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I did consider changing the name of the pool when I took over, but I decided against it for two reasons. Firstly because this is what it has been called from day 1, and is known to all and sundry as the Hares pool, so I didn't feel it would be right to change it at this stage. And secondly because I have never liked the Tortoise in that story. Smug little talentless bastard. "Slow and steady wins the race". No it doesn't - fast and strong and not being a obnoxious prick like the Hare wins the race. You just got lucky, you slow horrible shelly fucker, so pipe down, take your "win" and piss off.

Glenn T. Seaborg died on this day 25 years ago, aged 86. - Seaborg majored in chemistry, and received a PhD in 1937. He coined the term "spallation" (the process of particles ejecting from an object due to a collision) in his doctoral thesis. He would work at the lab at the University of California Berkeley for his entire life. - Seaborg's first synthesis of a new chemical was the iron-59 isotope, followed by iodine-131. Both of these isotopes have been prominently used for medical purposes - However, Seaborg is best known for his discoveries/co-discoveries of many elements with over 90 protons (and therefore often synthesized by him)- in order, they were: plutonium (1940), americium (1944), curium (1944), berkelium (1949), californium (1950), einsteinium (1952), fermium (1952), mendelevium (1955), nobelium (1958)- and one more in the following factoid. - In 1974, Seaborg assisted in the synthesis of element 106. In 1994, this element would be named "seaborgium" after him, making him the first living person to have an element on the periodic table named after them (the second was Yuri Oganessian with oganesson being named in 2016): For his contributions, Seaborg would be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951. - Besides these discoveries, Seaborg was also instrumental to the Manhattan Project, being the first person to isolate a plutonium isotope from uranium atoms, allowing mass production of plutonium for the Fat Man bomb. - Seaborg was also somewhat of an alchemist- he managed to remove protons and neutrons from bismuth atoms to turn them into gold atoms.

Thanks for the heads up on Stan No thanks for the incorrect use of "myself". What's wrong with "Me"?

25/2/2024 45 X-Press 2 ft. David Byrne — Lazy 40 Busted — Year 3000 38 Benny Benassi PTS The Biz — Satisfaction 36 Mis-Teeq — Scandalous 36 The Darkness — I Believe In A Thing Called Love +4 34 Electric Six-- Danger! High Voltage (Fixed the vote here. Thanks @AstroKat) 34 Dido — Flag 31 Justin Timberlake — Rock Your Body 30 Oasis — Stop Crying Your Heart Out 30 S Club — Say Goodbye / Love Ain’t Gonna Wait For You 30 S Club 7 — You 29 Justin Timberlake — Cry Me A River 29 Coldplay — In My Place 28 Kylie Minogue — Love At First Sight 28 Lumidee — Never Leave You 25 Puretone — Addicted To Bass 25 Oasis — Little By Little / She Is Love -6 24 Girls Aloud — Jump 24 Liberty X — Got To Have Your Love 21 Kevin Lyttle — Turn Me On 21 Scooter — The Logical Song 21 Ultrabeat — Pretty Green Eyes 20 Atomic Kitten — The Last Goodbye / Be With You 20 Kelly Rowland — Stole 20 Lisa Maffia — All Over 19 Shakira -- Whenever, Wherever 19 A1 — Caught In The Middle 19 Girls Aloud — No Good Advice 18 Dannii Minogue — I Begin To Wonder 18 Appleton — Fantasy 18 Pink — Get The Party Started 17 Rachel Stevens — Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex 15 DJ Sammy — The Boys Of Summer 13 Will Young — Don’t Let Me Down / You And I 13 Madonna — Hollywood 11 The Black Eyed Peas — Shut Up 05 The Darkness — Don’t Let The Bells End

Paul Bearer only subtracted 5 from Electric Six, so it should be 34 Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage Please would the next person to post use this score

Zong Qinghou dead at 78. He was the richest man in mainland China for years.

Sun 25 Feb 45 X-Press 2 ft. David Byrne — Lazy 39 Benny Benassi PTS The Biz — Satisfaction 38 Electric Six — Danger! High Voltage 37 Coldplay — In My Place +4 36 Mis-Teeq — Scandalous 36 The Darkness — I Believe In A Thing Called Love 34 Busted — Year 3000 31 Justin Timberlake — Rock Your Body 30 Oasis — Stop Crying Your Heart Out 30 S Club — Say Goodbye / Love Ain’t Gonna Wait For You 30 S Club 7 — You 30 Lumidee — Never Leave You 30 Dido — White Flag -6 29 Justin Timberlake — Cry Me A River 28 Kylie Minogue — Love At First Sight 25 Puretone — Addicted To Bass 25 Oasis — Little By Little / She Is Love 25 Liberty X — Got To Have Your Love 24 Girls Aloud — Jump 21 Kevin Lyttle — Turn Me On 21 Scooter — The Logical Song 21 Ultrabeat — Pretty Green Eyes 20 Atomic Kitten — The Last Goodbye / Be With You 20 Kelly Rowland — Stole 20 Lisa Maffia — All Over 19 A1 — Caught In The Middle 19 Pink — Get The Party Started 19 Girls Aloud — No Good Advice 18 Dannii Minogue — I Begin To Wonder 18 Appleton — Fantasy 17 Rachel Stevens — Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex 15 DJ Sammy — The Boys Of Summer 13 Will Young — Don’t Let Me Down / You And I 13 Madonna — Hollywood 10 Shakira — Whenever, Wherever 04 The Darkness — Don’t Let The Bells End

Yeah, that sucks about Willis, he seemed like a good person. That's all I have to say.

