Sir Creep

Got me by 1 minute! lol WOO HOO FINALLY Ms. Nawaz pays off. Hits for Sir Creep here -- there -- and everywhere!!!! QO: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45485734

A girl named Fermi Bubbles. She could go by 'Bubbles'.

Roy Clark of Hee Haw fame.

That's not very nice.

I recall being told by the Olympic coverage media that it was his unique upright running style that allowed more oxygen blah blah blah.....

ANOTHER bicycle-related political death! Ben Davol (no relation to Ben Dover) who served as a campaign director for John McCain died on Saturday morning while riding in the annual Closer to Free Ride in New Haven. Yale New Haven Hospital issued the following statement: Yale New Haven Hospital and the Closer to Free bike ride family were saddened to learn of the sudden passing of a 58 year old male rider during this morning's annual ride. No other details are available at this time. Davol was a guest on Face The State in February of 2016. SC

He ran wearing gold Nike's. So he had it coming.

Cincinnati bank shooting, includes video of perp shooting up the place momentarily, and being taken down permanently. Shooter left 3 dead. SC

As per Don McGuire's (of the Hilltoppers) obit posted today: "The young men recorded their first hit, “Trying,” in Van Meter Auditorium while they were students at WKU. In a 2016 KET documentary, McGuire, who was the last surviving member of the quartet, recalled there were just 12 people in the room for the recording, though, “to this day, nearly a quarter-million people have claimed to be in there.” Like Black Lives, verification matters. I'm sure you can trot out the next 'Oh I was there' 'Oh..oh and me too!"... Sans proper enlistment, yes, it makes him less a veteran and more a drunkard. SC

WTH is a Menteri or a Besar? lol I'll investigate in a bit when I have time, for now work beckons....

I have no idea what all this says....looks political, but since I'm clueless let's drop it safely here. I don't even know where his name starts. Former Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abu Hassan Omar died at a private hospital here today due to a heart attack. He was 77. SC

Former Associated Press photojournalist Kim Chonkil, whose images captured South Korea's turbulent transition from dictatorship to democracy, has died. He was 89. He died in New York on Thursday after fighting kidney and respiratory problems. Kim covered South Korea for the AP for nearly 40 years until leaving the company in 1987, a period during which the country rose from the devastation of the 1950-53 Korean War into an Asian industrial power and a full-fledged democracy following a bloody struggle against dictatorship. SC

James Brandeberry, who served as dean of Wright State University’s College of Engineering for nearly two decades before founding his own winery, died Friday at his home near Enon. He was 78. Brandeberry joined Wright State’s engineering faculty as an assistant professor in 1969. He helped launch the university's computer science department, became its chairman, left to work in the private sector, returned a year later and was named the founding dean of WSU’s college of engineering in 1986. In his non-academic time, Brandeberry’s passion was making wine. He was an avid home winemaker during the last decade of his tenure at WSU, earning scores of medals and awards in home-winemaking competitions. The recognition of his winemaking skills continued well after he founded his winery. His Brandeberry Winery Blackberry wine won “Best Fruit Wine” designation in the 2013 and 2017 Ohio Wine Competitions, and his “Black Dog” blend was named best fruit wine in the same competition in 2015. SC

Wow....you are right about how frail our species is. Sorry to hear bout your mum.

FTFY

And you're making a mistake brought on by senility if you're willing to include WWII children who are unverified and unenlisted. The 'modern medicine' argument also fails. Does it help people scoot from 75 to 90 more often, bloody hell yes. No medicine does a damn thing to assist people who are 100. I'm not talking about going to hospital for a cough, and I'm not talking about a few weeks extra on a breathing machine. I'm talking about 3-4 years of quality life. Your number is up when it's up after 100. So now that I have summarily dismissed that nonsense with a sentence or two, let's review: Last Civil War vet dies 1956 at 106. He was 13 when he fought. War ended 1865, or 91 years earlier. Assuming medicine modern or otherwise doesn't increase the life of a 106 year old, we can safely use the 91-year after the event as a litmus test. Last WWI vet was 110 years old, died 2012 or 96 years after the event. Again, he was 14 when he fought. In this case the bar moves up to 95 years after the event, leaving us an average of 93 years. We can safely assume by WWII the 'enlisting at age 14' bullshit ceased, at least in developed countries. And I've already called charon senile for trying to argue for inclusion of palm tree countries that don't even have birth certificates in the 1940s. However, I'm willing to give you that a 16 year old may have gotten in. So.... 16 year old lives to say 108, that's b. 1925 (well,us Yanks don't include anyting pre-1941 lol and NEITHER SHOULD YOU if you want to win this debate, I'm helping YOU out), so dies 2033, or 88 years after the event. You'll be hard pressed to give me numbers adding 7+ years on top of that. So I will amend what I've said all along (2028) and now adjust that to 2033. No way no how a WWII vet survives past that calendar year. SC

She is welcome to kill Sir Creep. Just sayin.

Why not say 3040 if you aren't being serious. I've posted plenty of times it'll be 2028-2030. More likely the former.

RIP Turd Ferguson

For some reason I have an entire set of the first WHA hockey cards, meaning I have the McDonald card shown in this obit.

Trying to figure out the favourite countries in an Olympic staring contest. Iceland maybe.

Pirogue and john-boat entries coming. When are the Merc cruiser time trials. Was going to make a kayaking joke, afraid to hear further watering down of Olympiads has already occurred so I won't.

Not Really A celeb

I'm still planning on fielding her.