The Pooka

With him visiting you'd want a decent filter.

Not if the addiction is beyond their control. I'd consider it more of an accident. They let their own habits get out of control and it cost them their life. No - it would definitely not be added to the official suicide figures. These figures tend to include all suicides that arise from coroner's court (3500 in UK) plus those that may have been described as 'Open verdict' but that were obviously a suicide (another 1500 or so). However, there is a whole range of deaths that have been loosely described as 'sub-intentioned death'. These would include all those behaviours where there is risky behaviour that might harm the person and might, subconsciously, involve a death wish; eg heavy smoking, risky sex, alcohol and drug abuse, dangerous driving, risky sports etc. etc. Lecture over - enjoyed that.

Dickie's autograph Its heating up on e-bay. There's a second bidder and it ends tonight.

Okay, I've been believing an urban legend for a very loooooong time. Perhaps I was Ina Gadda Da Vida? In a gadda da vida - memorably subverted by Bart in a Simpsons episode. Are you saying that Rolf wrote that as well. Most of the threads this pm seem to have been influenced by Dali - having trouble keeping up.

The press can say and gang as much as they want. I speak my mind. ..... a man of few words then BS?

Your irony was not wasted on me Queenie - nor mine on you, clearly. As you say 'he did do Tessa Wyatt a favour' but, more importantly he 'did do Tessa Wyatt' ...full stop. Jason King - well spotted....... I do not, alas, resemble the great Peter Wyngarde; another 70s icon worthy of revival. I believe that he is in Australia these days. He was convicted of something unsavoury in a bus-station convenience in Leicester and that put the anchors on his career. However, by that time I think that transportation to the colonies was no longer de rigeur and his emigration was entirely voluntary. Not one for the DL yet though. There is a current picture somewhere on the web but, as with Tessa's current mugshot, I can no longer find it.

He was living near here in a grand clifftop house that is sold (or selling). Maybe he is just downsizing to something that cannot hold a piano. And I don't mean a coffin.

'Nothing better to do with our time'! Is there a worthier cause than perpetuating the memory of a 1970s middle-ranking comedy starlet? I doubt it. ..... and while he may have been sharing with Paula and Sally; I believe that he was acting. Whereas, when he stole the saintly Tessa Wyatt from under the nose of Tony Blackburn it was the real thing. Hats off to the fellow. Long may he dodge the deathlist.

So many questions. I suppose that we could find the answers on the island of Bermuda. I phoned a mate out there and he was sure that he'd seen your Morton Jelly doughnuts. Spooky!

Jesus - this Dick misspells University on his first page. Certainly not OUR Dicky.

Ghosts....... well I had an extraordinary experience at a seance once. I am no sceptic there.

Granted.... there could be massive subterranean (and sub-oceanic) gas emissions. These may well do the trick..... but again these are phenomena that would not undermine modern science. You have made be curious BS. I have just eaten 14 pickled eggs and am off to experiment in the bathroom with my toy boats. I'll think about the planes later.

Very true, I'd put him in for 2007 myself, though. He's basically decided to play up to the media character that has been created for him, as he was when he was popular. He just doesn't know who he is any more. He never really did know who he was, he allowed the media to create his image, he then lived up to it. I remember when he was a regular winner at the Comedy awards, he was clearly playing out a role, he just didn't know when to stop, it was cringe inducing TV. I personally can't see him topping himself, he's more likely to end up institutionalized in a mental hospital. Or maybe he'll prove us all wrong and settle down to a quiet life in some rural backwater, breeding Chihuahua's for pleasure and profit. '.... breeding chihuahuas' ?? breeding with them more like!

OK Banshee's Scream - explain it for me.

You are indeed wise Dr Hackenslash.

Well I just didn't know storms make aircrafts and boats vanish from radar? Forgot to copy the quote - makes more sense now I guess if a plane in a storm crashes into the sea (and yes storms do happen in the air), it will disappear from the radar. Same happens if a ship sinks. But you're obviously a scientist so I'd better hush my mouth.

I guess if a plane in a storm crashes into the sea (and yes storms do happen in the air), it will disappear from the radar. Same happens if a ship sinks. But you're obviously a scientist so I'd better hush my mouth.

Regardless of his poolside shenanigans it appears to me that Barrymore is acting out. 'I have to be mad to have done these stupid things - so be it.' I suspect that he's as sane as the next person but has to behave madly to live with himself. Classic instability - and therefore, a good chance that he'll be in that majority of suicides who are not mentally ill. Book him in for 08.

Can't say I know much about the other two but the Bermuda Triangle is anything but fiction. You shouldn't speak about things you know nothing about? That appears to be a question(?). Or has the antipodean interrogative found its way into print. Whatever; the Bermuda Triangle has varied in size over the years to the extent that it has taken in the southern tip of Ireland. Large areas of ocean are susceptible to massive and sudden storms. Its not a mystery. You sir are Eric van Daniken! Actually, given the purpose of this site, is he still alive?? Where's Google.......

This thread is overheating now. I can hardly keep up. Firstly Tessa Wyatt appears to be a horse rider; a vision most stimulating. Now Dickie appears to be cricketing guru and hairdresser as well as being an actor of some national and international repute. An obvious answer is that there are other people with the same names. However, the Bermuda Triangle thread suggests that credulity should, indeed must, be suspended. Dickie is moonlighting; sneaking out of Brinsworth to organise cricket tours and conduct the odd cut 'n' blow........ ...... which brings me back to Tessa astride her mount. Any up-to-date pictures?

Here you go, bud. Biting Her Lip Just For You Thank you Brins. Isn't she winsome. But the picture I saw showed her as she is today. Keep 'em coming.

A sceptic writes... Bermuda Triangle? That's nothing I read about a world that you could get to through the back of a wardrobe. .... and then there was that Mr Benn's fancy dress shop in Festive Road.... All three are fictions; examples of wish fulfilment.

Enough with the Sally Thompsett. I came to this site in pursuit of today's Tessa Wyatt for whom I once carried a torch. I found an agency shot a few months ago but cannot trace it now. For pity's sake help me someone. If you're out there Dicky - have you any snaps to keep me going?

Jimmy Glass was down here in Bournemouth League playing for a mate of mine - did a bit for Weymouth in 2004 - still useful at this level. A better footballer by far than Richard O'Sullivan.... though Jimmy wasn't as good as Dickie around the box. Google yer name tonight Jimmy and you'll be baffled!

How did you know his name? Anyhoo, I think greater than the former Pope is a bit much. who exactly is mr.whitehouse? Mr Whitehouse is a purveyor of bawdiness, coarseness, crudity, drunkenness, evil, foulness, grossness, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, incivility, indecorum, indelicacy, lewdness, licentiousness, obscenity, offense, outrageousness, pornography, ribaldry, smut, smuttiness, unseemliness, vileness, vulgarity with a magazine so named. Also the husband of Mrs Whitehouse, who knew nothing of the above. Mister Whitehouse sounds like most of the blokes I drink with down the boozer. except he's the only one who's the husband of Mrs Whitehouse, I guess.