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Aye, but will Biden live long enough to do that?

https://twitter.com/bluestein/status/1635473607718584321?s=46&t=w_Magtzeyi-eKwoDhS1W3Q Biden discusses Carter's health: "I spent time with Jimmy Carter and it's finally caught up with him, but they found a way to keep him going for a lot longer than they anticipated because they found a breakthrough." Also reveals that he has been asked to deliver Carter's eulogy.

Seriously Mods, that's acceptable?

Dead

Quincy Jones is 90... ...and so is Michael Caine.

Simone Biles, the impressive American artistic gymnast, one of the greatest gymnast of all time, the most decorated American gymnast with more than two dozen Olympic and World Championship medals to her name, and the youngest Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient in U.S. history, is 26 today. Steve Kanaly, American actor, who served as a radio operator during the Vietnam War, who began his acting career in the 1970s, well known for his role as the ranch foreman Ray Krebbs, the illegitimate son of family patriarch Jock Ewing, on the television soap opera "Dallas", is 77 today.

Pat Schroeder, who represented Colorado and served in the U.S House of Representatives from 1973 to 1997, has died. She was 82. https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/03/13/patricia-schroeder-colorado-congresswoman-dead/ (behind paywall)

If they can't do it properly they shouldn't bother doing it at all.

Chen Kenichi being reported dead of interstitial pneumonia aged 67: https://www-nikkansports-com.translate.goog/entertainment/photonews/photonews_nsInc_202303140000157-1.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

I think it is naïve of us to assume that any of us will still be around to witness the demise of Dame Floella Benjamin

Another winner! Sovereign citizen with a false number plate thought he could get away with it. Fuck around and find out.

Stephen Hawking died on this day 5 years ago, aged 76. - Hawking was diagnosed with ALS/MND at the age of 21 and lived with it for 55 years- this is the record survival time for the disease. - Hawking's computerized voice is copyrighted. - Hawking's specialty was black holes- he devised the idea of radiation leading to the evaporation of black holes over an incalculable amount of time. - While Hawking is viewed as one of the most intelligent people to have ever lived, he did make mistakes- he believed (and bet) that the Higgs boson would never be found, which it was in 2012. Following its discovery, he suggested Peter Higgs receive the Nobel Prize in Physics, which he did. - Hawking believed the existence of aliens to be likely, but they should not be contacted out of fear of the colonization of Earth. - Among his television appearances include Star Trek: The Next Generation (in a card game with Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton), The Big Bang Theory, and multiple episodes of The Simpsons and Futurama. - Hawking was a fan of Monty Python, and appeared in their 2014 show Monty Python Live (Mostly), singing the Galaxy Song from The Meaning of Life: - Hawking appeared on the DeathList four times- 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018, being the third hit of that year.

Ran for President in 1988, one of the first major women to do so. Campaign went up in flames at an infamous tearful press conference

I swear he was an answer in tonights Only Connect.

I hear one can get pills for that.

Mentioned in this thread, Rolly Crump, Disney Legend, has died aged 93. An animator on Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, 101 Dalmatians and Sleeping Beauty, but perhaps a more lasting legacy as Imagineer working on attractions such as It’s A Small World, The Haunted Mansion and The Enchanted Tiki Room. Amongst the last to have shaped and had a real impact on the Disney parks as we know them today.

American singer songwriter and pianist Neil Sedaka celebrates his 84th birthday today.

Ato Boldon reports that Dick Fosbury died yesterday:

After January 22, 1973, Richard Nixon was not only the oldest living president, but the only living president.

That explains the rationing at Tesco anyway.

Carl Saunders (wiki), American trumpeter, reportedly dead at 80.

Was one of the recipients of a SAG award for Everything Everywhere All at Once. Looks and sounds great for 94.

https://www.hellomagazine.com/healthandbeauty/mother-and-baby/20230216164587/joely-richardson-vanessa-redgrave-westwood-memorial/ She was at Vivienne Westwood’s memorial service today and she doesn’t look that well.

Internal Security Minister George Saitot of Kenya, and his deputy, Orwa Ojode, are killed in a helicopter crash. regards, Hein