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    When ever i hear about Zsa Zsa Gabor i always think of my aunt

    who passed away about 6 years ago at the age of 99.

     

     

    So your aunt would be about 105 if she were alive today? How old does that make you BS?

     

    Perhaps you'd like to be considered for next year's list. :o

     

    And I've just noticed we already have a Zsa Zsa thread.

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    Well I'm a "youthful" 42, so I'd like to think I have a while longer, though I suppose I must be somewhere around the half-way line. :o

     

    I only know a couple of Libertines and one Babyshambles songs and from what I've heard the amount of column inches generated by this buffoon is considerably in excess of his talent. However, as it seems he's determined to do a Jimi Hendrix before long I suppose he ought to be on the 2006 list, assuming he makes it that long.

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    I hope I don't have an immortal soul .... I really don't want to spend all eternity with Cliff Richard & The Pope

    Why, they speak so highly of you! Actually I wouldn't worry about that, Janeo - I reckon you're going to the Other Place. I'll see you there perhaps :huh:

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    Surely this guy is immortal!

    That link didn't work for me, I got the "This menu has been disabled" message.

     

    But I am impressed that the Deathlist has been going since 1987 (making it rather more than 14 years old). How many people had Internet access in those days? I reckon the first few lists were names scrawled on a sheet of paper and pinned up on a notice-board somewhere. Only transferred onto a website in the mid-1990s :old:

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    I reckon you're onto something there Windsor - I feel a "thread within a thread" coming on: "Who were you looking for when you first found Deathlist?" I just wanted to know if Fay Wray was still alive - can't remember why, probably just a conversation I was having with Mrs C - she was at the time.

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    Thank you, Mr J. It seems that you and I are in the minority here, although I readily admit that in my case it amounts to no more than wishful thinking. After all, having an immortal soul would get pretty tedious after a few hundred years, unless we are somehow re-born with no memories of our past life/lives.

     

    Did anyone see a series run on ITV a few weeks ago? A series of "celebrities" (first subject: Paul Ross) were hypnotised and recounted episodes from a previous life. Not surprisingly, all had some fascinating tale to tell, * none of them was a peasant who got the Black Death or died after falling into a bog.

     

    None of them claimed to have been Richard the Lion Heart or Napoleon, though. :blink:

     

     

     

    * actually, I didn't see the whole series

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    Don't know if you'd call him a folk singer (probably not) but Roy Harper has been knockin' on Heaven's door for a while, with various ailments physical and mental, and balladeer/singer-songwiter Dan Fogelberg has been battling prostate cancer, but I don't really think that they, or anyone else mentioned here would really qualify on the famous front.

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    Good thread, I've been wondering for some time when we'd get round to discussing this. I'm with Josco (I think) on the life-after-death business. Logic tells us that there can be no conscious existence after death, because a "spirit" would want to be able to see, hear, think and feel (asuming it could do all these things in life) and we know that when a person dies their brain ceases to function.

     

    And yet, and yet ... is it just clutching at straws, but each and every one of us is imbued with a unique and distinct personality, which alone sets us apart from the majority of other species. Could this be the basis of the soul? And could that soul somehow survive the death of its parent body and find a home elsewhere? It seems so implausible, yet nobody has or can prove that it doesn't happen. Nobody knows what it feels like to die, it's the last great unsolved mystery.

     

    That's all from me, I'm up far too late as usual. :deadx:

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    Thing is, not many of us can spend half an hour a day saving the lives of starving people in Africa (BTW, since when was "Poverty" restricted to Africa? Are there no poor people in Asia or South America any more?) I'd love to send some of my disposable income, but the last time I dared to check my bank balance it was £867 overdrawn. :devil:

     

    I'm watching Pink Floyd at the moment, by the way. I only recognised David Gilmour. Is Roger Waters back for this gig?

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    Whoever it was can't have done a very good job - that's only a thousand words per volume. Shouldn't take too long to plough through that little lot - it can't be more than about 8 or 10 pages.

    Yes, that very thought came to me at about 9 o'clock this evening. Perhaps he used a lot of long words, or maybe it should've read three million, but then that whole counting thing would have been even more mind-boggling.

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    I'd love to know if anyone here has read his book. Life's too short to read a three-volume, 3,000 word history of the Civil War, or anything else for that matter. Who has time to read that - and, more to the point, who found the time to count all those words? <_<

  25. Posted

    Well, his political career may be finished, I wouldn't know, but why suggest him on here? The man's not 60 yet is he? Anyway, I'm sure he's making a lucrative living on the lecture circuit and no doubt there'll be a book or two along the way.

     

    Incidentally, as the previous year's runner-up in the presidential election, I always figured Gore must have been a relieved man on the evening of September 11, 2001. Someone else's problem! But then again, if he'd got in, maybe the attacks wouldn't have taken place - we'll never know.

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