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And I'm back from my trip to Finland! Enjoyed the time with my girlfriend's family a lot, we stayed for some time at her family's summer cottage and the rest of it in Tampere where most of her direct family lives. Also got to meet some newest members of the family as her cousins are beginning to get children. Weather was fine as well; some more wind than usual for the area and some cloudy days, but also multiple sunny days. All in all I love what I've seen from the country since I've started visiting it some years ago: lots of nature, large cities that don't feel crowded but have a lot to offer (Helsinki, Tampere) and kind people. Lastly, I'm learning Finnish on Duolingo since a year or two, definitely not fluent yet but learning a lot of new words and can now reasonably follow an average conversation between Finnish people. Kiitos hienoista viikoista, Suomi!

Previous post: Following post: Ultravox — Vienna: 47 + 4 = 51 Ennio Morricone — Chi Mai... 30 (after @ladyfiona's post) Corrected list (with my points): 13/Aug/2023 56 Kim Wilde — Kids In America 51 Ultravox — Vienna 49 Phil Collins — In The Air Tonight 44 Lipps Inc — Funkytown +2 41 Diana Ross — Upside Down +2 34 Hot Chocolate — No Doubt About It 32 Whispers — And The Beat Goes On 30 Stevie Wonder — Masterblaster (Jammin') 30 Ennio Morricone — Chi Mai 26 Paul McCartney — Coming Up 18 Randy Crawford — One Day I’ll Fly Away -2 17 Adam And The Ants — Ant Music 10 Altered Images — Happy Birthday -3 08 Liquid Gold — Dance Yourself Dizzy -1

Dutch politician Harrij Notenboom (Wiki) dead at 96

And so we move on to the man with one suit, Tony Bennett. Only picked by 8 players in this pool, he was more popular in the DDP, giving him a bonus for being Drop 40, and also popular with The Committee, giving him the DL Alumnus bonus. Sadly for his backers in this pool, he was also quite fond both of himself, giving us a -3 point "bonus" for multiple autobiographies, and of wives for which he gets -2 for his 2 remarriages. The upshot is a measly 3 points on offer. TONY BENNETT +2 Base Point +2 Drop 40 +2 Deathlist Alumnus +2 (Hidden Bonus No. 6: "+2 if the picks Wikipedia page has a “Personal Life” section") -3 (Hidden Bonus No. 10: " -2 if the pick has written an autobiography. -3 if they have written more than 1") -2 (Hidden Bonus No. 11: "-1for each time a pick has remarried") +3 TOTAL POINTS Hits for: Book (Bonus +1 Picture posted) Liz Lemon (Bonus +1 Picture posted) Mrs Pedro (Bonus +1 Hits in order) The Unknown Man Toast (Bonus +1 Picture posted) TQR (Bonus +2 Picture posted) Tracey (Wildcard) ThereWillBeDeaths7 The only person to have Bennett as a wildcard was @tracy for only their fourth hit of the game. The first three were Ben Ferencz, Al Jaffee and Milan Kundera and do you know what those four have in common? Yep, they were all born in the 1920's, meaning a 4 point deduction, doubled for the wildcard! Its like deja-vu, all over again. The result is a score of -2 for their Tony Bennett hit @ThereWillBeDeaths7follows up their Kundera deduction with a Bennett hit, giving them a -3 "bonus" and a score of 0 for the hit @Book, @The Unknown Manand @Toastalso followed up their Kundera hit with a Bennett one, giving all three a -2 "bonus" for hits born in the same decade. Mrs @Pedro67 gets her second hit of the game, but remains in second from last position, gazing upwards at @Pedro67, but with @Gooseberry Crumbleperched beneath her. The net result of all of this work is that there is bugger-all change in the leaderboard, with Book edging closer to our long-time leader @gcreptile GCREPTILE +77 7 Hits BOOK +66 7 Hits CAPTAIN HEMLOCK +61 5 Hits THEREWILLBEDEATHS7 +55 8 Hits AN FEAR BEAG +54 5 Hits WANNAMAKER +52 6 Hits THE OLD LADY +52 4 Hits BIBLIOGRYPHON +50 5 Hits GREAT UNCLE BULGARIA +49 6 Hits CAPTAIN CHORIZO +37 6 Hits BUFFALO PHIL +37 5 Hits FUNERALOPOLIS +34 5 Hits TORVA MESSOR +34 4 Hits PERHAPS +33 5 Hits TOAST +33 5 Hits TQR +33 4 Hits THE UNKNOWN MAN +31 5 Hits MSC +26 5 Hits LIZ LEMON +26 3 Hits MARINISIA +24 2 Hits THE OLD CREM +17 3 Hits TRACY +14 4 Hits PEDRO67 +16 2 Hits MRS PEDRO +10 2 Hits GOOSEBERRY CRUMBLE +4 1 Hit

Another oldest Slovene actress, Vika Gril (Wiki/IMDb) dead at 99

Is it Halloween already?!?

