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  1. Posted

    It should be noted there have only ever been eight Deputy Prime Ministers and six First Secretaries of State.

     

    As Wiki states, and it's not bad when it comes to Parliamentary convention:

     

    Unlike analogous offices in some other nations, a British Deputy Prime Minister, where one exists, possesses no special powers above those of his ministry and does not possess the theoretical powers of the Prime Minister in the latter's absence or illness, such as the powers to seek a dissolution of parliament, appoint peers or brief the sovereign

  3. Posted

    It's only January 2 and this thread already includes more information about Ol' Ruby than any other source on the planet...

     

    Doesn't she count as a source on this planet any more? I'll bet she could tell a few stories if them 109 year old fingers could only be made to post here.

     

    I'd rather not think about what the 110-year-old Mother of Islam can and can't do with her fingers, thank you very much :D

  4. Posted

    Cheers Hack

     

    You know so much, do you know if Peter Murphy to Gretna in the next few days is a done deal?

     

    Apparently so. Don't know that officially, but from what I've heard, yes.

  6. Posted

    So that's the equivalent of Blair and Prescott carking it in a bizarre accident involving auto-erotic activities and someone slipping cyanide in their lube and making way for the speaker of the House of Commons to run the country?

     

    Come to think of it, who is third in line to run the UK?

     

    Doesn't work like that. The Prime Minister has to be asked to form a Government by the Queen, etc.

     

    Look at when Harold MacMillan wrongly thought he was dying in the 1960s - the Queen had to ask people who she should invite and she went for Alec Douglas Home as opposed to Rab Butler, even though Home at the time had to resign his seat in the Lords and win a Commons seat (well, he didn't have to, but you know what I mean).

     

    If Blair was to cark it, Prescott would be acting Prime Minister only, and would arguably then sit as chairman of cabinet until the cabinet voted on who to recommend to the Queen who she invites to be the new Prime Minister.

     

    General Elections in many ways are merely opinion polls - the Queen doesn't legally have to ask the leader of the largest party to try and form a government, although tradition/convention states she will.

     

    If in a freak event, every MP was killed the Queen would be well within her rights to appoint an interim government, whether from the Lords or her own family, or techinically take over the reins of Government herself...

  7. Posted

    Just to add, according to Piper if the cancer had not been discovered he would have gone three to five years without knowing about it.

     

    Hmmm....

     

    Not the most likely to cark it this year then!

     

    From: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/stor...b=Entertainment

     

    ....Piper, 52, wasn't even supposed to be wrestling - he was expected to tour Quebec City, Montreal and selected southern Ontario cities by train to promote a WWE/VIA Rail partnership for Wrestlemania 23 next April in Detroit. But Piper was forced into extended ring duty at the world tag team championship at the Cyber Sunday pay-per-view event on Nov. 5.

     

    There, in a unique promotion, fans voted the popular Piper into the match with Ric Flair - he earned 46 per cent of the votes, compared to Dusty Rhodes at 35 per cent and Sergeant Slaughter at 19.

     

    That bout led him to the European gig, where he suffered the back ailment that led to the discovery of the cancer.

     

    "If the fans hadn't voted me in (at Cyber Sunday), I wouldn't have discovered this," Piper said in a telephone interview from Portland, Ore. "I would have gone three to five years and never known it. And it's in my lymph glands, so it wouldn't have taken long to go through my entire body."

     

    The cancer wasn't Piper's only problem. The surgery also revealed a damaged disc that threatened to end his career.

     

    "This doctor put me on the slab, and it turned out, I had a bone about the size of a potato chip, and about that thin," said Piper. "And it was starting to cut the nerves inside my spine."

     

    "It was just a matter of me moving too much one way or the other, and I would have been paralyzed."

     

    Piper began undergoing radiation therapy immediately ("I glow in the dark now," he joked), and because the lymphoma was caught early, doctors say his chances for recovery are excellent.

     

    "I've got a 30 per cent chance of (the radiation) not working," said Piper. "Well shoot, those are good odds to me." ....

  8. Posted

    From: http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail6375.cfm?Id=0,53551

     

    A Sioux Falls neurologist says US Senator Tim Johnson may be in for a long recovery period from brain surgery.

     

    Doctor William Rossing bases that belief on the length of time that the senator has been sedated. Prolonged sedation was used to minimize swelling after emergency surgery on Johnson for bleeding in the brain.

     

    Rossing says recovery for someone who's been sedated as long as Johnson is likely to be "significant and lengthy." That could mean the 60-year-old politician will be in recovery for months instead of weeks.

     

    Rossing says it usually takes just a few days to wean a patient from sedation. Johnson has been sedated since December 13th and is being gradually weaned.

     

    A New York University Medical Center official also says it's unusual for a patient to be sedated for more than a few days after brain surgery.

  9. Posted

    I appreciate there are other wrestlers in films, such as John Cena, Steve Austin, Kane, Rock, etc, etc, but there really is only one Hulk Hogan in terms of global recognition.

