Tuber Mirum

A bit of a giveaway there, I think.

Was that you in the purple suit, Teddy? No, but seriously, was Foot even there at Cook's funeral? I couldn't see him. And what about Madeleine Allbright who was to ill to attend?

Just for you, Boudicca. (Been a bit bored today)

And if mental arithmetic serves, Deathlist.net is edging close to equal 4th place on the Derby Dead Pool.

No, it's a paraphrase of this painting by Magritte: Perhaps I'll change it again if it's not that clear.

If Pinochet's eldest son is to be believed, Mrs. P could go first.

You need to lighten up a bit, TF. Many of the best posters on DL are the ones whose contributions are not always strictly death related. Bruno may be a bit of an acquired taste, but he is undeniably a genius with a literary style all his own.

I'd be pleased if the whole authority business could be irrevocably deleted. It'd be no loss for Deathlist if similar nonsensical contributions could in future be quickly and decisively removed, before it comes to the level of abuse we have experienced today. If we want to insult our Mods, we can do it very well ourselves. And I should know for I am Notapotato.

He's gone, isn't he?

You are not the only one holding that opinion, strangely enough.

She took brutal advantage of Labour's dire failure to present a decisive and competent alternative to trample with jack-boots over social justice, cohesion and workers representation. Do you think people went on strike for no reason? Don't forget the image you had of strikers from the press was also orchestrated by the Tories (even before they were in power). She got the country moving, but not in the right direction. Also her murdering of British industry did absolutely nothing for unemployment. As didn't her privatisation of anything and everything. This is quite a fair description of some of what she did. Must say I agree rather more with Anubis than with VileBody about Mowlam. /end of political rant. sorry.

Aha! again. So I was right about that. Mrs. N. said they were always that colour.

(Going back about a page, obviously spent too long on this post) Then you have Eric Heffer and Bernie Grant, another two who may have been bumped off. Ones to watch if there is a murder conspiracy, may be Dennis Skinner, (wasn't well at all last year according to Pixie Boots ), Ken Livingstone, Tam Dalyell and Peter Tatchell. Not sure if Derek Hatton is still in politics. Skinner is the only one who is in Parliament right now and probably the last remaining socialist. Wedgie Benn, second cousin once removed of Margaret Rutherford, is a vegetarian teetoaller on the one hand, but a heavy smoker on the other. He can't go on for ever. His wife of 50 years died in 2000. He's still very active, at the moment particularly as an anti-war campaigner. According to rumour, Airey Neave had planned to have Benn assassinated if Labour had won the 1979 election and there was any danger of Sunny Jim giving up the premiership in Benn's favour. Didn't quite work out that way though, for any concerned. I wonder if Michael Heseltine will die any time soon?

A bad, bad woman indeed, Mrs Thatcher. I shall be buying a new pair of tackety dancing-boots specially. She started us off on the slippery slope towards moral bankruptcy from which there is now probably no escape. A woman without any human sympathy whatsoever, who fuelled by her insane prejudices inhumanely applied rigid capitalist criteria at a time when there was already great hardship. I will be very pleased to see the back of her, and will be barring no holds in my vociferous disapprobation of those who admire her shamelessly wicked deeds. The Evil that Men do and all that. Any chance she could be buried while she is still alive?

Lord Arran, veteran campaigner for the Homosexual Law Reform in Great Britain recently got his bill to protect badgers through its committee stage in the House of Lords. But his elation is tempered with sadness. As he remarked to a colleague, "There weren't so many supporting my Badgers' Bill as my Buggers' Bill!" to which the other noble lord replied, "No! but then there aren't any badgers in the House of Lords, are there?" --From Reach Newsletter, March 1976.

Hmmm... I wonder If Blair also had a hand in the well-timed death of John Smith? Or even that of Donald Dewar? My fault I'm afraid. Nipped away for a couple of days and off they all dropped. Can't say how pleased I am that I missed that git Weatherman90 though.

It is the way I tell them.

This is probably a good start, though I haven't got any of them myself yet. I am currently enjoying the unabridged version of his diaries from 1980-90 "The End of an Era". Very interesting and informative. Did you enjoy my joke? Nobody else seems to have done.

Well spotted TF! Good to have someone of your astuteness on board!

I might well ask the same question of you, FF. I mean assuming that you aren't Bill Clinton in disguise.

I didn't know that there was a Mr Boudicca, but in the modern world that sort of thing isn't usually an obstacle if true love is involved. I'm sorry Inar if you don't like my new Avatar. I changed it in order to better reflect my status as "elder statesman" of the Deathlist. Perhaps I shall change it again/back sometime soon. It is indeed Wedgie Benn. I'm sure Hein has heard of him. If you haven't I can reccomend his writings highly. His son is Hilary Benn MP who is a Blairite and a bit of a dick. Thank you Boudicca for wishing me long life and maturity. I am working on it. Did anybody enjoy my joke?

Boudicca, you have to have to ask yourself: could you fall for a man whose grammar is not terribly good?

The whole Cook/Mowlam thing could indeed be more than coincidence. I suspect it is the last vestiges of a long running campaign to rid Labour of Socialists. It started with Gaitskell's leadership in 1955, really took off with Foot and Kinnock in the 70's and 80's and is just about over now. Since George Galloway has gone of his own volition, who do the panel think will be next after Mo Mowlam?

By popular demand, and for my 800th post, I shall relate the aforementioned joke. I expect the automatic-obscenity-removing-thingy may have a thing or two to say about it. A man entered a pub accompanied by an ostrich and an extremely vertically challenged red-haired person. All three seated themselves at the bar, and the man asked, "what would you both like to drink?" The Ostrich says, "I'll have a pint of large please," whilst the red-haired dwarf replies, "I'll hae a double whisky, but I''ll no be buyin' anything maself." Neville the part-time barman served the drinks as ordered and then asked the man (whom we shall call Jim), "How do you come to be in such unusual company?" Jim replies, "well, Tesco's were selling off their stocks of Banana Bread Beer this afternoon, so I went in and bought a bottle, just by way of experiment. I firmly believe one should not condemn anything until one has tried it, with the possible exception of folk-dancing. So I sat down with the bottle on the bench in front of the Memorial Library and on opening it imagine my surprise when out popped my Fairy Godmother who had got trapped in there somehow. She was a bit squiffy of course from the beer, but very grateful and said I could wish for anything I wanted and it would be granted. So I said "I'd like a bird with long legs and a tight little ginger C**t" "Oh, I see" said Neville the part-time barman. "Any good that Banana Bread Beer?" "No" replied Jim with great conviction, "It tastes bloody awful."

Completely forgot to try that stuff when I was back home last month. Silly me. Currently enjoying a glass of Reissdorf Kölsch which I paid for myself. Does anyone not already know the joke about the man who walks into a pub with an ostrich and a dwarf?