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Sad news indeed.

If so, that's one hell of a column he has. Still, as the poet said, "you know what sailors are....."

we are all going on a summer holiday no more worries mate.

Life was never meant to be easy.

Truth hurts. Nicht wahr?

They may possibly have a point there. (In all humility)

Perhaps this will help any non-surrealists among us.

Are you talking to me? This page tells you how to do a screenshot. I have about half the series on video, but if you want them, you'll have to come and get them. The same goes for STAOTSZ.

No problem. Potatoes are topical. Just remember: G W Bush- Pretzels Dan Quayle- Potato(e)s It's very confusing, I know.

Do we have the technology? And can we rebuild it, if it breaks? (qv. searchbox)

You may encounter some opposition to that idea, if only from one of the more junior moderators. Personally, I wouldn't object. Perhaps interested parties could organise a chatroom on AIM or something?

We already clarified what happened to Stats. As regards Weatherman he was never terribly popular and is unlikely to become it, particularly if Lady Bird Johnson were to snuff it. He disappeared because he was getting quite a bit of abuse from some members. Hardly surprising given his choice of avatar. He was also very keen on asking impertinent questions.. (PS: well done mods! Best bit of abuse I have seen for quite some time! )

I believe there is one called Dru Berrymore. Quite confusing really, But Desiree Cousteau wasn't Jacque's wife, was she?

I see LPIII came up for air today. I am still living in hope that he will one day return Amanda to us safe and sound.

He wasn't without a certain lack of talent. But annoying he definitely was. Larry Grayson was worse. mind you, when he took over the Generation Game.

Although a kidney can be replaced, as with Lauda. Survival rates for kidney recipients are getting better and better, and even if the kidney should fail, it is possible, (though not likely in Lauda's case) to keep going for up to 20 years on Dialysis. With Niki it's hard to judge the comorbidity factor. He looks pretty fit, and has plenty of cash for first-class treatment, but who knows what other ailments he has, and how well he copes with all those pills he presumably has to take?

You haven't misspelled Guiness have you? BB's carefully-worded remark is a bit of a two-edged sword really.

Yup, she is dead and thus relatively uninteresting to us.

A number, not a free man.

Here is the answer to my question: Lauda has emergency surgery. He's only 56 but kidney failure is no laughing matter.

I wonder what is up with Niki Lauda? He always commentates on the Grand Prix for the German Telly. Last time he was in a studio in Vienna, this time there was no sign of him at all.

My sarcasm meter blew a fuse on that sentence. I was using Mr Brimley's words, as it happens. We still don't have a smilie for sarcasm. Any suggestions? There's no way of knowing, I'm afraid. Have we ever seen one? regards, Hein Not I. Perhaps on Judgement Day. I don't think any of them live anywhere I'm likely to want to go.

As Inar so rightly points out, it wouldn't make much difference if he got shot. He is simply the young, pleasant, honest and caring figurehead of the Party. Hardly the brains of the organisation. And if he died it would only raise sympathy for the other hypocritical, crusading, messaianic "democracy" evangelists. Best thing (assuming he isn't going to publicly apologise for himself anytime soon) would be when he leaves office in a couple of years that he is quietly and efficiently lobotomised. Again.

What a load of tosh! All this talk about George W Bush being the best president and the electoral college being the best way of working out how to elect your leaders. There are many forms of democratic elections - the US form is quite crude and does not allow true representative figures going through the polling booths to be accurately reflected in practice in many cases. The best route in all cases is the starting point of equality - that of... one person/one vote - equal in value and all those votes counted towards only one presidential result. It is my understanding (even after all the Rep' dirty tricks in 2000) Gore won by 500,000 votes throughout the nation. Even the UK system is very poor in assisting minor parties. The French system is much more in tune with my thinking. You have two rounds of elections. The first round top two winners go into the second round and then each candidate will be elected with more than 50% of the popular vote. As for hope in having someone shoot GWB - we all live in hope! however with so much effort placed in his security I'm quite reluctant to add him in my DDP team for next year - I may even drop Cheney as it looks like he is over his heart troubles. If you take a look at Mr Brimley's highly informative and entertaining posts, you will notice that he is quite a clever chap and has a strong, subtle and very individual sense of humour. He is having us on with all that Bush supporting talk. Think about it. With how much credibility can anyone compliment Bush by perpetually painting him with precisely those qualities which it is clear to the utterest numbskull are the exact diametric opposites of those which he truly posesses? And how many staunch Republicans are there in Michigan anyway? The universe is infinite, and thus it it statistically inevitable that a sheep should have been made pope, or a monkey Mayor of Hartlepool. But I don't believe this one.