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    1920 Fanny Waterman/Michael Anderson

    1921 Jane Freeman/Jean I of Luxembourg

    1922 Jean Barker/Rex Richards

    1923 Dina Merill/ Franco Zeffarelli

    1924 Rosamunde Pilcher/Clive King

    1925 Ysanne Churchman/Richard Baker

    1926 Cicely Berry/Leonard Fenton

    1927 Babs Chinnery/Dick Bruna

    1928 Kate Wilhelm/Peter Firmin

    1929 Patricia Routledge/David Fisher

    Post Prior round.

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    With John Biffen and Ian Gilmour recently deciding to spend more time with their ancestors,

    I'd thought I'd update you all on the current roll-call of politicians from Maggie's first cabinet from 1979 that are still on-message. Here goes...

     

    Margaret Thatcher - Prime Minister (d. 2013)

    William Whitelaw - Deputy PM/ Home Secretary (d. 1999)

    Sir Geoffrey Howe - Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1926)

    John Biffen - Chief Secretary to the Treasury (d. 2007)

    Lord Soames - Lord President of the Council (d. 1987)

    Lord Hailsham - Lord Chancellor (d. 2001)

    Sir Ian Gilmour - Lord Privy Seal (d. 2007)

    Lord Carrington - Foreign Secretary (b. 1919)

    Peter Walker - Agriculture, Fisheries & Food (d. 2010)

    Norman St-John Stevas - Arts/ Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (d. 2012)

    Francis Pym - Defence (d. 2008)

    Mark Carlisle - Education & Science (d. 2005)

    James Prior - Employment (bet he had a jolly time then!) (b. 1927)

    David Howell - Energy (b. 1936)

    Michael Heseltine - Environment (b. 1933)

    Patrick Jenkin - Health & Social Security (b. 1926)

    Keith Joseph (architect of Thatcherism) - Industry (d. 1994)

    Humphrey Atkins - Northern Ireland (d. 1996)

    Angus Maude - Paymaster-General (d. 1993)

    George Younger - Scotland (d. 2003)

    John Nott (Here today, gone tomorrow?) - President of the Board of Trade (b. 1932)

    Nicholas Edwards - Wales (b. 1934)

     

    With Thatch gone, there's just 8 left....

     

    James Prior has died aged 89. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38292549

     

     

    DDP pick for my Unusual Suspects team and almost certainly Scavenger Hunt fodder

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    Sir C, as I have blocked you, you can enter this game for 2017 in one of two ways:

     

    Either PM your list to a trusted friend who can then PM it to me, or post it on this thread on or before 31 December before the cut off date.

     

    I'll still welcome an entry from you if you decide to enter.

    Guess it don't take much to get blocked around these parts lol. I thank you for the notification Y-Dub. Will send a list at some point. Only trusted friend I had here was Zorders pfft.

    SC

    You can PM your list to me and I will pass it on to YW.
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    I hope Emma Morano sees 2017 at the very least, and becomes 5th oldest person of all time.

     

     

    Aye, doubtless a few Deathracers share your interest.

     

    It's definitely happened a while back that the world's oldest person has lost the title without having to die, but - surely - she's nailed on to lose it in the traditional way and generate world wide news in doing so.

     

     

    The former would only happen through a person being discovered that is older than them? In that case, they were never actually the world's oldest person in the first place.

     

     

    No but they are recognised as the World's oldest person and get a visit from the ghost of Norris McWhirter or summit.

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    Watched two films on the plane Ab Fab movie bit weird as it almost looks like a celebration of what it is meant to be parodying. Kathy Burke is brilliant though and then I watched the animated film Kubo and the Two Strings trying to get the feel of a Ghibli movie but with stop motion animation, nice try, quite emotional but over the end credits you get Regina Spektor singing While My Guitar Gently Weeps.........?????????

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    Technically a miss for my 1980 theme team with Oops Upside Your Head (UK #6): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQaM93jomZg

     

    It's on the Toast ipod embarrassed-smiley61.gif

     

    Is that the song that used to have twats like me sitting on pub floors in a conga then getting up with fag ends, crisps, beer and gob stuck to the arse of my jeans?

     

     

    It is indeed. And to this day we don't know why.

     

     

    What is really scary is the DJ played this at my sister's 50th birthday party this year and everyone still did it even people under the age of 20.

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    Isn`t Glenn one of the only people still alive who was referenced in the song "We didn`t start the fire".Only ones other than him I can think of are Glenn Henry Kissinger Doris Day and The Queen.

     

    Edit:Forgot Brigitte Bardot and Bernie Goetz.

     

    British Beatlemania could refer to Any One Beatle, too, in a way. Chubby Checker's still going. As is Dylan.

    The new Vogue.

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    1920 Fanny Waterman/Michael Anderson

    1921 Jane Freeman/Jean I of Luxembourg

    1922 Jean Barker/Rex Richards

    1923 Dina Merill/ Franco Zeffarelli

    1924 Rosamunde Pilcher/Clive King

    1925 Ysanne Churchman/Richard Baker

    1926 Cicely Berry/Leonard Fenton

    1927 Babs Chinnery/Dick Bruna

    1928 Kate Wilhelm/Peter Firmin

    1929 Patricia Routledge/David Fisher

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    Second update for Zac Goldsmith.

     

    50 Points

    Rover and Out

     

    40 Points

    RockHopperPenguin

    The Engineer

    Voice of Young Maryport

    Time

     

     

    30 Points

    Bibliogryphon

    Shaun of the Dead

    Rotton Ali

     

    20 Points

    MPFC

    The Dead Cow

     

    10 Points

    Handrejka

    DeathRay

    Msc

    Manuel

     

    0 Points

    Young Willz

    Sir Creep

    Phantom

     

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    First point of call is that it's an "ISO 9001" exam, not an "IS0 9000".

    First point of call is that it's an "ISO 9001" exam, not an "IS0 9000".

    Yes it was an exam to become a qualified ISO 9001:2015 auditor.

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