themaninblack

The brilliant Leonard Rossiter died 25 years ago today... Funny how the memories play tricks. I swear Rossiter, Eric Morecambe and Tommy Cooper died in the same week. Just goes to show how compressed the memory gets as time drifts by...

A little premature. He actually died on October 4th, one day before the twentieth anniversary of the first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus... Now it's twenty years since that anniversary, forty years overall. Doesn't time fly?

Rock Hudson died from AIDS related causes today in 1985...

Reggie Kray died today in 2000...

Actor James Dean died in a car crash today in 1955, aged just 24... And is it me or has Dean's iconic status just dimmed a bit in the last decade or so?

Bandwagon jumping cnuts that they are... The sad thing is that there are so many people who actually take notice of The Sun! I'd love it if Labour won, not that I'd have much respect for this government, but to see those Murdoch bastards get it wrong would be fanbleedingtastic! But unfortunately, it looks as if Cameron and his goons are going to win. I've finally decided when to go the Canada which I've promised my mate I'd do - When the election is decided...

Bandwagon jumping cnuts that they are...

Bill Shankly, founder of the Liverpool dynasty of success, died today in 1981...

Jazz pioneer Miles Davis died on this day in 1991...

Add another one for the al-Megrahi bandwagon, or should that be tumbrill?

Well, Nietzche said that God was dead some 80 years before John T. Elson posed the question...

John Bonham, drummer for Led Zeppelin, died on this day in 1980 after consuming some 40 shots of whiskey... I'm of the thinking that 1980 was a classic year for celebrity death...

A priest, a vicar and a rabbi are on a train playing cards and they decide to play for money. But they are caught by the ticket collector and next thing they know, they're up in court. The judge turns to the priest and says "You are charged with the offence of gambling in a public place, how do you plead?" The priest looks up to the heavens and mumbles "One white lie, God just one white lie" then says to the judge "Not Guilty, your honour". The judge replies "Not Guilty, case dismissed". The judge then turns to the vicar. "You are charged with the offence of gambling in a public place, how do you plead?" The vicar looks up to the heavens and says under his breath "A white lie my lord, just one white lie." He then answers the judge, "Not guilty your honour." The judge says "Case dismissed." The judge then says to the rabbi "You are charged with the offence of gambling in a public place" And the rabbi says "Who with?"

Sigmund Freud, the founding father of Psychoanalysis, died today in 1939... I wonder what he's make of the cigar motif?

Oh no, Ralph's dead!

Florence Griffith Joyner, who still hold the World Record in the 100m & 200m for women, died 11 years ago today, just ten years after setting those records...

Ask your friendly moderator. Regards, Hein Welcome back!

feck. I forgot you know him. It seems the unidentified undies were a previous housemates, she often used to get kinky underwear catalogues (Beate Uhse type stuff) delivered so it makes sense they're hers, doesn't explain what they were doing in his drawer but hey. Having said that these particular ones were Marksies magic pants. LB, LFN - nothing wrong with chubby, I like stocky men myself, but I've always worked hard to stay trim because Mr H made a comment about how he wouldn't fancy me if I was fat, so it would be an injustice if he had a chubby gf on the side. This is getting more like Cosmopolitan than Dear Deirdre, I must say...

I don't even think she was raped. Pete's just released a new album and everyone is on his team - she needs some way of keeping in the papers, and creating this bullshit is just the ticket. And fancy, ringing up Matthew Wright to talk about it - he of the 'ooops did I say John Leslie out loud' malarkey. She's full of sh*t. I thought she was a total waste of space before all this, and now I know I was right. She needs euthanasing. Well said! No doubt the likes of Julie Burchill will be typing a thesis on why we should leave Jordan alone and that she's an icon of our times etcetera etbloodycetera...

You know I was joking when I wrote this, but as Mr H has moved to London, a mate of his and me have been going through his stuff and have found quite a lot of women's undies amongs his stuff, some it is mine but some of it most definitely isn't, either he really was a secret tranny or he had a chubby girlfriend on the side. I'm not sure which is worse. If its larger than average knickers, then they were probably for him to try on...

Except there's this one...

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20th President of the United States, James A. Garfield dies on this day in 1881, two months after being shot...

When you've had a tough week at work, covering several absentees, the last thing you want is to woken at quarter to nine on a Saturday morning by knobhead neighbours who still think its quarter to nine at night and are playing dance music loud and talking even louder...