Stiff Stakes

With the news of the death of Liz Taylor arriving today.

We have something going where we each chose someone and pay 1 lire a week into a kitty and the first person to have someone who snuffs it scoops the monty.

Someone's hit gold dust today as nobody in ours has turned their toes up for ages and there's nearly 1,300 lire in the pot.

For me Fidel lives on.

Morbid, yet fun.

Blatter's next

I'll have a lire on Gadaffi, please...

I'll put 20 in the pot for Ian McKellen, and 40 on Aretha Franklin popping her soulful clogs anytime soon.

It's been a particularly busy year so far in the famous stiff stakes

Mrs Rover has Keith Richards, he'll never die.

She's on a bum steer.

His odds must have dropped when he monkeyed out of that tree a while back?

It's about time Ian Paisley shuffled off isn't it?

My money is on The Iron Lady

arover wrote:It's about time Ian Paisley shuffled off isn't it?

NEVER!! Paisley says "NO"

Ozzy Osbourne can't have long surely

StLedge wrote:My money is on The Iron Lady

I wonder what they'll do with the body...

Burn it, just to make sure she's really dead.

GR hates you now.

Rover the Sea wrote:

arover wrote:It's about time Ian Paisley shuffled off isn't it?

NEVER!! Paisley says "NO"

Love it.

Here we are anyway it's all formalised:

http://www.deathlist.net/

Margaret Thatcher

Milk Snatcher

glosterrover wrote:Ozzy Osbourne can't have long surely

Hopefully not, he has one of the most irritating voices ever.

You mean The Midlands accent.

StLedge wrote:You mean The Midlands accent.

That is a bad one and so is the Scouse.

Blackburn ain't too clever either.

arover wrote:Blackburn ain't too clever either.

Burnley is worse.

StLedge wrote:You mean The Midlands accent.

I was on about his voice, not his accent. The Midlands accent isn't too bad.

Roverdamus wrote:

StLedge wrote:You mean The Midlands accent.

I was on about his voice, not his accent. The Midlands accent isn't too bad.

It is.

The Brummie and Scouse accents are the least desirable in the UK - fact. Call centres have closed and relocated due to poor sales because people don't want a Scouse or Brummie calling them and trying to sell them something (not that they want ANYONE doing that). The most popular accents are from the north east. People say the Geordie accent is "relaxing and friendly", and sales soar when call centres relocate to Newcastle and the Tyne area.

The Burnley accent is different depending on where you come from in Burnley. Some of them are wannabe Mancs, and for some reason exaggerate the Burnleyness and add some Manc to it. Rather irritating.