Monoclinic

Looks like the little fellow on the left has had a surprise encounter with a deathlister. All very adorable.

CRAP - Cumbria's Remarkably Alive Pool? I think it's a good idea. Then again I'm new to all this deadpooling malarkey. I just had a look at the rules of this one and it looks like one needs 25 hours in the day to come up with something. Is there a random button that just automatically picks a team that sticks to all the bylaws like in fantasy football? Either that or I'll ask people to message me a name at random and one that complies with a theme and I'll go with that.

Thankfully, no. I'd remember.

Have you ever been to Middlesbrough? I nearly threw myself out of the car, a la Brian Harvey, it was that depressing. I can quite understand. I went once for a job interview. (Chemists work in the shitholes of the world, official, no wonder they jump on any old smart/bio/technology start up bandwagon) The company then paid for a taxi back to the station (they took me to Darlington, just as bad) and there was an almighty thunderstorm. Black bits were falling out of the sky, I kid thee not, as I walked across to the station. Furthest North I'd ever been in England, hasn't influenced me to return. As for my favourite cities, it's hard to choose but here is my potential top 5 (sorry for the Euro slant!) Krakow - I loved it, and it rained for most of my stay. 20p for vodka albeit pre EU prices! I'm a sucker for a town with mediaeval charm. Bratislava - purely for its street art, like the man poking his head out of a drain or the peeping tom, again cheap booze, again I'm going on pre EU prices though. Buenos Aires - The Paris of the southern hemisphere (so yes, it too is a little dirty and populated by a few "it's not my problem" types) get beyond that it is fantastic. Me encanta! Which was lucky as I had to visit Argentina quite a bit as a child; however I’ve been back by myself which says the family holidays weren’t under duress! Freiburg im Breisgau - Has these cool one inch deep rivulets of clean water running through the streets. If ever that was attempted here in Britain I'm sure we'd still find a shopping trolley, welly boots and lots of fag ends floating by. Bologna - Porticos, pasta and a pub crawl* around the student area. *Well it would have been except we never managed to leave the Irish bar we'd popped in for a dirty happy hour cocktail. If anyone has any tips on Ljubljana and Zagreb I'm off in a month or so and would welcome the suggestions.

Dave, I think you missed a few threads. There are some threads still unaware that Merv Griffin is dead. If you are going to do a job do it properly. Then again some people may actually read more than one thread on this board thus rendering your task fruitless, especially since you have had to type in a code each time.

If you were a registered user then you wouldn't have to punch in a code. I'm guessing you didn't notice the spell checker either. Might have alerted you to the space bar (you know the really long key at the bottom of the keyboard).

to perpetuate in fame You're wasting your time with this mouth-breather, NAP. It ain't looking good, is it? What is a mouth-breather - I've heard the expression many times but never really knew exactly what one is? Is it any relation to a window-licker?

I used to love Newman & Baddiel, Reeves & Mortimer, Smith & Jones and Mayall & Edmondson, which I am sure many will deride me for because it is not old skool enough. Do Cheech and Chong count as a comedy double act?

I have every faith that there exists a "smart" material for the job, however for the greater good I think you should consider changing your avatar. Sorry Anubis, I think I'd prefer to see Timmy and his Mallet than Paul and Barry, then again some people probably don't want to be reminded of Keith Harris and Orville! I think you should consider a page on the DL forums where someone with a BBC voice would alert the general public about potentially disturbing images on this site.

[rant] This is exactly what concerns us scientists. Falling standards and the inability to recognise famous scientists. I have been into schools and worked with pupils before and seen for myself the difference in what they are taught and that is in just a decade. I would hate to compare my education to that of some of the older members on this forum. They in turn would be shocked and appalled at the low level. I think to a certain extent the modern comprehensive system is failing the more intelligent pupils as they are not pushed far enough and from my own experiences being able to pass school leavers exams with little effort and study did not give me the right "study attitude" when I needed it most, at university. These days there is a huge number of pupils leaving with straight A's at GCSE (UK exams @16), though my parents inform me that it was extremely rare for a pupil to get all 1's at O-Level (the exams that were replaced by GCSEs in UK, 1 being very good!)[/rant] I thought I had made it as clear as could You may not know the names of the scientists but the average man or woman on the street has a lot to thank science for - probably more than one has to thank a politician. TELEVISION, TELEPHONE, GPS, INTERNET, MICROWAVE OVEN, MODERN MEDICINE... I let you think about the rest of the day to day things that you couldn't live without. I am completely with Twelvetrees, he summed up what I was thinking a lot better than I did (me thinks he has O-levels not GCSEs!). Death is relative. As is the media spin on things depending on where you come from which is probably why some of us Brits are disagreeing with some enteries on Chicago's list. Maybe it doesn't help starting with a random year which so happens to be the death of a very famouis American. From over here we might have chosen to start with the death of King George VI (52?)?

