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    17 minutes ago, Handrejka said:

    Would Matilda be an option for a girl? That seem to be quite trendy at the moment too.

     

    It could indeed.  Matilda's at 25.

    I think the name (if a girl) is odds-on to be among the top 25, as below. 

     

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    Fair point.  The article also mentions that Christopher Booker is the only other one left alive of those who collaborated with Ingrams at Shrewsbury School, and at Private Eye.   Another snippet:  "Ingrams went teetotal in 1967, followed shortly after by (Barry) Humphries, “a very heavy boozer”. Those who gave up drinking survived; those who didn’t, didn’t."

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    Here's a fairly recent (August) interview in The Times.  He sounds quite chipper.   And he's still driving.

    He still does organ recitals in Aldworth church too.

     

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/richard-ingrams-we-couldnt-cope-with-sudden-fame-and-fortune-r6jq6w990

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    Richard Ingrams has just had three stents put into an artery after he found himself getting breathless walking around. You wouldn’t have known it, looking at him in the kitchen of his rambling home, an old forge in Aldworth, a Berkshire village near the Oxfordshire border. He’s cheerily playing racing demon with his wife, Sara — also his goddaughter, 28 years his junior — her two sons and his adopted son, Louis.

    As he speedily snaps down the cards on the kitchen table, you wouldn’t have thought Ingrams was 80 either. On his birthday, August 19, he held a family gathering for 20 at home. “I haven’t really come to terms with it,” he says, “I don’t feel like an 80-year-old. That’s the trouble.”

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    As Ingrams drives me to the station in Goring, where Midsomer Murders was filmed, we pass the Thames-side house of George Michael, piled high with floral tributes. “I thought it would make a very good Midsomer Murders story for Private Eye,” he says.

     

     

    Fun fact:  Midsomer Murders is filmed just up the road in Wallingford.

     

     

     

     

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    2 minutes ago, DevonDeathTrip said:

    Welsh born Canadian historian Dorothy Harley Eber is still alive at 92. She's an authority on Inuit history, although I doubt that will be enough to get her an obit here.    Anyway, I only mention her as I've just had the dubious pleasure of reading her book Encounters on the Passage about the Inuit's reaction to meeting European polar explorers in the nineteenth century.  I read it because I wanted to see a different perspective on the doomed Franklin Expedition, which has always fascinated me.   

     

    I rather presumed that a book by a nice old lady about Eskimos wouldn't be too challenging, but it turned out to be like a horror story, apart from it all apparently happened for real.  Her account of the last Franklin survivors trudging hopelessly South is summarised in this article, although the book goes on in this vein for about fifty pages.   Chilling stuff (in more ways than one, I suppose) :ghost6: 

     

     

     

    Yes, I think this is the one in which a chap who was born in our village got eaten.  hungry_boy.gif

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    1 hour ago, Life Is Beautiful said:

    And speaking of huge misses, Amy Winehouse is an obvious one. Yes, I understand she was only 27 but there was talk for like the last two years of her life that, lest she repends her ways, she was going to be the next member of the "27 club". She looked and sounded like a mess and I think it was not a huge shock when she died.

     

    Hmmm, as I remember Amy's death was a bit unexpected as she seemed to have turned a corner and cleaned up her act.  I'm sure I wasn't the only one who had dropped her from my lists.   (Of course I was kicking myself for failing to register the 27 thing.)

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    The person who instigated the use of the word "gift" as a verb. 

    Now it's everywhere.  People no longer give things to each other, they "gift" them.  They talk about "gifting" something instead of giving it.

    PLEASE MAKE IT STOP

     

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    On 14/09/2017 at 11:23, Lord Fellatio Nelson said:

    I remember one of our secondary school classrooms had a wall full of Album covers because, well, they can be ART!

    I don't buy many CDs anymore ( apart from a Four Tops Greatest hits album and a  Motown Anthems thingy at HMV this morning.....2 for a tenner infact ) so is the art on the covers still up to scratch or not?

     

    A few years back Ultravox brought out a new album called Brilliant.

    What they put on the cover:

     

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    What they should have put on the cover:

     

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