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Japanese Architect Fumihiko Maki, who helped establish Metabolism, an architectural movement in Japan, in 1960, died at 95 years: https://mainichi.jp/articles/20240611/k00/00m/040/242000c (only japanese source at the moment) He was awarded the 1993 Pritzker Prize.

Richard Tice here, defending that Reform candidate who made those Hitler comments: Yeah, that figures. In fairness, when my Nan was desperately ill, I drew on a funny tache and started goosestepping everywhere.

11/6/24 06:43 hrs 53 John Newman — Love Me Again 53 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know +4 47 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 44 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball 44 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky 41 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 41 Coldplay — Paradise 38 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 37 Lorde — Royals 34 Rihanna — Diamonds 34 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker 34 OneRepublic — Counting Stars 33 Avicii — Wake Me Up 33 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum 32 Jessie J — Domino 29 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent) 27 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 27 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 23 Katy Perry — Part Of Me 23 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 22 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child 21 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now 20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 16 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night -1 00 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone -5 Corrected John Newman

German politician and former minister of environment and Health Klaus Töpfer died at 85 years: https://www.bild.de/politik/er-war-teil-vom-kohl-kabinett-ehemaliger-umweltminister-klaus-toepfer-85-tot-666802f8399857055e3fe313 He was also director of United Nations Environment Program from 1998 to 2006.

Willie Carlin, former player for Halifax, Derby County, Sheffield United and Carlisle among others, reportedly dead:

11/6/24 54 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 53 John Newman — Love Me Again 47 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 44 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky 41 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 41 Coldplay — Paradise 39 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker +4 39 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball -5 39 Lorde — Royals 38 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 34 OneRepublic — Counting Stars 33 Avicii — Wake Me Up 33 Rihanna — Diamonds -1 33 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum 32 Jessie J — Domino 29 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent) 27 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 27 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 23 Katy Perry — Part Of Me 23 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 22 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child 20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 16 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 15 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now

Reports that Sunak will only remain for the British portion of the manifesto.

11/6/24 06:43 hrs 54 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know +1 53 John Newman — Love Me Again 47 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 44 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball 44 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky 41 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 41 Coldplay — Paradise 39 Lorde — Royals +2 38 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 35 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker +1 34 Rihanna — Diamonds 34 OneRepublic — Counting Stars 33 Avicii — Wake Me Up 33 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum 32 Jessie J — Domino 29 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent) 27 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 27 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 23 Katy Perry — Part Of Me 23 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 22 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child 20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 16 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 15 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now -6 My peak period for pop runs out in the mid-80s with the advent of SAW but I think this is the possibly the best post 1986 set we've had

Akira Endo, Japanese scientist who invented mevstatin thus paving the way for the class of drugs known as statins, reportedly dead aged 90: https://www.barrons.com/news/japan-biochemist-who-discovered-statins-akira-endo-dies-at-90-colleague-eba798da

Hah hah Labour will have a field day with this. The gift that keeps on giving

Not to mention seats lost because people have now seen that tactical voting works.

