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No, thats in the North of England I think, Carlisle wasn't it?

Guess he's flying through the air now on his way to collect his harp. not flying. I know, but he'd hardly be walking to heaven (I know, I know probably no such place,) so that's why I put in flying. Why not, it's only three steps, isn't it?

Or he makes his own Kendal Mint cake.

An anagram of Osama Bin Laden is "Lob da man in sea"

MonoClinic, what you say is quite right. Somebody here will, undoubtedly know, but just how accessible was the Satanic Verses in predominately Halibut societies? Did the book actually get translated into Arabic and the like? How did all these hoardes of protesters actually know what was in it to become so "offended?" Radicalism and bullshit go hand in hand, if you want to force your ideology on everybody shout, threaten and drive flaming 4x4s into Airports......... MPFC, I am in awe of you fella. To get through one of his books would be akin to piercing ones testicles with kniting needles to get through two and a half is torture that I assumed no human could withstand. I think the Salmon Rusty is as safe as anybody else under threat of these bastards. Why spend their time taking one scalp, all be it a famous one, when the can take out hundreds in one go. Mr Salmon is not cost effective. Regards LFN

I don't think there's any guarantee he'll pull through. Book wise Satanic Verses is his usual intense, symbol-laden po-faced trawl of post-colonial themeology. Hugely over-rated as an author IMHO his strengths are the ambition and complexity of his works, his weakness that he writes stuff so complex that it often fails to convince readers and leads to many of his books being abandoned partially read. I've read two and half, the half being the infamous Satanic Verses. Midnights Children was pretty good, The Ground Beneath Her Feet - a complex novel about a woman and a rock star - was utter pretentious shite IMHO, couldn't believe in any of the characters. I might be Cumbrian and shallow, but Rushdie's respectable rather than massive sales also tell a story. It takes one dedicated suicide bomber. If they can't get it together to bring the tube network to a halt they could get him. Obviously it's a long shot, but there's more willingness amongst militants to do this stuff now and more militants in major western cities. Be interesting to see how many of us think about higher points for picks below pensionable age if he's still enjoying any kind of public life on December 31st.