TLC

Hey, I'm impressed enough to offer my slightly smaller Congratulations due to the smaller amount of posts. Glad to see that in your recovering post-whoredom you only managed 7 posts in 1hr 1min of frenzied typing this morning. Not that I'm moaning, quality and quantity is possible, as is the lack of both; not criticisms I'm levelling at you, you understand. Anyway, here's to many more posts to this forum by your good self.

A big CONGRATULATIONS!!! (I did say big) to Maryportfuncity for reaching the mighty 1500 tally. And in my opinion a consistenty good, and sometimes hilarious poster. Try this magnificent post <{POST_SNAPBACK}> in the Jane Tomlinson thread for size; if you don't laugh at this, you might well be a little bit mental. Here's to another 15001502!

That's the last moment you want to be mixing up your bimbos and dumbos; you need to have the correct image in your mind (or in front of you on suitable Oboe 'sheet music') to keep the performance fresh & exciting. If you finish your performance whilst contemplating dumbos, the wangst* it can give you is even worse than usual..... so I've been told. And it's true. TAXI!! *a medical term, for that feeling of dirtiness or inadequacy you get just after the end of the performance.

Possibly the best personality test I've done on the internet, both in terms of getting to the important questions quickly and accuracy of result I'd say... But I'd say all sorts of things, so probably for the best if you check it out for yourselves. Also hi to you biteontheblindside, some mighty fancy headgear you're wearin' in that there avatar....

Thanks Bou, what beautiful Pyrs, a lot whiter than mine! Congrats on the 500 Lady G, have some nice sweeties! On reflection my offer of 'nice sweeties' sounds a bit too much like an old man offering out his Werther's Originals; on this occasion it was unintentional, sorry!

Not as much as we Brits can thank you for making sure one less copy of The Thin Blue Line is available in this country. It shames me that Rowan Atkinson, the genius of Blackadder fame, has polluted our TV screens with The Thin Blue Line & (deep breath) Mr Bean. I may be in a minority here to be honest, it's just one of those relatively unimportant topics that sets me off on occasion, a bit like mime artists or Mick Hucknall.... and of course I respect your undeniable right to like or dislike whatever you want, however wrong you might be!

I agree, but I wish him extremely long life if only to avoid a horrific amount of TV repeats of Hi-de-Hi!, Oh, Dr Beeching! and You Rang, M'Lord? when he finally joins the great holiday camp in the sky. Even Googling the above to get the correct spellings made me feel ill.

Afraid TLC stands for nothing quite so exciting, Mr Ronnie. Quite right about the lack of Lando/addition of Jar Jar adding to the disappointment of particularly the first of the three new films. He would have brought a bit of dash, charm & indeed swash to the whole sorry affair with a mere smile or a smooth 'hello'. Anyway, I better leave the Star Wars thing, but not before I post this pic, Crockett & Lando!

Not me, it's one of those 'I'd like to do it' things, but I doubt I ever will. To be honest, it would probably kill me. I've never even successfully managed to take the 10 minutes it'd take me to get to Blackheath and watch it live. How my old flatmate managed a 4 1/2 hour marathon time without training and having recovered from a chest infection only days before, I'll never know. He doesn't talk about it much, although he's probably still trying to get his breath/lungs back. Apparently you can go on line afterwards and find out the times of all involved. That's your own proper time too, rather than the time on the display clock as you cross the line. You all get little electronic thingies to determine when you actually cross the start & finish lines these days, to allow for the massive bottleneck at the start of the course for non-professionals. Did everyone already know that? If so, my apologies.

One I never thought you were, unless your admission of owning Pistols music in another thread was to put us all off! Plus W.A.S.P.? The idea of Her Majesty appreciating Blackie Lawless & his pyrotechnic codpiece boggles the mind. Tigertailz, Stryper or Manowar ('death to false metal') possibly....

Cheers TLC, I'm partial to your posts myself! Thanks, a bit of mutual back slapping never goes amiss. I'm still trying to work out how long I can get away with posting on this site without ever actually contributing to any sort of research on current or potential DL'ers. I seem to be the exact opposite of Iain in that respect, who posts tons of news but rarely gets involved in banter. The banter is my raison d'etre, without it I am nothing. Is she running it herself this year?

Unless we introduce a new Death List Couples niche section, if only to put your above suggestions on! I don't know how often it happens with celebs, but quite often when one half of an old couple departs, the other kind of drifts away fairly soon afterwards, nothing to live for etc. It certainly happened with one set of my grandparents, although obviously they weren't famous, and for DL purposes it wouldn't have been any good as one went at the end of one year, and the other at the start of the next... Although I won't mind if Collins can't wait long enough for a new wife. To borrow a line from 'the world's greatest drummer'*, 'I've been waiting for this moment, for all my life..' Other drummers seem to know the rules regarding life expectancy. *except most of the others of course.

I missed the age it reckons you'll live to bit of the answer, so I re-did the test, and it came up with the frankly preposterous age of 67 for me. I know it's not gonna be that accurate, but if I just stopped smoking 'special roll-up cigarettes' (without giving up my 20 a day habit of normal cigarettes) then it adds another 9 years to my life and moves me up to 4 stars. 76, it's just not gonna happen. I'd put money on it, but the problems of being able to collect my winnings puts me off. Maybe you can take it with you when you're gone, but I don't know of anyone who arranges those sort of bank transfers.

A little time in prison could make a different man of him! Presumably you mean in the 5p-50p sense? It would mean that finally, he really would be showing "significant signs of compliance and effort", although perhaps not where you'd expect.

It wouldn't have been very fair on the rest of us though would it, what with all the power he yielded to scratch up points? I wonder what his screen name would have been? As for his avatar, perhaps a tasteful swastika (is that an oxymoron) draped over a black orchid? Might have raised a few questions when his 1939 list included a few countries & ethnic groups as well as individuals....

