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They aren't. They are found by the dogs.

Aha, I was wondering about the 4 - I wasn't sure if Claude was still with us, he is of course British despite having lived in Oz for many years. The other being Harry Patch of course, who still seems pretty spry. Thought that "poem" Motion wrote for him recently was crap though.

Anyone remember the headline on the Sun back page when he was injured once? "SWOLLEN DICKS OUT"

I think the butler did it.

Doesn't seem to have worked on Clive Dunn.

Have you heard she's already ordered herself a plane? She'll still be using a razor to shave her other leg, though.

Point proved, methinks.

The last French WWI veteran has died. Lazare Ponticelli

Can't believe I never heard of him. Thanks for the link, I checked out some more stuff. What a talented and funny man.

Anyone know exactly when they filmed the Paris car chase in Ronin?

Doubt that's down to illness. Actually I think she looks nicer now.

Another old favourite .... A man saw an ad in the paper for pills that make you fifty years younger. Since he was approaching middle age, he sent off for some. But before the pills arrived, he went away on holiday. When he got back after the holiday he was met at the airport by a very attractive young woman with a baby in a buggy. “Who are you?” he asked. "I'm your mother,” she replied. He said, "You can't be my mother, my mother's an old woman." “I am your mother,” she said. “I took one of those pills you sent away for. You know, the ones that are supposed to make you fifty years younger." “My God, that’s incredible,” he said. "And who’s this in the baby buggy?" "Oh, that’s your father. He took two."

I don't do tricks, it's demeaning.

She has also been quoted as saying that she can't face having ice in her drinks because of the Titanic's fate. How ridiculous. I met her once - seems a tough old bird. Might be a year or two in her yet.

and will probably arrive at the Pearly Gates after an eighty-mile bus ride.

Interesting. My mum and her father both died in September, and on the same date as well.

Pavarotti arrives at the Pearly Gates and hands a note to St Peter. It's from the Pope. "Here's that tenor I owe you."

Good for her and all that, she raised a lot of money etc. But a lot of other cancer sufferers must have found her activities hard to bear. My poor mother, although not diagnosed as "terminal" until her last couple of weeks, was completely debilitated by the disease and the chemo. Barely able to get out of bed herself, she would have felt terribly discouraged by someone like JT.