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Over on the Stories forum my Ted "The Dead Kennedy's" Spoof was fished and I mentioned a list of dead people of whom I admire (taken out of context by someone, as usual!).

I thought this would be good idea for my respected colleagues to name their fav top 5 or top 10 dead uns!

Give it a bash, could be interesting, I can't wait to hear Skoobs and JB's!

1. Leon Trotsky

2. Albert Einstein

3. Miles Davis

4. Sir Bobby Robson

5. Peter Cook

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Quote: Earl Grey

1. Leon Trotsky

2. Albert Einstein

3. Miles Davis

4. Sir Bobby Robson

5. Peter Cook

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Superb Earl 5 dead stars!

This could turn out to interesting, respect you Sir. Bobby Robson, great ambassador for the lost game, you could also inclue Sir Matt Busby and Bill Shankly, old school but straight as a Jaggedone!

Hi, Jo.

1 Oscar Wilde

2 Evan Hunter (Ed McBain)

3 Ernest Hemingway

4 Raphael

5 Sir Matt Busby

6 Groucho Marx

7 WC Fields

8 Stan Laurel

9 Peter Ustinov

10 Richard Brautigan (Madcap US author)

That would probably make for an interesting lad's night out.

Regards

Skoob.

Yes, I know they're all guys.

Ladies top ten to come.

Regards

Skoob.

Albert Einstein, William Wallace, Mother Teresa, Freddy Mercury, and my son, Joshua

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Albert Einstein, William Wallace, Mother Teresa, Freddy Mercury, and my son, Joshua

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Smurfette, sorry about your son, my blessings are winging their way to you and your beloved child!

Whilst soothing my wounds over the loss of my loved one's I listen to Nick Cave's Into My Arms, superbly therapeutic and magical!

Love your list apart from Freddy Mercury, matter of taste I suppose!

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Hi, Jo.

1 Oscar Wilde

2 Evan Hunter (Ed McBain)

3 Ernest Hemingway

4 Raphael

5 Sir Matt Busby

6 Groucho Marx

7 WC Fields

8 Stan Laurel

9 Peter Ustinov

10 Richard Brautigan (Madcap US author)

That would probably make for an interesting lad's night out.

Regards

Skoob.

Yes, I know they're all guys.

Ladies top ten to come.

Regards

Skoob.

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Skoob great list I was actually at Old Trafford on Sir Matts official goodbye, tears mate, plenty of them! Never forget it!

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Quote: smurfette

Albert Einstein, William Wallace, Mother Teresa, Freddy Mercury, and my son, Joshua

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Smurfette, sorry about your son, my blessings are winging their way to you and your beloved child!

Whilst soothing my wounds over the loss of my loved one's I listen to Nick Cave's Into My Arms, superbly therapeutic and magical!

Love your list apart from Freddy Mercury, matter of taste I suppose!

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Nick Cave can be excellent for different moods. That's a great song.

6. Johnny Haynes

7. George Best (had to be 7)

8. Bill Hicks

9. Karl Marx

10. Wilfred Owen.

Bit of a mix, can imagine Marx, Trotsky and Hicks arguing about politics, Robson and Haynes arguing about Fulham tactics and Owen would sit in the middle and think "In the shit again!"

5 Favourite Dead Stars


1. Keith Moon

2. Micheal Jack Sun

3. The Sun Dance Kid

4. The Black Hole (star of the film 'The Black Hole')

5. The Death Star (or Alderan -the place the death star blow to smithereens in Star Wars)

Jesus Budda
- Chamone

I was going to include WG Grace just for Skoob's benefit....

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Quote: Jaggedone

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Quote: smurfette

Albert Einstein, William Wallace, Mother Teresa, Freddy Mercury, and my son, Joshua

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Smurfette, sorry about your son, my blessings are winging their way to you and your beloved child!

Whilst soothing my wounds over the loss of my loved one's I listen to Nick Cave's Into My Arms, superbly therapeutic and magical!

Love your list apart from Freddy Mercury, matter of taste I suppose!

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Nick Cave can be excellent for different moods. That's a great song.

6. Johnny Haynes

7. George Best (had to be 7)

8. Bill Hicks

9. Karl Marx

10. Wilfred Owen.

Bit of a mix, can imagine Marx, Trotsky and Hicks arguing about politics, Robson and Haynes arguing about Fulham tactics and Owen would sit in the middle and think "In the shit again!"

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I actually added John Lennon to my 5, thought about it over night and loved John's balls (not literally!)
and later Beatles inputs!

6) John Lennon
7) Vincent Van Gogh
Dali (totally mad but brilliant!)
9) Captain Cook
10) Geronimo

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Jesus Budda
- Chamone

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VC, I'll help you 1-5 = uno-cinco, eins-funf, une-cinq, etc!

