Dave to the Grave

'Owning Up: The Trilogy' by George Melly. Although a bit slow in places and with perhaps too much detail of his early life, if the purpose of an autobiography is to let the reader get to know and understand the author, then this is probably the best autobiography I have ever read. How he has survived until his 80's is truly amazing. This does appear to be a family trait, so hopefully he has a few years left in him yet.

That's the one Josco. Although it was a coronet he was after not a crown

It appears that they have now banned the spammers, but have not deleted their posts. Most odd, but then so is George.

I was recently sent a load of dvds, the sort given away free in the Daily Mail. There, hidden amongst the utter rubbish was the film, 'Kind Hearts and Coronets'. A brilliant film. In fact, I'm going to watch it again now.

The queen of all the teens. Apparently. (Just checked the link, and it now directs you straight to the site's home page. Oh well bad 'joke' anyway. If you have a few minutes, go to the 2nd floor of the 'Blues rooms', click on the top left artist's icon, scroll to the bottom and click on the mp3 link. If nothing else it is a great site.)

-4. Lame. Accept the fact that Lady Clarissa is a lively and original poster and that you are a boring and sanctimonious old windbag. Time to move on. Pleasant a person, that I am sure Lady Clarrissa is, I don't think even she would claim to be an original poster. No more than Christopher Biggins would claim his portrayal of Widow Twankey were original. Before we move on, can I just say that I enjoy CarolAnn's contributions to this forum. We obviously have a different definition of what is boring, and there is nothing wrong with that. David

I read an article once, which stated that if the women of the U.K. had never been given the vote, there would have been a continuous Labour Party government in office since 1945. (How this sort of statistic is calculated I do not know, since voting patterns would have changed, but lies, damned lies...etc.) I may have read this in the Guardian so make of it what you will, but think of a world without Mrs Thatcher .

Thank goodness you have returned. May the laughter and intelligent debate begin.

Whilst on the subject, if you don't know how to yet, the game of 'Nelson's eye' is one of the many thrilling subjects of discussion on this forum.

Totally agree Lady Grendel. That's what I have done. I'm sure some people enjoy them. I did try to decipher them once, but life really is too short.

Due to logistical problems with finding a mutually convenient 'field of honour', can I suggest the George Melly forum. The two of you could battle it out in the limerick thread. Eminem, '8 Mile' style. Limerick 'freestyle' carnage.

Roy Walker, Lytham, not Scotland. North Pier, not cruise ships. No partner. Josie Walker German Bight, west or northwest gale 8 to storm 10, expected imminent. Humber, west gale 8 or severe gale 9, expected soon.

With this head to body, body to head transplant theory, as with 'Trigger's broom', we could have immortality. Same broom, just keep replacing the head and the handle.

Well, Edward Woodward would burn well.

Some stuff about the origins of the 'World Series' here.

Wind up? Who said anything about wind up? George deserves some good threads. I genuinely believe he could be the first live Deathlisted guest on here if he's fit enough to get in touch. I think he'll be chuffed to bits at being Deathlisted. Speak to us George if you can. Welcome on board MPFC. This ship can be our's. Lets get some critical mass. I must admit to having joined the GM forum, but not as a 'troll'. I am actually becoming quite a fan of this gentleman, and I have pleasantly passed some time this afternoon reading some very interesting articles he has written. One for SAGA magazine on the ageing process was particularly good. I had to laugh at the notion of 'winding up' the GM forum, since it's only active members, at the moment at least, would appear to be from the DL. I don't think DL members need to go to another forum to wind each other up. The idea of having a DL 'name' actually contributing to their own thread would be most interesting, to say the least, and if Godot should be successful in his quest, I think an award should be made to him for services to the DL. Perhaps one of those splendid DL thongs.

I do have some sympathy for your point of view, not being a great fan of sparkling wines. Given the choice I would prefer to 'toast the bride' with one of the two great English alcoholic exports, a pint of Guinness or a tot of whisky. I think our Celtic friends might have something to say about that. The only other English alcoholic export that sells in any quantity in France that I could think of was 'Baileys', which I find very sickly, but, 'Baileys' it is then. Cheers!

I do have some sympathy for your point of view, not being a great fan of sparkling wines. Given the choice I would prefer to 'toast the bride' with one of the two great English alcoholic exports, a pint of Guinness or a tot of whisky.

With the strongest military in the world? I don't think so. With an army that strong you'll soon suppress a fith division nation like Iraq then and you'll hardly lose a soldier. Oh and you'll flush out Osama in a jiffy, won't you. What the hell did you learn from Vietnam? And while your military is chasing mosquitos in the middle east are those neurotoxins I smell in the subway? I see what your trying to compare, but this isn't Vietnam. They showed up at are front door, and it was done in one of the most horrific ways possible. America walked into Vietnam, I guess at that time there was very little consideration of the consequences. You just might be right when you say, destruction can be done when you aren't keeping an eye, but unlike Vietnam we were attacked and for this I don't see much of a choice besides retaliating. But why is the USA attacking Iraq? It makes about as much sense as Great Britain launching a missile attack on Boston after the Birmingham pub bombing in 1974.

It is too soon for this story to be confirmed. Too much can go wrong for President Bush between now and November's midterm elections. If Osama Bin Laden is dead, I would imagine this information would be suppressed until the end of October. I of course, do not know what I am talking about, but I have an ambition to become a conspiracy theorist.

Perhaps you could all club together and start up a mini-cab firm.

I can't say that I know much about Mr Hair, Gunjaman 5000, but if this chap can play cricket in the Indian sub-continent, I am sure he will be O.K.

This thread may stay. There is one on football after all, which is no more relevant. However, if it does go, the above quote was worth the thread's short life. If I ever need to describe the attraction of opera, I now have a nice concise way. That's not Opera, that's one particular opera. You couldn't describe Ligeti's Le Grande Macabre like that. The orgasms all take place under a trapdoor under the stage, and you don't know when they are, just that they happen. In Satyagraha by Philip Glass there are no orgasms at all, and in R. Strauss' Rosenkavalier they happen at the end of the overture before the curtain goes up. I of course bow to your superior operatic knowledge Notapotato, you being a professional musician and me a mere 'appy amateur. My search must therefore go on. You do realise that you are discussing opera with someone who considers this music. P.S. A bit of Verdi or Puccini usually does it for me. The advertising executive's favourite I know, so very unfashionable at the moment, but la petite mort awaits. Sometimes more than one.

Why are pirates called pirates? Because they arrrrrrrrh!

This thread may stay. There is one on football after all, which is no more relevant. However, if it does go, the above quote was worth the thread's short life. If I ever need to describe the attraction of opera, I now have a nice concise way.