13th August 56 Kim Wilde — Kids In America 55 Phil Collins — In The Air Tonight 47 Ultravox — Vienna +2 38 Lipps Inc — Funkytown 35 Hot Chocolate — No Doubt About It 35 Diana Ross — Upside Down 32 Whispers — And The Beat Goes On 30 Stevie Wonder — Masterblaster (Jammin') 30 Ennio Morricone — Chi Mai +2 26 Paul McCartney — Coming Up 20 Randy Crawford — One Day I’ll Fly Away 17 Adam And The Ants — Ant Music 15 Liquid Gold — Dance Yourself Dizzy 13 Altered Images — Happy Birthday -6 07 Ottawan — D.I.S.C.O.

Not sure where to put this (as not really League, I guess - English footy remains a mystery to me in large part). Anyhow, goalkeeper Sid Negus, who was Fakenham Town's oldest living player, has died aged 96: Article from 2 years ago to get his position and age: https://footballinberkshire.co.uk/features/history-nostalgia/54007/fakenham-towns-berkshire-connection-with-binfield-and-ascot-united/

The Thai armed forces honoured Her Majesty Queen Sirikit the Queen Mother with a 21-gun salute on the occasion of her 91st birthday on Saturday. Despite being shot 21 times, the Queen is stable and improving in hospital.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/22927335/fiona-phillips-diagnosed-alzheimers/ ‘Why not create a thread?’ Completely agree Lots to discuss over the next couple of years as she battles the same disease that killed both her parents!

Sun 13 August 56 Kim Wilde — Kids In America 53 Ultravox — Vienna +4 49 Phil Collins — In The Air Tonight -6 38 Lipps Inc — Funkytown 35 Hot Chocolate — No Doubt About It 35 Diana Ross — Upside Down 32 Whispers — And The Beat Goes On 30 Stevie Wonder — Masterblaster (Jammin') 28 Ennio Morricone — Chi Mai 26 Paul McCartney — Coming Up 20 Randy Crawford — One Day I’ll Fly Away 17 Adam And The Ants — Ant Music 15 Liquid Gold — Dance Yourself Dizzy 13 Altered Images — Happy Birthday 07 Ottawan — D.I.S.C.O.

Just listened to Babycakes, what a pile of shite. That’s my target tomorrow (unless there’s summat circling the drain that needs putting down).

Russian clown Andrei Nikolayev reportedly suffers from "acute obstructive jaundice", whatever that is and refuses surgery. Currently at home unable to talk if I read that article correctly.

Well. Doreen Mantle was a quick score for me. Perhaps someone else picked her as well.

Grandson interviewed. (After your elimination, you gave a very moving speech about your grandfather, revealing to the group that he'd recently been put in hospice care. Have you been able to visit him since filming?) It's been harder and harder to see him. My mom spends a lot of her time with him. She spends almost half her time taking care of him at this point just because of things like COVID regulations. So it's really family oriented. I haven't been seeing him as much recently, but he knows that I love him and we're supporting him through this time. (How is he doing?) He's pretty sick. He still does use his brain. He listens to audiobooks. He's a genius. He's super smart. I love him. He always wants to be doing something with his mind, so he's trying to keep himself busy, but he is really sick and getting older. (It was also made public since the show that your grandmother, Rosalynn Carter, has been battling dementia. How is she doing?) I just want to say that she's an amazing woman. She's put in so much work in her life. She's done things for mental health. I want everyone to know how incredibly important and beautiful she is as a person and a grandma. Yeah, she does have dementia and when I see her, she does forget what's going on sometimes, but when she remembers it's amazing. I love her.

See spoiler...(number 86) Senior lieutenant Jouko Korhonen, last veteran of Finland's WWII long-range patrols, dead at 101. Edit: Apparently he died in a bicycle accident. Edit 2: Updated the list also for the deaths of Jäger Valto Pusenius, Lt. Mauno Turunen, Sgt. Yrjö Savola and Senior Lt. Hans Andersson.

Let us know when you’re Finnished.

Zimbabwe Double letter first and last name Restaurant owner H.S. initials Heath Streak Harrison Schmitt Haddon Salt Jazz Mike Gibbs Terry Gibbs Herb Alpert Politician Denis Walker Dennis Skinner Yevgeny Prigozhin I really think one initial is weak. So I forced myself to use BOTH initials. I mean, c'mon. Thanks CSB for the chart!

He was too busy playing for Russia.

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/jerry-nelson-astronomer-1.4174033 Jerry Nelson, astronomer whose innovations built the world's greatest telescopes, dead at 73.

No love for Hackenschmidt/Gotch 1911? (Davey Meltzer thinks the Gotch matches were legit, btw, or at least did at one point...)

10 years since the death of Yvonne De Carlo, aged 84.

Saad Man http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v7/ge/newsgeneral.php?id=1043609

It's well known that crows and their ilk are clever animals, but now they even found a ethologist named Christopher Bird. regards, Hein

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