Tuber Mirum

Here she is looking slightly healthier than Mary Travers some time after her severe illness about 14 months ago. She doesn't seem to be in the news much at the moment, no radio appearances I could detect. She has had a couple of mentions for her remarks that men prefer girlfriends who are less intelligent than themselves, because a scientific study has recently come to the same conclusion. Don't know when she said that originally, though. Could have been years ago. Can't be too much longer before the poor lady finally gets her "wings". Multiple organ failure is usually a pretty serious thing. It looks like she is a committed Humanist. So she doesn't believe in all that Grim Reaper mumbo jumbo and doesn't expect to go to heaven. (Everybody: clap your hands if YOU believe in the Grim Reaper!) Nice to see a girl on the list. Don't seem to be too many at the minute. (still not sure about Heaven can Wait.)

I wonder if he meant any symbolism by this. In the Good Old Days, (Crappy Music Hall TV Show) British judges also used to wear a black cap on special occasions. Conservative or not, you have to admire this guy, putting his health secondary to preventing Bush from Packing the Supreme Court with his know-nothing, dumbtwunt friends and relations. I predict he won't last that much longer. Certainly not another 4 years.

You hear that quite a bit, people defending Castro and saying that Communism worked quite well in Cuba. Could be true-ish considering the opposition they had to put up with from their neighbours. Lots of poverty on Cuba, but where isn't there? Not so sure about the head-up the-arse bit, though. And I should hate Bush to die before he is called to account for his badness. If however, you do decide to do him in, don't forget Cheney too. And Condi.

Sounds awfully foreign to me! Why not "Pravda", then?

Aside from having slight trouble with the correct spelling of "Labour" this highly articulate fellow seems to have his head screwed on right.

The truth is worse still: Anyone know where I can get a darning needle? Next week we will learn how to make doner.

This is just a guess, but is one a cunning stunted race? Or something.

A propos Death Row: Mr Beardslee terminated

And that was Mr. Yeti's 500th posting. Mere coincidence? Surely not!

Hmmm..... No. Better not say it. The poor boy has it hard enough. Tempting though.

That was Typhoid Harry's 400th post to the Deathlist. And this is my 100th. Well cheers, then!

Thank goodness! I mean those folks were nice enough, but they got on my t**s somehow. Y'all know I can be a bit irritable from time to time.

I too can see no reason to deny anyone candidature for the Deathlist simply because they are convicted murderers. Not all murderers get the death penalty though, e.g Brady and Chapman to name but two. Should someone under an impending death sentence really be allowed? It seems too easy to me, even though their death is not assured until shortly before it occurs. (In the US at least) OTOH: I suppose at the end of the day, dead is dead. One or two who are a bit easier to predict aren't really going to spoil the fun of it.

Par for the course, I'd say.

Careful, that statement might come back and bite you on the bum. Unlikely, as mine is a chocolate shovel.

Indeed, Private Widdle! And if you take a look, you can tell a true McDonald by his Quarter Pounder.

That could be a food allergy. I should have it looked at if I were you.

I hate to cast aspersions on the authenticity of our two other Scottish posters, but most Scottish people I know don't call whisky "scotch" and they don't spell it "whiskey". Perhaps if we could just sneak a wee peek under your kilts, to be sure.....

In case anyone else hasn't heard of him: Basil

Are you sure "spada" doesn't mean "shovel"? Sounds much more likely to me. Saw His Holiness yesterday on the telly giving an audience to Michael Schumacher and the Ferrari team. Didn't look like he would be that nifty any more with the old Golden Papal Shovel, in fact he looked downright rough. If he doesn't go this year, I'll eat my shovel.

Mark Chapman, if memory serves. It's an interesting point, which the moderators will probably have to discuss, whether convicted murderers on death row are 1) famous enough, or 2) eligible to be included on the deathlist. The appeals process is long, so a death and its timing would be hard to predict, on the other hand, the present president of the US seems to have managed to speed the thing along a bit. I think the unwritten rules of the deathlist state that someone is not eligible if they are only famous because they might die. That seems clear enough. There are also quite a few executions in the US, enough that they wouldn't all be reported in the national press. I also feel it would be unsportsmanlike if, for example, someone made a DDP entry consisting entirely of people on death row whose appeals were running out. Many of them are under 50 and the suicide risk is also higher. Whether a celebrity's murderer could be allowed on the grounds that the murder made him famous, not the fact that he might die, is probably a matter for the Upper Echelons of the Deathlist to discuss at their leisure. My own position is that it isn't in the spirit of the deathlist as I understand it to include these unfortunate souls. Where the hand of man is involved, the element of chance/fate is much reduced, and with it the skill in prediction. With diligent research it should always be possible to find bona-fide candidates for the Deathlist without resorting to such cop-outs.

Never did us any harm though, a good thrashing, eh?

If I went around doing that kind of stuff, I would expect to get locked up too.

Well, if your starting point is that all Halibuts are all really, really bad guys whom we don't like, and who have no right to control so much of the world's oil supply, then you may be right. On the other hand, it's attitudes like that which have already got us into quite a lot of fine messes we could do without. I don't like Kilroy-Silk. He feeds off the ignorance and prejudices of the stupid. And now the deathlist bit: My considered opinion is that he isn't likely to die anytime soon.

A new leader then, for the the DDP. (Unique pick by Fallen Sparrow)