Slave to the Grave

Now there's a band. Yat-Kha Somebody's been talking like a pirate too much. Did like their cover of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' though.

You've overlooked Charlie Bronson's large portfolio of poetry haven't you TF.

Absolutely fine old chap. Kind of you to ask.

It be Davy Jones' Locker fur the squiffy. Aaaarrrrr.

Arrr Jack, a fine shanty. Makes me feel like swashbucklin' wi' a wannion. I be wantin' that thar shanty when i makes me way to fiddlers green. arrr.

Avast, 'E be a landlubber an a scurvy dog. 'E be for keelhauling. 'E be the son of a biscuit eater. Yo-ho-ho.

Shiver me timbers! I see you've recieved DLCC's formal statement too: Arrr, Hein Bless my barnacles... I'm glad to see ye land lubbers have embraced the day... the black spot to ye that haven't... SHIVER ME TIMBERS, Ahoy there me hearties, I be pleased to see thee gentlemen o' fortune on me furner. I be loaded to the Gunwales and ready for swashbucklin', no room for the lilylivered.

Nice weather for it anyway.

For me, it would have to be 'Disco Inferno' by the Trammps.

Wish my Mum would do things like that.

Sounds a bloody good idea - what part of the world is that? C'est La France M. Le Corps Vil.

Now, that was a poem.

I've always thought something should be done about those road-side chav-shrines where some twat of a boy-racer has pranged his 205 and the family has lashed the overweight, acne-ridden, drunken dickhead's football shirt to a lampost with a couple of £1.99 bouquets. Perhaps a better and more socially useful approach would be to suspend the body (or bodies if his fu*kwitted mates and tattoed girlfriend were in the car too) from the lampost in some sort of medieval gibbet. Might make his peers think twice before they overtake on the inside at 90 mph.... In this part of the world, the latest disincentive for reckless driving is to leave the wrecked vehicle as close as possible to the scene of a fatal accident. Great disincentive, but a little upsetting for passing relatives I should imagine. Having said that, saves having to find somewhere to hang the football (or rugby) shirts and flowers I suppose.

He's been in and out of bad health for years, every time he has a new album to promote in fact. He will live long enough to see the great "Blues Based 80's Rock Revival" no question about it. So his illness will be REAcurring then. Yes, most unlikely to REAch a ripe old age.

Just a quicky, which sort of links the current discussion on the world wars and September 11th. There is a theory that the greatest military blunder of the 20th century was America joining the British side during the 1st world war. If they had sided with the Germans it could be argued that the 2nd world war, the holocaust, the dropping of the atom bomb, the problems in the Middle East, the 'cold war', and September 11th would never of happened. Over simplified claptrap I know, (and probably covered in one of notapotato's links, which I will get around to reading) but as realistic as the notion that a defeated Britain would have ended up speaking German.

Hello Iain! Well done for joining at last. You must have been close to breaking Banshees' record for not registering.

Who?

Not necessarily.... Given that Mr Gomes thought it was a boy goat, I found the following a bit disturbing:

30 days hath September.....etc. etc.

How about 71 year old smoking, sun-worshipper Brigitte Bardot as an outsider for next year's list? I noticed an advert for a magazine as I was driving past today which said that she is having health problems. It said something about 'a last chance operation'. I didn't catch which magazine unfortunately, but will check the local tabac when I get the chance. Further research reveals only that she has recently missed a number of 'events' for her charity the 'Brigitte Bardot Foundation' due to ill health. I couldn't find any details about exactly what the problem is. It is also worth mentioning that in 2004, she was fined €5,000 for inciting racial hatred by saying nasty things about the French Halibut population (the largest in Europe) in her book. Possible target?

I think the important thing is to always carry a bucket.

From a fan site. Not exactly life threatening.

Maybe with chips?

Just a general observation BS, not aimed at you my little cockle. It means simply that the people who think they are the greatest generally are not. It's a bit of a colloquialism and therefore Babelfish etc tend to be a bit far off the mark. It's probably true that all our avatars are little sh*ts as well!! Apparently Kenneth Williams was a complete merde!!

Mr Cousins doing the Stray Cat Strut. Every Ice Queen's dream.