Rotten Ali

a feeling of deja vu? That's because we did it to death in the thread under Gerry Ford. Not only that we found out info on a "named person" by Illinois Uni' Prof' and his politics class that it was Fred Fielding pin-pointed as "deep throat" Thing is I don't know the current state of his health.

Just had a quick rummage through our medicine tin and the brand of Imodium tablets we have are dark green and purple. Any doctors in the house to say what type of tablets are green and pale yellow? PS - for all the those of us who don't know one end of a java from your elbow, my Avatar is a simple microsoft paint file - page re-sized to be the maximum 96 pixles square and a block of text added in the middle. Then I think saved as a .jpeg image file type. Note to Amanda - if I can do it, so can 75% of anyone with a computer!

I bet this Jacko / hospital / flu thing is either just a big stunt to make us all feel sorry for the crackpot or more likely just another side effect of previous poor plastic surgery that means his nose would completely fall off if ever it touched a 2ply andrex tissue!

In reply to Cerberus - I've cut and pasted Rotten.com's deadpool list of GWB's family members and is quite lengthy in its self. (the final figure on each line being the number of picks each has from it's 35,000 odd players) so as you can see that the Bush twins Jenna and Barbara have 28 votes between them already. And just going to show how many people hate W and are banking on him being a target is over twice those thinking that his 22 year older father will die first! - failing this senario its Ford and Cheney (that dicky heart is bound to give out again) all the way for me in the DDP. George W. Bush Head of State 06-Jul-1946 43rd US President 1,179 George H.W. Bush Head of State 12-Jun-1924 41st US President 488 Barbara Bush First Lady 08-Jun-1925 First Lady of George H.W. Bush 143 Prescott S. Bush, Jr. Relative 10-Aug-1922 Brother of George H.W. Bush 23 Jeb Bush Politician 11-Feb-1953 Governor of Florida 20 Jenna Bush Relative 25-Nov-1981 Twin daughter of George W. Bush 20 Noelle Bush Relative 26-Jul-1977 Niece of George W. Bush 15 Neil Bush Relative 22-Jan-1955 Silverado Savings & Loan 9 Laura Bush First Lady 04-Nov-1946 First Lady under George W. Bush 8 Barbara Bush Relative 25-Nov-1981 Twin daughter of George W. Bush 8 Jonathan J. Bush Relative 1931 Brother of George H.W. Bush 2 William Trotter Bush Relative 14-Jul-1938 Brother of George H.W. Bush 2 Columba Bush Relative 1953 Wife of Florida governor Jeb Bush 1 Marvin Bush Relative 22-Oct-1956 Brother of Jeb, Dubya, and Neil 1 Doro Bush Relative 18-Aug-1959 George W. Bush's sister 1

In answer to: "you'resick" - I was allways told you should never talk ill of the dead. Maybe in some people's eyes it's somewhat acceptable to talk ill of the still alive? I was also brought up to say "if you can't say or do something nice don't say or do anything to hurt them". Well I'm sorry if the subject of very famous people like old politicians passing on is upsetting to their families. Then that's just a by-product of being famous in the first place. Just like being the target for an assasin. Did these famous people ever think that their own family members may get caught in the cross fire? It must be very nice to have the best connections, (just look at GHWB's little lad - George W Bush) and how well they get on in life. Must be a real drag - all those big events, pleasant company at grand parties and nice gifts. Shame that the dead foot soldiers of the rich nations never get a write up on these sites unless they maybe once played american football!

I don't think my spelling is too bad for someone who suffers from a bit of dyspepsia! LOL

Andrew Neil, on his political talk show on BBC2, asked Tim Bell (ex-tory stratagist) what sort of health Mrs T' was in. Bell replied that she was in quite good health - getting old, but because Mark is out of trouble, as good now as in any time in the last 3 or 4 years. What can we read into this? Maybe he gives her only 3 or 4 more years of life? or will the ups and downs of the tories in the coming election set her on her way to the political graveyard in the sky? Me thinks better bet in 2007 than this year or next.

From Ananova: Watergate 'Deep Throat' named Students claim to have solved one of America's greatest political mysteries by naming Deep Throat, the secret source who broke the Watergate scandal. It was former White House lawyer Fred Fielding who tipped reporters about President Richard Nixon's dirty tricks against his political opponents, researchers at the University of Illinois claim. Professor Bill Gaines claims Mr Fielding fits the characteristics of Deep Throat, as described by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in their book All the President's Men. "There's very little that we do not connect with him," he said, who led the four-year study that involved 60 of his students. As assistant to Nixon's chief counsel John Dean, he was in a position to observe the cover-up of the 1972 break-in at Democratic Party offices in the Watergate building without being accused of taking part in the conspiracy himself. Mr Fielding was also one of very few people aware of several "important, closely held revelations", the professor said. He knew about crucial conversations, helped inventory key documents, was shown specific FBI reports and prepared important White House staff for court testimony. Professor Gaines said the case was based on extensive examination of 16,000 pages of FBI documents and other Watergate records. "Everything that we have, we show there's a document. It's not interpretation, it's not guesswork. If it wasn't Fielding, I don't see how it could have been anybody else." After Nixon resigned in 1974, Mr Fielding went on to be the chief counsel to President Ronald Reagan and serve as a member of the Bush-Cheney transition team. He is currently a member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks. Mr Woodward and Mr Bernstein have said they will name their source only after the death of Deep Throat.

