It’s one of those trick images of two vases side-by-side, perfectly SFW 
I seem to recall modelling for this
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Particularly brutal cold-weather tuck there
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Decent old-school centre forward
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Gabby Logan (nee Yorath) opened MOTD last night but after the first game she’d been replaced by Mark Chapman who explained that he’d ‘come over from the radio’ as she’d had to leave for a family emergency.
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I remember this at the time and thought it was funny and she took it well (not the death obvs)
Hans Herrmann, 97.
First Le Mans 24h winning driver for Porsche, 1950s Mercedes F1 driver until Mercedes withdrew from motor racing, and Brand Ambassador for Mercedes-Benz Heritage.
Retired from racing 1970 after winning the Le Mans 24h - he’d promised his wife he’d retire if he won.
Originally trained as a confectioner.
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Legend
Sweet.
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David Bowie died 10 years ago today.
That’s passed quickly 
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Bowie day on 6music yesterday, all very good apart from Craig Charles’ show 
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That is true every day
Never listen when he is on.
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This really surprises me.
Those 10 years have flown by.
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He’s why I rarely have 6 on nowadays - pops-up like a fucking tumour all over the place.
Mind, most BBC radio is increasingly dumbed-down, self-indulgent, enshittified gash now
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Bob Weir, 78.
Founding member of the Grateful Dead, and last year performed at their series of 60th Anniversary Concerts. Bob was 16 when he met Jerry Garcia who was playing a banjo in Palo Alto.
For some quite alternative music from Bob, have a look for ‘Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros’.
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Another name many may recognise - Erich von Däniken, 90.
Often considered controversial, he wrote ‘Chariots of the Gods’ in 1968, and is particularly well-known for his books about the extra-terrestrial origins of ancient civilizations. Many books… 60,000,000 of them, in 32 languages, which have inspired many TV shows, including the X-Files.
He was the son of a Schaffhausen clothing manufacturer, and is said to have rebelled against his father’s strict Catholicism and the priests who instructed him at boarding school by developing his own alternatives to the biblical account of the origins of life.
He was the first recipient of the “Ig Nobel” prize for literature.
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Bit of an understatement! As well as the intellectual fraud, I think he was an actual fraudster. He can fuck off to hell.
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The Wikipedia page is a wild ride! Does state he did 9 months in prison for fraud in the intro.
Also this eyebrow-raising section about his first book:
The draft of the book was turned down by several publishers. Econ Verlag (now part of Ullstein Verlag) was willing to publish the book after a complete reworking by a professional author, Utz Utermann, who used the pseudonym of Wilhelm Roggersdorf. Utermann was a former editor of the Nazi Party’s newspaper Völkischer Beobachter and had been a Nazi bestselling author.
I did like the Carl Sagan quote…
That writing as careless as Däniken’s, whose principal thesis is that our ancestors were dummies, should be so popular is a sober commentary on the credulousness and despair of our times. I also hope for the continuing popularity of books like Chariots of the Gods? in high school and college logic courses, as object lessons in sloppy thinking. I know of no recent books so riddled with logical and factual errors as the works of Däniken.
Carl Sagan, Foreword to The Space Gods Revealed
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