Dr. Zorders

I was thinking about reporting that....... would have done so if I'd realised he was the last person alive there. Also it may not actually be true. We don't know whether the person who actually shot JFK is still alive do we.

Yes, this wasn't pre-internet but it was pre internet-as-we-know-it-today that's for sure. Actually, I'm not exactly sure when the current "era" we're in started. In what exact year did it all become clear that Google fucking owns our arses? 2009 maybe? I was gonna say 2006 or 7 but I think that's a bit early. But like I said it wasn't a direct rip-off of anything (and more importantly it wasn't a rip-off of a book or short story) so I didn't have to worry too much. (But I felt worried and mildly "guilty" at the time!). Also I seem to remember one or more of my teachers saying stuff like "If you copy something, we have ways of knowing". That sounded scary enough to put me off if I had actually been tempted to cheat. But not quite as scary as it would sound now.

I fucking hated English Lit so god knows how I nearly got an A in it. Couldn't understand a single syllable of Shakespeare and didn't really give much of a shit about any books. And I barely ever read novels even now... My short story was sort of a vague rip-off/pastiche of a TV series I was watching about a career criminal at the time (although I guess my work wasn't completely unoriginal, I came up with my own names and re-worked them into different scenarios. I just had no idea how to come up with a story of my own). I kept getting paranoid that somehow one of the English teachers would "figure out" what I got the idea from and I would be stripped of my grade, haha...

*backs away some more* I bet there are people on here who have more information than me. Or are you suggesting I am the only socially dysfunctional nutter here? Yeah there deffo are. Like Rotten Ali supposedly. And whoever that guy is that runs the DDP, even if he doesn't necessarily actively research it for himself, just researches according to what names he's given by the competitors.

Nah I'm just kiddin' broseph. You're one of my fav. Deathlisters for sure and if there was some kind of year-end awards I'm sure you would win "most helpful/most informative" DLer by a landslide. In fact I was thinking of starting an "DL user awards" thread/vote-type thingy at the end of last year but couldn't be arsed as I found last Christmas a bit depressing what wiv having to put up wiv my shit family and everyfing, so..... yeah. Maybe this December.

*backs away some more*

Alright, chillax! I was only kidding ffs. But really I can't remember a single time when they actually explained that difference. They just said "They weren't GCSEs in my day they were O-levels!". So if they were trying to express that point it never came across. I guess maybe I'm talking to a "victim" of the "if you can't perform on exam day, you're screwed" system? Or not? Funny little anedcote-type thing about the whole "improving your grade" thing is that I did a short story for my English Literature GCSE that my teacher said would receive an A grade if I actually corrected the spelling errors. I could never be bothered to do this, despite the fact that it was typed out on Word and all I had to do was click the autocorrect button and then print out a fresh copy. But I couldn't even be arsed to do that. And eventually that was the difference between me getting an A in Eng Lit and a B which is what I would have got. And it would have been my only A too. Damn you wrestling or videogames or whatever dumb crap I was doing at the time.....

*slowly backs away* Fuuuuuckin' 'ell. And we thought Spade was bad.

I think he meant "how does that work", as in.... he was implying it clearly doesn't. I didn't see shit.

Well, I just randomly make up 50 names and hope that they somehow just happen to be the names of real people. If they are old or ill or both that's just a happy bonus.

Did they ever find out the Origins of this growth?

I sincerely hope when you typed that out, you imagined it in an exaggerated, sinister sounding Russian accent. In fact the whole sentence could have been read like that. I know that's how I read it.

Has anyone else been watching this new (mini-)series of 24 then? (which in fact is only going to be 12 episodes long for those who don't know.) I saw the first 2 episodes last night and I thought they were shockingly entertaining compared to how dull the last couple of "proper" seasons of the show were. Good stuff, hope they keep it up.

Erm... you mean, Ritchii Kara has begun a vlog series? You confused me for a minute, thought you meant he'd ended/given up a vlog. We're on DL not World Star Hip Hop for fucks sake. Yes, but we are down with the children, innit, right? Er..... speak for yourself. I think maybe the relentless ubiquity of the Jimmy Savile thread might have had an effect on you.

Erm... you mean, Ritchii Kara has begun a vlog series? You confused me for a minute, thought you meant he'd ended/given up a vlog. We're on DL not World Star Hip Hop for fucks sake.

Did you know Cable Bias is an anagram of Alice Babs? I thought that was interesting.

Wow, how ghoulish! *goes back to compiling list of potential DL/DDP picks for 2015*

Who says Japanese people are weird? http://japandailypress.com/japan-cabbie-drugs-female-passengers-to-force-them-to-pee-0948298/

I just had to post this.

I thought this was completely fucking bonkers at first - China plans a 13,000km rail link between itself and the United States..... Until I realised only a small part of it will consist of a tunnel under the ocean (but that will still be four times as long as the channel tunnel.) http://www.independe...rk-9342749.html I found this diagram of what might be the route here: (http://blogs.voanews...-bering-strait/) I suppose the other thing is that it will go through Russia and obviously that's got to be a huge problem.

Jesus christ...

The Queen and Prince Philip were in Chelmsford the other day, for god knows what reason. http://www.essexchronicle.co.uk/Hundreds-line-streets-Chelmsford-Queen-Prince/story-21062932-detail/story.html Flicking through those pics he looks surprisingly upright to me. Okay I know it's only walking round a church, but still. They must have spent the winter pumping him full of the blood of infants.

I'm not sure if there's anyone actually fick enuff to still get excited by all these false "leads" reported by the papers. Surely if nothing comes from these excavations the story has to die soon. Right?

Honestly, David.....

I'm angry now. I'm slipping down the leaderboard faster than F1 slipped down the list of most watched sports in the age of Vettel.