Bill Deedes has Died

[two sheds]

so what, you couldn't be bothered? just coz this is the internets doesn't mean we don't expect a little bit of effort. i always make sure my tie is straight before i sit down at the keyboard. manners cost nothing.

how's your insides been since monday? mine been a bit squiffy and sleeping loads (so unlike me) - i think i came down with something.

 

[Elvis Parsley]

how's your insides been since monday? mine been a bit squiffy and sleeping loads (so unlike me) - i think i came down with something.

it's whats showing on the outside i'm worried about

 

[two sheds]

it's whats showing on the outside i'm worried about

*smiles, nods and moves a bit further away*

And nah I wasn't being lazy, just being modest. I've done my own researches on it as you know, so can give people a quick introduction: As you doubtless know, the Gregorian calendar is the most widely used calendar in the world. A modification of the Julian calendar, it was first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius, and was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, for whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 via the papal bull Inter gravissimas issued from his seat (Villa Mondragone). Years in the calendar are numbered from the traditional birth year of Jesus, which has been labeled the "anno Domini" (AD) era,[1] and is sometimes labeled the "common era" or the "Christian Era" (CE).

That's what I've found so far, anyway.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

I've been puzzling people with this question for years:

"The date of King Charles' execution is the 30th of January, 1649. In what year was King Charles executed?"

Now the bastards give precisely that example here....

 

[two sheds]

I've been puzzling people with this question for years:

"The date of King Charles' execution is the 30th of January, 1649. In what year was King Charles executed?"

Now the bastards give precisely that example here....

Yep, similar with this one: In what year did New Year's Day and Christmas Day fall in the same year?

P.S. I think you might be derailing the thread here, not sure that's allowed.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

You're right, it's really a Lady Day question rather than the Gregorian calendar.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

In what year did New Year's Day and Christmas Day fall in the same year?

Every year, surely?

 

[Elvis Parsley]

I've been puzzling people with this question for years:

"The date of King Charles' execution is the 30th of January, 1649. In what year was King Charles executed?"

Now the bastards give precisely that example here....

from that page:

"Tomb of Pope Gregory XIII celebrating the introduction of the Gregorian Calendar"

looks like a shit party

 

[two sheds]

You're right, it's really a Lady Day question rather than the Gregorian calendar.

*goes off to wiki to check when Lady's Day is*

 

[two sheds]

You're right, it's really a Lady Day question rather than the Gregorian calendar.

Well, I think you'll find that, in the Christian calendar, Lady Day is the Feast of the Annunciation (25 March) and the first of the four traditional Irish and English quarter days. The term derives from Middle English, when some nouns lost their genitive inflections. "Lady" would later gain an -s genitive ending, and therefore the name means "Lady's day."

 

[two sheds]

Every year, surely?

bugger

 

[two sheds]

from that page:

"Tomb of Pope Gregory XIII celebrating the introduction of the Gregorian Calendar"

looks like a shit party

It looks like they've extracted something painfully large from that bishop.

 

[Dan U]

sometimes i have to fight hard to resist the temptation to wish the same for you

isn't it.

utterly pointless posturing. i bet he doesn't even know why he 'hates' the bloke.

RIP Deedes. One of lifes characters - I think the only person to be a cabinet minister and the editor of a national newspaper.
not a bad achievement whatever your political stripe.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

I think the only person to be a cabinet minister and the editor of a national newspaper.

Didn't Janet Street-Porter?

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Didn't Janet Street-Porter?

God, no. Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook) was probably the closest, but he was a hands-on proprieter rather than the official editor of his papers.

 

[Gingerman]

Did'nt Micheal Foot edit a newspaper?

 

[Nemo]

Did'nt Micheal Foot edit a newspaper?

Don't think so. I think he only wrote for them. He edited Tribune though I think.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Don't think so. I think he only wrote for them. He edited Tribune though I think.

He edited the Evening Standard for a time during WWII. Not a national paper, but that's just nitpicking I guess.