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Is he ill? Er, I don't know. I just have a funny feeling he will. Yes. Very ill. Came very close to putting him on my DDP list. From 2001: Former Manchester City coach Malcolm Allison is in hospital suffering from alcoholism, according to his son. Allison, 73, was taken to hospital after breaking his collarbone in a fall near his warden-controlled home at Hale, Cheshire. Son Mark said: "He is very ill but he's accepted for the first time he is an alcoholic. "Now he hopes the doctors can arrange for him to be admitted to a clinic." "He still has a lot to offer soccer but he does suffer from loneliness," Mark Allison told the Manchester Evening News. Since then, I understand he's detoriated. I've taken him off my list. He was spotted on Match Of The Day at the weekend as a guest for the Manchester City game, he didn't exactly look at death's door, although the linked article mentions long standing health problems. So much for my predictions of his demise.

There's a tramp who, er, tramps locally called Stan Lee. Fine beard, fought in Korea, went barking mad, nice chap actually. Possibly not the same gentleman as the one referred to here.

Linda Ronstadt, the country singer, hasn't been very well recently.

Aerosmith's bass player Tom Hamilton has been diagnosed with throat cancer

Jesus H Christ !!! Their mother must hang her head in shame.

I'll have someone more astronomically inclined explained that, as I'm likely to get it wrong. OK then, I'll have a pop. [monocle] Where Pluto's orbit is so far removed from the norm, it crosses Neptune's regular elliptical orbit and follows a weird path. This is in part due to the gas giants (Jupiter Saturn Uranus & Neptune) having quite a large effect on its orbit, making it almost turn corners at times. This is the 'not clearing the neighbourhood of its orbit' as described above. Indeed, for a few years (no idea how many, about 20-ish?) up until 1999 Neptune was further away from the Sun than Pluto. The dirty bitch. I'm sure there's more to it than that, but I think the above's right. Tune on the glockenspeil anyone? [/monocle] I'm just waiting for the Daily Mail to blame the loss of this planet on lax immigration policies or the demise of the British Empire. But Pluto can't help having bigger neighbours. If it wants to go around the sun in a slightly wonky fashion, thus avoiding getting sucked in to the vortex of Neptune, then why not? I hope that the The Convention Of The International Astronomical Union Of Pluto Haters is hit by an unforecast meteorite tonight. I understand that Pluto is now to be described as a "dwarf planet". This to me seems like saying that a dwarf human is not in fact a human at all, because s/he doesn't measure up to the size of normal humans and is therefore a totally seperate species. In fact, if you took that argument to it's logical conclusion, then surely Saturn and Jupiter should be expelled from the list of planets due to their largeness. I'm going to stop ranting now because I have no idea what I am talking about. But this is an outrage. A bloody outrage.

Congratulations Bou !!! Well done you

Bubba the Grouper, the first fish in history known to have received chemotherapy and bounce back from cancer, has died.

Apparently Patrick aggrees with it., so I'd say this is a good place to post about it. Much as I respect and admire Patrick Moore, I totally disagree with his assessment of Pluto. I feel very strongly about this, although I'm not quite sure why. I think Pluto should fall out of the sun's orbit in protest. Where is all this going to end - Jupiter?

Not sure where to post this, so here will do. Pluto has outrageously been stripped of it's status as a planet. I shall be contacting my MP about this.

Dear Abby I've been told I am 14 times more likely to drown in my own bathtub than I am to win the National Lottery jackpot. (That is if I played the lottery and if I bathed instead of showered, but onwards) As at least 52 people win the lottery jackpot each year, that means, by implication, that at least 700 people must drown in their own bath. I've have searched Google News for "Drowned In Bath" and the results are in no way 14 times greater than the amount of links that come up when I search for "Jackpot Winner", in fact almost the reverse is evident. I'm not sure what my question is, but I would value any advice you can give. Yours Intoxicated DDT

"Mike G" - the King Of Tonga has his own thread and is much discussed. Sorry to be picky but it was actually the King's son and heir, Crown Prince Siaosi Tāufa'āhau Manumataongo Tuku'aho Tupou, who had the idea dumping nuclear waste, word has it he was eventually overruled by his father. Bearing that in mind, Tongans are probably hoping the King stays alive as long as possible. Also with regard to the waste of millions of taxpayers money, are sure you are not confusing Tonga with Nauru? They really know how to throw their money around

The Beast Of Androscoggin County may be dead.

And when he does... prepare for a wave of ranters, Josco's "fat old bugger" comment is still right up there on Google's front page. About time we had some decent ranters round here. The DLRI hasn't seen much action for a while. I think Mr. Josco's due back from his holidays any moment. Wouldn't it be exciting if he came back to find a whole load of bloodthirsty raging Tongans on his doorstep? I was wondering that as well. The Tongan Crips in Harrogate could be on his tail.

He should be shot at dawn. I mean Blair, not your cat. I have been drinking, so bear with me, but I was wondering if Blair might WELCOME assassination. 'The Final Cut' , by Micheal Dobbs (not Pink Floyd) was a series shown on BBC1 a few years ago, the fictional prime minister, Francis Urquart, or FU for short, was losing popularity and becoming increasingly scandal prone. He seemed to have an overiding concern for the legacy he would leave and when he came to realise that only way he might achieve popular immortalisation was to arrange his own murder. It's a similar situation to JF Kennedy who is looked on in a much more favourable light than some of his counterparts who died of natural causes. Any way I'm rambling now. Death to Thatcher and goodnight.

And when he does... prepare for a wave of ranters, Josco's "fat old bugger" comment is still right up there on Google's front page.

Too bad it wasn't strangulation then she would have better appreciated the torture she put her daughter through. For once, I actually agree with you BC! Will you still agree when you've read this? Federal authorities confirmed Wednesday that an arrest has been made in the unsolved 1996 slaying of JonBenet Ramsey. Federal law enforcement sources said a suspect is in custody in Bangkok, Thailand, where he's being held on unrelated sex charges

His chemo has failed to remove the tumours from his brain and now he's got to undergo radiotherapy. I'm just thought I'd mention it for the benefit of The Guardian obits editor, who I am sure will read this. Mr/s Guardian Obits Editor, please will you make sure he gets a mention when he snuffs it next year, as he's going on my DDP. Thanks.

Almost every village and town in the UK has a war memorial. I always read down them see if there are any siblings honoured. Six brothers from Haverfordwest were killed on the same day at Ypres during The Great War, that would take some beating.

His family are at his bedside and the Royal Undertakers have made "necessary arrangements" for change in his condition.

If he really can "feel the tumour inside me" literally, rather than metaphorically, then it suggests that the tumour is spreading rather fast. Pancreatic cancer is supposed to be hard to detect because the pancreas is surrounded by other, larger organs. Maybe a large dose of morphine made him nod off during the interview, which is not a good sign.

Happy Birthday Star Crossed !!!!!!!!!!!

Heather Clarke, the wife of golfer Darren Clarke has died.

Poor old Pluto. Always left out in the cold.

I think the folk singer Nick Drake would be a good example of this. He received virtually zero publicity during his life and zero record sales either for that matter. Yet now, his music is widely owned and he much revered. Ditto Eva Cassiday.