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Well she will be the first Girls Aloud member to be a Drop 40 hit though.

Probably just as notable (if not more) as Bill Gates Sr.

Kim presided a Politburo meeting yesterday and did not seem in a coma at all. Pictures available on KCNA. Obviously you needed to have Coffin Lodger's IQ to believe this bullshit.

Waiting for someone else to admit they were a fan of Girls Aloud so I can go "oh yeah, me too" and not lose my cool exterior... Oh, hang on a moment...

Waiting for Ms Toast and Mr Bearer to say they haven't heard of her.

What a twat

Riley Gale, vocalist for the thrash metal band Power Trip, has died. He was 34. https://pitchfork.com/news/power-trips-riley-gale-has-died/

Some useless trivia. Harding is the only member of Girls Aloud not to have had a UK top 40 hit as a solo artist.

Yeah it was Stock Aitken Waterman who were involved in the original one.

Re Briatore - I was meaning more the times he cheated and got away with things. He'd already been convicted of fraud before his involvement in sports (notably F1 and football) Foremost amongst the controversies is whether he was marginally responsible for the fatal accident of Ayrton Senna. Basically, there were suspicions of illegal traction control use in F1 in 1994 with Benetton being the team suspected to be most culpable. All explained below but Senna himself opted to stay out on track after a first lap collision and listen to cars passing for the rest of the grand prix, he was convinced something sounded wrong. He died trying to keep up with Michael Schumacher's car after the field sped up once a safety car had parked. The suggestion being Senna was gauging his pace to Schumacher but simply couldn't keep up because the Benetton in front had an illegal driver aid. An interesting postscript being that when Schumacher finally matched Senna's total of 41 victories and was reminded of this in the post race press conference that's the famous time Schumi broke down in tears (Italian GP 2000 if anyone's bothered to check it out) 1994 cheating controversy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Formula_One_cheating_controversy

It will- through not certain if her treatment was interrupted as some Chemo did continue through even the worse of the pandemic.

James Cotten a Tuskegee Airman who rose to the rank of Chief Master Sergeant and who served 21 active military duty & 45 more years with the defense department, died August 14th. He was 93. In 2012, Cotten was presented the Congressional Gold Medal for his service with the Tuskegee Airmen. https://newjerseyglobe.com/in-memoriam/james-cotten-new-jerseyan-who-served-with-tuskegee-airmen-dies-at-93/

Dirk Mudge, a Namibian politician who co-founded the Republican Party (RP) of Namibia as well as the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), has died. He was 92. COVID-19 is being cited as the cause. https://www.namibian.com.na/94038/read/Dirk-Mudge-dies-at-92

Thanks for the information about Dewiss Brown and John Lavery I thought Brown emigrated but found no reference Lavery I did have a phone number But he moved back to Ireland 2 others who died in Cana are James Ronald Mitchell before 2017 And William dunlop Reid probably after 1980.i cant find a year Geoff Steiner married Madeleine spiers in Watford in 1955 but no trace of children or deaths of either so probably emigrated.still has relations in north London Bernard Evan's still alive in Tonbridge His son Kevin also lives there Michael

Variety article: https://variety.com/2020/film/news/arnold-spielberg-dead-dies-steven-spielberg-father-1234748936/

Arnold Spielberg, electrical engineer and father of Steven Spielberg, supposedly dead at 103.

Bryan Lee, the New Orleans-based blues guitarist and singer whose blindness earned him the nickname "Braille Blues Daddy", died at 77 years: https://www.wapl.com/2020/08/22/wisconsin-blues-legend-bryan-lee-dies/ He began releasing music in the late 70's and earned a large following in Louisiana in the 80's with his band The Jump Street Five.