OK, so as per @MortalCaso's request, here are some end of game stats for Round 5 of the Scavenger Hunt, and how it measures up to previous rounds! Game 5 took just over 17 months from start to finish. This is technically the second shortest game after Game 3 (which I also chose the categories for! ) which lasted just 8 months due to the James Bond Massacre. But 3 of the 5 games have now finished in around 17 months (Game 1 lasted about a week longer and Game 4 about 2 weeks longer). Game 2 was by far the longest game, lasting a whopping 27 months! In Game 5, we had 27 hits during active gameplay. This was perhaps surprising given we had 27 players, by far the most of any game. Game 2 (33 hits) and Game 4 (48 hits!) had more, while Game 1 had 24 hits and Game 3 had just 19 due to its short nature. The most profitable category in this game was Oscar Nominated Actors, with 10 hits (enough to win twice over!), while the least profitable was Brit Award Winners with just 2 hits. Across all 5 games, 10 is about average for a game, with House of Lords (Game 1) and James Bond Actors (Game 3) also being top with 10. Grammys (Game 2) had 11 hits and Olympic Gold Medallists (Game 4) had an impressive 14 hits! And while 2 hits for the Brits seems low, aside from Title Winning Boxers (Game 2) with 3 hits, the lowest in each round has actually been lower! Eurovision Performers (Game 3) and Cabinet Ministers (Game 4) both saw just 1 hit apiece, while the US Presidential Candidates category in Game 1 didn't see a single hit during gameplay! @BuffaloPhil won with his 8th hit of the game. This is about normal, with @Banana (Game 3) and me (@RoverAndOut) in Game 2 also winning with our 8th hits. @Rotten Ali won Game 1 with just his 7th hit, while my second win in Game 4 was with my 10th hit, the most of any game so far. For just the second time in 5 games, the person with the most hits in the game did not win! Games 2 and 4 (Rover) and 3 (Banana) were all won by the person with the most hits, but Game 1 (which Rotten Ali won) saw me and @Death Impends lead the way with 8 hits, but Ali win with 7. This time, @gcreptile had an impressive 11 hits, the most of any player so far in regular gameplay, but it was not enough to clinch the title! For the 3rd (or 4th) time in 5 games, the first person to reach a winning position did not end up winning! Rotten Ali was first to a winning position and did win Game 1, and Banana was joint-1st to the winning point in Game 3 and ended up winning. But in Game 2, Death Impends was first to the winning position, but only finished 5th overall (I was joint-7th to the winning position and won with the very next hit!). Reptile was joint-1st with Banana in Game 3 and finished 3rd and @msc was first to reach a winning position in Game 4, but missed out on the podium, finishing 4th! (I was 4th out of 13 to reach a winning position!). It remains to be seen how long it takes @Spade_Cooley to complete this game - he has been waiting for a Brit Award Winner to die since August last year! Tough luck, Spade! 10 players were within 1 hit of victory when Game 5 finished this week, and 3 more reached a winning position with the winning hit! This was similar to Game 4, which had 13 players 1 hit away when the game ended, while Games 2 and 3 both had 7 players in the mix and Game 1 had 5 on the verge of winning when Ali ended the game. @Commtech Sio Bibble and @Captain Hemlock unfortunately did not score a hit during this entire game, but I hope they will take some comfort from the fact it has happened before! @Dying Probably suffered the same fate in Game 3 and @Handrejka too in Round 1 - sadly neither of those have so far taken part in a subsequent round, but fortunes can change gang! Don't give up! (I'll have further food for thought for Captain Hemlock in a previous game update too...) Finally, as I've mentioned before on this page, we are following an odd pattern of winning methods across the games so far! Game 1 was won by 3 Unique Picks. Game 2 was won by a Hit in Each Category. Game 3 was won by All 5 Hits in One Category. Game 4 was won by 3 Unique Picks. Game 5 was won by a Hit in Each Category. We'll see what happens when @BuffaloPhil picks the categories for Game 6! What a fun and ingenious game the Scavenger Hunt is - thanks for coming up with it @Bibliogryphon. I'll publish some updates on previous rounds progress in due course. Hope at least some of you find all this nonsense interesting!

Stupid idiots.

Patricia Shanil Muluzi, another wife of Bakili, dead in the plane crash which took Malawi VP's life.

Every day is a school day. Bobby Davro is a comedian??

Bobby Davro speaks out, saying "if you don't like the joke, don't laugh": https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13517259/Bobby-Davro-65-insists-wont-cancelled-says-no-topics-limits-comedians-quips-dont-like-joke-dont-laugh.html Something TV audiences have been taking him at his word for 30 years.

Thinking it has been 10 days since Philippe Leroy died with no sign of a QO, maybe time to add him to the List of the Lost? https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2024/celebs_L.html#leroyp023 @Death Impends

One to save for your own game, perhaps, as and when you win a round! It's a hell of a topic, I'll give you that. As a purveyor of Deathlist spreadsheets, I approve.

Don't know if @BuffaloPhil is interested in making this a theme, but I got a bit invested in making a list of people who have attended the Met Gala since 1948 and am now making a spreadsheet. Once done it will end up on a Google Docs. Edit - I'm invested in those before 1990 mainly because it was more old socialite types who attended and I discovered New York Times have an archive.

I should have probably held on to it. But I once sold my 10th Doctor sonic screwdriver for about £40 to someone in Belgium about 15 years ago.

Sounds like one we should all be considering for 2025.

The embodiment of the Tankie Left

I found something interesting that may interest French people here. Madeleine Della Monica (Wiki), French egyptologist (born 1912) still alive and will be 112 this July. Her page is being edited many times by her granddaughter explaining that she is in good health. This is a photo of her (in the middle) taken in 2012 on the 100th anniversary of her birth. In the photo are her two friends Lucie and Jeanne, also born in 1912 https://www.calameo.com/read/0010581036cb4c78c318e Lucie died in 2013 a year later at 100 and Jeanne died in 2017 at 104. Madeleine was the oldest and survive them.

He could have just, like...found the dodgiest jet he helped to build and caught that!