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I'd love to see this one on the front page of a newspaper!

May be co-incidental but the online link to the text of the infamous PhD is currently down.

He`s back! Those Italians are a whacky bunch!

Norway is going to start giving about 50 children with SMA ( spinal muscular atrophy) the life-extending Spinraza medication that costs about 1 million Norwegian Crowns per dose (91,000 British pounds/ 103,000 euros). They will need these doses perhaps for the rest of their lives. Those over 18 years of age are out of luck - at least for now. ( major side effect is kidney failure....)

Just came across this. Supposedly a real tweet:

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It took only 18 months, but by fuck, I got the cut o' the jib of that family 'spot' fucking on... Bet the weans never work a day in their Lives either.

Everyone's felt a tremor through a chopper, surely?

Ach - I spent (wasted) 15 - 30 mins of my life prior to submitting my team trying to find some sort of positive or negative info on Leo - in the end I couldn't find enough. I'm sure I wasn't alone! I guess that's the difficulty of the 4 week window - sometimes no information is exactly why you should be picking someone!

The bits in bold is what really makes the list.

Henry Kissinger: Real Evil ( millions died because of his policies) Robert Mugabe: natural born killer MRS. Robert Mugabe: Mrs. Natural Born Killer Billy Graham: Exploiter of gullable wankers Charles Taylor: yet another natural born killer Rodney Alcala: the face of evil Kirk Douglas: cunt if he actually did rape Natalie Wood (if not, Sorry) Jerry Lee Lewis: cunt ( what are the odds of having 2 wives dying of heroin overdoses) Ryan O`Neal: cunt (makes a pass at own daughter Tatum, did not recognize her.) Robert Wagner: cunt if he let Natalie Wood drown (if not, Sorry) Yoko Ono: evil step-mother

And there was me thinking that you truly became more mature when you came back...

So, you actually are Tomasz Schafernaker, and keep voting for yourself in the Crowdsourced. Makes sense.

I think we can also assume that the Kevin Bacon referred to is this one Not this one

Prolific French playwright and comedy actor of the 17th century, Molière, died of TB at the age of 51 on this day 345 years ago. At time of death, he was starring in his own written stage show in which he played a sick man. When he had a fatal coughing fit on stage, he was presumed to be playing his part tremendously well and the audience applauded.

Another reason to smile. I’ve just noticed this.

Why Tony?, Tony Sheridan died on this day 5 years ago, aged 72.

See in the weekend with an update.

Yes, because the history of medicine is that medical techniques found to work on any sub-section of society have never been developed further. Hence why most of us are still dying of smallpox.

Maybe you could post it on the 'ideas and possibilities 2019' thread.

I'll Try With Pre-1997 Hits. 1987: Andres Segovia: Se-gone-ia! 1988: The Year that Never Was 1989: Salvador Dali: Dali's Internal Clock Melts! (Reference to his Painting The Persistence of Memory) Sugar Ray Robinson: TKO Ray Moore: Ray No Moore! 1990: Terry-Thomas: It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (One of the movies he starred in) Greta Garbo: Garbo No Longer Talks! (One of the scenes from Anna Christie) Jill Ireland: Jill Die-rland! 1991: Absolutely Nothing 1992: Jim Joel: Joel Finally Falls! Michael Havers: Disorder in the Court! Marlene Dietrich: Marlene Dies-trich Kitty Godfree: Kitty Got Free Dan Maskell: Wimbledon Loses Its Voice! 1993: Rudolf Nureyev: No More Dancing for Nureyev Audrey Hepburn: Audrey Hep-burned Arthur Ashe: Ashes to Ashes Les Dawson: Deadpan Bill Bixby: HULK SMASH! 1994: Brian Johnston: Cricket to Heaven Telly Savalas: Telly's Not on the Telly Anymore Derek Jarman: The Last of Jarman (Reference to his film The Last of England) John Curry: On Thin Ice Richard Nixon: Nixon Resigns Erich Honecker: Erich Honecker Had a Great Fall (Financed the building of the Berlin wall) Kim Il-Sung: Kim Ill Sung Roy Castle: Record Broken (5 was the original record, this year had 9 deaths) Burt Lancaster: Burned Lancaster 1995: Rose Kennedy: Rosebud Kenny Everett: House of Death (reference to his film Bloodbath at the House of Death) Ginger Rogers: Falling Down Astaires (She had a partnership with Fred Astaire) Dilys Powell: Breaking News! (No Idea for Harold Larwood) Alec Douglas Home: Alec Douglas Isn't Home Paul Eddington: Paul Deaddington! Jackie Mann: Released Dean Martin: That's No-more! (Reference to his song That's Amore) 1996: Francois Mitterand: Ooh La La! Simon Cadell: Bye-de-Bye! George Burns: George Burned (No idea for Tim Gullikson) Timothy Leary: "L"eary "S"uddenly "D"ies Glyn Worsnip: That's Death! (Reference to his appearances on That's Life!) (No idea for Andreas Papandreou)

Bill Clinton

Iran Aseman Airlines ATR 72-212 has gone down in Iran killing all 66 on board. https://news.sky.com/story/iran-plane-crash-kills-all-66-people-on-board-11256004