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  1. Posted

    Frankie Laine... that name kind of rings a bell. Didn't he hold a world record for dancing, or something?

     

    Edit: this was originally posted in the duplicate Frankie Laine thread, where it made sense.

  2. Posted

    At 18, with the Depression underway and his father out of work, Laine hit the road as a dance marathoner. Altogether he participated in 14 marathons, coming in first on three occasions. He and his partner, Ruthie Smith, made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for dancing 145 days straight (although he disputed Guinness, saying he and Smith danced for 146 days).

     

    I also wish to dispute that claim. You may as well tell me that he moonwalked to the moon and back. In the early 1990s at a weekend rave in Utrecht, Netherlands, I once danced for about 22 hours straight. Well, I say "straight"... actually I was off my tits on about 10 pills and a handful of speed.

    I don't even think it's medically possible for someone to go 145 days without sleep, let alone dancing constantly. Unless Frankie & Ruthie were on some serious, cattle-strength uppers. :eshock::blink::eshock::):blink::)

     

    Edit to add this from amusingfacts.com:

    The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours (11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1965.

  4. Posted

    The person I get told I look like most often is Gina McKee

    Phwooaaar! I adore Gina McKee. Hardly anyone knows who she is, but she's probably my favourite British actress.

    I agree SC but she is pretty well known. She played whatshername in the Forsyth Saga alongside whatshisname who was in Band of Brothers. She was pretty good also in Our Friends from the North with Daniel Craig, now James Bond. She certainly has something but she rarely shifts from the dour and sultry look. I couldn't imagine her in a comic role.

    [pedant]Here's some of her in a comedy show, Brass Eye, courtesy of YouTube.[/pedant]

    ; she plays Libby Schuss and enters the clip at 0:50 or so, although you don't really get a [obsessive=3]decent look at Handrejka's lookalike's sexy boat-race until the 2:18 mark. At 4:31, she's absolutely smokin'[/obsessive].

    Thinking back, she did her dour & sultry look in this too. Yay! Her voice is just divine too; if I ever have to be given really bad news, either Mrs SC or Gina should give it to me. Preferably both :lol:

     

    p.s. I once knew a cat, whom was the spitting image of one his siblings.

  6. Posted

    The person I get told I look like most often is Gina McKee and Mary from the cartoon Mary, Mungo and Midge.

    Phwooaaar! I adore Gina McKee. Hardly anyone knows who she is, but she's probably my favourite British actress. Not only is she a total fox but she can actually act, which makes a change. I feel compelled to watch her whenever she's on telly, despite the fact that most of her work is done alongside the multitude of halfwits, imbeciles and talentless wannabes who frequent our screens these days.

     

    I have been looky-likened to many things over the years; mainly members of the order Rodentia, thanks to my commandingly distinguished probosis and subtle overbite.

  7. Posted

    The February episode of The Sky At Night just aired here; a Mars Exploration special. Sir Patrick looks to be in fine fettle, cracking out a cheeky grin (and even a hint of a wink) as he concluded the episode with his aspiration to announce the discovery of life on the red planet on The Sky At Night sometime in the future.

  10. Posted

    Whilst on the subject, a few examples of acts of bravery can be found here. None of which, I fear, will be made into a Hollywood Blockbuster.

    Excellent post, Dave.

    Off-topic, but worthy of posting again, lest anyone didn't read it the first time. Preaching to the converted on this site, probably, but it's well written and well worth reading. Please read the full page and send the link to 10 friends, unless you want TLC to come round give you a damned good shoeing.

     

    US/UK coalition wages courageous war against the Flintstones.

  12. Posted

    (fancy sign thing)

    Good work, Cap'n... Many Happy Returns, TWDNKM! I can't remember why, but TWDNKM seems to command a good deal of respect on the forums. Might go and read his posts now to find out why.

     

    Edit (after reading his back-catalogue) to add: It's because he seems a thoroughly bloody nice bloke. And he's got the balls to post using his real name and photo, apparently. I tip my hat, sir...

  14. Posted

    i lik the whay that this convosattion has gon from porl hunta 2 gramma lol

    Thank F**k there's internet connectivity in the afterlife!

    Knowing that there'll still be access to Wikipedia and Popbitch makes me less squeamish about suicide. Bet it's überbroadband too, like 500Mbps for free, no monthly download limit either. And all the porn you can handle; proper porn, not just some shitty free softcore galleries followed by a request for your credit card details when you click on the free hardcore mpegs. And no spam. Or popups. Or spellchecker. Tell us, Paul, can it really be true? :D

  16. Posted

    Rick Stein's dog Chalky has died. :crossbone:

    are animlas allowed cos Wellhard off Eastenders must be knocking on a bit by now

    I think you'll find that most deadpools, including this one, don't allow animlas as potential candidates.

    or animals :unsure:

    :crossbone: Was that irony? Or are you just really, really slow?

  18. Posted

    Raise your hand if this thread should be deleted?

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    borisyeltsinsmallerga4.jpggwenstefaniraiseshandsm5.jpgborisyeltsin2smallerum7.jpg

     

    Hip-Hop afficionados Mao, Skinny, Hitler, Bush, Yeltsin and Stefani unite to support this thread. They don't think the thread should be deleted, lest Snoop Dogg, Skinnyman or one of their peers get "capped" sometime; they're just shameless self-publicists who'll go to any lengths to get their photo on DeathList.

