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Along with Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer that's five deaths to musicians on Georgia roadways in just a few days. SC And Jerelean Talley was born in.....Georgia! If she fancies a trip to her birthplace while playing the banjo..... The initial episodes of Dukes of Hazard were shot in Georgia.... Does the grim reaper live there? No but the Devil went down there...

There is a name that brings back unwelcome memories of Midlands Today

The Methodist Chursch has just adopted a new hymn book so there may be more opportunities for up to date resaearch during long sermons - most of the people in the old book must be dead already Sydney Carter and F Pratt-Green died in 2004 & 2000 respectively. Our church have deprived me of this pleasure by only purchasing a small number of copies so anyone who is not totally blind gets to sing following the words on a screen projected from a PC. Although some mirth can be obtained from spelling errors and the mumbling when the PC operator fails to put up the correct screen. The only person who I can think of who would fit into this category is Graham Kendrick who is responsible for the abomination that is Shine Jesus Shine but he is only 64.

I suppose heatstroke will make a pleasant change from frostbite. Starts today...probably dead within the week. According to reports today he has been overtaking people who are almost 50 years younger than him.

Was there only one series of A Fine Romance? That always seemed to be bloody on. Most of the ones you mention were just too cliché-ridden to attract my attention, but I did like Birds Of A Feather because it had some witty writing and LOL lines. Sharon talking about a new tapas bar, or "tap-arse" as she pronounces it. Dorian: It's tap-ATH, Sharon. Tap-ATH! Sharon: Oh, ith IT? Well, it still makes me laugh anyway. A Fine Romance did run for Four Series (I did say some). My problem with Birds of a Feather was that the whole thing seemed to be carried by Lesley Joseph. Linda Robson had no sense of comic timing and it really, really irritated me.

Don't watch it but do you mean Julian Glover (Scaroth, Last of the Jagoroth)? Yes! And you should, it's the most entertaining thing I've watched in years. My daughter has been reading the books and I think trying to avoid the TV series in case it changes how she sees it. She is on the last (most recently published) at the moment so she might give it a go when she finishes it. Also I don't have SKY.

Again, Sir Creep is not learned on the media of the UK, but goddamit if Pat Summit wouldn't obit no sense in publishing the damned paper. Granted we had this tiff re: Tarkanian a couple months ago and Sir Creep was right, which seemed obvious to him. But she's the greatest NCAA female bb coach ever, what could possibly be the debate? SC Never trust anyone who refers to themselves in the third person. I cna't quite remember where that bit of advice came from but it is worth noting.

Bit late Time beat you by about six hours see post #699

Why didn't the seven dwarves get any dinner? Try walking through the front door singing Hi Ho and you will find out.

I watched the TV debate but I must have missed the ones that all the journalists wrote about on Friday morning. I thought Newspapers were meant to report the news not act as mouthpieces for whichever political party they feel like sucking up to at that particular time. Each debater was speaking to a particular group which didn't seem to be the don't knows. The best piece of evidence for that was the snap poll that said 20% of respondents thought Nigel Farage performed best but an equal number thought he performed worst. Nicola Sturgeon did perform well she spoke confidently and expressed some popular ideas. What I hope Ed Miliband takes from this is that there is an attraction to including some socialist policies.

Don't watch it but do you mean Julian Glover (Scaroth, Last of the Jagoroth)?

Sloppy journalism she is not an MP at the moment.

Comedy is a very personal thing and as it has been shown my memory junks series that actually were sufficiently popular to run for several series. I absolutely hate Birds of a Feather and Goodnight Sweetheart but recognise that they were popular a less familiar one from the same stable was Holding The Fort - Patricia Hodge plays a new mother with a career in the military so she returns to work and leaves her good natured husband (Peter Davison) at home to look after their child where his disreputable pal/lodger Fitz (Matthew Kelly) cuases tension. This was shown (on ITV) at the time when Peter Davison managed to clock up a TV appearance every day of the week split between this, Doctor Who, Sink or Swim and ACGAS. In the early days of Channel 4 they experimented with quite a few comedies some of which only ran for one series. Hits included Fairly Secret Army, Chelmsford 123, A Fine Romance and my own favorite The Big One but there were others like Marjorie and Men which featured Patricia Routledge as a spinster living with her cantankerous mother (Patricia Yates) looking for love.

Michael Palin and Ronnie Corbett were out yesterday promoting the new series of stamps featuring comedians from our point of view a mixture of live and dead ones.

An elderly Japanese lady and John Lennon's wife die on the same day. I think there might be a Venn diagram in there somewhere.

I was wondering what would happen if DOE upped and died the weekend before the election. The election is an administerative and financial juggernaut which couldn't be halted but how would the parties deal with the combination of mourning and turmoil as well as the media outlets being massively distracted.

