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As an American, I sincerely hope he doesn't receive any more votes.

Pat Carroll died on this day a year ago, aged 95. - Carroll's debut on Broadway in 1955 for the play Catch A Star! earned her a Tony nomination, and in 1956, she won an Emmy for her role on Caesar's Hour. - For live-action roles, Carroll was often typecast as the mothers of major characters, such as Shirley's mother Lily on Laverne and Shirley. - Carroll got into voice acting in the 1960s, and was the voice of Jane Jetson for the pilot episode of The Jetsons. She sued Hanna-Barbera in 1963 claiming that she was guaranteed the role for 24 episodes, but was replaced by Penny Singleton after the first episode. The court ruled in favor of Hanna-Barbera, likely due to scheduling conflicts with her role in The Danny Thomas Show. - On '80s TV, Carroll was known for voicing the main antagonist Katrina Stoneheart on Pound Puppies, and the voice of Jon's grandmother in the Garfield TV specials: - Carroll received her most famous role in 1989, when she was cast as the voice of the villain Ursula in Disney's The Little Mermaid: She would continue to voice the character up until her death, and also voiced Ursula's sister Morgana in the film's direct-to-video sequel. - Outside of Ursula, other film roles Carroll was known for included portraying Miep Gies in Freedom Writers and voicing Granny in a 2005 dub of My Neighbor Totoro.

With @Commtech Sio Bibble's entry, we now have 6 already competing, which is one more than the last round and I'm hopeful we should get to double figures by kick-off. Midday, Friday, BST please folks!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11689179/Dame-Esther-Rantzen-reveals-diagnosed-lung-cancer-spread.html If she makes it to 2024 a main list cert but that feels rather unlikely.

One for the “what a moniker!” thread especially given his job

30/7/23 45 Squeeze — Cool For Cats 38 The Police — Can’t Stand Losing You +2 38 Blondie — Dreaming 38 M — Pop Muzik 37 Boney M — Rasputin +2 28 Olivia Newton-John — Hopelessly Devoted To You 26 Squeeze - Up the Junction 23 Roxy Music — Dance Away 22 Elvis Costello & The Attractions — Oliver’s Army 15 BA Robertson — Bang Bang 15 Abba — Chiquitita  11 Darts — The Boy From New York City  05 Queen — Crazy Little Thing Called Love 05 Rose Royce — Love Don’t Live Here Anymore -6

A few regulars have oft noted the Curse of the Pointless Celebrities Chair which I'd reference if the forum Search engine wasn't being a shithead. Namely the propensity for celebs on Pointless who need the chair to sit in (as opposed to the usual standing contestants) often snuffing it soon after. I suspect she'll break this trend as she's as LOUD and bubbly as she ever was, but Rustie Lee had the chair tonight and a croaky voice.

Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art Vincent van Gogh died on this day 133 years ago, aged 37. In just over a decade he created approximately 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold, symbolic colours, and dramatic, impulsive and highly expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. He sold only one painting during his lifetime and became famous after his suicide which followed years of poverty and mental illness.

July 29 46 t.A.T.u. - All The Things She Said 45 Elvis vs JXL - A Little Less Conversation 37 Evanescence - Bring Me to Life 37 Black Eyed Peas - Where is the Love? 36 Sugababes - Freak Like Me 36 Aaliyah - More Than a Woman 36 Fatman Scoop - Be Faithful 36 Beyoncé ft. Jay-Z - Crazy in Love 33 Eminem - Lose Yourself 32 Room 5 ft. Oliver Cheatham - Make Luv 31 DJ Sammy & Yanou ft. Do - Heaven 30 Eminem - Without Me 30 Girls Aloud - Sound of the Underground +2 29 Sugababes - Hole in the Head 28 Kylie Minogue - Slow  26 Christina Aguilera - Beautiful 26 Nelly ft. Kelly Rowland - Dilemma 26 Michael Andrews ft. Gary Jules - Mad World 26 Liberty X - Just a Little +2 24 Christina Aguilera ft. Redman - Dirrty 23 Sugababes - Round Round 22 Pink - Just Like a Pill 22 Will Young - Leave Right Now 13 Daniel Bedingfield - Never Gonna Leave Your Side 00 Blu Cantrell ft. Sean Paul - Stopped Breathing -6

This time last year for DL 2022 there were only 4 hits so DL 2023 is advanced by 5 with still so much more potential to come for the remaining part of the year I genuinely feel.

The worst thing about the IRA Brighton bombing (apart from Thatcher surviving it) was Tebbit's meat and two veg on show when he was rescued from the rubble.

