Death Watch Beatle

I have left the topic description free 'cause I couldn't think of a witty line to put in it, I'm sure someone will help me out. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/t...dio/4082691.stm Anyway, good ol' Hep strikes again! DWB

Do you still want this to happen or have you sobered up now? DWB

Have just finished reading Edmund Hillary's account of the Everest victory - "High Adventure". And thoroughly enjoyed it, but then again, this is my sort of subject - South Pole Disaters, Mountaineering Maybe's (Mallory and Irvine) - pushing yourself to the limit stuff, but to the less convicted reader, it is a bit "Got up, had breakfast, climbed a bit, got cold, had lunch, snowed a bit, went to bed, got up, had breakfast . . ." Anyway, written in '55 (I think) so a pretty good account I would suggest. DWB

How do you post in a relaxed manner? I inevitably find myself sitting down facing the screen. DWB

Death by Goboff. It's new and exciting! DWB

I thought it was a mammal albeit an aquatic one! It has fins, a tail and swims in the ocean. Therefore, it is a fish. Just like Whales. I think you'll find Wales is a country, not a fish. Jellyfish on the other hand, don't have fins or a tail and are quite obviously fish. They are also one of the main ingredients in pork pies. Probably. And, as this is the internet and will be soon Googlefied, it's got to be true. Or is Wales a Principality? DWB

LG previous quoted Moray as being Morayshire. I'm telling you, nobody knows what goes on with these areas, especially the Scots. DWB

Thank you both for your input. It just strengthens my argument when one posts a definitive list and another then adds two more - and you have to admit there are some pretty obscure ones in there! Also my poor geography tells me Berwick is in England (only English team to play in Scottish league?) So how does Berwickshire come to be? DWB

Scottish Shires! Where, oh where, did all those obscurely named shires come from? Are they all legitimate or do people make them up? It would seem that any Scottish town has a fair chance of being within it's own shire. Can someone (Windsor?) actually post up a list of the legit. shires of Scotland. Examples are Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire John-O'Groatshire anyone? DWB (who isn't welcome north of the border any more)

So, a severe case of conjunctivitis could re-write physics as we know it.... Maybe this young physicist doesn't understand at all. If a man started winking at me on a regular basis I think it would be backs to the wall. DWB

A bad day at the IoM TT. See also the motor racing thread. DWB

Has anyone said that the new logo is a bag of shite? Oh, about 6 million people so far. DWB

The apprentice at work (bless him), when asked who George Foreman was, replied that he was the cook off the TV adverts. I rest my case. DWB

Getting slightly off topic now, but this morning our local radio station played the wonderful version (from 2004) of Pulp's "Common People" by William Shatner and Joe Jackson! Has to be heard to be believed - it's actually damn good! Also, I remember getting chatting with a very prolific session musician at a party once. He had worked on stuff for Paul McCartney and confirmed the story about "sound engineers isolating Linda McCartney's microphone at a Wings concert, and recording the result" (quote from her Wiki entry) and said that the same used to happen in the recording studio also. Enjoy Shat at your leisure here. DWB

An excellent quote from the posters' signature: "My first priority is to finish above, rather than beneath the ground." - James Hunt DWB

and his voice was never the same after that. First squeaky and now croaky. DWB

The amount of spam this sites attracts now is considerable. Every day the mods. delete for Britain, and every day admins. update the ban filters in any effort the stem the tide, but we do feel a bit like King Canute at times. If one or two spams get missed occassionally, it doesn't surprise me, but be assured that this is a very small percentage of the tat that does get picked up by the management almost constantly. Just because some admins or mods are not visibly posting on the forums doesn't mean we are not here working to make the DL a clean and tidy place for you to post in. DWB

To do this safely, keep your foot on the accelerator and break lightly with the other so that it doesn't actually slow your car down - helps avoid an arctic in your rear seat. An ex-colleague of mine, when faced with tail-gaters, would flip on his side lights. The red lights at the rear would appear, to most drivers, as brake lights (especially if they weren't paying close attention). Has the same effect, without losing any speed. Of course, this only works when it is light enough not to need lights during the day, which in Scotland rules out around 9 months of the year On a theme, I find that, if on a busy motorway, people try and undertake me (is that the correct term?) a quick application of left indicator and a pronounced swerve to the left of my lane usually makes all but the most hardy stamp on their brake pedal. DWB

Ever so slightly off topic, but i found this quite impressive. DWB

You said it! See the Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. pure B.5, as a noun meaning dogs' dung. DWB

English and Arsenal...hmmm... good point Dr. H. All those Arsenal goals rattling in, yet I could barely tell if Walcott was playing. . . . and Justin Hoyte played as well - 2 English out of the whole Arsenal team. DWB

Can our antipodian friends keep her this time? Please? regards, Hein No, no, no MH, you've got this all wrong. I'm just back from taking Mrs. B to see her show at Wembley and jolly good Kylie was too - very easy on the eye. My portable babe-o-meter red-lines at 10 and she was way over that IMHO. Great viewing material, poor DL material. DWB

Keep up DWB!: Momofuku Ando Oh yeah. Oops. DWB

Mr. Pot Noodle dies. DWB

What a strange thing - earlier on this evening I was cursing at the news that Evel Kneivel was was deaths door, because I had dropped in from my DDP at the last minute in favour of Mr. Magnusson. Funny old world aint it? Still, should of had both in there really. DWB