Sunday, March 26, 2023
SCIENCE MEMES
There is a website called Science Memes which has. . . well. . . memes about science. Access it at:
Bored Panda has posted some of the funnier ones, the memes below and some reader comments coming from the Bored Panda website
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What if I bite it and it bites me and we both die?
You are in Australia.
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Juno deserves the truth y'all
Scientists have a sense of humor too. Nerd humor is awesome because only other nerds are in on the joke.
Kind of sorry to my friend named Juno..
Now Juno will want a divorce
“You know how all of Jupiter’s moons are named after his lovers and affairs?” You’re assuming I know more about both space and Roman mythology than I actually do.
So ... Now Juno the rest of the story.
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How can bacteria go viral?
Correction : this needs to go bacterial :)))
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Watch out folks, I think rats may have evolved past humans
Exhibit A: humans repeatedly put a rat into a restrictive cage just to observe another rat trying to effect a rescue ...
Humans are always so shocked when other animals show empathy and compassion... Every. Single. Time. Silly silly humans.
I might under fire for saying this, but I really, really wish people would stop using animals for experiments. It's disgusting and cruel
I agree with you in general, however in this case the rats were not physically harmed. The experiment shows that animals have morals. That shows furthermore that you do not need religion to be moral. The benefit of showing religion to be unnecessary for moral worth outweighs the distress these rats experienced.
Turns out rats are kinder than I am... I mean obviously I would free someone who was trapped but I would never ever ever share my chocolate chips
Or my bacon
Animals are closer to us in emotions than we give them credit for. Old school thinking was animals are on autopilot driven only by the need to eat and mate, any farmer, pet owner animal lover can tell you otherwise
So, rats have more empathy than republicans, good to know.
The next study should test whether humans have empathy. Based on news reports, it's in short supply.
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They could have at least told us the species, suspense is killing me
Ahhhh no, we pretty much know who those fish are
Aren’t most Australians unknown to science?
That fish's expression says it all.
We eat anything:)
F**k only in Australia
How the f**k do you "accidently " eat a fish?
Guys I’m Australian I’m scared please don’t eat me 😧
Queensland Museum fish expert, Jeff Johnson, commented on the new grouper species, “I’ve been told they are quite tasty”.
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Well, it does make sense...
That's right
That would mean u didn't figure out how to go back to the precise time u left.
True. I suspect they may have found out they cannot go back, as otherwise this would open a can of worms of causality problems and paradoxes or require branching time paths (as in Back to the Future)
Why would I want to meet that a*****e?
Future me would probably beat me up because past me is always screwing over present me... wait...
... leaving the time machine, he excitedly checked his Bitcoin, guaranteed of all the riches he'd ever need to... Well shucks.
Whoa, this is heavy. There's that word again.
Whoops. Kind of like Rip Van Wrinkle.
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I want to know how high is too high. Asking for a friend
Depends on how much one consumes in general.
She looks like she's done her homework
Yeah I knew a guy who did that in high school. His name was Leroy. Broke both arms and both legs. Absolute legend.
I can’t stop laughing that her arms are busted, and I feel bad about laughing. 🤣
Me too 😆
The above site shows the image to be doctored, the original pic was about how water towers work:
Still funny though.
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The last time my water broke, I took a baby home. You gotta take broken water seriously. LOL
I just hope the one you took home was yours 😅
Proof that mum jokes can be every bit as bad as dad jokes
A chemistry joke. HO HO HO
If anyone doesn’t get it, it’s a diagram of a h2o molecule (2 hydrogen atoms and 1 nitrogen atom) and the diorama of water just broke. Hope this helps! (every one should know this I knew this in grade 7)
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*banjo music stops*
Mississippi: thank god for Alabama!!
SWEET HOME ALA- oh
Uncle Cleatus down at the trailer court wishes to disagree.
Relative Dating, the Story of the Habsburgs
Only for them, it was dueling harpsichords.
A Redneck Jedi - Luke... I am your father... and your brother... and your uncle's mother's cousin.
I can hear the sad twang of a snapped banjo string
Hey, a second cousin is not really a relative
I just want to rebraid her hair.
Do I hear "Dueling Banjos"??
