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They are. That's why people keep throwing things at them.

Indeed. They should have got more practice in.

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.

Meantime, voters in Rochdale are about to elect Gary Glitter as their next MP, having mistaken him for George Galloway.

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.

Saulos Chilima no longer missing. Plane found. No survivors. Saulos Chilima: Malawi VP's plane found with no survivors, president says - BBC News

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!

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.

Totally missed this before. Not in chronological order, but my 12th hit so far. And now I see from Lafaucheuse's list that Genevieve de Galard died too. Make that 13. Holy shit, I guess I need to keep up!

10/06/2024 53 John Newman — Love Me Again 48 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 47 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 45 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker +2 43 Coldplay — Paradise 43 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky 41 Lorde — Royals 37 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium +2 35 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball -6 35 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum 34 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 32 Avicii — Wake Me Up 31 Jessie J — Domino 29 OneRepublic — Counting Stars 29 Rihanna — Diamonds 27 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 23 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone  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 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 10 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful 09 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La 04 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know

Ray Charles died on this day 20 years ago, aged 73. - Charles' stage name was just his first and middle names- his last name was Robinson. - Charles went blind by the age of 7, likely from glaucoma. He learned how to play piano through the use of Braille music. - Charles' first big hit was 1954's "I've Got a Woman": His song would soon be covered by both Elvis and The Beatles, and was notably later interpolated over 50 years later in Kanye West's "Gold Digger". - Charles' first number-one single (in the US) was 1960's "Georgia on My Mind", which would earn him four Grammy Awards of the 17 in his career (the song would also become one of the US state of Georgia's state songs). This was followed in 1961 with another number-one single (and one of his signature songs), "Hit the Road Jack": - Charles would also have an acting career, appearing in The Blues Brothers, and later on voiced G-Clef in the 2000 direct-to-video Blue's Clues film Blue's Big Musical: - Charles' death was slightly overshadowed by the death of Ronald Reagan five days prior. At the time of his death, he had planned to attend a screening of his upcoming biopic Ray (which he was consulted for).

Ahhh I remember these! Billy Corgan off of Pumpkin Smashing was my fave:

Now, I like to check actors' IMDB pages for writing their DDP obits, as sometimes it can rustle up interesting trivia to spice up my own obits. (albeit in Miss Paige's case her fiery Columbo guest spot can spice up the obit all on its own) But other times the stuff can be really flimsy. Janis Paige's page (heh) has this newly-minted trivia piece: Good thing her final film wasn't named "Fiery Helicopter Crash"

Technically, Ron Akana came between the two in terms of holding the record, and apparently served 62 years as a flight attendant. (Likely he also still holds the male record in the category.) He's also still alive, but only in his mid-90s.

MP for Birken-Dead 5/50 23rd April 2024 Veteran Labour politician, Frank Field has finally succumbed to cancer after a decade long battle. Field first entered the realm of politics in 1964 when he became a councillor on the Hounslow borough council but he lost his bid for reelection in 1968 and instead became director of The Child Poverty Action Group. His first attempt to join parliament in 1966 was unsuccessful as he failed to usurp the incumbent Conservative MP in the South Buckinghamshire constituency, however in 1979 he was elected MP for the Birkenhead constituency, where he remained until 2019. Throughout Thatcher’s government Field occasionally sat on the front benches of the opposition, holding minor roles and chairing committees. In 1997, Tony Blair appointed him Minister for Welfare Reform but didn’t last long in the role as he was constantly clashing with other ministers and he eventually resigned after only 14 months, with Blair describing his ideas as “unfathomable”. Upon returning to the backbenches, he became a vocal critic of both Blair and Brown’s governments, even at one point before the 2010 election attempting to have Brown replaced. Field was a strong supporter of Brexit and increasingly lost support from his party and constituents for his views. In 2018 he left the Labour party citing internal racism as his reason, however some commentators have suggested he only left to save the embarrassment of being sacked. In the 2019 election he stood as an independent candidate in his constituency and much to no-one’s surprise didn’t win, but was appointed to the House of Lords in 2020. In October 2021 he announced he had terminal cancer and had been in hospice care; he had initially been diagnosed with prostate cancer around 2013. He died yesterday aged 81. He was making his third appearance on the Crowdsourced Deathlist, this year at no.9

Fucking hell old people even think the porn was better in the old days....