Godot
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I haven't taken much interest in the JFK assassination in the past but trawling around looking for any prominent survivors as possible DL candidates I was drawn to a couple of YouTube clips. One asks
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Head butt 44 toilet seats into splinters insideStrictly speaking it was the toilet seat covers. The seats would be more difficult.
A few years ago I went to the GWR offices and the editor, who has written a "how to do" book on killing vampires, gave me the chance to set a new world record for sticking rubber bands round my head. It hadn't been done so I wouldn't have had to do that many as a first off. But one has one's dignity, so I declined. Now though, thinking back on long winter nights, I partly regret it. It was the only chance in my adult life to be a hero for my kids. I could have been the bloke with rubber bands round his head instead of living in relative obscurity, researching bricks and occasional interesting squid.
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Bram Stoker got it all wrong. Not stakes, not silver bullets, not sunshine, not crosses, no, the serious vampire slayer needs to be armed with bricks.. Chew on this.
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Dear Abby,
I have noticed recently that one of my fellow posters seems a tad fed up with work, people and things in general. I thought he might enjoy seeing this
or this one. Do you think it would cheer him up? Spread the lurv.yours,
Godot
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No change at the top of the DDP after Atkins. The top nine had her. Funnily enough only the top two had Jade Goody. Surprisingly, given that her illness was well publicised, Goody's will have turned out to be one of those key differentiating deaths that any winning team needs. Its worth noting also that the two front runners each have a death not due to natural causes in their points tallies. That's impressive.
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It's how Yorkshire folk speak French.
Oh quelle journee du bas de la terre. Je suis tres fatigue demain Vera.
How the hell did you get those cameras in our 'ouse? And at teatime too?
Is nowt sacred?
Reminds me of this fine work.
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Blah blah....
Which brings me back to my 50-post idea cut-of point. Unless we see these posters leave about a post a day then its a bit like hard work to understand their resondetra and judge their position. Hell, I've fallen for the duff info this last year. Just have to laugh it off.
What the hell is a resondetra?
It's how Yorkshire folk speak French.
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I met up with the infamous "One Man Jury" tonight (For those that don't know, he was VERY active in 2005.) He's now threatening to purchase a computer and hitting the interweb thingamy again....During our drinking session, the conversation turned to the South African gold medallist. One Man Jury said "the IAAF should take back the gold medal and, if (s)he don't like it, (s)he can go f'uck herself....which she is actually physically equipped to do".
2010 could be the return of One Man Jury.....
Hardly, the angles are all wrong. If, on the other hand (or both hands) she/he was able to play the full orchestra would it be possible to time the crescendo so that all the pieces are in harmony?
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Bricks - my house is made of lots of bricks! Well done bricks.But my real intent with your wonderfull thread must be to post a link to the largest brick structure I've ever come across.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_Tortugas_National_Park
Took the fast-cat boat from Key West and spent about 3 hours on the little island with a monster of an old US civil war fort - Total Bliss.
If MichaelJackson was such a brick can I throw him in the sewage pipe, oh no, htat waould take pollution too far. Is Michael the Brick Jackson really dead or has Eddie Murphy taken on his toughest role yet?
I fail to see the connection between Michael Jackson and bricks, or for that matter a sewage pipe. Shouldn't this be in the Michael Jackson thread? Can we try to keep on topic?
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This reminds me of the scene in Reservoir Dogs where each member of the gang is pointing their gun at another's head, then all pull the trigger at once. As a partial observer I find it highly entertaining and worthy of the Patrick Moore thread. After reprising his role as bad boy of the DL I hope that SC doesn't go off in a huff again ("and you can f'uck off too Godot"). I, for one, enjoy Lardy's self-deprecating contributions and find her wit as sharp as anything I read here. There has to be room for people talking about last night's supper (even if it ends up in the gutter) as much as exchanges on the state of the cosmos. It takes all sorts and you find them here.
I also agree with SC (and I know that LFN does too on this point) that the threads have been diluted by too many shi't posters, but Lardy isn't one of them. Worst of all, however, is the apathy that has overtaken the place. At least this latest outburst is counter to that trend. I was going to stop at 3,000 posts but forgot. Shi't I'm glad now.
PS. I also don't like censorship. All the same I'm glad that twat Toky whatsisname (way back) got banned after he called me a fudge packer. I thought he was talking about fudge at first until the penny dropped.
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Well there's this cat in Copenhagen that belongs to a bloke called Schrodinger and he sticks it in a box. Now as long as it's in the box it doesn't matter whether it's alive or dead. It could be both, but since Shrodinger can't see it and couldn't give a monkey's one way or the other, he leaves it where it is. Then there's some mathematics stuff or physics stuff that says the cat could be alive or dead or maybe both (I don't understand this). Anyway it's debatable and apparently some people spend a lot of time and effort debating this. It must be dead by now. There is no sex or defecation involved so the comparison is somewhat specious.
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No thought to mention chemistry and geology, engineering or even history in your disourse on bricks. I am not impressed.
