themaninblack

Nobody's saying from her end but if the evidence is at it seems we HAVE to be talking days. Even OoO's prayers for her hanging on until Friday might not be answered. Take it from personal experience, if she's in a hospice, we are talking days.....

Hang on! Didn't DL pick him? Why isn't he in his own thread in 2007 Names?

Yes, she's tantalisingly near. I've got double DDP points riding on this....

Syd Barrett 6th January 1946 - 7th July 2006 Shine on you Crazy Diamond....

Only a fool argues with Football Fan...I think Deathlist is due a hot streak with Tammy next to follow Georgy boy on the plane...

With Kurt Waldheim goose-stepping into the ether, who's next to cop it? I'm sticking with Tammy, she's got weeks left... I think the deaths will pick up from now on. Watch this space...

George Melly's death has brought forth 6 points for the following teams... Above Average For Norfolk Boring Ole' Six Canadian Paul Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill, Kill! Go Ahead Turkeys Grim Rita Madonna's Hand of Bod Meet Your Maker Octopus of Odstock Pooil Vaaish Queen of the Iceni Rude Kid Slave To The Grave STAB_in_the_DARK Gone For Good The Douglas Bader Dance Troupe 2007 They Sure Look Like Plant Food To Me Tick Tock Stopped Ticking Mollie Sugden's Old Pussy Whoopass United And this means that there is a familiar name at the top - Meet Your Maker (AKA Football Fan). MYM is hoping to retain his title, the first to do it since Drunkasaskunk in 1999... But in hot pursuit is STAB_in_the_DARK (AKA Rotten Ali), last years joint second. The battle for supremacy continues...

Isn't he getting a bit old for that sort of thing.... oh! Naturalist!

Well, judging by my DDP performances, my predictions can be hit & miss, but this one was eeringly, but sadly, bang on. Dave Simmons, scorer of one of those two goals vs Leeds in the FA Cup shock, has died of cancer. Simmons passes away. Simmons also got a BBC obit, so if this had been January, not July, it might've just be points all round.... Footballers will get obits, like those obscure Baseball players in the New York Times or something. Noted...

His family say he is fine, but it's rare that a family member says "He's dying" or "I doubt he'll see Christmas" or "He's got a mountain to climb" He'd be a good pick for DL 2008. BTW, Whenever I think of Edmund Hillary, I simultaenously think of the song "Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush, have done for years. That'll be all. Ah that elderly standby, the 'fall'.....how many have been slain by this condition?

First WDP hit for me - it was unique which is surprising considering I picked him when it was clear he wasn't long for this world, 3 months after not selecting him in my 'shadow' Deathlist(Bandwagon jumper that I am!).... So long George, one of the great aesthetes....

That's not Alan Johnston, that's football writer, Brian Glanville. Someone should tell Hamas that they've released the wrong person into the public domain & please take Glanville back. Alan Johnston I was going to make the same joke, only you swap Glanville for Anglophile Film Director Richard Lester....

Related to Elastica frontwoman Justine Frishmann apparently....

You've just done something that Allingham never did...gone over the top Yes Maryport, its in bad taste....rather salty too, so I'm told....

I've become very disillusioned with it all...I wouldn't know who to back in case they're a cheat... Of course the sanctimonius journos turned their noses up untill they realised that this years tour starts in London, so it's coverage galore! The wheel keeps turning...

Oh that's a shame. Used to commentate on 'Star Soccer' (ATV) in the 1970s....

Yes, well done Football Fan. Is that what happens to all ace death predictors?

If you're English it's about a Polish guy! There are probably more English emigrating to Ireland than the other way round...

Now if they were playing in a village hall or something, this sort of tragedy wouldn't happen...

Looks as if it could be a WDP hit for me then!

Is it 6x4? Seriously though, she looks terrible! Compare that to the picture of her on DDP.... She'll be gone by the end of the year, this 'new home' business is just to keep her going I suppose. Fighting the good fight and all that...

It occurs to me looking back at this thread that Millwall's very pertinent query has gone unanswered. My research reveals that Bonce "is a community in the district of Prilep, in the Republic of Macedonia" (thank you Wikipedia!), so I reckon it's nowt to do with that. However, here is a link which may be more relevant: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bon2.htm I concur with the article, as my father definitely used "bonce" as a word for head. Still doesn't explain why it might be used in rhyming slang, which is confirmed here: http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/Z_BACON_BONCE.HTM Here is another reference: http://community.livejournal.com/cheap_as_chips "The word bonce is slang for head, mainly used in London. It appears to have derived from the game 'Bonce' - a children's game played with large glass marbles. I can remember my Dad, a Cockney by the truest definition, calling my sister and I bacon bonce when, as children, we did something particularly stupid. I have grown up believing that a bacon bonce is therefore a stupid person. Not so! Bacon Bonce is Cockney Rhyming Slang for nonce meaning 'child molester'! I'll have to put Dad right ..." I suspect, as with much Cockney Rhyming Slang, the derivation of the expression is either purely random or lost in the mists of time. Unless anyone wants to contact that sexy Ms. Coren on "Balderdash and Piffle" - they could do a whole episode on "words and expressions used to describe the dregs of society" It's funny how Balderdash & Piffle is presented by Victoria Coren, because the nature of the show is about different words and meanings and when I see her all sorts of words pop up...bouncers, boobies, melons, whoppers, headlights, jugs etc, etc....

He looks like Kevin Eldon! 'You're Gonna Miss Me' - the birth of Punk Rock?

Ha ha very funny, not THE John Humphrys of course....

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