Anubis the Jackal

OK, and if anyone, and I mean anyone makes a 'ripples of exitement amongst our male members' gag, your account will be suspended for ...oh...about 5 minutes probably.

When you say that you've just heard, you mean you have discussions about British free-jazz saxophonists frequently, do you? I have heard of him, not that it makes any odds.

I'm not going to put this in the Deathlist Bereavment thread, but here is probably an appropriate place to mourn the passing of The Original Sonny Boy Williamson, Scourge of Squirrels, Slayer of Foxes at whose name local felines cringed in fear. So long, Sonny Boy, I'll miss you.

I don't know, I quite like Jose Feliciano.

Whoever kept deleting my posts about Stevie Nicks and her back-passage-blow-backs...ta.

Probably didn't fancy queuing behind 4000 panicking old biddies taking out their life savings.

Hein's Back! Hurrah!

Catholic Hell is full of ex-altar boys getting their own back.

I wouldn't say that was picky at all, Windy. There's a huge difference between the death of a current MP, with all the potential for an embarrassing by-election and the death of an ex-MP who will barely register with his ex-constituents, let alone the world at large. Former Labour MP. There is a difference. (Ok, so now I'm being picky)

So what are the essential differences between Catholic and Protestant hell? Other than the flaming heaps of screaming souls being a lot more orange in the latter.

My opinion, for what it matters. If they are innocent, they're doing a very bad job of showing it, hiring high-octane lawyers, challenging police to find the body to prove it was murder and so forth. If they are guilty, then not only are they GOING STRAIGHT TO CATHOLIC HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY FOR LYING TO THE POPE! but also I would feel a lot better knowing there's not a psychopathic child-murderer killing small children at random while they sleep. Statistically, if you look at child murders, the vast majority are committed by a member of their family anyway (94%)

Nice avatar, harry!

Having been accused on this very forum of being Jimmy 'The Wizened Old Lady' Page at one point, I think I must qualify as a deserving cause. I've got 50 tickets for this that I'm willing to give away to any deserving causes.

I thought you had gone, BS?

Strangely, my (ex-) police contact was saying exactly the same thing to me yesterday, Windsor. He dealt with a few 'honour' killings where the corpse was sent back to the victims families as airline luggage. Wouldn't have thought so in this case though (boom-boom)

What is Luciano Pavarotti's wife getting for Christmas this year? A much smaller Turkey.

Bad news for Geoffrey, but good news for any jobbing late-middle-aged thesp who wants to fill the dead mans shoes A rather callous article , but then every cloud has a silver lining, the show must go on etc. etc. ad nauseam, and of course

Ah, but it was also for being an insufferable Bellend.

I'll be moving back into 3rd with the pending execution of Chemical Ali

A Cracker of a game, and I'm glad to say I was there! Getting slowly hammered in the late-summer sunshine and watching sixes fly over your head with a bunch of noisy Indian and England supporters. Quality entertainment. It's as well that he did, as Mr Ganguly and Mr Tendulkar are making merry mincemeat of England's bowling in reply.

Are you taking your wife...err...hang on...no that's not it....Jakarta?

Strangley enough, I was only talking about him yesterday having just read a good book about beer.

Three Sheets to the Wind: One Man's Quest for the Meaning of Beer Excellent account of a year in search of beer, more beer and the meaning of beer.

..and back again it seems.