Alphonsin

Just one more of life's cruel blows, the answer lies in hard drink, don't let dogooders tell you any different. No you're not imagining it, fate really is laughing at you. Destiny is also having a good sN-word. Damn, you've cheered me up. I was quite enjoying that morose moment before you spoilt it.

Am I the only person sad and bored enough to be in the chat room, feeling ill, a day after their ex-girlfriend won half a million pounds in a poker tournament? Er, yes...

Am I the only person sad and bored enough to be in the chat room, feeling ill, a day after their ex-girlfriend won half a million pounds in a poker tournament? Er, yes...

Likewise. I used to keep a file at work of the most terribly written stuff [after The Da Vinci Code] imaginable by various reporters. It became too much to bear, however, so I destroyed it. Yes, really...

Quite a chap. Was his name some kind of Captain Pugwash-inspired rhyming slang, though?

Either we missed Armin Jordan, a Swiss composer, or I'm still a klutz with the search facility.

He's died Sorry, he hasn't. OK, so this should perhaps be posted elsewhere but I thought it might be more exciting here. Sven Nykvist, a Swedish cinematographer best known for working with Bergman, died yesterday. Maybe Ingmar will miss him?

Yeah, but I want to know about his condition *after* the crash...

Oddly, it wasn't me. I now have a warm glow thinking that somebody thinks I'm normal. [Okay, okay, perhaps not normal as such, but more normal than Bijou]. What a lovely day

Who mentioned "honourable"? You are clearly a moron. Have a nice day and keep taking the tablets Oh, and by the way Brian May and Roger Taylor *are* terrorists.

Just heard on the TV that Richard was hoping to break the British land speed record of 300.3 mph; it appears that he either matched or beat it. So I guess if mr Hammond doesn't recover, friends and family and console themselves with the thought that, actually, it was all a great success and he didn't just waste himself in a fantastic underlining of quite how stupid people are.

Sorry, I think I had a bit of a turn yesterday afternoon. Must have been that yam salad I had for lunch

I hope he gets better. Will a few new ones of these help?

I'm new to this forum and really don't care who shifts posts around and so on, and if posts of mine are deleted or whatever, who really cares. If I'm bumped from a chat room, well I guess I'll make myself a cup of tea or something. The whole moderator/moderater thing is no deal to me. But I'm interested to know who's behind the forum and so who decides on who the moderater/ors are. I agree that this forum isn't, nor should be, a democracy. Just intrigued to know who the mastermind is. Not, actually, so much in the context of this discussion, but because I fancied getting in touch with him/her on some separate matters. Play nicely, everybody...

The attempted suicide was reported to have occurred in May 2004, but there seems to have been a news blackout on that story, thus no link in the main and reliable news sources. I was able to find a link here. The rumour goes, which I couldn't possibly confirm or deny, that D-notices were issued to gag the press - they are meant to be used to stop items that would endanger national security being made public. If I remember rightly, to breach them would land the editor/publisher in court on a charge of treason, with the possible punishment of life in prison... Only what I've read on the internet, though, not from what I've heard in a professional capacity. As I remember, there were no gagging orders or the like (I work in a newsroom and we get these globalled on a daily basis by the lawyers) but it was simply decided that it wasn't a story to run with. An Italian publication similar to Pop Bitch mentioned the story at the time, though, and decided to rub things in by calling Kathryn fat, making "who ate all the cakes...?"-type comments etc. I expect it's still floating around the web somewhere. Actually, I just went to look for a picture of K, and stumbled across http://www.public-interest.co.uk/aseye/index.htm#Tony so there's a lot out there. (Has she lost weight? Didn't find a recent photo...) At the same time, there were a few veiled references to the incident made by at least one politician. I can't remember the details, but something like "Mr Blair may be lacking in judgment at the moment, what with what's going on in his family life" but nobody picked up on it, which was surprising. Isn't Kathryn off to study at Birmingham? I guess she'd be a better DL pick if she was headed for Scotland. But maybe Cherie's singing could tip her over the edge... "I would give you a reprise of that song were it not for the fact that my daughter Kathryn said that, if I ever sang it again, she would divorce me," she was quoted by The Telegraph, as saying.

Shurely not. Actually, I stop listening the moment anybody refers to the book as Revelation*s* rather than Revelation. But then I'm one of those people who'd bin people's CVs and application letters without a glance if they'd made a mistake on the envelope. ... which might explain why I don't work in HR.

Started, and read the first half of, Chuck Palahnuick's Haunted last night. Pretty good, though I think Lullaby is better. Anyhow, if you haven't read any CP, do give it a go -- he's really on that deathlist vibe (if that makes any sense at all...) (Do I get a prize for second-most uninteresting post of the week?)

I've been enjoying Einstein On The Beach recently. (Do I get a prize for most uninteresting post of the week, by the way?)

Unfortunately they stopped that just recently. They still have the horses, though, which are good for doing PR shoots with etc. It won't be too long before we have a limited edition Young's glue, however, once they can't maintain the we-still-deliver-by-dray pretence...

Sorry if it's elsewhere. John Young, chairman of Young's, the brewer, has died of cancer. A takeover is quite likely, apparently. I don't drink bitter, so am not too fussed.

Hello. I've never watched an episode of Star Trek, but it irritates me to hear Mr Spock referred to as "Dr". Maybe it's confusion with Dr Benjamin Spock or something, but anyway, please could we have him referred to as "Mr" Thank you. And don't get me going about "Dr Fox", the deejay (although, happily, my complaints to the Beeb and those of others seem to have helped to get him largely "de-doctorated"...)

Picked up Death and the Penguin today. I think it will appeal to many DLers. It's about a chap who's hired to write stock obits -- to be begin with he's fed up that none of his subjects die... until they *do* start dying and he starts to realise that all's not as it seems...

This is really bugging me. Could only find that other Baker (a bicycle accident on Cudham Hill -- could that have morphed into the 1944 IMDB claim?). I might have found her grand-daughter -- though probably not -- so have emailed her. And no time to even read Deathlist today. Shucks... So no time to check if mention has been made of Sir John Drummond, arty farty, Margaret Hubble, inventor of the telescope (boom, boom...), EC (Teddy) Hodgkin, journalist et al.

Just been reading this thread. It certainly is strange despite, as Tempus reminds us, the apparent death being during wartime, how somebody can slip from super-famous to seemingly insignificant in such a short time. I'll have a trawl through The Times's archives (including death notices) over the weekend and see if I can find anything. A salutary reminder to today's superstars of how easily their memory can slip.

Am reminded of the story of when Kelvin Mackenzie fired The Sun's astrologer in the early 80s (for reusing predictions). He started his sacking letter, "As you will have no doubt have foreseen..." Haw haw