Dead People: Dead

[Nick Armstrong]

Mr Omer in David Copperfield

Mr Mould in Martin Chuzzlewit is an undertaker. He is actually mentioned in a post of mine arlier today, on the thread dealing with Dickens novels.

[french frank]

Mr Mould in Martin Chuzzlewit is an undertaker. He is actually mentioned in a post of mine arlier today, on the thread dealing with Dickens novels.

I obviously don't read your posts about Dickens. Shall settle down with Our Mutual Friend tonight. Know 'oo I mean, Cally

[Nick Armstrong]

Allegedly, there was Mordecai Mould, in Chuzzlewit, though I don't remember him.

No allegedly about it, ma'am. He is introduced in Chapter 19:

"In the passage they encountered Mr. Mould the undertaker: a little elderly gentleman, bald, and in a suit of black; with a notebook in his hand, a massive gold watch-chain dangling from his fob, and a face in which a queer attempt at melancholy was at odds with a smirk of satisfaction"

There is a long and amusing account of his domestic arrangements in Chapter 25:
http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/chuzzlewit/26/

[Nick Armstrong]

I obviously don't read your posts about Dickens. Shall settle down with Our Mutual Friend tonight. Know 'oo I mean, Cally

Do'ee 'ave Great Hexpectations, Missis Frank, of this 'ere Friend??

[Anna]

Do'ee 'ave Great Hexpectations, Missis Frank, of this 'ere Friend??

Dunno about that. I always assumed that I WOULD be Miss Havisham, crumbling her wedding cake whilst rats run riot. But now, I confess to not understanding these Dickens' jokes. However, I am 'erso so 'umble and not worthy.

[Nick Armstrong]

Dunno about that. I always assumed that I WOULD be Miss Havisham, crumbling her wedding cake whilst rats run riot. But now, I confess to not understanding these Dickens' jokes. However, I am 'erso so 'umble and not worthy.

awwwww

[Anna]

awwwww

Jarndyce & Jarndyce, need I say more? Jaggers and Wemmick. Love them all, give me a Dickensian Barristers' Clerk and I'll roll over and bequeath me diamonds.

[amateur51]

... a "chirpily Breakfast-like "And the latest Clog-popper is ... ", perhaps?

I like it!

[Nick Armstrong]

Jarndyce & Jarndyce, need I say more? Jaggers and Wemmick. Love them all, give me a Dickensian Barristers' Clerk and I'll roll over and bequeath me diamonds.

Not to mention the loathesome Vholes... http://www.literaturepage.com/read/d...house-626.html

I have a quote from him pinned up in an ironical manner on my notice board in my 'umble legal office (where music is quite often to be heard drifting gently from the speakers of my desktop):

Esther recounts how she visited Vholes at his office

"There is not much to see here," said I.

"Nor to hear, miss," returned Mr. Vholes. "A little music does occasionally stray in, but we are not musical in the law and soon eject it."

[Flosshilde]

Incidentally, Flosshilde, I think that the Catholic Church has abolished Limbo, although they haven't got round to explaining what has become of its inhabitants. I think that Purgatory remains, but I'm not sure. Perhaps scottycelt can enlighten us ?

Trust them to take all the fun out of life - and death

[Serial_Apologist]

Mandryka seems to have found a purpose.


There is also, SHB,

"Dame Chlamidia Crumpet, the distinguished arts benefactoress ...

.. 'as fallen off 'er perch

.. 'as popped 'er clogs"

Any more?

And then, can we have done?

Kicked the bouquet

As in "Hiacynth kicked the bouquet"

[Richard Tarleton]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie0m3EJVf8U

A hilarious real life example of the genre from November 1975.

[Mandryka]

I don't see the connection between morbidity and obituary notices. And, of course, if you'd rather not read my 'Dead' threads, you're welcome not to. In fact, one of the reaons I keep the titles so sharp and to the point is so that the casual reader can see the title, clock that so and so is no more, then move on to what they find to be more interesting things.

Also, I'm a little surprised (to put it mildly) at the sensitivity some people have to the form these notices take - I think announcing someone as 'dead' states the point neatly and precisely. I take hte point about birth and death dates being a less 'brutal' formula, but in many cases - not least the recently deceased Muamar al Gaddaffi - there is no officially confirmed date of birth.

Yes, I'm selective about the notices I give: I will only cover deceased personalities from the worlds of the arts, entertainment or poltiics, broadly speaking. So-called 'sports' personalities - non-entities who have contrived to make a living out of kicking or throwing balls around a field, running in circles round a stadium, throwing themselves out of planes, or other such fatuous activities - are not deserving of any attention; though, of course, others are welcome to start their own threads for such, if they feel differently.

[Stillhomewardbound]

My latest suggestion for alternative heading is:

'Gorn' as is in 'Gorn orff', but then people might think that Carl Orff has died ... again.

[scottycelt]

I think Mandryka's regular 'death notices' are now a well-established and informative feature of this forum!

However, I part company with him when he says that those in the world of arts, entertainment, and indeed politics, are any more worthy of recognition than some of our premier sportsmen and women.

Anyone who has recently observed the exhilarating Barcelona football side, especially the astounding Lionel Messi, will readily appreciate that such skill, talent and professionalism 'kicking balls around a field' can be just as artistic as those successfully earning a living blowing into a hollow brass object or scratching away at a shapely nylon-strung wooden alternative, not to mention appearing regularly in Coronation Street.

However, fortunately for the sporting world and this forum, I'm likely to die very much sooner than Mr Messi to be able to include my own heartfelt tribute in any forum obituary ... ?