Djpekingman
Gore. Always ready with a fact and a pasty when you need him. Equally obnoxious and amusing. Bright, argumentative, the stuff boards are made of. Leaves a wife and some kids and a trail of abdications in his wake. Will be sadly missed. RIP.
king_of_the_slums
Glee star Cory Monteith dies in Canada hotel.
Possible overdose
MolOverBeethoven
Alas, now only Jones.
king_of_the_slums
This was a brilliant LP
Funny as fuck :D
Harvest
Ah, fucking hell. Just found out, liked Mel Smith, poor bugger.
Reggie_Perrin
Yep, sad news. Mel Smith was a funny man and contributed a lot. Looked like shit last time I saw him on tv.
Travis_Bickle
Remember our kid buying the NTNON lp on BBC records. Colin's Sandwich had some cracking moments and was ahead of its time.
Sad, really sad. 60 is no age.
Harvest
I remember watching some kids tv programme, late 70s/early 80s where he lived in a flat with another bloke and they read books and stories, children's literature. Like an anarchic Jackanory.
Travis_Bickle
'Wotcha Bob, wotcha Mel, what you been doing? Can't you tell? I've been taking a look at a book'
Something else about 'flicking my way through a paperback a day' and 'telling you all about it if you're interested'.
The shit you remember. No idea what it was called....
Guest
Life ends with a whispa. The kind of bloke I would have liked to have spent a day drinking with. Blessed with a comedic face.
Harvest
Travis Bickle wrote'Wotcha Bob, wotcha Mel, what you been doing? Can't you tell? I've been taking a look at a book'
Something else about 'flicking my way through a paperback a day' and 'telling you all about it if you're interested'.
The shit you remember. No idea what it was called....
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_and_Goody
gore
Didn't realise he had Parkinson's, gout everywhere along with pill addiction and liked a beer or 10. Not sure about the whispa... unless he was covered in chocolate
king_of_the_slums
non too shabby
pipoldchap
Bert Trautmann.
Heroic goalie for Man Citeh in the 1950s, teammate of Don Revie, who probably did more than anyone else to repair the German image in the eyes of the British people after World War Two.
90Piesanhour
pipoldchap wroteBert Trautmann.
Heroic goalie for Man Citeh in the 1950s, teammate of Don Revie, who probably did more than anyone else to repair the German image in the eyes of the British people after World War Two.
Good call and great obituary in the Guardian the other week.
Ray_Hankin's_shorts
Todd Bennett - not quite so famous 400m team mate of Roger Black and Kriss Akabusi
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/jul/18/todd-bennettCunting Big C again
R.I.P
Ad
Pretty sure Wonga.com were doing ad's with a Stuart Hall voiceover after he got sent down.
its a measure of these lovely loan people (run by those Conscientious and mainly non-fans of the British South Africans who moved here after the demise of apertheid)
fulmine
Elmore Leonard.
fulmine
[quote]
In 2001, author Elmore Leonard, who died this morning at the age of 87, wrote a piece for the New York Times in which he laid out, very simply, his ten rules for good writing. You can read the entire piece, with explanations, over at the Times' site, but here are the basic precepts. Use them wisely.
Never open a book with weather.
Avoid prologues.
Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue.
Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said” … he admonished gravely.
Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose."
Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
Don't go into great detail describing places and things.
Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.
[/quote]
MolOverBeethoven