Toast

Katie Melua did a cover version for Premier Inn adverts last year. Not sure if the adverts are still being shown, but that could have been what started you thinking about the song. Is that what I keep hearing on the telly? Dreadful version. It's keeping with the trend of taking a popular song from about 20-30 years ago, playing an acoustic version with the tempo slowed down. I think that trend started when companies started to use Eva Cassidy's version of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" shortly after she died and her family started hawking her songs around. That was a criminal record if ever there was one. Torturing poor little songs like that is pure evil.

Darn! Ah well, at least I'd swapped him into my Rotten DP team.

I am very sad to hear this news. Katie Melua did a cover version for Premier Inn adverts last year. Not sure if the adverts are still being shown, but that could have been what started you thinking about the song. Is that what I keep hearing on the telly? Dreadful version.

I too have broached that as worthy of bonus consideration, but no one nibbled.

This was discussed last week in the 'Astronauts' thread. http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=1528&page=12

I found this today. Don't take drugs, kids.

Is that... is that hair gel?

That is a very good point. I have also observed an insidious deterioration in the quality of loo paper. They seem to be making it thinner and flimsier, and the sheets seem to be smaller than they used to be. It's, well, crap now.

Salvador Dali, 1989

He was convicted of manslaughter, for which the "standard" penalty is 8 years, but the maximum is 15. First offender, one year off: seems ordinary. What's the rate where you live?20 years but he clearly killed his wife her body was found in the house for crying out loud. The maximum penalty for manslaughter in England & Wales is life imprisonment. The sentence is usually less, but not always, as in this case.

Straight after we see this widow using her husband's funeral to advertise hunting gear. There's just so much here that is wrong. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3400398/A-fitting-resting-place-Craig-Strickland-s-widow-reveals-country-singer-buried-type-tree-body-nine-days-going-missing-hunting-trip.html

It's Italian. Who knew? But the ever-helpful Wikipedia has even more for us:

Nah, they take too much commission, and you have to pay Paypal as well. I might give it to somebody as a wedding present or something. How can anybody buy something that shares the same name ( slang) for a mans cock cheese??????? This is one of the great mysteries of modern life.

The same in the UK, although I think it goes to 31 December.

I've got a Smeg toaster (RRP £100). I won it in a competition. It's still in the box.

Ahem

It took him 18 months, but at least he did it with dignity and in private without having to notify the media every 10 minutes. That's what I meant.

I think I prefer the Bowie approach to dying. Just do it.

Auto-correct and predictive texting can also have this effect, especially if combined with alcohol.

Was the book titled "How I did it"? He lived up to his name, didn't he.

When you've been here a bit longer, you'll realise that the Committee please themselves. They don't have an obligation to listen to any of us. I'm grateful to them for providing this forum where we can discuss other deadpools - and natter, fight and banter amongst ourselves about anything.

This says he died "last month" "Craig Strickland's wife revealed that her husband was buried under a cedar tree - the same type of tree he was found under after he died last month" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3400398/A-fitting-resting-place-Craig-Strickland-s-widow-reveals-country-singer-buried-type-tree-body-nine-days-going-missing-hunting-trip.html Yes, I was surprised to see that he was allowed. It always seemed highly unlikely that he survived his friend for long, if at all. ETA Blimey, his missus looks remarkably cheerful in that graveside photo.

All looking good at the opening of a new themed restaurant today. None of them will be going anywhere for a long, long time: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-21/abba-reunites-for-opening-of-mamma-mia-venue-tyrol-in-stockholm/7104016 People probably thought that about Ed Stewart.

Sold a toaster to magnus Magnusson about 20 years ago.He didn't know what the cancel button was for. Stuff toasters, buy a toasting fork and do it over the fire. While we are on the subject, I bought (and get by pretty well) a cheap two slice beuaty which promptly sets off my fire alarm located 15' away. I bitched on FB about this and a handyman cousin of mine informed me that there are special 'kitchen' fire alarms that eliminate detecting the ions the toaster puts out. So special in fact that instead of $6 they are $30 or summat. So 7 years later I still waive a broom at my fire alarm whilst making a slice of toast.So up yours, toaster makers, and a two-finger salute to fire alarm makers as well! SC I have to take the batteries out of my kitchen smoke alarm when cooking certain things too. The blasted thing carries on shrieking even when I press the reset button. It is not intelligent enough to understand that that means "it's OK, I'm just searing a steak, everything is under control". So that fucker can go into Room 101 as well. As for toast I prefer to use the grill.

I wouldn't be surprised if it were true her health had gotten worse, but that photo might not even be her, or could be Photoshopped or something. Remember when they had a photo of Mary Tyler Moore from 2013 with her that looked like she was in a wind tunnel or something? Mary didn't look nearly as unhealthy or senile as in that photo when she appeared on Hot in Cleveland that same year and did an interview. The "Then" photo looks like it's from the 1960s or 70s, so who knows. LOL that it actually says "sad last days", still I don't suppose they're to know that phrase attracts ridicule here.