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Dolph Lundgren:Brains and Brawn
And looks
I'm glad Dolph is good at science stuff because he wasn't much at acting.
If Grace Jones loved him he must have been good at something.
Yeah, but he ditched a Fullbright for acting... (I hope someone else got it!) Brian May (Queen(, on the other hand went back to school after being a star and is an Astrophysicist
I bet he never got picked on for being a geek
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Saturday, March 25, 2023
WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE
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Continuing a look at the events and people in Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire.
Each two lines represent a year.
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide
Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo
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1959
children of thalidomide
From:
The Science Museum
December 19, 2019
Thalidomide changed our relationship with new medicines forever. It took five years for the connection between thalidomide taken by pregnant women and the impact on their children to be made. Not only did thalidomide change people’s lives, but it resulted in tighter drug testing and reporting of side-effects.
Thalidomide in the marketplace:
Thalidomide is a drug that was developed in the 1950s by the West German pharmaceutical company Chemie Grünenthal GmbH. It was originally intended as a sedative or tranquiliser, but was soon used for treating a wide range of other conditions, including colds, flu, nausea and morning sickness in pregnant women.
During early testing, researchers at the company found that it was virtually impossible to give test animals a lethal dose of the drug. Largely based on this, the drug was deemed to be harmless to humans. Thalidomide was licensed in July 1956 for over-the-counter sale (no doctor’s prescription was needed) in Germany.
Around the world, more and more pharmaceutical companies started to produce and market the drug under license from Chemie Grünenthal. By the mid-1950s, 14 pharmaceutical companies were marketing thalidomide in 46 countries under at least 37 different trade names.
In 1958, thalidomide was produced in the United Kingdom by The Distillers Company (Biochemicals) Ltd, under the brand names Distaval, Tensival, Valgraine and Asmaval. Their advertisement claimed that
“Distaval can be given with complete safety to pregnant women and nursing mothers without adverse effect on mother or child.”
The drug was prescribed for a range of conditions including pneumonia, colds and flu and for relieving the symptom of nausea often experienced in early pregnancy.
One country that did not approve thalidomide for marketing and distribution was the USA, where it was rejected by the Food and Drug Administration. Pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey turned down several requests from the distributing company who did not provided clinical evidence to refute reports of patients who developed nerve damage in their limbs after long-term thalidomide use. This prevented the drug thalidomide from ever being used in the United States.
Thalidomide and Pregnancy:
In the 1950s, scientists did not know that the effects of a drug could be passed through the placental barrier and harm a foetus in the womb, so the use of medications during pregnancy was not strictly controlled. And in the case of thalidomide, no tests were done involving pregnant women.
As the drug was traded under so many different names in 49 countries, it took five years for the connection between thalidomide taken by pregnant women and the impact on their children to be made. A UK Government warning was not issued until May 1962.
One reason why researchers and doctors were slow to make this connection was due to the wide range of changes to foetal development. Limbs, internal organs including the brain, eyesight and hearing could all be affected.
Later, they found that the impact on development was linked to when during pregnancy the drug was taken, and effects only occurred between 20 and 37 days after conception. After that, thalidomide had no effect on the foetus.
Another reason why it took so long to establish the link to thalidomide was that some of the damage caused by the drug was very similar to certain genetic conditions that affect the upper or lower limbs.
Thalidomide Scandal:
The first time the link between thalidomide and its impact on development was made public was in a letter published in The Lancet from an Australian doctor William McBride, in 1961.
The drug was formally withdrawn by Chemie Grünenthal on 26 November 1961 and a few days later, on 2 December 1961, the UK distributors followed suit. However, it remained in many medicine cabinets under many different names.
In the few short years that thalidomide was available, it's estimated that over 10,000 babies were affected by the drug worldwide. Around half died within months of being born. The thalidomide babies who survived and their families live with the effects of the drug.
The Thalidomide Society was formed in 1962 by the parents of children affected by the drug thalidomide. The original aim of the Society was to provide mutual support and a social network as well as to seek compensation.
In 1968 Chemie Grünenthal was brought to trial in Germany. The company settled the case out of court and arrangements were made to compensate German victims. No one was found guilty of any crimes.
