Magere Hein

It's not magic, but the New Forum Software (NFS) makes it all a bit confusing. First, some explanation of the New Forum Software (NFS) and the way it works, as well as a few definitions. When you write a forum post, you'll use the Post Editor in one way or another. This post editor you'll use either in the box at the bottom of a topic window, or in a new window, after you clicked the button labelled "More Reply Options". The editors are the same for this discussion, but the latter has a few more options and buttons. The most important thing to know is that the Editor now has, due to some dweebs at Invision who ought to be flogged in public, two different editing modes, which I'll call Modern and Classic. Before I go on, let me show a picture of the editor, so that we all know what we're talking about: In this picture I've circled two buttons, with a call-out and digit '1' and '2', respectively. Use the button labelled '1' (I suppose it's supposed to show a light switch) to switch editing mode in the Editor. Now let me explain those two modes. Modern mode is intended as a kind of "What You See Is What You Get" editor. For many, but by no means all, purposes this will do all you need. Classic mode is a bare bones text editor, where all markup like typeface, URLs and images is showed and edited in BBCode, the bits with the square brackets around them. All markup buttons are disabled. In Modern mode the way to get a nice link is this: Type the text you want underlined in the link. Copy the URL you want to link to in your computer's copy/paste buffer Select the text you want underlined in the editor, like this Click the button labelled '2' in the editor. This produces a window like this: Paste the URL from the copy/paste buffer Hit the OK button Et voilá. In Classic mode, you'll have to type a BBCode link like: [url="http://www.foo.com"]Bar[/url] where the bit between double speech marks is the URL to which you want to link and the bit between the URL and /URL tags contains the text which you want underlined in the link. Hope this helps. Hein

Let's also hope for him (and his fiancee) that he doesn't suffer from a dicky dick. Or perhaps we shouldn't. regards, Hein

I'm not quite sure what you mean. Do you mean something like this? regards, Hein

His appointment didn't escape my attention. He seems in sturdy health. Now that we're talking about archbishops (really bad bishops, innit?), his predecessor as Archbishop of Utrecht, Adrianus Cardinal Simonis is 80 and resigned a few years ago. He's in a spot of bother in the last year, now that formal investigations in child abuse in the Dutch RC church point to his covering up a few sins by Dutch priests. He's on final, though he may have some mileage left. The big question is: will he get a UK obit? regards, Hein

That's the trouble. They don't go out much and do silly things. I've removed Mandela from my team, I think he's got a bit of time left. Sharon I tried a few years ago, but I threw him out soon. They can go on for years like that. Hawking may be my mistake. I threw him out because he turned 70, thus rendering fewer points. But then, he should've been dead for decades, so perhaps he's immortal. An immortal wreck, now there's a depressing thought. regards, Hein

I agree, but what exactly is sex with children? As Toast said so well: This means that "Having sex with children" means different things for different people, according to their cultural background. Even in particular societies there are groups, often (but not exclusively) religious ones, who have different points of view. It's a mistake to judge behaviour of people from a different culture by your own standards. I'm well aware that it's hardly possible to avoid that mistake, since often those are the only standards we know. It's the main reason why we find them so repulsive. regards, Hein

The article doesn't state where they were married, but as they were both born in the Punjab, it's quite possible that they were married there and came to the UK later in life. As I understand it, such young brides are not unusual in India, even today. regards, Hein

Today in 1943 Serbian born American Nicola Tesla, electrical engineer, inventor and prototype of every mad scientist in fiction, died aged 86. While he wasn't quite enlightening, he did bring electric light to the masses. regards, Hein

Good grief. Or rather: bloody hell. "It's a long way to Paris" Joop Zoetemelk remarked when he lost something like 20 minutes to the Yellow Jersey in the first week of a Tour de France. I suspect he'd rather have used words like mine. He was right though, he made up most of the deficit and finished second. Again. regards, Hein

It wasn't lost Just stored in a safe place. regards, Hein

He should call himself Captain Hindsight... You beat me to that, so I'll have to limit my contribution to a Dutch proverb: "achteraf kijk je een koe in de kont", or in English: "in hindsight one looks at a cow's arse". regards, Hein

But not Corry Brokken (79, stroke in 2008) then. Her time will come, pompom pompom. regards, Hein

