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Reginald Hsu, Miiko Taka's widower, dead at 94. Which I only mention because he got a normal confirmed obituary whereas his more famous wife couldn't scrape a single thing... makes sense...

King Edward III died on this day 646 years ago, aged 64. - Edward became king at the age of 14 when his father, Edward II, was ousted in a coup led by his wife Isabella, and Isabella's lover Roger Mortimer became the de facto ruler of England. Edward would oust Mortimer in 1330 and took complete control. - In 1332, Edward initiated an invasion of Scotland, unsuccessfully attempting to replace their king (David II) with Edward Balliol. - In 1337, Edward's cousin Philip VI of France confiscated England's French realms. In retaliation, Edward declared himself the rightful heir to the French throne, initiating the Hundred Years' War (which lasted 116 years in actuality). This war defined the rest of Edward's reign. - Edward's married Philippa of Hainault when he was 15 years old, and they had nine children (7 sons and 2 daughters). His heir, Edward the Black Prince, died a year before his father, and when Edward died, the crown went to his grandson Richard II- Richard's cousin Henry (IV) considered himself the heir, which began the Wars of the Roses (medieval European royalty was just one big dysfunctional and incestuous family). - Edward died of a stroke after a fifty-year reign, the second-longest reign of an English monarch at the time (his great-grandfather Henry III reigned 56 years).

American actor James Tolkan, who starred in the movies "Back to the Future" and "Top Gun", is 92 today. Photo Credit: Skwigger per Creative Commons license

Vratislav Vajnar, Interior Minister of Czechoslovakia in the 1980s accused of border killings now suffers from a severe but very stable case of DEAD. Edit: I think it's very possible he topped himself, a medical assessment was going to be done sometime soon.

Well I thought it was a GUN original but if there is an earlier version on Sickipedia then I claim the Ed Sheeran defence.

This trip is amazing value for money - they’re going to be looking at the wreck of the Titanic for all eternity and they only paid for 5 days!

So, things are kicking off, positions are being adopted etc. etc. If one thing's prompted this thread more than owt else it's hearing on the news a couple of days back that the average age of Conservatives announcing they won't stand again is around 52, a full twenty years younger than the average age of Labour retirees. Deserting Tories include George Eustice (51), Red Wall darling Dehenna Davison (29) , Chloe Smith (40), Andrew Percy (45) and - perhaps biggest surprise - William Wragg (34). Granted you can find inidividual reasons, like kids and boundary changes but some of these have the youth and talent to ride out Tory tides and play the long game. I'm wondering if the private polling done by all political parties is starting to tell on their resolve as the pollsters come to Conservative Party HQ and say "They fucking hate us!" Similarly, Starmer's long-game appears to be working but I'm wondering what the odds at Corals would be if you bet on seeing "Starmer" and "Charisma" on a newspaper front page in the next year. Likely to be tactical voting on a hitherto unimagined scale to skew any pollsters plans to call it and a few other wildcards in there (like the way the Tories handle the dwindling fortunes of the chubster who preceded the Truss calamity). A veritable Deathlist banter-fest, then, Let's get among it! My best guess is late Summer 2024 election, thin Labour outright majority, unruly left wing backbenchers scuppering Starmer, the Lib Dems suspicious after the coalition calamity forcing voting reform as the price of any confidence and supply deal and the SNP, reduced but still influential, proving a wild card. And Rhys-Mogg providing the Portillo moment on the day.

Fuck :When I was 6 someone sprayed it in black ink on a white wall opposite my School. Cunt:Was dared to say it to a teacher didn't know what it meant aged 8 . Wanker:When I was 9 everyone shouted it in the playground but I got caught. I also got in a school fight at 9 as another boy called my mother "A cock sucking lesbian".

Are you Mr. Sulu ? If not, do you understand the principle of deadpooling which is the main goal of this site ? Also, do you understand the difference between wishing and expecting ?

Yet here you are back trolling anyone who takes the piss out of the sad obsessives on here.

