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James Abourezk, former senator from South Dakota, dead at 92 (today was his birthday). Everyone's favorite alive guy Larry Pressler succeeded him in his seat.

Ok, my first poll, hope everything is fine And I hope that everyone only can vote once. Voting closes an Monday at 11:08h.

Woohoo, my first poll!

Kids and grandkids by his side: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/02/24/us/jimmy-carter-family-members-hospice-care/index.html

US Representative for Massachusetts' 1st Congressional District John Olver dead at 86.

Jimmy Carter’s message when the voyager launched.

Ringo isn't exactly an advert for life-long health, so ill as a kid his schooling went to shit and a serious alcoholic by his late 30s, the resulting clean up is the reason he's approaching his 83rd birthday. His original luck and life choices would have likely seen him check out well ahead of George.

Felipe Gonzalez Gonzalez, Mexican politician and former governor of Aguascalientes died at the age of 76. Interesting name too, can't think of any politician with a repeated name like this since Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

Juraj Jakubisko dead.

Carter next unless something unexpected happens - will they die from top to bottom? Who's there from less mentioned "people who've been dying/very ill for ages but aren't dead yet"? Drol and Tracy mentioned a few good ones back in October, how's Walt Brown alive looking at pictures from nearly two decades ago? Read somewhere a while ago that Yan Mingfu was already suffering from atleast myasthenia gravis in 2002. Here's some more miracles/perennially ills: C. R. Rao (102, unable to hold a knife on his 100th birthday. Wheelchairbound and frail for years. As far as I know only picked by one team in Centenarians DP this year) Bobby Cox (81, severe stroke in 2019 and congestive heart failure in 2020...) Tongolele/Yolanda Montes (91, suffering from dementia for 13 years or more) M. S. Swaminathan (97, looked very frail a year ago when his wife died.) Mihai Șora (106, some years ago he spent a whole month in ICU recovering from a surgery. Also said to be ill around a year ago. This year he's able to walk without aid and seems to be in good health) Đorđe Mihailović (94, suffering from a serious lung disease for years) Akihiro Miwa (87, after surviving Nagasaki has suffered from ailments related to radiation exposure his whole life, chronic bronchitis in the 1970s, in worsening health and according to doctors had three months to live in 1984, again twice very ill with "chronic illness" in the 1990s. Stroke in 2019, seemingly recovered perfectly) Rabbi Erwin Schild (102, has been on oxygen for the last eight years yet still doing fine) Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah (96/97, morbidly obese earlier in life, already in failing health two decades ago with frequent hospitalisations and ICU visits, gravely ill with chronic ailments, gastrointestinal perforation and possible cardiac arrest and underwent tracheotomy in 2007, hospitalised for two and a half years, later hospitalised and gravely ill multiple times, fed through a tube) Ed Iskendrian (101, the Camfather has been chainsmoking cigars for most of his life and still does, never really looked healthy) Yuan Wei-jen (54, he's been a "vegetable" for four years now following a stroke and also suffers from a brain tumor, needs 24/7 care) George Ali Murad Khan (89, shot through his stomach and right lung in the 1940s. Unable to hold a knife properly in recent images) Vojo Stanić (99, more proof that cigar smokers don't always die young. Still smokes cigars daily.) Y Điêng (95, seems to have aged backwards in recent years somehow, not Dieng yet) Pasqual Maragall (82, suffering from Alzheimer's for 16 or 17 years) U Win Htein (81, suffering from a plethora of different incurable ailments for years) Nikolai Tarakanov (88, Chernobyl hero who needs eight different medications to treat radiation-related ailments) Edit, more: Akintola Williams (103, incredibly frail for more than a year) Paavo Lipponen (81, some years ago he had seven heart operations a single year, long health history, aneurysm...) Hal Lindsey (93, end times predictor who I've waited for a while to reach his own end. When he retired nearly four years ago he looked like he was falling apart.) Lim Kean Chye (103, ultrafrail chainsmoker who hasn't been seen in over a year) Ali Al-Sistani (92, the most notable liberal ayatollah with tons of heart problems for more than two decades)

