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I was taking the piss (as usual), ya bunch of easily offended snowflakes!

It's apparently an acquired taste. Chap we lived with in Singapore loved the stuff, but his wife wouldn't let him have it inside their flat!

As I like to put in The Zen of Scots: when the local suggests you try durian with a sN-word, do not. msc Sr did, however, as I'm not sure there's any food he wont try at least once. On a related note, Reeves and Mortimer did a sketch about 20 years ago of them running about a shopping centre in gas masks waving durian and passersby fainting from the smell. When he and my mum were in India, apparently it was custom to give any visitor a plate of jalebis to finish. Neither of them can stand the sight of one today. I love the damn things, v unhealthy and not commonly sold in Glasgow - sugar pretzels dipped in syrup, basically. I could also easily to this day finish any plate of burfi quite easily. Mmm Indian sweets. Anyhow, I digress...

Well, if it's no intended, it should be!

8/10 piss take of Engineer, imo.

Qualifying obit requirements do not equal qualifying personage requirements! But we digress.

And unlike Kirk Kerkorian, I'd actually heard of him pre-Deathlist Forum!

So, anyone in the know got more info on Paul Merson? Hearing from pals he's been off the wagon badly for a while, and is only 10 months younger than Gazza. Rarely mentioned on here, too.

^ The Cup has the laxest QO requirements around (because the likes of well loved character actors missing out on them really pisses me off) but Ms Jones was rejected by our editorial board on fame levels. Or lack of.

More support for terminally ill Victorians? Bit late, all dead, try Edwardians...

Probably go all Day Today on it. "In 2011, no one died. In 2012, no one died. In 2013, there was the incident with the cow. In 2014, no one died. In 2015, no one died. In 2016, no one died. In 2017, no one died. In 2018, some people died. In 2019..."

Dunno if it would interest anyone, but apparently a bunch of the ebook versions of the late Peter Underwood's books (part folklorist/part hoax debunker/part overtly excitable ghost hunter, and pal of mrs msc) are free for download on Amazon today and tomorrow: There's also this interview from a Desert Island Discs rip off show on LBC many years ago:

Just to show we're not all Dr Who obsessives, Irish actor Rio Fanning's death at 87 has been announced by Toby Hadoke. Father Frost, you'll know his face.

True, apparently, Tom Spilsbury's reporting it: tbh a really awful producer/script-editor, but through being so lousy, Terrence Dicks got a chance and became one of the great Who writers/show runners, so.. RIP.

Happy House - Siouxsie and the Banshees A Forest- The Cure Judas Priest - Breaking the Law Madness - My Girl OMD - Messages Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach (ok, cant find that one but fuck it, its in my head right now) George benson - Give me the Night Can't fit Geno in here so thus ends my attempts to hammer in some TOTP 1980...

BBC link

Ten years of Deathrace! No one has ever retained the title either. Until 2019, of course.

Find the River - REM There it is!

I (vaguely) knew one of them as a kid! Used to live round corner from my school, we'd see him out and about, very shy and quiet. Taggart, of course.

I was thinking copyright infringement!

Run to the Hills - Iron Maiden Hit the Road Jack - Ray Charles ?

Once I remembered it existed, I was sharing that pain.

Anyone gone for The Road to Hell by Chris Rea yet? Other options - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John), Time is Running Out (Muse), Country House (Blur), the godawful Girl Put Your Records on (Corrine Bailey Rae?), Message in a Bottle (Police, check the waterfall), Genie in a Bottle, Coffee and TV (Blur).

Can't comment on Waterhouse given Willz... Via David Howe's Doctor Who Guide: The twins in Twin Dilemma are strong contenders for me, as is Jenny Laird in Planet of the Spiders, which is weird as she was a highly regarded actress in her time (in Black Narcissus, and got acting awards named after her) but it's as if she's never seen a script in her life for some reason...

Best of luck, Joey. You'll be grand.