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He IS old

Indeed, I think to qualify as a ‘genuine’ poster you have to ‘suffer from anxiety’ and have at least one kid on the spectrum, and have a six figure combined household income but at the same time think you are ‘just getting by’. Absolute twats.

I stopped smoking 8 years ago after 16-17 years of smoking. My sense of taste has not improved significantly, but my sense of smell has. Unfortunately, this is the worse choice if you have to take trains to work ... in summer ... when the air conditioning fails ... at all ... people stink! But all in all it's good not to smoke anymore!

The enema is turning out to be more like a case of hemorrhoids ! If we go another 47 days without a hit it will be the longest gap since the disastrous year 2011 when there were only 7 hits.Also we are no longer the best year ever.We are now behind 2003 which had it's 13th hit on sep 11. If we don't have a hit by sep 26 we will also be behind 2017.What has gone wrong Grim Reaper? Have you died ??????????

You shagged my wife and ATE MY PEANUT BUTTER! You're a FUCKING DEAD MAN!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't really have guilty pleasures. The way I see it, if I like a song there's clearly something about that song that is appealing. I shouldn't have to feel ashamed about liking something that other folk may not enjoy, if that makes sense.

One time I got banned on there was when they were on about SN kids (all of them claim to have at least one child with "special needs". Well, we're all special, aren't we? But I digress.) Anyway, in a conversational way I said that my brain always reads SN as "sub normal" because in my day some children were classed as ESN (educationally sub normal). Or, as my mum used to say, "a bit backward". There was outrage and I got banned. Ridiculous. It's just a constant stream of ever-changing jargon that seems to get less and less informative about people's condition.

I've worked up some data about the trends this year and want to post them in the right place, any suggestions? Today is Friday Sept 11 2020, this is day number 252 this (leap) year. The record deaths per year is 17, to beat this in 2020 the DL must reach 18. As of today, there are 12 successes. It has been 48 days since the last death on July 26 (this is the longest span between deaths this year). On July 26, DL had a success on average every 17.25 days. If a death occurs today, the average span will be 19.4 days. At this same rate, DL will reach 17.23 successes. In other words, we're facing a crisis here and every day we do not have a success we are less and less likely to reach our goal. Below, orange represents the count, gray the trend, and yellow the record to beat.

Grand Ayatollah Yousef Saanei, called "Iran's most liberal Grand Ayatollah" has died according to wikipedia at age 82. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yousef_Saanei Here's an article about him from 2015 https://qz.com/569314/talking-politics-diabetes-and-socks-with-irans-most-liberal-grand-ayatollah/ Seems to have been a great person. He thought that women could some day be Grand Ayatollahs too.

Richard Smith, a former Chairman of Neiman Marcus Group, has died. He was 95. Smith had a long history as a shrewd businessman and a philanthropist. https://wwd.com/business-news/retail/richard-smith-neiman-marcus-general-cinema-1234580386/?utm_campaign=Twitter-WWD&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Twitter

Frank Bough of Grandstand, Breakfast and *ahem* other extra curricular activities fame turns 88 in January.

Liverpool FC - for those of you new to this site, let's just say it's amazing that Ray Kennedy still breathes! Diagnosed with Parkinson's on 4 November 1984

Beats a picture of a gibbon for her, I guess....

Gave up 17 years ago.

Have your significant other or any close acquaintances not observed that you no longer taste like an ashtray?

Yeah, they filmed an episode but apparently she had no screen chemistry with Patrick Macnee at all. Which didn't stop them casting Linda Thorson who had chemistry with nobody, of course. Whereas Macnee and Rigg... there was TV interview with the two of them years and years ago, and the interviewer asked if they thought Steed and Peel were lovers. "Yes" said a smirking Macnee and "No" said Rigg at the exact same time before both laughed. What a pair!

Have I even got this right? You can't have 7 people in your house or garden as of Monday. However pubs are still open? So if you wanted 23 mates around, go to the pub, split into four groups of 6 and pretend you don't know each other? I happen to play in a pool team, it might consist of 6 players sometimes (not that there have been any matches at all, but in theory...), if we play another team of 6 is that two groups of 6 and legal? Or one group of 12 and we all get fined? It's fucking nonsense.

