Bibliogryphon

Will the cardinals be welcomed to the conclave by somebody standing up and saying "Greetings, Pope Pickers" Yeah that's my coat

I am going to apologise in advance for this post. They should be celebrating the fact that Oscar in one day has done more for the portayal of disabled people than any talking head can do. Disabled people are just like everyone else, they can be brilliant and they can pull hot girls, then they can have a crap day and throw it all away by doing something stupid. That's life.

Can we please forget about that. That was about the Nadir of Doctor Who. (Exempting David Tennant and the TV Movie)

I was fortunate enough to see Richard Briers play King Lear at Birmingham Hippodrome. His Lear was one bathed in pathos. I missed my train home.

Paul McCartney did not make his money from the Beatles - all the Beatles money got given away which is one of the reasons the band broke up. The sad fact is that Paul's money came from Wings and his solo stuff which some people consider to be commercialist crap. However, a lot of people enjoyed it and paid money for it. I for one do not begrudge Paul his success, he himself recognises that he has been fortunate and he has not really 'worked' to make his money. The Beatles are important but music is a matter of taste. You might look down your nose at all the 12 year old girls spending their money downloading songs by Justin Bieber, 1D, the Wanted or any of the othe manufactured choirs but what makes your purchases more important than their's.

Chubby Checker to sue over euphemism app

The only qualifications are: 1. Being Male 2. Being Baptized (in the Catholic faith, presumably) Having said that it would help if you were already a cardinal and white.

You wait till the aliens crawl out!

I was behind someone getting onto a plane on Wednesday evening and his German newspaper had thumbnail pictures of all the cardinals who will participate in the election. I thought it would be a useful accessory with a pin to compile a 2014 DDP theme team.

I wonder how many are jumping on the bandwagon by making the claims, but never even met Saville? What about the massive class action from all the people who watched Jim'll Fix It as quality family entertainment!

This is taking giving up things for lent a bit too far.

I am not normally a grumpy person but I do not like it when my local supermarkets allow "local groups" to come in on a Saturday morning and bag pack as part of a charity fundraiser. Especially when said fundraising is to send the local junior rugby club on a trip to Australia. For one thing why would you want your shopping to be packed by adolescent rugby players (and if things are badly packed when I return home Mrs Bibliogryphon is going to blame me!) and secondly why would I want to donate money so the hulking yuppie spawn whose parents probably earn much more than my meagre wage can go for a fortnights piss up and inflict mindless violence as a excue for sport. It just bothers me.

New series of "Just a Minute" started on Monday night with NP sounding as jovial as ever.

Jonathan Miller is complaining that people assume he's dead. Somebody should introduce him to the joy of Dead Pooling. He is on my game list so all my players know he is alive and will be suitable informed if he was to die. Was on Front Row last night talking about the new play he has directed for Northern Broadsides. First in five years.

This is probably bad news for those people (myself included) who have Joe on our DDP. If he had carried on he may have died within the twelve month but I think now he has retired he will be with us until at least 2016.

What about the flat lining season?

Are most of the death mentioned here connected with Scottish Football because our members are more interested in this or is there a weird Cracker style seriel killer hunting down former players from the Scottish Leagues. Proportionally there should be many more English football deaths. Could this be symbolic of the death of the game in Scotland?

Forget biopic I am thinking event theatre. You have the basic play about the disappearance of LL and then right at the end an old bloke in the audience with a bushy moustache stands up and says "Absolute Rubbish, what really happened was..." at which point the theatre doors crash open and the old bloke is dragged roughly away by half a dozen police officers, the lights come up and the cast shuffle off the stage. Cameron MacKintosh can contact me anytime.

Apparently because there are now 24 hour rolling news channels the BBC have said that they will not break programming to announce the death of Thatcher but the beeping of car horns, fireworks and whoops of joy will probably alert you.

Winner of the BAFTA award for the most pointless post goes to......

We but the committee a large drink and start extorting money from celebs not to be put on the 2014 list. Nicholas Parsons will survive though. Just a minute I realised he might make it to the Century :lol: He will have an enormous party it will be the Wassail of the Century

He's resigned so he can stand in the Eastleigh by-election.

Stuggling to find a home for her marble statue. If she died we could use it as part of her mausoleum. Urine target practice?

Didn't know whether to post this here, or in football thread, but the BBC website are running a story about how Michael Chopra (Ipswich Town player/Gambling addicted career car crash) has had to quit Twitter after posting a picture of a large amount of cash and making light of his gambling debts. However one of his colleagues posted a tweet which the BBC repeated verbatim "Michael Chopra your a clown". When I saw this all I could think about was the fact that is was grammatically wrong. Does this say more about me or about the level of tweets which circulate between "professional" footballers? There are those that say, it does not matter if posts on Twitter are not accurate, but I am a believer that that is the start of a slippery slope.

Am I the only person to be quite excited by this. We went to visit the dig site and were looking forward to the conclusion of the tests. There were problems with the documentry, especially the lady from the Richard III society, but if this is Richard it is an important find and brilliant publicity for Leicester.