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Just as Barry Gibb has outlived his three younger singing siblings, Ruth Pointer has now outlived her three younger singing siblings. Anita has died. Bonnie left the group before their greatest successes. June had the power voice and sang lead on a lot of their stuff. Ruth had/has the deepest voice (she sang lead on Automatic and Neutron Dance), but Anita had the purest, prettiest voice. There's a song of theirs that I love but had never heard until I heard it played on SOLID GOLD, or some show like that. She sang the lead:

Does this count as a new hobby? The other day I was watching the 1980 porn flick Hot Truckin'. The last scene begins with Gordon Grant and Nick Rodgers sitting on the back end of an open box truck whilst a younger guy on a bicycle cruises them. As he circled, I could make out the street sign that said Westpark Dr, but couldn't make out the number. That set me off on a half-hour search for the intersection, as Westpark Dr. starts and stops in multiple places. Finally, I went back to the scene and was able to make out another street sign: Calvert St. Back then there were so many trees you couldn't even tell it was along a freeway exit ramp, as you can now: https://www.google.com/maps/place/6001+Westpark+Dr,+North+Hollywood,+CA+91606/@34.1814865,-118.397748,3a,37.5y,136.17h,76.76t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stu8_9UA4DDp6LYCK5FVCdw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x80c2967748cd2eef:0x4197690c17bbafb7!8m2!3d34.1812433!4d-118.3976149

Washington became the first state to legalize human composting in 2019. Colorado and Oregon followed suit in 2021 and Vermont and California in 2022.

Hochul legalizes ‘human composting’ for eco-friendly burials in NY https://nypost.com/2022/12/31/hochul-legalizes-human-composting-for-eco-friendly-burials-in-new-york/

They're falling to the ground from above in the Bronx. Disturbing video shows a naked man dangling by one arm from an elevated 6 train station at Westchester and Metropolitan avenues in the Bronx as onlookers give a play-by-play. “Look at this dude … Holy f–king. Homie acting a fool,” the videographer can be heard saying as he looks up at the man from a Parkchester street. The man, kicking his legs, holds on to the outside edge of the southbound tracks as a train slowly approaches, stops and then keeps going. About 30 seconds into the video, the man lets go and drops some 20 feet to the pavement. A teenager holding a basketball and walking under the station looks startled and runs by the naked man on the ground. The naked man dangled briefly from the elevated track. After the fall, the man was conscious and not obviously bleeding. The man was eventually taken to Jacobi Hospital. https://nypost.com/2022/12/31/shocking-scene-at-bronx-station-as-naked-man-falls/

Sounds like part of a very intriguing rentman ad.

I'm surprised nobody said a clean but sweaty butt and a couple of salty nuts.

Considering that Sweden never went into Covid lockdown and had a much higher death rate than neighboring countries, I'm just thrilled that these septuagenarians are still around and looking decent and that they sounded so good after 40 years.

The administrators of this site are obviously malicious sadists intent on sabotaging my (and others') fight against diabetes. Now they're throwing rainbow sprinkles at us!

She hadn't been seen in public in 5 or 6 years, so she was probably in sharp decline during that time. I wonder if anything else will be talked about on the next new episode of THE VIEW.

She ain't really performing anymore, but 77 year old Jaclyn Smith looks great whilst exercising with her hubby.

not even close

As did you.

Obviously you were spawning.

