Get yer trousers on, you're dead

[Snake Plissken]

Dennis Waterman died aged 74.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

I could be so dead for you

[ad hoc]

Terry McCan't

[Paul S]

On the Down

[delicatemoth]

From man o' water to man o' soil.

I'm astonished he was only 74, he seemed about 50 when I was a kid.

[Snake Plissken]

He was 26 when he started in The Sweeney. The 70's were hard.

[Satchmo Distel]

I Could Be So Dead For You

[Satchmo Distel]

He was an apologist for wife-beating, so good riddance:

"She certainly wasn't a beaten wife, she was hit and that's different."

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...nt-women-abuse

And he still got work after saying that shit.

[Sean of the Shed]

[Kevin S]

How did he grow up watching Minder and star in it? Or is it just that the Education Secretary can't punctuate correctly?

[Jah Womble]

Terry McCancelled

(Anyone else want to do ‘I Could Be So Dead for You’?)

RIP

[Kevin S]

Oh yeah, he got the guy's name wrong too.

[Jah Womble]

I’d rather it had been Pete Waterman, tbh. (Not that I want either of ‘em brown bread especially.)

As tributes go, that was a bit of a hot mess.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

John Thaw was a spouse beater as well,pairvof cunts.

You got evidence for that about Thaw? Shiela Hancock wrote about his being unpleasant to live with when he was in his alcoholic phase (which he ended by giving up booze altogether, following which they were very happily married until he got terminally ill and died), but I can't find any authoritative report of his being physically violent to her.

[elguapo4]

You got evidence for that about Thaw? Shiela Hancock wrote about his being unpleasant to live with when he was in his alcoholic phase (which he ended by giving up booze altogether, following which they were very happily married until he got terminally ill and died), but I can't find any authoritative report of his being physically violent to her.

Fair enough, I had thought that he was a domestic abuser, post deleted.

[Guy Profumo]

How did he grow up watching Minder and star in it? Or is it just that the Education Secretary can't punctuate correctly?

Not really, there's a slight problem with the ellipsis, I'd've kept the "I" in there and kept the comma too


(Or used a semi-colon or an "n"-dash)

[Satchmo Distel]

This is definitive on Thaw:

John was never physically violent. It was mental. The theory is when people vent their hatred on others it's actually hatred of themselves they are venting.

https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment...11-gdk382.html

[MarkF]

Not really, there's a slight problem with the ellipsis, I'd've kept the "I" in there and kept the comma too


(Or used a semi-colon or an "n"-dash)

And called him Dennis…

I had George Cartered off…

[jwdd27]

I had Gerry Falling, but that relies on the reader remembering his New Tricks character's surname (which was of course Standing. The West Brom fan who created the series referenced the Hawthorns by calling the characters Halford, Lane and Stand(ing).