That's five hits to look forward to...

I have taken the suggesting from @msc and @gcreptile and just reproduced my long list This is not my main game list so many of the usual suspects are missing from here but might be some interesting names if you look close Running total (36/250) 1. Lucile Randon 2. Ronald Atkins 3. Lawrence Ferlinghetti 4. James Lovelock 5. Caren Marsh Doll 6. Brian Urquart 7. Josip Manolic 8. Fanny Waterman 9. Arnold Yarrow 10. Iris Apfel 11. Elizabeth Kelly 12. Ray Lawler 13. Luis Echeverria 14. Dilip Kumar 15. Rhonda Fleming 16. Pamela Sharples 17. Don Smith 18. Gloria Whelan 19. Peregrine Worsthorne 20. David Butler 21. Sheldon Harnick 22. Peter Brook 23. Ysanne Churchman 24. Jacques Delors 25. Herbert Kretzmer 26. June Lockhart 27. Valdus Adamkus 28. Tony Bennett 29. Roger Corman 30. Timothy Dudley-Smith 31. Georgia Holt 32. Norman Jewison 33. Cloris Leachman 34. Alison Lurie 35. William Macpherson 36. Jeanette Charles 37. Teddie Chinnery 38. Mary Kelly 39. Frank O'Farrell 40. Leontyne Price 41. William Smithers 42. Margaret Stuart-Barry 43. Frank Windsor 44. Michael Barrett 45. Hans Blix 46. Denise Bryer 47. Noam Chomsky 48. Mark Eden 49. James Ivory 50. Ethel Kennedy 51. Tom Lehrer 52. C W McCall 53. William F Nolan 54. Monty Norman 55. James Randi 56. William Rodgers 57. Richard Sherman 58. Ed Asner 59. Edouard Balladur 60. James Carneigie 61. Violeta Chamora 62. Len Deighton 63. Peter Easterby 64. Winnie Ewing 65. Gaston Glock 66. Gerald Harper 67. Pamela Hicks 68. Jack Higgins 69. Peter Higgs 70. Norton Juster 71. Lara Mangeshkar 72. John Nettleton 73. Joan Plowright 74. Lynne Reid Banks 75. Clifford Rose 76. Tony Soper 77. Barbara Walters 78. John Woodvine 79. John Astin 80. James Baker 81. Jean-Luc Godard 82. Peter J Hammond 83. Sally Anne Howes 84. Jasper Johns 85. Henry Lincoln 86. Edna O'Brien 87. Clive Revill 88. Herbert F Solow 89. Stephen Sondheim 90. Bill Treacher 91. Jean-Louis Trintignant 92. Beryl Vertue 93. Stanley Wells 94. Joy Whitby 95. Barbara Barrie 96. Ken Bates 97. Billy Bingham 98. Claire Bloom 99. Leslie Caron 100. Terrance Conran 101. Olympia Dukakis 102. Maurice Gee 103. Caroline Graham 104. Mona Hammond 105. John Le Carre 106. Virginia McKenna 107. Alice Munro 108. Roger Penrose 109. Les Vandyke 110. Fay Weldon 111. Quentin Blake 112. Peter Blake 113. Jean Boht 114. Ellen Burstyn 115. Dabney Coleman 116. Shirley Conran 117. Ray Cooney 118. Edward de Souza 119. Alf Dubs 120. Joel Grey 121. Jeremy Isaacs 