The suspected face of notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper has finally been revealed after police made a chilling discovery while trawling through old archives. While the true identity of the infamous murderer has never been discovered, the only known facial composite of the killer has now been shared. Among dozens of artifacts, the face was found etched into the handle of a wooden walking stick, which was owned by the police officer who spent years attempting to catch him. Scotland Yard Detective Frederick Abberline was removed from the case in 1889 after failing to find Jack the Ripper, who terrorized the streets of London’s East End. The chilling image is the only reported facial composite of the killer, whose identity remains a mystery more than a century later. For years, the wooden cane artifact had been stored at the Police College in Bramshill, Hampshire, UK and was feared lost when the institution was shut down in 2015. Thankfully, it was rediscovered by staff searching through memorabilia at the College of Policing’s headquarters in Ryton, West Midlands. Now Jack the Ripper’s face has gone on display to highlight advancements in police technology to recruits. A College of Policing spokesperson said two staff unearthed it when trawling through artifacts placed into storage following Bramshill’s closure. “Finding this cane was an exciting moment for us,” the college’s content creator Antony Cash said. “Jack the Ripper is one of the biggest and most infamous murder cases in our history and his crimes were significant in paving the way for modern policing and forensics as it caused police to begin experimenting with and developing new techniques as they attempted to try and solve these murders, such as crime scene preservation, profiling and photography. “This walking cane is such a fascinating artifact which represents such a historically significant time in policing. The cane was gifted to Abberline after he was taken off the case. He retired from the Metropolitan Police in 1892 after 30 years of service, and died in 1929 without ever knowing Jack the Ripper’s real identity. He looks like an actor; I just can't think of whom. https://nypost.com/2022/12/29/jack-the-ripper-only-known-facial-composite-found-in-archives/

was something else on your mind when you added the second post?

Is Lorenzo Lamas morphing into Kenny Rogers? (the dead singer, not the retired pitcher)

Hershey being sued over alleged chocolate containing heavy metals alleged chocolate? If you eat too much do you get allegedly fat?

At the play “Death of a Salesman” at the Hudson Theatre on 44th Street, an unruly ticket buyer’s shouts and erratic behavior interrupted the performance, forcing star Wendell Pierce of “The Wire” to try to reason with the heckler from the foot of the stage. “He patiently & heroically pleaded with her to leave peacefully despite her insistence that she should be carried out forcefully (she was eventually escorted out by police),” said Instagram user Rubinbooty. The producers said in a statement to The Post: “We’re grateful to the entire team at the Hudson Theatre for working together to resolve the situation and resume the performance as quickly as possible.” Others in attendance said the woman, wearing a fur coat, was acting bizarrely and disruptively throughout Act 1 of the three-hour play, bothering those around her. They added it appeared as though she and her companion were headed for the door after intermission. Instead, she decided attention must be paid — to her. Cops arrived soon after the woman began her rant and the audience applauded. “A little while later she starts screaming at the top of her lungs that she wasn’t leaving and if she couldn’t see the rest of the show neither would anyone else,” said Reddit user Toss182. The show was stopped, the house lights were brought up and, in a video of the incident posted on Twitter, 59-year-old Pierce, who plays Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s classic drama, can be seen speaking to the brazen woman who was standing in the middle of the front row. Another ticket buyer claimed the unknown audience member started demanding her money back and that Pierce suggested that the ushers give her cash to calmly end the outburst. When that didn’t work, cops arrived on the scene to enthusiastic applause, putting an end to the one-woman-show. Once the wannabe diva was removed from the theater, the unshaken Pierce began the Act 2 scene from the top. https://nypost.com/2022/12/28/a-rowdy-shouting-woman-stopped-broadways-death-of-a-salesman/ He was Meghan Markle's daddy on SUITS, you know! feel free to post entitled diva jokes below

I'm enjoying the final season of MANIFEST.

Sadly, I am VERY proficient at this hobby, having honed my skills throughout my life.

We found tickets for all of Mandy Patinkin's 2023 shows. Some are under $80 Mandy Patinkin has seven concerts on his upcoming "Being Alive" tour with pianist Adam Ben-David. We found tickets for all shows. Nooooooooooooo!!!

What you should have done is ask Santa for a new one for Xmas when you were sitting on his lap at the mall getting your picture taken.

Gov. Kristi Noem gets flamethrower as Christmas gift from staff I guess she's REALLY into toasting marshmallows!