in eternum+

Omigod! I've just had the best idea about where we should hold DL-Con 1.

Perhaps this newer version of the software has an enabled anti-spam facility.

I voted for Earnest Gallo. Boring bastard who has contributed nothing of value to the world of beverages.

Not only am I in, but it's all shiny and upgraded!

I think you'll still encounter the problem of needing to avoid open flames, albeit for slightly different reasons.

The greatest gift I could receive is your permanent departure from these fora. Please do feel free to help make that dream a reality.

I absolutely love it that you've voted for the Professor! Given you successes on the deathpool circuit, your Professorial support gives me much hope.

I'm with the man in the Yeti costume. [Editor's note: Wait a second! HCW... you are wearing a Yeti costume, aren't you? ]

Big up us - go Team DeathList!

ATJ: It's always useful to have your faith in humanity smashed in a thousand pieces every now and again. MPFC: Well, either that or being gifted with the chance to keep it real. Either way, I reckon you can't beat the DL for regular reminders that everything turns to dust in the end. ie+: Except for Mr Lenin, of course...

How fabulous! Portrait of the artist as a young man I thoroughly enjoyed this exercise. However, looking at the final product it seems fairly safe to say that I am lacking somewhat in imagination when it comes to the abstract arts. I feel as though I've seen this picture somewhere before...

Thank you again, Guest, for this limited but much-appreciated insight. Unfortunately, I think that at 97 years of age, 'fragility' comes with the territory and is not really a decisive indicator of the state of his health. I suppose the very fact that he attended the exposition speaks somewhat to the degree to which his faculties are still under his control, really. Any chance you have links to any relevant photos from said exposition? That would be great.

How fabulous that someone other than myself has dredged the poor Professor up from the deepest darkest recesses of! Welcome, guest! I "regularly" check for updates on french Google, but I 1) can never find anything new and 2) am not really sure what I'm looking at when I try to forage www.google.fr . Please keep us updated, guest! You give me hope.

If this is the case, may I please request somewhere with wide doorways. We could meet in your pub? It's just outside SE London, dartboard & wide doorways guaranteed. I give that idea a oooooooonnnnnnnneeeehundredandeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggghhhhhhhtttttyyyy! Pints on the house, and a flaming sambuka for Lady Die!

If this is the case, may I please request somewhere with wide doorways.

Isn't there also the issue here of (re)appropriation of terminology, and who has the "right" to use what labels? Like black people appropriating the term 'N-word', gay people appropriating the term 'fag', and women (re)appropriating the term 'girls'? It's (apparently) okay for one black person to call another a 'N-word' but not for a white person to call a black person such, and it's en vogue for women to refer to each other as 'girls' but condescending for men to do so, and it's pretty much the norm for gay people to call each other fags but still slightly unsettling when straight people do so. So it seems to me that part of the problem lies with who is employing the terminology: is it okay for non-physically challenged/handicapped people to call those who are physically handicapped 'retarded'? Or is that "right" still reserved for the less-than-entirely-able-bodied? And what's this got to do with the DeathList, anyway?

I think if you did find the required amount of hairspray you'd be well advised to request that the meeting be held at a non-smoking pub... ...and not to stand anywhere near Typhoid Harry.

My main problem with most of this is TH's declaration that he won't enter into debate with anyone (level of drunkeness notwithstainding) but that he'll simply suspend / ban them instead. I find this extremely troublesome and somewhat unacceptable coming from a Moderator. Give or take a few intances, we've managed quite well without your seemingly heavy-handed brand of moderation, TH. I appreciate your reasons for being away over the past year, but it seems logical to me that you should realise that the DL you're coming back to might be different to the one you left. If you don't like how it's changed you could always leave again.

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Words of wisdom, LG. I personally have made multiplicitous use of the 'ignore' function in the past. In addition to the 'ignore' function, I've recently discovered another way to relieve other-members'-posts-induced stress. Let's say you come acros the post of, oh I don't know, a semi-literate teenage half-wit, and you are overcome with the post's fundamental stupidity but you don't want to reply because you simply cannot be f*cked to get involved in a slagging match. What I recommend is as follows: hit the reply key, reply to the post as vociforously, thoroughly, and emphatically as is necessary to relieve the aforementioned stress, and then - rather than clicking on the 'add reply' key - simply click on the 'DeathList Forum'* link above, which returns you to the fora main page. That way, you've replied but you've none of the comeback. *I'm quite convinced that clicking on the 'cancel' button would not be nearly as satisfying as clicking on the 'DL Forum' link. I mean, you don't want to cancel out your sentiments, you just want them to float off into the intangible.

What an extremely odd link to post, mpfc! I'm not sure I get whatever (extremely) subtle social comment you're making...

Like this: regards, Hein Nice work, Hein!

Gentlemen! I have the perfect forum for you to undertake such a duel (date and place forthcoming...). Perhaps our beloved admin can add souvenir fight programmes to the DL merch. Please believe me when I say I am not joking, I am prepared to meet Typhoid Harry with sword or pistol or failing these fisticuffs. So come on TH name the place and date, I can manage almost anywhere within ther UK. Who said you were joking? I just wanna watch. You are welcome to watch ie+, I'll have the advantage as pain is no stranger to me. Excellent! Tell me your colours of choice, and I'll have some pom poms made up specially.

Gentlemen! I have the perfect forum for you to undertake such a duel (date and place forthcoming...). Perhaps our beloved admin can add souvenir fight programmes to the DL merch. Please believe me when I say I am not joking, I am prepared to meet Typhoid Harry with sword or pistol or failing these fisticuffs. So come on TH name the place and date, I can manage almost anywhere within ther UK. Who said you were joking? I just wanna watch.