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Sir Mervyn Brown OBE (wiki) died on 28th September, four days after his 100th birthday. Times death notice.

Eileen Derbyshire is 92.

Jacques Chonchol (wiki) dead at 97.

Despite being 98 later this year, he is still not the oldest surviving actor from Mary Poppins with Glynis Johns 100 today & a 'young' Julie Andrews was 88 earlier this week a decade younger than DVD.

Big take away from last night's trouncing of SNP being that if that swing were replicated nationally Labour would take about 40 Scottish seats and that'd be very helpful in winning nationally. Can't see a swing on that scale in a general election but something north of 20 Scottish seats would be very welcome. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-scotland-67009605

The Chicago Bears have won their first game in 346 days.

6/Oct/2023 41 Deee-Lite — Groove Is In The Heart 36 James — Sit Down -2 34 Amy Grant — Baby Baby 32 Alannah Myles — Black Velvet 31 Seal — Crazy 31 2 Unlimited — Get Ready For This 31 Crystal Waters — Gypsy Woman 30 DNA Ft. Suzanne Vega — Tom’s Diner 30 Kylie Minogue — Better The Devil You Know 28 Adventures Of Stevie V — Dirty Cash -2 27 Nomad — (I Wanna Give You) Devotion 24 KLF — Last Train To Trancentral 22 B-52's — Love Shack 19 Luciano Pavarotti — Nessun Dorma +4 15 Scorpions — Wind Of Change 13 Heavy D And The Boyz — Now That We Found Love -2

Fri 6 Oct 41 Deee-Lite — Groove Is In The Heart 38 James — Sit Down 34 Amy Grant — Baby Baby 32 Alannah Myles — Black Velvet +4 31 Seal — Crazy 31 2 Unlimited — Get Ready For This 31 Crystal Waters — Gypsy Woman 30 DNA Ft. Suzanne Vega — Tom’s Diner 30 Kylie Minogue — Better The Devil You Know 30 Adventures Of Stevie V — Dirty Cash 27 Nomad — (I Wanna Give You) Devotion 24 KLF — Last Train To Trancentral 22 B-52's — Love Shack 15 Luciano Pavarotti — Nessun Dorma 15 Heavy D And The Boyz — Now That We Found Love 15 Scorpions — Wind Of Change 00 Diana Ross — When You Tell Me That You Love Me -6 Thank you @Toast

Melvyn Bragg, the prolific author of twenty-two novels, whose first novel was published in 1965, works of non-fiction, and screenplays, broadcaster, probably best known for his notable work as the editor and presenter of "The South Bank Show" for thirty-three years, and a media personality, who was appointed to the House of Lords as a Labour life peer: Lord Bragg of Wigton, and was born in Wigton, Cumbria, is 84 today.

6/10/23 41 Deee-Lite — Groove Is In The Heart 34 Amy Grant — Baby Baby 34 James — Sit Down  34 Crystal Waters — Gypsy Woman 31 Seal — Crazy 31 2 Unlimited — Get Ready For This -6 30 DNA Ft. Suzanne Vega — Tom’s Diner 30 Kylie Minogue — Better The Devil You Know 28 Adventures Of Stevie V — Dirty Cash 28 Alannah Myles — Black Velvet 27 Nomad — (I Wanna Give You) Devotion 24 KLF — Last Train To Trancentral 21 Scorpions — Wind Of Change 18 B-52's — Love Shack 17 Luciano Pavarotti — Nessun Dorma +4 15 Heavy D And The Boyz — Now That We Found Love 13 Diana Ross — When You Tell Me That You Love Me One last vote (I'd imagine) for the maestro. Feels like his curtain call is approaching.

Dick Butkus dead at 80.

She's an Oscar nominated actress, Mary Poppins is a film that everyone knows and I definitely think her longevity has contributed to her fame, so she is 100000% famous enough. If you took a poll on a British high-street I doubt many would know her name but then would immediately recognise her as Mrs Banks the Suffragette in Mary Poppins.

tbh no idea if the Oscar nominated, Tony Award winning, Disney Hall of Fame actress is famous. If only she was in one of the most repeated on TV kids films of the last 60 years or something to help me work it out. Or a 70s horror classic. I respectfully suggest your lack of knowledge is down to her having had the common sense to save her money, so she could retire gracefully in her 70s, a quarter of a century ago. She's more famous than half the hobby horse names brought up in the annual "Who should the Cmme pick?" threads.