Diane Baker, American character actress, educator, and producer, who started her interesting acting career in the late 1950s, whose first noted film was the masterpiece "The Diary of Anne Frank", an actress with magnificent performances in such big screen successes as "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "Stolen Hours", "The Prize" (maybe her best work), "Marnie", and "The Silence of the Lambs", is 85 today. Richard Morgan Fliehr, known professionally as Ric Flair, the legendary American professional wrestler, the famous "Nature Boy", whose career has earned him a spot as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, is 74 today.

Looks like this might be another Pele-like month long wait.

Obligatory link: familiar unknown (familiar-unknown.blogspot.com) Latest post on Jean Marsh, one of my all time favourites. Brilliant actress. Sadly in very poor health nowadays though. This forum may have its ups and downs over the years but I think we've always shown the proper respect to old actors and sports people who might fall off the radar elsewhere.

Even when repeatedly proved wrong on this he never retracted or apologised.Even if the old tosser was correct which he wasn't that would still be a cruel mean spirited poisonous letter deliberately designed to inflict further suffering upon someone and a community of people who were going through utter hell.

Obama could go before Jimmy. After all, nobody ever expected JFK to die before... Herbert Hoover

Coins have been tossed for the currently drawn ties, and if there's no more goals in the next five days the teams in bold will be advancing. Great Uncle Bulgaria 0 vs ladyfiona 0 Famous6Eva 0 vs TheKillingTime 0 Hell 0 vs MortalCaso 0 Wormfarmer 0 vs diego 0 Gooseberry Crumble 0 vs ThereWillBeDeaths7 0 Liz Lemon 0 vs TheSpinosaurus 0 justonecornetto 0 vs Arghton 0

Thank you for all your feedback and opinions! Now, of course, I asked explicitly about the 90s and some players spoke positively about it. However, there were also other great suggestions, such as the #2 hits, UK ESC songs, Xmas hits, 60s #1s. Personally, I think we can play all themes and ideas! We have enough time for that! The question now is when which KoS should be played: The 80's KoS will last a while; we can't make a 60s, 90s or No.2 hits KoS all the way to the ESC. But well, it could also overlap for a short time, then you would have 2 KoS games running in parallel. With the 60s, 90s and the ESC songs, I would be ready to start the game. The implementation of the #2 and Xmas hits I would like to leave to someone else. Is anyone there? I also found the idea of Bibliogryphon and the songs, which are submitted anonymously by the players, but for which you are not allowed to vote, very interesting. The best thing would probably be a voting where each player can cast a single vote, which KoS should start after the 80s: #2 songs 60s 90s anonymous ESC Xmas I'll try to start that over the weekend! And until then... keep killing and saving!

I think that leaves just Pietro Longo, Fabrizio Cicchitto and ol' Silvio B as the only (alleged) Propaganda Due members with an English-language Wikipedia page?

Yoko Ono QUITS NYC after 50 YEARS to move to rural upstate farm https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11784689/Yoko-Ono-quietly-QUITS-New-York-City-50-YEARS-rural-upstate-farm.html?ito=native_share_article-top She has moved to a farm near Franklin.

The King of Immortals is giving the grim reaper a good run for his money once again.

so not "Children's TV"!

Robert Geddes, American, former principal of the firm Geddes Brecher Qualls Cunningham, has died aged 99. NYT

I’m here for the drama, What did he do !?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kSRHsdf1aqQ

Modern minds see defeat as an opportunity to capitalize their faults. This way Next time they will reach the top of the ladder. Peace, The Philosopher Welcome Mr Rumsfeld, personally I prefer your earlier statement: “The message is that there are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know. So when we do the best we can and we pull all this information together, and we then say well that's basically what we see as the situation, that is really only the known knowns and the known unknowns. And each year, we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns.”