Death Watch Beatle

Quite right Moosey - blatant Spamming (I love that word now I know what it means!) I have disabled the link, but if people really feel the need to find out more, the clues are in the name! DWB

Cartier-Bresson is a unique pick for the DL (so we get back the point we lost for him being ancient). So by the DWB ready-reckoner, we are equal second, and right back in the title race! DWB

I suppose we really do have to thank God for that! Things were starting to get desparate! DWB

What a great bit of history from honez. About 5 miles from where I live, we have 114 Anzac graves at St. Mary's church, Harefield - the victims who died of their wounds at Harefield hospital - now more well-known for its heart transplants. I love all the nicknames: The Sniper, The Gunner, The Last Witness???? I don't actually understand that one can anyone explain? Also are the nicknames a product of the journalists over-active imagination, or have they carried these titles for some time? Anyway, great history, but, alas, probably not DL qualifiers. DWB

Now you've got me thinking about it, Timothy Dalton wasn't all that either! DWB

Roger Moore was pony, but George Lazenby . . . ? DWB

Latest on Ms. Love: http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=863602004 DWB

The story has now appeared on the net for those who are interested. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_ob...-name_page.html DWB

One of Saddam's lawyers claims the ex-dictator has suffered a minor stroke and may die before his trial. This news was in today's Metro, but I haven't found it anywhere else, so how true this claim may be is debatable. DWB

As most of us will know, Mo Mowlem was given the all-clear from her brain cancer some time ago (1998?), but does anyone here think there is a chance it has returned? I only ask this because I have recently seen her on a breakfast talk-show and she was rambling off-subject, didn't seem to know when to stop talking, talked over other people and got different countries mixed-up (worryingly calling Iraq Iran more than once). I know what you are going to say - these are the normal traits of a politician - but what if ... DWB

Just for the hell of it - picture number 3 - our old mate Pat! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/3927343.stm DWB

Mary-Kate is now out of hospital: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3929891.stm By my calculations, she has been receiving treatment in hospital for over a month - a watching brief perhaps? DWB

Gordon Smyth perhaps? See last few paragraphs of this article for more info: http://www.sport.telegraph.co.uk/sport/mai...24/ixsport.html DWB

I am not convinced she is out of the woods yet. I saw a picture of her in yesterdays paper and she looked very frail in a wheelchair. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objec...-name_page.html I particularly like the word 'deadly' in this news article. DWB

RK mentioned him in the Patty Andrews thread a week or so ago - good work RK! DWB

I read in todays press that Iyad Allawi has had a bounty of £150,000 placed on his head by a leading Al-Qaeda member. The pressure builds. DWB

Hymn and Hearse DWB

If the number of picks goes up to ten, can I suggest the following name: The Decimation Game DWB

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3897481.stm I have doubts over whether a 'faceless' individual from a well-known band actually passes the famousness test. Singers usually have a big enough profile, but bass guitarists? DWB

4H - Here is the missing piece of bone preservation info you required: It would also seem that flesh doesn't survive in boggy conditions, but bone does, so the old Moggy's skeleton would have been OK, if only I didn't live in a low pH area. Shame! DWB

Three, Two, G-One - The Body Bagging Game DWB

I'm not good at witty names: Three's a shroud Told you so! DWB

3-4-6 (ft. under) DWB

Using Teddy's table of factors, I was wondering how our cat that got squashed on the road 3 years ago is doing. He's buried in the boggiest corner of the garden, wrapped in one of my old tee-shirts, in a shoe box at a depth of about 9 inches. My wife (who instructed me to bury the wretched thing in the first place, as opposed to my idea of slinging it in the back of the car and whizzing down the local municipal tip) is now suggesting that if we move, she would like to take him with us! Me thinks there isn't a lot left to worry about. DWB

My observations of the seemerot corpse are much the same as Stayin. I looked in coffin some months ago, and I can't make out any noticeable changes at all. Last year a body of a women was found by hikers in woods near me, and the papers said although she may not have been there that long, it was hard to identify her, to the point where they were asking if anyone knew of anybody missing that may fit her description. Perhaps the local wildlife had left their mark, but decomposition must play a part. Very curious. DWB