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Gonna try to do something with survivors from every pool I competed in, and see if that can get to 250 names (including inverse). If not, I’ll add a few others at the end. It goes back in the order I find my teams in the dead pool thread. Yes, some of these names still embarrass me... 1. Steve Gleason 2. Sid Hartman 3. TG Sheppard 4. Val Kilmer 5. Dick van Dyke 6. Paul Gascoigne 7. Shannen Doherty 8. Queen Elizabeth 9. Donald Trump 10. Prince Philip 11. Angela Lansbury 12. Jimmy Carter 13. Tony Bennett 14. King Abdullah II of Jordan 15. Jimmy Greaves 16. Sandi Toksvig 17. Kanye West 18. Bob Dole 19. Prunella Scales 20. Nathaniel Parker 21. Sophia Loren 22. Pope Benedict XVI 23. Randy Quaid 24. Salah Abdeslam 25. Ian St John 26. Wayne Thiebaud 27. Ethel Kennedy 28. Bob Barker 29. Tracy Emin 30. Rolf Harris 31. Mike Hollingsworth 32. Norman MacFarlane 33. Mick Fleetwood 34. Nick Boles 35. Rick Davies 36. Linda Nolan 37. Vladimir Putin 38. Pete Doherty 39. Gino Odjick 40. Jason Becker 41. Ian Watkins 42. Daniella Westbrook 43. Michael Schumacher 44. Michael J Fox 45. Pete Sampras 46. Sacheen Littlefeather 47. Frank Bruno 48. Sean Connery 49. Mike Ditka 50. Edmund White 51. Holly Johnson 52. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi 53. David Jenkins 54. Henry Kissinger 55. Leo Beenhakker 56. Mr T 57. Nick Leeson 58. Ozzy Osbourne 59. Peter Alliss 60. Rex Williams 61. Shaun Ryder 62. Terry Waite 63. Gudrun Ure 64. Brian Wilson 65. Lui Xiang 66. Chuck Yeager 67. Christopher Ayres 68. Mahmoud Abbas 69. Peter Lorimer 70. Lyle Odelein 71. Dilip Kumar 72. Tim Curley 73. Christy Dignam 74. Mazie Hirono 75. Henry Mountcharles 76. Chris Rea 77. Holly Rowe 78. Nobby Stiles 79. Bernard Tapie 80. Rose West 81. Tommy Raudonikis 82. Johnny Ruffo 83. David Thomas 84. Norman Lloyd 85. Olivia Newton-John 86. Betty White 87. Alberto Fujimori 88. Joni Mitchell 89. Des Lynam 90. June Brown 91. Geoffrey Palmer 92. Charles Campion 93. Thelma Houston 94. Donald Rumsfeld 95. Stephen Sondheim 96. Saul Kripke 97. William Shatner 98. Alan Ayckbourn 99. Sidney Poitier 100. Barbara Eden 101. Shirley Williams 102. Bernard Cribbins 103. Elizabeth Kelly 104. Ronald Atkins 105. David Attenborough 106. Sian Phillips 107. Sara Jane Moore 108. James C Floyd 109. Robert Duvall 110. Ray Anthony 111. Johnny Briggs 112. Muhammad Buhari 113. DJ Casper 114. George Alagiah 115. Luis Palau 116. John Cleese 117. Terry Gilliam 118. Eric Idle 119. Michael Palin 120. Jean Louis Trintignant 121. Robert Graetz 122. Bill Freehan 123. Jean Marie Le Pen 124. Barry Du Bois 125. Clarissa Eden 126. Ian McKellen 127. Michael Nesmith 128. Lui Xia 129. Yang Chen-Ning 130. Katherine Jackson 131. Renaud 132. Willie Nelson 133. Mikhail Gorbachev 134. Leslie Phillips 135. Glynis Johns 136. Joanne Woodward 137. Lawrence Ferlinghetti 138. Mel Brooks 139. Harry Belafonte 140. Lee Kerslake 141. Kane Tanaka 142. Ruthie Thompson 143. Roberta McCain 144. James Watson 145. Stanley Crouch 146. Baba Suwe 147. Pervez Musharraf 148. Brian Cowen 149. David Gulpilil[\s] 150. Bruce Reid 151. Superstar Billy Graham 152. Susan Bayh 153. Tom Smith 154. Ron Boswell 155. Catherine Deneuve 156. Billy Connolly 157. Bill Turnbull 158. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 159. Ric Flair 160. Pierre Cardin 161. John Cruikshank 162. Lucia Hiriart 163. Al Jaffee 164. Norman Lear 165. Beverly Cleary 166. Stanley Baxter 167. Valery Giscard d’Estaing 168. Ronnie Wood 169. Samu Anoa’i 170. Bruce Anstey 171. Sonali Bendre 172. Paul Cosford 173. Jorie Graham 174. Walter Mzembi 175. Arash Sadeghi 176. CJ Sansom 177. Pat Smullen 178. Damo Suzuki 179. Doddie Weir 180. Eric Carle 181. Violeta Chamorro 182. David Prowse 183. David Crosby 184. Arthur Ashkin 185. Jasper Johns 186. Kris Kristofferson 187. Garth Brooks 188. Grandmaster Flash 189. Ice Cube 190. Justin Bieber 191. Paul McCartney 192. David Byrne 193. Smokey Robinson 194. John Carney 195. Peter Schjeldahl 196. Leon Spinks 197. Peter Tobin 198. Alex Trebek 199. Alcee Hastings 200. Sheldon Adelson 201. Eric Clapton 202. Tim Curry 203. Gerard Depardieu 204. Donald Fagen 205. Luke Halpin 206. Tony Iommi 207. Mick Jagger 208. Al Pacino 209. Jimmy Page 210. Anna Pavord 211. Iggy Pop 212. Keith Richards 213. Christopher Walken 214. Larry King 215. Tommy Chong 216. Sandy Gall 217. Lester Piggott 218. Murray Walker 219. Emperor Akihito 220. Dick Cheney 221. William H Gates 222. Cleo Laine 223. Luis Echeverria 224. Barbara Walters 225. Vanessa Redgrave 226. George Shultz 227. Imelda Marcos 228. Alan Greenspan 229. John Dugan 230. Shane MacGowan 231. Marijane Meaker 232. Ayatollah Isa Qassim 233. Harry Reid 234. Candi Stanton 235. Chuck Wepner 236. Jack Nicholson 237. Phil Spector 238. Bibian Mentel 239. Gianluca Vialli 240. Julie Strain 241. Lars Hogh 242. Mark Howard 243. Neddy Smith 244. Oskar Lindblom 245. Sylvain Sylvain 246. Yoo Sang-chul 247. Desmond Tutu 248. Bill Clinton 249. Colin Baker 250. Sharon Rockefeller

