TheFunkyPhantom

I don't think 17 can be topped without going out on a limb with some daring débutante choices. The 2017 DL had too many die hards on it whose time is still many years off: hurrah!

I saw a woman yesterday in the local co-op wearing trousers. You just never can tell.It's everywhere

I'm going to go with an obvious one: Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah of Kuwait.

Dying at home for Christmas,surely?

My top 10,pop-pickers,are: 1) Hans Adam-(king of Lichtenstein. That one) 2) Jerry Lee Lewis 3) Norman Tebbit 4) Tom Wolfe 5) Ken Doddy 6) Benny from Crossroads 7) Colin Baker 8) Jeremy Clarkson 9) Francis Ford Coppola 10)Melvyn Hayes

DJ and pauper

Ken Livingstone; Chris Evans; Jeremy Clarkson One or two of the above may be suicides.

I think there will be no better predictor of Mortal Coil Shuffling in 2018 than the seer like divinations of the dear old Honours Committee.They've regaled us with a string of recent appointments of personages who,one feels,were mischievously choosen simply because they're not likely honestly to be around all that long to enjoy the swank that comes from their new found gongery. I don't want to be cruel,but some of them are being held up by the power of prayer alone. I mean,literally :-( I won't name names, I think the clues are there for all to see. On a brighter note: Gary Glitter looks like he might be finally giving up the ghost in 2018;thus taking the much prized Ian Brady memorial slot on the List.