Without chemistry and geology there would be no brick, now how minimalist is that?
Without engineering there would be no use for the brick, except conceptually on the architects drawing pad.
Without history there'd be no cool dudes from geophys to examine where bricks once were.
Luckily for you guys you've stumbled upon my domain, solid state chemistry basically means I can bore you to death (again) about the fundamentals of bricks should there be any danger of arty farty overload on the simple brick.
I never realised bricks could be so controversial. Of course there's a need to look at hard bricks in addition to their soft underbelly so to speak. But there is plenty of space for this. We shouldn't put all our bricks in one basket (or hod). I would have thought there were enough to go round for everyone. But I don't think bricks in cinema should be dismissed so blithely.
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It seems to me that bricks, even briquettes, are so ubiquitous in modern life, inspiring art, cinema,
music, cuisine and government policy, that some discussion of their relevance, history and contemporary influence deserves a thread of its own. Some may disagree.-
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Arthur Ferrante, half of piano-playing duo Ferrante & Teicher, has died in Longboat Key Florida, at age 88.I remember them appearing quite frequently on TV when I was a kid, often playing some film theme, like
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World Health Organisation - set of twats, the lot of them.We've just recently acquired the WHO "How to handwash" poster, pinned up in every toilet by stealth. We are not sure by who (no pun intended) but interestingly there has never been any soap in the dispenser so we've had to put our own in and likewise no single use paper towels but a hand drier and a cotton towel for all to use. In other words all the powers that be have done is waste paper, toner, blue-tac, electricity and man hours.
They have stacks of statistics, stacks and stacks; but ask them for a couple of pissy figures and all they do is ask you to quote the report. I don't know the report. If I did, I wouldn't need to ask. I called them a bunch of bureaucrats and they took exception so I suppose I've burnt my boats. I blame the Swiss.
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World Health Organisation - set of twats, the lot of them.
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Pianist Arther Ferrante, the surviving half of Ferrante & Teicher, has apparently died at the age of 88. When they weren't busy making easy listening soundtracks, they spent time collaborating with John Cage, producing strange noises by "adding paper, sticks, rubber, wood blocks, metal bars, chains, glass, mallets, and other objects to piano string beds".No bricks?
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Yup, the F'uckwitometer is beeping away.
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Composer, pianist and Schoenberg pupil Leon Kirchner has combined his final inverted hexachord, or summat.By which qualification, Kirchner fails to qualify as a minimalist. Despite my innate distrust of Wikipedia, it does have a moderately decent description of minimalism . Kirchner was a minor composer whose legacy will probably be measured by his influence on John Adams
I didn’t claim he was a minimalist. In the original post, I suggested the thread be used for “all things classical”. Which you, a few posts later, thought an “excellent suggestion” and proceeded to name several other non-minimalist composers worthy of dead pool consideration. I’ll have the thread retitled if its lack of precision irks you.
So far, it’s been mostly full of bricks anyway.
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Happy Birthday Lard Bazaar!Happy birthday Lardy.
PS. Do you wear tweed skirts?
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RIP Keith - you were a class act.I'll be raising a glass of red wine in his honour tonight when I cook up some bangers for the wife.
I'll settle for banging the cooker in our house.
I'll settle for banging the wife, which would truly be a novelty.....
My wife is the cooker. I wouldn't know how to make gravy.
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Baseball
in DeathList Forum
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It says a lot about the difference between Americans and Brits that the perfect game in baseball should be considered one in which the winning side completely dominates the losing one. The perfect game in the UK would be one where the winning side just edges it against all odds - Manchester United v Bayern Munich, 1999, European Cup final, and England v Australia, Headingly, July 1981, when England's chances of winning were put at 500-1 after the Ozzies forced the follow on.
Wiki quote:
On Monday morning the odds began to look generous as first Brearley, then David Gower and Mike Gatting all fell cheaply to reduce England to 41 for 4. Boycott was still anchored at the other end however and he and Peter Willey added 50 runs before lunch. In the afternoon however, Willey was out for 33 and England were in deep trouble at 105 for 5 as Botham went in to bat. Matters did not improve as first Geoff Boycott and then Bob Taylor were soon dismissed. At 135 for 7 an innings defeat looked almost certain.
By all accounts, both teams' players thought Australia would win the match. When Graham Dilley joined him at the crease, Botham reportedly said, "Right then, let's have a bit of fun...". With able support from Dilley (56) and Chris Old (29), Botham hit out and by the close of play was 145 not out with Bob Willis hanging on at the other end on 1 not out. England's lead was just 124 but there was hope. On the final day's play there was time for just four more runs from Botham before Willis was out and Botham was left on 149 not out. Wisden rated this innings as the 4th best of all time.
Willis' real contribution was with the ball. After Botham took the first wicket, Willis skittled Australia out for just 111, finishing with figures of 8 for 43 – rated by Wisden as the 7th best bowling performance of all time. England had won by just 18 runs. It was only the second time in history that a team following on had won a Test match.
That's a perfect game.