122. Piper Laurie 123. Phyllida Law 124. Richard Lester 125. Joan Lingard 126. Roy Lynk 127. Carmen Munroe 128. John Nott 129. Katherine Paterson 130. Jack Smethurst 131. Brian Trueman 132. John Wakeham 133. Michael Aspel 134. Biddy Baxter 135. John Boorman 136. Carol Burnett 137. Eric Chappell 138. Dickie Davies 139. Michael Dukakis 140. Sylvia Engdahl 141. Louis Farrakhan 142. Dianne Feinstein 143. Michael Frayn 144. Jonathon Gash 145. Quincy Jones 146. Tom King 147. Barbara Knox 148. Penelope Lively 149. Brian Murphy 150. Julie Newmar 151. Kim Novak 152. Yuri Oganessian 153. Sian Phillips 154. Richard Rogers 155. Tom Skerritt 156. Wilbur Smith 157. Mike Stoller 158. Bill Tidy 159. Rex Williams 160. Piers Anthony 161. Giorgio Armani 162. Eileen Atkins 163. Kenneth Baker 164. Christopher Benjamin 165. Pat Boone 166. Wilford Brimley 167. John Clegg 168. Wendy Craig 169. Annette Crosbie 170. Vernon Dobtcheff 171. Barbara Eden 172. Alan Garner 173. Lance Gibbs 174. Jane Goodall 175. Ronald Harwood 176. Albert King of Belgium 177. Ralph Nader 178. Nanette Newman 179. Mary Quant 180. Wole Soyinka 181. Sylvia Sims 182. Margaret Tebbitt 183. Mahmoud Abbas 184. Herb Alpert 185. Amanda Barrie 186. Mary Berry 187. Johnny Briggs 188. Susan Cooper 189. Ian Curteis 190. Alain Delon 191. Ted Dexter 192. Michael Eavis 193. Nuria Espert 194. Norman Foster 195. Josef Fritzl 196. Bamber Gascoigne 197. Julian Glover 198. Melvyn Hayes 199. Michael Jayston 200. Thomas Keneally 201. Barbara Leigh-Hunt 202. David Lodge 203. David McKee 204. Lee Meriweather 205. Gary Player 206. Annie Proulx 207. Albert Roux 208. Ernest Saunders 209. Peggy Seeger 210. Robert Silverberg 211. Nikolai Tolstoy 212. Erich Von Daniken 213. Jean M Auel 214. John Bird 215. Peter Bowles 216. James Burke 217. Bernie Clifton 218. Andrew Davies 219. Carl Davis 220. F W de Klerk 221. Bruce Dern 222. Elizabeth Dole 223. Keir Dullea 224. Englebert Humpadink 225. Aga Kahn IV 226. Kris Kristofferson 227. Ian Le Frenais 228. Ken Loach 229. Jackie Mason 230. Alexandria Ogilvy 231. Carlos Ortiz 232. Edward Petherbridge 233. Jan Pienkowski 234. Gerald Scarfe 235. Dave Whelan 236. Madeline Albright 237. David Bailey 238. Shirley Bassey 239. Dick Clements 240. Ann Clwyd 241. Tom Courtney 242. Freddie Davies 243. Anita Desai 244. John Edrich 245. Don Everly 246. Roberta Flack 247. Edward Fox 248. William Gaunt 249. Susan Hampshire 250. Terrance Hardiman If I have made a mistake there are plenty more where that came from

