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£6.89? Are you a) A light smoker? b )Stupidly Rich? c) Stupid?

no I won't

The Mayan-forecast 'end of the world' is due tomorrow. The Guardian has produced a video explaining the prediction. This is part 1. Rather disconcertingly, there is no part 2.

So far, so good!

Kruger, internationally too - he starred in "Flight of the Phoenix" (the original, with Stewart, Borginine, Attenbroough et al).His health appears robust though. Indeed. He was also weel known for A Bridge Too Far and The Wild Geese, but IMDb shows nothing for this year.

Faces Court-Martial, possible execution. No date set yet.

Really?

No, that set of pitchforks are for Bush and Cheney, Obama and Hilary. The ones for Chavez and Castro are in the other corner. In which case what weapon of torture would Margaret Thatcher require? All of them. Just to be sure.

Sorry, not very enigmatic.

Will any of these people get a UK obit ? Its not for sure Depends on what you call an obit. I'd say they're all nailed on for something like BBC coverage and/or at least a paragraph in the national press. Some - Glenn, Whitlam, O'Neal, Tyler-Moore - are definites for proper broadsheet obits. I'd be surprised by any of these not getting a bona-fide broadsheet obit, with maybe Rockefeller being the outsider.

Sir Humphrey Potts, the man who sent Lord Archer down, has died aged 81.

As another simple European, I agree that this makes sense; however, read this and note the comments of Mr Durkheimer, the gunshop owner. Read also some of the comments BTL, That might give you some sense of what gun-control campaigners are up against.

He is dead... No he isn't Mind you, that's from a Russian News source and they're claiming he's just tired.

My approach is take last year's list, resubmit it. One day this approach will pay off!

Hugh Laurie invented the ear implant?

Nice to hear. Restores your faith in humanity somewhat.

Thatcher or Mugabe

Nevermind.

Catch a train.

Guy Hamilton was on the Richard Hamster Top Gear James Bond 50th anniversary Cars special not so long back. He looked OK for 90.

I'm aiming for 2000 by the end of the year.

Reinhold Weege, creator of Night Court has died of natural causes at age 63.

Zsa Zsa's back in hospital;.Its just an infection around her feeding tube. Her ever-loving husband is quoted as saying

Chavez will be missing from the Mercosur trade summit in Brasilia tomorrow, heightening speculation about his health.

John has suffered a heart attack after he was arrested by Guatemalan authorities. http://abcn.ws/VKfAwl There's no mention of it in his blog, nor by the BBC. He does appear to rule out suicide though,