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Louis Gosset Jnr, actoer and Oscar winner for An Officer And A Gentleman, aged 78

Carl Weathers, actor (Predator, Rocky) dead at age 76

Let us hope there is peace throughout the world. Happiness to all. Cheers, Bobj.

Henry Kissinger, 100, former US Secretary of State

https://youtu.be/YT-tFOXdwSI?si=__oJqXDAC-vGbvcv

Roger Whittacker, The Mexican Whistler, The Last Farewell, aged 87

Jimmy Buffet, singer/songwriter, aged 76.

A Kiwi and an Australian go to a pastry shop. The Kiwi whisks three cookies into his pocket with lightning speed. The baker doesn’t notice. The Kiwi says to the Australian: "You see how clever we are? You’ll never beat that!" The Australian says to the Kiwi: "Watch this, an Australian is always cleverer than a Kiwi." He says to the baker, "Give me a cookie, I can show you a magic trick!" The baker gives him the cookie which the Australian promptly eats. Then he says to the baker: "Give me another cookie for my magic trick." The baker is getting suspicious but he gives it to him. He eats this one too. Then he says again: "Give me one more cookie..." The baker is getting angry now but gives him one anyway. The Australian eats this one too. Now the baker is really mad, and he yells: "And where is your famous magic trick?" The Australian says: "Look in the Kiwi’s pocket!"

Tony Bennett, singer, at age 96.

Glenda Jackson, actress aged 87, starred with Walter Matthau in “Hopscotch”

Looks like the Mackay Area of Queensland has beaten the annual Birmingham, but only just!?! We received 27 7 inches in 6 days.... Plenty of major flooding with the rivers and bridges. This is all due to the 'small' cyclone that bounced around Darwin, the East Kimberley Region and swung east to drench the Red Centre and the Queensland tropical coast from Cooktown to Rockhampton. The cyclone, 'Ellie", drenched The East Kimberley Region...The mighty power of a small cyclone! I think it got up to category 2.

A soggy Christmas Day for us as ex tropical cyclone Ellie broke up after buffeting Darwin and then swung east., soaking most of the tropical Queensland coast.