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One I remember was the Queen telling Ted Heath he was sent to Baghdad because he was expendable. https://youtu.be/T8dQOqCbcT4?t=144

Jones yesterday; Gabor, Castro, Douglas and Adulyadej today?

It was a documentary commissioned by the BBC for the Queen's 40th year on the throne and was titled Elizabeth R. Here's all one hour 30 minutes of it. The mummy bit is here: https://youtu.be/vgWB4udN16k?t=4531 and when pulling her own name out of the sweepstake 'hat' she refers to herself as the queen rather than me: https://youtu.be/vgWB4udN16k?t=4632

I love that! It reminds me of a documentary about the Queen, years ago, and they showed her in the Royal Box on Derby Day. The occupants have a £1 sweepstake on the Derby every year, and on this occasion the Queen won. She was really chuffed. . "How much do I win?" she asked. "Sixteen pounds, ma'am." And she smirked into the camera, it was so funny to see. Here it is!

Venus and Serena Williams are white?

A reader sent a letter ranting about illegal immigrants to the Derby Telegraph newspaper and received a £50 gift voucher. ​Send illegal immigrants living in Alvaston Park home.

Come what may, it'd be nice to see you back.

Plus Time cracked the joke eight hours before you.

Congratulations!

he died on a Saturday that's interesting especially with someone called grundy I wonder if he was born on a Monday. Born on a Saturday - worked hard for a living.

I've never seen one so big! (Performer credit list that is - 570 titles) http://www.iafd.com/person.rme/perfid=pavelmatous/gender=m/pavel-matous.htm

At which stage do they fall off the football pools coupon?

So how many years were there in the 1st century?

There have been several new members but they chose not to post here. I know new membership was suspended earlier this week due to the Korean invasion but I don't know if that's been lifted.

You're gonna get a like on your next post for this one because it deserves two.

Do we know which discipline he will be competing in?

Cars don't shine their lights into the sky so that's not really a problem. Leicester City Council are converting all their street-lights from ones that shine upwards as well as downwards to ones that just shine downwards. http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Amazing-images-3-000-feet-Leicester-s-light/story-20572858-detail/story.html

Heavens-Above is a good site for finding out when and where to look. I've seen literally hundreds but the site won't let you log them anymore. There's a Transit of Mercury tomorrow visible from the UK and the weather forecast is excellent. The next one is in 2019 and 2032 after that.

Twenty posts per page. If the last post ends in a zero there's a 50/50 chance the next post will be on a new page.

My mate Geoff but then again he's a bus driver. It's a hobby; people will always find time to pursue a hobby.

To me a spotter is (and always has been) someone who collects and logs the registrations. Personally, I no longer do that but I'm not offended if someone labels me a spotter. An enthusiast is someone who follows, or is engaged in the industry but doesn't log registrations. All spotters are enthusiasts but not all enthusiasts are spotters. Bus spotters/enthusiasts are no different; we're all quite fucking mad from most other people's point of view. Who am I to argue?

Why would a class 47 locomotive be wearing a grey anorak and brown corduroy trousers? (Hi Toastie ) Anyroadup, in the late 70s a plane spotter aviation enthusiast friend of mine who was also a train spotter railway enthusiast needed to see just one 08 shunter to complete his having seen the entire British Railways fleet of locomotives. He travelled down to Cornwall (where it was based) from Derby every other weekend for months and finally saw it when a train in the sidings moved just a few minutes before he was due to catch the train home. He had already purchased a new registration log book in anticipation and the first entry in it was the same 08 shunter; he started all over again.

OMG! On an American website? Is this set to become a trend? Are we finally fighting back and making headway against the bastardisation of the English language? (Hi Toastie.)

Do it yourself? Click on the like button again. I think he knows that; I reckon it was a comedic post.

On the ground 0830 hrs GMT. Remind me never to give you vague details about flight plans. Is this a hobby of yours, plane spotting? Yeah but only for about the last 40 odd years. The PC term for it nowadays is aviation enthusiast.