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PS He's standing on the list for Alba in May. So that could be three (likely more) byelections this year - who DID @Bibliogryphon pray to for more excitement in his byelection bingo?

This was Joanna Cherry's moment to be first and she couldn't even manage that. They've got Corrie Wilson too, off of shit MPs the Tories beat.

Aww. I mean, she had a good long life but its still sad to see writers I used to read die. I liked her books, they were of that very 1950s style where not a lot happens and people live happily with their pet dogs.

It'll be as successful as the Change UK party imo.

I refer you to the post before mine. (Although you could argue Patrick Harvie is the most successful leader in Scotland. Certainly in terms of actual MSPs to influence and getting what they want. Plays the game very well.)

You called? He's a gobshite. It'll probably hurt the Greens who are the only decent party in Holyrood.

Ok, now it does. Weird. EDIT - Yeah its working again, but wasn't earlier. Maybe someone fixed it.

I'm only in my 30s. Younger folk shouldn't make me feel this old! Frankie Goes to Hollywood were of the course the first band to reach Number 1 with their first 3 singles since Gerry and the Pacemakers. All three are outstanding pop singles, imo, but their later 80s work never lived up to it. (And I believe someone modern equalled the Gerry/Frankie feat with their first 3 singles but I can't mind who...) Big fan of their TOTP appearance for Two Tribes, tearing up The Sun, giving the director a heart attack with Holly casually walking into the audience, and so on. My club days were about 20 years later and even then, in between Rammstein and The Killers and bands I forget, they'd sometimes play Two Tribes, because it remained a favourite with folk. (EDIT - Has imbedding YouTube gone again?) (EDIT2 - Back again)

Director of cult SF flick Death Watch, which was filmed in Glasgow! (And has William Russell in it.) It did amuse that Ida Schuster (who died last year) had a role in Death Watch, credited as Old Woman. 40 odd years before her death!

That'll be threads for Derek Underwood, Ian Ure and Ulitzer by the weekend then.

I have nothing else to add.

Airdrie byelection. It's like waiting for buses. Also it would be utterly Labour of them to somehow beat the SNP to gain Airdrie only to lose Hartlepool at the same time...

Danny Dyer is a surprisingly decent host. Bank Balance was overcomplicated, had a shit host and was impossible to win. And their cameras missed some of the "crucial" moments of the game. Worse, it was dull. The BBC were expecting 4-5 million viewers and got sub 2 million.

I like Only Connect (but don't get the Portillo obsession!). House of Games has several buzzer rounds so the final round is one of the many rather than the different round at the end. imo you can work out how good a game show will be by how quickly someone can describe it. If you need several sentences, you know its going to be overcomplicated and likely rubbish ie Gordon Ramsay's Bank Balance, the worst new quiz/gameshow in at least a decade.

I don't tend to give Lex much longer in general. He's still in his wheelchair post-stroke.

I'm just surprised that, of all the people who could have gotten threads, its Buzz fn Aldrin that gets the backlash. But there are requests (hah) to update the forum with all of Buzz's wacky adventures which I am sure folk will suffice in doing now!

Ironically, voting wise this is what happened in 1997. Voters in general looked at who was second in the seat at the previous election and voted for them, so there was Tory/Liberal seats where the Labour vote went down, and Tory/Labour seats where the Lib Dem vote collapsed. So coupled with the natural Tory to Labour vote swing and the vast number of Tories who just stayed at home, that result went from "a huge win for Labour" to "apocalypse now" for the Tories. It was Nick Clegg who started dismantling most of this, and then of course the coalition pretty much killed Labour/Liberal relations ever since.

ngl, I thought he died in 2019 or 2020 too until I double checked!