Update on BB USA's eldest contestant..

Member of The Turtles and Flo & Eddie Mark Volman has Lewy Body Dementia. Diagnosed in 2020 and still planning to go on tour. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-turtles-mark-volman-lewy-body-dementia-diagnosis-1234771279/

Last night I worked for The Scarlet Goodbye for a rooftop show at The Hewing Hotel in Minneapolis. TSG did one set, then we were treated to a set by Mini Smog (a scaled down version of Golden Smog comprising of Dan Murphy, Kraig Johnson, Marc Perlman and Tim O'Reagan) with Dan Murphy switching to drums for a couple of songs. Then back to TSG to close out the evening.

Think I can break news of a death on the forums here: as far as I can tell, no other site has yet noted that John Hetlinger died last month at the age of 89. He quite rightly achieved his 15 minutes of viral fame in 2016 thanks to an appearance on America's Got Talent:

Ruan Xiuying and Yang Jingqiu reportedly dead:

As no list has yet reached 25 I think that is a pretty academic question

Number 1 possibly if she is still here.

I heard a nice story about Tina years ago. She did a show at Versailles and insisted that all the bus drivers out in the coach park were allowed in.

Rest in Power, Tina! All that shit life thrown at her, yet she still rose above it all. You were the REAL deal.

Well, my annual hit for my TOTP theme team continues. A total queen of longevity comes to her rest, and RIP and thanks for the hit. (something I bet she never said to Ike!) Anyway, 1987 was a lean year for Tina, but thanks to her scraping a #30 hit in the UK with What You Get Is What You See, she made my team.

voici les 50 noms du brouillon pour ma liste française 2023, quels sont vos avis sur cette liste ? 1921 : André Chandernagor, Philippe de Gaulle, Françoise Gilot, Edgar Morin 1922 : Roland Dumas, Jean Malaurie, Micheline Presle 1923 : Marcel Zanini 1925 : Madeleine Chapsal, Jacques Delors 1926 : Etienne-Emile Baulieu, Jean-Pierre Serre 1927 : Jacques Borel, Frédérique Hébrard, Geneviève Page, Claude Sarraute 1928 : Robert Badinter, Jacques Ciron, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Serge Rezvani, Line Renaud 1929 : Marcel Amont, Philippe Bouvard, Daniel Hoeffel, Milan Kundera, Claire Maurier 1930 : Roland Bertin 1931 : Gabriel de Broglie, Michel Deville, Louis Mexandeau, Gérard Mulliez, Charly Oleg 1932 : Anouk Aimée, Geneviève de Fontenay 1933 : Bernadette Chirac, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Just Fontaine 1934 : Brigitte Bardot, Marie-France Garaud 1935 : Alain Delon, Mylène Demongeot, Aldo Maccione, Bernard Pivot 1937 : Maryse Condé 1939 : Brigitte Fontaine 1944 : Françoise Hardy 1945 : Herbert Léonard 1947 : Isabelle Balkany 1948 : Linda de Suza 1951 : Catherine Laborde En réserve : Alejandro Jodorowsky, Yvette Roudy, Simone Garnier, Gilles Perrault, Jean Becker, Catherine Samie, Guy Gilbert, Florent Pagny Parmi les noms que je ne reprends pas de 2022 pour l'instant : Adolfo Kaminsky, Maya Widmaier-Picasso, Judith Magre, Nadine de Rothschild, François Cheng, Mona Ozouf, Philippe Tesson, Paul Barril, Gilles Jacob, Edouard Balladur, Jacqueline de Ribes, Francesca Solleville, Eric Hazan, Richard Bohringer

Good.

Not necessarily. The spark that created Person A might simply spark a different life instead. As I sometimes reflect: if the chain of events that led to my parents meeting had not happened, I would have been somebody else. Or something else, possibly.

Compare the above pic from this one a while back.The difference is striking.

Brownie McGhee, born to live (and this day 20 years ago aged 80, die) the blues.