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Boudicca Looking at yer picture there I was wondering if you ever worked at our friendly local nuclear power plant: Sellafield.

This is a mug's game.....oh, okay Brooke Astor.

Wasn't this guy the idiot who died standing in the bath and changing a light bulb whilst he had his feet in water? Nice suit!

A young woman is standing on a street corner with a short skirt, low top and two broken arms in plaster. ~ You in business love? Says a man. ~ Yeah, she says back, but to tell you the truth, I couldn't give a toss tonight.

The man above speaks the truth, although - of course - there is some variety amongst us and the people we discuss. It'll be sad and moving for me when Muhammad Ali finally dies. I think I'll cope without too much trouble when Richard O' Sullivan's room at Brinsworth House is listed as vacant.

As an aside in this debate on Ali's remaining brain cells there is a sad story in King or the World - David Remnick's masterful account of three heavyweight champions - Floyd Patterson, Sonny Liston and Ali - and the significance of the heavyweight title in the volatile times of the sixties. Patterson, called as a witness at a hearing into the way boxing was run couldn't remember when and where he'd won his world heavyweight title!

Nope She turns up every once in a while on those 'I've got a secret' types of programmes and/or articles in the press. She's in her forties now. Think the clown is long gone to a landfill somewhere.

Well if we use that criteria the cat strolling along the roof and opening Coronation Street for years is a bigger legend than Dickie O could ever hope to be.

Even in his present condition he'd probably be a better president than George W Bush.

Absolute class, that's my Christmas shopping sorted.

He says: Walker We say: W**ker.

They tried a dozen other actors but they were all too good and convinced nobody they were Richard O'Sullivan.

Check my post above. It'll never be proven either way since we don't have an Ali who avoided boxing to compare with the real one. His family and the man himself take the line that it's unproven but boxing may have contributed. Most experts in the field think boxing is obviously a contributing factor if not the entire cause. The strongest evidence would be his ability to soak up punches in his later career, useful for winning fights but dangerous in the long term and the length of his career. His Parkinsons had probably started to set in before he turned forty, again not generally the case with the population at large and evidence that it might be boxing related.

Apart from the one-off dark comedy 'Holed' in 1996 which wasn't 'his' show, just a film and a guest appearance playing himself in a later film which 'new shows' did he make into the mid-nineties?

'Best' was - it must be said - a sorry excuse for a film. Did no justice to his footballing skill and less to the man himself since the main performance was so lacking in charisma.

That's a sore point with the Ali family. They insist not, so did he when he was still in a position to insist anything. His doctor Ferdie Pachecho quit for the last few fights because he thought Ali was shipping the kind of punishment that would lead to central nervous system damage. Also, his winning style in later fights of soaking up punishment left blows raining in round the back of his head and down his neck, prime sites for sustaining the kind of damage that would lead to Parkinsons. There is a condition known by the slang name of Boxer's Parkinsons, so called because certain locations in the brain - like speech centres and control areas for the CNS - sustain damage as they are close to the main points of impact for punches. Ali's case has some similarities with Boxer's Parkinsons but his motor functions deteriorated more quickly than BP cases whilst his speech hung on longer, though now it's in bad shape. Terminal Parkinson's cases can lose so much motor function that other causes - like Pneumonia - see them off. Something that seems possible for Ali. That wet cough he's sported for a few years now is an ominous sign.

He must have caught it from doing too many interviews with Michael Parkinson. I'll get me coat.

The poster above joined at the start of the month, posted once and p***** off. I mean, he might be dead himself. As discussed elsewhere this BEGS THE QUESTION what we do with our own deceased.

I'll endorse the truly unique charm of Has Been, an album like no other of late. Ben Folds also deserves credit for musical arrangements that take Shatner to a level that mocks The Transformed Man, his previous album. The man would be a massive hit onstage at Glastonbury.

Culled from a comedy central web site, the details below relate to Trouble In Mind. 1991 vintage and Dickie O's final television series, not one mentioned by our posting pals from his - ahem - Appreciation Society.

Days down there must be so busy you're struggling to fit in those all important lessons on spelling, punctuation and grammar.

He's also not averse to appearing in the national press, something he's done a few times of late. He's something of a media natural, always seems to have the right quote. Assuming the rules were bent/reconsidered I reckon we'd do what the Germans couldn't and see him off.

If they leave his body out in the sun for a few days he'll go Jolly Green.

Perhaps if the DL mods developed a 'Post-twunt' t-shirt line for everyone over the 1K mark, they'd get the respect and recognition they so richly deserve.

Mr Alan - or whatever you call yourself next time you post - let me get this right. First off, you've stopped arguing the man is indisputably great and you've also avoided the challenge to source the 'media hype' we were allegedly repeating. Now you're saying I shouldn't use my own ability to think for myself to back up my argument that Richard O' Sullivan is a limited talent because people will think I base my 'onion' entirely on this. A couple of points: 1 - You based your previous argument firmly on the same line, praising your independent thinking and stating it all came down to 'wheat her' or not you liked Dickie O's work. 2 - I've blatantly not limited my arguments to my own opinions - something you've noted by picking up on other bits of the said arguments - the others posting about yer man's limited talents have also thrown more than personal opinion into their savaging of his output. Anyone following this lively little thread - as a few seem to be - will take this on board and realise our collective 'onion's are widely sourced.