VileBody

Oh God - sorry, sorry just checked and it was John Curry who died - mea culpa, mea culpa... Mind you, I believe Mr Cousins is a "bachelor" so even tho he is only 48 he may have got around a bit in the late-70s-80s - possibly may have contracted certain then-unknown and ultimately fatal ailments.

I think you'll find Robin Cousins died of, shall we say, an excess of happiness about 10 years ago....

From what I hear from a mate of mine who works for a Dutch bank, his management do that too... That doesn't surprise me a bit. Of course, their business consists mostly of lunch and dinner. regards, Hein How do you get 12 Dutch bankers in a Mini? Promote one and the other eleven will crawl up his arse...

I thought the Kurdish uprising was quite successful and just showed what you could do with a bit of air-cover, aid, encouragement etc - I think you'll find they were pretty much independent of Saddam by 2003. If we hadn't sold the Marsh Arabs down the river in 1991, we could have achieved much the same there without fighting a dirty great war. With regard to your comment that: all I can say is "urgh....."

That's British cows then. When it rains Dutch cows turn their arse in the wind and go on with their business. regards, Hein From what I hear from a mate of mine who works for a Dutch bank, his management do that too...

Yeah but he's only 74 I think. And a fitness nut (he goes power walking at 5.30 every morning , for God's sake). I reckon he'll hang on for a good few years yet. Re the cows, I'm afraid we're a bit short of them in EC2 - which is strange given the amount of bulls*it in the area...

Hmmm - not sure that helps much in Devon, does it? My folks used to live there and they said that if you could see the Isle of Lundy it was going to rain and if you couldn't, then it was raining already.... Oh hurrah - bad light stopped play - umpires offered the light after tea and the Aussies took it! What's that about? They have to win!

Well here's hoping - I reckon we need to lose a good 2 sessions tomorrow if we're going to get away with this. I heard Richie Benaud saying that he saw Alec Bedser today and he is in his 80s - candidate for next year? Probably very healthy I'd guess - sportsmen tend to live a long time so long as they don't fall off the booze and drugs wagon after they retire.

Nice weather here too, tho since I'm only about 1/2 a mile from St Pauls that's not too surprising. Pity Jones is out really...watched the first hour after lunch and it looks like Hayden and Langer are starting to up the runrate big time. Need wickets, guys, need wickets. Or rain....

Well merged, chaps...I can't believe this series - they can't even play a first innings without turning it into another nail-chewing horror show... Oh Hoggard's just gone c Martyn b McGrath. Should be all over before lunch then...

Are we brave enough to email them directly?

Dagenham? Bugger - I was just going to do the same gag! Altrinch -nam?

We're going to cock it up, aren't we....Jones was just bowled by lee Urgh......

Maybe they could arrange for some kind of early warning system with the DL. Eg: send us a list of residents in order of who's bed is closest to the door....

Bloody Hell, it's the wife!

And Paul MacCartney

When asked about his being born in Ireland, the Duke was said to have retorted: "Just because you were born in a stable doesn't make you a horse"

Born and bred in London - work for a bank in the City

Yep agree with that too! Muber, v. intr. To gaze off into space in mid-sentence while absent-mindedly holding willy through trousers. Practised by 7-8 year old boys intent on irritating and embarrassing their fathers. "Don't just stand there mubering, boy, where's the sodding remote control?", VileBody September 7th 2005

Anubis, I think your comments above are absolutely spot on. I just read the Dom Mintoff thread for the first time and was struck by the quality, passion and downright weirdness of many of the contributions - together with some very funny interjections. I have to say that it really puts to shame the recent bickering and bitching, particularly about who's posting too much and how the site works. If contributors think someone is posting a load of boring rubbish, just ignore it and start a thread on something interesting/controversial/funny instead (preferably it might even be connected with doomed celebs....). I don't really like the idea of moderators editing the site too much because the liberty to say pretty much what you like is great; however, if the recent drivel continues, a bit of judicious pruning by the powers-that-be might be a good idea...

Other good weeks would be around mid-October when I'm in Oz - produced a fine crop on holidays this summer including Heath, Doohan and Gretchen Franklin. My picks for the period would be: Biggsy, Ford and Wiesenthal. Kylie as an outsider...

My, we have all been busy over the weekend....

Ooo er....

Er...this is the 2005 DL, innit?

I used to live quite near Halliford School and had to walk past it to get the train to my hugely expensive and poncy prep school. This regularly involved being filled in by gangs of older lads from Halliford because I was obviously a toff and a poof. Gosh, what japes we had... It's not as if I hold any grudges tho...I just hope that one day a firework blows your f****n' hand off...