Summer in Transylvania

29th January again.

4/55. A record number of hits within a single month for me.

Linda Nolan has died. Eleonora Giorgi to join the subs bench, please.

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31) 1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32) 1990: Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (4/42) 1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40)  1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37) 1993: George Lineker (1/56) 1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50) 1995: Holly Johnson (1/50) 1996: Mr T (1/50) 1997: (0/50) 1998: (0/50) 1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50) 2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50) 2001: Liza Minnelli (1/50) 2002: (0/50)  2003: (0/50) 2004: (0/50) 2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50) 2006: (0/50)  2007: Louis Farrakhan (1/50) 2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50) 2009: (0/50) 2010: (0/50) 2011: Ali Khamenei, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (3/50) 2012: Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (2/50) 2013: (0/50) 2014: Dick Van Dyke (1/50)  2015: Jake Roberts (1/50) 2016: Prunella Scales, Tommy Chong, Sandy Gall, Paul Gascoigne (4/50) 2017: Sandy Gall, Emperor Akihito (2/50) 2018: Linda Nolan, Prunella Scales, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Louis Farrakhan, Ronnie Wood, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (8/50) 2019: Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Vanessa Redgrave, Cleo Laine, Prunella Scales (6/50)  2020: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Prunella Scales, Willie Nelson, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Joanne Woodward, David Attenborough (9/50) 2021: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Ali Khamenei, Prunella Scales, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Yoko Ono, Linda Nolan, Joanne Woodward, Mel Brooks, Willie Nelson, Raul Castro, Stanley Baxter, Vanessa Redgrave (14/50) 2022: Dick Van Dyke, Alan Greenspan, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Dick Cheney, Mel Brooks, David Attenborough, Emperor Akihito, Sandy Gall, Desmond Morris, James Whale, Cleo Laine, Denis Law, Prunella Scales, Stanley Baxter, Noam Chomsky, Norman Tebbit, Douglas Hurd, Marianne Faithfull, Linda Ronstadt (19/50) 2023: Dick Van Dyke, Alan Greenspan, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Dick Cheney, Mel Brooks, Robert Wagner, Norman Tebbit, Sandy Gall, Joanne Woodward, Desmond Morris, Stanley Baxter, Cleo Laine, Alan Alda, Prunella Scales, Yoko Ono, Marianne Faithfull, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall, Imelda Marcos, Ali Khamenei, Pete Murray, Willie Nelson, Dennis Skinner, Sonny Rollins, Hal Linden, Linda Nolan, Andy Taylor (26/50) 2024: Dick Van Dyke, Pete Murray, Alan Greenspan, Pope Francis, Cleo Laine, Sandy Gall, Noam Chomsky, Robert Wagner, Mel Brooks, Dennis Skinner, Nigel Starmer-Smith, James Whale, Stanley Baxter, Joanne Woodward, Patricia Routledge, Clint Eastwood, Vanessa Redgrave, Desmond Morris, Gene Hackman, Denis Law, Hans Blix, Julie Walters, Tom Brokaw, Linda Nolan, Louis Farrakhan, Norman Tebbit, Willie Nelson, Daniel Barenboim, Esther Rantzen, Roberta Flack, Dick Cheney, Prunella Scales, Robert Duvall, Josef Fritzl, Brigitte Bardot, Raul Castro, Imelda Marcos, Ted Turner, Buzz Aldrin, Sonny Rollins, Sly Stone, Tom Baker, Joe Bugner (42/50) Updated for Linda Nolan.

"Poppins his clogs" is another one, but that could also be saved (changing "him" to "her") for Julie Andrews should she ever make a DL appearance.

I don't see why it wouldn't be. Congratulations, MariNisia. New Round: 1925: Tony Christopher / June Lockhart 1926: Abdoulaye Wade / Amelita Ramos 1927: Divaldo Franco / Cleo Laine 1928: Noam Chomsky / Hazel Ascot 1929: Anastasios / Violeta Chamorro 1930: Theodore McCarrick / Joanne Woodward 1931: Norman Tebbit / Isabel Martinez de Peron 1932: Chavalit Yongchaiyduh / Antonia Fraser 1933: Alexander Mitta / Yoko Ono 1934: Frankie Valli / Michiko

Former Nicaraguan President, Violeta Chamorro, the only female to hold such office, will be 96 this year - assuming she sees October, is guaranteed to Obit, and is oft-mentioned hereabouts, so I figured that a thread isn't out of the question. She entered politics in 1979, following the assassination of her husband, an outspoken anti-government journalist, although resigned her Junta membership after just a year to continue his work. She was chosen as the opposition candidate in the 1990 General Election, which she won, remaining in office until January 1997, following which she retired from politics. In more recent times, she has suffered from osteoporosis, leading to several surgeries, a brain tumour diagnosed in 2011, a massive stroke which has left her bedridden, and advanced dementia. The news of her frail health will mark its seventh anniversary of being posted to this forum in June; by this point she's a cast-iron immortal.

I'm a little late to this one, as I've only just caught up on last night's episode, but my take is that Linda's days are numbered even though nobody is openly going for her very much at the moment, Minah is playing an absolute blinder, but, as was rightly pointed out earlier, that could all change in a single round table, and can someone please get rid of Joe.

Roger Lebranchu dead at 102.

3/55.

Sophie Kinsella to be my new sub now Black Bart is dead, please.

Congratulations, CaptainChorizo.

Inah Canabarro Lucas to replace dead sub Peter Yarrow, please.

Le Pen and Yarrow give me 1074 points, by my calculations (358 each plus another 358 as Yarrow was my joker). This puts me over the 2025 points threshold, which may also be the case for others, too.

Out of Puff.