themaninblack

Item on ITN news last night about Farrah Fawcettt's fight against intestinal cancer. They'll be a lot of upset 40 somethings when she goes....

1960 Olympic champion (50km) Don Thompson has died..... Don Thompson

Here,here....

VSB from H beat you to it Fiddlesticks! Still, I like his Avatar

Peter Norman, the 'other' man on the podium during the infamous Black Power salute in the Mexico Olympics has died aged 64. Peter Norman

Legendary National Hunt trainer Martin Pipe has an incurable, muscle-wasting disease... Not many fences to go

May I humbly propose the Dutch approach: parliament has a constitutional maximum term of four years, after which it dissolves itself and new general elections are called, normally, though not always, in the same month the previous elections were held. Secondly, the monarch may dissolve parliament at any moment, which happens often at the request of the incumbent government when they have lost confidence of parliament. General elections are called for the first convenient moment, normally after some three months. Last time this happened was last June. Because of parliament's summer recess general elections will be held on 22 November 2006. regards, Hein An idea that popped into my head last week was that the leader of the Labour Party could be elected and then gets reelected (unapposed or contested) after a period of 5 years (a term) but with a maximum of two terms (10 years). This is irrespective of whether Labour are in govt or in opposition and subject to early retirement, resignation or death. This can be pushed through the Labour Party constitution and avoid all this tedious bollocks about 'the succession'.....

It's seems like he's hanging on till he does the Beckett play and then after that........ I think he'll make it to 2007, but not out of my list.....

I'll take their word for it, onto the provisional DDP list for '07...

I think the most suitable album for the neophyte would be Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) from 1978. Tropical Hotdog Night has possibly the best vocal I've ever heard.... Doc at the Radar Station is good too...

J D Sallinger - why not?

Congratulations TF Lord Byron passes away Bloody hell, that's the first time I've ever got one right. Now why the hell didn't I pick him for the cpdp I wonder. I wonder if he'll be buried in the rough?

In Blair's speech today, he mentioned Dennis Skinner - 'The Beast of Bolsover', who is apparently ill. Now he's been ill before. Is he to hear the last divsion bell?

Maybe we'll get three in 8 days like we did last year. Hope springs eternal.. Lets hope that Byron Nelson is the first of our 8 day trio (fat chance). See told you..... That Ryder Cup defeat must have finished him off......

18 May 1990 (Jill Ireland) - 23 March 1992 (Jim Joel - who?). That will never be beaten. Looking at the 1991 list though I'm surprised there were no hits. That said, there are a few, shall we say 'premature' predictions. But this of course was early days and not as well researched and debated as it is now. It's a blip - the stiffs will come...eventually!

Hmm...I like it when some personalities declare their illness. Makes our job a lot easier.

He was in good shape the last time I met him a few months ago. They get looked after you know. Just watched that BBC programme on Nero. There was one very graphic line that compared the Roman public's reaction to Nero's decision to perform on stage to that of a modern day British public should "Queen Elizabeth II perform as a pole dancer". I nearly choked on the imagery. For God's sake, she's 80. Has the BBC no shame? I think most people's image of the Queen would be younger than she actually is so the image conjured would be of a younger pole-dancing Queen. I must admit it was a strange line... Mind you a twentysomething Princess Margaret pole-dancing.....

What about the other son, whathisname - we never hear of him. I'm not talking about Leo. Now Euan is a real mediawhore, a veritable Justin Timberlake (and whom I do not trust in the slightest), but the 'other one' is never seen or heard....

Fraser Hines had better watch out!

I don't get this story about the 'stolen bones'. Can anyone tell me roughly how long a dead body decomposes into bones, as this story came out not long after he died. Unless as a last request, he had his body fed to Phiranas or put in a vat of acid or something...

How come Peter Ling gets an obit from the times double quick and David Maloney doesn't? Coincidentally, David Maloney's directorial debut on Doctor Who, 'The Mind Robber' was written by Peter Ling....

According to PS News on Channel 4 teletext, Lee Hazlewood is 'terminally ill' and will release his last album 'Cake or Death' on December 4. If he lasts out the year, he should occupy number 1 position for 2007, just as fellow musicians Lou Rawls and Warren Zevon have done....

Interesting question is could it happen here? In the 80s TV series 'A Very British Coup', a democratically elected socialist PM is overthrown by a military coup sanctioned by the monarch. If a situation happened like that in this country, there would probably be the sort of 'bloodless coup' that has just happened in Thailand. Maybe if Blair hangs on to office too long....

Because they're hypocrites... I just wonder, in a move similar to the Danish cartoons controversy, whether the Pope was instructed to add a slur on Islam just to get the fundamentalists out of the woodwork? Just a thought...

Or add the word "allegedly" at the end of each comment. I believe it's when you make libelous comments that you come unstuck. No, as Hack/ says that's no get out. Also libel and contempt are two different things. Also it's not just about newspapers. It's about publishing and that covers anything from notes on billboards to, well, this site. The test is whether anything said could be deemed prejudicial to the outcome of the case. It might be amusing, however, to see the GR hauled up before the bench in order to explain the behaviour of his organ. Isn't that pretty much what Mr Langham has got to do? Anone else notice UKTVG2 still showed the repeat episode of him guest presenting 'Have I Got News For You?' last night? Not that I'm passing judgement, just commenting. Puts the alledged trouble which led to Angus Deyton getting sacked into perspective then...