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  1. Posted

    Tassos Papadopoulos, former President of Cyprus, has been flown to an American clinic after experiencing "back pains". It does seem rather a long way to travel to get an aching back treated...

    Tassos Papadopoulos is now said to be suffering from lung cancer. :skull:

     

    It's breaking news. You called it Devon.

     

    More breaking news - Papadopoulos has died..

     

    Indeed, excellent call DDT. Now can we please have 50 more just like that for DL 2009. You have 19 days .

     

    Thanks,

     

    CR

  2. Posted

    Former Grand Prix driver Xavier Perrot has died, after many years of ill health - Link (In German)

     

    His wiki page is a little confusing, as on the one hand it lists his proud Formula 1 career of competing in exactly one race, the 1969 German GP, for which he won no points, but then it also states:

     

    "Although Perrot raced in a World Championship Formula One event, he only raced as part of the Formula Two class, and never raced in a full Formula One World Championship race."

     

    If the DL entered a team on Mastermind, we could do a lot worse than have F1 as a specialist subject.

  4. Posted

    Veteran Actor, soldier, singer and golfer Christopher Lee is 86. Still working, darling but for how much longer ?

     

    Very interesting suggestion, AtJ. Christopher Lee is a perfect example of what the DL's all about. Everyone's heard of him, he's old (and looks just a heartbeat from death in the pic near the bottom of his wiki page), he loves cigars, yet he continues to make movies. There's lots of trivia tidbits about him (including that he is pictured on the cover of Wings' Band on the Run, surely the greatest album in rock history), and he's been in some of the biggest movies ever, including the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings series, and of course a Bond film.

     

    The DL should honour him with a lifetime achievement award and put him on for 2009. Heavy lobbying on his behalf will be undertaken at the Committee meeting.

  5. Posted

    At 43 Emily Firmin is not bad looking

     

    As someone who's never seen Bagpuss it seems amazing how much impact a show with only 13 episodes had on so many Brits. Someone gave their kid the middle name of 'Emily' because of the girl on the show. Who is apparently not married, Phantom, if you fancy throwing your hat into that particular ring. I hear she's Firmin all the right places.

  6. Posted

    Threads with 101 pages

     

    I'm sure we can arrange to have another page added as soon as we can :birthday:

     

     

    Yes.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    We.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Can!!!

     

     

     

     

    Do I owe royalties to President elect Obama, or Bob the Builder?

     

    [Edit - bah, it looks like it doesn't matter how much space a post takes up, it's 15 always posts a page. I could have put this in a new message, but posting right after yourself in an internet forum is ever so gauche.]

  8. Posted

    An interesting nugget off wiki in honour of Eli W's birthday:

     

    "Wallach is central to one of the most infamous show business legends. In 1953 he was cast as Angelo Maggio in the movie From Here to Eternity. He was abruptly replaced by Frank Sinatra before filming began. Sinatra went on to win an Oscar for the performance and revived his career. Legend has it that Sinatra used pressure from his reputed underworld connections to get the part. That story inspired a similar incident depicted in the classic 1972 film The Godfather."

     

    Wallach went on to appear in Godfather Part III.

  10. Posted

    Riddle 1

    You are outside a room in which there is a traditional light bulb. You can see three switches, of which only one turns the light on. You can flick the switches on however many times you like but you can only open the door once. Once you open the door you cannot sod about with the switches. How can you determine which switch controls the light?

     

    Can we peek under the door?

    You can try, but Strata the Psychedelic Snake is on the other side.

     

    Given that most snakes, especially psychedelic ones, are light sensitive, see if the snake moves when you flip a switch. If he doesn't, then it's not that switch.

  11. Posted

    Riddle 1

    You are outside a room in which there is a traditional light bulb. You can see three switches, of which only one turns the light on. You can flick the switches on however many times you like but you can only open the door once. Once you open the door you cannot sod about with the switches. How can you determine which switch controls the light?

     

    Can we peek under the door?

  12. Posted

    So is it as I fear... everyone listed on the Dead or Alive website on the over 85+ page picked out of a hat (drunk would at least make it fun). Is Ruby Mohammid going to be on next year's list?

