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Them Crooked Vultures. Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme on vocals, Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones on Bass and one of the greatest musicians of all time Dave Grohl on drums. Quite a supergroup. Was reminded of how brilliant this was recently, as Grohl has been embroiled in a drum battle with his challenger, a 10-year-old drummer Nandi Bushell, who'd been posting some pretty amazing drum covers of some Foo's songs. Here's his response to her: Not only one of the most talented guys in rock and roll, one of the nicest too.

True. Oh well that's that fucked then, I think that extra year will prove a step too far.

And in about 79.5 years, she’ll have lived in 3 different centuries, the first to do so since Emma Morano.

I think the one at the front is actually one of Boris’.

Jacob Rees-Morgue and his ghost children say “get back to school” and that they are safe places to be despite there being rumblings of Spanish Flu doing the rounds.

Glad to have you here!

LotO Sir Keir Starmer is 58 today

DJ Erick Morillo, off of liking to Move It Move It, dead at 49, a few weeks after being arrested for sexual battery.

He was, in November 2019. Did you read anything other than the headline?

Odds on this being the name of their next child?

Born. Congratulations to them on the birth of their baby girl, Lyra Antarctica Seaborn Sheeran (not a pisstake). I believe she was indeed ‘welcomed’.

Sir Barry Gibb, off of Stayin’ Alive, is 74 today. Ah. Ah. Ah. Ah.

And so, the scoreboard from the start of the game to the end of August: 1) Grim Up North - 390 2) paddyfool - 360 3) The Quim Reaper - 350 4) The Old Crem - 320 5) BuffaloPhil - 305 6) Paul Bearer - 275 7) Exu - 240 8) redrumours - 225 9) maryportfuncity - 215 10) The Unknown Man - 185 11) Kenny McCormick - 155 12) Genfærd - 85 13) Joey Russ - 35 14) Sir Creep - 20 15=) Miracle Aligner - 15 15=) Bentrovato - 15 17=) the_engineer - 10 17=) chilean way - 10 17=) DevonDeathTrip - 10 20=) Youth In Asia - 5 20=) SusanStoHelit - 5 A Grim-Paddy-Quim podium with a huge resurgence from PB to take a respectable 6th overall. Grats to @Grim Up North on his freakishly accurate guesses, and a hearty round of applause to @Paul Bearer for running this brilliant, sick little number.

Was just about to say, I will be making today’s guess my last for now. I’ll update the overall scoreboard when I have a second. Thanks for running, PB! Who knows, we might have a part 2 in a couple of months time?

1) A second wave of Coronavirus, coupled with us crashing out of the EU, sees the UK economy and job market suffer in such a way that makes the Great Depression look like losing loose change down the back of the sofa. 2) Donald Trump refuses to accept his election defeat and barricades himself in the White House as a constitutional crisis, borderline civil war, ensues. 3) The second wave of Coronavirus kills only 3 times as many people as the first, depriving millions of people of the sweet release of death. 4) Jeff Bezos becomes the world’s first trillionaire and buys the collapsed United Kingdom, turns most of it into an Amazon warehouse. 5) Keane release a new album.

Monday: 3

This is emphatically not a disaster.

6 names? That’s something I can get behind. Minimal thought innit. 1) Kane Tanaka, off of old, 117 2) Pope Benedict, off of dresses, 93 3) Nobby Stiles, off of can’t remember, 78 4) Bernard Tapie, off of French stuff, 77 5) James Whale, off of cunts, 69 6) Anne Nolan, off of Nolans, 69

Rt Hon Ben Bradshaw MP, off of MPs I don’t actually want to kick in the mouth, is 60 today

Why be she?

This article by Jonathan Lis is the best political explanation of Boris Johnson ever. Very much worth a read.

Well, that’s the most inane and unnecessary argument I’ve read in a fair while.

Saturday: 8

Valtteri Bottas is 31 today