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Congrats to George H.W Bush on becoming the first US President in history to celebrate his 94th birthday ! Sadly I suspect it will be his last though

So when MLK was choosing who would be his top aide he was out picking Cotton?

I'm not a taxi driver so he'd miss

He can post a death wherever that it’s appropriate as long as the death haven’t already been posted there first...

Yeah, this will probably be his last 94th birthday

Also the face of 5000 volts, '70s cheesy disco hitmakers. (Tina Charles was the voice).

Right, the Euros had their own thread, the 2010 World Cup had one, and I'm pretty sure I remembering posting in the 2014 one, but I can't find it just now. So, 2 days till the latest World Cup. Will Germany become first team to win 2 on the bounce since Pele's Brazil in 62? Will the English find an even funnier way to exit than losing to Iceland? Panama like this possibility. Will Putin rig the entire thing? Which Deathlist pick will inconveniently die during a group stage match, like Casey Kasem back in 2014? All this and more to be answered in the next month or so. I'm backing Scotland Italy Chile oh fuck it, let's go Uruguay. Have at it, or not.

Top of the Box, an above average nostalgia fest about the top rated TV shows per year, hosted by a surprisingly old Matthew Kelly. Derek Fowlds was on the 1995 one last week and looked like shit. Though Mrs msc though he looked "less like shit than usual". And yeah, Grantham looks hellish on it. It's on Five - possibly on their Five on Demand thingy? Grantham shows up on every episode so far as a talking head.

Hiseman's death puts the Cow into the lead in the 3rd place match. FINAL DDT 8-0 Sir Creep 3rd place Dead Cow 4-0 Deadsox

Let’s be honest though, after they evolved into the general beliefs system they have today (around the time of the presidency of Kennedy/Johnson), have they ever chose the Americans over the corporations?

Well, I’m leaving Oklahoma this morning to go see family up in Wyoming. This trip should be fun.

Young people are loudly liberal until they grow up, have kids, get college degrees/professional jobs, and have to pay a mortgage. The Baby Boomers the Millenials are accusing of taking away the future were once flower children putting daisies in the weapons of the National Guard. When your livelihood and your family's house/food/clothing/education are involved, it is suddenly very important how business in the US is being treated, and that is definitely a Republican position. Every President leaves a mark on the country that lasts for generations. The immigration problems we are currently all arguing about? They largely stem from Reagan's handling of communism in Central America in the 1980s. The US went in, unseated a bunch of communist and communist sympathizing leaders, destabilized the entire region and then left. It still hasn't regained the stability that we removed in the name of a red scare that wasn't a threat to us in the slightest. Reagan or any other president are not forgotten - people simply stop associating current problems with past actions. We have short memories and little understanding of cause and effect in politics and government and international relations. Hysteria and posturing about leaving is an overreaction IMO. This republic has survived worse than Trump. You are correct in saying the Republican politicians will eventually stop supporting him, but won't be for any reason other than he has become toxic to them. This is also a constant theme in American government. Until the House Impeachment Committee released a vote to send Articles of Impeachment to the floor of the House and Nixon's approval rating had plummeted after firing Cox, most Republicans stood behind Nixon no matter how bad it got. Nixon also played identity and partisan politics, rode an anti-media line, and got the Southern Democrats (who are now Republicans) on board, even toward the end. Conservative media harped on Watergate as a liberal conspiracy. Jesse Helms used to rail against the New York Times-Washington Post syndicate controlling everything Americans read. Here's a little 200+ year old cause and effect that still reverberates through the United States. An obviously conflicted Thomas Jefferson removed the following from the Declaration of Independence so South Carolina would acquiesce to the Declaration: “Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.” The following passage is contained in the United States Constitution, Article I, Section 2. Clause 3: "Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons." The first emboldened the southern states to fight for the second. The second cause the US government to be dominated by slave interests until the Civil War. These two clauses probably set the stage for the Civil War, which in turn set the stage for the economic and societal issues we deal with today. Our founding fathers, who everyone holds up and asks "what did they intend?" basically intended this. They set up a country stained from the first step off of Britain's stage - a country founded on the premise that it was acceptable for one man to be another man's property based on the color of skin. Yet the republic survives. History cycles. May you live in interesting times.

Storm chasers have been out there forever. They're insane. Even I'm not crazy enough to chase storms through the US Plains states. Nature always wins.

I mean, if you want me to, I prolly can.

This thread inspired quite a lot of poetry.

Yvette Horner - adieu. https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2018/06/11/mort-d-yvette-horner-la-diva-de-l-accordeon_5313185_3382.html&prev=search

If guests were able to post, I could easily see them post her death in the June Brown thread claiming that Dot Cotton is dead...

One of the commenters claims to know exactly what's wrong with her: The nanobots are coming!

Lol so 'that's' whit it is. Known as a strimmer on this side of the water.

Weather is extra-curricular, of which YOU moaned deaths should not be listed and then go on to post deaths. They died as a result of high winds; 'hurricane' is close enough or perhaps we should have a new thread 'High winds but not hurricanes, typhoons or cyclones etc'.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/al-molinaro-dead-happy-days-6739355 "Al's son confirmed he passed away at a hospital in his hometown of Wisconsin". Boy, and they say Americans are bad at geography.

The 19 month old daughter of skier Bode Miller has died in an accident. http://www.tmz.com/2018/06/11/bode-miller-daughter-dies-dead-emeline-pool-drowning/