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All hail the lettuce - what a victory.

Was inducted to the country music hall of fame, but was to ill to attend the induction ceremony.

Lettuce is looking well.

It’d be interesting, in the same way that having an entire pool cue pushed up your cock would be interesting.

Ali Tehrani dead at 96.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/63329262 Qualifying Obituary for Scottish footballer Jimmy Millar.

The 'Gers official site has it: https://www.rangers.co.uk/article/jimmy-millar/4w0loyoGq3wkU3ak2DHaBB

I don't get where the confusion comes from, his Date of Birth is well known. In fact, here he is in 2020, thanking a friend for wishing him a happy birthday on 22nd November!

She engineered it. She has plans. Vile malevolent snake.

@Wormfarmer... Antonio Inoki was a hit here, too. He was a duo for @BabyBlue and @msc: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11268895/Japanese-wrestler-turned-politician-Antonio-Inoki-dies-aged-79.html

Oldest living NFL no.1 Charley Trippi, dead at age 100: https://eu.onlineathens.com/story/sports/college/bulldogs-extra/2022/10/19/georgia-football-charley-trippy-kirby-smart-pro-football-hall-of-fame-nfl-cardinals-frank-sinkwich/5378136001/ DDP pick for gray panthers

Annoyingly Wikipedia is scrubbing DOBs from lots of articles that you instead have to find via Google. I've encountered that with more small-name actors than I care to remember.

His social media handlers mention he was “too ill with the flu” to attend the ceremony. Photo included. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj6eS8KgV8o/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Tsin Ting, Chinese actress picked here and there, dead at 88.

But is now a director, beginning with 12 episodes of EastEnders in 1998/99.

Yes come and join us in the Tofu eating Wokerati

Herbert Hoover died on this day 58 years ago, aged 90. At the age of two, Hoover became sick with croup, and was momentarily thought to have been dead before his uncle resuscitated him. Hoover initially started off as a geologist, and eventually got a job as a mine inspector. Hoover would eventually climb the corporate ladder, and was given a job position in China, where he helped develop more mines. Hoover quit in 1908 after his bosses were sued, but would later found the Zinc Corporation in Australia (ultimately, Hoover was based in London), and would have a net worth of $4 million by 1914. Once World War I broke out, Hoover and other American businessmen working in London established a committee attempting to return 100,000 Americans stuck in Europe. Hoover would oversee the operation, distributing food to those who could not escape. In 1917, president Woodrow Wilson appointed Hoover as the head of the Food Administration. Hoover would continue to give relief in the aftermath of the war. Hoover was appointed as Secretary of Commerce by Warren G. Harding in 1921, and in 1928, sought the presidency, winning the Republican primary in a landslide and defeating Al Smith in the electoral vote 444-87. In October 1929, the stock market crashed, and many Americans blamed Hoover for the ensuing Great Depression- by 1932, one in four Americans were unemployed. Hoover was defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 election, whose New Deal policies helped the economy rebound. Hoover would remain active in politics until his death- his post-presidency lasted 31 years and would not be surpassed until 2012 (Jimmy Carter). Hoover attended every Republican National Convention until 1960. Hoover was the second American president to become a nonagenarian, after John Adams. Hoover had a growth removed from his colon in 1962, and died of intestinal bleeding two years later. His last known words were in written form- a humorous get well message to former president Harry S. Truman, after Truman fell in his bathroom: "Bathtubs are a menace to ex-presidents for as you may recall a bathtub rose up and fractured my vertebrae when I was in Venezuela on your world famine mission in 1946. My warmest sympathy and best wishes for your recovery."

Snoop Dogg is 51.

Tom Schulman, the notable American screenwriter who won the Academy Award for his screenplay for the excellent and famous film "Dead Poets Society", is 72 (some sources say 71) today. Schulman's work was based on his time at the Montgomery Bell Academy and the unforgettable character of John Keating was inspired by one of his teachers. Tom Schulman decided to adapt this script to literature due to the great educational values transmitted. Schulman is also the screenwriter of "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids", "Medicine Man" and "What About Bob?". Thomas Newman, the extraordinary and versatile American composer and conductor, the son of Alfred Newman who won the Academy Award for Best Original Score nine times, who made his debut as a film composer in 1984 with "Reckless", is 67 today. Thomas Newman already has a successful career behind him, he has scored numerous famous films including "Fried Green Tomatoes", "Up Close & Personal", "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Horse Whisperer", "American Beauty", "The Green Mile", "Road to Perdition", "Finding Nemo", "Little Women", "The Help", "The Iron Lady", "Skyfall", "Bridge of Spies", "Spectre" and "1917". Despite his enormous talent, Thomas Newman is the most nominated living composer to have never won an Oscar.

If that prick Miliband could eat a bacon sandwich properly we wouldn't be in this fucking mess. It's enough to make you go vegan!

Badenoch and Malthouse said to be on resignation watch.

Former governor of South Dakota, Harvey Wollman, dead at 87: https://www.newscenter1.tv/former-governor-of-south-dakota-harvey-wollman-has-died/ It was just five months in the late 70s.

Not going to get sucked into Leslie P's trap again - he's clearly one of the Immortals - gone for Brooks.

On this day in 1994 legendary American actor Burt Lancaster , a huge star in the 1950s during the golden age of Hollywood, died aged 80. He starred opposite or alongside numerous big female lead stars during his career including, Ava Gardner, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Fontaine, Virginia Mayo, Lizabeth Scott, Shirley Booth, Gina Lollobrigida, Audrey Hepburn, Shelley Winters and Deborah Kerr. His first film was in 1946 and a slice of film noir in The Killers. Other films include Desert Fury(1947), Vengeance Valley (1951), From here to eternity (1953)-for which he was nominated by the academy in the best actor category, Sweet smell of success (1957) with Tony Curtis, epic legal war drama Judgement at Nuremberg- a film which garnered a huge amount of critical acclaim and awards, Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) which earned him another Oscar nomination, Trapeze (1956), The Leopard (1963) with Alain Delon, Atlantic City (1980) a film that earned him another oscar nomination and co-starred Susan Sarandon. Burt did win a best actor Oscar for 1960 drama Elmer Gantry playing a bit of a travelling salesman con artist. His last movie was a small role in Kevin Costners baseball drama Field of Dreams in 1989. In his personal life he had five children, all to his second wife Norma a stenographer who he met when she substituted for an ill actress in a USO production for US troops in Italy. There are claims and rumours of affairs in biographies and interviews including claims by family members that he was bisexual and had numerous relationships with men and women. Some of his friends claimed he had an affair with From here to eternity costar Deborah Kerr but she denied this only confirming that there was a spark between them but it was never acted upon. Actresses Shelley Winters and Joan Blondell are other reported affairs. He died after years of ill health and his third heart attack.

On this day five years ago in 2017 australian actress Judith McGrath died aged 70. She was a bit of a veteran of long running aussie television soaps most notably starring in All Saints , A Country Practice and most famously Prisoner Cell Block H as cynical, dry witted prison officer and latterly deputy governor Colleen Powell- nicknamed Po-face by the inmates. Probably one of the more nuanced of the prison staff characters in the show. Somewhere in between the more saintly Officer Meg Morris and the sadistic corrupt Officer Joan Ferguson.