Umm, 3 stars for me, and that excludes my diabetes! I'm 32 in about a fortnight, I'll be pleased to reach 40 and probably a bit lucky. Not that I feel old, but at some point in the near future the wheels are due to start falling off and smoke due to start billowing from the engine. That's supposed to be an analogy, I'm not actually a man-car. Actually a couple of days past 40 would be nice, I don't want my death to ruin my 40th birthday party. I'll advise people to keep the receipts for any presents they get me. And probably not to get me vouchers.

I have re-read it several times as I hate not getting jokes, whether they're funny or not. The best I can manage is that AJ gets annoyed because he can't go & see the dealer with the others, tells Chris to f**k Jay (the dealer) and storms out with out scoring. Then: - My whole potential understanding of this joke relies on ass being slang for crack. Am I even close??

I agree, it would have been nice if he'd survived to see them lift the cup, if that's what they do. I'd be more than happy to see West Ham win on Sunday, especially as Middlesborough knocked us out in the quarter final replay! So for that reason alone I'd love to see West Ham tank them. And as for the final, I can't see myself wanting Chelsea or Liverpool to beat either of the other two, although if Middlesborough win, it may propel Steve McLaren towards the England job, which I'm not too keen on.

That would explain your rapid tally of 100 posts on the lightest of light forums, the Deathlist! Congratulations by the way; not sure if you particularly care or not but congrats all the same.

[verbal diarrhoea]I'd be getting a bit worried if I was Harry Redknapp, Alan Pardew etc. at the rate West Ham managers seem to be heading for an early bath this year. Seriously though, despite being a Charlton fan,[nostalgia] the first footy game I can still remember seeing on TV was the FA Cup final of 1980 when Lyall was manager of West Ham, which they won 1-0 over Arsenal with a Trevor Brooking header, and like most of the West Ham team of the 70's & 80's, he was at the club for a long long time. I didn't support anyone aged 6 (my dad wasn't into football so I took up a club a bit later in life when I found out my mate's dad was Charlton youth team manager) but I remember my brother being delighted as he's a Liverpool fan, and Arsenal knocked them out in the semi-final after about a million-ish replays; there never used to be a maximum amount in those days.....policeman getting younger, always had white christmases etc.[/nostalgia] I stand to be corrected by superior statisticians, but I think that was the last time a club outside the top division won the FA Cup, despite it being a fairly regular occurrence in the 70's. Mr Lyall, your services to the beautiful game will be long appreciated and much missed. Although it's probably a bit late for me to be addressing him directly, what with the recent dying.[/verbal diarrhoea]

I am "The Everyday German" Achtung! You are 46% brainwashworthy, 36% antitolerant, and 33% blindly patriotic And I scored 81% for "Darkness" in the humour test. I would have been an "Expatriate" and buggered off as soon as Germany got a bit, erm, annexy. 30% brainwashworthy, 4% antitolerant and 14% blindly patriotic. Apparently humour wise I'm a shock-jock (57% dark, 46% spontaneous & 57% vulgar); bear in mind that reflects what I find funny rather than my own joking ability, before you write the test off.

I'm beginning to suspect The Who were telling porkies, as presumably being entitled to a free bus pass already counts as being old, even in these modern times of longevity? I won't get fooled again, I can tell you. (Clearly the whole point of this post was for me to sneak that weak gag in somehow, my apologies).

I wonder how many men use that disclaimer every time they mention Titanic? The other officially acceptable remark is, I believe, to say 'Rubbish film of course, I just watched it to see if the special effects were any good, and to watch Leonardo go to his icy demise' or something along those lines. All about as convincing as when I saw E.T. with my older brother and he started crying at the end because his leg was 'really hurting'..... ps I've seen Titanic too, I have no excuse.

Nice counter-argument. I don't see the harm it does, it's not as if anyone is actively trying to assist in helping anyone on their way here, although I can see that some of the people who appear on the lists might not be best pleased, to say the least. But for people like Lady Thatcher for example, people have much stronger opinions (and less pleasant ones) than appear on this forum. However, plenty of people who find this site sick are quite happy to chat about celebrities they hate or 'wish were dead' in their own groups of friends (I do have one or two non-internet friends if you can believe that) and eagerly read media speculation over the potential demise of famous people; where do you think the info for this site is taken from? What does any of the above matter to you? There are plenty of pursuits that I could ask the same questions of, like line dancing for instance, but as far as I'm concerned people enjoy it and it doesn't really affect me so I let it go. And it causes no harm to non line dancers (or relatively little ), so I don't go onto their forums and demand they justify themselves. Of course some of the comments on the site are put in a way that will offend others (including others on this site), but so do almost all things in life. I've had cancer & death in my family, but I don't feel disrespectful by coming on this site. Although I'm not levelling this at you, it's always interesting when guests have a go at the site for lack of taste, and then wish everyone here to die horribly (and our families too sometimes) as if that's just desserts for talking about death, the one thing that unites every living thing on this planet, in a slightly irreverent and lighthearted way. Feel free to ask further questions if you like, although I suppose I should presume that none of my replies will have answered any of your queries to your satisfaction. Of course, don't take my answer to be the opinion of everyone else on the forum, some may even strongly disagree with some/all of what I've said. That's partly what forums in general are for as far as I'm concerned. Anyway, I must go, even inflatable girlfriends don't wait forever.

Belated happy birtday to IE+, and an on-time happy birthday to T4H! I hope lots of Jelly (Jello?) & Trifle are involved (or at least some type of cake), or else what sort of birthday celebration can it be? Oh, and pass the parcel, if you can handle that much fun in one day....