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55 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said:

King John got bad press. The monks who wrote the histories were pissed at him because he got the whole country excommunicated. He also took the flak for his brother's expensive Wars whilst he was regent. At least he lived in the country. Richard the Lionheart spent less than a year of his ten year reign in England

 

Oh please!  I think you mean "pissed off with him".

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17 minutes ago, Toast said:

 

Oh please!  I think you mean "pissed off with him".

 

 

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It's not so much the grammar, but the Americanism. As adjectives,  "pissed" has a different meaning from "pissed off", and I would prefer to keep the distinction.

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5 minutes ago, Toast said:

It's not so much the grammar, but the Americanism. As adjectives,  "pissed" has a different meaning from "pissed off", and I would prefer to keep the distinction.

 

My only excuse is I was typing on a phone out of doors and was aiming for haste.

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End of the travels for Jonathan Swift on this day 275 years ago, aged 77.

 

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Herbert Hoover died 56 years ago aged 90

31st US President Herbert Hoover

 

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Final song for Shirley Horn on this day 15 years ago, aged 71.

 

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Grimmy called time for Gough Whitlam 6 years ago today.

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Horatio Nelson, from Nelson's column, died at the battle of Trafalgar 215 years ago

 

British Admiral Horatio Nelson

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Maxene Andrews, of The Andrews Sisters, ended her singing on this day 25 years ago, aged 79.

 

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Pretty Boy Floyd, 20's gangster, wasnt such a pretty boy after the FBI shot him up at age 30 86 years ago. 

 

Gangster Pretty Boy Floyd

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American football player and coach, Frank Sinkwich, died on this day 30 years ago, aged 70.

 

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Once described by Billy Connolly as the funniest man he'd ever met, Tony Capstick died aged 59, 17 years ago today, after years of excessive alcohol consumption. 

 

A folk singer, comedian (1983 Channel 4 series), sometime actor (LotSW, Corrie, Emmerdale), radio presenter, he's most well-known nationally for his number 3 hit of 1981, Capstick Comes Home, performed with the Frickley Carlton Main Colliery Band.

 

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Marco Simoncelli died during the Sepang MotoGP 2011. 

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End of the game for W. G. Grace on this day 105 years ago, aged 67.

 

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46 minutes ago, The Ashes Urn said:

End of the game for W. G. Grace on this day 105 years ago, aged 67.

 

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I have a handwritten letter from him. 

(Not written to me, before you ask) :P

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Rosa Parks died on this day 15 years ago, aged 92.

 

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Irish actor Richard Harris's Sporting Life came to end 18 years today. Twice nominated for an Academy Award (for This Sporting Life and The Field), he was also the original Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films.

He liked to sing a bit too.

 

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Jack Bruce was Creamed on this day 6 years ago, aged 71.

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George II of Great Britain died on this day 260 years ago, aged 76.

 

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Al Baghdadi, from ISIS, died 1 year ago today

 

Leader of Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

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Keith Parkinson died on this day 15 years ago, aged 47.

 

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Writer Rex Stout died on this day 45 years ago, aged 88.

 

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John Wallis, from maths and founder of the ∞ symbol, died 317 years ago aged 86

 

Mathematician and Cryptographer John Wallis

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