     

    Thanks for asking, Misey. No, Ruby Muhammad will likely never darken any future DL's. That was a bad pick.

  15. Posted

    Er.. Isn't that what the Ideas & Possibilities thread (not the sticky, the one done by CP) was set-up for? Most people use it, so why not DL, as that was the reason why it was created.

     

    I get your point O3. But Miser is right. Ideas and Possibilities has too many random posts, "so and so went to hospital", therefore he or she gets suggested. This thread seemed to be more about working towards the actual 2009 DL, with suggestions by regular posters who get what the site is about.

     

    Anyway, two good nominees that I'm sure the Committee will discuss in great detail over the fifth pint.

  16. Posted

    OK, some interesting suggestions so far. Going forward, in this thread can people please put a supporting reason why someone should be considered a DL candidate for 2009. A link to a relatively recent news article, a picture showing the person in frail health, an anonymous insight from a family member that so-and-so "has gone home to die", etc. If there's been tons of news recently and the person has already been discussed on the DL, then presume he or she will already be on the Committee's radar, e.g. Swayze and Seve. It's that extra bit of specialist knowledge that someone's secretly just weeks or months from death that would be really handy. The younger and more famous the better.

  18. Posted

    Oh, and also sh*t off wireless broadband.

     

    I'm writing this on my laptop which is oh so convenient other than the fact that it took about 4 evenings to set the arsing wireless upb.

    Sweex? sh*t Off.

    Virgin Broadband with your 'Buy our Wireless Transmitter for twice what one should costb, or it's almost impossible to get the settings correct? sh*t off.

    Microsoft Windows? Obviously sh*t right off.

     

    I had a problem with BT wireless broadband, and now have a big cable connecting the white BT "home hub" to the back of my laptop. So it's not exactly wireless, and I usually have to turn the computer, the hub, or both off and on at least once a week to re-set, but it does work most of the time.

     

    If they can put a man on the moon, why can't......

     

    Oh, wait, they didn't.

  21. Posted

    The blonde one out of Abba

     

    It's been less a sulk and more mental health problems there, hasn't it?

     

    Nothing about that on wiki or on this website about her.

     

    http://www.agnetha.net/AGNETHA.html

     

    --------------------------

     

    Rest of Abba: "Agnetha, they're offering us a billion dollars to reunite. Do you know how many kroner that is?"

     

    Aggie: "My looks have faded, men won't look at my bum anymore".

     

    Rest of Abba: "In 2008, our music is almost as relevant, and certainly more respected, than it was back when we recorded it".

     

    Aggie: "That bitch Frida sold more solo records than me. She hates me. She's always hated me. She's jealous."

     

    Rest of Abba: "They just made a movie based on the wildly successful stage show, named for one of our songs. It was crap but millions of people went to see it. They even sing along, right there in the cinema. To recorded music. Every concert we give will be the musical event of the year in wherever we play."

     

    Aggie: "I vont to be alone."

  22. Posted

    People with more than 12 items in the express lane at the supermarket.

    Selfish cnuts. Hanging's too good for them.

     

    12 items or less checkouts.

     

    Fewer fewer fewer fewer fewer fewer :rolleyes:

     

    And people who sneer at you for taking a trolley through them. I do have 11 items actually, the trolley is for the baby :banghead:

     

    I was once in a 10 items or less fewer supermarket queue, and the woman in front of me had about 15 items. When I pointed out the sign, she advised me, "Oh, some of these are for me, the rest are for my friend" (who of course wasn't even in the store). She then proceeded to make separate payments for her two purchases, one with (presumably her friend's) cash, and one with her own credit card.

     

    Unbelievably, had I murdered her on the spot I'd have been the villain of the piece.

  23. Posted

    Jorn Utzon - Danish architect, famous for the Sydney Opera House. In failing health for years, and unable to travel any more due to illness & frailty, turned 90 this year.

     

    dead

     

    So the Sydney Opera House was finished in 1973, has been an iconic piece of architecure for essentially all of its 35 years, and the miserable git stayed in such a strop he never went and saw it in person?

     

    He can claim his rightful place in the list of longest running Scandinavian sulks, along with:

     

    Greta Garbo

    Bjorn Borg

    Ingmar Bergman

    The blonde one out of Abba

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