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The guy certainly has Gary Lineker's smooth cheeks and boyish grin, but this one must have had an ear-correction.

I was about to vote for Thatcher, but I only just realised she was missing on the list!

It is probably just one of my long-cherished phantasies. (The sponging, of course, not the coma or the monkeys.)

Well, don't you? It would be ironic if it turns out to be the other way round, wouldn't it? By the way: Sharon has been sleeping in a warm and comfortable hospitalbed for over a year, sponged down by pretty, young, innocent nurses without paying. Doesn't sound that bad, does it? He'll probably hang around for a while, I suppose. Thanks for the image! Another nominee for the Award for Most Vulgar Remark on the DeathList Forum 2007.

...or this version of 'Kill Bill'? Can't see this lady kill as many baddies with her *ahum* ...weapons as the illustrious Uma Thurman though.

It looks as if someone here is desperate for a chat...

According to CNN and spanish newspaper El País, Castro decided against routine surgery which would have provided him with an 'artificial anus'... A very reasonable decision, I suppose.

She has to, I won't do it for her.

Were you suggesting that not the Hilton-tramp but Mollie Sugden is amongst the three best-looking women in the world? Not a very popular pick, I'd say.

Marais Viljoen, South Africa's president from 1979 to 1984, died yesterday, 91 years old. Wasn't he mentioned on the PW Botha thread last year?

There were four centenarians on last year's list, and only one of them (25 %) snuffed it. The succes ratio on the entire list was 26 %, so picking the extremely old is actually decreasing the odds, though only slightly. don't be stupid... I won't, thank you. You obviously did not get my point, so I'll give it another try. Picking a 100-year-old celebrity just because of his age has not proved to be a 'guarantee for succes' as Mr Macabre stated. In fact, if we take last years' list, the odds of a centenarian dying have turned out to be even slimmer than those of the list as a whole. This is, of course, not because centenarians can not be expected to die soon, but because most of the other picks were selected because of their frail health, life-threatening diseases or specific habits that tend to shorten their life-expectancy. The examples of Ruby Muhammad and Brooke Astor prove that some centenarians might still have some years to go. They must have been quite strong and healthy just to have made it to their impressive age, after all. Edit: Of the seventeen centenarians that were picked on the last ten lists, seven died in that particular year. Quite a good score, you might say, but we only scored heavily with them in 2003 and 2004, with 5 hundred-years-olds dying in that particular two years (out of 8 picks).

There were four centenarians on last year's list, and only one of them (25 %) snuffed it. The succes ratio on the entire list was 26 %, so picking the extremely old is actually decreasing the odds, though only slightly.

By the way, why is Lady Bird Johnson on the DL-frontpage linking to this topic?

Ex boxer George Foreman did a similar thing. He named each of his four sons George and his daughter Georgetta. Imagine a piece of mail coming into that household. Did Wacko Jacko not do the same? I seem to remember his kids were called Prince Michael, Prince Michael II and Prince Michael III or something. (Can't be bothered to google this. Besides that: googling 'Michael Jackson' and 'children' at the same time would probably lead me to a completely different kind of XXX-websites...)

Lady Bird Johnson was mentioned several times as the most likely 13th succes of 2006, so I decided to have a look at this topic. The thread is leading to nowhere, I think, mainly due to Bruno's drunken drivel, but who cares. A little bit more ontopic: did it occur to any of you that it was highly unpractical of Lady Bird and her late husband to name both of their daughters L.B. Johnson? It resulted in four LBJ's in one family, how would they have known which of them was the one meant on a letter, for example?

That rings a bell Sniff... Those were the days... singing out loud the Internationale at the 1st of may-celebrations with the whole bunch of old-style socialists... It's a shame they don't do that anymore. I downloaded the dutch version, and I was still able to sing along! Ontwaakt, verworpenen der aarde! Ontwaakt, verdoemd in 's hongers sfeer! Reed'lijk willen stroomt over de aarde En die stroom rijst al meer en meer. Sterft, gij oude vormen en gedachten! Slaafgeboornen,ontwaakt,ontwaakt! De wereld steunt op nieuwe krachten, Begeerte heeft ons aangeraakt! Makkers, ten laatste male, Tot de strijd ons geschaard, en d'Internationale Zal morgen heersen op aard.

The easiest way to get that result would be the elimination of that Thatcher person. Any objections? regards, Hein Certainly not! The day she dies and goes to hell will be declared a national holiday and there will be street parties and dancing in the streets and quite rightly too. Well, finally a true word, mister Xenon!

You really are quite selective in which right-wing-politicians you like, Xenon... That Bush has killed hundreds of thousands of people is highly exaggarated, but I get your point. Killing several thousands and torturing tens of thousands of people is significant, though. There are not that many dictators who can show a record of service like that! Not even commies. Salvador Allende, that er... very dangerous Marxist dictator (cough) overthrown by Pinochet might have had some naive or even stupid visions of how to rule his country, but it's ridiculous to accuse him of anything half as bloody and inhumane as the crimes commited by Pinochet and his cronies.

Now, you are serious, aren't you?! The poem gave it away: you really are completely out of your mind. No matter how you feel about communists and anti-communists, no sane person would refer to Pinochet's concentration camps, his regime of oppression, torture, murder and fear as a 'joy' that 'passed'... The only Pinochetty things the 'tides' have left behind are the skulls of his political opponents, the only Pinochetty thing that still 'lingers' on the land is the smell of Chacabuco. Dimwitted moron.

Well, calling Thatcher 'commie loving scum' is an impressive new manner of f*cking up history...

Are all the regular DL-ers on a holiday or something? Friedman's death is not exactly causing a stir...

I thought all the pigheaded dutchmen were sent to South Africa long ago, (only for them to pitch up in London in the late '90's) Many of them were, but that was so long ago that several new generations of pigheaded dutchmen have evolved in the meantime. I'm the living proof of that.

Now, my dear sir, I sense some inarticulate racist sentiments here!

I voted for the Wicked Witch of Grantham. If it were not for hope, the heart would break.

Lucky?? I think I would have much rather have been hung than have to live in fear for my life daily. Fear of being caught in the middle of one of the numerous cash-in-transit robberies, fear of being hijacked raped and murdered, fear of waking up to find that someone has broken in to my home while I was asleep and managed to bypass the security system. Fear for my children - will they make it home safely or will they too become a statistic?? You don't have to believe us, come and visit our beautiful country (yes, it is very beautiful). You don't make it sound like a joyful experience, so I think I'll decline. Thank you. Unfortunately, it seems that you're not exaggerating. Yesterday's newspaper summed up: 330.000 robberies last year, between 18 and 32 thousand murders, 1 in 5 SA-males had been involved in a rape. I'm shocked, but once again: I firmly object to the suggestion that apartheid should not have been abolished. I agree. (I'm sure it's a comfort for you that a pigheaded dutchman who never set foot on South African soil agrees!) But let's be frank: this is not entirely a racial thing. Many of your country's leaders are stupid dimwits who care about nothing but their own benefit, which is not at all an exclusively South African problem. Now, what started as a remarkably sensible outline ended up in the rather predictable and well-known appeal for harsher sentences and the death penalty. As someone else on this forum rightfully stated: the death penalty has never made a country less criminal. Economic prosperity does, however. You should get rid of the corruption, invest in education, in an authoritative police force, in improving living conditions for the poor. Those factors have always been crucial in dropping down crime rates. If you don't believe me, go to the United States, they execute between 50 and 100 people a year (some of them minors or mental patients) and it never worked to make the country a safe, civilized and law-abiding nation.