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Tony Benn?

Is it a cre8tiv spelling of Lauren, do you think? I have no idea how it's supposed to be pronounced. Newsreaders were pronouncing "Le Wren", as if identifying a small songbird in franglais. She changed her name from L'uann. So her friends could still call her L' for short.

Oh! I thought it had been reported that she had bile duct cancer (like Ray Manzarek). Doesn't sound too good for her then.

I probably can, but maths has never been my strong point.

Luckily none of my secret shortlist are there Seriously, OoO, that's a shame but understandable. Glad that you'll still be maintaining a presence here, though.

Is it a cre8tiv spelling of Lauren, do you think? I have no idea how it's supposed to be pronounced.

I went to see The Selecter last night. 35th Anniversary tour Pauline and Gaps in tremendously good nick. Skankin' good evening.

The staff discounts must be good.

There's a road near me called "St Peter's Close". Quite appropriate for the Deathlist.

Hopefully you'll be taking some of the advice.

you just need to sit down ffs..........not be pretty, take a while, but fuck it. Nope, still not understanding how that works ffs......... LOL..... sorry Lardy, but I've been chuckling away watching you being confused and annoyed by this. I'm not sure I 100% understand it myself but I'm pretty sure it's just a choking thing. You don't need to be suspended as such. They simply choke themselves - if you dangled your head from something with a belt around your neck it'd eventually asphyxiate you, you don't need necessarily your feet to be off the ground. In fact, I think that in "proper" hangings, where people get lowered from gallows or whatever, the usual cause of death is a broken neck caused by the sudden height drop, especially with the thick rope around one's neck. So there you go. Yes, that's what confuses me too. I would have thought the survival instinct would kick in. But maybe you black out really quick, is that it?

She's so fucking old she must be the one person who's been on his show in the last ten years who doesn't immediately think of cocaine when she hears the name. Why wouldn't she? What's her age got to do with it? His Blue Peter career might have slipped under her radar, I grant you.

Could somebody explain how it's possible to hang yourself from a doorknob? (Especially if you're very tall.) Shouldn't you have to jump off something, or summat. Open the door, tie a rope or summat around the knob that is on the other side of the door you are standing against, drape the rope over the top of the door, make a noose, stand on a chair, put the noose around yer neck, kick the chair away and yer dead, or summat. Ah, the other side of the door, I see. That's still quite tricky for someone who's 6' 3", surely. Not a nice way to go, I'd imagine. Erm, actually in the one film I saw it happen in, it was just a really, really short noose/piece of rope that you tie to the doorknob on the same side you're on........ no slinging a rope over the door or anything like that. Pretty simple really. I also saw it used in an episode of The Wire as a murder method, when some character was killed for being a prison snitch (I think, can't be bothered to double check). The auto-erotic accidents (like Hutchence) were short ropes on the same side. Choking and wanking isn't the same with an open door and passers by getting a look in! Oh I dunno. Some people would get off on that.

Interesting reading though. Why did you put "flat" in inverted commas?

Could somebody explain how it's possible to hang yourself from a doorknob? (Especially if you're very tall.) Shouldn't you have to jump off something, or summat. Open the door, tie a rope or summat around the knob that is on the other side of the door you are standing against, drape the rope over the top of the door, make a noose, stand on a chair, put the noose around yer neck, kick the chair away and yer dead, or summat. Ah, the other side of the door, I see. That's still quite tricky for someone who's 6' 3", surely. Not a nice way to go, I'd imagine.

Yes, I'm aware that other people have managed to do this by accident, but I don't understand how it works.

Could somebody explain how it's possible to hang yourself from a doorknob? (Especially if you're very tall.) Shouldn't you have to jump off something, or summat.

I hardly think anyone would want to F*ck you if you are dead, unless you are playing this for Jimmy Savile's benefit? Posted in 2006! how time flies

There's a surprise, I didn't think I'd doubled up any of my DDP picks here. I try to spread the interest a bit. Points on two fronts today!

Good for you. I find the term "Human Resources" offensive. It always makes me think of Soylent Green. What was wrong with "Personnel"?

Is this the only place left where people still die? I am getting increasingly irritated hearing that somebody-or-other has "passed". Not passed away, or passed on, time-honoured euphemisms both, but just "passed", like it's a driving test or summat. Seems like people these days are afraid to say the word die (there I said it)

Did anyone else ever get a look-in at that job, because his is the only voice I ever remember doing those trailers?

It makes your teeth turn brown. That would be an even catchier slogan.

I just read about that on the BBC site. Is a coroner something different in the USA? Here in the UK we need a doctor to pronounce death. You wouldn't call the coroner in. Or does a US coroner have to be medically qualified?