Hello everyone, There will be another round! Stay tuned for an update this weekend that will release the rules + open entries. Entries will be allowed for a week or two depending on demand for the game. Updates to follow shortly...

Most likely. I went to Disney World this past summer. I’m only 32, and it was very tiring

Fri 6 Oct 41 Deee-Lite — Groove Is In The Heart 38 James — Sit Down +4 34 Amy Grant — Baby Baby 31 Seal — Crazy 31 2 Unlimited — Get Ready For This 31 Crystal Waters — Gypsy Woman -5 30 DNA Ft. Suzanne Vega — Tom’s Diner 30 Kylie Minogue — Better The Devil You Know 30 Adventures Of Stevie V — Dirty Cash 28 Alannah Myles — Black Velvet 27 Nomad — (I Wanna Give You) Devotion 24 KLF — Last Train To Trancentral 22 B-52's — Love Shack +4 15 Luciano Pavarotti — Nessun Dorma 15 Heavy D And The Boyz — Now That We Found Love 15 Scorpions — Wind Of Change 06 Diana Ross — When You Tell Me That You Love Me -1

The wisdom of the masses and also in this case, of Zoidberg, both show that the proposal for both Glynis Johns and Eva Marie Saint is the correct one. Please refer to the table below of the actresses named in the threads above and the number of picks they have in the 2023 DDP. Name DDP 2023 picks Glynis Johns 28 (D40) Kim Novak 3 Tippi Hedren 9 Eva Marie Saint 28 (D40) Ursula Andress 4

Tep Vong, Cambodia's most powerful religious leader, recently hospitalised in ICU, underwent blood transfusion due to anemia and pacemaker battery change but already discharged and looks almost as healthy as a mummified corpse. Edit: Now apparently re-hospitalised, but already discharged again.

I was very tired last night, but I did have a few thoughts on Rishi's speech. He said all the money saved from HS2 will be redirected into other projects - which leads to the question of how is it actually saving money? His speech was on the tv in the staff room at school on mute and the banner at the bottom came up with "Sunak: Britain is most successful multi-ethnic democracy in the world," which I thought was interesting given his Home Secretary told us last week that "multiculturalism has failed". Oh, and to bring it up to date, despite what Sunak claimed yesterday, the government have now said HS2 will only go to London Euston if the private sector pay for it (he missed that bit out yesterday - how odd!) and ITV News are reporting tonight that lines announced yesterday have already been rowed back (shock horror!). Some details on LBC here: https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/government-backtracks-key-transport-pledge-24-hours-rishi-sunak/ It also includes details of Sunak's Twitter video on the announcement, which I'm sure you've seen, but just putting it here for posterity. The one announcing the cancellation of HS2...which was filmed in Downing Street...where he hasn't been since the Conference started at the weekend...when he was telling everybody he hadn't made a decision yet. Lying wanker.

I found this https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.larazon.es/internacional/europa/vladimir-putin-enfermo-terminal-morira-antes-acabe-otono_2023091365016f347caa7b0001c05a35.html%3foutputType=amp

As is accustomed when a public figure dies, a list of related names. Here's every tree to have won the Woodland Trust's English Tree of the Year trophy: Major Oak (Nottingham) b. c 1200 Cubbington Pear Tree (Warwickshire) b. c 1750 d. 2020 Sycamore Gap Tree (Northumberland) b. c 1800 d. 2023 Gilwell Oak (Essex) b. c 1600 Nellie's Tree (Yorkshire) b. c 1920 Allerton Oak (Liverpool) b. c 1000 Happy Man Tree (London) b. c 1870 d. 2021

Sir Richard Houldsworth, 5th Baronet of the Houldsworth baronets death notice: https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/houldsworth-notices_53610 Heir apparent is Simon Houldsworth (b. 1971).

Most influential death of the year so far

Roger Swinfen, 3rd Baron Swinfen, hereditary peer, deceased aged 83 according to the Parliamentary website: https://members.parliament.uk/member/2235/career Edit: Hansard Entry confirming he died yesterday: https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2022-06-06/debates/B81FB55A-B08D-4D2B-8466-BDFF90466E21/DeathOfAMemberLordSwinfen Elder son of the novelist Mary Wesley. His son Charles (b. 1971) becomes 4th Baron.