The same year, the British licensee, the Distillers Company, also reached a compensation settlement with the UK victims of the drug. In the UK, payments from Distillers, as well as government compensation, were administered by the Thalidomide Trust.
In 1972, a highly publicised campaign led by the Sunday Times newspaper helped to secure a further settlement for children affected by thalidomide in the UK.
The Consequences of Thalidomide
Thalidomide forced governments and medical authorities to review their pharmaceutical licencing policies. As a result, changes were made to the way drugs were marketed, tested and approved both in the UK and across the world.
One key change was that drugs intended for human use could no longer be approved purely on the basis of animal testing. And drug trials for substances marketed to pregnant women also had to provide evidence that they were safe for use in pregnancy.
The easy, over-the-counter access to thalidomide prompted many countries to improve their classification and control of medicines. In the UK the 1968 Medicines Act, passed as a result of the thalidomide scandal, made distinctions between prescription drugs, drugs only available in pharmacies and drugs available for general sale.
The Yellow Card Scheme was set up for doctors to share previously unknown side effects of medications they prescribed. The Scheme has now widened so anyone can report a side effect.
In the UK thalidomide is only prescribed by a doctor under strict controls. Women taking thalidomide are required to use two forms of birth control and regular pregnancy tests. Men are required to use contraception when taking thalidomide. People who are prescribed thalidomide undergo counselling and are talked through the risks.
Use of Thalidomide today:
This was not the end of the thalidomide story. In 1964 a leprosy patient at Jerusalem’s Hadassah University Hospital was given thalidomide when other tranquilisers and painkillers could not help him. His doctor, Jacob Sheskin, noticed the drug had an effect on the patient’s leprosy symptoms.
Within three days the leprosy had gone and skin lesions healed. When the patient stopped taking the thalidomide the leprosy returned. The drug seemed to be able to suppress the disease, although it was not a cure.
As a result, the World Health Organisation (WHO) ran a clinical trial on the use of thalidomide for leprosy in 1967. And after more positive results, thalidomide was used as a treatment for leprosy in many countries.
More recently, it has been used successfully to control some AIDS-related conditions, and as a targeted cancer drug for treating cancers such as multiple myeloma.
But the renewed use of thalidomide remains controversial because of its past history.
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Some additional items:
Thalidomide and Australia:
Worldwide, more than 10,000 children are estimated to have been born with birth defects because of thalidomide use, with an estimated 40% of these children dying within a year- external site. Thalidomide survivors continue to live with the impacts of the drug today.
At the time, Australia did not have a system for evaluating the safety of medicines before they were permitted on the market. Although thalidomide was ultimately removed from the market, this was only after many pregnant women in Australia had already taken the medicine.
The thalidomide tragedy demonstrated to Australians that medicines and other therapeutic goods need to be evaluated for safety and efficacy (that the medicine does what it says it will). A series of regulatory changes culminated in the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989, which established the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) as Australia’s national regulator of medicines and medical devices.
In 2014 a judge formally approved an $89 million settlement for Australians and New Zealanders living with severe physical deformities because their mothers used the controversial drug thalidomide during pregnancy.
Supreme Court Justice David Beach described the settlement as ‘‘more than fair’’.
Dr William McBride:
Dr William McBride (1927 – 2018) published a letter in The Lancet, in December 1961, noting a large number of birth defects in children of patients who were prescribed thalidomide, after a midwife named Sister Pat Sparrow first suspected the drug was causing birth defects in the babies of patients under his care at Crown Street Women's Hospital in Sydney.
McBride was awarded a medal and prize money by L'Institut de la Vie, a prestigious French institute, in connection with his discovery, in 1971. Using the prize money, he established Foundation 41, a Sydney-based medical research foundation concerned with the causes of birth defects. Working with P H Huang, he proposed that thalidomide caused malformations by interacting with the DNA of the dividing embryonic cells. This finding stimulated their experimentation, which showed that thalidomide may inhibit cell division in rapidly dividing cells of malignant tumours. This work was published in the journal "Pharmacology and Toxicology" in 1999 and has been rated in the top ten of the most important Australian medical discoveries
McBride's involvement in the Debendox case is less illustrious. In 1981, he published a paper indicating that the drug Debendox (marketed in the US as Bendectin) caused birth defects. His co-authors noted that the published paper contained manipulated data and protested but their voices went unheard. Multiple lawsuits were filed by patients, and McBride was a willing witness for the claimants. Eventually, the case was investigated and, as a result, McBride was struck off the Australian medical register in 1993 for deliberately falsifying data. An inquiry determined "we are forced to conclude that McBride did publish statements which he either knew were untrue or which he did not genuinely believe to be true, and in that respect was guilty of scientific fraud." He was reinstated to the medical register in 1998.
