[atomic_dog]

Hands down the most amazing obituary I have ever read. I even had to pull out my dictionary to find out what the word louche meant. FYI it means not reputable or decent. You have to love British newspapers. Could you ever imagine something like this appearing in the US press.

[Oberon]

I'm just trying to figure out how one can cultivate "...an air of sophisticated complexity by appearing in women's clothes, set off by lipstick and fishnet stockings."

That outfit sends many messages, but "sophisticated complexity" isn't one of them.

[Lurker]

Mark Steyn speaks very highly of the way the Brits write obituaries.

Now I know why.

L

[frithguild]

The apple may not fall far from the tree - but some certainly roll quite a distance

[Perdogg]

Count Gottfried von Bismarck, who was found dead on Monday aged 44, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies.

How he made it to 44, we will never know.

[Jackson Brown]

He never married!?!?

That shocks me, I tell you, it just shocks me to the core!!!

[Congressman Billybob]

Except for the severed pigs heads and the admission to Oxford, this will be Paris Hilton's obituary when and if she reaches the age of 44. Well, perhaps he was a bit better dressed and prettier than her, but it's close.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, "Crime and Punishment at the AP"

[GeorgiaGuy]

All one can say is that one prays the Count rests in peace.

[Jackson Brown]

I still bet that he had a place at the table with MANY of the “elites” of Europe! “Interesting” counts for that crowd. Character (principled, not “oddness”)...no so much.

[Hoplite]

The bad news is he's dead, Dr. Frank-N-Furter.
The good news is you owed him money.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

From another article, here’s details about the scene when one of the Count’s buddies fell off the roof and died:

“Count von Bismarck was a well known figure in London circles who has faced controversy in the past. He hit the headlines last year when a partygoer fell from the roof terrace of his London home.

Anthony Casey, 38, had a “substantial amount” of cocaine in his system when he fell from the apartment, an inquest heard in October.

Coroner Paul Knapman said a room in the flat contained what most people would consider “unusual and bizarre items”, including lubricants, buckets of sex toys, a butane gas canister, a box containing dozens of syringes and bottles of vodka.

“In common parlance, in the early hours of the morning, there was a gay orgy going on,” Knapman said at the time.”

[patton]

see #1. I just learned a new word.

[cowtowney]

sounds like Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

“I’m just a sweet transvestite, from transsexual Transylvania”

Let’s do the time warp, again.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Which term best applies to this thing; Decadent or Degenerate? There is some overlap yet a core of distinction between the two concepts.

[ozzymandus]

I’ve heard of this guy before. There are apparently large numbers of the European “elites” whose obits would read similarly.

[DManA]

Good. Another mad dog European aristocratic line bites the dust.

[lesser_satan]

Yep, he's ghey.

[GBA]

"...and became an enthusiastic, rubber-clad member of the Piers Gaveston Society..."

I don't think consulting a dictionary would help in understanding this quote.

[Ciexyz]

"Louche" sounds uncomfortably close to the word "lecher".

[Mike Darancette]

When not clad in the lederhosen of his homeland, he cultivated an air of sophisticated complexity by appearing in women's clothes, set off by lipstick and fishnet stockings.

LOL.

[skinkinthegrass]

I even had to pull out my dictionary to find out what the word louche meant. FYI it means not reputable or decent.

Kenned(runk)y.....Cl(ouche)inton et al.....thanks, it really fits. :)