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On the Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, "Eric lived in the studio rafters and used to winch down a plastic ball containing postcards for the prize pick. Such was his popularity that when the team were looking for a name for the statue given to the winners of the Swap Shop star awards, Eric was the natural choice" You won't get that kind of detailed information on your average forum boards, you know. Cheggers was a real poet - not just anyone could rhyme Reagan with Keegan. Edit: oh balls, that cunt BA Robertson wrote it.

Don't remember this being in Cluedo

Here's a picture of Hurricane Eta from the International Space Station: Expected to make landfall in Nicaragua tomorrow morning- possibly as a Category 5.

I'm a trans woman myself. Knew it for years, and some on here have known in private for a while - no reason to keep hiding. Life's too short. Don't want any fuss - just here to deadpool and perpetually increase my knowhow of yesteryear celebs. And agreed wrt the above, having that deadpooler's sense of black humor definitely helps keep me sane.

Great British Bake Off contestant from 2014, Luis Troyano, reported dead from oesophageal cancer:

By Jove, he's got it!

I'd vote for Golden Retriever.

Definitely will have him in my Top 50 next year, if he makes it. His face is noticeably gaunt, and although he's still mentally very sharp, his voice is more hoarse-sounding as well. At least he showed he could stand up during the interview, but he unfortunately doesn't look good.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/mayor-joe-anderson-says-another-19210338 Liverpool Labour councillor Richard McLinden has died after testing positive for coronavirus.

Thanks YW. Such a strange act. Reasonably well known considering they were essentially a one hit wonder for their Automatic Lover, #35 and yet not the song I was expecting... I’m very familiar with “Baby Baby” because of its use in popular culture. It didn’t even chart, but seems to be their signature song... and yet I don’t really understand how it grew to being so widely known in the timespan from its original release? Also unusual that Edwards is still with them as the last remaining original member. Drummers are normally the first out the door and punk bands in particular would often dispose of and replace their drummers within a couple of years.

The Vibrators. John Edwards is listed here as born Hampstead, London on 1 April 1951: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gZIjT8PgJMEC&pg=PA153&lpg=PA153&dq=john+edwards+born+1+April+1951+hampstead&source=bl&ots=XCTXeIUa3X&sig=ACfU3U3ZL2bRDF_d3KxNq4BOcA7saBAsbQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj99qufouXsAhWOURUIHbfcCyoQ6AEwBHoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=john edwards born 1 April 1951 hampstead&f=false

Other than Mel Brooks (94) himself, just three credited Blazing Saddles cast members still alive: Burton Gilliam (82), Robyn Hilton (76) and child actor Rodney Allen Rippy (52). Unusually high mortality rate for a film from the mid-70s with such a big cast.

Carol Arthur (IMDb) has died aged 85. Also appeared in Blazing Saddles as schoolmistress Harriet Johnson. Obituaries: Daily Mail, Daily Star, The Sun, Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Metro

Gerd Muller eats next to nothing and lies in bed all day, reveals emotional wife as Germany hero, 74, battles dementia https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/13088432/gerd-muller-dementia-germany-bayern/

Sending a junior minister to be interviewed by Paxman ffs Reminds me of this

@YoungWillz and @Bibliogryphon the NY Times election mascot looks a bit familiar, no?

it's Italy

You can show all the poll results you like but the truth is that there is only one true poll and that is the election itself.

WTF is the logic behind allowing pubs to sell takeaway food, but not alcohol? Alcohol is available in any supermarket, corner shop, and I seem to remember they allowed off-licences to stay open last time. Beer has a limited shelf life, so our local pubs are taking yet another big hit - this one entirely unnecessary.

Nice to see Deathers still cutting about online. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newsscotland/scots-church-worshippers-appalled-after-hackers-post-porn-and-satanic-images-in-zoom-meeting/ar-BB1avomL

Betty Dodson, noted above, reportedly dead age 91. Also a hit for @gcreptile in the Six people Six Months deadpool.

I've never heard of that song. I thought you were on about this one....

Twitter reporting the death of Margaret Birch (wiki) aged 99. First female cabinet minister within the provincial government of Ontario.

Yes I agree, let’s ban everything you hate.

You obviously only made this so you can have more threads to trigger people with your obsessive political chat. Get a hobby.