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Where did you read that? The Fortean Times? Well worth a punt eh, BS?

Obviously? Perhaps? Come off the fence, OoO

Steady on CarolAnn... Comments like that will land you in a Portugese court faster than you can say "I'm just nipping across town to check on the kids..." I thought that in Portugal you don't get to court until the media has had three months to squeeze every drop of human interest out of your story....

Drat, I was still hoping against all odds until you posted that. I guess he must have had it.

He;s fine. If he can handle a decnt reefer and some Stoli, os can I! I couldn't have expressed that noble sentiment in more apposite language.

For heaven's sake, son't delte this!

Nothing wrong with being impulsive.

Wow! By coincidence, I've just heard on the radio that he's not feeling very well tonight. Any inside information about Fidel Castro?

Thank you for being honest John. I'm back posting with a different attitude and I hope some members are willing to tolerate me after all this bullshit that has been going down for the last week or so. A positive quality I have is forgiveness, something like Jesus Christ only I was never hung on the cross and I can't turn water into wine. You mean you've cracked the loaves and fishes routine?

I share your pain, OoO. I gave Pavarotti to my wife as a good pick for this year but didn't pick him myself. I guess I felt charitable as she hadn't had a hit since Fay Wray died on Aug 8 2004 Sounds like a bundle of fun in the Phantom house "Happy birthday, darling. I've bought you a Ferrari again this year, but if you look in the glove compartment there's a little envelope that might cheer you up"

He doesn't have any medical condition, however he lost both parents through carbon monoxide poisoning last year which would make anyone depressed. Three years ago actually, and he says his music cheers him up. I picked him partially because I wanted someone completely random (worked for Max Roach and Kiichi Miyazawa, though granted the former was known to be in ill health) and partially because I saw him in concert over the summer and he just doesn't seem like Weird Al anymore. Great show, don't get me wrong, but it felt like someone doing a really great impression of Weird Al - not Weird Al himself. Perhaps he just doesn't seem quite so weird when you've seen his act more than once? Or would the old Weird Al have continued to delight his long-standing admirers with ever-increasing displays of weirdness?

An elite gathering of front-runners anxiously await George W.Bush's decision as to which of them will be appointed to the post vacated by ex- U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. Choatic scenes ensue after the 'Miss Playboy Dopehead 2007' contestants fall victim to a double-booking with the recipients of the 'Mr Ugly Lifelong Achievement' award.

Had a dream last night where he died - either you're up for a hit soon or I'm up for a 2008 HDP candidate! Good grief CP. Any other man would have a dream about a "Fit bird wiv big Bristols". Perhaps a weeks rest and a flick through Razzle will have you back to your normal self? Well to elaborate, I was having a dream where a "fit bird wiv big Bristols" and I were undercover in 1944 Germany. We barely spoke any German, but we had Nazi uniforms and were trying to sneak through their headquarters, which for some reason was a hotel that was designed to resemble Castle Wolfenstein. Anyhow, the aforementioned bird had just come back from a document raid (we had a room in the hotel) but her superior was right pissed that she had forgotten to recover the envelope that was sent "express post." I decided to be bold and brazen and go for the documents myself. It was terribly suspenseful, slipping past Nazi guards, giving a few Sieg Hiels and dashing in and out of corridors and doorways to avoid detection. Finally, I reached the desk and began sorting through the mail as I heard footsteps approaching. Finally, I spot the white envelope with green writing marked "express post," check to make sure that it is what I want and run off just before the guard comes back. Then I hear a guard approaching from in front so I jump into a two-way utility closet and stash the envelope under my shirt. As I am leaving into the hallway, I knock down the water fountain and yell out "sh*t!" Only then to I realize that I should have yelled "Schiesse!" The janitor notices so I say "Many forgiveness mein comrade, I am only trying to learn the English" and for some reason he was Mexican (damn my racist subconscious!) so he doesn't seem to care. Then I hear "Achtung! Achtung!" and hear the footsteps of pursuit. Instead of taking the elevator I make a mad dash down the stairs and into the room where my secret agent "wiv da big Bristols" awaits. Had the garbage truck not woken me up, I'm sure she would have rewarded me with hours of boundless joy in the hotel room tea and crumpets. Instead, I fell back asleep and dreamed that BS was chiding me because I didn't pick Flory Van Donck and she had died. How can you be so sure that it was a two-way utlity shaft?

Surely you could perfect the technique of repetitive chest-wobbling?

Hey Harry - don't forget 1990 - Alydar; 2001 - Affirmed I had the biggest crush on Steve Cauthen when I was a young 'un.... Champion the Wonder Horse, 1991 http://www.dhaps.org.uk/HorseAtWork.htm

A euphemism, on the Captain Oates model?

I have a personalized plates - it should surprise no one that they say "COCKRZ." That's a surprise. I thought they would say something rude

Thanks be to Pravda, my avatar has finally been updated Though frankly it could still be improved.

Blimey! Is that the new-look Pravda? When did Murdoch take it over? The list of breaking news stories apparently no longer includes 'Hero of labour in Vladivostock breaks all previous production records in combine harvester factory'. All the old comforting certainties in life are dropping away, one by one. - though there is a nostalgic note in the revelation that the US has admitted to 'gross interference' in Russian affairs - a sensational development strangely overlooked by the insufficiently capitalist Western press.

A bit of a surprise, as much as the death of a 98 year old can be. He was in excellent health at the end of the year, still active etc., so maybe not an obvious choice, considering his relative fame in his field. Still, one of the old school & a darn nice & jolly interesting chap Yes, he was. Another person I encountered in the course of research (memo to self: stop working on political history, otherwise might start gaining the reputation of a bad luck charm) Further memo to self: Well, dying at 98 might not exactly count as bad luck.

She was 86 actually, and a friend of mine who would have been greatly amused to have got a gratuitous mention on DL. RIP. RIP indeed. It's not often a DLer is friends with someone famous enough to get an obit. How did you get to know her, HJT? I interviewed her husband in connection with some research, and became friendly with both of them. It only dawned on me some years later that she was easily the more famous of the two (though her husband James did get substantial obits)

She was 86 actually, and a friend of mine who would have been greatly amused to have got a gratuitous mention on DL. RIP.

It seems that she has reappeared for a spot of compliment-gloating. Err...Happy birthday, Amanda! And happy birthday to your good self, NAP. Even Taureans who think that star-signs are a load of garbage should stick together, if only to state loudly and in unison that star-signs are a load of garbage.

As an ex member of HM's forces (reaching the dizzy heights of corporal) I could take exception to that. It's our masters in Whitehall who are stupid. Heard on Radio 4 this morning: "I don't know why they call it the Westminster village, every village I know only has one idiot." The speaker had obviously never visited Great Horkesley.