Oh, here's a shot then... Ruthie Tompson Kane Tanaka Renee Simonot Roberta McCain Boris Pahor Norman Lloyd Muazzes Cig Anne Baker Ida Keeling Frances Hesselbein Ronald Atkins Beverly Cleary Everett Lee Ruth Dayan Sinclair Hood Song Ping Rene de Obaldia Lawrence Ferlinghetti Nehemiah Persoff Donald Zec J Fred Muggs – NBC co-host and a bloody chimpanzee. Queens Logic – a flipping horse Larry the Chief fn Mouser Dominic Cummings, this concludes my attempts at picking animals other than humans. Stephen Derby Pat Smullen Necro Butcher Shannen Doherty Yoo Sang-Chul Lars Goran Petrov Doddie Weir Tom Smith – rugby Hideki Hosaka Derek Aucoin Paul Jack – Airdrieonians Gavin Robertson Derek Draper Vasily Kulkov Neale Daniher Caitlin Flanagan Rebecca Luker Sven Habermann Linda Nolan Brian Cowen Sanjay Dutt The Berzerker, John Nord Kenny Sansom Lars Hogh Bradley Murdoch Val Valentino David Gulpilil Bill Turnbull George Alagiah Jana Bennett Ged Stokes Ernest August of Hannover John Dugan Neils Olsen James Whale Natasha England Wolfgang Rihm Anne Nolan Rush Limbaugh Tommy Raudonikis Michael McKevitt Paul Westphal Paul Orndorff Dai Davies – footballer Lee Kerslake Olivia Newton Jon Linda Ronstadt Catherine MacPhail Dan McCafferty – Nazareth Peter Tobin Pat Martino Sir Michael Cullen Tommy Robson Nobby Stiles Conchata Ferrell Doug Scott Alex Trebek Bullet Bob Armstrong Jimmy Greaves Pele Fritz Pleitgen Paul Stephenson – UK civil rights leader Bob Gibson Samuel Brittan Ruth Bader Ginsburg Derek Malcolm Raoni Brian Henderson – TV presenter Jean Louis Trintignant Carlos Menem Margaret Keane – artist Jimmy Carter Mikis Theodorakis Logie Bruce Lockhart Arthur Ashkin Prince Philip Norman Lear Albert Mampre Lucia Hiriaet Dilip Kumar Sir Leslie Marr John B Goodenough Henry Kissinger Bob Dole Glynis Johns Bob Barker Chuck Yeager Eugene Wright – Brubeck Quartet Rhonda Fleming Larry Storc Ranajit Guha Peregrine Worsthorne Vic Seixas Javier Astaire Leslie Philips Eva Marie Saint William Russell Tomichi Murayama Kenneth Kaunda David Butler Jill Knight Anthony Hewish Torsten Wisel Budge Patty Isadore Singer Johnny Gilbert David Graham Jacques Delors Hal Holbrook Arnaldo Forlani June Lockahrt Robert Fyfe Ysanne Churchman Morris Perry Laurie Webb Cloris Leachman Mel Brooks Roger Cormn Norman Jewison Alan Greenspan Glen Michael Leonard Fenton Valdas Adamkus Bob Falkenburg David Berglas Andre Maranne Oscar Quitak Doreen Mantle Sidney Poitier Harry Belafonte Ramsey Clark Pope Benedict XVI Rosalyn Carter June Brown Frank Windsor Cleo Laine Mort Sahl Frank O’Farrell Vin Scully Gina Lollobrigida Laurie Johnson Mohammed-Reza Shajarian Pranab Mukherjee Giorgio Napolitano Khamtai Siphandon Ali Bozer Mustaf Ben alim Francisco Morales Bermudez Sonia Gandhi Amitabh Bachchan Bill Rodgers – MP Desmond Morris Tom Lehrer Burt Bacharach James Randi Noam Chomsky Mark Eden Peter Cellier Bernard Cribbins Patricia Hitchcock James Watson Jean Marie le Pen Conrad Janis Dick Taverne Arnold Ruutel Hardy Kruger Michael Sinelnikoff Andres Prieto Poul Schluter Jean Adamson – Topsy and fn Tim Len Deighton Barbara Walters Clifford Rose Winnie Ewing John Nettleton John Woodvine Milan Kundera Bernard Haitink Lorenzo Buffon Leon Spinks Willie Nelson Shane MacGowan Joanne Woodward David Crosby Peter Sutcliffe Ozzy Osbourne Jerry Lee Lewis Sean Connery Frank Bough Nigel Lawson David Prowse Gorbachev Larry King Tippi Hedren Buzz Aldrin Douglas Hurd Bill Treacher Kenneth Cope Jackie Mason John Williams – composer Dennis Skinner Roy Hattersley Brian Blessed Shirley Bassey Grace Slick Jet Black Art Garfunkel Marianne Faithful Elton John Monica Vitti Nichelle Nichols Barbara Windsor Prunella Scales Timothy West Alain Delon Queen Sirikit Joe D’orazio Bill Mercer Len Rossi Tony Marino Dominic DeNucci Danny Hodge Gene LeBell Blackjack Jack Lanza Tinieblas Ric Flair

