Black Scythe

What would the joint then be called? Its too far South to be called North Africa.

I confidently expect Clive to outlive all these suggestions for his replacement as DL mascot. Who do you think you are kidding Mister Hitler, if you think Clive Dunn is done?

Absolutely. That would be hugely symmetrical. You don't happen to know if the English Rugby team will be in Paris in September by any chance?

Ian Smith, frail and undemocratic though he may be, would still be an infinitely better Zimbabwean leader than the evil despotic Mugabe. Why is the South African Govt. so silent when so many people are suffering under that monster?

Please! Are you forgetting how he tongued Linda Evans after Roy Fitzwhat'shisname (a.k.a. Rocko Hudson) had finished lip locking her? Not to mention the amount of abuse he took when Joan Collins and Linda Evans kept knocking into him with those hideous shoulder pads (how did anyone think thye were fashionable?) Keep alive Johnny.....at least until December 31 of this year. That's a fair point. Come to think of it, that staircase at the mansion wouldn't pass health and safety legislation nowadays, especially after a few bourbons and a fight with someone from the Colby clan on the top stair.

I seem to remember Bill being heavily involved in Princess Di's anti-landmines crusade in the nineties. Now that he himself is in his nineties, there would be a certain symmetry involved if he pops off in September this year, the tenth anniversary of the Paris car crash which robbed us of the queen of hearts.

He never did anything remotely dangerous on Dynasty, unlike Linda Evans, who kissed Rock Hudson.

According to Wikipedia, Bill Deedes was born in June 1913, which makes him 93 at the moment, not 92 as suggested on the main DL 2007 page.

Skinny, politically correct Vegetarian Gender Studies lecturer BERNARD MANNING should definitely be considered for next year. I saw him on a documentary about a trip he took to India about 3 years ago, and I was surprised he got back to Manchester in one piece, never mind survived this long. He must be well up his seventies by now, and surely doesn't look the sort to make it to the big eight-oh.

They showed some of my favourite HB cartoon (Stop the pigeon) on the news today as an example of the great man's work. The odd thing about the cartoon, though, was that no matter how far away from the aerodrome dastardly was when he or his crew had their inevitable crash/plummet scene, they always seemed to fall back through the roof of the hangar again. How the heck did that work? Now Mr B. is dead, I'll never know.

He probably had a better death than those opponents who were thrown out of helicopters, or was that the Argentinian Junta? Its hard to keep track of all these guys.

Does anybody recall comedian Dave Allen mentioning Michael many years ago on his comedy show ( Dave's, obviously, although Michael as a comedian would have been good too). Allen had noticed that an anagram of the great man's name is ME CHATI FOOL. How ironic that the seemingly spry Dave Allen has long-since cashed in his earthly chips, whereas Michael strides confidently on towards his century.