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Good call Twelvetrees, read it years ago and liked its slow, grim humour a lot.

The year is 2006 The Pope staged a last desperate comeback in the hope of seeing off the challenge from Richard O' Sullivan in the DL 'most hit/most posted' stakes.

Oddly enough, he might do a good Prince Charles. Some similarities in accent, age and grey hair. Only in the background though. We'd all be in trouble if he had to act.

Mebbe it's supporters of the last pope, horrified that the 33,000 odd hits here are trouncing the performance of their man on the DL.

Artificial! This thread has stayin' power, end of. The little diversion above is simply another demonstration of creativity and wit, something that's heavy in these 600+ posts and not too evident in the sit-com career of a certain actor. Just an idea, like, what about a sitcom where two flirty and lively lasses are sharing a rented flat and find themselves burdoned with the prematurely aged uncle of one lass, a man battling depression, drink and health problems. We could call it.........Shadow of a Man About the House. Just an idea, like. And since I've made two points already in this post and now I'm making a third it sort of balances out the posts where others might be accused of blatant running up of the post numbers.

I've just taken a peek ahead in the book I'm reading - Best of McSweeney's Volume 1. A collection of short stories, some great, some meandering garbage. Well impressed with 'Three Meditations on Death' by William T Vollmann. Combines fact and fiction to explore our favourite topic. Recommended, although buying the whole book would be a bit excessive.

The Viking's alcohol intake is legendary although he cut down his tonnage of beer in favour of white wine and - shock horror - bottles of water when he was in Celebrity Fit Club last year. That weight can't be doing his health any good but he doesn't look like an immenent deathster just yet.

How did he die and does the book devote a lengthy section to the circumstances?

Lively thread, kinda makes you wonder whether someone could corner a market here. You know, like Murder One with all it's crime books. Some Internet bookseller could set up specialising in books about death.

Our modest colleague didn't put up his own celebration but........ He's just hit 1500, he started later than me and I've just gone mental cos I hit four figures. Without you Windsor there would be less pickings for us all. About 7.7 less pickings a day to be precise. As George Galloway says.....RESPECT! [Merged topics - ff]

Why, that's the 600th post I see above me. This isn't a thread it's a big f*****g rope!

What do you call a man with no arms and no legs stuck to a wall? Art What do you call a man with no arms and no legs in a pile of leaves? Russell

Cricket suicides so common there are two books about them - Silence of the Heart and By His Own Hand - anyone read either of these?

Which makes him cool......right?

Many thanks for all the good wishes, much appreciated. Especially sweet since the WW1 veterans failed to show for the party last night. Don't want to get all luvvie on yers so let's let this thread slowly sink to oblivion where even I won't go to resurrect it and get down to the serious business of discussing death amongst the rich and famous and amusing ourselves as we abuse Richard O' Sullivan.

Oi! The man is a legend and worshipped around the darts playing world making him instantly recognisable - albeit to a cult audience - around the UK, much of Europe and places like Australia. So he's as famous worldwide - say - as a cult musician like Nike Cave. Also he didn't play badly in the first round - hitting an average just under 100 per throw. Because he'd gone out in the first round last year and spent a lot of the previous 12 months doing stuff like Celebrity Fit Club he was unseeded and found himself drawn against the no. 4 seed in round one, a bitch of a draw and probably proof that the tournament is fair since the same tie would have made a great semi or quarter final if they'd been more cynical. Plenty players went through the first round playing worse darts than The Viking. He'll be back!

C'mon guys, there must be a few that deal in the death business that make more interesting reading. I saw - but never got round to buying - that book called STIFF which was all about the uses to which dead bodies are put. Anyone read that and want to comment either way?

It's Friday, it's almost ten o' clock and I haven't posted a gratuitious insult in Dickie O's direction yet. He's crap! Ah, that's better, I feel a good day comin' on.

He's only 76 in August, this might be a mite ambitious. Lengthy pedigree, albeit a tonnage of tack evident on the imdb

In view of some posts on my Twunt thread it's time to drag one bag from the bowels of the list and talk Lemmy again. Let's keep this thread rockin' until the great man turns 60 on Christmas Eve. A question for yers all Is Lemmy cooler cos he's unrepently rockin' on at 59 than a few of the others - like John Bonham - who cashed in their chips a mite earlier?

On tonight's evidence - stay in. I went down the pub, stood in the rain for 15 minutes and not one of them WW1 veterans showed. I'll let off Claude Schules since he lives in Oz but Harry Patch, Henry Allingham and the rest are a disgrace. Honestly, you turn 100, get an honorary degree and lose your bottle. With an attitude like that how did we win the first world war? Had a couple of drinks and came home.

Right, I'm off to The Miners, to put some licks on Harry Patch and his pals. It's raining, hope that doesn't cut the crowd numbers in the car park.

I'm sure I posted this information months back but highly recommended are: Thomas Lynch - The Undertaking and Bodies in Motion and at Rest - two corkers about working as an undertaker. Bert Keizer - Dancing With Mr D - Highly poetic and highly inventive book from a doctor who sometimes hands fatal doses of medication to the terminally ill and sits around to watch them go. Sherwin Nuland - How We Die - Doctor tells all about what happens to your body and why it sees you off. I've cut down on my butter intake since reading this.

Point taken, mind you the tireless efforts of the medical profession to revive important dying people are a constant source of frustration to some of us posting here.

BHB you're a few short of a twunting but from yer posting name to your ready wit, I think you've got the staying power.