Dead pool 2021
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FourZeroCharlie
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ExREME.TECH
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ExREME.TECH
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Will his telegram from the missus be hand delivered ?
ordinaryforces
MIA
Now if he was just some ordinary granddad in this day and age he'd be straight out of the back door full of diamorphine . Cause of death "covid"Breaking news - Update on DoE...
The Duke of Edinburgh has undergone a successful procedure for a pre-existing heart condition, Buckingham Palace says.Prince Philip, 99, has spent 16 nights in hospital.He was being treated for an infection and moved to St Bartholomew's Hospital in London on 1 March for tests and observation on his heart condition.
Prince Philip has successful heart procedure, palace says
The Duke of Edinburgh will remain in hospital for a number of days, Buckingham Palace says.www.bbc.co.uk
Mike Barton
LE
I remember the BBC Radio Ulster report on that crash which happened not far from the Fermanagh border, they interviewed a farmer who lived near the crash site.
I paraphrase:
Farmer: "I heard the racket of the helicopter and then the crash out beyond the back field"
BBC interviewer: "What did you see when you went out to investigate?"
"Oh, I didn't go out"
"You didn't go out to check?"
"Well, I thought it was a British Army helicopter that had come down, so I just stayed inside"
Mike Barton
LE
As I recall it we were always told, anecdotally, that there was a black tie permanently kept in readiness in a drawer of the newsreader's desk for when the Queen Mum or Queen died, it was just one of those things people always said. So when the Beeb's news anchor (Peter Sissons if I am not wrong) appeared to front the rolling coverage in a very nice lilac tie eyebrows were raised across the nation.
If they had simply said, "Oh sorry our mistake, we couldn't find the black tie, you know what Saturday afternoons are like" no one would have cared much, but it turned out it was actually a deliberate decision by the head of current affairs. The lady in question (usual Beeb type, with a suspiciously Irish-sounding name if I am not wrong) warned the newsroom "not to go overboard" and specifically told the presenter not to wear a black tie, as it could keep for the funeral.
The Daily Mail had a field day for a week.
Was it lilac? I thought it was burgundy red.
I didn't know about the Beeboid-type saying not to go overboard. Shows the ******* have been in charge at "Auntie" for a long time.
Mike Barton
LE
You're right it was more of a burgundy shade.
Sissons confirmed there was a dark suit and black tie in readiness for exactly such an occasion but the editor, following guidelines from BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey not to overdo coverage, told him to go with the burgundy tie.
It will be interesting to see if they stick with that policy for PTG.
BBC told staff: Don't wear black
The BBC was today forced to admit that it had told presenters not to wear black ties to report the death of the Queen Mother.
www.standard.co.uk
Should have stuck to his vintage 2cv.
Helicopters are bloody dangerous things, probably responsible for more rich people dying than tunnels in Paris.
Helicopters are bloody dangerous things, probably responsible for more rich people dying than tunnels in Paris.
French MP and billionaire Olivier Dassault dies in helicopter crash
President Macron says Olivier Dassault's death in a helicopter crash in Normandy is a great loss.
www.bbc.co.uk
Provost
LE
I only ever met one person who had seen 'This is Spinal Tap' and did not think that it was hilariously funny... and he was a seriously strange metal nut.
Liam Gallagher thought it was a documentary according to Noel.
Ruckerwocman
LE
I haven't seen in a dog's age, but it did have funny moments. Wasn't there a scene in which the head man for Spinal Tap let his manger know his displeasure at how the set design had been bungled? The manager had seriously downsized the Tor or Stonehenge stone the front man had asked for to where it was barely 2 feet high. He helpfully had a midget skipping around it in costume to add some color of the Auld Emerald Isle.
Kirkz
LE
Somewhere in my collection I have a record of the original recording of the argument that inspired part of Spinal Tap, it was bought from a shop in San Francisco on Haight Ashbury about 15 years ago.
Do you mean the Troggs Tapes?
Kirkz
LE
Yes, I think it is.
Kirkz
LE
scoldog
LE
Olivier Dassaul, eldest son of late French billionaire industrialist Serge Dassault, whose namesake Dassault Aviation builds the Rafale war planes and owns Le Figaro newspaper, dead at 69 in an helicopter crash.
www.abc.net.au
'A great loss': Olivier Dassault, 361st richest man in the world, dies in helicopter crash in France
French President Emmanuel Macron pays tribute after billionaire and conservative politician Olivier Dassault dies in a helicopter crash.
