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killjoy

n. a person who takes the fun out of things for other people; a party-pooper. Don’t be such a killjoy!

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8722; KILLJOYS developed with the support of Bell Media's Writer Only Drama Development program −

Space Orders New Original Canadian Drama KILLJOYS

This isn't about being killjoys and snatching the pint glass out of their hands, it's about saying: "Look, you carry on drinking like that, and by the time you're 40 you might need a liver transplant and kidney dialysis.

All it takes is to drink in moderation; DAILY POST YOUR VOICE IN WALES

YOUR pompous correspondent, Keith Porteous Wood, considers Archbishop Vincent Nichols to be a killjoy (Letters, April 15).

Making a choice; YourSay

THAILAND'S top flight lost part of its soul last week when killjoy bosses forced colourful clubs to change their names.

Bang out of order; WORLD OF FOOTBALL

WITHOUT wishing to sound like a Christmas killjoy, how is it that householders, pensioners, businesses and the like are told to save electricity by turning down washing machine temperatures, buying energysaving light bulbs and to have energy-efficient certificates in these Home Improvement Packs which are now in force?

Letter: Mixed messages; Voice of the North

I am not a killjoy but have some consideration for older people please.

Letter: YOUR SHOUT - The firework misery starts

Killjoy rugby bosses put the dampeners on another Welsh Boxing Day tradition with a stern letter addressed to every club last week.

Rugby ruling threatens to knock traditional festive matches into touch

Taking on the role of desperate cartoonist Killjoy, who is foolishly working on Halloween eve, players must work through the three stories by midnight, negotiating perplexing puzzles, monstrous mazes and painful plot-twists.

Ignite ready to play in 1997 with launch of seven new PC games; Ignite's gaming label, Inscape, is targeting adventure, action and strategy games

But the killjoy brigade struck yesterday when they called off the event for health and safety reasons.

Swept up by nanny state; RecordView

KILLJOY Japan coach Takeshi Okada last week stopped three of his stars attending their coming of age party.

Party pooper; WORLD OF FOOTBALL

THERE will be plenty of people calling head teacher Carol Buchanan a killjoy.

Telegraph: Head teacher right to stand her ground; Comment

with some po-faced council killjoy trying to take 'em down.

BUSHELL ON THE BOX: SMALL joys of TV

I am not a killjoy but it is a race night not a pop concert.

Letter: Yousay - Kids' Night

Me, I would prefer candor from an offended Nguyen, Chan or Mohammad to pre-emptive PC censorship and its killjoy chilling effect on all communications.

WHAT KIND OF SOCIETY WILL LITIGIOUSNESS BUILD?

Then she has the effrontery to suggest that anyone who objects to this vandalism is a killjoy.