Relevance to 1959:
Thalidomide went on the market in 1957. Doctors initially observed nerve damage in adults, followed by an increase in deformities in children from 1959 onward. The cases became increasingly frequent.
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Friday, March 24, 2023
SOME FACTLETS
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There is an Instagram website called Ask Me Knowledge which gathers the best fun, interesting and unexpected facts about the world. Visit it by clicking on:
Bored Panda posted some items from that site, see them at:
Some selected examples:
Thursday, March 23, 2023
FUNNY FRIDAY
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Some items that will hopefully tickle your funnybones, readers . . .
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SOME HUMOUR:
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An Australian Army Recruit sends home a letter...
Dear Ma & Pa,
I am well. Hope youse are too. Tell me big brothers Doug and Phil that the Army is better than workin’ on the farm - tell them to get in quick smart before the jobs are all gone! I wuz a bit slow in settling down at first, because ya don’t hafta get outta bed until 6 am. But I like sleeping in now, cuz all ya gotta do before brekky is make ya bed and shine ya boots and clean ya uniform. No cows to milk, no calves to feed, no feed to stack - nothin’!! Ya haz gotta shower though, but its not so bad, coz there’s lotsa hot water and even a light to see what ya doing!
At brekky ya get cereal, fruit and eggs but there’s no kangaroo steaks or possum stew like wot Mum makes. You don’t get fed again until noon and by that time all the city boys are dead because we’ve been on a ’route march’ - geez its only just like walking to the windmill in the back paddock!!
This one will kill me brothers Doug and Phil with laughter. I keep getting medals for shootin’ - dunno why. The bullseye is as big as a possum’s bum and it don’t move and it’s not firing back at ya like the Johnsons did when our big scrubber bull got into their prize cows before the Ekka last year! All ya gotta do is make yourself comfortable and hit the target! You don’t even load your own cartridges, they comes in lil' boxes, and ya don’t have to steady yourself against the rollbar of the roo shooting truck when you reload!
Sometimes ya gotta wrestle with the city boys and I gotta be real careful coz they break easy - it’s not like fighting with Doug and Phil and Jack and Boori and Steve and Muzza all at once like we do at home after the muster.
Turns out I’m not a bad boxer either and it looks like I’m the best the platoon’s got, and I’ve only been beaten by this one bloke from the Engineers - he’s 6 foot 5 and 15 stone and three pick handles across the shoulders and as ya know I’m only 5 foot 7 and eight stone wringin’ wet, but I fought him till the other blokes carried me off to the boozer.
I can’t complain about the Army - tell the boys to get in quick before word gets around how good it is.
Your loving daughter,
Patricia
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A first grader is working on his math homework
While working, he says “1 plus 1, the son of a bitch is 2. 2 plus 2, the son of a bitch is 4”.
His mom hears him an in shock, she cries “what did you just say?” The boy replies “this is what the teacher says during arithmetic: 4 plus 4, the son of a bitch is 8.” His mother freaked “okay, I’m going to school with you tomorrow so I can sit in during arithmetic!”
Sure enough, the next day the boys mother joined him in school. During arithmetic, the teacher said “2 plus 2, the sum of which is 4”
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Clark Kent was lying in his death bed with his wife Lois Lane beside him.
After some time, Lois said “Darling, I have to confess something. Years ago, I had an affair with Superman. It was only one night, but I’ve regretted it ever since. I hope you can forgive me.”
“You don’t need to worry about that because,” Clark said as he took off his glasses, “I am Superman! Even if you didn’t know it was me, in my eyes you were always faithful.”
“Oh thank God!” said Lois. “ I can’t tell you what a weight that is off my chest.”
“Glad we cleared that up,” said Clark.
“So I guess this means you were Batman too.”
