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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.

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.

Brian is usually a healthy guy considering he's vegetarian/vegan and goes on his exercise machine near daily (he records it). Here is his full video on his Youtube: He seems to be giving his heart a test because he's back at it playing his guitar:

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.

Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte’s mother Mieke Rutte-Dilling has passed away at the age of 96.

Well, there's a coincidence, because I was just going to say that I was reading one of those. I'm on The Hanging Tree. I've read them all in order except Moon Over Soho, which so far I have failed to find in a charity shop. Books for me too. No worries about needing to recharge. I'm a slow reader these days as I find I fall asleep too quickly - maybe too much screen use has tired my eyes. Before the internet I used to read several books a week. I get most of my books from charity shops. Sometimes from the library.

Certainly my favourite Bernard Cribbins song.

Twenty-third round masterlist: theoldlady: Jimmy Carter Lafaucheuse: Kim Yong-ju Ulitzer95: Jules Sedney Donald: Josip Manolic CoffinLodger: Luis Echeverria The Quim Reaper: Mustafa Ben Halim chilean way: Giorgio Napolitano ThereWillBeDeaths7: Lee Teng-hui paddyfool: Francisco Morales Bermudez Bibliogryphon: Kenneth Kaunda Newjack: Branislav Soskic CastAway: Francesc Badia Batalla drol: Lubomir Strougal Philip: Ali Bozer Life Is Beautiful: Abderrahmane Youssoufi Sir Creep: Abdelsalam Majali

Hyun Soong-jong finally gives the first hit for @SusanStoHelit and @Perhaps CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Even the Daily Mail are gunning for Cummings.

Burt Bacharach is going to be 93 next year. Might want to put him on the list.

Well deserved award for Hopkins

Went for Joanne Woodward, doesn't seem to have been much news about her recently and she is said to be in bad health.