http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=240 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 00:26:27 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=240#post-786 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:17:01 +0000 Iscariot 786@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>At the end, she was clearly in a lot of pane. Being diagnosed with terminal <em>Merulius Lacrymans</em> tipped her over the edge. It was the first time a human being had contracted dry rot, and in her confusion she injected Windowlene instead of her prescribed Cuprinol.</p> <p>A tragic accident, but her name will not be forgotten as Tracy Emin has asked to use the antique breadcrumbs as part of a new installation at Tate Modern. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=240#post-784 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:52:28 +0000 The All New Jeni B 784@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yes, but all those who knew her will see through it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=240#post-775 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:32:31 +0000 arthurminnit 775@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>even in death, poor lavinia is smeared with the windolene accusation! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=240#post-720 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:09:07 +0000 virtuallywill 720@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sad to hear of her windolene end, I thought she had cleaned up. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=240#post-718 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:50:30 +0000 edward hack 718@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>God bless<br /> the brussel sprout enema advice was invaluable-although it still leaves an after taste,even with the honey </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=240#post-715 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:24:22 +0000 sauce 715@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Probably remembered bare somewhere or other, though. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=240#post-711 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:43:53 +0000 The All New Jeni B 711@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>RIP Lavinia. Gone, but barely remembered. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=240#post-705 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:24:12 +0000 Mrblacker 705@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Lavinia Humphries – 12th May 1963 – 21st February 2010</p> <p>Lavinia Humphries was very much of the old school. A smoker, drinker, intravenous drug user, advocate of promiscuity, brown showers and scrabble, she was one of the most popular writers in her Islington flat.</p> <p>Born in the middle of the swinging 60s to sometime licensed hangman and full time Pig stretcher Boris Humphries and his wife Air Vice Marshall Monty Thrupp, Lavinia showed promise as a writer and bothersome shite at an early age, when she wrote her first published piece ‘everyone knows Christine does it up the arse’ on a desk at St Benedict’s Catholic High School for Girls and Daughters of those in peril on the Serpentine in Wandsworth.</p> <p>Upon leaving the school, she was told to return as it had only been one day and there were another 13 years of education before university.</p> <p>And it was while at St Agnes College, Cambridge that she further developed her talent for literature. She read books and toilets walls, before seeing her thesis on graffiti and sexual insult published by Virago in 1982.</p> <p>Lavinia then embarked on a full time career in journalism, writing for the leading papers of the day until they told her to stop.</p> <p>It was in 1983 that she met Roger Nackswell, the newspaper editor who became her lover, husband, lover and finally plumber. They married in October 1984.</p> <p>But Lavinia’s vices, of which Roger had full knowledge due to his part-time job as copper’s nark, started to take their toll. Although she managed to conceal the worst ravages of her lifestyle for most of the 1990s, a disastrous appearance on Ready Steady Cook with Fern Britton in which she tried to snort flour and perform oral sex on Anthony Worrall-Thompson saw her suddenly disappear from the media spotlight.</p> <p>She re-appeared in late 2009, writing pithy advice columns for the leading satire website Newsbiscuit.</p> <p>On 21st February this year, she was discovered by her husband lying on the bathroom floor, with a bottle of Windolene and a needle in her arm.</p> <p>She leaves her husband and a collection antique breadcrumbs. </p>