Cat O'Falk
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How many schools do the Swiss have? Hey. Hey. Answer me that!
I give up. How many?
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How could the USA be #1? It'll obviously happen Afghanistan. The only reason you hear more about school massacres in the USA is because there, they are a rarity, while terrorist attacks are common in Afghanistan.
Okay, maybe not a rarity, but it's not like they're an everyday thing. "Only" a couple of times a year.
That's still a LOT more then any other country...
Sure, but Afghanistan has much more terrorists.
Wikipedia has helpfully collated a record of school shootings. Here's the page that lists the US school shootings, and here's the main page which lists the rest of the world.
"There are notable school shootings all over the world, with the United States having the highest number of school-related shootings."
Interesting to note that Switzerland has half the number of guns per capita (fourth) compared to the United States (first) but doesn't feature at all on the list.
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Looks like he's struggling to pay the bills.Just heard from a friend of mine that Mike Hudson, lead vocalist for The Pagans was involved in a car crash a couple of weeks ago and is in a stable but serious condition.
What bills? Guy JUST got in an accident and they have a benefit concert lined up? This whole thing is odd.
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Don't you guys have to pay for hospital care?
It's hardly Madison Square Garden; it's in a bar in L.A. and the concert will be between five and nine weeks since the crash.
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Just heard from a friend of mine that Mike Hudson, lead vocalist for The Pagans was involved in a car crash a couple of weeks ago and is in a stable but serious condition.
Looks like he's struggling to pay the bills.
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Has Ched Evans signed yet?
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It's Lesley Gore's funeral and she'll cry.....no she won't
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http://m.pitchfork.com/news/58503-its-my-party-singer-lesley-gore-has-died/
I used to sit alone in my room and cry listening to that song on the radio thinking about all the parties I was never invited to. Bit ironic really...
Are you a lesbian too?
are males allowed to be lesbians?
You used the word ironic to mean coincidence (the most popular misuse of the word). I was enquiring if this coincidence extended to you being a lesbian, as Gore was.
In answer to your question, are males allowed to be lesbians, I find it depends upon the company of the gentlemen one keeps.
I know some men who claim that they're lesbians trapped in a man's body.
Although strangely enough, I know of one guy who underwent a sex change to become a woman and she is a lesbian.
And there's a couple who started off as being a lesbian couple, the younger of the two women then decided that she identified more with being a man. This was also after a couple of failed attempts to become pregnant via IVF.
Confused? you won't be after this week's episode...
OF SOAP! lol. I must dig it out and watch it again.
I've encountered a few over the years. I like to think there are eight permutations from:
Body: Male or Female
Brain: Male or Female
Orientation: Gay or Straight
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We're not quite sure on '88 as no-one seems able to confirm whether any list existed in the first place. Let alone whether any hits were scored during that year.
Ah, the Legend of the Lost List. Perhaps we could sneak that in the plot of DeathList, the Movie.
regards,
Hein
We could always do what they did with the booker prize and compile the list retrospectively.
Wow we got 50/50
The list taking a punt on Roy Orbison, Hal Ashby and Roy Kinnear was the kind of soothsaying we just don't get in these calculated times...
(The only person who knows if the 88 list happened or not is the Grim Reaper chap as part of the original team. Though Harry did seem to suggest years ago he vaguely recalled names off of it, so who knows? I can't find the post which suggested it didn't happen, but it did exist.)
Cowboy Ronnie post from 2006
http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=4046&page=2#entry82208
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It's Lesley Gore's funeral and she'll cry.....no she won't
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http://m.pitchfork.com/news/58503-its-my-party-singer-lesley-gore-has-died/
I used to sit alone in my room and cry listening to that song on the radio thinking about all the parties I was never invited to. Bit ironic really...
Are you a lesbian too?
are males allowed to be lesbians?
You used the word ironic to mean coincidence (the most popular misuse of the word). I was enquiring if this coincidence extended to you being a lesbian, as Gore was.
In answer to your question, are males allowed to be lesbians, I find it depends upon the company of the gentlemen one keeps.
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It's Lesley Gore's funeral and she'll cry.....no she won't
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http://m.pitchfork.com/news/58503-its-my-party-singer-lesley-gore-has-died/
I used to sit alone in my room and cry listening to that song on the radio thinking about all the parties I was never invited to. Bit ironic really...
Are you a lesbian too?
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Please someone tell me because i'm really confused, when Peter Falk dies, where do i post it?