Updating the notable wrestlers or wrestling personalities who are older than or will turn 70 in 2021. As you can see from the Wiki list, not yet dead old timer wrestlers keep being found down the back of various sofas as no one was keeping records in the 50s - however, I've stuck to adding the few new names who might get you a QO in various deadpools. Caswell Martin (born 1932) lives, for example, but wont pick up a QO for anything, outside of maybe the Deathrace. 1922 - Joe D'orazio 1926 - Bill Mercer 1929 - Samson Burke 1931 - Tony Marino, Hank Garrett 1932 - Dominic Denucci, Gene LaBell 1934 - Bob Uecker (WWE HOFer, baseball player) 1935 - Jack Lanza, Hisashi Shima, Dory Dixon, Ted Lewin, Earl Maynard* 1936 - Eddie Sharkey 1937 - Mark Lewin, Jim Breaks (age given when arrested), Angelo Mosca, Paul Vachon 1938 - Jody Hamilton, Ted Turner 1939 - Billy White Wolf, Bill Watts, Jim Herd 1940 - Baron Van Raschke, Iron Sheik (circa), Sweet Daddy Siki, Les Thatcher, Adrian Street, Alan Kilby, Spiros Arion 1941 - Abdullah the Butcher, Dory Funk Jr, Gino Brito, Ivan Putski, Thunderbolt Patterson, Kendo Nagasaki 1942 - JJ Dillon, Mil Mascaras, Jimmy Valiant, Ken Patera, Afa, Johnny Saint, Jerry Jarrett, Ole Anderson, Jack Veneno 1943 - Antonio Inoki, Superstar Billy Graham, Bill Dundee 1944 - Jimmy Hart, Terry Funk, Butch, Tiger Jeet Singh, Bobby Duncum Sr, 1945 - Ronnie Garvin, Sika, Vince McMahon, Pete Doherty, Colonel DeBeers 1946 - Gerry Brisco, Tony Garea, David Crockett 1947 - Luke, George Wells, Ax, Teddy Long, Killer Khan, Tommy Young 1948 - Black Bart, Sgt Slaughter, Linda McMahon, Carlos Colon, Greg Gagne, Great Kabuki, Tiger Chung Lee, Rob Fuller 1949 - Ric Flair, Dave and Earl Hebner, Jerry Lawler, Jim Brunzell, Bob Backlund, Stan Hansen, Don Muraco, Mike Adamle, Kevin Sullivan, Paul Orndorff, Zeb Colter, Austin Idol 1950 - Iceman King Parsons, Genichiro Tenryu , Greg Valentine, Bob Orton Jr 1951 - Bruce Hart, Jesse Ventura, Larry Zybysko, Skinner, Riki Choshu, Buck Zumhofe (a horrible, horrible person) *won some tag titles with a very young Rocky Johnson so his route to an obit is "Rock mourns friend of dad" - very very slim but not non-existent! 1950 and 1951 have no staying power so far.

Ooh, can Book do it, says this unbiased spectator...

He's still quite active (and travels when there isn't a pandemic) so there is a constant buzz. He does however seem one of the healthiest nonagenerians on the planet (touch wood) so whilst A++++ level Deathlisty, I don't see him meeting the Reaper for a while yet. Here he is yesterday looking frankly healthier than most of us:

He really did not look a well man at the Open a few weeks back (hence my post above) and he was playing like complete shit too - even by "not played the game in ages" standards - which suggested something was up.

I'd say DL and Drop 40 cert in 2022 if he survives that long, but at his age and prior I can't see him making it out of 2021 now.

Next month for me. Although the answers were a bit binary. The book one for example. If I see something "a bit dodgy" coming up in a book I'm reading the wean, I just try and edit my telling around it (as usually its something that can go without hurting the flow of the actual tale). When the wean spots something before me and asks about it, I try and explain it in a context they'll understand. Certainly no shoving it on a shelf and feeling all guilty about something written before my birth. (But then, I'm of the view that, for exmaple, The Merchant of Venice was heavily radical for its time, and if its main portrayal of Shylock is seen as dodgy now, it just means we've become more tolerant as a society than in Shakespeares time which is a *good thing*) Since I've made the error () of posting in the Snowflake thread, while I am here, the Dr Seuss thing was a PR masterstroke I applaud. They stopped printing 6 books no one has ever heard of, pretty much, and announced it was to clean him up. Result? His estate look progressive to those who care about such things, those who think he was being cancelled have spiked an increase in sales of his books, and all of his books which actually make money (ie the vast majority) are still on sale. End result? They got in the press, made a company saving and made it look like an ethical decision, and made a vast profit. Almost Machiavellian.

Gerald Taylor was discovered in 2015 to have died in 1994, yes, but I can't find him on the DDP. He had vanished off the scene long before his death hence the difficulty in tracking him down for certainty. Always feel a bit bad for the actors in the suits - Reg Whitehead had a number of small TV roles in the 60s but found himself typecast out of many of them after appearing as a Cyberman.