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  3. Posted

    Hein you may not have noticed but with Dio dead the Dutch DL has a new hit.

    It did indeed escape my attention.

     

    Site updated to reflect Dio's death. Does anybody know some juicy gossip about Dio to enhace the write-up there?

     

    regards,

    Hein

     

    I don't think that there is any - all the obits and memories suggest he was a decent man. Saw him once, at Donington '87 - started off taking the piss, but ended up admiring the way he worked a crowd that was waiting either for Metallica or Bon Jovi. A showman and a loss.

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    Minor stuff in the great world of football but Workington's 1-2 away win in front of little more than 200 paying spectators in Solihull today guarantees them a play-off place and a chance to fight for Blue Square Premier action next season. In other words, the Reds could be coming the way of many more of you next season.

     

    Oh aye, and Rochdale are promoted. Last time that happened Neil Armstrong hadn't set foot on the Moon.

     

    And AFC Bournemouth will be there, too. A 32 year old manager and a playing squad of just 19, coupled with a transfer embargo for the entire season. The best we can hope for is staying in League One, but we'll embarrass someone (hopefully Scumpton) along the way. And good luck to Workington - I can just remember when they fell out of the league - replaced by Wigan, I believe.

     

    Well done to The Cherries despite your malicious wishes for next season I hope you do stay up. You never know the following season you could be playing Portsmouth as we pass them as they follow in our recent footsteps with a sorry descent down the leagues.

     

    Strangely, whilst we are on the subject of the mighty Saints, I've not seen any comments from Maryport about the JPT or yesterday for that matter, better luck next year hey MPFC?

     

    We'll try and make the best of the local derby - it will just be the one year after all - you'll go up if you can hang on to your better players. I'd be happy to try our luck against Leeds next year; after all it was their desperate efforts to avoid points deductions that changed the FL rules, ruining the last two seasons for thee and me. Dirty Leeds. Looking at the line up for next year, it's like an old style Division 3 (South). Could be you, us, Brighton, Yeovil, Exeter, Gillingham, Swindon, Charlton, Millwall, Colchester, Plymouth, Peterborough, Bristol Rovers, Brentford, MK Dons and Orient. Carlisle had better start collecting their National Express vouchers!

     

    Oh, and spot any commonality between clubs in serious financial trouble over recent years? AFCB, Saints, Pompey, West Ham...how long before Spurs go under?

  5. Posted

    Minor stuff in the great world of football but Workington's 1-2 away win in front of little more than 200 paying spectators in Solihull today guarantees them a play-off place and a chance to fight for Blue Square Premier action next season. In other words, the Reds could be coming the way of many more of you next season.

     

    Oh aye, and Rochdale are promoted. Last time that happened Neil Armstrong hadn't set foot on the Moon.

     

    And AFC Bournemouth will be there, too. A 32 year old manager and a playing squad of just 19, coupled with a transfer embargo for the entire season. The best we can hope for is staying in League One, but we'll embarrass someone (hopefully Scumpton) along the way. And good luck to Workington - I can just remember when they fell out of the league - replaced by Wigan, I believe.

  7. Posted

    A Welshman is disappointed to be Sheepless in Seattle

    Interracial porno goes wrong in Bad Day at Black Cock

    David Cameron, George Osborne and Anne Widdecombe in Tory, Tory, Tory

    Tippi Hedren attacked by druids in The Bards

     

    and I know it's cheating, but I can't resist the cowardly attack by the Japanese on Dorset in Poole Harbour

  9. Posted

    I hadn't given thought to this man for years. After Manimal was mercifully cancelled and he had done his required episode of Love Boat and Fantasy Island I just figured he'd gotten wise to the fact that he couldn't act-----or at least get a successful vehicle to appear in----and had gone to waiting tables somewhere. Still, it is sad to see him listed here.

     

    I've found a suitable vehicle for him to appear in. A hearse.

