Notable death

@Great-Big-Stees said
Is it time for a female Pope or that that waaaaay too progressive?🤔

@Very-Rusty said
That will probably happen first! 😉

Hopefully people will soon tire of the guy in the WH ripping everything apart.

-VR

@Torunn said
A very sharp, courageous woman might choose that job - but being surrounded by numerous incomprehensibly silly men... I don't know.

@Very-Rusty said
One tried, if you think back to the vote leading up to Trump's return. We know how that is turning out, just waiting for the end result. Appears Canada will not be the 51rst State after all. 🙂

-VR

@Torunn said
We just broke rule no 1 in this thread, the opening post. Back to the topic.

@Great-Big-Stees said
Is it time for a female Pope or that that waaaaay too progressive?🤔

5/8/25
sadness pervades as redhotpawn forum decorum died even as folks attempted to resuscitate the long moribund idea

@rookie54 said
5/8/25
sadness pervades as redhotpawn forum decorum died even as folks attempted to resuscitate the long moribund idea

Yesterday Margot Friedländer, a very notable witness of the Holocaust died aged 103.

Bob Cowper, Australian cricketer, 84.

The highlight of his Test career was a stunning innings of 307 against England at the MCG during the 1965/66 Ashes series.

Johnny Rodriguez, whose 1970s country hits topped charts, dies at 73

https://apnews.com/article/johnny-rodriguez-country-music-dies-a1afacf53548247e7aa3e02762479945

Manfred Tauchen

probably not known to non-German speaking but a voice of my youth:

YouTube

Kurt Jungwirth fromer president of the Austrian Chess Association, the European Chess Union and Vicepresident of FIDE died aged 95.

"Norm!!!!" cries God as George Wendt makes his way through the pearly gates.

Sebastião Salgado, Brazilian photographer and environmental activist.
He was featured in Wim Wender's Das Salz der Erde