I'm gonna try this 1. Ruthie Tompson, animator, 111 2. Eileen Ash, cricketer, 110 3. Renée Simonot, actress, 109 4. Viola Smith, drummer, 107 5. Boris Pahor, writer, 108 6. Aiyappan Pillai, lawyer, 107 7. Carmen Herrera, painter, 105 8. Thelma McKenzie, cricketer, 105 9. Arthur Hoyle Smith, footballer, 106 10. Mary Ward, actress, 106 11. Ronald Atkins, politician, 104 12. Damián Iguacén Borau, catholic bishop, 104 13. Everett Lee, conductor, 105 14. Kenneth Mayhew, veteran, 104 15. Whang-od Oggay, tattoo artist, 103 16. Sir Lloyd Geering, theologian, 102 17. Marsha Hunt, actress, 103 18. Ann Hutchinson Guest, author, 102 19. June Spencer, actress, 101 20. Gottfried Böhm, architect, 101 21. Jack Steinberger, physicist, 99 22. John Bannister Goodenough, scientist, 98 23. Bob Dole, politician, 98 24. Yang Chen-Ning, physicist, 98 25. Roser Bru Llop, painter, 98 26. Lucía Hiriart de Pinochet, widow of dictator Pinochet, 98 27. Arthur Ashkin, scientist, 98 28. Rudolph Arthur Marcus, chemist, 97 29. Antony Hewish, astronomer, 97 30. Roger Guillemin, neuroscientist, 97 31. Torsten Wiesel, brain researcher, 96 32. Carmen Barros, actress, 96 33. Leo Esaki, physicist, 95 34. Robert Solow, economist, 96 35. Paul Berg, biochemist, 94 36. General Rodolfo Stange, politician, 95 37. Ben Roy Mottelson, physicist, 94 38. Sidney Poitier, actor, 94 39. Tsung Dao Lee, physicist, 94 40. Karl Alexander Müller, physicist, 93 41. Masatoshi Koshiba, physicist, 94 42. Joan Jara, activist, 94 43. Andrew Schally, endocrinologist, 94 44. Vernon Lomax Smith, economist, 94 45. Elias James Corey, organic chemist, 92 46. Manuel Muñoz, footballer, 92 47. Delfina Guzmán, actress, 92 48. Harry Markowitz, economist, 93 49. James Dewey Watson, molecular biologist, 92 50. Shenda Román, actress, 92 51. Humberto Maturana, biologist, 92 52. Noam Chomsky, linguist, 92 53. Werner Arber, microbiologist, 91 54. Peter Higgs, theoretical physicist, 91 55. Bernard Cribbins, actor, 92 56. Herbert Kroemer, physicist, 92 57. Alejandro Jodorowsky, filmmaker, 91 58. John Charles Polanyi, chemist, 92 59. Ivar Giaever, physicist, 91 60. Isamu Akasaki, engineer, 92 61. Robert Aumann, mathematician, 90 62. Braulio Musso, footballer, 90 63. Leon N. Cooper, physicist, 90 64. George Elwood Smith, scientist, 90 65. Jerome Isaac Friedman, physicist, 90 66. Douglas Hurd, politician, 90 67. Luis Alarcón, actor, 91 68. Eric Kandel, medical doctor, 91 69. William Cecil Campbell, biologist, 90 70. Buzz Aldrin, engineer and former astronaut, 91 71. Clint Eastwood, actor, 90 72. Martin Karplus, chemist, 90 73. David Morris Lee, physicist, 90 74. Martinus Veltman, theoretical physicist, 89 75. Daniel Ellsberg, economist, 89 76. George Gordon Liddy, lawyer, 90 77. Alice Munro, writer, 89 78. Isabel Martínez de Perón, former president, 90 79. Tu Youyou, pharmaceutical chemist, 90 80. Sean Connery, actor, 90 81. Akira Suzuki, chemist 90 82. Dudley Herschbach, chemist, 88 83. Harriet Andersson, actress, 88 84. Walter Gilbert, biochemist, 88 85. Walter Cunningham, astronaut, 88 86. Hamilton Othanel Smith, microbiologist, 89 87. Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, painter, 89 88. Arno Allan Penzias, physicist, 87 89. Sheldon Lee Glashow, physicist, 88 90. Steven Weinberg, theoretical physicist, 88 91. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, physicist, 87 92. Richard Robert Ernst, physical chemist, 87 93. Michael Caine, actor, 87 94. Rainer Weiss, physicist 88 95. Costa-Gavras, director, 87 96. Mauricio Rosencof, poet, 87 97. Luc Montagnier, researcher, 88 98. Robert Mundell, economist, 88 99. François, Baron Englert, theoretical physicist, 88 100. Sheldon Adelson, businessman, 87 101. Mel Lastman, businessman, 87 102. Sir James Hardy, businessman, 88 103. Edmund Phelps, economist, 87 104. Willie Nelson, musician, 87 105. Michael Aspel, televisión presenter, 88 106. Carlo Rubbia, inventor, 86 107. Sir Christian Bonington, mountaineer, 86 108. Hank Aaron, baseball player, 86 109. Paul Josef Crutzen, chemist, 87 110. Daniel Kahneman, psychologist, 86 111. Amartya Sen, economist, 87 112. Sir John Gurdon, developmental biologist, 87 113. Robert Curl, professor emeritus, 87 114. Bengt Samuelsson, biochemist, 86 115. William Forsyth Sharpe, economist, 86 116. Wole Soyinka, playwright, 86 117. Jimmy Swaggart, evangelist, 85 118. April Ashley, model, 85 119. José "Pepe" Mujica, former president, 85 120. Ronnie Hawkins, musician, 86 121. John Lewis Hall, physicist, 86 122. Brigitte Bardot, actress, 86 123. Julie Andrews, actress, 85 124. Sergio Navarro, footballer, 84 125. Jerry Lee Lewis, singer, 85 126. Engelbert Humperdinck, singer, 84 127. Jaime Vadell, actor, 85 128. Mario Vargas Llosa, writer, 84 129. Woody Allen, director, 85 130. Leonel Sánchez, footballer, 84 131. Neil Sheehan, journalist, 84 132. Benjamin Luxon, baritone, 83 133. Adán Godoy, goalkeeper, 84 134. David Hockney, painter, 83 135. Nelson Villagra, actor, 83 136. Carlos Campos, footballer, 83 137. Bill Cosby, comedian, 83 138. Manuel Astorga, goalkeeper, 83 139. Ian St John, footballer, 82 140. Héctor Amodio Pérez, guerrilla fighter, 83 141. Alberto Fujimori, politician, 82 142. Roger Hunt, footballer, 82 143. Sir Paul Nicholson, industrialist, 82 144. Bobby Charlton, footballer, 83 145. Jackie Stewart, racing driver, 81 146. Len Ashurst, footballer, 81 147. Luis Eyzaguirre, footballer, 81 148. John Dean, attorney, 82 149. Michèle Ray-Gavras, producer, 82 150. Derek Jacobi, actor, 82 151. Jean Claude Grumberg, writer, 81 152. Ian McKellen, actor, 81 153. Ringo Starr, musician, 80 154. Humberto Cruz, footballer, 81 155. Patrick Stewart, actor, 80 156. John Cleese, actor, 81 157. Harry Reid, former senator, 82 158. Sir Charles Blyth, yachtsman, 80 159. Tabaré Vásquez, former president, 80 160. Jimmy Greaves, footballer, 81 161. Chris Farlowe, singer, 80 162. Eduardo Barril, actor, 79 163. Cliff Richard, singer, 80 164. David Crosby, singer-songwriter, 79 165. Pat Patterson, wrestler, 79 166. Claudine Longet, singer, 79 167. Paul Anka, singer, 79 168. Geoff Hurst, footballer, 79 169. Paul Simon, musician, 79 170. Alex Ferguson, football manager, 79 171. Nobby Stiles, footballer, 78 172. Chubby