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    Diego Maradona

    Delete away old boy, I've taken my post out Well, you could have done it, too. At this point, the heck with it, turning down the heat and volume seems sufficient.
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    Diego Maradona

    If you gentlemen hadn't quoted the blighter, I'd have simply deleted him.
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    The English Language

    The readers of this thread may appreciate this bit of doggerel, written by my countryman Charivarius: The Chaos. regards, Hein Ooh! I made it into the third stanza! /bows
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    The English Language

    Aluminn... Aloomine, er... Allyoominyu... Uhloomann... Tin foil!
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    Peter, Paul and Mary

    Yes! Sweet success! We've finally achieved our goal of being rude and thoughtless. Next up, rude and coarse. It's my plot to Americanize the UK!
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    Pope John Paul

    Sounds like a job for Maxwell! Oh, wait, that was a silver hammer.
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    Near Misses for 2005

    Horace Hagedorn, Founder of Miracle-Gro, Dies at Age 89 Monday January 31, 7:35 pm ET MARYSVILLE, Ohio, Jan. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Scotts Company (NYSE: SMG - News) today reported that Horace Hagedorn, founder of Miracle-Gro® plant food, former executive and director emeritus of The Scotts Company and beloved philanthropist, died today, January 31, 2005, at the age of 89 at his home in Long Island, New York. Mr. Hagedorn was the marketing and business genius behind the popular Miracle-Gro® brand, which includes the trusted blue-colored water-soluble fertilizer used by millions of gardeners in North America and around the world. After building this successful business, he merged Miracle-Gro with The Scotts Company in 1995 to create the world's largest lawn and garden company. Since his retirement in 1997, Mr. Hagedorn has been a tireless and generous supporter of dozens of grassroots and charitable organizations, many in the Long Island area, with a particular interest in causes that help children, families and education.
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    Long Shot: Robert Kilroy Silk

    Giving or receiving?
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    Near Misses for 2005

    Actor John Vernon, star of Wojeck, various films, dies at 72 in L.A. JOHN MCKAY TORONTO (CP) - He was the smarmy Dean Wormer in the sophomoric cult movie Animal House. He was a bad guy who got tossed out a window to his death by the even badder Lee Marvin in Point Blank. But Canadians may best remember actor John Vernon as a crusading coroner in the groundbreaking 1960s CBC crime series Wojeck. Vernon, 72, died peacefully at his Los Angeles home Tuesday, his family said. With his pockmarked face and heavy-lidded blue eyes, Vernon made an ideal villain in dozens of the 85 motion pictures he made over a four-decade career. But he started out the hero in Wojeck in which his character was based on real-life Toronto coroner and politician Dr. Morton Shulman and which formed the template for future crime series formats, from Quincy to Da Vinci's Inquest to CSI. "Everybody's seen my face but nobody's sure who I am," he once told an interviewer, revealing that he had often been mistaken for Richard Burton or Robert Shaw. "People confuse me with other people and I enjoy that." He was seen most recently on the "double secret probation" DVD edition of Animal House, in a feature that offered a tongue-in-cheek current look at the characters of the 1978 film. Vernon's Dean Wormer was a crotchety, snowy-haired senior citizen in a wheelchair. Chris Haddock, creator of Da Vinci's Inquest, said at the time he was surprised that Vernon was still around and agreed it was a great idea to see if he could make a cameo appearance on the series as a sort of tribute. Vernon's other notable film roles included The Outlaw Josey Wales, Dirty Harry, Airplane II, Topaz, Brannigan, Charley Varrick, Nobody Waved Goodbye and Tell Them Willie Boy Was Here. He also starred in a short-lived ABC-TV Animal House spinoff series called Delta House and in a 1990 CBC movie that reprised his Wojeck character. TV guest roles included The FBI, Bonanza, Mission Impossible, The Name of the Game, High Chapparall, Judd for the Defence and Quincy. He also made a pilot for a failed U.S. series called Hunter. There were more than 100 roles in Canadian TV, running the gamut from Tugboat Annie to Cannonball to Forest Rangers. Regina-born and stage trained, the six-foot-two Vernon, whose birth name was Adolphus Raymondus Vernon Agopsowicz, spent five years at the Stratford Festival. He also attended London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and in London joined several repertory companies. His Broadway debut came in Royal Hunt of the Sun, and from there he moved to Hollywood for a prolific career playing mostly heartless villains. "The stars are always the good guys, so the guest stars have to be the bad guys," he said in a 1979 interview. "Even though I played a lot of heavies I was very lucky to work all the time, without getting pigeon-holed." Vernon is survived by his former wife Nancy, his children Chris, Kate, Nan, Jim West and Grant West, and a granddaughter. There will be a private service in Los Angeles and a gathering of friends to remember him in Toronto at a later date, the family said.
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    Ivan Noble Gone

