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on: October 23, 2025, 02:08:05 PM
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Started by tikay - Last post by tikay
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Bit off-beat this, but is anyone here old enough to remember Lady Isobel Barnett? I'm sure a few of you do - Ralph, Tom, boo & a few others.
She was immensely likeable despite her title & the posh way she spoke, & she was one of those folks who everyone admired & respected.
Anyway, I was reading a book & she was mentioned in passing, so I Wiki'd her & was shocked to read this...
In 1953 Barnett arrived on BBC television as one of the panel of What's My Line?, which made her a household name. She appeared on the programme for ten years but was not an original panelist, her seat having been previously occupied by Marghanita Laski.
She was regarded by audiences as elegant and witty, the epitome of the British aristocracy, although her title actually came from the fact that her solicitor husband had been knighted; the form Lady Barnett suggested she possessed a courtesy title, but she was not an aristocrat, nor had she married into the aristocracy. She also made regular appearances on the BBC radio series Any Questions, on the radio panel game Many a Slip and on the women's discussion series Petticoat Line. She was greatly in demand as an after-dinner speaker, a role into which she slipped confidently
In her last years Barnett became reclusive and eccentric. In 1980 she was found guilty of shoplifting, and fined £75 for stealing a can of tuna and a carton of cream worth 87 pence from her village grocer. This brought her briefly back into the public eye; four days later on 20 October, she was found dead at her home in Cossington, Leicestershire.
A coroner's inquest subsequently ruled that Barnett killed herself with an overdose of painkillers in her bath. During the inquest, police testified that she wore an extra spacious pocket, known as a poacher's pocket, inside her coat when she was caught stealing the groceries. Two days before her death, Lady Barnett told an interviewer she was a compulsive thief and had been shoplifting for years. Finding that Barnett, a trained physician, killed herself deliberately with an overdose of arthritis painkiller.
I never knew any of that, or if I did I had clean forgotten.
This, of course, was pre-internet days.
It's all a bit late now, but it made me feel terribly sad.
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on: October 23, 2025, 01:46:55 PM
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Started by tikay - Last post by tikay
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Great to hear you are enjoying retirement Tikay. 👋
Good grief, lovely to hear from you. You still travelling the world, wating sport of every kind? Unless I've got mixed up (an odds-on shot tbf) the last time we met was at a ball game (baseball) at Cashman Field (RIP) in Vegas. Not a mix up, right person. Yup reckon that was 2014 WSOP, when we met at the baseball! Life has changed a bit my end, the travelling world watching sport thing ended up with me meeting my now wife (cricket in New Zealand). Not so much travelling as I am full time dad to our daughter in South London. Work part time in cricket, mainly for Surrey County cricket club working on the scoreboards for pro cricket matches , so I still get plenty of sport in! wow, 11 years ago?! Memories are such strange things. I can't remember what I did last week, but I vividly recall that night at Cashman Field, even where we sat & you somehow recognizing me. Sounds like you are living the best life - a good wife, a Daughter, & working in sport. Perfect. Do you still have the occasional dabble in poker? |
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on: October 23, 2025, 04:06:05 AM
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Started by pleno1 - Last post by Ant040689
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Excellent posts. Love the description and honesty, and you are probably the best social media poker poster going when you multi table live on insta stories. Poker comedy and strat insight. Mamacita.
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on: October 20, 2025, 01:16:15 PM
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Started by Ironside - Last post by Doobs
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Astonishing how far Boulter has fallen.
Qualified in Japan, so an opportunity, and got hammered.
Unless she does well in Hong Kong she is in danger of dropping out of the top 100 because of the points she won last year there. She is likely to be UK number 4 behind Raducanu, Kartal and Jones in a couple of weeks. At the start of the year I was thinking she'd kick on this year and be solid top 20. She really has been our most dependable BJK player too, so this isn't good for GB either.
I now think Raducanu is more likely than not to be seeded in Australia. Assume Boulter lasts in the top 100 just long enough to not have to qualify.
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on: October 19, 2025, 10:22:40 PM
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Started by tikay - Last post by Longy
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Great to hear you are enjoying retirement Tikay. 👋
Good grief, lovely to hear from you. You still travelling the world, wating sport of every kind? Unless I've got mixed up (an odds-on shot tbf) the last time we met was at a ball game (baseball) at Cashman Field (RIP) in Vegas. Not a mix up, right person. Yup reckon that was 2014 WSOP, when we met at the baseball! Life has changed a bit my end, the travelling world watching sport thing ended up with me meeting my now wife (cricket in New Zealand). Not so much travelling as I am full time dad to our daughter in South London. Work part time in cricket, mainly for Surrey County cricket club working on the scoreboards for pro cricket matches , so I still get plenty of sport in! |
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on: October 19, 2025, 08:54:13 PM
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Started by tikay - Last post by celtic
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Also very briefly shared a table with perhaps the most irritating little man in poker, JJ, aka JJ Hazan, he of Dragons Den.
Briefly? Well, as in 1 hand, which fell between his 6th & 7th bullet I think.
If you look carefully you can see a Trophy next to him, which he presumably won somewhere. He was using it as a card-marker. Never one to GIQ, was he?
He got that in a chop! No!? At Birmingham he arrived late, & he literally went to every table, brandishing his Trophy, & telling everyone how he won it. Then went round again & told everyone he would use it as a card-marker. As it happens, the event was part of something called "PLO Masters" which, loosely speaking, he "organises". In truth I fancy Party organised it, he just added the Title. Here, take a look... https://www.plomasters.com/He comes to Malta a few times a year where he is equally as popular. He comes along with a few hundred others from Europe for The Festival Series. You should give it a go, it's held in several locations throughout Europe, so you don't even have to see me! Loads of different mixed games along with some Holdem stuff too. Thanks Vinni. Ill keep an eye on the schedules. The bulk of the MTT action in Fessies is usually NLH, & I'm not remotely good enough to invest in the cost of travel & hotels etc to play NLH, but if it includes a decent amount of the sort of Mixed stuff I can handle, then yes, I'd maybe come along. That aside, how's life for you & the fam? What you up to? This was the schedule when it came to Malta in September: https://www.thefestival.com/wp-content/uploads/TF-Malta-Schedule-2025-Main-1.pdfAnd this is their homepage where you can see their upcoming events etc; https://www.thefestival.com/the-festival-series-malta-2025#block-a74959d3-8b61-4351-89b6-1b848490f3c8We are all fine thanks, just plodding along working for an online casino and getting fatter. Life is good though, so I'll take that for now. |
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