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91 today!

Screen goddess Raquel Welch turns 80 today!

Footballers are up Lets see how many fall down

Newhart feels very much like a future DL pick.

I had one of his LPs I bought in the 70's. Buggered if I can remember the name of it though. It's the one with Walter Raleigh 'phoning' back home with the discovery of tobacco. I think I sold it at a record fair in the 90's.

Bob Newhart, from 'Newhart', is 91 today.

Cathleen O'Carroll Dalschaert, a violinist with the Philadelphia Orchestra for 24 years, has died. She was 90. Dalschaert was first violinist during her entire tenure with the orchestra. Born in New Zealand, she began appearing in concerts & recitals in Australia at age 13. https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/cathleen-dalschaert-violinist-philadelphia-orchestra-died-dies-obituary-obituaries-20200904.html

Dmitry Svetushkin, a Moldovan chess grandmaster, has died. He was 40. Svetushkin died by suicidal jump. https://www.zdg.md/stiri/doliu-in-sahul-moldovenesc-a-decedat-marele-maestru-international-dumitru-svetuskin-avea-doar-40-de-ani/ (Romanian language obit)

Top Bangladesh resistance leader Abu Osman Chowdury dead from covid at 84 ! https://www.dhakatribune.com/obituary/2020/09/05/sector-commander-abu-osman-chowdhury-passes-away

Congratulations ! Now he can die ! If he doesn't die before January 10 he'll have been an ex Pope longer than he was the actual Pope so he better get a move on !

Alright, no update in almost a month.... and between work and holiday I lost track of who's new, and what's the narrative. So a sober update - if I missed something, let me know. New Hits: Frankie Banali, Sumner Redstone, Bullet Bob Armstrong, Christopher Guy Harrison, Dale Hawerchuk (Jiroemon Kimura with the latter two!), Kamala the wrestler and frequent pick John Hume. It gives us the following new scoreboard: Rank Team Score 1 Death Impends 1087 2 msc 921 3 Joey Russ 901 4 gcreptile 866 5 Banana 853 6 Cpt. Chorizo 801 7 Clorox Bleachman 792 8 Book 743 9 JiroemonKimura 732 10 DevonDeathTrip 709 11 Deadsox 706 12 RadGuy 677 13 The Quim Reaper 623 14 drol 559 15 The Unknown Man 558 16 John Key 542 17 Skinny Kiltrunner 539 18 Sean 523 19 The Mad Hatter 486 20 Torva Messor 484 21 theoldlady 456 22 Grave Danger 436 23 Kenny 434 24 Toast 411 25 The Old Crem 404 26 Sir Creep 342 27 Etushispushingupdaisies 336 28 YoungWillz 334 29 Chilean Way 295 30 Gooseberry Crumble 237 31 Great Uncle Bulgaria 214 32 markb4 208 33 ThePrematureBurial 203 34 Bibliogryphon 192 35 Pedro67 92

No no don’t, it’s right - everyone has a favourite child, and any parent that tells you they don’t is lying.

A really huge thing in France !! I’m sad... RIP legend...

Belgian Actress and singer Annie Cordy, who sang "La Ballade de Davy Crockett" which made the charts in France in 1956, died at 92 years: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-annie-cordy-dead-voice-22631561 She was also in the film Rider on the Rain, starring Charles Bronson.

Frank Williams who played Reverend Farthering in Dad's Army. 90 next year

Robert Pattinson tests positive- filming of Batman has been halted ! https://news.sky.com/story/robert-pattinson-tests-positive-for-covid-19-as-uk-filming-on-the-batman-halted-12062981 Surely we're not going to lose Black Panther and Batman in the space of a few weeks ! It's ironic that he's got it because the whole th ing was started by a bat wasn't it?

Undoubtedly the hoax tape was a huge issue, but it wasn't as though it was a convincing hoax. The tape contained no information that wasn't in the public domain and there was no obvious connection for the killer to Wearside. The press told the officers in charge it wasn't true, the FBI officers they were liaising with asked if they realised the tape was a hoax and the Northumbria Police questioned why they believed the tape was genuine given it contained no classified information on the victims. George Oldfield became so fixated on this fictitious duel with the Ripper that he was blinded to any other lines of enquiry. Apparently, Sutcliffe himself said after his capture that the tape made him feel safe as the accent didn't match his own. Even the bloke who sent it, Jack Humble, was shocked at how seriously the police took it - he sent a letter telling them it was a hoax and then a follow-up anonymous phone call saying the same thing but they were ignored. Not defending him, he deserved everything he got when they caught up with him, but hoax claims of responsibility aren't unusual, especially in big cases, what was unusual in this case was just how easily those in charge were taken in by it. Oh, and I too only discovered we had a new Poet Laureate after Maryport's message.

1972: Prince William killed in plane crash http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/28/newsid_2536000/2536275.stm

A well deserved victory for Glenda.

FIFA WORLD CUP SQUAD MEMBERS 1. Giaampiero Bomiperti ba 2. Reino Boriesson cc, di 3. Lorenzo Bufon oc, ti 4. Antonio Carbajal ro 5. Bobby Charlton cw 6. Bobby Clarke bg 7. George Cohen bg, yb 8. Tommy Docherty yw, gn, to 9. Horst Eckel dp, di, gn 10. Attilio Giovannini oc 11. Adan Godoy cw 12. Jimmy Greaves yw, gb, oc, sp, ba, to, af 13. Manuel Gutierrez gn 14. Kurt Hamrin cc, mc, dp, di 15. Asa Hartford bg 16. Lars Hogh sp 17. Horst-Dieter Hottges cc 18. Geoff Hurst dp 19. Park Jae-Sung ro 20. Josef Jelinek yb 21. Denis Law yw 22. Diego Maradona bg 23. Colin McDonald ti 24. Peter McParland ti 25. Terry Medwin ti 26. Gerd Muller ro, gr, sp, ba, to 27. Braulio Musso cw 28. Sergio Navarro cw 29. Pele bg, gb, ol, dp, yb 30. Moacir Claudio Pinto ol 31. Antonio Rattin gb 32. Leonel Sanchez cw 33. Yoo Sang-chul ro, mc, gr, oc, sp, ba, gn, af 34. Dino Sani dp 35. Kenny Sansom yw 36. Adolf Scherer yb 37. Willie Schulz yb 38. Uwe Seeler yw, mc, oc 39. Agne Simonsson cc 40. Luis del Sol ti 41. Nobby Stiles cc, ro, gb, mc, gr, sp, ba, di, gn, to, af 42. Amarildo Tavaresda ol 43. Jorge Toro mc 44. Willy van der Kerkhof gb 45. Gianluca Vialli af 46. Mario Jorge Lobo Zagallo ol, gr, di, to 47. Sinisa Zlatkovic gr, af 48. Dino Zoff ol

Maybe the phone was just high up on the wall?

Gayle Tejada, sister of Raquel Welch, obituary: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lajollalight/obituary.aspx?n=gayle-tejada&pid=195983404

Disney animator Sue Maciorowski, who worked on the classical 90s movies, like The Lion King, Aladdin and such, dead at 55: https://www.cbr.com/disney-animation-artist-sue-nichols-maciorowski-died/

Michael Strahan's father has died at age 83. https://people.com/tv/michael-strahans-dad-gene-dies-at-83-see-his-gma-co-hosts-touching-tribute/

Wilbert McClure, Light middleweight gold medal Olympic boxer at the 1960 Summer Rome Games who also won a gold medal at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago. dies at age 81: https://www.boxingscene.com/wilbert-skeeter-mcclure-dies-age-81--150747