Geronimo

It was in Africa. Hence, the number of deaths doesn't matter so much to the mainstream/Western media. Oh yes, that must have been the reason. Thanks ever so much for pointing that out Corporal Jones. Just what the deathlist needs, another Professor of the bleeding obvious.

Inauguration dinner just before the puddings. The new president is welcomed by Washington's elite. That inauguration ceremony in full.

Have been looking around for the speech in full and was surprised to find it in the current bun of all places.

He's been confused before.

It was more to do with the level of rudeness. And Rude Kid thought he was rude...! To be honest, it's more RK's story to tell, but to keep it simple 1) It was late 2) TF had an almighty strop about allowing the AP feed for obits & it was his reaction (completely over-reacting to a trivial matter in such a foul way) to that which saw his entry rejected. He always seemed a rather prickly character on the forum to me... Yup, dark, stroppy, obnoxious at times, a bit of a misanthrope. His views on the DL convention: Much missed.

Seafood always dodgy. I blame the Chappaquiddick scallops.

While Obama's party might have been a bit costly at least he invited some worthy people such as surviving Tuskegee airmen. Whether any would get a UK obit is debatable but the older they get and the more their fame grows, you never know. Lee Archer is one of them.

Obama makes his solemn vows - inauguration excerpt.

Confirmation in the Times. Maryport knew a year ago.

I think it was new. In the Telegraph's telly pull out that would have gone to press before his death it spoke of him in the present tense. I think the producers just got lucky, so to speak. Perhaps one of them had him in their deathpool, could be a new trend - living obituaries.

I think he submitted it late or something. Not sure about the rest of his "antics."

A young Aussie lad moved to London and went to Harrods looking for a job. The manager asked 'Do you have any sales experience?' The young man answered 'Yeah, I was a salesman back home in Dubbo.' The manager liked the Aussie so he gave him the job. His first day was challenging and busy, but he got through it. After the store was locked up, the manager came down and asked, 'OK, so how many sales did you make today?' The Aussie said 'One!' The manager groaned: 'Just one? Our sales people average 20 or 30 sales a day. How much was the sale for?' '£124,237.64p.' The manager choked: '£124,237.64p!! What the hell did you sell him?' 'Well, first I sold him a small fish hook, then a medium fish hook and then I sold him a new fishing rod. 'Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down at the coast, so I told him he would need a boat, so we went down to the boat department and I sold him that twin-engine Power Cat. 'Then he said he didn't think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to car sales and I sold him the 4x4.' The manager, incredulous, said, 'You mean to tell me...a guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a boat and a 4x4?' 'No, no, no... he came in here to buy a box of tampons for his lady friend and I said... 'Well, since your weekend's buggered, you might as well go fishing.'

George Brecht.

I see he fell over getting out of a taxi. Hard bastards, these taxis. A tired and emotional situation perhaps?

Not wanting to start a new thread I thought this the most appropriate place to ask, after watching the TV programme last night on the Lusitania, whether there were any surviving survivors? Since it was later than the Titanic and since there were kids that survived it's quite possible that there are. If so they would almost certainly get an obit. But I suspect they're all gone. Anyone know?

So how for the sake of argument, would we deal with a modern day Mary Bell? I think she was about 12 when she committed murder. Hardly an innocent kiddie then. There were those two others in the Jamie Bolger case too. From memory I think we backed off them too. Now that Mary Bell is an adult I suppose she's in the frame, except t she's been given a new identity and I don't know it.

Er...isn't this about famous Belgians? The Bee Gees are all Manx men. But they are not Belgian.

Call for help

Todd Skinner , free climber, crashed out in Yosemite.

I mentioned a week or so ago that DL is becoming a fairly good agency for deceased celeb news... it depends on the members and whether there are a few journos amongst our ranks... It would be very odd to think otherwise.

It would be very odd to think otherwise.

Play some cooool hip hop

I've been waiting for the 31st, guess I'll have to wait until next year now so happy birthday for then anyway BB when you'll be on to day 377 I suppose.

I take yer point too MPFC but as long as Simon Dee is still alive I can't take celebrity suicide seriously. They simply don't do it much because they're resilient bastards. Look at Canon and Ball. They should have ended it years ago. What's the point of Venessa Phelps? But she sticks with it. What we need is a new Tony Hancock. Someone, somewhere who was somebody once, must be sitting alone, lonely as hell. Chris Evans? people keep bringing him back.