  20. Posted

    ok, I'm confused. First NAP says he will delete parts of this thread, then he says he won't, but it appears someone did delete at least one of Star Crossed's posts from last night ...

    No confusion necessary. It seems NAP deleted about 10-12 posts, mostly the rampant off-topic idle chit-chat by his pet posters, Windsor, Banshees and CP, which took up a full page of this thread last night. I think he also deleted some of mine and Godot's Lebowski stylings, which came after the full page of kiddy sh*t. Which is fair enough, I asked for it to be deleted, as it was only the remnants of our off-topic rant-based rantings. So then NAP comes back with some vicious schoolteacher jibe. Must have been scratching his nutsack head all morning thinking that one up.

     

    lol Windsor, "no such thing as intelligent comedy"; did you get that sh*t off the back of a Weetabix packet, or was it the pop-psychology-phrase-a-day toilet paper you got for Christmas? Watch Lebowski sometime and get yourself an education. Then watch The Usual Suspects. Then go beddy-byes.

     

    Would a proper Moderator do some pruning, get this f*cking thread back on topic, pretty please with F*****g sugar and a glacé cherry on top, or does this become the new Dickie O' thread? It's up to you.

  21. Posted

    Of course I could be wrong. But I thought his post kind of pulled the thread together.

    Yeah man, it really tied the thread together...

     

    Unfortunately, Godot, only you and I seem to understand how hilariously funny and clever (albeit off-topic) our Lebowski-based exchanges have been.

    [rant]I didn't want to post again but, at the risk of being obtuse, I must say it's a shame that NAP seems to have lowered himself by taking exceptionally public exception, once more, to my attempts at relevance to both your film references and the actual subject matter, which is odd given the kids' trivial attempts at ironic whoring further up this page. So please, NAP, do your job of Moderating this thread which, quite frankly, I could do better; delete away, and chuck in a warning for me as well if it gets that monkey off your back... at least you'll be championing some of the membership's interests, eh? Then revert to suffering in impotent silence, or complicity as it seems, as the kids continue to spam your forums with utter drivel, until the next time common sense prevails and someone like me tries to get things back on track before being flamed for trying to show a little respect to the letter, and spirit, of the thread.[/rant]

     

    This is not 'nam. This is the Patrick Moore thread. There are (unwritten) rules.

     

    Any news on Sir Patrick?

    Not news as such, but I have just read his 1972 book "Can You Speak Venusian?"; a cracking read, extremely witty.

  23. Posted

    Why Won't Jesse Helms Just Hurry Up And Die? ... a brilliant rap-metal track by MC Hawking.

    [snip]

    Can't get the image of MC Stephen Hawking singing this out of my head now.... very surreal :rolleyes:

    It is MC Stephen Hawking, the renowned physicist, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and part-time hip-hop MC. The link works, have a listen. (You may have to click the "play" button a few times to get it to work) He even has his own website.

     

    Taking the Michael again SC?
    Kudos, Godot.

  24. Posted

    Why Won't Jesse Helms Just Hurry Up And Die?

     

    Not just a rhetorical question, but a brilliant rap-metal track by MC Hawking. See attachment.

     

    The lyrics:-

    Verse 1

    Big fat f**k from North Carolina state,

    he's a worthless piece of sh*t, he's a paragon of hate,

    he's a redneck, f**k-face, brain-dead waste of space,

    two-bit, two-timing, motherfucking pool of slime.

    Against gay rights, and funding for the arts,

    tried to cancel PBS and tear Big Bird apart.

    cut AIDS funding, corporate welfare for the rich,

    he's a shameless money grubber, he's a two dollar bitch.

    Chorus

    Why won't Jesse Helms just hurry up and die? x 2

    Verse 2

    Fundamentalist, fuckwad, dickless prick,

    he's ugly as a morlock, dumb as a brick.

    He's a sack of sh*t, hypocrite, single-minded, fat bigot,

    punk bitch, ignorant, ass-munch sycophant.

    Life long friend of the deadly cancer sticks,

    thinks AIDS is the fault of the people it inflicts.

    Racist f**k who supports segregation,

    foe of the people friend of the corporation.

    Chorus

    MC_Hawking_Why_Won__t_Jesse_Helms_Just_Hurry_Up_And_Die.mp3

  25. Posted

    ... he did not know for sure that the decision to put The Sky At Night on late had been a feminine choice ...

    Whomsoever's decision it was, is deserving of a bareback horse ride to Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where they should be tied to a stake on the launchpad and burned alive by the vicious flames of the next available Soyuz rocket, and then have their death reported in the "not famous enough" and "ironic deaths" threads.

     

    TSAN and Patrick Moore's presentation of it, is one of the very few reasons to justify the payment of any kind of television tax licence fee and should be prime-time, if not compulsory, viewing. Anyone who knows anything about anything at all must agree that there is absolutely no room for manoeuvre or debate on this issue. As those of you salty enough to have stayed up to watch the last episode will have witnessed, no less top-hole a man than Piers Sellers, when thanked for appearing on the programme, replied with the greatest sincerity "The honour is all mine."

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