Congratulations, @tracy! 1924 Khamtai Siphandone / Ella Jenkins 1925 Calvin Tomkins / Ruth Slenczynska 1926 Philip Springer / Barbara Clegg 1927 Lee Montague / Geneviève Page 1928 Harold Becker / Ethel Kennedy 1929 Len Deighton / Joan Plowright 1930 Clive Revill / Lynn Hamilton 1931 Norman Tebbit / Alice Munro 1932 Frank Layden / Nancy Kassebaum 1933 Parnelli Jones / Bernadette Chirac

Tice wouldn't know a proper days work if it bit him on the backside.

Ramona Fradon dead at 97. Good luck, Mr. Katz, you are the last one standing.

On the Verge of being sacked now.

Stan Bowles reportedly dead aged 75.

Mango boy is the first user I've decided to ignore posts for, which means I avoid all his spam but it makes everyone else in this thread look schizophrenic.

Sitting up watching the news and the state the world is in should be enough to finish anyone off

congrats @tracy 1924 William H. Webster/Marianne Bernadotte 1925 - Eugen Gomringer/Anita Lasker-Wallfisch 1926 Michael Blumenthal/Betsy Jolas 1927 Thomas Niguchi/Barbara Rush 1928 Desmond Morris/Peggy Dow 1929 Peter Dale Scott/Queen Ida 1930 - Adônis (poeta sírio libanês)/Jennifer Johnston 1931 Alfred Brendel/Caterina Valente 1932 Clint Hill/Nonny Hogrogian 1933 Richard Riley/Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

25/Feb/2024 45 X-Press 2 ft. David Byrne — Lazy 38 Benny Benassi PTS The Biz — Satisfaction 36 Dido — White Flag 36 Mis-Teeq — Scandalous 36 The Darkness — I Believe In A Thing Called Love 34 Electric Six — Danger! High Voltage 34 Busted — Year 3000 33 Coldplay — In My Place +4 31 Justin Timberlake — Rock Your Body 30 Oasis — Stop Crying Your Heart Out 30 S Club — Say Goodbye / Love Ain’t Gonna Wait For You 30 S Club 7 — You 29 Justin Timberlake — Cry Me A River 28 Kylie Minogue — Love At First Sight 28 Lumidee — Never Leave You 25 Pink — Get The Party Started 25 Puretone — Addicted To Bass 25 Oasis — Little By Little / She Is Love 24 Girls Aloud — Jump 24 Liberty X — Got To Have Your Love 21 Kevin Lyttle — Turn Me On 21 Scooter — The Logical Song 21 Ultrabeat — Pretty Green Eyes 20 Atomic Kitten — The Last Goodbye / Be With You 20 Kelly Rowland — Stole 20 Lisa Maffia — All Over 19 A1 — Caught In The Middle 19 Girls Aloud — No Good Advice 18 Dannii Minogue — I Begin To Wonder 18 Appleton — Fantasy 17 Rachel Stevens — Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex 15 DJ Sammy — The Boys Of Summer 13 Will Young — Don’t Let Me Down / You And I 13 Madonna — Hollywood 10 Shakira — Whenever, Wherever -6 06 The Black Eyed Peas — Shut Up 04 The Darkness — Don’t Let The Bells End

Re Clem Clempson, I remember reading The NME Book of Rock (1975) and thinking facetiously that people were very into personnel back then, because so many bands' entries were accounts of what other bands the members had been in. But the other week I saw a mid-80s interview with John Peel, and it seems that was actually true - he said how in the years before punk it was almost impossible for a band to get a record deal and promotion if they had no track record from being in other bands. So if you were forming a rock outfit in 1974, Clem Clempson would have been a useful man.

TQR said: "There's lots of talk from you in general. Your post count is through the fucking roof. Take yourself off for a KitKat and a wank and consider finding some other interests."

❗Alexei’s body was given to his mother. Thank you very much to everyone who demanded this with us. While Lyudmila Ivanovna is in Salekhard. The funeral is yet to come. We don’t know whether the authorities will interfere with carrying them out the way the family wants and as Alexey deserves. We will provide information as it becomes available. Kira Yarmysh https://t.me/teamnavalny/23260

American Actor Lanny Flaherty known for minor roles in Men in Black 3, Natural Born Killers and A Simple Wish has died aged 81.

It's quite understandable that younger people, and those from outside the UK, would write off Draper as FFBI and/or celebrity spouse. Trust us, he enjoyed (if that's the right word) quite some notoriety before his marriage.

With former favourite Shane gone, Alan Alda and Dick Cheney seem the current favourites for last survivor. However, one that seems to be slipping under the radar is Angie Dickinson. I now think Dickinson, not Alda, will be the last survivor of the 2023 DL, I can see her getting into the 2030s and becoming a centenarian based on her 2023 appearances, but I won't change my vote now in the interests of fairness.

No shit; genuinely sick. Not funny - but, on the other hand, when Lloyd Honeyghan was mugged outside the family florists shop by schoolgirls who stole flowers, that was a real laugh