    I am standing here beside myself.
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    Pete Doherty

    That should give our colonial offshoots pause for thought. Nope, understood that quite well, thank you very much. I also understand Amanda as well, since it was me, of course, who knocked Pete down and stuck the needle in his arm.
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    Long Shot: Robert Kilroy Silk

    is an oxymoron. Not to mention a butchery of spelling.
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    Long Shot: Robert Kilroy Silk

    Hehe, this is a common issue here in the states; immigrant peoples who create subcultures and attempt to exist only within the bubble of that subculture. Sometimes the best views are expressed most simply, and I am reminded of a bumper sticker once popular here in California: "Welcome to the melting pot, now MELT!"
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    Pope John Paul

    We are, we are! Just not for the same outcome.
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    Long Shot: Robert Kilroy Silk

    Actually, considering your pseudonym and our (US) former vice-president (Quayle), one can see your point. Unfortunately, we seem to abide by the Peter Principle* here in the states. As to the differences in spelling between the US and the UK, I've always written it off to a British love affair with the letter "U". *Peter Principle: A rule of organizations that states, “In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” Formulated by Laurence J. Peter, this rule is supposed to explain occupational incompetence.
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    Pope John Paul

    Could be time for Il Conclave (hehe, Italian in italics).
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    Long Shot: Robert Kilroy Silk

    /Urge to mod-abuse rising...
  18. A little light reading?
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    Jake Lamotta

    BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - Boxer Jake LaMotta's ex-wife has died. The former middleweight champ's marriage to Brooklyn-born beauty Vicki LaMotta was portrayed in the film "Raging Bull." She was 75 years old. Her family says she died in a hospital in Boca Raton, Florida, about six months after undergoing open heart surgery. In the movie, Robert DeNiro plays the boxer who is obsessed with his young wife, played by Cathy Moriarty. The real Vicki LaMotta posed nude for Playboy in 1981, when she was 51 years old -- saying she did it to show life doesn't end at 30. LaMotta later lent her name to a cosmetics line, made commercials and appeared on television and at fight arenas. Husbands often follow closely after wives...
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    Pope John Paul

    What does an Asian bird look like?
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    103 Soon To Be 104

    There is a thread somewhere on this website that Mr Teddy answered that very question, unfortunately, I don't remember what thread it was on. I've no doubt he will bring it into this one if he reads this. I looked for it, too, albeit half heartedly.
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    Ronald Reagan

    Ahh this must be like one of those communist capitalists Socialism espoused by the old money elite in the US is an unfortunately common phenomenon here. They use euphemisms, of course, and never terms like redistribution of wealth (as long as it's not their wealth), but if you look without the rose colored glasses of political correctness, socialism is exactly what they endorse. I call them the "Wouldn't It Be Nice Brigade".
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    Billy Smart

    This should rightly go in the "Waiting" thread, but it's topical here.
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    Former First Ladies

    Mr Honez is a highly literate individual. (Allegedly) You are Notapotato [Allegedly] Had to be done, I'm just surprised it took so long...
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    Jake Lamotta

    Roobyroobyroo...
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