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An Asian man goes to rent a car, and the clerk sees the man's name is Herschel Leibowitz
The clerk asks him how an Asian man like himself got the name Herschel Leibowitz. He responds in a heavy accent "When I was going through immigration, we were in a line in the area where we give our names. The name of the man in front of me was Herschel Leibowitz. When they call for me to ask me what my name is, I said "Sam Ting"
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As I began to panic, I became increasingly warmer and very thirsty.
With no access to water, I knew that I had no choice but to do what Bear Grylls would do in this situation and drink my own urine.
It tasted better than I thought it would and to be honest, it really did refresh me.
Although I did get some funny looks from the others who had been stuck in the lift with me for the last 20 minutes.
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I made dinner for my new girlfriend last night.
After the meal I said, "Those chips that you've just eaten actually came from my garden this morning."
"Wow!" she smiled, "I didn't know that you grew potatoes?"
I said, "I don't, some fucker must've thrown them over the fence."
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LAW & LAWYERS
A lawyer woke up in the hospital after surgery
He asked, “Why are all the blinds drawn in here?” The nurse answered, “There’s a fire across the street and we didn’t want you to think the operation had been a failure.”
(On the other hand, he might have been alone looking at green fields with the sun on his face and imagined he was in Elysium).
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LIMERICK OF THE WEEK:
(The place in the first line of the following limerick is pronounced Tottnum in best English, but for the purpose of this limerick it can be pronounced Tottenum)
There was a young lady from Tottenham,
Her manners - she'd simply forgotten 'em.
During tea at the vicar's
She ripped off her knickers
Because she was feeling too hot in 'em.
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RELIGION SPOT:
Guy goes to the doctor for a checkup and gets bad news. "You've got a rare disease and you've only got 6 months to live" he is told.
The patient is incredulous and tells the doctor he's going to get a second opinion.
He finds another doctor a few days later and after a battery of tests, this doctor gives him the same bad news. Patient is in shock and asks if there's anything he should do.
The doctor pauses a moment and says, "Can I give you some non- medical advice?"
"Sure, anything, Doc. I'm desperate! "
"Are you religious? the doctor asks.
"Not at all," says the patient.
"Well," says the doctor, "I encourage you to join the Mormon church. Go to every service, get involved with every group and small organization you can and completely immerse yourself into that religion. I mean, EVERY aspect of it you can."
The patient perks up and is feeling hopeful. "Will that extend my life?!"
"No," says the doctor, "But it'll be the longest fucking 6 months you've ever had."
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CORN CORNER:
The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.
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What do a tick and the Eiffel Tower have in common?
They're both Paris sites.
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I've been searching for an anagram of "tired" all day.
Oh well, I tried.
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Why are the pyramids in Egypt?
Because they are too big to transport to British museums
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023
OLDEST LIVING CELEBRITIES, PART 2
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Mel Brooks
Age: 96
One of the most beloved filmmakers and directors of the 20th century - though he’s still writing and acting at the age of 96 - Mel Brooks was responsible for classic comedies such as The Producers (1967), Blazing Saddles (1974) and Young Frankenstein (1974).
Across his illustrious career, Mel Brooks has won an Academy Award for writing The Producers, and has also won multiple Emmy, Grammy and Tony Awards. Brooks was married to American actress Anne Bancroft from 1964 until she passed away in 2005 at the age of 73.
Brooks created his own production company - Brooksfilms - as he looked to move into more serious movies. Over the years, this company has produced hit films such as The Elephant Man (1980), To Be or Not to Be (1983) and The Fly (1986).
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Tony Bennett
Age: 96
Tony Bennett made a name for himself using his smooth, soulful voice, with which he sang jazz and big band standards.
Born in New York, Bennett served in the military during World War II, before starting his performing career in the 1950s. He went on to score hits for decades, with his best-remembered being the ballad “I Left my Heart in San Francisco”.
Following a career lull around the turn of the millennium, Bennett enjoyed a late resurgence, singing alongside other artists. Collaborating with Lady Gaga, he released Cheek to Cheek in 2014, which reached number one in the US and made Bennett the oldest person to have topped the album charts.
