I'm only here because of autocorrect"

It will take at least some weeks for him to recover now.

Congrats to @ThereWillBeDeaths7 for correctly guessing the passing of Hyun Soong Jong.

Oh come on! Your mind elsewhere?

Well it should be Phonographic which is actually correct. I'm sure we don't get "cockwomble" via the Batt!

The best thing to do is to think “What would Dominic Cummings do?”

It's drol day today.

Brian May is the guitarist to the famous band Queen, he is also an astrophysicist. He is 72 years old, and recently had a heart attack that he said was really close to kill him. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/05/25/entertainment/bryan-may-heart-attack-intl-scli-gbr/index.html

A couple of LOTM things I found: Former US senator Tom Coburn was picked all the way back in 2014 on a theme team. Jimmy Cobb was last picked in 2013. Also last picked in 2013, Roy Horn

Looks like he has recovered now but one to keep an eye on he is in his 70s and will be massive death when he does go.

Meanwhile we've found the reason why Nicholas Hoult is so famous:

Twenty-third round: 1)Josip Manolic (1920), Prime Minister of Croatia 2)Kim Yong-ju (1920), vacancy Head of State of North Korea 3)Mustafa ben Halim (1921), Prime Minister of Lybia 4)Francisco Morales Bermudez (1921), President of Perù 5)Luis Echeverria (1922), President of Mexico 6)Milos Jakes (1922), General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia 7)Jules Sedney (1922), Prime Minister of Suriname 8)Branislav Soskic (1922) President of Communist Montenegro 9) Lee Teng-hui (1923), President of Taiwan 10)Francesc Badia Batalla (1923), Episcopal Veguer of Andorra 11)Khamtai Siphandon (1924) Prime Minister and President of Laos 12)Tomiichi Murayama (1924) Prime Minister of Japan 13)Abderrahmane Youssoufi (1924) Prime Minister of Morocco 14)Kenneth Kaunda (1924) President of Zambia 15)Jimmy Carter (1924), President of United States of America 16)Lubomir Strougal (1924), Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia 17)Guillermo Rodriguez Lara (1924), President of Ecuador 18)Abdelsalam Majali (1925), Prime Minister of Jordan 19)Ali Hassan Mwinyi (1925), President of Tanzania 20)Giorgio Napolitano (1925), President of Italy 21)Mahathir Mohamad (1925), Prime Minister of Malaysia 22)Mohammad Hasan Sharq (1925), Chairman of Council of Ministers of Afghanistan 23)Ali Bozer (1925), Prime Minister of Turkey 24)Yang Hyong-sop (1925), Chairman of the Presidium of North Korea 25)Arnaldo Forlani (1925), Prime Minister of Italy 26)Tran Thiem Khiem (1925), Prime Minister of South Vietnam 27)Valery Giscard d'Estaing (1926), President of France 28)Ema Derossi-Bjelajac (1926), President of Socialist Croatia 29)Elizabeth II (1926), Queen of the United Kingdom 30)Abdoulaye Wade (1926), President of Senegal New entry is Mr. Abdoulaye Wade, ethernal tyrant of Senegal and a rather despicable person. Anyaway, he seems to be doing pretty well these days and his father lived to 105, so does not seem a good pick. Choose your picks.

Jimmy Cobb, the legendary drummer who played on the Miles Davis album Kind of Blue, has died. He was 91. https://www.nu.nl/muziek/6053414/drummer-van-miles-davis-formatie-jimmy-cobb-91-overleden.html (Dutch language obit, awaiting an English one.)

Hyun Soong-jong dead at 101. https://www.hankyung.com/politics/amp/202005253296Y

Balbir Singh now being reported dead

So he broke curfew AND killed his uncle. This story just gets better and better.

If anyone deserves to die its that damn W**ker that QE2 is married to. Yep, you got it in one, Prince Philip ( Mountbatten) of "foot in mouth" fame. Apart from that, what else is he famous for? Marrying the Queen, big deal! The sooner that bugger is relegated to the earth, the happier I'll be. At his age, hopefully I shouldn't have too long to wait! *fingers crossed*

A thread for birthdays or confirmation that people are not dead. @Gooseberry Crumble

Check the spelling you dyslexic idiot.

Yes, but the one I belong to (Oxfordshire) has a good online catalogue, so you can check what they have, where it is and whether it's out on loan. You can reserve any book and collect it from the branch of your choice. When there's an popular author's new book in the pipeline, it will appear in the catalogue as "on order" and you can reserve a copy at that point. I always did this when there was a new Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine due out, and often I was the first to get my grubby paws on it.

https://archive.org/details/everyfrenchmanha00deha Not just boring, but completely empty of content.

The population of Brazil is around 212 million. The USA has a population of, around, 331 million. A thousand deaths per day does not sound too shabby given those stats. I am not trying to negate what is going on, my views have changed from the start of all of this but we all need to recognise that the death rate, although high, has to be put into perspective.

To put this in perspective, someone born on the day that this topic was created can now possess a driver's license and work a job part-time. Shouldn't have too long to wait indeed.

I won’t say 2 or 3 years but I can see him reaching his 100th birthday yes !