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Lord Jacob Rothschild dead at 87.

Tep Vong DEEEEEAAAAAADDDDD? Completely out of the blue!!!!

Dehydration?

Spot the incredible typo:

Almost all of the selection here in this round is annoying af, so...

Well that’s disappointing.

Highway/Antiques Roadshow/Last of the Summer Wine/That's Life is like the platonic non-ideal of terrifying "back to school tomorrow" Sunday TV shows for me. Dunno if they were ever all broadcasting at the same day, but it feels like they did.

These cunts. Labour MP Angela Rayner makes modest profit from house she once bought: front page news. Tory peer Michelle Mone makes £230m from dodgy PPE contract and buys a superyacht? Total silence.

26/02/24 44 Electric Six — Danger! High Voltage 43 X-Press 2 ft. David Byrne — Lazy 41 Coldplay — In My Place 40 Benny Benassi PTS The Biz — Satisfaction 37 Mis-Teeq — Scandalous 36 Busted — Year 3000 33 Justin Timberlake — Cry Me A River 33 The Darkness — I Believe In A Thing Called Love 30 S Club — Say Goodbye / Love Ain’t Gonna Wait For You 30 S Club 7 — You 29 Dido — White Flag +4 29 Oasis — Little By Little / She Is Love 29 Kylie Minogue — Love At First Sight 28 Justin Timberlake — Rock Your Body 28 Lumidee — Never Leave You 25 Puretone — Addicted To Bass 25 Oasis — Stop Crying Your Heart Out 25 Girls Aloud — Jump 23 Liberty X — Got To Have Your Love 22 Pink — Get The Party Started 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 19 A1 — Caught In The Middle 19 Girls Aloud — No Good Advice 18 Dannii Minogue — I Begin To Wonder 18 Appleton — Fantasy 13 Rachel Stevens — Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex 12 Will Young — Don’t Let Me Down / You And I 12 Madonna — Hollywood 10 Lisa Maffia — All Over 00 DJ Sammy — The Boys Of Summer -6

I compensated for Wannamaker and MariNisia, I forgot about Book as well. Well, I tried. It frees up my points to go elsewhere, and really what chance have you got when 3 players are giving it minus 18 every day without fail? Well played gang...

26.02.2024 44 Electric Six — Danger! High Voltage +4 43 X-Press 2 ft. David Byrne — Lazy 41 Coldplay — In My Place 38 Benny Benassi PTS The Biz — Satisfaction 37 Mis-Teeq — Scandalous 36 Busted — Year 3000 33 Justin Timberlake — Cry Me A River 33 The Darkness — I Believe In A Thing Called Love -3 30 S Club — Say Goodbye / Love Ain’t Gonna Wait For You 30 S Club 7 — You 29 Oasis — Little By Little / She Is Love 29 Kylie Minogue — Love At First Sight 28 Justin Timberlake — Rock Your Body 28 Lumidee — Never Leave You 28 Pink — Get The Party Started 25 Puretone — Addicted To Bass 25 Dido — White Flag 25 Oasis — Stop Crying Your Heart Out 24 Girls Aloud — Jump 22 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 19 A1 — Caught In The Middle 19 Girls Aloud — No Good Advice 18 Dannii Minogue — I Begin To Wonder 18 Appleton — Fantasy 13 Rachel Stevens — Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex 12 Will Young — Don’t Let Me Down / You And I 12 Madonna — Hollywood 10 Lisa Maffia — All Over 06 DJ Sammy — The Boys Of Summer 00 Shakira — Whatever, Whoever -3

Roger II of Sicily died on this day 870 years ago, aged 58. - When Roger was born in 1095, his mother Adelaide was 20, while his father Roger was 64. - Roger was 9 years old when he inherited the County of Sicily- his mother served as his regent. - During his reign, he inherited virtually all Norman possessions in Italy. This increase of power was seen as a threat by the pope, who wished to instigate a crusade against Roger. In 1130, Roger would be elevated from count to king due to his support of Antipope Anacletus II. This would lead to several revolts from supporters of the recognized pope, Innocent II. - In 1139, Innocent would invade the kingdom of Sicily after Roger refused the creation of a buffer state between it and the Papal States, and his troops managed to capture Innocent, with the pope being freed three days later after being forced to accept Sicily's soverignty. - Roger also promoted freedom of religion within his kingdom, and often employed Muslims in his ranks (either soldiers or educators). Towards the end of his reign, he commissioned the Tabula Rogeriana from geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi, which featured an early world map: (the original map was southwards-north) - Roger died after 24 years as king (and 49 as count), being succeeded by his son William I.

José DeLeón, former pitcher for Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals etc., reportedly dead at 63.

Haven't seen it reported on the forums yet and I don't think it belongs to the Hollywood Possibilities thread. Buddy Duress, actor who starred in Heaven Knows What, Good Time or Person to Person, reportedly passed away (according to the director of Duress' last movie).

Saw this today on social media. No idea if this has been posted on the forums before, probably, but interesting for sure.

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.

You sure would be!

German satire magazine Titanic does a bit of deadpooling: https://www.titanic-magazin.de/briefe/2024/maerz/ ("Dir, Tod,") In 2010, after Bärbel Bohley and Claude Chabrol died one day after another, they speculated which alliterative name is going to die next, so they thought about Dieter Dehm, Erhard Eppler, and Frank Farian. Two of those three are dead now, so they think that A lives, B+C dies, D lives, E+F dies, etc.... So their next names on the list are Gundula Gause, Hansi Hinterseer and Ida Immendorff. Presumably, German evening news frontwoman Gundula Gause will then survive even though she fainted on camera not too long ago. Bavarian Schlager-Star Hansi Hinterseer would then die soon, and "model" / socialite Ida Immendorff would die, too. At 22 years of age, that would be pretty spectacular.

There's nothing here at all that I like. At least Electric Six is quite fun.

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 John Glen / Nancy Kassebaum 1933 John Boorman / Katherine, Duchess of Kent

The Earl of Elgin turned 100 last week. Just incase anyone missed it.

Singapore billionaire Wee Cho Yaw steps down from life at 95.

Gone down in flames?

Interestingly this pretty much says he has some form of dementia in addition to ALS. Must be a horrible combination “Many people come every day and take his blessing. This man with his silence says more things than he said perhaps when he spoke. With his smile he reveals the strength of soul he has and the spiritual work he has done within him. And now with the redemptive significance of his illness and what he has been going through for two years now with his tracheostomy and gastrostomy, he has not lost his smile. His clarity has not left him, except for a few hours. He has the problem in his memory. The condition is such that it does not help him. He remembers faces. Communicates with faces. He is the father of us all. For me, Archbishop Irenaios is a daily check on my conscience," he said. He's bedbound in recent images.

Mat George co-host of the She Rates Dogs podcast killed in a hit and run at 26 https://deadline.com/2021/07/mat-george-dead-she-rates-dogs-podcast-co-host-was-26-1234795212/