Posts by W-K ID 666

1) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. (Message 113875)
Posted 15 days ago by W-K ID 666
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Peter Higgs, who proposed existence of Higgs boson particle, has died at 94, university says
2) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. (Message 113830)
Posted 29 days ago by W-K ID 666
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Marcello Gandini, one of the greatest ever car designers, best known for his Lamborghinis, aged 85.
Marcello Gandini with the perfectly proportioned Lamborghini Miura, which had a
star part in the opening scenes of the original The Italian Job film
Credit: Lamborghini
3) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. (Message 113678)
Posted 24 Feb 2024 by W-K ID 666
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Flaco, Escaped Central Park Zoo Owl and Defier of Doubts, Is Dead

Flaco was freed from the Central Park Zoo by a vandal in February 2023, and his subsequent sightings captivated New York City.

Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl whose escape from the Central Park Zoo and subsequent life on the loose in Manhattan captured the public’s attention, died Friday night after apparently striking a building on the Upper West Side, officials said.

The Wildlife Conservation Society, which operates the zoo, said in a statement that Flaco had been found on the ground after hitting a building on West 89th Street.
4) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. (Message 113669)
Posted 23 Feb 2024 by W-K ID 666
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Pamela Salem: James Bond and Doctor Who star dies aged 80
5) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. (Message 113613)
Posted 14 Feb 2024 by W-K ID 666
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Bill Post, an inventor of the Pop-Tart, dies at 96

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/02/14/bill-post-pop-tart-dead/
6) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. (Message 113555)
Posted 5 Feb 2024 by W-K ID 666
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Ian Lavender, who played Private Pike (AKA Stupid Boy) in "Dad's Army" dies aged 77.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68204488
7) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe (Message 113519)
Posted 30 Jan 2024 by W-K ID 666
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Can get to site, and msg boards, but then get 500 error if I try further.

edit] 45 mins later, Seti site down
8) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. (Message 113425)
Posted 22 Jan 2024 by W-K ID 666
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Norman Jewison, aged 97, Film director of "In the Heat of the Night", "The Thomas Crown Affair" and "Moonstruck"
9) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. (Message 113354)
Posted 9 Jan 2024 by W-K ID 666
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JPR Williams: Wales and British and Irish Lions legend dies aged 74
10) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. (Message 113351)
Posted 8 Jan 2024 by W-K ID 666
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Franz Beckenbauer: German football legend dies aged 78
11) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. (Message 113258)
Posted 11 Dec 2023 by W-K ID 666
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Shirley Anne Field: Alfie actress dies aged 87
12) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. (Message 113237)
Posted 6 Dec 2023 by W-K ID 666
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Norman Lear dies at 101. The writer and producer transformed TV sitcoms in the 1970s with hits such as ‘All in the Family.’
13) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. (Message 113210)
Posted 1 Dec 2023 by W-K ID 666
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Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman on the Supreme Court, dies at 93.
14) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. (Message 113203)
Posted 29 Nov 2023 by W-K ID 666
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Sticky Vicky dies aged 80

Quick note. I have never been to Benidorm.
15) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 113160)
Posted 23 Nov 2023 by W-K ID 666
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Another pension increase next year. £800

Less tax.

My grumble. As I receive the old state pension topped up to near max with 'Additional State Pension' and I worked and delayed the state pension for just over 2 years.

Then I might be paying tax on the state pension because they have frozen the 'personal allowance'. I await the figure, because they never seem to be exactly the same as what I calculate.
16) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. (Message 113057)
Posted 10 Nov 2023 by W-K ID 666
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Astronaut Frank Borman is dead at 95. He commanded Apollo 8, the first manned mission to orbit the moon and return safely to Earth.
17) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 113005)
Posted 29 Oct 2023 by W-K ID 666
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Driver will be called on to the carpet for not making the delivery because weather and obstructions don't exist. They weren't programmed in.

Applies to bus drivers here also.
Timetables for the routes are based on journeys done on an early Sunday morning in the summer, according to the lady that is responsible for the publication of same in Preston.
18) Message boards : The Lounge : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 112983)
Posted 23 Oct 2023 by W-K ID 666
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The General Election bribery campaign is under way. Just got a letter to tell me that my 'Winter Fuel Payment' will be £500 this year - well up from previous years. It "includes extra money ... known as a 'Pensioner Cost of Living Payment'".

Roll on the gravy train.

It's the same as last year, £200 normal winter fuel, plus £300 COL.
My eldest, because of his medical disabilities, gets three £300 COL payments this year.
19) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. (Message 112944)
Posted 17 Oct 2023 by W-K ID 666
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Phyllis (Pippa) Latour, Member of the Special Operations Executive in the second world war who was parachuted into France a month before D-day, aged 102.
20) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 112919)
Posted 13 Oct 2023 by W-K ID 666
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I have a suspicion that, 'dispatched' can mean the item is in the 'dispatch department' or in other words, 'in that pile by the back door waiting for transport'


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