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Times Obituary for David Ramsbotham, Baron Ramsbotham, former General of the Army and subsequently appointed HM Chief Inspector of Prisons: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/general-lord-ramsbotham-obituary-tsrh6x009

I didn't mean to put any pressure on but there may be a delay in the New Year in getting the teams up whilst I verify them All teams submitted by the deadline will get to play the game It normally takes about 18 months or so anyway so a little bit of delay at the beginning shouldn't be too much of a problem

Oh if only, tv and the media in general is more awash than ever these days with insipid nonentities full of their own importance, all the things on tv VLS used to rail against have seemingly got a thousand times worse; phoney virtue signalling, contempt for the viewers’ intelligence, fascist box-ticking (to quote Mike Leigh) no wonder he gave up the ghost

I would’ve posted in this in the poetry thread but the brief is ‘crap’ poetry. This poem isn’t crap. And, as nurses begin their perfectly justified and easily avoidable strike today, it’s one to keep in mind.

Elisa Montés, the stupendous Spanish film, stage and television actress, the sister of Spanish actresses Emma Penella and Terele Pávez, who took her artistic surname from an opera of her grandfather, Manuel Penella, is 88 today. Her father, the politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso, was involved in the arrest and execution of the excellent Spanish playwright and poet Federico García Lorca. In the 1960s and 1970s, Elisa Montés was especially popular for her starring roles in numerous spaghetti westerns. Edna O'Brien, the distinguished Irish memoirist, novelist, playwright, poet and short-story writer, one of the most talented authors of her generation, who is well-known for her exceptional literary career, is 92 today.

already dead according to several tweets

Because not everyone makes it to 100 or is beyond 100 right M. Sulu ?

60 Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights 51 Althea and Donna - Up Town Top Ranking 50 Blondie – Heart of glass 45 Gary Numan - Cars 28 Police – Message in a bottle +4 26 ABBA – Take a chance on me 18 Ian Dury & the Blockheads – Hit me with your rhythm stick 17 The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star 16 Bee Gees – Tragedy 16 Bee Gees - Night Fever -6 12 Blondie – Sunday Girl

I'm working on it, but I do need a bit more time. Too many pools with the same starting date. Thanks for hosting and running this interesting competition, @Bibliogryphon. Good luck to everyone.

I will be submitting a team. Excited to join my first Scavenger Hunt! Not familiar with the categories so it's slow going, will be relatively soon.

Cher denies throat cancer rumours...

Known as Ellen Degenerate in our house. Vile scumbag.

58 Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights 50 Blondie – Heart of glass 47 Althea and Donna - Up Town Top Ranking 45 Gary Numan - Cars 34 Bee Gees - Night Fever 26 ABBA – Take a chance on me 24 Police – Message in a bottle 22 Blondie – Sunday Girl +4 18 Bee Gees – Tragedy -5 19 The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star 16 Ian Dury & the Blockheads – Hit me with your rhythm stick 0 Gloria Gaynor – I Will (not) Survive -1

France: 3 - Morocco: 1 Yellow cards: 6

France 2 - 1 Morocco 2 Yellow Cards

The first Polish cosmonaut Miroslaw Hermaszewski, who participated in the 1978 Soyuz 30 mission, died at 81 years: https://www.newsweek.pl/polska/spoleczenstwo/miroslaw-hermaszewski-nie-zyje-zmarl-jedyny-polak-ktory-polecial-w-kosmos/9xbz51w He earned a Hero of the Soviet Union honor for his bravery on the space flight.

52 Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights 51 Althea & Donna – Up Town Top Ranking 42 Bee Gees - Night Fever 40 Blondie – Heart of glass 32 Gary Numan - Cars 31 Police – Message in a bottle +4 30 Tubeway Army – Are “Friends” Electric 29 Bee Gees – Tragedy 25 Ian Dury & the Blockheads – Hit me with your rhythm stick 24 The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star 24 Gloria Gaynor – I will survive 23 ABBA – Take a chance on me 19 10CC – Dreadlock Holiday 19 The Boomtown Rats – Rat Trap -6 14 Blondie – Sunday Girl

Dilip Kumar's 100th birth anniversary held today. Saira Banu was there and looked fine. Octogenarian/septuagenarian stars Prem Chopra, Asha Parekh, Ramesh Sippy, Dharmendra, Waheeda Rahman and Poonam Sinha were there and looked fine. Farida Jalal, a younger (72) Bollywood star who hasn't made appearances in ages was there and looked a bit frail. No Kamini Kaushal of course.

@Wormfarmer... Georgia Holt is a solo hit for me: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/12/georgia-holt-actor-singer-and-chers-mother-dies-aged-96 and Louise Tobin was a solo hit for @Yvonne, too: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/arts/music/louise-tobin-dead.html

Georgia Holt a hit for @Bibliogryphon. Congratulations. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11525679/Cher-appears-confirm-mother-Georgia-Holt-passed-96.html next round: 1922 Mildred T. Stahlman / Ronald Blythe 1923 Judith Hemmendinger / Bob Barker 1924 Countess Marianne Bernadotte of Wisborg / Tomiichi Murayama 1925 Ruth Slenczynska / Johnny Lujack 1926 Gudrun Ure / David Frankham 1927 Barbara Rush / Harry Belafonte 1928 Ruth Westheimer / Shimon Baadani 1929 Joan Plowright / Don January 1930 Sandra Day O'Connor / Thomas Patten Stafford 1931 Barbara Barrie / Malachy McCourt

Season 22 runner up (possibly would've won without punch-gate) Kirstie Alley is the first faller from hers and the final season of Celebrity Big Brother.

Then how come he's only being added now? He's always looked dreadful but presumably there's some reason the committee put him on the list for the first time this year when they've always held back beforehand?

Don't forget The Quiet Earth was based on The World, The Flesh and The Devil. Harry Belafonte is the only one left of the 3 person cast, so one for the extra caric thread.

Still in the wheelchair, two years on from the accident. Still drinking. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42701430 Wouldn't give him more than a few years.

I wonder if any Halibut leaders will speak out against this nonsense. I don't suppose these idiots care what people in the West think about their homicidal ravings, but I assume some of them do care what their own religious leaders think. Mind you, if their religious leaders are like Pat Robertson...