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What a bummer!

He was on the list twice, and not six weeks later, he has to go and pop them.

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Actor Stan Richards, who played ex-gamekeeper Seth Armstrong in ITV soap Emmerdale, has died at age 74.

 

Stan Richards dies

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Actor Stan Richards, who played ex-gamekeeper Seth Armstrong in ITV soap Emmerdale, has died at age 74.

 

Stan Richards dies

Sorry to hear that. I had the pleasure of meeting him, nice chap.

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Bowling Great Dick Weber Dies

 

By Associated Press

 

 

ST. LOUIS — Dick Weber, one of bowling's first national stars and a three-time bowler of the year, died Sunday night. He was 75.

 

Weber died in his sleep at his home in the St. Louis area, said Steve James, retired executive director of the American Bowling Congress Hall of Fame. A cause of death was not immediately known.

 

Weber had just returned from the opening of the congress' championships in Baton Rouge, La. James said he spent Sunday morning with Weber, who gave no indication he was ill.

 

"He was a lot bigger than the tour," James said. "He was probably the best-known bowler worldwide."

 

Weber was one of bowling's first national TV stars, at a time when ABC broadcast bowling events on Saturday afternoons. He initially drew attention as a member of the Budweisers, a five-member St. Louis bowling team that held the record for highest team score for more than three decades.

 

In 1958, he was a founding member of the Professional Bowlers Association, and he went on to win 26 PBA Tour events and six Senior Tour events. He was national bowler of the year three times, in 1961, 1963 and 1965.

 

His son, Pete, is second on the career PBA money list. Both father and son are members of the PBA Hall of Fame. Dick Weber was also a member of the American Bowling Congress Hall of Fame.

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Bernt Haas

 

Still my favourite footballers name.

Mine's got to be Danny Invincible, although I seem to remember a Delroy Hercules a few years ago

 

Sorry, digressing from the subject there!

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Egypt's former Queen Nariman Sadeq, ex-wife of late King Farouk, died Wednesday. She was 70.

Were snakes involved?

 

regards,

Hein

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Ronnie Burgess played in the same excellent Tottenham Hotspur team as the recently departed Bill Nicholson and Alf Ramsey. They of course went on to manage the best club side to play English football (Tottenham Hotspur 1960-61, according to ex- Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson and my Dad anyway), and the best English national side (England 1966) respectively.

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Ronnie Burgess played in the same excellent Tottenham Hotspur team as the recently departed Bill Nicholson and Alf Ramsey. They of course went on to manage the best club side to play English football (Tottenham Hotspur 1960-61, according to ex- Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson and my Dad anyway), and the best English national side (England 1966) respectively.

Isn't "excellent Tottenham Hostpur team" an oxymoron?

 

Apologies if you've heard this before....

 

A Spurs supporter walked past a video shop and sees a poster announcing a video for sale "Tottenham - the golden years". As a supporter, he rushed in to buy a copy and was told it'd cost £300.

 

When he asked why it was so much, he was told that it also comes with a Betamax player to watch it on.

 

:lol:

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Ronnie Burgess played in the same excellent Tottenham Hotspur team as the recently departed Bill Nicholson and Alf Ramsey. They of course went on to manage the best club side to play English football (Tottenham Hotspur 1960-61, according to ex- Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson and my Dad anyway), and the best English national side (England 1966) respectively.

Isn't "excellent Tottenham Hostpur team" an oxymoron?

 

Apologies if you've heard this before....

 

A Spurs supporter walked past a video shop and sees a poster announcing a video for sale "Tottenham - the golden years". As a supporter, he rushed in to buy a copy and was told it'd cost £300.

 

When he asked why it was so much, he was told that it also comes with a Betamax player to watch it on.

 

:(

Unfortunately a Standard 8 Cine projector would have to used. :lol:

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Friday, February 18, 2005 Posted: 10:08 AM EST (1508 GMT)

 

MARINA DEL REY, California (AP) -- Samuel W. Alderson, the inventor of

crash test dummies that are used to make cars, parachutes and other

devices safer, has died. He was 90.

 

Alderson died February 11 at home of complications from myelofibrosis,

a bone marrow disorder, his son Jeremy said.

 

He grew up tinkering in his father's custom sheet-metal shop, worked

on various military technology and by 1952 had formed Alderson

Research Labs.

 

The company made anthropomorphic dummies for use by the military and

NASA in testing ejection seats and parachutes. The dummies were built

to approximate the weight and density of humans and hold

data-gathering instruments.

 

One type of dummy he developed measured radiation doses.

 

There was little interest in his first automobile test dummy, he once

said, until publication of Ralph Nader's consumer protection book

"Unsafe at Any Speed" in 1965. The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle

Safety Act was passed a year later.

 

Before creating dummies, he worked on missile guidance systems and

helped develop a coating to enhance vision on submarine periscopes

during World War II.

 

He left his original company in 1973 to form a competing crash test

dummy maker, and the two companies were dominant in the market until

eventually merging in 1990 to form First Technology Safety Systems.

 

In addition to son Jeremy, he is survived by another son, a sister and

four grandchildren.

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