Let's not jump to conclusions. It's good to think about this, but there's no reason to expect fraud ATM. Perhaps we must set a deadline, say 8 January 0:00 UT or the first death, whichever is first. regards, Hein

Welcome to DeathList, where even the living are dealt with insensitively. regards, Hein

Ok, here's the resurrection of Magere Hein's Couch Potatoes Etta James Besse Cooper Hosni Mubarak Wojciech Jaruzelski Billy Graham Abdelbaset al-Megrahi Robin Gibb Terry Pratchett Ratko Mladić Albert II of Belgium regards, Hein

It's a shame they need to print that. Development in technology is away from chemical photography. Of course, digital cameras are much more easy to use and cheaper as well, yet the story is not as black-and-white as that: the old methods still give superior results. Professionals are fixated to use it. Unfortunately that's not enough for Eastman to enlarge profits enough to survive. Oh well, there are always the pictures. Isn't it odd that companies can grow but they never seem capable of shrinking? As you say there will continue to be a specialist demand for film and prints so why couldn't a smaller niche-focused Kodak handle that? I suppose it's possible, but I can't think of an example. Of course, doing so is impossible for normal modern businessmen. They start with sacking workers. By the time they realise that management is next, resources to retool production on a lower level are gone, so bankruptcy is the only way out. Of course new companies will soon fill the niche. regards, Hein (once a fanatical user of Kodak Tri-X Pan, must have developed miles of it)

It's a shame they need to print that. Development in technology is away from chemical photography. Of course, digital cameras are much more easy to use and cheaper as well, yet the story is not as black-and-white as that: the old methods still give superior results. Professionals are fixated to use it. Unfortunately that's not enough for Eastman to enlarge profits enough to survive. Oh well, there are always the pictures. regards, Hein

Damn! I was about to post the same picture. What did they do to the poor animal? regards, Hein

I don't know a thing about knitting, so I don't think I'll ever post on topic in this topic, but even then I think one topic about Knitting For Hamsters (and other small furry creatures) will do. One craft I enjoy doing is carpentry. I'm pathetically bad at it, but I still enjoy doing it. Perhaps I'll start a topic about dovetail joining for coffins. regards, Hein

Guest (and members) can post pretty much what they want, including criticism of the forum and its members. I don't mind. I even don't mind to read posts along the lines of "YOUR ALL WANKERS!!!!!!" Especially when written with the literacy of a parrot, such posts are part of the joy I get from reading this forum. I fail to understand why a reader, who has sufficient intellectual talent to write a message without obvious spelling errors and who accidentally finds this forum, feels the need to post anonymously about the moral quality of the members, rather than to shrug and continue his trawl through the Internet. With regard to my love for DeathList I'd like to say this. It's an acquired taste. I've had a vivid interest in many things related to death from a young age. I've read newspaper obits since I can read, I regularly visit cemeteries, including ones no relatives of mine are buried in and I rarely miss a funeral. I can't remember what search on the Internet brought me here, but I enjoyed reading the forum from the start and I joined after only a month of lurking. You claim: That is your opinion. An opinion I respect, but don't share. We may handle death and celebrities without respect and possibly in bad taste, but, to the best of my knowledge, most members are quite aware, and sensitive, of the loss that death brings to all, including the relatives and friends of the subjects of our discussions. regards, Hein

You don't have to. You don't have to read DeathList forum, you don't have to post on it. Yet you do both, while you claim to loathe the forum. I conclude from that that you subscribe to the "Do as I say, not as I do" school of ethical education. That, or that you're simply lying. Or both. People who do either get little respect from me. regards, Hein

Urgh, that's 10,800 entries to stick into a database. Let me repeat what I said in my entry email. You may have missed it: regards, Hein

Hmm, smack, XTC, coke and speed. Mixing those is risky business. It's not quite clear to me whether mr Ablett kicked that habit, but if he does it again he may well be somebody to watch. regards, Hein

Can't find where, but we have a member who collects kills by cows. May I offer: from nu.nl. regards, Hein

Hey, what do you know I don't? regards, Hein http://www.chrisrand...chable-sleeves/ I see. As far as I know he's in solid health. regards, Hein