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No, emmy. No matter how emphatic you try to be, I'm pretty sure there are heterosexual members on this site as well. Sorry... Perhaps you might enjoy this site. Good luck!

Ooooh! What about a page-a-day calendar, with a different, top-quality posts on each page. For example, this one: taken from the Golden Girls thread.

Regarding death and merchandising, I was pointed towards this article. I feel there are some useful tips in it that are well worth considering. Chocolate, anyone?

Perhaps his name was not really Jesus Christ? What if it had been, say, Popodopolous. Perhaps Bertie Popodopolous. Would some of you now be going to church to practice Popodopolousianity? Would the Romans have thrown Popodopolousians to the lions? Of course he may have been called Smith. I may need a lie down. According to Handel, his name was supposed to be 'Colin, the Prince of Peas'.

Hello O Fierce One - welcome to the club!

Sign me up!

As of October 12th, 2005: We now have 616 registered members. 256 have never posted to the forum 60 have been registered members for over 1 year After posting this in the "Irate rantings" thread, ff kindly directed me to this thread which I had somehow missed (predominently because if it doesn't appear on the first page of threads, I miss it. Quite shocking but true). Having read all of the above posts, I stand by my convictions.

Cheers ff, I'm rubbish at finding existing threads. Having read it, I still think some absentee-member culling is a good idea. If it puts people off joining, tough sh*t.

Okay, I know I'm not a visitor. But I have a rant, and I didn't want to start a new thread as I don't think it is warranted, and I couldn't think of where else to post it, so the ranting thread it is... Now, I appreciate that on an online forum, members of the vast global public have the right to become DL members and then never post anything. And I'm not saying that every member should join in the Twunt-race; I respect a member's right not to post anything. But it kind of drives me crazy when you go to the list of members, and there's just tons and tons of people who, for whatever reason, decided to become a member and then either got bored, or changed their mind, or forgot or whatever and then have never been active, contributing members. Perhaps our ever-vigilant moderators should go on a bit of a members purge (a veritable enema for the member's list). Obviously, discretion would be needed. Perhaps any member who joined over a year ago but has never posted? I think that would cut down the list considerably. See, I know it's a bit of a random, useless rant. But for some inexplicable reason, it really gets on my t*ts.

raider+Oct 11 2005, 06:44 PM--> QUOTE(Tom( raider @ Oct 11 2005, 06:44 PM) I agree, but how can it be an excuse to support the conservatives, I wonder?! I know a lot of people who would like to have voted Lib Dem but were worried about splitting the NL vote and letting the Tories in through the back door, so voted NL even though they didn't really want to. I think that if all the people who did that simply voted Lib Dem, the Lib Dem party would be in a very, very strong position. Go Chuck!

Ah, another ranter who assumes so much, yet actually knows so little. My mom survived cancer, various of my grandparents had/died from cancer, and I would guess that there's about a 98% chance that I am going to get cancer (given the genetic pool from which I've sprung). And yet, surprisingly, I can still be found posting on this venemous site, inamongst my fellow gimps.

An excellent point. Although, given the paltry state of the merch at the moment, I would say that this is currently a non-issue. [Note to admin: I mean that in the nicest way possible. ]

Ah, once more fate brings us togezzerrr. It seems either there's a user who is posting under many assumed names or Claude Levi Strauss is ready to kick the bucket. Dear BS, If you are implying that I am posting responses to my own posts under an unregistered pseudonym, I can assure you I am not.

If so, then I'm sure GWB will take the credit for the earthquake Ever wonder if Osama and GWB are one-and-the-same? After all, you never see them in the same room together.

I was thinking today that maybe a good DL item would be a Deathlist List (maker-pad-thingy). Like the Chopin Liszt pads which were so popular a few years ago (and assumedly still are amongst classical music buffs). You know: a lined, rectangular pad of paper with a magnet on the back so you can stick it to the fridge and add random groceries as the need arises for when you go shopping. Does that make any sense?!

Whoops! As above!

When the engraving is done before assembly of the bullet, it should be safe. Here's an idea, though: regards, Hein When I first saw this, I read the message wrong (as below) and thought it was a tampon! Possibility??

When i say this i'm not totally sure i'm correct but i heard the first list was made in 1987 but the idea wasn't put on to the internet untill the mid 90's. That would mean the list selections were added years later after they happened. That might exsplain the disapearence of the 1988 list. I sometimes wonder if there were any successes that year? Ah... I'm practically tingling with anticipation of all that lovely memorabilia...

Have to wholeheartedly disagree with you on the Ronnie suggestion. Re the Queen Mother, I just figured that any piece representing her would take so long to move round the board that an already longish game would become agonisingly so. With regard to the 1987 date, for some reason I was under the impression that 1987 was the date the DL moved onto the Internet, but that it had already be running prior to that. I think I read it in a thread from a few months back, but can't be f*cked to try to find it. If 1987 is the date, then the Admin team have just over a year to get the special 20th ANIVERSARY gear up and ready to be purchased by thousands. Good luck team!

My name and avatar are taken from an advertising campaign which was banned in 2003. Good ol' ASA!

A barrage of excellent suggestions! I am especially amenable to the wine glasses, the hourglass, and the calendar (nudity optional of course). I was also thinking that perhaps more could be made out of some of the avatars: decks of cards, dart boards, shot glasses, etc. And getting back to the 'special merch', what about a chess set where all the pieces are made up of the DL successes? That would be swish. Does anyone know the aniversary of the DL (what year it started?) Maybe if there's any kind of aniversary coming up celebrating the nth year of the DL, the chess set could be commemorative, with different pieces being different successes from years gone by: Bishop = Pope JP King = King Hussein Queen = Queen Juliana Rook = Max Schmeling The Knight = Roy Rogers The Pawns = these could be themed, like all the comedians, or all the actors, etc. Not that I've given this much thought... I was stuck on a 7 hour coach ride today...

So am I! Of a similarly "heavy" persuasion, by the look if them. We're all at it! + At this rate, we could have our own Battle of the Bands Rock-Out Extravaganza!

So am I! Of a similarly "heavy" persuasion, by the look if them. Nice! I reckon if you and I got together, we could cause some serious mayhem!

This raises an interesting question: Could we have famous animals on the DL? For example, is Lassie still alive? What about the Littlest Hobo? Not to mention any number of movie-star horses. An option?