  11. Posted

    Horribly, I seem (by a mixture of holidays, illness, BT internet and lack of flexibility) to have missed DDP this year by 40 minutes. However FYI, my choices that would have been 'Wake Up and Smell the Coffin' this year are;

     

    1 - Joker - Abdelbaset al Megrahi

    2 - Colin Dexter

    3 - Rev Billy Graham

    4 - Ronnie Biggs

    5 - Licia Albanese

    6 - George Whitman

    7 - Yunus-Bek Yevkurov

    8 - Kim-jong il

    9 - Peter Ackroyd

    10 - Wayne Thiebaud

    11 - Hans Werner Henze

    12 - James Grout

    13 - Reg Simpson

    14 - Trevor Bailey

    15 - Roy Tattersall

    16 - Inge Borkh

    17 - Lisa Della Casa

    18 - Doke Umarov

    19 - Thwan Shwe

    20 - Blanche Thebom

     

    I wouldn't have won, and all the best to whoever does.

  13. Posted

    Composer, pianist and Schoenberg pupil Leon Kirchner has combined his final inverted hexachord, or summat.

     

    By which qualification, Kirchner fails to qualify as a minimalist. Despite my innate distrust of Wikipedia, it does have a moderately decent description of minimalism . Kirchner was a minor composer whose legacy will probably be measured by his influence on John Adams

    I didn’t claim he was a minimalist. In the original post, I suggested the thread be used for “all things classical”. Which you, a few posts later, thought an “excellent suggestion” and proceeded to name several other non-minimalist composers worthy of dead pool consideration. I’ll have the thread retitled if its lack of precision irks you.

     

    So far, it’s been mostly full of bricks anyway.

    Like these?

     

    An excellent site, Godot. I often felt that Carl Andre failed to explore the possibilities of vertical extension, and this only serves to prove that my doubts were well founded. Such exquisite balance and clean lines, somewhat reminiscent of the sublime symmetry of Mondrian.

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    God love you Walter. I'm going to miss you.

     

     

     

    ....and why didn't you hold another day or 3 to coincide with the 40th of the moon landing?

     

     

    Ever the media man - he knew when to capitalize on a good story.

  22. Posted

    The actor (and Church of England Minister) Tenniel Evans Tenniel Evans, best remembered - by those old enough - for BBC Radio series The Navy Lark, as well as many TV appearances, has died at the age of 83.

     

    It was he who encouraged Jon Pertwee to take up the part of Doctor Who don't you know...

     

    RIP Tenniel....

     

    Jumping Jehosaphat!

  25. Posted

    Is it just me, or have there not really been that many significant deaths this year so far? Compared to last year at least, or even the year before.

     

    Name me one 'big' death this year so far. Have there even been any signifcant, predictable deaths this year that we did not get? (Apart from Jade Goody who should 100% definitely have been on the list this year).

     

    Let's be realistic, Wendy Richard is a significant death but she's no Harold Pinter, Albert Hoffman, etc. in terms of her international fame.

     

    Dai Llewellyn is a nobody in terms of worldwide recognition, although he was a well spotted choice for this year's list.

     

    No it's not just you, you're absolutely right and as we're just over a day away from month 6, Deathlist is on the road to having one of its worst years yet... some pretty stupid picks this year and why Jade Goody wasn't selected despite several people suggesting her, beats me!

     

    Dai was really a nobody - an unemployed bum with a difference - he had money. Enough to sit around on his botty and attend garden parties every so often. Wendy Richard was not internationally famous but she was highly respected and was quite a good actor... but fame wise they're not very notable. As for notable deaths, I think the most significant ones this year would be amongst actors such as Pat Hingle, Dom DeLuise and Ricardo Montalban, but they're no Patrick Swayzes if you get what I'm saying....

     

    I quite agree. The standard of demise has dropped. To be fair, if we're picking Pat Hingle and Ricardo Montalban as significant (Dom DeLuise I'll accept grudgingly), then we're busily burrowing beneath the bottom of the barrel. It's about time a few notable grave-dodgers sstopped breathing my air. Kennedy, Reagan, Douglas - you know who I mean. Give it up. Now.

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