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If he emerges from his coffin at the wake that would be kinder surprise!

There's going to be a cracking spread at his funeral! I do hope the Ambassedor goes...

There's going to be a cracking spread at his funeral!

The man's practically at death's door to start with. If two chancers left him alive what kind of "thugs" are they? I was half expecting the intruders to be deathlisters after a potential first hit. An interesting thought: if Gabor outlives Anhalt for some reason, who becomes her caregiver? Paris Hilton? Give her something to do for a few days. That's reality tv gold, that is! Bring it on.

You really like the old-time film actors don't ya? I agree it looks twatty btw. It's probably just ignorance.... which may be the father of heartlessness.... or summat. Who's the mother then... Oprah Winfrey or Trisha?

2/50 For fuck's sake, man. Whatever happened to "rest in peace"? Your "x/50" posts everytime you get a hit seem so heartless. Jourdan and Scott were major stars, WE ARE LOSING ALL OUR MAJOR STARS AND SOON THEY'LL ALL BE GONE.........and they won't return.

Oh, also. There's this new artist Bea Miller who is only 16 but I have a feeling she'll become a drug addict and die at 27. Just remember: If it does happen, I called it 11 years before!

I.E. is always to be avoided.. IE6 is a particular hate icon for web 'artistes'. IE11 is ok, but it's a bit 'locking the door after the horse has bolted'.

Chinese is indeed a smart choice, and an admirably difficult one. Learning a tonal language isn't easy when your first language doesn't know that. Learning some 2500 common characters to get basic literacy is quite a job. As the joke goes: learning Chinese is much easier when you know Chinese. A colleague of mine of Chinese ancestry (but Dutch upbringing) speaks Chinese. Last year he paid a visit to China and soon experienced that what he learned from his parents didn't work in Peking. He can't read Chinese, so he often used English. I suppose your nephew learns Mandarin. Apart from the UK (and perhaps Ireland), things have changed in Europe. Even in large nations with a tradition of language chauvinism, say France, Germany, Italy or Spain, the majority know one or more foreign languages at a useful level. In the 90s I went to France for business a few times, and without some French one was fucked there and then. In 2013 I was in Paris and Normandy for hols and was pleasantly surprised by the number of locals whose English was better than my French. The Americans I meet are not average yankee Joes and Janes, after all they moved here at some time. Their language skills vary. I met a 23-ish student (at some business school) from Lansing, Michigan, in the pub last year. She'd learned German in high school and had been learning Dutch by trial and error for a month. She asked me what I was reading (a novel by W.F. Hermans) and she read out loud a passage -in an unusual accent- and translated it almost perfectly. I was much impressed. Of course the same pub is full of Americans, Australians and New Zealanders who don't even try. regards, Hein Of course old Zealanders don't have to.

sorry guys - falling down on the job - 30 basic and 12 bonus points to Book for Richard von Weizsaker and 25 points to DDT for Kim Fowley (never heard of him!) still, and he is... 6th Leader Board - 2015 1st - 70 points - Estuarian Float 2nd - 50 points - time 3rd - 49 points - CaptainChorizo 4th - 42 points - Book 5th - 40 points - Maryport =6th - 25 points - Tick Tock =6th - 25 points - DDT 8th - 7.007 points - LFN, you asked for it... =9th - 0 points - Everyone else

I love you for posting that, but it's not what the doctor ordered. The DDP celebrity rules state: It seems those bloody Brits can't be arsed to copy and paste it to a DDP approved news site. Oh well, 10 more months till 2016.regards,Hein Yeah, I understood that; I just wanted to satisfy Sir Creep's request (I meant to quote his previous post...), as he just wanted something besides that link confirming the death (in English). I presumed that he wanted it for their US-based competition and not the local DDP, but I may have been wrong.

Ah the ever thorny, stay off these topics at dinner parties, subjects. Politics, sex, religion. FWIW, believe what you like, but for gawds sakes allow everyone else to do the same, the trouble starts when you expect others to believe as you do, or worse, try to compel them to do so. Mind you with everyone gassing each other I 'believe' I shall go into the noxious substance manufacturing sector, bound to be a buck or two to be made.

Ex-Men: Oranges - Former Protestant leaders.

No you weren't.

50 years ago today, jazz and big band singer Nat King Cole died from lung cancer aged 45.

Yeah you're right if there's anyone out there twisted enough to derive entertainment from British TV, it's Brady. Also, since he's contacting Channel 5 can we safely say he's not seeking an audience any more?

Why of all places to write to, would he choose Channel 5 news?

Fresh supply. regards, Hein

The man's practically at death's door to start with. If two chancers left him alive what kind of "thugs" are they? I was half expecting the intruders to be deathlisters after a potential first hit. An interesting thought: if Gabor outlives Anhalt for some reason, who becomes her caregiver? Haven't we had enough of those jokes for a while? And besides some pea-brained donut-chomper out there who's just finished watching "The Dead Pool" will probably think you are being serious one day....

The man's practically at death's door to start with. If two chancers left him alive what kind of "thugs" are they?

Same here, I pick up a few words here and there, but I think it's much harder to understand Danish when hearing it as opposed to reading it. I think of German when I hear it, it has the same type of vocal/intonation "style". Norwegian is much easier for me. You can think of the three languages as a spectrum where Swedish and Danish are at both ends with Norwegian being in the middle. So, a person from Norway has it easier to understand both other languages than we and the Danes do. If only we Brits were to put so much emphasis on foreign languages as your guys' countries do. I salute you gentlemen. Thanks, the main credit is due to the education system here. In 3rd grade, it's mandatory to learn English. In 6th grade, every student gets to pick one foreign language. Normally it's either French, Spanish or German, but in my case, I couldn't pick the one I wanted: Spanish. Why? Well, the teacher quit and they couldn't find a new one. In the end, I went with French in the hopes of being served French cuisine every now and then during class; You know, stuff like baguette and French fries.

Late Again Today - musical collaborators with Jeff Lynne

Yes, lets all guess which of the 50 has a birthday during the year. Goodness, for the 28th time in a row, everyone on the list has a birthday. Full marks. What if someone was born on the 29th of February? They may not have a real birthday this year. (Of course, for legal purposes, their birthday would be considered to be 1 March or 28 February, depending on the country they live in, and they could still celebrate their birthdays on either, but it's not the same as a real bd.) Granted, the likelihood of this is quite tiny. We only have 1 such day in every four days (except some "double zero" years), so approximately 1 out of 1461 (365*3 + 366) candidates should be a leapling. The probability of a random list of 50 names containing a leap year baby should be around 1-(1460/1461)^50 or 3.37 per cent, but yeah, most of the time all of them should have a birthday.

A fair summary of her film career I'd say.