Checker, singer, 79 173. Helen Fraser, actress, 78 174. Paul McCartney, singer-songwriter, 78 175. Jesse Jackson, activist, 79 176. John Cale, musician, 78 177. Anita Harris, actress, 78 178. Billy Connolly, stand-up comedian, 78 179. Mick Jagger, singer, 77 180. Colin Baker, actor, 77 181. Ben Kingsley, actor, 77 182. Valerie Perrine, actress, 77 183. Ian Wilmut, biologist, 76 184. Cecilia Pantoja, singer, 77 185. Richard O’Sullivan, actor, 76 186. Buddy Richard, singer, 77 187. Rod Stewart, Singer-songwriter, 76 188. George William Bailey, actor, 76 189. Teri Garr, actress, 76 190. George W. Bush, former president, 74 191. Kate Adie, journalist, 75 192. Thelma Houston, singer, 74 193. Elton John, singer-songwriter, 73 194. Lee Kerslake, musician, 73 195. Bill Clinton, former president, 74 196. Dick Malone, footballer, 73 197. Stephen King, autor, 73 198. Meat Loaf, singer, 74 199. Al Gore, former US vice presindent, 72 200. Bobby Kerr, footballer, 73 201. Olivia Newton-John, singer, 72 202. Angie Bowie, model, 71 203. Ayman al-Zawahiri, terrorist, 69 204. Randy Quaid, actor, 70 205. Phil Collins, musician, 70 206. Frankie Banali, drummer, 68 207. J. Fred Muggs, chimpanzee actor, 68 208. Paul Mayhew-Archer, writer, 68 209. David Gulpilil, dancer, 68 210. Diane Abbott, Shadow Home Secretary, 67 211. John Travolta, actor, 66 212. Elvis Costello, singer-songwriter, 66 213. John David Anderson, musician, 66 214. Paul O’Grady, comedian, 65 215. Ken McNaught, footballer, 66 216. George Alagiah, journalist, 65 217. Jana Bennett, movie producer, 65 218. Bruce Grobbelaar, goalkeeper, 63 219. Lex Luger, wrestler, 62 220. Shane MacGowan, vocalist, 63 221. Linda Nolan, singer, 61 222. Evo Morales, former president, 61 223. Susan Bayh, attorney, 61 224. Michael J. Fox, actor, 59 225. Ghislaine Maxwell, socialite, 59 226. Jimmy Osmond, singer, 57 227. Coleen Nolan, singer, 55 228. Mohammed Deif, terrorist, 55 229. Bashar al-Assad, president of Syria, 55 230. Levi Bellfield, serial killer, 52 231. Matthew Lillard, actor, 51 232. Tony Lormor, footballer, 50 233. Tom Smith, rugby player, 49 234. Yoo Sang-chul, football manager, 49 235. Seth Green, actor, 47 236. Steve Gleason, american football player, 43 237. Pat Smullen, jockey, 43 238. Avant, singer-songwriter, 42 239. Macaulay Culkin, actor, 40 240. Justin Bieber, singer, 26 241. Danny Gosset, footballer, 26 242. Bart the Bear 2, bear actor, 21 243. Winter, dolphin with prosthetic tail, 16 244. Freya (cat), George Osborn family's pet cat, 11 245. Little Nicky (cat), cat clone, 16 246. Norbert (dog), therapy dog, 11 247. Bo (dog), Obama family's pet dog, 12 248. Tuna (dog), internet meme, 10 249. Brigitte (dog), Stella in Modern Family, 10 250. Sunny (dog), Obama family's pet dog, 8 48/250

The Iranian authorities are in denial. It was just a firecracker! (Hmm... why would they lie about this? Do they actually nééd a reason to lie?!) I suppose not: It's more complicated than that. They don't have any homosexuals in Iran! I suppose that for Mr Ahmadinejad and his henchmen denial is a river in Africa. regards, Hein