The Dead Thread

Alanbileysfeathercut · January 28, 2020

Professor Toffee said:
what will Paul Merton do now?

Become funny

degsy · January 28, 2020

Alanbileysfeathercut said:
Become funny

Nah

gonetomorrow · January 28, 2020

kev said:
Not gonna lie, I thought he died about 20 years ago.

So all those radio shows were repeats?
It's a funny old world!

canuckblue · January 28, 2020

chrismpw said:
I think that's how things should be. Allow the family time to grieve. For everybody other than media and crazed journalists, death is not a race.

It is in the movies.

tommytowne · January 28, 2020

Alanbileysfeathercut said:
4 years from the (sale of the) century.

I used to watch that just to catch a glimpse of Linda Hooks one of the hostesses.

Alan Whittle · January 28, 2020

tommytowne said:
I used to watch that just to catch a glimpse of Linda Hooks one of the hostesses.

"..And now,
..LIVE...from Norwich!
It's the Quiz of the week!.."
Dah de Dah
Dah de Dah
Dah de Dah Dah Dah etc

summerisle · January 30, 2020

Mcdrewson · February 1, 2020

Fella who played Bossk in The Empire Strikes Back has died. Alan Harris.

gonetomorrow · February 1, 2020

summerisle said:

It's the end of an era.

tommytowne · February 1, 2020

gonetomorrow said:
It's the end of an era.

Will be lost on the kids of today.
Have I read somewhere that history taught in schools rarely mention the two World Wars?

gonetomorrow · February 1, 2020

I think it's time we did forget the First World War.
It's over a hundred years ago now.
We don't seem to have learned anything from it judging by the state of the globe.
Did the people of 1915 mourn Waterloo?
I don't think so.

daza_1973 · February 1, 2020

Mcdrewson said:
Fella who played Bossk in The Empire Strikes Back has died. Alan Harris.

Worst alien feet ever.

Mcdrewson · February 1, 2020

daza_1973 said:
Worst alien feet ever.

Couldn’t even afford trabs.

Tramps_mate · February 1, 2020

gonetomorrow said:
I think it's time we did forget the First World War.
It's over a hundred years ago now.
We don't seem to have learned anything from it judging by the state of the globe.
Did the people of 1915 mourn Waterloo?
I don't think so.

Agree. Had this conversation the other day actually. When will we stop celebrating/remembering the world wars?

Jacob · February 1, 2020

gonetomorrow said:
I think it's time we did forget the First World War.
It's over a hundred years ago now.
We don't seem to have learned anything from it judging by the state of the globe.
Did the people of 1915 mourn Waterloo?
I don't think so.

I dont think its a question of forgetting WW1. There are still plenty of people who had close relatives who died in it. My Grandfather was torpedoed and went down with his ship three months before the end of WW1 in 1918 when my Dad was six months old. He was 27. I think for some people and regardless of any
learning process, it would still mean a lot for their country to say "We Shall Remember Them".
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