I mean, like any teenager at the turn of this century I have nostalgia for Linkin Park but the Soundgarden dude (who I also like) did the Bond intro theme to the biggest Bond film of the past twenty years. I think he's probably way more famous. Incidentally Lafucheuse missed Nipsy Hussle for 2019. No, despite @RadGuybest efforts I am not down with the kids but that guy got a full Panorama special about his murder which I did see, so I have to assume he was a bit famous.

Character actor Robert Lister, who played Lewis Carmichael, reportedly died on July 21: https://www.stratford-herald.com/news/tributes-to-much-loved-former-archers-actor-robert-lister-9323517/ TV work includes Dempsey And Makepeace, Peak Practice And The Bill. Played a lot of police officers.

This bollocks really does do my head in. She made something like 10 million quid from singing Princes song. And we are supposed to feel exactly what because she can't cope with life? The bloke who does my gardening for 15 quid a fucking hour has had a worse life than this by more than a small margin. Give me a fuckin' break.

I hope so because I didn't compete this year as was just getting into deadpooling and didn't want to overwhelm myself. Now i'm ready to do more.

I'm in the wedding and a little drunk, to the god please stop!

If he had any sense he'd stick to the ground floor of any building he enters.

Aye, that'll save a little on the dry cleaning of Putin's underwear!

Not the fact she probably has a fear of being alone and every man she's been with she married, got engaged or had a child (or two) with - or all of the above. I've met Alex Reid and my cousin met Peter Andre as they shared same GP surgery. They are both half decent guys. We know she has body dysmophia as well because since the age of 18 she's had like 10 surgeries to do with her breasts. Goodness knows what other chemicals are in her blood stream.

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31) 1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32) 1990: Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (4/42) 1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40) 1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37) 1993: Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, George Lineker (3/56) 1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50) 1995: Holly Johnson (1/50) 1996: Mr T (1/50) 1997: (0/50) 1998: (0/50) 1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50) 2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50) 2001: Liza Minnelli (1/50) 2002: (0/50) 2003: (0/50) 2004: (0/50) 2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50) 2006: (0/50) 2007: Tim Johnson, Louis Farrakhan (2/50) 2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50) 2009: (0/50) 2010: (0/50) 2011: Ali Khamenei, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (3/50) 2012: Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (3/50) 2013: Henry Kissinger (1/50) 2014: Dick Van Dyke, Tony Bennett (2/50) 2015: Henry Kissinger, Jake Roberts (2/50) 2016: Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Sandy Gall, Paul Gascoigne (6/50) 2017: Jimmy Carter, Bob Barker, Sandy Gall, Emperor Akihito (4/50) 2018: Linda Nolan, Bob Barker, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Louis Farrakhan, Ronnie Wood, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (12/50) 2019: Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Vanessa Redgrave, Cleo Laine, Prunella Scales, Shane MacGowan (10/50) 2020: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Tony Bennett, Prunella Scales, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Shane MacGowan, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Joanne Woodward, Jean-Marie Le Pen, David Attenborough (16/50) 2021: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Jacques Delors, Ali Khamenei, Prunella Scales, Tony Bennett, Rosalynn Carter, Dick Cheney, Bob Newhart, Imelda Marcos, Yoko Ono, Linda Nolan, Joanne Woodward, Mel Brooks, Willie Nelson, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Raul Castro, Stanley Baxter, Vanessa Redgrave, Shane MacGowan, Shannen Doherty (25/50) 2022: Dick Van Dyke, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Jimmy Carter, Tony Bennett, Dick Cheney, Mel Brooks, Bobby Charlton, David Attenborough, Emperor Akihito, Rosalynn Carter, Sandy Gall, Desmond Morris, Jean-Marie Le Pen, James Whale, Cleo Laine, Jacques Delors, Denis Law, Prunella Scales, Stanley Baxter, Noam Chomsky, Norman Tebbit, Michael Gambon, Douglas Hurd, Silvio Berlusconi, Marianne Faithfull, Milan Kundera, Linda Ronstadt, Joss Ackland, Shane MacGowan (31/50) Updated for Silvio Berlusconi.

RIP TINA, you were a real legend!

Peter Scolari, best known for starring with Tom Hanks in Bosom Buddies (that shows theme song was a cover version of Billy Joel’s My Life) dead at 66 https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/peter-scolari-obituary-bosom-buddies-1235095484/

Hans Asperger, patron saint of internet forums, dead today in 1980.

Points for Gcreptile should a QO ever appear.