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Straight onto the list of never-selected.

Nearly missed it - Stanley Baxter is 98 today.

What number, what update? I resize by pasting the image and clicking on "source" and editing the html. Unedited: Resized: (height=300) Resized (width=100) Once the source is displayed I find the img tag and before the closing ">" insert width=300 (or your favourite width, or indeed height e.g. height=450) and click OK on the window. This is for Windoes PC. See @En Passant's post above for how I do it on a phone.

Conclusive proof that McDonald's gives you cancer.

Something new this time round - to me at least - are candidates posting on Txitter appealing for campaign funds in order to fund their re-election campaigns. Labour candidates obviously (presumably the Cons campaigns are paid for by big business/independent wealth).

But busier... https://x.com/theiaincameron/status/1793609189207814346

24/5/2024 43 R. Dean Taylor - There’s A Ghost in My House 34 Cozy Powell - Dance With the Devil +3 30 Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony - The Hustle 28 The Drifters - There Goes My First Love 26 The Wombles - Remember You’re a Womble 25 Lulu - The Man Who Sold The World 23 Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died 21 Smokie - If You Think You Know How to Love Me 21 Kenny - The Bump 21 The Rubettes - Juke Box Jive 20 Slade - Everyday 20 Slade - Bangin’ Man 20 Johnny Bristol - Hang On In There Baby 20 Fox - Only You Can 19 Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run +1 18 Bay City Rollers - Summerlove Sensation 18 Peter Shelley - Love Me Love My Dog 15 Hot Chocolate - Emma 10 Bay City Rollers - Money Honey 03 The Stylistics - Sing Baby Sing -6 03 Mud - The Secrets That You Keep A +1 for Band on the Run by way of an acknowledgement that it was the last decent thing he did (Until The Frog Chorus thing, obviously).

I'm not paying £20 to fall asleep watching it in a cinema when I can do that quite comfortably at home.

At least Steve Harney has got nothing to worry about. Former Bradford player (if you can call him that - 14 appearances in 10 seasons) dies aged 73.

There is a lot of dross - maybe not as much as TQR thinks - many of whom will/have deservedly leave/left early, but I've always hated The Stylistics. High-pitched vocals, funny suits and cringeworthy choreography that makes even Boyzone look good.

34 R Dean Taylor - There’s A Ghost in My House 30 Cozy Powell - Dance With the Devil +4 25 The Wombles - Remember You’re a Womble 24 The Drifters - There Goes My First Love 24 Bay City Rollers - Summerlove Sensation 24 Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - The Hustle 24 Lulu - The Man Who Sold the World 21 Kenny - The Bump 20 Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run 20 Hot Chocolate - Emma 20 Slade - Everyday 20 Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died 20 Slade - Bangin’ Man 20 Johnny Bristol - Hang On In There Baby 20 The Rubettes - Juke Box Jive 20 Mud - The Secrets That You Keep 20 Fox - Only You Can 20 The Moments and Whatnauts - Girls 20 Peter Shelley - Love Me Love My Dog 20 Smokie - If You Think You Know How to Love Me 14 The Stylistics - Sing Baby Sing -6 14 Bay City Rollers - Money Honey

Is this the most Coldwar Steve photo without actually being a Coldwar Steve photo? https://x.com/TomLarkinSky/status/1793608546015490381

Think of a number... 86. Johnny Ball is 86 today.

Elon Musk - in a further attempt to drive people off the platform formerly known as Twitter, he's now made "Lights Out" mode the default setting. Starts up in Lights out every time I restart. I hate it now more than ever.

David Wilkie for the List of the Missed; picked last in 2020. (Put here for completeness, and also because I didn't see it had already been posted in the Olympic thread)

Slipped and fell in the shower! 'kinell!

I'm assuming this is for numismatists and the like, rather than folk who just throw their excess change in a pot to save for Christmas; I have randomly 'collected' a few unusual coins over the years, such as a couple of the unimetal commemorative £2 coins, as well as a few pre-decimal coins that people have thrown in collecting tins. Nothing of any real value, but I do have a couple of the Kew Gardens 50p coins. Like a lot of things, they've been put away somewhere 'safe' and I have no idea where they are now.

Updates done for Dabney Coleman, Tony O'Reilly Chico Hamilton Frank Ifield Gerry Collins Karl-Heinz Schnellinger Bud Anderson Jan A.P. Kaczmarek which I think is all reported/qualifying celebs I missed. ( Unless, of course, you know different And (I nearly forgot) thanks to those folks keeping an eye on things while I was away.

I'm back. Have I missed anything?

Right.... Signing off for my weekend away. Nobody die!

It's a toss-up between this one and Clair which one i loathe more.

Absolutely - I think they've been done with them for a long time. I remember being polled prior to the Major election ('92) and was asked if people should view it as Major's first election or the Tories fourth; evidently people regarded it as Major's first (not sure what effect previous Kinnock rejections had as he was up against Thatcher), but I doubt Sunak will be given the same consideration. Unfortunately, despite the Tories being in an extremely vulnerable position, Starmer seems reluctant to press home the advantage. The progressive vote will once again be split three ways but hopefully (as we've seen with the council elections) tactical voting will be effected where it will be most useful.

Even Major won a General Election, so there's still hope.

A reference to this BBC investigation if anyone is wondering.

16/5/2024 36 Hawkwind - Silver Machine 35 David Bowie - Life on Mars? 33 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes 31 America - A Horse With No Name 29 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash 27 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain 27 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy 26 Python Lee Jackson - In a Broken Dream 23 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday 22 The Drifters - At The Club/Saturday Night At The Movies 21 Limmie and the Family Cookin’ - You Can Do Magic 20 Lindisfarne - Lady Eleanor 20 Medicine Head - One and One is One 20 Mungo Jerry - Alright, Alright, Alright 18 The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack 16 Gilbert O’Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally) -6 16 Peter Skellern - You’re a Lady 12 David Bowie - Sorrow +4 08 The Chi-Lites - Have You Seen Her 02 Perry Como - And I Love You So I realise its not going to happen (I'm probably a minority of 1), but I genuinely would prefer to see Perry Como survive longer than Gilbert O'Sullivan. Of the remaining tunes here, there are few I really dislike, a handful I really like, and a load of "not bothered one way or the other".