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Hang on another couple of weeks Tsvangirai you sickly bastard, I want you in my Five4Three2One DP March team.

Fuck up, Tenzin.

The Houston family got So Emotional, baby, when Whitney was found drugged and drowned aged 48 on this day 6 years ago (!). I'm led to believe this is what hair looked like in the 1980's.

Many Happy Returns, 86 today!

If only there were a thread for this kind of topic: Here, just incase you were simply being inattentive rather than deliberately obtuse.

Oh yeah, he'll have to raise a toast to father. Then another one. And another. Keep going. One more. And another for luck...

José José José José: 15th February Prince Henrik: 22nd February Leah Bracknell (revisited): 31st March Morgan Tsvangirai: 1st September

Death of a Playwright as the legendary figure of theatre Arthur Miller dies aged 89, 13 years ago today.

Her Royal Die-ness Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, died aged 71 on this day 16 years ago. Look at that fucking hat.

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson stopped doing whatever she used to do on this day last year, aged 45.

Heard Ken Bruce going through the six entries on the radio earlier and, lamentably, he neglected to say how turd each collection of noises was.

Essentially, yeah. Or, to try and put it slightly more clearly in Leah's inimitable prosy style: I was lying in my Shaman friend's tipi enrobed in rags stylish looking like a fucking 15th century clairvoyant then he came in found me composing my shit told me impassioned let's perform carnal happy fun times neath the scintillating night sky stars glistening glimmering dancing spectating the bloody perverts behold we connect like Katie Hopkins that time with her ex in that field fear rises in my belly hoping no one nearby is brandishing a camera

Jesus, that's one way to start a song...

There was a case of this at my school (both a female teacher and male teacher, my school wasn't brilliant). Male teacher locked a couple of 15 year old kids in his classroom and asked them some inappropriate questions, he was escorted from the school by the police, banned from teaching, eventually convicted of indecent somethingorother and he ultimately topped himself. Female teacher had an affair with a 14 year old, no word of a lie, didn't even get fucking sacked until some concerned parents found out months later and complained to the school.

Arse. Knew I should’ve left Mugabe off my shadow list and gone Tsvangirai.

66 years ago today, God did not save the King when George VI died aged 56 and handed the throne over to Queenie Liz.

Arthur Ashe was soon to become Arthur’s Ashes on this day 25 years ago, aged 49.

Can we have a new, updated scoreboard with Feb teams?

...and 6 years ago today, we lost a woman who probably remembers reading about all this in the breaking news. Florence Green, part of the women's RAF and the last surviving First World War veteran from anywhere in the world, died just 2 weeks shy of her 111th birthday on 4th February 2012. When interviewed just after her Supercentenary birthday, she was asked "What does it feel like to be 110?" Her response: "Not much different to being 109, really."

Ping, an Emperor of Han China, died aged just 14 on this day 2,012 years ago. He became Emperor at the age of 9 in 1 BC after his predecessor and cousin Emperor Ai, who was a homosexual man, died heirless aged 28, and his lover, Xian Dong *snort*, was forced into suicide not long after. A close associate of Ai's family, Wang Mang, seized real power whilst Ping was actually the young emperor, and is said to have gradually slaughtered most of Ping's family. After marrying Wang Mang's daughter, overcoming health ailments and becoming wise to Wang's ruthless tactics to retain power, his standing up for himself didn't really go that well after his pepper wine was spiked and he died of poisoning a couple of weeks later. As a happy ending, the throne remained vacant for three years...but then Wang ultimately usurped the rights to it in the year 8. The bastard.

Philip Seymour Hoffman's last shot of heroin happened 4 years ago today. He was 46.

Terry Wo-Gone, on this day 2 years ago, at the age of 77

Happy Birthday to Tim! He doesn't look a day over 89.

Leading by 2pts, 2 days to go...this is the bit where I take the risk and call Feb early, only for Sean to fuck me over with Fujimori. 1) Clive James 2) Tessa Jowell 3) Marieke Vervoort 4) Leslie Phillips 5) Billy Graham

He's 82, he looks & sounds fine and still at work. Maybe come back to him next decade sometime?