"Nexie" <greenknight@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:aqbGf.8538$37.5446@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> There's something you said that I agreed with at the time, but has been
> bothering me. You were bemoaning that there are no icons left in the
world
> that you would miss when they died. I thought it couldn't be true, but I
> was stumped if I could think of any.
>
> Well, I've thought of a few.
okay, it wasn't a hard and fast rule, but let's play ball ...
>
> In chronological order (In my head at least. Well, we have to have some
> kind of order in the world, even if it's a queue for the bus) - Eric
> Sykes, Barry Crier (yes, Barry Crier - look who he's written for),
that's Barry Cryer innit ? and yes, i'll agree with eric sykes as well ...
>David Attenborough, Denholm Elliott,
Denholm Elliott's been dead (of AIDS) for about four years i think ...
>Germaine Greer (annoying, but entertaining, and quite possibly right),
>Graham Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor (possibly even Bill Oddie, the hairy,
>little bird-loving dwarf),
Germaine possibly, the Goodies welllllllll ...
> Ade Edmondson, Eddie Izzard (not sure about this one), Chris Morris and
> many more who haven't been so ingrained in my long-term memory that
> alcohol couldn't destroy the neurons that are associated with
remembering
> their names.
>
Chris Morris definitely ... to which i would add Will Self and JG Ballard
....
> I know I've missed a few personal favourites, like Bjork, Simon Pegg,
Nick
> Frost, Sinead O'Connor, Dan Antopolski, Lucy ****ter, Bill Bailey, my
cat,
> Kevin Eldon, Nelson Mandela (maybe he should have been above...) but I
> thought the universals might have played better.
The entire cast of Spaced and Green Wing and Black Books and Armando
Ianucci
....
> The point is, there's still lots of personalities out there who aren't
> boy-bands or famous for cosmetic surgery or people who do TV shows like
> living in a student dorm with cameras.
>
> So there, Mr. Doom 'n' Gloom Pessimist, stick that up yer jumper 8)
i stand corrected ... no i am standing, i'm just not very tall
oh, and Shane MacGowan and the Pogues ... and Banksy and Noam Chomsky ...
and Gogol Bordello for always making me smile
>
> p.s. Download "Kill the Humans" from
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/hyperdrive/killthehumans.shtml
>
> It gets me through the day.
when work gets me down i go to www.netdisasters.com and kill all my least
favourite websites in a variety of interesting and amusing ways
was killthehumans the techno track from last week ? it was good :)
> p.p.s. Oh, and Ken Dodd. The showbiz rumours are true. And if for no
other
> reason than "Ken Dodd's dad's dog's dead".
currently i am splitting my sides to The Thick Of It ... much better than
The Office IMHO
(hoping the rumours about Langham aren't true)
badger XXX
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