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Big pictures and inability to pun - DL gimmick of the year 2017?

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20 hours ago, Sir Creep said:

I try to find photos/images that are like 300x300 in size before attaching.  I say that in light of ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

SC and all big photo people - you do know that you can resize the photos once you have pasted them into the post?

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So photo of Dietrich from above cut and pasted into this post - double click on photo gives you option to resize.

 

Reduce width down to something sensible like 120, aspect box is ticked so photo retains it's integrity and hey presto Dietrich is now from Lilliput and not Jupiter.

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The inability to pun well is not a laughing matter.:D

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After suffering a Night's Fever, the great Tragedy happened that there was no more Staying Alive for Robin Gibb, 5 years ago today.

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On this day 511 years ago Christopher Columbus died penniless and disgraced.

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The last discovery for Stephen Jay Gould on this day 15 years ago, aged 60.

 

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John Garfield stopped acting on this day 65 years ago, aged 39.

 

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25 years ago today big smoke stopped ordering number 9s,aged 34.

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2 minutes ago, The Mad Hatter said:

25 years ago today big smoke stopped ordering number 9s,aged 34.

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A fictional character? Really?

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On this day in the year 2000 Famous British Romantic Novelist Dame Barbara Cartland died aged 98.A very eccentric, flamboyant and colourful lady! 

 

At one point she was the step Grandmother of Princess Diana. 

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On this day in the year 2000 distinguished British actor of stage and screen John Gielgud died in Aylesbury aged 96.

Gielguds acting career spanned over 8 decade's and was one of a handful of actors who dominated the British stage in the 20th century along with Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson. 

 

He was primarily known for his gifts as a Shakespearen actor and was said by many critics to have been the best Hamlet there ever was on British stage such was his gift for nuance and subtlety. 

 

He also was a gifted theatre director and now has a London West End Theatre named after him hence The Gielgud theatre. 

 

He also starred in a number of notable films including Arthur, The Elephant man and Gandhi. 

One of the most respected actors of his generation. 

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1 hour ago, RadGuy said:

A fictional character? Really?

He still deserves to be remembered. 

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24 minutes ago, The Mad Hatter said:

He still deserves to be remembered. 

I honestly never heard of him. 

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39 minutes ago, The Mad Hatter said:

He still deserves to be remembered. 

Only the animated members of Gorillaz.  Rest can fahkoff.
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Margaret Rutherford stopped acting on this day 45 years ago, aged 80.

 

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Constantine the Great rolled into Byzantine, renamed it after himself, and started writing songs about it until his death in 337 (1,680 years ago), age 65.  Constantinople would also die, but not till 1930.
 

 

 

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Langston Hughes died this day 50 years ago -- like Constantine the Great, age 65.
 

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John D. Rockefeller made his last business on this day 80 years ago, aged 97.

 

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Joan Sanderson stopped acting on this day 25 years ago, aged 79.

 

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Charles Nelson Reilly stopped acting on this day 10 years ago, aged 76.

 

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Mamo Wolde stopped running on this day 15 years ago, aged 69.

 

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