Fans of the tv show Prisoner Cell Block H might be interested to know that the actress Betty Bobbit, who played the character Judy Bryant for most of its run, is not doing so well and may not have long to go. Watch this space!

Yeah, I suspect that might be the purpose of this pool.

The dork totally derserves it. He held megaparties to demonstrate COVID was a hoax. Now he is not even in a COVID ward because he paid money. May he rot in hell.

Yootha Joyce died forty years ago today, and my mother's constant reminder that 'she's dead now' every time George and Mildred was on telly urned me into the morbid sole you know. That was meant to say turned not urned, but well I am morbid.

We all assumed you were

With Kirk Douglas, Vera Lynn and Olivia De Havilland all dying in the same year, I think it's fair to say we've lost three of the most prominent centenarians in the world. Got me thinking, who is the "most well known" centenarian now? This is very hard to measure of course, but by looking at those with the most non-English Wiki articles, here's a short list: 1 Edmond H. Fischer (41) = James Lovelock (41) 3 Gottfried Bohm (33) 4 Lawrence Ferlinghetti (29) 5 Boris Pahor (25) = Borys Paton (25) 7 Marsha Hunt (22) = Pierre Soulages (22) 9 Norman Lloyd (21) 10 Captain Tom (19) = Muazzez Ilmiye Cig (19) = Beverly Cleary (19) = Nehemiah Persoff (19) 14 Brenda Milner (18) 15 Ben Ferencz (17) 16 Josip Manolic (15) = Renee Simonot (15) 18 Marge Champion (13) 19 Carmen Herrera (12) = Robert Marchand (12) 21 Damian Iguacen Borau (11) = Anne Buydens (11) Not very scientific. Though can anyone think of any centenarians with international prominence not listed above?