En Passant

Not that that matters a jot in the context of all the other people that day.

One can only hope.

Quite. One young death from heart failure is unfortunate. Two looks like carelessness.

Bzzt. Repetition. It's even on the same page. Besides a 76 year old with known health problems isn't really going to be a shock. TBF the thread might as well be titled without that qualifier though.

Unlucky Spade. So close.

Scotland's Church in the Manx Capital. Just for some variety.

Ah now Deathers, Whilst you are an accepted authority on UK weather you may need to brush up on the meteorological conditions in the New World. Despite a similar latitude, they have no gulf stream. Mind you if we don't get on board with this Global Warming danger sooner rather than later, neither will we according to some analyses.

Phlippin Hell.

Wasn't aware swapping to a more likely runner was exactly in the spirit if not the letter of the law.

On the basis that they can afford any treatment that can be bought and that none of it is of any use, sooner rather than later. May 2nd.

Speculative at best surely? If The Rapture doesn't get them they might have succumbed to themselves by then?

Sure, but since it turns up in unread items, seems some folk just won't let it die. So, if it's going to be resurrected anyway, I'm free to lambaste it.

If he shot someone. Anything else? Not so much* *Most footballers play once sometimes twice a week. People are going to die on those days. I don't want to piss on anyone's conspiracy bonfire....no wait, I do want to piss on everyone's conspiracy bonfires.

This one is awful. Also the butt of an old joke*. *Briefly goes like this and having read it I defy you to look anyone called Franny squarely in the eye again. Boy meets girl in club, both a bit pissed, he asks her name "Franny" she says. I'll never remember that he says. Just think of it as Fanny with an R added she says. Ok I'll remember that I think. They agree he can take her out again in a few days, "just knock on my door and ask for me" she says. So a couple of days later he turns up at her house and her father answers the door, but in his nervousness he forgets her name...so, he thinks hard and remembers..."Oh hi there, is Crunt in?". Ok, not a particularly good joke, but that's not the point. Which is as above.

Duly inserted. Happy to oblige.

This. Not least because it comes across as if your child is special and by association you are. They aren't and you're not. Everyones child is special to them, that's enough. This goes double for 'slebs picking ludicrous names....Apple, Fifi Trixibelle, Kal-El, etc etc. Get a grip.

So. It could be a weak year or alternatively a strong one. I.e. a gamble which could go either way, so......... the same as any other year then. Incisive stuff*. *Just messing with you Roey.

Ok, so, Mick Fleetwood says to Neil Finn "I Got You" if he's referring to Split Enz and as above if Crowded House since the bloke was in both. NZ has to recycle such talent though more than one band. Also the guitarist from Tom Petty's band since Tom won't be needing him anymore.

"It's Only Natural"

Methinks this is another transatlantic thing. I.e. an american football team has 652 players (35 backups for each position) split into; Offence, Defence, and Special teams (some of whom it appears only spend about 30 seconds a year actually on the field of play). But they're all 'On the team'. Squad is reserved for police and military applications afaik.

Yeah, the faster she goes "Under the patio, like Heather" the better.

Oh I'm certain of it mate. How does that saying go? Something like "If you owe the bank 25 thousand and can't pay it back, you have a problem. If you owe the bank 25 million and can't pay it back, they have a problem"

I've tried this. But Barclaycard, Amex and most particularly Wonga.com, and their representative a certain Harry the Hatchet, seem unwilling to accept that throwing their demands for payment along the hard shoulder of the M25 is "Shedding debt". I've also filed for bankruptcy protection. All I was told was 'protection money' isn't the same thing. Fkin companies gobbledegook. Shed debt?

Not so much Soon tek oh as actually gone then.

You're not kidding it's a botch up. Heh. For a kick off that's a pretty rubbish nerve agent or since that seems a bit unlikely (a rubbish nerve agent would be just an insecticide ;)) a completely inept application of it leading to a submicroscopic amount actually reaching its intended target. From all I have read people do not simply recover from nerve agent poisoning even in microscopic doses without very early intervention with a counter agent such as atropine as delivered in the US military Auto-injector. There is no evidence, or at least none published that this occurred, and anyway why would it? They were not soldiers in a war-zone. If the Russian state (presumably via its FSB agency) solely wanted him, or indeed both of them dead. one might have imagined they would have the resources to do it in a far less obtrusive manner. One is left to wonder if the whole affair was specifically designed to cause this furore.