Death Watch Beatle 41 Posted November 4, 2006 If you've got some time on your hands, have a go at writing a "Latest News" DL Headline for one or more of the listees. I know we have one or two hacks onboard, so it should be a no-brainer for them. No prizes for the best ones and no guarantee that they will ever be used, or even read by GR. The only other rule is you can't write one for Clive Dunn for 2 reasons. 1 - His name says it all and 2 - He's immortal. Have fun. DWB Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Bearer 6,101 Posted November 4, 2006 Do you mean an obit? Or just a punned headline? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banshees Scream 110 Posted November 4, 2006 Do you mean an obit? Or just a punned headline? This thread is a chalk board for Headlines. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banshees Scream 110 Posted November 4, 2006 Ronnie Biggs - 'It's Biggs!' Charles Lane - 'It's a Wonderful Death' Patrick Moore - 'No Moore!' Or if caught in a hot streak 'Moore Death' Michael Foot - '6 Foot into the ground!' Gerald Ford - 'Good Lord Gerald Ford!' or 'Ford meets the Lord' Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magere Hein 1,400 Posted November 4, 2006 Muhammad Ali boxed Elizabeth Taylor's last divorce Ingmar Bergman sealed regards, Hein Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Twelvetrees 10 Posted November 5, 2006 Gerald Ford - any colour as long as it's black Ernest Gallo - the wrath of grapes Mickey Rooney - let's do the funeral right here! Michael Foot - one Foot in the grave Alfredo di Stefano - kicked into touch Joseph Barbera - Tomb and Jerry Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Madame Defarge 21 Posted November 5, 2006 Solzhenitsyn--------cashes his chips in or---if he fattens up before he dies or swells up after death -----finds a coffin that he fits in Suharto say goodbye. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
honez 79 Posted November 5, 2006 Patrick Moore - Patrick No Moore, Extronomer. Charlton Heston - Holstered. Dino de Laurentiis - Laurentiis Extincticus. Joseph Barbera - Yabba Dabba Done. Elizabeth Taylor - Ex-ex-wife. Ronnie Biggs - Finally Slippered. Lady Bird Johnson - What's red with black spots and six-feet under? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banshees Scream 110 Posted November 5, 2006 Brooke Astor - 'Brooke doesn't live here anymore' 'Alice Headline for Brooke is essential' Joseph Barbera - 'Yabba Dabba Dead' or 'Yabba Dabba Done' or even 'For Ex' Barbera draws # 10' Albert Hofmann - 'L'ysergic 'S'cientist 'D'ead or 'Hofmann takes last bicycle ride' Oscar Neimeyer - 'Oscar designs stairway to heaven' or 'For Ex' Oscar designs #10' Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,645 Posted November 5, 2006 Clive: When will he be Dunn with immortality? Nah, not sure I've got the hang of this. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Madame Defarge 21 Posted November 5, 2006 Poor Clive------He's come unDunn. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr Hackenslash 25 Posted November 5, 2006 Lucy in the Sky with Hoffman Di Stefano taken down in the box Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anubis the Jackal 77 Posted November 5, 2006 Ernest Gallo - the wrath of grapes The winner by a long way thus far. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,187 Posted November 5, 2006 Clive: When will he be Dunn with immortality? Nah, not sure I've got the hang of this. One of the rules was you CAN'T choose one for Dunny. Dom Mintoff = "The lighter way to enjoy death" (as he's a Malteser) is my only humble offering. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Watch Beatle 41 Posted November 5, 2006 Ernest Gallo - the wrath of grapes The winner by a long way thus far. I like that one, and also "Di Stefano taken down in the box". DWB Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,645 Posted November 5, 2006 George Melly: No longer the man on the telly. Charlton Heston: Ben urghhh..... Clive Dunn; Grandad, Grandad, yer lingering... Nah, still not got the hang of this. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr Hackenslash 25 Posted November 5, 2006 Permission to decompose, sir? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,645 Posted November 5, 2006 And the funeral march goes: Dunn Dunn Der-Dunn, Dunn Der-Dunn, Der-Dunn, Der Dunn. Man, he's more fun than the other 49 we've got to go at. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Godot 149 Posted November 5, 2006 J D Salinger - Dropped Elizabeth Taylor - Gone for a Burton General Pinochet - Gone missing Charlton Heston - Bit his last bullet Claire Raynor - Out of her agony Muhammed Ali - Shuffled off Billy Graham - Sees the Lord at last Vera Lynn - Shot down by a Messerschmitt Dom Mintoff - Maltese crossed off Kurt Waldheim - A goose step beyond Patrick Moore - Final eclipse of the loon Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Bearer 6,101 Posted November 5, 2006 Very good Godot, very good. The best of the bunch.........................so far Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted November 5, 2006 So this is rather like the obit tapes for TV news: prepared death notice/obituary. Hmmm.....I'll get back... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,358 Posted November 5, 2006 Charlton Heston - In A Cold Dead Land Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Canadian Paul 97 Posted November 6, 2006 I haven't read all the previous suggestions, but the two that I suggested earlier were Charlton Heston: I guess we can take the gun now... Charles Lane: "Lane" to rest Perhaps more later when I review this thread. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handrejka 1,903 Posted November 6, 2006 I know there are enough kinky folk here to get these. If Dom Mintoff is murdered then we could have "Dom topped" or if he decide to replace him in next year's list "Dom subbed". The only other I can come up with is "Thatch dispatched" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted November 6, 2006 So this is rather like the obit tapes for TV news: prepared death notice/obituary. Hmmm.....I'll get back... Right here goes... Alfredo di Stefano - He's REALly dead! Albert Hoffmann - Bertie takes the final trip.. Patrick Moore - The Die at Night Ladybird Johnson - LBJ DOA Milton Friedman - Alive? That's being economical with the truth! Michael Foot - Love's Labour's Lost Life Eli Wallach - The Good, The Bad and the Deceased Kirk Douglas - Ace in the Hole Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again Kurt Waldhiem - A Nazi way to go Billy Graham - Lived by the book, died by the book Ingmar Bergman - Checkmate! Margaret Thatcher - This Lady's not for turning in her grave and my personal favourite... Muhammad Ali - The Rave in the Grave (or, to be really cruel: The Slave in the Grave!) more to come... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
