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Rob Ford auctions off memorabilia from his time as mayor: http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/03/04/rob-ford-richer-after-auction-but-celebrity-bounce-makes-his-memorabilia-a-poor-investment-experts/ Experts say they are a bad investment. More remarkably, he's apparently the second-most "recognizable" foreign politician to U.S. citizens, after Vladimir Putin. A whopping 10% of the sales will go to cancer research funding. The rest is for hookers and blow.

"This next question is solely for the Tub of Lard..."

You are in error; Time did it eight hours earlier. http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2384&page=17#entry221842

Tell you what, I will buy the round of drinks if you can use that edit button to edit yourself off of the fucking forum.

Henry McCullough, who played with loads of bands - highest profile probs with Paul McCartney and Wings - continues to be very unwell and living on his state pension and little else. A worthy cause, frankly, and there's a star-studded benefit gig 17th March at the Half Moon in Putney.

Did Sir Creep use the word arse?

Sorry but how does one unsuccessfully shoot themselves in the head? Either they hit the target or they didn't. SC He shot himself in the head but didn't inflict a fatal wound. It's fairly simple to deduce. that's what he meant but didn't say On a point of pedantry he was successful in shooting himself in the head. I have to go with SC on this one. Did I just say that?

Now dead at 28. He had lung cancer... http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/lifestyle/03/04/15/jamichs-jam-sebastian-dies-28 My "6 days" thingy was unfortunately prophetic SC

'Tis old timers that have heard it , I cannot say I have heard it in context outside of the hammer but maybe it is a localised thing now or a yoof revitalisation?

Sorry but how does one unsuccessfully shoot themselves in the head? Either they hit the target or they didn't. SC Maybe he got the wrong head

In one of her few dealings with journalists, she tells one of them to "go away" in a letter: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/05/harper-lee-journalist-go-away-to-kill-a-mockingbird-sequel-go-set-a-watchman

Good change from the usual Room 101 stuff... It was probably intended (semi-consciously) to make people feel uncomfortable. It's definitely an internet-era coined word, coined by someone who batters their own about 50 times a day..... or did when he invented it. I'd be amazed if there's any record of it before 2000....... or even 2005 for that matter. There's many reasons why it makes you feel so grossed out but I don't wanna go into them, maybe someone else who does feel like being gross and is also thinking the same as me about it, will do so.

Can I just throw the term 'peen' in Room 101? It has neither the strength of the word 'cock' nor the accuracy of 'penis', and it makes me heave a little every time I read/hear it. Thank you.

I'm not very good at PR myself, but I suggest when you make a decision that allows the likes of Nick Clegg and George Galloway to make political points against you, you've kind of fucked up.

Coincidentally, today's also the 120th anniversary of the death of Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet

He failed his saving throw. Gary is part of the reason I am here. Only one person at my work had heard of him.

Did Gerald Sim die last December or was it an erogenous report? We've discussed this in the DDP thread, I'm 100% sure he's dead but this hasn't been picked up by the press for whatever reason. Possibly when Sheila Sim carks it the papers will find out he's also kaput. Gerald Sim Obituary, finally. Date of death 11 December 2014.

Bobbi Kristina Brown is on life support desperately fighting for her young life while her mercenary family use the opportunity to film a reality TV show, give interviews, make fools of themselves on social media and generally behave like vile famewhores. It seems the latest media circus for the Brown family is really just more of a side show. Rumors had been swirling that some of Bobby Brown’s family members would be filming a reality show that included Bobbi Kristina Brown’s fight for her life Seriously, next to them we have the moral high ground!

^If you were a defunct record label you'd be TMI.

Then if necessary you can go on like the 17 year old who had reduction surgery. "When flaccid, it measured almost seven inches in length and had a circumference of 10 inches - around the size of a grapefruit."

Oh, so does that mean I can't list Hayley Mills, Suzi Quatro and Debbie Harry as my ex-girlfriends? I'll never forget the words Suzi said to me on the phone the last time I spoke to her. Which was "Who are you"? and "How did you get my number"?

It's obvious: the contestants from other planetary systems can't afford the trip. There are rumours that an inhabitant of Gliese 876 d, a race of shapeshifters, did actually take part in the 2006 Miss Universe contest, posing as Miss Ethiopia. He didn't impress the jury.

The rom-com surely could be a Shallow Hal stylee job in which some slacker hell-bent on a clean sweep in the Rotten Dead Pool nails an early lead with a lucky snagging of aged celebs and a few who die in random accidents, at which point the only living person on his team is a Z-list reality TV bimbo down on her luck so far that she thinks she's in when he takes her out for coffee. A series of hilarious slapstick gags ensue as well-meaning passers by (played in cameo roles by well known faces) intervene to save her as his carefully laid plans to kill her in an apparent accident are thwarted. In the inevitable clinches and outbursts of crying that follow the near-death scrapes our anti-hero gradually develops genuine affection for the lady and the whole thing ends in the kind of mush-fest that puts the rom into the com, a la the final half hour of Three and Out, right? Don't get me wrong, I'm loving the Shatner idea above but my idea could cast anyone within reason and be filmed in any country harbouring celebrities and obitable talent.

I feel that we can develop Deathlisting in to a more mainstream international phenomena and to do this we must break the negative connections with films like The Dead Pool and so I propose a series of stealth assaults through mainstream media. Firstly and episode of The Big Bang Theory based around a Deathlist theme: The Terminal Celebrity Probability Sheldon is introduced to the concept of a Deathlist being run in the faculty and despite reservations agrees to participate but being Sheldon he has to approach the subject with a scientific rigour. He comes to the conclusion that his best chance of winning the game is to select William Shatner (originally I thought Nimoy but that might not be wise in the current circumstances). Naturally this will involve some moral wrangling as he is such a fan of Shatner's work. Then towards the end of the episode he reads a report of William Shatner's death and gloats accordingly but the report turns out to be a hoax. This would be even better if William Shatner actually appeared in the episode. I am sure this would appeal to at least a section of the fans of the show. If anyone likes this I may decide to share the idea for the Deathlist rom-com.

Facing charges but out on bail. The Judge has stated that it is utterly pointless confiscating his passport as he is so rich he could leave the country if he wanted to anyway. Hmmm, rich, newly single - anybody got his number?