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as it happens, the notion that dickie is about to shuffle off as he's in brinsworth is a flawed one. sure, he's been ill, but a rest home does not a hospice make. simon raven spent 34 years on the kent coast in a rest home (he was only 46 when he went in, if my math is correct), sallying forth to london for a few fleeting business meetings and less fleeting visits to massage parlours (verifiable). god help us, we could be still banging on about this in thirty years. i hope i will have found a life by then. and by the way - what the f**k does 'twunt' mean?

a fair point about rules. but at what point do rules become a pointless and inflexible obstruction? if rules are to give structure and shape to a formless mass, then when do you decide that the structure is squeezing the life out of that mass? sorry, that sounds like i'm describing a quatermass movie. but rules change and are altered according to the dictates of the sport and... those who govern it. or is that really the issue? and i must learn to do that 'quote' thing so people know what i'm drivelling about.

so, al lewis... the age thing is really interesting, as in Car 54 and Munsters re-runs he looks about sixty (ok, so it was make-up in the Munsters) but not the age he should have been if born in the twenties (around late thirties, forty). he LOOKED like he was born in 1910, so could it have been this that prompted him adding years to his age? like moore marriott playing toothless old men when he was still in his suave forties? to get the roles he LOOKED suited for, he did a bit of creative accounting. not much to do with him croaking, i know, but until the other leg goes what else we got?

spot on, mr G. everything out there in the wide world is more serious than this forum. the very idea of speculating on the demise of celebs is ludicrous (which is why i like it) and to try and apply serious rules to something that is, at its heart, an absurdity, is little short of insanity. which is me getting a bit carried away and in itself ridiculous. my point, and i do have one, is that someone's little girl being ill (and nice to hear she's going to be ok) is serious. people getting their 70's y-fronts in a twist because someone went a bit off topic is not serious. is it me, but isn't that obvious?