I don't remember any of those. Reference to IMDb reveals a sitcom called All In Good Faith, starring Richard Briers as a Reverend Philip Lambe which could be what you're thinking of. Ran for three series in the 80s. Does anyone remember Frank Skinner's foray into sitcomland with Blue Heaven and Shane? The former is apparently available on demand from 4oD; might have to revisit that. Yes that must be what I was thinking. Maybe I thought my title was better. Jim Davison was briefly in a sitcom. He used to stand outside his door and he broke the fourth wall. Elephant & Castle?

The subtitle of this thread is forgotton sitcoms memorial thread but to be fair most of the one we talk about are well remembered and in some cases well loved. There are a host however of shows so lame that they have rightly been forgotton. Does anyone remember Trouble and Strife (there is no Wikipedia entry for this sitcom) from the mid eighties shown on ITV. The premise was concerning a church group of Young Wives who all were smitten with the new 'dishy' vicar (Steven Pacey)? The cast included Annette Badlands as someone fat and Anna Karen (On The Buses) as the grouchy church caretaker. Other forgotton sitcoms could inlcude Lamb of God - Richard Briers was a vicar (oh how we laughed) - The only thing I remember about this show is the title and I might be imagining that. All at No 20 - Widowed Maureen Lipman has to take in lodgers to save her house (featured an early acting appearance from the now RSC artistic director Gregory Doran. Roll Over Beethoven - Fading rock star (Nigel Planer) falls for prudish music teacher (Liza Goddard) to the chagrin of her father (Richard Vernon) Not with a Bang - Josie Lawrence and Mike Grady survive the end of the world (caused by Judith Hann)

David Cameron is not liked by the right of his party and they would like someone who appears to be a lot like them but Cameron has been able to say to them "Sorry not me the Lib Dems insist on it". He has effectively been running two coalitions the one with the Lib Dems and one with the two wings of the Tory party.

It would be difficult to say You don't know what you've got till its gone.

Polling from today: LAB 276 CON 274 SNP 47 LD 28 DUP 8 SF 5 SDLP 3 PC 3 UKIP 2 GRN 1 OTH 3 Because of the SF prediction the 326 majority requirement can be reduced to 324. On this analysis Labour + SNP = 323 Apparently it has been suggested that if there is not a workable coalition the Queen might decline to deliver the speech if it is likely to be voted down. This would then fall to the leader of the house of lords and it would be a low key ceremony.

Only if she died a non-ironic death. Maybe if she had one hand in her pocket and the other was hailing a taxicab and the cab hit her. That would make her go Head over Feet

If Alanis Morrissette died I would post it here Don't you think?

Robert L Hite died on Sunday. He was an American airman who was captured by the Japanese during the Doolittle raids. Here is a NY Times article but not sure whether you will get a UK one. I only noticed this because I ended up doing the H biogs.

Seen as it's the day of dissolution I'm going to come out and say it... I prefered it when the PM had control over when to call and election, it meant elections were generally more frequent (something I prefer as a keen political watcher) and there was a lot more suspense involved in government difficulties, the fact I haven't experienced a snap election yet ( the last being 1974) probably has something to do with it. At this rate 2001 will go down as the last non-multiple of five election. Been sitting on that controversial nukeshell for a while have you? What I'm saying is........... erm, yeah no shit. It was an absolute stitch up cause they wanted to squash the people's hope of the coalition going down in flames. And the MPs like it just cause anything that gives them an extra sense of 'job' security is good to them. That might be hyperbole. The 1992 election was very close. The BBC were planning to go to broadcast with a picture of Neil Kinnock to start with but at the last minute they changed it for a split screen of both him and John Major. The two elections of 1974 are of course very close and the 2010 election was the closest of them all resulting in the first formal coalition for over 70 years. The question is why is this election close we have had five horrible years where it has become evident that we are not "All in it together". My only conclusion is that the Conservatives have created an illusion that it is all the Lib Dems fault and it will all be great tomorrow. Just a note on Cameron and the Third Term issue. What you have to remember about Cameron, for all his faults and insincerity he is as nice as the party gets. If you take a look over the possibly replacements bastards to a man (including Theresa May). Cameron is there because his party need him, not because the want him. Cameron isn't A. Nice or B. a Tory........... Not reassuring to know we have such ignorant people running the civil service. I made no claim for Cameron being nice, just nicer then the alternatives. He is leader of the Conservative party and therefore the easiest way to describe his is as a Tory unless I opt for the more satisfying Twat. And as I have pointed out before I am not a civil servant. However I am normally civil (except when discussing Tories)