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Every year his head slowly sinks further into his torso, maybe he's preparing for a role as Mike Kawalski in a live action Monsters Inc?

NO FFS STAY STRONG

Definitely. Likely still hundreds. Just off the top of my head John Hemingway, the last of ‘the few’, served the entire war.

Andre 3000 is 48.

Death Notice for Enid Rosamond Dundas (nee Lawrence), widow of RAF fighter pilot and former Chairman of Thames Television Sir Hugh Dundas, aged 98: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/264309/dundas Hugh Dundas died in 1995! But more than that, Enid was also the daughter of Geoffrey Lawrence, 3rd Baron Trevethin, 1st Baron Oaksey who was the president of the judges at the Nuremberg Trials, and therefore also the sister of the well known jockey, TV commentator and horse racing journalist John Lawrence, 4th Baron Trevethin, 2nd Baron Oaksey, also known generally as Lord Oaksey. Quite the lineage. In full: DUNDAS Enid Rosamond (Robby), The Hon Lady Dundas, peacefully at home on 22nd May. Beloved wife of the late Sir Hugh Dundas and loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Funeral Service to be held at St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington at 2.30 p.m. on Monday 12th June.

Leanora Watson died on 18/Apr, was the oldest person living in Jamaica since 3/Sep/2022 and the oldest person born in Jamaica since 19/Sep/22, was born on 18/Feb/1912 and died in Brissett, Lucea , Hanover, now the oldest person born in Jamaica is Merle O'Hara, born in Kingston on 20/Feb/1912 and lives in Canada, the oldest known person living in Jamaica is Ethline Simpson, however her case is questionable and her date of birth is uncertain, being that she claims to be between jan/may 1913, and lives in st. Catherine, and there is no recent news about her, the strongest case then would be Nora Miller-Welsh born on March 28, 1914 in Hannover, and lives in the same place Facebook

It's past midnight in Bavaria where he was born, so I think that counts for him having made the century.

The oldest person in Cuba died, but was not recognized, it was Emilia Tejeda Tejeda who claimed to have been born on 29/jun/1908, died in Niquero, in Granma, on 21/may The person believed to be the oldest in Cuba is Concepcion Alarcon Vega, born on 8/Dec/1909 and lives in Oriente https://www.cibercuba.com/noticias/2023-05-22-u1-e207888-s27061-fallece-anciana-longeva-cuba-casi-115-anos

Also his mother was Nico, Velvet Underground chanteuse, Warhol superstar, Chanel model and famous junkie. Nico herself told the story of how she took him to the cinema when he was a kid, he needed to go to the toilet and she was too interested in the film so she told him to piss where he was sitting.

The jury vote is to prevent the voting sequence being overwhelmed by the neighbourly and diaspora voting as it was from 2004-2008. (And the Eastern European diaspora has grown since then - Poland have become good at getting votes when during that era they were normally crap.) And if Edrogen loses in Turkey they could be back and they were the kings of the diaspora vote.

European royal families only have about 6 working royals so see no need for more than C & C, Will & Kate, the Edinburghs, Anne & a few appearances by the Queen's remaining cousins except for Prince Michael who is not technically a working royal although he lives in Kensington Palace. It was rent-free but when this was discovered the Queen paid his rent etc but Charles may change this. Not sure why Anne's husband appears in photo as a working royal. The Edinburgh's children are too young & the York girls have very young children, always appear to be on holiday & are too closely linked with their father.

I have also just voted for Marlo Thomas. Surely those who are now dead should now not be showing on the poll list leaving just those who are alive remaining.

Another bone injury - feels like she most likely has Osteoporosis.

Camilla didn't look well during the concert, but word is that she's carrying a back injury, so she must have been pretty uncomfortable and doped up on painkillers.

Kemal Dervis, Minister for Economic Affairs under Ecevit, reportedly dead aged 74: https://www-gazeteduvar-com-tr.translate.goog/kemal-dervis-hayatini-kaybetti-haber-1617147?_x_tr_sl=tr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc&_x_tr_hist=true Quite the career with the World Bank and the UN Development Programme.

Oh well.

Already past midnight in Taiwan and a lot of other places, Taiwanese Buddhist monk Master Hsing Yun is 95 today! He's a major religious figure in Taiwan, one of the most prominent Humanistic Buddhism proponents in the world, writer, founder of the both Fo Guang Shan and Buddha's Light International Association and one of Taiwan's "Four Heavenly Kings", major buddhist leaders who have all founded a prominent organization (these organizations are called the "Four Great Mountains"). Hsing Yun was the oldest of the four, two of them are still alive, the other being nun, teacher, philanthropist Master Cheng Yen. His grandmother was a practicing Buddhist, he entered the monastic life at 12 around 1939 and fled to Taiwan following the communist victory ten years later. He's quite pro-China in political questions and this has helped him return to mainland China to build organizations there. He suffers from diabetes, heart problems and has had three strokes. The first picture was taken in 1997 when he met pope John Paul II at the Vatican, where they prayed for world peace.

Joe Ashman is 28 today. Intriguing Fact: While filming the role of main antagonist Callum in Netflix's Free Rein (pictured above), a storm hit the area and production was temporarily postponed. That storm's name? Storm Callum.

Duke of Kent not at the final as far as I can see.

It's quite the turnaround don't you think? Camilla was a pariah when she jumped on the heir apparent's bones, now apparently the British public have taken her to their hearts. Harry on the other hand, one of the most popular royals, now being seen as a modern day Duke of Windsor to be jeered at.

Haven't they ever done that? How extraordinary. Seems an obvious moneyspinner. I don't see how. Isn't Eurovision like a 3-4 episode event? Seems like it would be pretty expensive to recruit acts in all 50 states for basically a miniseries. Also the people who like Kitsch/Camp and people who like state jingoism are 2 entirely different demographics in the Us. The Eurovision Song Contest is a single event, not a miniseries. A TV spectacular, a gala occasion. (Unless it's changed, I haven't watched it in years.) In th UK I think we have a preliminary show in which viewers can vote for the song to be performed. This aspect has varied over the years though. I suppose you could have people in each state vote for the artist who would perform the state's entry song, and/or vote for the song itself. As in American Idol or X Factor. That could be a series of programmes, then you have the competition itself.

Horatio Nelson was 47 when he met his Waterloo at Trafalgar (I know) 210 years ago today.

Yeah, it's up there with the corpulent corpse of Mr Atkins diet.

Maybe Charles has eaten it. That would be the placenta, Lady Die. That's just stupid what you said. I know people eat placentas (placentae?), but maybe some people eats uteruses too. You can be such a smartarse sometimes ....