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Just when I puked my ring and thought there was nothing left. Michael Caine 'wanted for Captain Tom role' in biopic as country mourns national treasure | Films | Entertainment | Express.co.uk

Happy birthday to @Great Uncle Bulgaria and the rest of The Wombles, who debuted on TV 48 years ago today. I can't say I remember the exact debut, but I do remember it from first time around (I even have a Wombles badge). God I'm old.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Zeitgeist. And promoted populism, grab the proles with a story they can relate to. /offtopic rant best ignored. As to a 'lot' of money.... I read today that we are behind with our new Trident subs all 31 billion quids worth. A whole other can of worms you may say but hang on bear with me it's not really that part, it's the fact that apparently it's going to cost 200 million to refuel an existing one (Vanguard) because it'll have to go 30-35 years instead of the planned 20-25. Let that sink in. Two Hundred Million Pounds to 'fill 'er up please'. Yeah I know Uranium is a bit trickier than petrol, but blimey. Never mind the multi-billion quid aircraft carriers the Chinese have reportedly called 'floating target practice' either, because it'll bore everyone who missed the warning. Money for NHS is down to Tom, school meals down to Rashford and nobody at all is taking responsibility for the cladding disaster. But we got to have our subs and aircraft carriers. (Why? most of the rest of Europe doesn't bother 'cept the French to a degree) We obsess about the wrong things, partly because we are led to obsess about the wrong things. /end boring rant. Ooh look, a butterfly!

Butch Reed dead. Not a surprise, Meltzer basically said he had days to go in the latest WON.

One of the great "how the fuck are they still alive?" names of the last decade. Would have assumed picked by someone tbh! And I can see why - dropped by One Century is Enough Madam after 3 consecutive years!

Perhaps they don't understand why NASA gets them to pose with a wee toy version of the spacecraft.

Millie Hughes-Fulford, the first non-professional US woman astronaut in space (ii.e. she was a working scientist) is reported dead aged 75; she flew on shuttle mission STS-40 as a payload specialist in 1991. Not picked for Scavenger Hunt III

Comrade Blueandwhitearmy has a simple yet cunning plan to further the Capn's good work: Confiscate the entire £750m that this 'handsome 37-year-old polo-playing friend of Prince William' has just inherited from his dead dad Lord Vestey and pop it into the NHS's bank account. That's almost 20 times what stingy Joe Public feebly managed to stump up with Tom's perambulatory encouragement. Then let his servants loose with his collection of shotguns, and... roll camera. The Mail can have the exclusive on the picture shoot. For that, I'd get off my arse and give a round of applause.

I rarely keep fiction these days, it gets passed on or donated to charity. But I do have a vast bookcase full of mostly reference books, most of which rarely get consulted these days because internet. Sometimes a book is better though, such as when you want to identify something like a moth or a mushroom. Flicking through a book often gets a quicker result. It always tells me a lot about a person when they clock the bookshelves and their reaction is to ask "Have you read all those books?" The truthful answer would be "Hardly any of those, but I've read thousands of others."

Typo?

Still haven't dusted and gutted the bookshelves. I did find a stash of jigsaw puzzles in a wardrobe though. Mostly old Falcons from the 80s/90s of Old Master type paintings. So I've done some of them. Lovely. You really appreciate the details of a painting this way. And it's all very good for the brain, apparently.

Good point. 9,200 Toms and counting. I’m hoping this is enough to make Ball cough up his lungs and never sing again.

You’re absolutely right. £31bn for Trident. £106bn for HS2. £12bn on Test & Trace (Germany’s one, by comparison, was a 1/60th of the cost). An estimated £130+bn on Brexit so far. All cans of worms and too tiresome to discuss but I’ve done the sums and we need approximately 8,800 more Cpt Toms to hobble round their back gardens so we can pay the aforementioned horse shit off. My pitch to replace Sunak there.

Sads news from the music world. Just announced, founding member of the Golden Earring guitarist George Kooymans announced he's suffering from ALS. This means the death blow for the band who have played in the line up since 1969, and by that are the longest playing band in the same line up worldwide. These were childhood heroes. We used to vacation in a small town in the summer. They played the park annually and we could hear the concert from the back yard.

Former Lions & England hooker John Pullin has died aged 79. Two Lions tours plus 42 England appearances.

I had one of those too once. My affinity for the Wombles long outlasted my desire to go on political demonstrations though.

Just heard a Glaswegian fella say in conversation “The fucking cunt’s a nice enough guy” which I think might be the best phrase I’ve ever heard.

I'm pissed off at the number of people on Facebook that are saying he was a lovely chap, a true gentleman. Bollocks. I doubt it very much if anybody knew him for the first 99 years of his life.

His wife died only a few weeks ago, didn't she? Henrietta Knight's sister.

Another good opportunity to use the caption Ben Hearse.That's the entire main cast riding chariots in heaven (or hell) then !

If there’s one thing Bob Dole can write it’s Bob Dole. Bob Dole was never shy in mentioning Bob Dole when Bob Dole was campaign for Bob Dole.

@NotTheNagsHeadReading is at least trying to contribute some originality. All you do around here is complain constantly.

I find it amusing that both he and Dick Van Dyke share the same bday and both of their most popular films were alongside Julie Andrews.

This is one of those deaths that both shocked and saddened me, most of the people posted on this sites are just names I've learnt about from deadpooling or vaguely from my parents or people who everybody knew was going to die soon, so when someone like Rik Mayall a true comic genius who revolutionised industry and featured in two of the greatest shows ever made for television (The Young Ones and Blackadder) goes it hits a bit more of an impact. If there is somewhere else we go then I'm sure he'll be making as many people laugh as he would've been had he lived. A tragically young death of a true comic and acting genius, as they say on these occasions only the good die young.