Dr Strangelove

"Open all hours", TV to slit your wrists to. I'd rather endure The Moomins. Perhaps, I always thought of OAH as a light comedy, not meant to be taken seriously. Anyway we should probably be rembering "Porridge" as his finest hour, not a sitcom just intended to pay the rent. There's a lot to be said for forums (fora?) where guests are not allowed to post. As an alternative, why don't we just move them all to the "Irate Visitors Rage Here If You Must" thread. Afterall the new mod's aren't exactly shy about moving/merging threads. This would have the advantage that they wouldn't take up space and destroy the flow of topics. Plus we can all still go in for a spot of ranter-baiting when the mood takes us.

Well, it's not good. Well obviously. What I meant was do you think we should have got him as a candidate? Or was the heart attack a bit of a surprise?

And I'm amending my sig. to explain this, thanks for your input.

What a wonderful euphemism, I hope you don't mind if I steal it for use in my own posts.

That's one mental polaroid, I could have done without.

I agree that he was a brilliant comic actor, you couldn't really put up with the endless repeats of Poridge otherwise. Looking back at the early entries on this thread, I see no mention of any heart trouble - just that he'd closed his shop (surely a sign that his life was winding down) and something about his son (not actually specified). So although he appeared on the DL radar, we never really put the pieces together to make him a viable candidate in time. Is this our bad? Was it the tribute show that put us off the scent?

So it's sort of like aversion therapy then. Maybe this could be the basis for a new thread - of whom do you own a signed photo, and why did you ask for it.

...And yet he hasn't starved to death/died of other causes, despite being "extremely ill". I think you try too hard Ronnie.

What do other Deathlisters think of the fact that Des Lynam is to take over Countdown. Do you think he'll be a good presenter - or will the unemployed now rush back into work, and students actually get on with their studies?

PLEASE REMEMBER TO CLOSE YOUR TAGS Otherwise you're going to look stupid. (Or at least more than usual.)

eh? I presume he means the lucky 50 on deathlist.

Remind me to never annoy you.

Maybe the Guinea Pigs dug it up?

Except for "The trouble with Tribbles", where they messed up and you can see his missing finger. (Or not see it rather... you know what I mean.)

I think the problem is that it appears to be a classic "Causa Belli". The U.S. decided it wanted to invade Iraq and came up with the reason later. And yes I do believe that Blair knew Iraq had no WMD.

I have decided to withhold my reply to this, for the present time.

They never replied to my request to join. Clearly your reputation has preceeded you then.

I think most of the people on here will recognise the photo as being one of Ms J Garner though.

Congratulations on registering. I just hope your future posts continue to give me as much amusement as your guest/ranter type ones.

Okay I'm really getting sick of these "xxyyz death is iminent" type messages. Especially from an unregistered and unnamed guest. If you want your message to be taken seriously please include URLs/references to back up the decline of "xxyyz".

whats caps lock? are you serious?

I wish I could skive off at work to read deathlist. Unfortunatly there's no chance of that, so I skulk to the public library before going onto work later.

Excellent another opportunity to mock someone who posts in all caps. Except I can't really be bothered today. Look just try turning your caps lock off occasionally, you might get to like it.

I think it's going to take more than the odd glass of OJ to fix his problems.

<sceptic/> Yes but we have people making posts like that all the time. Is it really that much of a surprise that due to coincidence, occasionally one gets it right? </sceptic>