themaninblack

Whatever happened to Democracy that's so crowed about by the Western Powers?

By the hither-to unknown IRA Aqua Division!

I vote for Edgar Kennedy...

Well I never knew till now: His son is Griffin Dunne, who starred in Martin Scorsese's underrated 'After Hours' (1985)...

Actor Bernard Youens AKA Stan Ogden, died today in 1984. I remember this being big news at the time...

Indeed. Congratulations. Yes, he seems to be right back in the hunt... Weirdly, I was just doing a bit of research and came across Dominick Dunne a few minutes ago, only to be told he's just died!

Tex Avery, perhaps the greatest cartoonist of them all, died on this day in 1980... Here's an example of his genius...

Swayze...

Two Democrats dead in a day? The Republicans must be creaming in their pants!

Big Jack should take it easy, but knowing him, he'll probably go out fishing instead! Get well soon Jack...

I'm going to add one anyway, for the points as much as anything else, although I don't my choice of Canadian will cop in 2009/10...

Quick question: Does the theme team have to have a Canadian in it as well?

Pity it wasn't Steve Bennett...

...here we go again! What, you mean you wouldn't be completely and utterly shocked to the core if you were to find out that the above suggestion might not be entirely true?? No need to brace yourself for this earth shattering revelation then : "We can tell you that Bernie Madoff is not terminally ill and has not been diagnosed with cancer," the Prisons Bureau said in an emailed statement. HUZZAH!

...here we go again!

Actress Yootha Joyce died of liver failure today in 1980...

Done, you are now The Ear of Van Gogh ` Sorry, for asking but can someone change it back into Vaagheid? It's really hard for me to get used to this new name. Thank you so much, I'll promise never to visit this thread again. This is confusing. It makes it seem your previous 'self' was an imposter. And you certainly acted like it was, starting threads right, left and centre!

If she survives the year, I'm never going to pick a jailbird again...

And he's gone again...

Rudolph Valentino, the heart-throb of the Silent era, died today in 1926...

Maybe something serious is going on and the 'powers that be' have not got the time to get round to it...

Yes, she does rather play the Drama Queen doesn't she? Fingers crossed the lovely Lisa Dobriskey brings home the bacon in the 1500m tomorrow...

Happy Birthday...

Could be a bit of both, but maybe she's just unique rather like Usain Bolt (and I'm talking in athetic terms here OK). Last year an 18 year old Kenyan, Pamela Jelimo made an even bigger imapact on the World stage, but there's been no questions about her. Mind you, Jelimo is of an entirely different physique to Ms Semenya. Women's 800m needs a bit of a kick up the arse after being tainted by the East European Steroids cartel of the 1980s, so I say keep her/him/whatever on...

How about this feller, the oldest man on Death Row Leroy Nash