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Same age, both well faded icons of seventies fashion, both totally dependent on the care of others to keep breathing and keep their bottoms clean. Like twins, I tell ya.

Either way, I wouldn't want to be in his gang!

That's uncalled for. Before he passed out and went on life support Bestie spoke highly of you.

It speaks volumes about her age that the abortion would now be pensionable, had it survived!

Not so. Whilst there are a few people - like Richard O' Sullivan fan(s) - I love to wind up I'm don't have any problems with gay people. I'm serious about this which probably means the rest of you will start taking the piss. The point I was making about West Cumbria is that it is summat of a backwater where forward thinking is concerned and it is true that the one and only gay bar is a plucky little small time operation that took years to start and is unlikely to keep the management in flashy cars and foreign holidays in the near future. Passed the place many a time without a mob behind me.

So could you but you wouldn't recognise it from that description. I'll print it off and show it around work. Granted, things are not entirely as narrow minded as I've painted them up here, but hopefully you get my drift and I'm not far wrong. Some places hold a gay mardi gras as an 'event', up here one guy buys a round in our one gay bar and his twelve gay mates consider it progress.

Entirely possible but the door is well locked. Any organised gay event is probably a festival involving two consenting adults. If you want to prove me wrong yer welcome to walk into any local pub and ask loudly where the local gays hang out!

CP, I take yer points. Thought raising her profile might be useful in terms of prompting a greater authority than IMDB to post some information. Are we sure she's in good health? All I've managed to discover is that she's still alive.

So this is what we do. Once George Best croaks we film Dickie O in his present predicament and get him to add his acting skills as he mouths a few well written lines. We sell the results to ITV as a one-off drama: 'Bestie, The Final Days.' All the Dickie O fans will tune in, millions of pounds of advertising will be sold and we'll all be minted! C'mon you legions of Dickie lovers, make it a hit.

Since he kicked the heroin Keef hasn't been all he seems. A well attested story suggests a journo interviewing him got an insight into the great man's longevity. Keef, sipping Jack Daniels during the chat, had to leave the room to discuss an urgent business matter by phone. Whereupon the journo helped himself to a sip of Keef's tipple only to discover it was cold tea!

Luise Rainer probably is famous enough, and turns 96 next January. Most of us here don't know her simply because so much of her busy career took place long before we were born.

Give that man a half-twunt!

Technically speaking, it isn't. It's the cumulative impact of a combination of factors. Hence its irregular showing on the subjects of our posts. Brooke Astor has looked after herself very well, meaning she's likely to outlive George Best and Muhammad Ali - who have both allowed their bodies to be subjected to serious punlishment - by decades.

It's the way he'd want it.

Awesome, they were on fire. Most of the tour under Lemmy's bullet belt and they were sharp, loud and solid. Some corkers in the set: Just Cos You Got the Power, Terminal Show and Sacrifice being amonst the unexpected highlights. Metropolis and Ace of Spades still sounding as good. Lemmy is alive and well. DL 2025, maybe.

Not in West Cumbria it isn't. Feel free to come up here and organise one. It'd give the rest of us a near-certainty for next year's DL!

I could tell a few about the time I was in Devon!

Thanks MG, it's always good to have an intelligent person around, makes a pleasant change from the Richard O' Sullivan fans.

Be very afraid Mr Outraged, the good citizens of TUNBRIDGE WELLS will hunt down the one who mangled the name of their town and visit outrage upon him. Or summat.

As of the news papers this morning - apparantly - the Vietnamese police are interested enough to start work on putting him behind bars for the rest of his natural life. They're often quite ambivalent about sex tourists but maybe GG is a little too obvious and - therefore - bad for the reputation of the country. Believe it when you see it. The man was last seen leaving his rented home on a motorbike with a 14 year old girl on the back.

Johannes Heesters Compared to yer average 103 year old the man rocks. If anyone on the DL speaks dutch I think an English translation of the news page on his web site might help us decide about his inclusion next year. Does the story with the beer drinking pictures say he's having a good time or getting plastered in the face of impending death?

But however bad things have got he's always been able to pull good looking women. Strange that!

Don't think there's a GG thread as such but he does make a fleeting appearance on the career suicide thread hereabouts. He's loaded - mainly from massive tour profits through the eighties and nineties - so can probably continue to flit from country to country in search of jailbait. Always an outside chance someone's dad or big brother might kill him.

Just an idea like, him, McGuinness, Paisley and a few others on 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here' only once they're there the TV crew pack up and go home leaving them stranded and surrounded by snakes and crocks. They could think of it as a team building exercise!

Now it's one day to that gig, and Lemmy's still breathing!