Sorry to be sentimental but would have to be my grandparents. Okay I may have been briefy shocked that Kurt Cobain killed himself or Richey Edwards disappeared but real life moves on. Celebrity deaths, it's not the winning that counts just the taking part

I am with the you can't really single out one person from anyone year as the most significant. How significant is a politician dying when they've been retired and the world has moved on? However, if this is significant I would like to try to even out the balance. Thus far it is mainly a list of famous politicians and artisans (music/film...) who have died. There aren't even that many sports people mentioned - I'll leave OoO to put in a bit of footballing action. So to address this I shall add some scientists to the list, to accompany the mathematician (Bertrand) and the Nazi scientist (Mengele) OoO has mentioned. Though I see them more as equations and theories which easily outlive a person! As I said before (in a strangely not too dissimilar thread) that deaths didn't really stop me in my tracks if they occurred either before I was born, or when playing with friends was number one priority and current affairs was for boring grown ups. James Chadwick: Physicist, Nobel Laureate and Discoverer of the Neutron - '74 Feynman: Physicist, Nobel Laureate, Manhatten Project Worker, Master of Supercool '88 Heisenberg: Physicist, Nobel Laureate, Manhatten Project Worker, Master of Uncertainty '76 Oppenheimer: Physicist, Manhatten Project Worker, Master of Approximations '67 Francis Crick - Physicist and Molecular Biologist, Nobel Laureate, one of the discoverers of DNA '04 ...and that's just focusing on the phsicists! I think however considering the title the deaths of Martin Luther King, Malcom X, Diana are more significant than those of film stars, politicians etc. who had lived a full life and were not really shocking. I predict the next thread to be of the they died to young vein... Oh and there is always Granny Helen from Neighbours, everyone was talking about that stroke for a while.

Expanded for LFN Wizards: Rhymes with Larry Trotter Geocaching: Finally someone's found a use for their sat nav other than navigating their petrol guzzling 4x4s around the extreme terrains of Surbiton. Horcruxes: The things "Larry" and his mates had to seek and destroy so they could all live happily ever after and have loads of kids. Oh, yeah sorry if you are a slow reader, I should have put a spoiler alert that Hermione didn't bloody die!

Morgue mixups I confess, I couldn't help but laugh at the last two lines...

The thing is with world records is the annoying f'cker sitting in the tub of cold beans, eating 5,349 hot dogs and tap dancing for 13 years always tries again to go one better.

...and I read books about wizards that geocache for horcruxes.

Vintage footage of DDT as a nipper Is this your local dealer DDT?, if not you could try looking here or here. Hope this helps. BTW you are not the only one who thought Phil was dead. James May did too. (Scroll down to quotes)

You got to watch out for these coroners. Like angels of death, killing off the sick and dying before they can do it themselves. I guess you mean his death has been reported to the procurator fiscal?

No and no. Curious - bollox, research purposes - bollox. A high percentage of the population have morals and know right from wrong without having check that wrong is in fact wrong. I'm sorry but I have to disagree with most things you've said and if any download was by accident I hope people would have the gaul to report the relevant sites to the authorities. I guess I'm not a serious internet user if what you say is true but I hope I am not the only one. I am of the mind that NOT everyone on this board has downloaded such filth as you suggest. I cannot be sure as that would involve assuming, which as I've said before makes an ass of u and me.

We have a winner!

Maybe he's got a few pic-a-nic baskets to spoil Yogi on his birthday!

...and three Gits died in 1974 and two more in 1994. I didn't realise you could get that level of information, so naturally I had to search futher. Turns out Willy died in 1987. Wonder what from? Link doesn't seem to work directly, however here is my evidence, you just have to put "an" where the ** is and an http at the front (I had to take that out to stop the automatic hyperlink). I guess that means my earlier Wa"y"nker - the y graph didn't work either! ://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=0&gsln=w**ker&f7=1987&db=ssdi&gss=genfact

I'll wager that it's not his windpipe he puts candles in. Lard, this thought did occur to me as I formulated my post, but I thought I would leave it to someone with a more depraved mind than myself to post it! It is a windpipe of sorts What I meant to say is it is a sort of windpipe. - I blame the French for messing with my word order logic.

Apparently some arse died in 1969 Edit - There are more stats for this family. Out of interest anybody know any Wan...oh, nevermind.