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I swear everytime I come back to this forum and to to this particular thread, mymango has posted 13 hours ago.

A friend of my late beloved father in law who's the same age, 86, is suffering from bladder cancer, yet he looked very good at the funeral and it does not seem to affect him too much.

"We asked 100 men to name something they'd like their wife to come up and see in the bedroom." "Penis, Steve" *AWWWW LAWD GOD NO JESUS PLEASE SAVE ME HOW CAN YOU SAY A WORD LIKE THAT YOU NEED JESUS THIS IS A FAMILY SHOW GOOD LAWD*

Alan Tudyk turned 53 yesterday. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore per Creative Commons license

Harold Harefoot died on this day 984 years ago, aged ~25. - Harold was the son of the Danish king Cnut the Great, who seized the English throne when Harold was a baby. - Cnut died in 1035- Harold was still heir apparent after his younger half-brother Harthacnut, but the latter was unable to come to England due to wanting to defend Denmark from Norway and Sweden. Harold would be named as "acting king" in Harthacnut's absence- while there was some opposition from the elites, by 1037 he was accepted as a legitimate ruler. - In 1036, Harold's stepbrothers Alfred and Edward (the Confessor) came to England, possibly in an attempt to wrest the throne back to the House of Wessex. Edward left after seizing treasure from Southampton, while Harold's supporters managed to capture Alfred, who was blinded and died soon after. - Harold died after a 5-year reign due to unknown causes. One contemporary source claims it was divine judgment due to taking land from monks (he "turned black" as they bargained with him), while another states he was plagued by elves (there was a superstition that elves shooting invisible arrows at people caused disease at this time). - Harold would be succeeded as king of England by Harthacnut, who was able to arrive in England this time. - Harold's epithet is attributed to his alleged agility, derived from the Anglo-Saxon "Harefoh", which meant "swift of foot".

St Patrick's Day 39 Gorillaz — Feel Good Inc. 34 Manic Street Preachers — The Love Of Richard Nixon +4 33 Jojo — Leave (Get Out) 32 Kylie Minogue — I Believe In You 30 Coldplay — Speed Of Sound 29 Razorlight — Somewhere Else 29 The Libertines — Can’t Stand Me Now 28 Manic Street Preachers — Empty Souls 27 Girls Aloud — The Show 27 Daniel Powter — Bad Day -2 26 Rachel Stevens — Some Girls 24 Destiny’s Child — Lose My Breath 24 Kanye West ft. Jamie Foxx — Gold Digger 23 Christina Milian — Dip It Low 23 Girls Aloud — Love Machine 22 Kelis — Trick Me 21 D12 — My Band 20 Kelis — Milkshake 18 Sean Paul — We Be Burnin’ 17 Charlotte Church — Crazy Chick 14 Rihanna — Pon De Replay 10 Ashanti — Only U  08 U2 — City Of Blinding Lights 00 Jamelia — Thank You -4 One of the better U2 songs of this century, but it's clearly doomed so I will look elsewhere.

The Independent now reports Thursday 10th October as the most likely date, though a lot of that would depend on how many letters of no confidence in Sunak come flying in after a dire set of results for the Tories in the May elections. He's achieved the impossible and somehow become even less popular than Truss (especially with his own party) despite making a smaller dent in British politics in one and a half years with his 'do nothing and let things break' style of leadership than she managed in one and a half weeks of 'move fast and break things'.

With the prospect of a Doctor Who double bill on TV immediately before the ESC and the second episode is the only one we have a title for The Devil's Chord which might suggest it is the one with Jinx Monsoon in could end up with Ollie Alexander representing the UK at Eurovision as being only the second campest thing on TV that day.

Erik Estrada is 75.

No, it's King Charles.

Lovely Facebook poem on 30p Lee: Update: 30p really appreciated it

Sunak likey wouldn't lie to Parliament if he knew differently right?

That's what they say. I don't know, I look at this picture and think it's not that easy. But I do believe that it's not stage 4. And with his access to healthcare he should still be more likely than not to live for 5 more years (I think it's a 60-40 bet).

1. She hasn't been seen because she's been ill and is recovering from debilitating surgery. 2. Because they regularly post family photos, and it was to mark Mother's Day. This whole thing is utterly ridiculous. Practically every celeb photo published has been edited in some way, why don't they "kill" those?

On a lighter note:

Aye, including the one where that big guy with a black cloak and a scythe showed up!

British composer Nigel Brooks (Wiki) dead at 97 He was awarded with the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to musical theatre and the music industry.

We asked 100 people to name someone who is famous for no reason.......

Maybe he'll tarry for a while. It's just a test, a game for us to play...

Russian film director Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov, aged only 49. By using Scrabble scoring to add up the letters in his name, he comes up with a score greater than his age at death; 60 points. I doubt there are many other people mentioned on this forum to whom the Scrabble deficit would apply.

Maybe he's read this thread and is trying to get rid of the curse. https://www.facebook.com/100063578951034/posts/pfbid0VNwK9BPvKRaVrghBqqUaiD55uuTjp4f6LWmfYh2GdZrPXN1PforDyg7zo8LQ2c8zl/

Wonder if the new host is going to have to ban deaths by nuclear weapons if it gets anymore tense between the US and North Korea. Still, I think North Korea is still playing a game, but Trump isn't really making the situation better...

It is harder than you initially think - when I read this I thought Roland Ratzenberger would be a dead cert but he died when he was 33 and only gets a Scrabble score of 30.

Even worse he went off injured - could be a death drought coming up.

Think he was an Aron, not an Aaron. Was it really that long ago? And Charon is only a diphthong away from Aron.