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I too have hankered after an iPhone and I was gutted to discover there is no reception from O2 anywhere in my house or garden. On the plus side I found this out when I was issued with a mobile phone for my job, means my 'clients', for want of a better word, and especially a couple of my colleagues, can't contact me when I am at home . Now thats what I want, 'cos my mobile phone works perfectly at home (where naturally I have a land-line and thus no real need for a mobile phone) but only works at work when it's a prime number of minutes past the hour and I'm standing on one leg whilst doing an impersonation of David Coleman's Spitting Image puppet. This shouldn't be a problem as I also have a land-line but for some reason the rest of the staff prefer to send me text messages which invariably I don't receive till I get home - by which time whatever they were texting me about is completely irrelevant!

Just spotted this obit in the guardian. Fulfils all the criteria for this thread Ewan Kerr He must have loved his schooldays!

Bricks are so marvellous, they've even got there own lane and have been immortalised in film but James May's lego house has now been demolished

Peter Denyer, Dennis Dunstable of 'Please Sir!' is reported dead at 62.

So bricks aren't your thing then? Curses! Must have spelt his name wrong when I searched. Bricks? I love Bricks.

Arthur Ferrante, half of piano-playing duo Ferrante & Teicher, has died in Longboat Key Florida, at age 88. I remember them appearing quite frequently on TV when I was a kid, often playing some film theme, like .

Try writing poetry.

When you've had a tough week at work, been called back in to cover for absentee staff on Friday night after working all day, got out of work after 1 am, got to bed at 2am, then been woken up at 8:15 on Saturday morning by ignorant fking bastar'd builders (who are working on a conversion that all the neighbours objected to) using whatever power tools they can get their hands on.

I don't even think she was raped. Pete's just released a new album and everyone is on his team - she needs some way of keeping in the papers, and creating this bullshit is just the ticket. And fancy, ringing up Matthew Wright to talk about it - he of the 'ooops did I say John Leslie out loud' malarkey. She's full of sh*t. I thought she was a total waste of space before all this, and now I know I was right. She needs euthanasing. Well said! No doubt the likes of Julie Burchill will be typing a thesis on why we should leave Jordan alone and that she's an icon of our times etcetera etbloodycetera... No, Julie Burchill will be saying how she also got raped and how brave price is for speaking out about it (even though she's treating it like it doesn't matter - in fact its like 20 questions - was it someone famous? yes. was it someone scottish? yes. In a few more days there'll be another little snippett slipped out (was he a children's TV presenter?))

Former Brighton & Hove Albion Boss Brian Clough. 20-9-2005 Oh, he also managed some club called Nottingham Forest with some success too

I don't know who Irving Kristol was either, but Bruno's posts have given me a laugh if nothing else.

Pining for the fjords?

September 18 1970 Former Monkees Support Act, Jimi Hendrix

I preferred him as a bear

As did Maria Callas (though somewhat older and involving fewer girlfriends, trees and cars)

Never mind that sh*t, he was the writer of possibly the greatest British TV series ever, Edge of Darkness... He did, but I think The Italian Job is much more widely known, and I haven't ever seen Edge of Darkness. I was working abroad in 1985 when it was first aired. Presumably its been repeated since but it has passed me by. I see from Wikipedia that there's a remake due out next year starring Mel Gibson. I'm more inclined to seek out the original on DVD (as soon as I finish the Prime Suspect box set). You can download the original from here Thanks, but with the speed of my connection, it'll be just as quick waiting for the post! Besides, it'll be just like Christmas.

Never mind that sh*t, he was the writer of possibly the greatest British TV series ever, Edge of Darkness... He did, but I think The Italian Job is much more widely known, and I haven't ever seen Edge of Darkness. I was working abroad in 1985 when it was first aired. Presumably its been repeated since but it has passed me by. I see from Wikipedia that there's a remake due out next year starring Mel Gibson. I'm more inclined to seek out the original on DVD (as soon as I finish the Prime Suspect box set). Do so, it's brilliant. Complex and at times weird, but brilliant nonetheless.. BTW I wasn't knocking The Italian Job, merely using Olsen Johnson's phrase from Blazing Saddles to emphasise the importance of EOD... I've ordered EOD and expect it to come dropping through my letterbox within the next couple of days. I'll let you know what I think once I've watched it (around christmas probably).

Foot (I refer the honourable members to the answer I gave some moments ago).

Never mind that sh*t, he was the writer of possibly the greatest British TV series ever, Edge of Darkness... He did, but I think The Italian Job is much more widely known, and I haven't ever seen Edge of Darkness. I was working abroad in 1985 when it was first aired. Presumably its been repeated since but it has passed me by. I see from Wikipedia that there's a remake due out next year starring Mel Gibson. I'm more inclined to seek out the original on DVD (as soon as I finish the Prime Suspect box set).

Troy Kennedy Martin The Italian Job screen writer (amongst many other credits) has also died today. A bit of a blow for the Ditchling Film Society, as they were hoping he'd attend a special 40th anniversary screening of the film.

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