Dr Hackenslash

John William Finn - 97-year-old Pearl Harbor hero (oldest living Medal of Honour receipient). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Finn Would he get an obit?

So Ian Brady hasn't reoffended since being locked up. Great argument. Last time I checked, it was quite hard to arrange for your dog to bugger children inside prison...

Nip over the border and watch Celtic next season

You know what, you might just have stumbled on the one thing that unites us all here on the DL. How appropriate to do so in the thread that - near enough - counts as our common room. Oh dear, remember what happened last time you referred to this thread as our common room Anyway, hope this isn't our Richard: Sadly I haven't got the rest of the story yet as I'm too tight to subscribe.

I hope you are not suggesting that rogue journos would go and help themselves to his goodies

Make sure you type it into the keywords box on the right, not member name on the left...

Identical twin no less... Just checked an old electoral roll and they lived together, so it could well add to his problems. Didn't realise that, but as I said, I wouldn't consider him all that likely for 2007.

Didn't realise Sir Alec was 88! But I can't find any suggestion of ill health. The pic is from 2001:

Thanks for that... Having thought more clearly about Dustin Diamond's position since originally suggesting him, I've perhaps realised he is something of a long-shot. However, in a link, Mario Lopez, who played AC Slater in Saved By the Bell opposite Diamond's Screech, has been seen with Britney Spears. Now she doesn't seem too stable, especially with the K-Fed sex-tape rumours. *** Ps. Was the post by "Travis" really that shocking?

Oi, even when we respect them we can still partake in discussion of the inevitable catching up with them. Respect to 'Fluff' but - in the end - he was as human as everyone else, even the last pope. Even as human as that Bethlehem faker 2,000-odd years ago... But Fluff was obviously on his way out - if you remember that picture of Fluff with Dicky O in the Brinsworth thread a while back you could see he was falling apart. I've been wondering whether it will have any effect on the other inmates of HMP Brinsworth? And is Dicky O really ill enough to be in there?

Great phrase - I assume you deliberately used the words of the IRA following the Brighton bombing re: only having to get lucky once

No, if they had balls they could have snipered the Queen with ease - details of where she'll be are available months in advance. By relying on a bomb, they were always leaving it chance, hence terrorising, rather than actually doing. And as any former soldier will tell you, the IRA have always been better at selling crack to kids than their planning ability...

That draft-dodger Muhammed Ali would do a pretty good job as a rent-boy. All he'd need to do is put his hand down his trick's trouser and his Parkinson's would do the rest...

Can we just concentrate on Michael Flatley's impending AIDS-related death instead?

More like a bunch of proud haemorrhoids. I suppose the blood was spoilt for choice. After all, Cloughie spent a lot of time sitting in his office, drinking Martell and counting bung money from paper bags. Allegedly. No need to allege anything. He's dead and you can say what you like. For the same reason I can write that Princess Diana and Paul Hunter had a fling in 1996, with teenage Hunter considered the female of the pair, and also the taker.

I watched MATH on Paramount 2 at 12.40pm today, and I realised something. Neither Richard O'Sullivan, Sally Thomsett or Paula Wilcox can actually act. A shocking discovery, but a true one

Slight tangent, but what about the rarely-used last verse of All Things Bright and Beautiful? The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them high or lowly And ordered their estate.

You've summed it up well in your first line - South Africa isn't really a country but rather a collection of tribes, in many ways, that were shoehorned together by the Europeans. It's the same all over the continent and still causes the conflicts.

Permission to decompose, sir?

I'd support the night if all the words of the original song were still used Remember remember the fifth of November, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot, I see no reason why gunpowder and treason should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, 'twas his intent to blow up the King and the Parliament. Three score barrels of powder below, Poor old England to overthrow: By God's providence he was catch'd With a dark lantern and burning match. Holloa boys, holloa boys, make the bells ring. Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King! Hip hip hoorah! A penny loaf to feed the Pope. A farthing o' cheese to choke him. A pint of beer to rinse it down. A faggot of sticks to burn him. Burn him in a tub of tar. Burn him like a blazing star. Burn his body from his head. Then we'll say ol' Pope is dead. Hip hip hoorah! Hip hip hoorah!

Section 234 of the Danish Criminal Code (1969), reads whoever 'sells indecent pictures or objects to a person under 16 years of age' is to be punished by a fine. Section 235 (1980) has a special provision concerning the reproduction and sale of child pornography, that is, sexually explicit photographs of persons who appear to be under 15 years (the taking of such pictures was always a criminal offence). This means that, in Denmark, any kind of pornography, except child pornography, can be produced and sold, or shown in cinemas, to persons who are 16 years or older. It does not mean that there can be pornography everywhere; thus, police regulations forbid the public display of pornography, for instance in porn shop windows, or to send or hand out pornography to someone who has not asked for it.

That is probably a bit excessive. The Iran-Iraq war alone created near-on 900,000 casulties. Unless you are going on some of the outrageous figures coming out of Iraq from the medical lot that 33 per cent of the population have been killed in the past month, or whatever they are peddling at the moment

Did Herman Goering not make the same request, only to be refused and slipped a cyanide capsule?

I wasn't being sarcastic. Mandela is a murdering bastard who should never have been allowed anywhere near power. As for the great South Africa you seem to have in your head, is that the same South Africa where witch doctors tell people with HIV that they will be cured in they have sex with a virgin? And then they go and rape a four month old baby? The same country where the health minister and president still deny the link between HIV and AIDS? If that is your idea of paradise, then you are welcome to it.

When will people stop confusing the British and the English? As for Botha, yes he was widely-regarded as evil. But is Nelson Mandela really that much better? Him becoming president is comparable to Martin McGuinness leading a united Ireland. Of course, kids in schools are now taught how Mandela was a great man, etc, and they airbrush out all the things they don't want the kids to know. History lessons regarding WWII are similarly skewed - apparently, we went to stop Hitler oppressing people, including the Jews. Did we balls. But, then again, we can't say it was because of Poland because they weren't really free until a decade or so ago.