You may try again!

Hey Amos, Keith was a complete, brilliant nutter, love Baba o Riley!(WHO?)

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I was going to include WG Grace just for Skoob's benefit....

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I actually watched some of the Ashes series recently Earl, and WG Grace was by all accounts a truly eccentric guy, but an excellent sportsman.

Regards

Skoob.

Now for the ladies,

1 Joyce Grenfell

2 Dorothy Parker

3 Bette Davis

4 Joan Crawford

5 Boudica

6 Shelley Winters - oops, apparently she's very much alive. My mistake. No offence intended. I was going to change it to Bernie Winters, but then I realised he was male. So the revised number six is:

6 Beethoven and Tommy Cooper. Okay, I know they were both male, but they both excelled at what they did.

7 Mary Shelley

8 Mo Mowlam

9 Emily Pankhurst

10 Queen Victoria

Regards

Skoob.

01- Robert Edward Lee
02- George Herman Ruth
03- George Carlin
04- Richard Pryor
05- Louis Grizzard
06- Robert Palmer
07- e. e. cummings
08- T. S. Eliot
09- Bubba (from Forrest Gump)
10- James Longstreet

Like Skoob, I'll get back to ya with 10 women.

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Now for the ladies,

1 Joyce Grenfell

2 Dorothy Parker

3 Bette Davis

4 Joan Crawford

5 Boudica

6 Shelley Winters (SKOOB, SHE'S NOT DEAD...SHE WAS ON OUR CRUISE, AS DRUNK AND AS OBNOXIOUS AS EVER! ALONG WITH A 80 YR.OLD VICTORIA BECKUM LOOK A LIKE WHO FELL ASLEEP DURING THE LIFE BOAT DRILL...I THOUGHT I WAS HAVING A NIGHT MARE AND RELIVING THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE...)

7 Mary Shelley

8 Mo Mowlam

9 Emily Pankhurst

10 Queen Victoria

Regards

Skoob.

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Mrs Skoob says: (she just woke up from a catnap)

1 Pope John Paul II

2 Peter The Great

3 Winston Churchill

4 Julius Caesar

5 Dwight Eisenhower

WTF!

Skoob...

Oops!

Apologies to Shelley Winters.

I'll edit it to Bernie.

But that's why I'd love to meet Shelley, obnoxious and loud. I could watch people behaving like that all day!

And then Spoof them.

Regards

Skoob.

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Quote: victor nicholas

Jesus Budda
- Chamone

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VC, I'll help you 1-5 = uno-cinco, eins-funf, une-cinq, etc!

You may try again!

Hey Amos, Keith was a complete, brilliant nutter, love Baba o Riley!(WHO?)

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Thanks for the mulligan JO.

Was contemplating submitting one at a time.

Uri Geller.

Bed time for me Ferg, so it's hello/goodbye.

Thomas Crapper

Made our lives a whole lot nicer smelling when he invented the U-bend toilet.

Regards

Skoob.

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Uri Geller.

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Get bent.

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Quote: Jaggedone

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Quote: smurfette

Albert Einstein, William Wallace, Mother Teresa, Freddy Mercury, and my son, Joshua

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Smurfette, sorry about your son, my blessings are winging their way to you and your beloved child!

Whilst soothing my wounds over the loss of my loved one's I listen to Nick Cave's Into My Arms, superbly therapeutic and magical!

Love your list apart from Freddy Mercury, matter of taste I suppose!

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tyvm

joshua was the bravest person i ever met

he pulled 6 smaller children (his brothers and sister and three children i was babysitting) from our burning home when he was six years old as i threw buckets of water on the flames to clear a path

it was in the middle of winter here in oklahoma and not until it was over did i realize he had not taken the time to put on a coat or shoes

his little feet were bruised and bloodied from running across the frozen ruts in our dirt driveway

they held an assembly at his school in his honor and all he said was he didn't understand what the fuss was about, that he'd only done what anyone would have

i am sorry for your losses, whatever they have been

i had never heard of nick cave before your post on the music thread

i just looked him up on you tube; what an amazing voice!

i listened to a duet with kylie minogue (who i am familiar with) on "death is not the end"; it is amazing

is he a gospel singer like our josh groban?

i never thought i would here anyone as talented as groban, but i believe i just have

btw, i admire freddy for his musical talent and showmanship, not for his lifestyle, which cut his life far too short

Joe'Caveman'Henderson
Screaming Jay Hawkins
Pinky Lee
Herman Munster
Agnes the Dyke (old next door neighbor)
Melvin Tryhol
Moe Reese
My dog 'Tug the magical Rottweiler'
Mr. Fish
Jack Benny
Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy