I am lost for words, truly. Thousands of students and people on the dole will be in mourning when they wake up tomorrow afternoon.

This is a sad, sad day.

cue: Spiritualized - Broken Heart

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Dad was flammable

He was a lovable git.

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Poo perhaps?

Who?

Yeah a good man, I met him when he hosted a pub quiz at my uni, got him to sign an autograph, wanted it to read "To all at Club Zuffle*, From Richard Whiteley" (As we'd done the same to Bob Holness the year before, he mis-heard and wrote "To all at Club Supple" still it had pride of place on our wall of fame for a while.

*Definition from Roger's Profanisaurus for you non Brits

Zuffle v. To Wipe one's cock on the curtain after having sex, usually in a posh bird's house.

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I'll let someone else give the biog on him for the yanks, but to give you a close idea of who were on about(and only example I know) it would be like if alec trebeck, only with slightly louder dress sense, and a lot more drunkeness on screen, past away.

God bless you Whiteley You shall be missed.

It took a while for this terrible news to reach Austria. I now see little point in going home.

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Please replace the handset, and try again.

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YOU'RE A HOMO!

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Please replace the handset, and try again.

Aw those made me emotional and nostalgic.

Who's got some absinth? I'm going to drink until it's 1982 again. Maybe when I wake up, we'll have high unemployment and will be at war with Argentina. Good times man, good times.

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Please replace the handset, and try again.