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Pedro67 just was not wrong To pick Derek Walcott Yes, he's gone. Points!

Yeah he has another job which he earns shitloads for a few hours a month too, and his MP salary. Some folk make millions out of failure.

John Backus, the man behind the development of FORTRAN, and developer of Backus-Naur Form, died 10 years ago today, aged 82. STOP END

I know you know this, but in case anyone else doesn't, it's an alarm button you wear round your neck or on your wrist linked to a phone line so if you have a fall or need help you press your button and it dials a contact centre who can despatch help. You can also have buttons that have sensors in them so if you fall and knock yourself out the button senses the fall and dials them automatically. There is all sorts of gadgetry that can be linked to them - speakers and timers and sensor mats and pressure pads so if confused Doris gets out of bed at night and doesn't return within a specified time the centre is automatically alerted and they would then speak to her through her speakers to check if she was ok. Door sensors so if the front door is opened and not closed after a time the contact centre would be alerted just in case Doris has wandered off down the road. Some really good technology going on for the safety of our elderly folk. You should try it LFN!

So, thinking about it seriously, something like "Silent Sorrows in Empty Boats" by Gabriel-era Genesis would probably receive a tick: 1. As per the article's guidelines, it is an instrumental. 2. It has an ethereal quality (it is basically a precursor to New Age music). So it is the relatively sombre, chill out music they are looking for. 3. It has an appropriate title. 4. It ends on a serene note. One can almost imagine Her Majesty on her final barge journey over the River Styx accompanied by its strains. On the same Peter Gabriel note, probably one of the tracks from his "Last Temptation of Christ" soundtrack would also work, such as "The Feeling Begins". It is another instrumental with a sombre sound. That's my two cents' worth.

Am I the only one who hates Saint Patrick's Day? At least the way Americans celebrate it. It's so fucking childish. Tee-hee-hee leprechauns and clovers and wearing green and pots of gold. Tee-hee-hee "luck" of the Irish even though they all died in a potato famine. I hate to defend the country that brought us Catherine Nevin and Morbidkid, but it's so frustruating that all that these people know about Ireland is fucking ginger-bearded magic-dwarves. And the fucking "Oh, I'm Irish cause my great-grand-pawpaw was" types are the worst.

That backs up the rumours I'd heard. So, Stage IV cancer. Ouch. The metastasis could be minor, and it sounds like it's been spotted fairly quickly, but once cancer starts spreading... At least it hasn't spread to his pancreas. Yet. When he dies, and it sounds pretty grim all round to be honest, France is going to go into meltdown, isn't It? *makes mental note not to go on a day trip in that week* Will probably be the biggest death since De Gaulle (yes, even bigger than Mitterrand and Claude Francois).

5 years since the death of John Demjanjuk, aged 91.

Given Trump's current estrangement from the truth if he announced his own terminal illness would it make people more or less likely to pick him in a dead pool?

Ah, yes Two legs good three legs better

That also extends maryport's lead.

1992 Literature Laureate Derek Walcott has reportedly died. http://stluciastar.com/derek-walcott-dead/ Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott

2 out of 5 with Surtees and Hodgkin. Thomas, Woodruff and Sledge the others.

Meantime David Cameron (remember him?) says he won the General Election fair and square. No, you constituency-abandoning chump, you thought that creative accounting would allow you to spend more in constituencies than was permitted by law. It's like tax avoidance for the electoral system. Theresa (remember her?) is on her feet and ahead of the local elections announces she has "plans" to sort out high energy bills which will be revealed "very soon". Why not now? "Give me your vote in the local elections and we'll sort out capitalism and monopoly, promise" wouldn't cut it for me. Still awaiting her so called demolition of Scottish Independence...

No useful ones like "people recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer but not yet dead"...

A few of my own "great-grand-pawpaws" did come from Ireland, but I agree, it's weird to base your heritage on stuff which happened 100 years ago (or more) in a country you never visit, in most of these cases! I'm only Scottish. Folk should just be honest and say they like St Pats because it gives them a chance to be drunk as they believe in stereotyping nations. Mind you, probably just as well it's only the drinking stereotype they pick to emulate... From experience, people mostly use it as an opportunity to get drunk. In other words, in America, it's considered St Patricks Day, but in Glasgow, it was Friday.

My picks would be nearly identical to YW, so I'll just cheat instead and say "Surtees, Casey, plus 3 archive ones of people no one has ever heard of before..."

Jermaine Stewart stopped singing on this day 20 years ago, aged 39.

30 years since Santo Trafficante went swimming with the fishes, aged 72.

My guess is Surtees, Forgeham, Hodgkin, Casey and Rubinger.

I can't tell you the amount of times I've been pinched on St Patrick's Day...

You can't say I never update this. mpfc 8 managers (Nikki Bull, Russel Slade, Andy Edwards, Graham Westley, Paul Philips, Alex Neil, Craig Hignett, Owen Coyle) chopped liver 5 (Warren Joyce, Graham Westley, Paul Philips, Steve Burr, Brian Reid) rockhopper 5 managers (Russel Slade, Steve Burr, Graham Westley, Gary Locke. Owen Coyle) ***msc 5 managers (Russel Slade, Graham Westley, Andy Edwards, Mark Warburton, Owen Coyle) Switch 3 managers (Lee Clark, Aitor Karanka, Owen Coyle) *** - disqualified due to under-strength team of 18 players.

Spectre of Election re-runs after Electoral Commission fine the Tories for accounting irregularities. On a side note, £70,000 fine? What incentive is that to a political party worth millions to stop effectively rigging elections in certain areas? Anyway, look forward to the named and shamed MPs being put to the vote.

Bit unfair on a dying man to suggest he meets the British PM, really.

Her mother drank like an actor, and lived to 102.