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If I was Mrs Hogan I'd be ringing a showbiz agent and going down for Celebrity Love Island, and any other excuse for making money without doing any real work. Erm.......I'll see meself out, alright.

Who said immenent death Phantom? Only Iain I think. A 'noticeable improvement' means he was almost clinically dead now he's desperately ill. He's fat, he's old, he's got serious health problems. Have faith. Not this week, but probably this year and almost certainly in the WDP window. Respect to a fighter but he's only going to get better if he's up, about and exercising....of which there's no chance unless the things we thought we knew about his brain are lies. I think this is one ariel from which the signal has gone, permanently.

The last presidents to suffer serious assassination attempts - Ford and Reagan - seemed to derive an odd benefit in terms of longevity. I hope no-one takes a pop a Dubaya.

And if you win, she's forced to use the strength she's been pretending not to have to clean OoO Towers from top to bottom every day and have your tea ready on the table when you come home from a hard day of watching cars going round in circles very fast.

Somebody will have to take all the little pieces of Airfix and - like - assemble them into a thing of beauty. Kinda fitting really.

"We still have to go home and watch Jane die." Honestly, I mean, they have a choice. There's loads on telly, bowling alleys, bingo...you get my drift. I await OoO's comments on today's developments.

If and when people start twinning web sites the way they twin towns, I reckon we should join with that lot in the above post.

Top ironic rock death, mind, has to be Scott La Rock - rapper - sat outside in a car whilst warring gang factions inside the house argued. Scott went in to make peace and got shot dead for his efforts.

Twelvetrees, that's a hatchet man post if ever I saw one! Re Pip Pyle - yeah, I second the above comment. Incidentally, also on the Canterbury percussion theme the current lack of activity from Caravan is largely down to the poor health of drummer Richard Coughlin. The band have committed to play in November at what may be their final gig. Their official web site went down last week. When it was last up there was no detail on who'd be onstage for that November gig.

Does anyone else remember the interview Wogan did about 15 years ago with a couple who'd set up an organisation called - I think - Together Forever. Their belief was that via healthy living and the right diet they could avoid death. I can't find their web site, in fact google the phrase and you're bombarded with reminders of Rick Astley. I'm only askin' because the death of anyone in their organisation would be totally ironic.

Give her Iain's phone number somebody, I feel a beautiful romance coming on.

For all rant fans, there's a cracker on the Nick Du Toit thread, with a superb pithy retort from Tempus.

Aye, but if Iain's gone we might be in for some hits. His predictions of death did seem to boost the health of those mentioned. They'll all die without him, or summat.

In terms of off and on topic we could - like - just merge this thread with the football thread.

Mebbe I was a bit hasty, papers and other media today reporting he needs physio for limited movement down one side. Guess he's played his last charity game.

It's a toughie mind, if he wants to go and half his family think it a good idea, not to mention folks who read The Sun......

Handy, our little Manx minx I think it's time you stopped the repression and shared this Carpenters thing with the group. No pain, no gain and all that!

Such a feelins comin over me, there is wonder in most everything I see, and the reason is clear, it's because you are near, your love's put me on the top of the world. If she'd meant a word of that she wouldn't have starved herself to death, would she? Mind you, the all time irony king was George Formby, in the early sixties, out of time, out of touch, widowed and faced with a heart condition that could kill him at any moment he recorded his last minor hit: 'Happy Go Lucky Me'

No follow up chemo or radio therapies eh? A walk in the park by our Bobby's brush-with-death standards. Can't help feelin' he'll be back in forum action sometime soonish mind.

Bruno man, it's a temporary blip whilst I still lack the dignity of labour on a full-time basis, doubtless when I'm back to work the posting will slow down and those more concerned about sharing the podium with the invincible Tempus will overhaul me. Frankly, it's not summat that's kept me awake of late. Though BS's absence has been noticed around the place.

If only she'd sung about that the world might remember New Pickettywitch. S'funny innit, the ones with eating problems and f**ked up lives are often those grinning from ear to ear and singing happy pop songs.

Plunge Death Dad on Suicide Watch Question is, will he make it to Christmas?

Harsh OoO, very harsh But fair.

From the diary of her ride. I mean, fair play to the lass it's an achievement, but on the other hand I'm smelling the DVD of the book that was also turned into the life affirming series of articles before the reality tv documentary.....all for charity, of course. Do you think Madonna would want the movie role, it'd appeal to any high profile female celeb hiding an eating disorder behind an apparant addiction to exercise? Just askin', like.

Entirely my point guys, I wouldn't consider listing the sorry chore (that's Cumrbian for cartemaway, Bruno) for 2007. But the hideousness of the crime will give him lasting cult status, certainly whilst he's alive and once his name becomes a byword for the worst case scenario in a domestic argument he'll have achieved celebrity status of a sort. As a yardstick, Ronnie Biggs will be obituaried by everyone when he goes. Had he died on the day of sentencing in the sixties there'd have been an outcry to see him so treated. Time changes everything, or summat.