Toast

I'm not sure if there is a Demolition Thread, if not perhaps there should be. Anyway, it is a sad day in Didcot as three of the iconic cooling towers of Didcot Power station are due to be blown up in the early hours of tomorrow morning. Expect thousands of people to turn out in spite of RWE Npower's killjoy efforts to stop people watching. Until last year when Didcot A was decommissioned, the six towers, as well as being a landmark for many miles around, were much-loved "cloud factories" http://www.bbc.co.uk...dshire-28487288 (with link to live streaming - if you're awake at that hour) Edit to add - that is bloody annoying. I have posted images from Geograph often before without those crappy labels appearing and ruining the photos. I have contributed to the site myself and disapprove of this new development.

And Dora Bryan's death has caused a minor stirring down below. I've awarded points to the two teams that picked her. Oooh, I say, missus.

Billy Mackenzie Isabella Blow L'Wren Scott Angela Scoular ............

Thank you. I think you'll find Dora scores panto points as well.

And she's generously handed out another tip http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10832932/What-to-say-to-a-35-year-old-mother-dying-of-cancer.html

His obit headline practically writes itself, doesn't it?

whats the point of investigating it? They're all bloody dead anyway! Are they going to put their corpses on trial? Minor channel gold...bring it on!! I agree - I can see Channel 4 going for that. (p.s. who the hell is Chapman Pincheras? Is he the Spanish version of Edward Snowden?) No, that's Eduardo Iglú. Pincheras, isn't that how some of these slimeballs start their abusing?

I expect it's also problematical if you seek information on the TV presenter Gay Search.

What a bloody horrible name.

What about Rockaway Beach, wasn't that a hit? I had that record back in the day. Thinking about it, it might have been on a compilation album though.

Why the fuck would she "celebrate" the 10th anniversary of her husband's death.......? You utterly thick fucking guest-twat-wankstain mong. FOR THE 789945TH FUCKING TIME. SHE IS NOT. A FUCKING. SCOUSER. AND NEITHER ARE MOST FUCKING PEOPLE IN THE U.-FUCKING-S. YOU GORMLESS CUNT. YOU ARE SO FUCKING INBRED YOU ARE PROBABLY YOUR OWN FUCKING FATHER. From the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary: Celebrate, v. ..... 2. To observe with solemn rites; to honour with ceremonies, festivities, etc. Just saying. I'm sure if I looked in enough weird old dictionaries I could find one where "minger" is defined as "someone I want to fuck" but no-one ever uses it to mean that. And no-one ever uses celebrate to mean "observe a solemn event" so....... yeah, no. The OED is hardly a "weird old dictionary", and you are wrong about the use of the word celebrate - it is still used as I quoted, although obviously it is also used in other contexts.

Why the fuck would she "celebrate" the 10th anniversary of her husband's death.......? You utterly thick fucking guest-twat-wankstain mong. FOR THE 789945TH FUCKING TIME. SHE IS NOT. A FUCKING. SCOUSER. AND NEITHER ARE MOST FUCKING PEOPLE IN THE U.-FUCKING-S. YOU GORMLESS CUNT. YOU ARE SO FUCKING INBRED YOU ARE PROBABLY YOUR OWN FUCKING FATHER. From the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary: Celebrate, v. ..... 2. To observe with solemn rites; to honour with ceremonies, festivities, etc. Just saying.

Haha, I can see you really like bread. Another thing: Toast rhyhmes with ghost, which is also death-related. Well .... it doesn't really have anything to do with bread. The Ghost of Toast .... hmmm .... I may use that - later.

Winnie Johnson was not "famous for being ill", she was famous, or shall we say in the public eye, because she was the mother of a Moors murder victim. Is Anne Williams the Hillsborough campaigner? I'm not sure to what extent she was in the public eye. I don't know who Steve Evans is or was. When you say "All of these people would have obitted if they'd have been hit by a car rather than having cancer" I think you hit the nail on the head. If that's the case, then they're not just "famous for being ill",

I too don't really approve of "terminally ill non-famous" picks. It just seems to go against the original spirit of dead-pooling. I don't think keeping an online diary makes someone famous, nor a celebrity, in real terms. 99% of the population will not read it, and beyond a passing glance at a paragraph in the Daily Mail or similar, will have no clue who these people are. Same with fund-raising campaigns - at the end of the day (no pun intended) they are only Famous For Being Ill.

I'm genuinely quite disturbed by this worrying trend. Why are people assuming that the work of disgraced artists must be suppressed or destroyed? There's plenty of classic art, literature, music, films etc whose creators were dodgy people. By the same token, if say a builder gets done for some infamous crime, they don't go out and knock down all the houses he built, do they? No. Well then.

Would that be old and doddery?

Thanks so much, tmib, for a sound job well done and carried out with grace and humour.

A unique pick for my theme team Toast Of The Turf .... Well, well, look at that, I could have had a double

He's a pretty big name.I'm surprised he was never on the list Mebbe the difficulty of the spelling, eh? Not like Zsa Zsa! For me, he fits into the "people I didn't realise were still alive" category.

Agreed!! I fucking LOVE Rolf!!!! I do impressions of him when I get in a really hot shower - 'ooohmmmm aahhhmmmm mmmmmm ahahahaa oooo mmmmm' - and my second cousin was on Rolf On Saturday OK! in the 70s. So he's all right by me. Funny you should mention that because Rolf has to be very careful when he's taking showers from now on.IF you drop the soap don't bend down to pick it up Rolf ! Know what I mean... At least Oscar Pistorius won't have that problem.

It was Brown Bread. Sometimes used, in the tradition of rhyming slang, to mean "dead". Toast is, in a way, another kind of brown bread, so I thought it a good substitute. And "toast" can also mean dead in a sort of threatening context, as in the phrase "if I catch him doing that, he's toast" Plus on a cheery note, it's drink-related. So all in all, I think it a much better name than Brown Bread. There's also a DDP team (not mine) called Brown Bread, which might have caused confusion.

Spoooooooooky!

Lets hope so , i think that certain popstar is prolific as Savile was. TBH I don't, I think Savile was a reptile so low the only thing that turned him on was breaking a taboo. The "beloved popstar" is more plain in denial. I doubt he has rings made from the glass eyes of the dead etc. Or that he did his dead dutchess when she finally popped her (very ancient) clogs. "Duchess"? I do hope you don't mean one of The Stranglers, cos I'm going to see them next week Apparently "Duchess" was what Savile called his mum. I know. I was joking. Sorry, DJL, I had forgotten you were an Aussie so perhaps I should have explained that "Duchess" is a song by The Stranglers.

A. Because that would be a douchebag thing to do? B. Also even if they wanted to they couldn't be arsed. C. It's probably fun to imagine them trying to remember what their passwords are 5-10 years later, like an old Alzheimer's-riddled bat trying to remember what year she got married in. About once a year I do a pruning session, in which I remove members who have registered several years ago and never logged in again. Members who did log on even once stay, because of A. regards, Hein I can confirm this. I once mentioned in passing that I had originally tried to register in a name that proved to have been taken. Much much later I was contacted by one of the mods/admins and given the option of using the name, as there had been one of these periodic culls and the member in question had never posted. I declined the invitation, but appreciated the gesture.