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We have had Joopi Heesters before here. As you might have had a chance of knowing, had the search box been working.

That spelling, if it can be called so.

The spelling looks familiar

By my reckoning 3 tons in the UK would be 6,720 lbs in the US. But I must confess to being not particularly widely-travelled, so I can't support my claim with the benefit of any actual personal experience. My knowledge of both physics and zoology is also pretty limited.

He may not have been famous before, but now he is famous for having been Deep Throat. I think that qualifies him. I think he would be a good choice as I suspect he feels he hasn't got much longer and wanted to get it off his chest before it's too late. So are Woodward and Bernstien both still alive or not?

Just because they were involved in an historic and famous event does not automatically make them famous. The Titanic survivors have done nothing to achieve fame in their own right and so should not be eligible for the DeathList. Plus the fact that their deaths are unlikely to be that widely reported. (with the possible exception of the very last one, which will probably be a few years aways yet). These people have no chance of getting selected for Deathlist.

Aye but don't forget Lady T. isn't a human being as we understand it. There isn't much chance that she cared enough about Denis to start falling apart at the seams herself just because he died. She probably ate up his cadaver for breakfast then sold the bones to Michael Heseltine.

November 9 is a pretty unclear way of expressing a date if you ask me. However saying "November the ninth" or "the ninth of November" leaves nobody in doubt, the second being clearer than the first because it less resembles such formulations as "Willard P. Rickenbacker the Fourth", "George the Sixth" or indeed "Larry Pestilence the Third" When expressing dates numerically, it is much more logical to keep the numbers in some sort of order, be it ascending or descending, Thus Day/Month/Year must be preferable to Month/Day/Year. That in a perfect world, but a couple of centuries ago some Americans wanted to be demonstratively different to the British for some reason, so they started holding their cutlery differently and messing around with a perfectly good language, a thing which caught on very quickly and can lead to disagreement among the less tolerant on both sides. Now don't get me started on what Americans call 9/11. (To me that is a car. I always call it the 11th of September 2001)

Reminds me of a joke about a Red Indian and a sandwich. Go on........ I'm not sure you'd understand it. Like the "Coconut Dog" joke, it relies heavily on a familiarity with the Scots tongue. Here is another, somewhat less likely to offend Mrs J. than the sandwich joke: Man : Doctor, doctor, my armpits smell of coconut! Doctor: Aye, their boun' tae.

Who's Nothadtheirchips?

The orgy wasn't that good really. I suppose we could have another one sometime if you really want, Inar. (Note carefully placed comma in above sentence)

Reminds me of a joke about a Red Indian and a sandwich.

So am I to understand that whenever you write something by hand, as opposed to typing, it is literate, articulate and correctly punctuated? I'm afraid everything I write whether by hand or at the keyboard is the same incomprehensible ill-informed drivel. I mean well though.

What's the matter Oatsey? Ship's cat got yer tongue?

They come in pairs, as a rule.

Well I hate to speculate but I suspect the Deathlist Selection Committee might have come to a different verdict on Mr. Simpson, had they been the jury. But it's part of Deathlist's nature to have slightly obscure British people on it. Isn't there an American list somewhere where those who feel the need can discuss/observe/watch/make illiterate posts about, etc, Lady bird Johnson and ageing US baseball players and soap "stars" from the 50's to their hearts' content? If there isn't, there ought to be. Perhaps on that list SPELLING and GRAMMAR could be optional?

Fairly mild though, for December. In the middle of the night.

Don't you think the Deathlist Committee should be the judges of that?

Due to the refraction of light through the atmosphere? Not really. A process called Raleigh scattering causes the colour of our skies. We now return to our regularly scheduled pedantry. regards, Hein Can anyone explain why it's called "Raleigh Scattering" when it was called after (or "named for" if you prefer that hideous and illogical americanism) a chap named Rayleigh?

Would you pass the ship's biscuits please, Captain?

Griffith is certainly famous enough, acording to this highly-respected authority.

If GWB is an honest president, then he must have some subtle reason (beyond my modest skills of comprehension) for masterfully concealing his honesty behind an ingeniously constructed facade of deceitfulness, insincerity, duplicity, corruption and nepotism.

Wow! Nobody has ever dared ask that so directly before.

Would it be too much like Rocket Science for a competent web designer to confer the upper search box with the same degree of functionality?

Sorry that I omitted it before LP3, heartiest congratulations on the arrival of LP4! (PS: Is LP7 also one of yours?)