I'm sorry to break the news but Peter Falk died 3 years ago. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13909992 Console yourself with the Colombo boxset.
LIES! Uncle Pete is alive and well: I'd remember if he had died!
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nice one. I was going to say 'It's my partly (decomposed body)' but it doesn't really work as well as yours
You guys could have combined your puns, like "It's my body and I'll die if I want to".
Oscar would have been proud.
I ...think... you're talking about Oscar Wilde. But I don't know what it alludes to.
Your repartee. Such as here.
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nice one. I was going to say 'It's my partly (decomposed body)' but it doesn't really work as well as yours
You guys could have combined your puns, like "It's my body and I'll die if I want to".
Oscar would have been proud.
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(Re posted from Dead of 2015 forum)
Case in point..... While a good number of celeb deaths have occurred in the past 48 hours, NONE are posted HERE, in the forum called the Deaths Of 2015. Yet I have to read all this garbage banter for what...,, 8 or so posts over whether some Guest posted first? In the meantime no obits are posted here in the forum called DEATHS OF 2015. What is the function of this forum if ALL obits aren't posted here? This should be one stop shopping. You wanna get cute and put a Nobel prize winner in that Nobel prize too, great.
Yet you deride a guest for posting here....cuz he thought he was first...cuz logic told him a forum called DEATHS OF 2015 may in fact be the place to post, oh I don't know, deaths for the year 2015?
For the record Lesley Gore died but you'll have to search all over to find it. Try dead Pop Stars. She is a dead pop star but apparently not part of the Class of 2015 Dead people. Smfh. And if posting obits in the other forums was priority, then having SIXTY-EIGHT PAGES of forums is asking quite a bit for a Guest to consume at one sitting. How about archiving 90% of those and making the list of forums something useful? Why a thread for 'who will be the 4th hit of 2014?' Archive that shit. You've only yourselves to blame for duplicitous posts what with duplicitous forums, a plethora of needless forums to sift through , and a search box that leant work on many occasions (it sure as hell doesn't list results by 'most recent update' which would be the only way it was useful).
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I'm not sure you mean duplicitous. Have you tried looking at the New Content page first. I find normally within a few seconds if something has been posted or not.
Edit: You can't be using the search facility properly. Adrian0719 posted about Lee Loong two days ago.
http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8444&page=10#entry220460
It took me less than 10 seconds to find it. Make sure you use the drop down menu and select "forums" and not "this topic".
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The usually-annoying US website Cracked has this decent list of "everyday" items that cause more death and injury than you think. Although some of them aren't that everyday for many people (icicles for instance). Number 2 is utter shit though.
http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_1308_19-everyday-things-you-wont-believe-can-kill-you-dead/
No it ain't.
Quote: "Subsequent engineering inspection detected that the captain's pitot probe was obstructed, the probe was removed from the aircraft and sent for further analysis. The manufacturer found that the probe had been almost completely blocked by a wasp nest composed of sand and mud consistent with nests of mud-dauber wasps".
Re number 7 - manholes; they can be quite scary.
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Arnaud de Borchgrave, a Journalist Whose Life Was a Tale Itself, Dies at 88; the son of a Belgian count and a storied foreign correspondent ... twice a best-selling novelist, insisted that he was no saffron-robed Moonie. Mr. de Borchgrave renounced his aristocratic title and became an American citizen in 1957.
"If he could have, Mr. de Borchgrave, who boasted of his prescience, might have drafted his own obituary. According to Harlan Ullman, a fellow columnist at U.P.I., he came close. “He once joked with me,” Dr. Ullman said, “that his tombstone would read: ‘I knew this would happen.’ ”
Or as Spike would say "Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite".
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Yeah we suck here in arrogant America re: learning another language. It isn't even offered in schools until at least 9th grade, or at least when I was in it (read 1975 or so). Options were German Spanish French. In the opposite result of yours, I really wanted to learn French, but my mean parents said no you're taking Spanish. Chinga mi familia! Lol anyway 7 years later my sister says she wants to take French and they're like 'go for it'. Grrrr!! So where do I move to 30 years later? Cajun French southern Louisiana. Don't know a damn thing they're saying tyvm and I can't read the French Canadian genealogy documents from churches in 1700 where part of my tree came from. I'm a victim of circumstance lol. American arrogance any goofball parental units.
Forgot to say it's also a matter of wealth. My nephews are 12 and living middle class (we were blue collar when I grew up) and my one nephew learning....CHINESE (smart choice!). That wouldn't have happened in 1975.
