Tuber Mirum

By the grace of God, Heesters makes it to 108. The concert he had planned for his birthday has been postponed but is due to be rescheduled for some time within the next 10 years.

Except that he isn't German. The Bild "newspaper" (Your first stop for inaccurate sensationalist bullshit) is running with this headline today: Sick Heesters (107) promises he'll make it to 108.

Well rock cake doesn't contain rocks in very much the same way that Battenberg cake doesn't contain Prince Phillip.

Onwards and Upwards!

I miss the thread subtitles. A lot of creative thought went into them and now they seem to be gone.

The dialect of the North East of Scotland is a product of millennia of culture and inbreeding tradition. American "English" isn't.

It all makes perfect sense to me. And entertaining reading.

Bruges strikes me as a lovely idea. That film was brilliant.

I think it's a perfectly normal reaction. An honest way of saying "I don't know anything about that so let's talk about something else". Certainly preferable to trying to bluff your way though a conversation where you could potentially embarrass yourself. They say the cleverest people are those who know what it is that they don't know.

I do believe I have a hit. Unique too! If ever proof were needed of the necessity for punctuation:

Sounds good to me. Are we talking about this year? Because there isn't really much left of August. If so, the 22nd or 29th of October would be fine for me, or the 12th of November. The 5th too at a pinch. Otherwise I daresay August 2012 would be all right.

Vicco von Bülow, great German humourist, better known as Loriot has died.

Happy birthday Josco! Who's still here who remembers the days when we two were the top posters on the forum?

Bloody hell!!!!! Bruges? No wonder I couldn't find you, I thought it was in London. Yeah. We kinda, like, wanted to be alone, y'know.

That's me (on the right) and Six, at the last DeathCon. In Bruges. How did you get hold of that picture? It's top secret.

I was coming to the conclusion myself, that I might have made a small faux pas in that respect...

So who would you add? Lets see your list. Edit: My list - remove Bazalgette, add Murdoch. I'd add J. K. Rowling, she's certainly had a major impact in publishing and her Harry Potter novels will likely endure the test of time. and the other 9? I did mention Drew Barrymore earlier

Well that was too easy, wasn't it? Sadly I can't show the image directly due to forum Rules, but here it is. Your turn Mr Toast.

No, not Einstein.

Some more eyes. Whose are these?

No, not Marlon. Now I'm curious, what connection has Marlon Brando to Margaret Rutherford? Is it Tony Benn? Margaret Rutherford claimed Marlon Brando once sent her a love letter. I read it in her biography.

Lionel Jeffries.

Marlon Brando?

My first thought was Herbert Lom.