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  2. Posted

    Arrghh!, now it won't let me access the front page of the forums:

    Deathlist Forums

     

    Who's been swearing then?  :D

    Getting a Plesk message? Invision Power Boards seem to do that.

    No what I was getting was;

    This page is filtered.

     

    This site was blocked by restriction list: Content Filter

    Contact URLfiltering@rmplc.co.uk for queries regarding this filter list

     

    http://www.deathlist.net/

     

    Copyright © Research Machines plc, 2001 Terms 62.171.194.41

     

    Luckily I can get back in now, I suspect one of the guests in the thread

    "Deep Throat Reportedly Near Death"

    was using a rude name, which was being shown on the front page.

  5. Posted

    One wonders why the US didn't go metric after 1790.

     

    regards,

    Hein

    We tried, really we did. From the earliest school days to the latest displays in the General Store (almost a Mercantile but not quite), we have been handed metric. Even our rulers are metric on one side or t'other. During the first week of school metric was always given to us in our daily lesson plan. In the more advanced years (high school) it became part of the regular science curriculum whereas in junior high (a.k.a. middle school/intermediate school) it had been a part of the mathematics.

    I guess I was lucky, not only did I get taught to use Metric at school. But far more importantly I was never taught in Imperial measures (except miles of course)

  6. Posted

    That in a perfect world, but a couple of centuries ago some Americans wanted to be demonstratively different to the British for some reason, so they started holding their cutlery differently and messing around with a perfectly good language, a thing which caught on very quickly and can lead to disagreement among the less tolerant on both sides.

    One wonders why the US didn't go metric after 1790.

     

    regards,

    Hein

    Probably because most of their trade was still with Britain. In 1790 metric was still being debated by the French Academy of Sciences.

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  7. Posted

    I think it's mainly just a ploy (and a rather unclever one at that) to help you garner attention as you rack up the posting numbers (come to think of it that's what this post is about as well).

    Ah, rumbled at last!

    You're still a few ahead of me at the moment though. :D

    Still at least it gives me an excuse to reply & rack up yet another message.

  10. Posted

    I'm surprised he is still alive, I thought he died long ago but no, he is alive and 86 years old.

     

    Does anyone have any news about his health?

    As he's famously reclusive, I think news on his health would be hard to come by.

    Unless he gets admitted to hospital/nursing home of course.

    I think there are plenty of old authors, that it would be easier to find information about.

    I'm thinking of Len Deighton, Ed McBain, D.G. Hessayon.

  11. Posted

     

    The inquiry has heard that the director of surgery turned off a woman's life support ventilator because he needed the bed the patient was in.

    Why was the bed so despratley needed?

    Maybe the doc wanted a nap?

  12. Posted

    Wondering what had become of an old neighbour I came across this forum. In 1959ish we lived in Mill Hill, London and Patrick McGoohan and family bought the bungalow next to our house. He drove a red mini to the studio every day and would often return still wearing his 'makeup'. His wife was pregnant at the time and in the days before his eventual 'moving upwards amd outwards' we would babysit. Catherine was about 10.

    I wonder if he remembers us?

     

    Bren of Dorset formerly Mill Hill, London

    Erm, to the best of my knowledge Patrick McGoohan doesn't read this site.

    Wouldn't one related to him/ the prisoner be a better bet?

  14. Posted

    Has every Man United fan's favourite old American gentleman been proposed?

     

    Mr Glazer - he looks rather shaky, and there's always the possibility that if he ever turns up at the ground he will be lynched by an angry mob, waving their prawn sandwiches and (shock horror) last year's  team shirts.

     

    (I tried the search facility, but like some others recently, it didn't seem to work properly.  If he is listed, my apologies.)

    He could just hide out in the centre of Manchester, no fans will find him there.

  15. Posted

    you people are all sick F*****g sadists i hope you all choke on your own vomit and die  ;)

    I suppose you are a fan of Jimi Hendrix and Bonzo?

    if you dont shut this sadist website down im going to pop a cap in each of your asses

    If people think that's what you do with a cap,

    it might help explain this story:

    Baby Factory

    Maybe there is something wrong with current sex education in schools.

  16. Posted

    The fact that when he was 100, he supposedly fathered an illegitimate child is a dead give away – this was long before the invention of SPAM.

    I am not sure if Vaigra would have worked for him. The only example I have been able to come up with a 100 year-old fathering a child was Abraham from the Bible and he required God's assistance. ;)

    Vaigra certainly wouldn't have worked, SPAM might have though.

  17. Posted

    this mans been in prison for far to long, why noty free him, he would make the streets safer

    I'd also like to object to the idea that "he would make the streets safer".

    He's clearly an institutionalised nutter, who would attack the first person he comes across.

     

    What is it with some people that they have to make heroes out of the gratuitously violent? (I.E. the Krays)

  19. Posted

    This is a very strange story that i came across to. It was about a man who supposedly lived to be 152 years of age. If this acually were true it would be

    godlike. Even as of today the oldest documented person was 128 this would have made him live another 24 years?? His lifespan is said to be 1483 - 1635

     

    http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclope...Thomas_Parr.htm

    You have to treat these cases with extreme scepticism,

    often what happens is they "inherit" their parent’s birth date/certificate.

    People want to be famous in their area, claiming a long life is one way of doing this.

     

    The fact that when he was 100, he supposedly fathered an illegitimate child is a dead give away – this was long before the invention of SPAM.

  20. Posted

    why?  are we that easily offended?

    Well not personally no. However the filtering software on the Public Library computer that I use, is somewhat more judgemental.

     

    It won't allow you to access pages full of swearwords.

  21. Posted

    I'm surprised he is still alive, I thought he died long ago but no, he is alive and 86 years old.

     

    Does anyone have any news about his health?

    As he's famously reclusive, I think news on his health would be hard to come by.

    Unless he gets admitted to hospital/nursing home of course.

  24. Posted

    he is a no body Ismail Merchant is a filmmaker dies aftering suffering from

     

    abdominal ulcers.  ;) he has done flim's such as the Mystic Masseur.

    Can this be merged with the original thread please?

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