     

    Heck, there are still rumours floating about that Hulk was paid millions of dollars not to run in the 2000 US presidential election because the security services thought he would win.

     

    Obviously Hogan is not the most technical wrestler to ever live, and has never performed a drop-kick, etc, but in terms of marketability, he's number one.

     

    Seriously, if you were to ask a random person on the street to name a wrestler (or American wrestler, if not in the US) then 9/10 at least would say "Hogan".

  11. Posted

    Ah yes, Lord Lucan. He'd be worth a sh*t load of wordage on Alphonsin's system. More to the point, I've toyed with him as a DP pick myself. I'm guessing he might still be alive and those in the know might reveal all, just after he dies. In other words, no news is good news to Deadpickers (not arf).

     

    The problem with Alphonsin's system is that if the Queen dies, she'll get so many points that those that don't have her won't be able to win!

     

    And I wouldn't fancy counting the wordage on that one! :D

  13. Posted

    He's as Scottish as Star Trek's Scotty :D

     

    But, to be fair, he did headline the first few Wrestlemanias, etc, and "played" the bagpipes during Summerslam 92 at Wembley Stadium in front of 80,000-plus.

     

    Owen Hart only received a mention in the UK press because of how he died - ie entering the ring, etc - and because the WWF/E decided to carry on the Pay-Per-View (called Over the Edge, ironic as he died after falling from the rafters...).

  15. Posted

    Tony Hart - just seen his pic on the Swap Shop programme. Looked awful.

     

    Noel Edmonds said he wasn't there because "he's not in the best of health" and gave him his thoughts.

     

    Could be a good punt.

  17. Posted

    Bruno, are you - perchance - an archaeologist by profession?

     

    Because you'd never do that :)

     

    Hmm, a thread risen from the dead, thought that was my speciality. Good to see this one back and thanks for the thought provoking observations on fudge-packing cancer a couple of decades back.

     

    Speaking of thoughts, the thought of Wilfred Brambell packing anyone's fudge fair turns my guts over.

  18. Posted

    If only for the very unscientific reason of "it always happens" I'm sure another pick will either cark it on New Year's Eve or drag on until New Year's Day.

     

    I still think Castro is worth a punt...

  21. Posted

    it was ruled by a court in England that Islam is and I quote, "A viscious, wicked faith". Talk about stating the bleeding obvious governor! :lol:

    Cite your references and maybe, just maybe, someone will actually believe you.

     

    I presume he is going on the trial Nick Griffin trial...

    'Xenon II' is once again distorting the facts if he is referring to that trial. Just to give some background, Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party, was on trial accused of using threatening, abusive or insulting words intended to stir up racial hatred.

     

    In that trial, he told the jury that he believed Islam was a wicked, vicious faith, but the court never ruled it to be so.

     

    Without getting involved in the semantics of the matter, Griffin was repeating what he had said during a speech prior to the trial.

     

    He was found not guilty of two charges of using words or behaviour intended to stir up racial hatred in that speech - by a jury.

     

    So it could be argued that the jury decided that the words "A vicious, wicked faith" when applied to Islam are acceptable, that was their thought.

     

    What really should have been said was:

     

    "...it was ruled by a court in England calling Islam a "A vicious, wicked faith" does not constitute behaviour intended to stir up racial hatred ."

     

    Which would be correct.

  24. Posted

    Do you know much about this Gretna will play in Carlisle rumour?

     

    I honestly can't see it happening. For many reasons. But to quote the Sunday Herald from recently:

     

    "Yet there is an alternative which would make life extremely manageable for Gretna if they are promoted - but it cannot even by investigated because of football politics. Carlisle is a mere six miles away, Brunton Park has a 16,000 capacity, but both are in England.

     

    "It would be ideal" agreed (Gretna chief exec) Muir, "but I'm not even tempted to look at it because I would imagine it's a non-starter as it's in another country. I've never asked the question because I think I know the answer.

     

    "At the time of the Derry game we were told not to go to Carlisle by the SFA. Then ironically we drew Derry, who are in Northern Ireland but play in the Republic."

     

    Muir is correct in his assumption. For all that Berwick Rangers are permitted to play in Scotland for historical reasons, an SFA spokesman said: "Each member club must register its ground with us. No such club can move to another ground, even to share temporarily, without first obtaining the consent of the board. Registering grounds outside Scotland does not come within our jurisdiction."

  25. Posted

    If the Queen did have cancer why should anyone want that to be kept quiet?

     

    This might sound daft, but if the Queen did have some serious illness, and one that could take her at any time, could that perhaps have an effect on the global markets?

     

    If the Queen was to cark it, the courts wouldn't sit (I presume) in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc, etc, and the Parliaments would rise.

     

    As we know that would happen, could it not cause a wobble if we thought she could go at any time?

     

    Or am I talking complete drivel, as usual? :huh:

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