The Off Topic Topic

[mongers]

I just found out that James Lovelock is still alive and 100 years old.  He's a scientist who's theory of thermoregulation of the earth informed the PC game SimEarth.

I thing he has to stay alive to preserve the title of world's oldest pessimist.

And I know that sentence doesn't make sense, but it's the sentiment it invokes that's important.

[mongers]

How does Jean Michel Jarre manage it, just found out last year he married Gong Li. 

[Eddie Teach]

He's a music producer, she's an aging actress. This stuff happens all the time.

[Josquius]

Googling on stuff for my own edification.
This forum thread has not aged well.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6109853/coronavirus-move-and-completion

[Zanza]

The first 5245 days of Angela Merkel. The "first" sounds a but menacing... 

It shows how the parties developed since she took office on top and her personal favourability ratio on bottom.

[Maladict]

A worthy addition to Germany's already impressive line of postwar leaders.

[DGuller]

I am impressed as to how Germans seem to be able to get mostly high capable leaders, and let them rule for many decades without any ill effects of lack of term limits.

[Sheilbh]

An extraordinary political achievement.

What's the view in Germany of what the "Merkel legacy" is?

[Eddie Teach]

Clearly her legacy is unprecedented growth and prosperity... for China. 

[mongers]

Honor Blackman RIP 

James Bond actress Honor Blackman dies aged 94
6 April 2020 

Honor Blackman, the British actress who played Pussy Galore in the James Bond film Goldfinger, has died at the age of 94.

In a statement, her family said she died peacefully of natural causes at home in Lewes, East Sussex.

Blackman was also known for playing Cathy Gale in the 1960s TV series The Avengers opposite Patrick Macnee.

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Full item:
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52189803

[chipwich]

Is Queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth the 1st of Canada and Australia?

[Valmy]

Is Queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth the 1st of Canada and Australia?

Also the 1st of the United Kingdom of Great Britain...unless somebody wants to point out that other Queen Elizabeth since 1707...well unless you are counting her mother.

[Barrister]

Is Queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth the 1st of Canada and Australia?

Our coins say ELIZABETH II   D G REGINA

So there you have it,

[Syt]

I prefer to think that D G stands for Dolce & Gabana.

[DGuller]

I prefer to think that D G stands for Dolce & Gabana.