Sadly, Bennett has now retired from performing, to focus on his health following an Alzheimer's diagnosis. However, he went out in style, releasing his final record at 95 and securing a Guinness World Record as the oldest person to release an album of all new material.
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Bob Newhart
Age: 93
Best known for his deadpan style of delivery, Bob Newhart began as a standup comic before transitioning into the world of television. With a mild-mannered persona and a unique blend of observational humour and understated satire, Newhart has starred in numerous hit shows, including The Bob Newhart Show (1972-1978) and Newhart (1982-1990).
Having served during the Korean War, Newhart was discharged in 1954 and rose to prominence in 1960, when his album of comedic monologues - The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart became a smash hit and reached number one on the Billboard pop album chart. To this day, it remains the 20th best-selling comedy album of all time.
My favourite Bob Newhart quote:
“I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.”
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Tippi Hedren
Age: 93
Born in 1930, Tippi Hedren’s modelling career took her from New York to Los Angeles. It was her appearance in a TV commercial that led acclaimed director Alfred Hitchcock to give her a leading role in the hit movie The Birds (1963). This performance won Hedren a Golden Globe Award - for New Star of the Year.
Over the years, Hedren has appeared in a variety of other successful films, including Marine (1964) and Roar (1981). In total, Hedren has over 80 film and television credits to her name.
She is the mother of Melanie Griffith.
In the early 1970s, Hedren founded the Shambala Preserve in California. This sanctuary for rescued exotic cats spans 80 acres and has provided a safe haven for numerous lions and tigers over the years.
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Buzz Aldrin
Age: 93
Buzz Aldrin soared into the public limelight on July 16th, 1969, when he and the rest of the Apollo 11 crew were launched into space. This launch was televised in 33 countries and had roughly 25 million viewers in the USA alone.
Three days later, Aldrin became only the second person to walk on the moon, with Neil Armstrong becoming the first just moments earlier.
Prior to Apollo 11, Aldrin was a distinguished air force pilot. He flew 66 combat missions during the Korean War, including flying an F-86 aircraft as part of the 51st Fighter Wing in Seoul.
Since leaving NASA, Aldrin has continued to campaign for further space exploration. He even teamed up with Snoop Dogg, Soulja Boy and others to create the rap song “Rocket Experience” in an attempt to further this cause.
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Gene Hackman
Known for a range of charismatic and heartfelt performances across several genres, Gene Hackman remained one of the world’s most popular actors for several decades, before retiring as an actor in 2004.
Across a remarkable big-screen career, Hackman won two Academy Awards, four Golden Globes and several other noteworthy awards. His Academy Awards came for playing Jimmy Doyle in The French Connection (1971) - Best Actor - and Bill Daggett in Clint Eastwood’s Western film Unforgiven (1992) - Best Supporting Actor.
Before getting into acting, Hackman spent time trying to find a meaningful career. He dropped out of school at 16, before lying about his age so he could enlist in the Marines. During this time, Hackman was trained as a radio operator and ended up working as a DJ in China.
Hackman also has a keen interest in car races and even competed in the Sports Car Club of America races in the late 1970s, driving an open-wheeled Formula Ford.
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Clint Eastwood
Age: 92
Clint Eastwood is an American actor and director whose legendary career spans several decades. He achieved worldwide recognition for portraying The Man with No Name across three spaghetti westerns: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).
Eastwood began directing movies in the early 1970s, including High Plains Drifter (1973) and The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). In each of these films, he also played the lead role. Eastwood’s list of acting and directorial credits is as impressive as it is long. He most recently directed and starred in Cry Macho (2021) at the age of 90.
Eastwood has also had a long-standing association with politics, having won the election to become the mayor of Carmel-by-Sea, California in 1986.
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Barbara Eden
Age: 91
Barbara Eden was born in Tucson, Arizona. She would later move to San Francisco, and it was here she developed into a teenage pop singer and cheerleader.
Having made her big-screen debut all the way back in 1956, Eden truly hit it big in 1965, when she starred alongside Larry Hagman in the popular I Dream of Jeannie TV sitcom for five years.
Across a career covering more than five decades, Eden has appeared in 21 movies and over 50 TV shows. These films and shows include working alongside some of the major Hollywood production houses like Tristar, Columbia and Twentieth Century Fox.
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