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I hope Diego got a gift he liked and also took the opportunity to like the gifts he had been given for all his previous birthdays

I think you may have used the wrong list to update Your scores do not tally with the one above

No I find the trawling for dying people a necessary evil of performing well in the pools but I don't enjoy it - as it happens I could quite easily have picked someone earlier in the week and just popped on here but my mind is normally full of other stuff on my birthday (which is a good thing). I too am here for the laughs*** and also you do learn quite a lot about the dying and the dead that you might not otherwise read. It is regularly very useful in quizzes. *** I have very little interest in the super old community and super obscure never previously mentioned until they die that some are fascinated about persistently posting however each to their own. It's not doing me any harm but rarely provides the laughs or fascinating insights into famous people's lives that I am interested in.

2/Jun/2023 53 The Rolling Stones – Paint It, Black +2 40 The Monkees – I´m A Believer 36 The Four Tops – Reach Out I´ll Be There +1 34 The Beatles – Hello, Goodbye 33 Dusty Springfield – You Don´t Have To Say You Love Me 32 Nancy Sinatra – These Boots Are Made For Walkin' 32 The Walker Brothers – The Sun Ain´t Gonna Shine Anymore 32 Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade Of Pale 27 The Spencer Davis Group – Keep On Running 26 The Kinks – Sunny Afternoon 25 Chris Farlowe & The Thunderbirds – Out Of Time +1 22 The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations 22 Scott McKenzie – San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) 19 The Small Faces – All Or Nothing 16 The Bee Gees – Massachusetts 13 The Spencer Davis Group – Somebody Help Me 13 The Foundations – Baby, Now That I´ve Found You 12 The Beatles – Paperback Writer -6

Glenn Farr, one of the film editors who won the editing award for The Right Stuff, dead, aged 77, complications from a brain tumour.

Apologies for the delay. alt obits guy vs DevonDeathTrip alt obits guy Munawwar Rana (c), Cheri Pies, Christy Dignam, Daniel N. Paul, Heath Streak, James Carter Cathcart, Jonnie Irwin, Sergio Rico, Thomas F. Maniscalco, Vance Masters, Walid Daqqa vs DevonDeath Trip Munawwar Rana (c), Father Pat Travers, Rick Joyner, Jonnie Irwin, Brian O'Donovan, Heath Streak, Margaret Read , Bernadette Chirac, Christy Dignam, Jimmy Carter, Oommen Chandy gcreptile vs Banana gcreptile Beverly Shade (c), Cheri Pies, Daniel Ellsberg, Joe Plater , James Lamar, Dave King, Teresa Taylor , Munawwar Rana, Walid Daqqa, Christy Dignam, Yannis Markopulous vs Banana Beverly Shade (c), Jimmy Carter, Graham Caveney, Ronnie Coker, Christy Dignam, Bill Douglass, Mike Giddings, James Lamar, Cheri Pies, Munawwar Rana, Teresa Taylor

WORDS FROM THE COMMISSIONER: Around 8am this morning I received a message from DDT confirming his replacement captain, following the death of Brother Camillius, was your favourite and mine, former vicar general for the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau Father Pat Travers. However, it has since been discovered that Travers' death was made public in a Facebook post around 9pm last night. While at no point has the management of the DL Cup suggested any impropriety on DDT's part, it was decided that in the interests of CFP (cadaver fair play), that he select a different captain for the round. We now await any QO for Travers.

Belated happy birthday! Oh, and Diego had his, too. Happy birthday, too!

@gcreptileis the new @diego

Hate to be the bearer of bad news for my opponent, but it appears Brother Camillus Chavez died May 31st, at least according to this: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/news/remembering-remarkable-life-brother-camillus-chavez Nice pick, though. Nobody I'd ever heard of.

Surprised no one picked Heath Streak - this pool doesn’t really start till Sir creep comes on complaining that he’s missed the deadline because the rules are wrong. Good luck everyone - it’s my birthday on 31st May so I often dodge this as trawling dying people takes the edge off the joy of being one number closer to my own end!

The film below includes footage of 101-year-old ex-WW2 pilot Bernard Gardiner, celebrating his birthday flying in a Hawker Hurricane, which he last flew in 1944. Looks like he's still got years left in him!

One thing is for sure, he's the last person you'd want to go fishing with.

Rotimi Akeredolu in critical condition and will be flown out of the country for treatment according to this source.

Matti Nurmi, businessman and the only child of running legend Paavo Nurmi has died at 90.

Sorry, but I have to! The misuse of "myself" is a modern curse. The test is to drop the other people and see if it makes sense if it's just you. Would you say " Myself was discussing this"? No, you would not. You would say "I was discussing this". Now put the other people back in, and the convention is that you put yourself last as a courtesy: "Joey, DI and I were discussing this"

I wouldn't lose heart yet. The wards in that seat saw a big swing to the Lib Dems in the locals a few weeks ago, with the Lib Dems topping the poll in all bar two of them, with a circa 5000 vote lead. This was on a much smaller turnout than at a general election, but the fact there was such a substantial Tory to Lib Dem vote switch suggests there is potential for a Lib Dem bandwagon there. (This is based on the new boundaries for the seat, and not the 2019 boundaries.)

Yeah, which makes it really hard to call because there may be more Lib Dems over the line than you'd think from their current poll standings. The really lively possibility afterwards is what happens if Starmer struggles to control the hard left die-hards sill in the ranks and that scuppers his centrist plans. Clearly, one option is the Lib Dems supporting them on the back of voting reform. The downside for Labour being the remaining lefties would fuck off into their own corner and be grudging supporters at best, the upside for most parties being voting reform might be to make outright Conservative majorities an impossibility going forward. Ironically, making us very European. Interesting times, like!

The very last known living Inuit contributor to the war effort during WW2 - Qapik Attagutsiak (1919-) https://m.facebook.com/BaffinlandIronMines/videos/elder-qapik-attagutsiak-is-celebrating-her-102nd-birthday-this-week/4981188528645846/?_se_imp=0jsvA08yokvgL79gB https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/on/haida/culture/femmes-women/attagutsiak

Whereas I am hoping he doesn’t!

The Nolens were effectively what you fill summer season bills with when UK holidays were the norm. I saw them supporting Mike Yarwood in Blackpool in 1980. Clever marketing have lifted their profile above this albeit not their talent.

Ah, I see someone is happy about my push last year to return the Herald as a QO. Am afraid to say my current attempts to get Mumsnet accepted as a DDP Qualifying Obit are being treated with far more scepticism by Reptile and Grim!

He was the first American pilot to die in a plane crash. According to the search results, the first person to die in a plane crash was Thomas Selfridge in 1908 who was a passenger in an aircraft piloted by Orville Wright The first pilot to be killed in an aircraft crash was Ferdinand Léon Délagrange on January 4th 1910

Had to have a look ... Fun days it seems.

Diane Disney Miller Philanthropist daughter of Walt Disney is dead at 79