Chinese is indeed a smart choice, and an admirably difficult one. Learning a tonal language isn't easy when your first language doesn't know that. Learning some 2500 common characters to get basic literacy is quite a job. As the joke goes: learning Chinese is much easier when you know Chinese.
A colleague of mine of Chinese ancestry (but Dutch upbringing) speaks Chinese. Last year he paid a visit to China and soon experienced that what he learned from his parents didn't work in Peking. He can't read Chinese, so he often used English. I suppose your nephew learns Mandarin.
Apart from the UK (and perhaps Ireland), things have changed in Europe. Even in large nations with a tradition of language chauvinism, say France, Germany, Italy or Spain, the majority know one or more foreign languages at a useful level. In the 90s I went to France for business a few times, and without some French one was fucked there and then. In 2013 I was in Paris and Normandy for hols and was pleasantly surprised by the number of locals whose English was better than my French.
The Americans I meet are not average yankee Joes and Janes, after all they moved here at some time. Their language skills vary. I met a 23-ish student (at some business school) from Lansing, Michigan, in the pub last year. She'd learned German in high school and had been learning Dutch by trial and error for a month. She asked me what I was reading (a novel by W.F. Hermans) and she read out loud a passage -in an unusual accent- and translated it almost perfectly. I was much impressed.
Of course the same pub is full of Americans, Australians and New Zealanders who don't even try.
regards,
Hein
Of course old Zealanders don't have to.
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Do any of the computer whizzes on here know if you can set up a spreadsheet to google the entries in the first column individually and open them up in separate chrome tabs? I just feel like this could be a life-save for those of us running deadpools. If you know of a way you can then get the spreadsheet to pluck their date of death from wikipedia/the news section on google and convert it into the number of days there's been in the year, subsequently adding it to boxes of a certain colour in that row that would be even more useful! Thanks in advance. By the way I'm using openoffice calc because I'm a miser.
You want simultaneously to open up a multitude of Google Chrome tabs?
235 to be exact, with each one containing a search term from the spreadsheet database in the address bar or even better already searched?
I know there's an extension for chrome that allows you to open more than one tab at a time but that's not quite what I'm looking for.
You need to read this my friend:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/LfkGcfiE__w
Okay, would it be possible to do the spreadsheet thing in firefox or ie? (preferably firefox if ie can be avoided)?
I'll PM you.
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Pamela Cundell has died aged 95 according to this forum. Can't see a mention anywhere else though.
http://www.mausoleumclubforum.org.uk/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=11&sid=0f5dbeb375a660c2e981d4e27ce68543
Dad's Army Museum say so on their website.
Is this enough for me to claim my Deathrace points?
The Dad's Army Society suggest the news has come from Frank Williams and their source is being quoted on Wiki
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Do any of the computer whizzes on here know if you can set up a spreadsheet to google the entries in the first column individually and open them up in separate chrome tabs? I just feel like this could be a life-save for those of us running deadpools. If you know of a way you can then get the spreadsheet to pluck their date of death from wikipedia/the news section on google and convert it into the number of days there's been in the year, subsequently adding it to boxes of a certain colour in that row that would be even more useful! Thanks in advance. By the way I'm using openoffice calc because I'm a miser.
You want simultaneously to open up a multitude of Google Chrome tabs?
235 to be exact, with each one containing a search term from the spreadsheet database in the address bar or even better already searched?
I know there's an extension for chrome that allows you to open more than one tab at a time but that's not quite what I'm looking for.
You need to read this my friend:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/LfkGcfiE__w
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The legendary French actor Louis Jordan has died at 93 http://variety.com/2015/film/news/louis-jourdan-star-of-octopussy-gigi-dies-at-93-1201434557/
So ajlposh wasn't making it up then.
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Do any of the computer whizzes on here know if you can set up a spreadsheet to google the entries in the first column individually and open them up in separate chrome tabs? I just feel like this could be a life-save for those of us running deadpools. If you know of a way you can then get the spreadsheet to pluck their date of death from wikipedia/the news section on google and convert it into the number of days there's been in the year, subsequently adding it to boxes of a certain colour in that row that would be even more useful! Thanks in advance. By the way I'm using openoffice calc because I'm a miser.
You want simultaneously to open up a multitude of Google Chrome tabs?
The Dead Of 2015
in DeathList Forum
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So why not post the link yourself?