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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

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

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.

Fri 2 Jun 51 The Rolling Stones – Paint It, Black 40 The Monkees — I’m A Believer 35 Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade Of Pale 35 The Four Tops – Reach Out I´ll Be There +1 35 Dusty Springfield – You Don´t Have To Say You Love Me +1 32 Nancy Sinatra – These Boots Are Made For Walkin' 32 The Walker Brothers – The Sun Ain´t Gonna Shine Anymore 27 The Spencer Davis Group – Keep On Running 27 Chris Farlowe & The Thunderbirds – Out Of Time 26 The Kinks – Sunny Afternoon 26 The Beatles – Hello, Goodbye 24 The Beatles – Paperback Writer -6 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 +2

Congratulations, @diego! 1923 Yuriko, Princess Mikasa / Bob Barker 1924 Joyce Randolph / Sheldon Harnick 1925 Ruth Slenczynska / David Graham 1926 Gudrun Ure / Lawrence Turman 1927 Barbara Rush / Martin Walser 1928 Line Renaud / Harrison Ruffin Tyler 1929 Joan Plowright / Len Deighton 1930 Sandra Day O'Connor / Thomas Patten Stafford 1931 Alice Munro / Willie Mays 1932 Elaine May / Dabney Coleman

Considering that Holmes is providing his 'truth' to GB News an outlet that struggles with that concept I am highly sceptical and I also do not think he is an impartial commentator as his wife's show is clearly caught up in the ITV shit storm

This is all just a great distraction, as far as the ghoulish right wing press are concerned. Stops people talking about Boris Johnson’s lies, shitty waters, the police no longer being able to deal with mental health crises, the crippling cost of living and utterly decimated public services. I just feel so sorry for the young lad Schofield was involved with. Hope he’s okay.

Pretty historical death from a US pop history POV too. The last guaranteed QO name to have charted in the 1940s (there are some obscure survivors still about, but if Louise Tobin couldn't QO...), along with, as you said, one of the dwindling early 1950s hitmakers. Then there were three. Leroy Van Dyke is still performing (if sparsely) and seems in decent shape so should be the odds-on favorite to be the last standing, given Ray Anthony is 101 and Tony Bennett is ailing.

Come on.

Lithuania's former first lady Alma Adamkiene has died at the age of 96. https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1792093/lithuania-s-former-first-lady-alma-adamkiene-passes-away-aged-96

Ian Livingstone has reported on Twitter the death of Russ Nicholson whose work was included in many Fighting Fantasy novels and the D&D Fiend Folio

In a new interview it mentions that he has 12-18 months to live and that he “expects to die within the next year”. Doesn’t exactly say when he obtained this prognosis though. https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/people/james-whale-terminal-cancer-religious-2321197

Nujoma looks good here, image from today or yesterday:

No journal de bord videos for a month, suggesting Le Pen has still not fully recovered from his heart attack.

Moby becomes a 57-year old baldheaded stan today.

Prem Tinsulanonda, why not?

What scares me more than the people that buy these items of garden decor is that he and his wife wore matching outfits