<<<----- hay guys don't look at me or my modus opperandi! For a start I've not got him in either of my two teams, plus my alibi says I've not been there for about two years! p.s. allegation being that it was OJ again!

<<<,---- On my first run though (richard) "Pryor" to detailed checking of age - illness etc, I had General Galtiari on my Derby Dead Pool list. Fitted the number one ideal profile - someone you don't mind one jot if death finds them in the least. Its a bit of a shame I'm new to the organised picking and marking off, we seem to do. I was always on the lookout for Idi Amin to get a visit from the grim reaper and when the news came over that he had died in 2003 I shouted out with glee. Add to that the many years Reagan went on for - he would have been on my team for sure. R.R. was still was in one team called Beer Button entered into the DDP this year, as was Peter Cook? 09Jan95 was very nearly ten years to the day! I think the lad was barking up the wrong tree 'cus the whole team has now been withdrawn!

<<<------ sick as a mule for not having that old German Max"Smelling" in my Derby Dead Pool team. I'm falling down it, almost as fast as on my other dead pool site (or would be if my new friend Rude Kid kicked S.B. to update faster than "when time allows") - that of rotten.com's.... http://deadpool.rotten.com/ Now thats a site for stiffologists if ever I saw one Loco! Pictures in their main site showing grafic photos such as Brazilian Ferrari sports car driver wearing lots of steel "armco" barrier, German motobiker without a jaw and nose after going that little bit too fast past his handle bars, etc, etc add in-finitem. They don't seem to be updating the photos now but the back issues are just too nasty not to miss! Anyway I'm holding down 3 out of 10 hits since the 1st of September, and positioned at about 1,809 of about 35,000 players. Any one else on this "deadpool.rotten.com" site also? I would like to cross reference every now and again with DDP and other rotten madcap types.

For those who have not seen the link to the New York Times letters pages, I enclose a cut and paste of the letter from Steve Martin to the late Johnny Carson. I post it because I'm off and running in the Derby Dead Pool with his sad passing. The Man in Front of the Curtain By STEVE MARTIN Published: January 25, 2005 Los Angeles DEAR JOHNNY, This letter comes a little late. I remember seeing the tape of my first appearance on your show, on a home recording, a reel-to-reel Sony prototype video recorder, probably around 1972. What my friends and I ended up watching was not me, but you. It's almost impossible to look away from oneself onscreen, but you made it possible, because there were lessons in what you did. You and Jack Benny taught me about generosity toward other comedians, about the appreciation of the plight of the pro, as valuable as any lessons I ever learned. Your gift - though I'm sure you wouldn't have called it a gift - was, as I see it, a blend of modesty and confidence. You wanted to do the job and do it well. You allowed the spirit of your idols, Stan Laurel and Jonathan Winters among them, to creep into you, and you found a way to twist their inspiration and make it new. In you I saw simplicity, joy, politeness, sympathy. Your death reminds me of the loss of America's innocence, the distance we have come from your sly, boyish leers to our flagrant, overstated embarrassments for parents and children. If I could wake you up for a minute, I would ask you to tell me how good you thought you were. "Between you and me," I think you would whisper, "I know I was great in a subtle, secret way." I think you would also say: "I enjoyed and understood the delights of split-second timing, of watching a comedian squirm and then rescue himself, of the surprises that arise from the fractional seconds of desperation when the comedian senses that the end of his sentence might fall to silence." Your Nebraskan pragmatism - and knowledge of the magician's tricks - tilted you toward the sciences, especially astronomy. (Maybe this is why the occultists, future predictors, spoon-benders or mind readers on your show never left without having been challenged.) You knew how to treat everyone, from the pompous actor to the nervous actress, and which to give the appropriate kindness. You enjoyed the unflappable grannies who knitted log-cabin quilts, as well as the Vegas pros who machine-gunned the audience into hysterical fits. You were host to writers, children, intellectuals and nitwits and served them all well, and served the audience by your curiosity and tolerance. You gave each guest the benefit of the doubt, and in this way you exemplified an American ideal: you're nuts but you're welcome here. We loved watching baby tigers paw you and koalas relieve themselves on you and seeing you in your swami hat or Tarzan loincloth, and we loved hearing Ed's ripostes and watching you glare at him as though you were going to fire him, but we knew you weren't. We, the millions whom you affected, will weep inside when we see the reruns, the clips of you walking out from behind the curtain, the moment in the monologue when a joke bombed; we'll recall your deep appreciation of both genuine and struggling talent. Because you retreated into retirement so completely, let me thank you, in death, for the things I couldn't quite say to you in life. Thank you for the opportunity you gave me and others, and thank you - despite divisive wars and undulating political strife - for the one hour a night across 30 years of American life when we were entertained purely, delightfully and wisely.