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Fnarr fnarr ......

What does "white on rice" mean? I think it means wholesome or something like that Seriously? Ok. Let's try this. I'll be all over Dole like a cheap suit. SC "Like a rash" is my usual preferred simile.

I've noticed these seem to be on the increase. I'd like to see posts of this nature zapped. Distasteful and childish.

As well as burying Jade Goody. And the Krays. Did they do Ronnie Biggs? So his dad was an undertaker too - what else, with a name like Dyer. I remember watching the documentary series about the business.

Cark Carkorian.

What does "white on rice" mean?

Well, I've just seen one of his friends down the pub and she said nothing about it.

Oh, I don't know. Maureen O'Hara. No reason.

What about the grandson Winston Churchill (very imaginative these nobs), MP for Davyhulme and Stretford, died in 2010 Indeed, he was a DDP score for me. Another of his grandsons, Nicholas Soames is or was an MP.

Why don't you wait until you have confirmed reports before wasting your time posting crap? Because he just makes shit up.

The firs name my eye fell upon was Bill Maynard.

And even more of a shock in Dead Man Wanking. I'll get me coat.

Don't you mean David?... The one that always sticks in my mind is Steve.

Very sad news.

No she doesn't. http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jun/10/cookery-writer-marguerite-patten-dies-aged-99 She was on my very first DDP list, back in 2008.

Mortuary assistant Susan Sarandon gets a shock in Dead Man Talking

This is easy for me, as I don't use any of these anyway.

Delete the s in https

No, I meant that "my partner" now always implies husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, person you're shagging style of thing. Whereas it used to be a non-sexual word which was used for all sorts of things. Business partner, dance partner, tennis doubles etc. It still is used in these contexts of course, but you can't just say "my partner" any more without people drawing the wrong conclusion. You're probably right there, this sort of thing is media-driven. I've said elsewhere recently - I just hate the way the English language is being eroded. We had words that expressed precise meanings, which have become ambiguous through misuse.

No, you're not reading it correctly. There were three people in the car - the driver and 2 passengers. "... police opened fire at a car with three Singaporean men after they tried to crash through a barricade outside the annual summit's venue, the Shangri-La Hotel. The 34-year-old driver was killed and one passenger was wounded and hospitalized. Both passengers are now under arrest."

I always thought the possessive 's was a contraction of the old genitive form 'his'. As they would originally have said "John his house" or "Thomas his book".

That's a bit unfair on someone who genuinely was a close friend and nothing more! Assumptions can be dangerous - I once knew two elderly ladies who lived together, whom I assumed to be a lesbian couple. Turned out they were sisters. When I was growing up in the Seventies and Eighties there were a number of elderly spinsters who lived together but in many cases these were close friends who had lost fiances during the war and never entered into other relationships. I'll willingly give you any terminology to describe friendship of the hetero- deceased you can come up with besides 'companion'. You have a same sex 'companion', you're outed. Find me a single obit to the contrary and I shall change my opinion. SC I don't understand. Are you saying that the word "companion" is now exclusively a synonym for "homosexual lover" or whatever you want to call it? Because I for one don't use it as such. It would be a pity if it went the same way as the previously versatile but neutral word "partner".

That's a bit unfair on someone who genuinely was a close friend and nothing more! Assumptions can be dangerous - I once knew two elderly ladies who lived together, whom I assumed to be a lesbian couple. Turned out they were sisters.

Oops.

For me it's the insidious spread of the word "bathroom" instead of toilet (or any of scores of available words - lavatory, loo, WC, etc etc). "Going to the bathroom" has even become a synonym for urination or defecation, as with the child who "went to the bathroom in bed". Or "I was so scared I nearly went to the bathroom in my panties" (and she didn't mean she tiptoed along the corridor in her undies).