Bibliogryphon

Beatrice or Eugenie? That's very unfair on Eugenie... I know but the temptation was too strong to make the joke.

I hope you are right (give or take a day or two) because if by some miracle he makes it to the end of the year he will on every DDP (including theme teams) - "I never realised Nelson Mandela appeared in Last of the Summer Wine"

Out of curiosity, have any other "nostalgia" acts made the top 20 since Jim and Vera? I've not heard of any but surely album sales have continued to decline since 2009, leavingthe door open for a Doris Day or an Engelbert Humperdinck to have another crack at chart glory. David Bowie?

It is eerily quiet at the moment and it has been for quite a while. The calm before the storm? We have less than 100 days till the end of the year. At this rate people might be hoping to be included on next year's list to take advantage of its magical protection.

This thread got me thinking and when my ipod spewed up Kate Bush's Army Dreamers I thought this song ticks all the boxes for morbidity and potential controvosy. In some ways it is more relevent now that when it was originally written. For those of you not familiar this is a song concerning the waste of young life fighting other peoples wars. Check it out.

Beatrice or Eugenie?

Just been listening to WatO and they had an interview with Dennis Skinner he sounded tired but he is in Brighton which is a long way from Bolsover.

How rude Mr Putin to fall asleep whilst visiting a pensioner.

Do we have any German posters who want to offer an insight into Sunday's election?

It would be a shame on the UK press if an obit was missed for any of these.

Never mind that shit, he was the voice of Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz in 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'... Very sad. I saw him at the RSC play Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night opposite Freddie Jones as Malvolio.

I have decided to update the list of Booker prize winners to remove the deceased and bring it up to date. I am just about to embark on Wolf Hall. V S Naipaul (1932) John Berger (1926) Nadine Gordimer (1923) David Storey (1933) Salman Rushdie (1947) Thomas Keneally (1935) J M Coetzee (1940) Anita Brookner (1928) Keri Hume (1947) Penelope Lively (1933) Peter Carey (1943) Kazuo Ishiguro (1954) A S Byatt (1936) Ben Okri (1959) Michael Ondaatje (1943) Roddy Doyle (1958) James Kelman (1946) Pat Barker (1943) Graham Swift (1949) Arundhati Roy (1961) Ian McEwan (1948) Margaret Atwood (1939) Yann Martel (1963) DBC Pierre (1961) Alan Hollinghurst (1954) John Banville (1945) Kiran Desai (1971) Anne Enright (1962) Aravind Adiga (1974) Hilary Mantel (1952) Howard Jacobson (1942) Julian Barnes (1946)

Happy Birthday to Mary Stewart 97 Today.

If we had been playing this game in 1989 how many people would have picked Michael Sundin for a team?

I got the impression Chris Wenner actually despised the show. Didn't last very long.

Considering her recent campaign against page 3 this one seemed oddly appropriate Caroline Lucas, Green MP = Cancelling rape us more No offence intended.

Stoneybridge could host it.

Saw an article in an old copy of the Daily Mirror which was based on comments from friend Vince Hill and he was commenting on how devastating the whole thing was for Rolf's wife Alwen who is 83. He described her as frail and mentioned arthritis. At the moment her death would certainly get coverage.

Just watching news on TV in Cologne airport and is it me or does Angela Merkel seem to now have adopted a confused old lady expression reminiscent of an auntie who is trying to find her cat but you don't have the heart to tell her it died three years ago.

Otto Sander star of Das Boot dead at 72

Couldn't find a Bob thread so I thought here might be the best place to put this. Apparently Bob is set to go into space on the commercial flight next year. Someone could probably pick a DDP theme team of all these passengers and either end the year with no hits or a full house.

That is Chavtastic news!

Whay hay that probably means I am too. Technically she is younger than me but the gap is so narrow I would claim we were the same age! I couldn't believe Aimi McDonald was over 70.

I would think that the kind of shite that is on TV at the moment has more to do with creating a vehicle for the "star" than entertaining the public. Holly is, without question, utterly talentless and were she flat chested and married to a Dustman, would be working in Tescos. Having said that, attending that show would give you the opportunity to assess whether here breasts were REALLY that big and finally nail the myth that she is good looking. I think, in real life, her looks are more gargoyle than Marilyn Monroe, or summat. Anyway, spare the dislike for the saps that want their 5 mins of fame by getting their faces onto such fecal matter. If there were less wannabes there would be less crap like SS on the TV. Right? I'd fuck her. That would give her a Surprise Surprise!

In a recent copy of Metro that I picked up I noticed that there is an advert inviting people to apply to be in the studio audience for ITV's unholy resurrection of Surprise, Surprise with Holly Willoughby. There is a lot of TV that I don't like but my reaction to that is not to watch it but SS I really hate. It is so emotionally manipulative and cringe worthy that I feel angry that everyone else seems to think it is so lovely. I still think a Deathlist show would be less tasteless. The only consolation is that I almost dislike HW as much as I dislike SS.