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This is a case for Columbo. "Just one more thing, Mr Van Arsehole..."

Controversial political point, there.

Kobayashi died last month too, so yer down to 10.

It is a multi-use word. Beyond the sexual dimensions, it can an explicit way of saying "doomed", or an OTT way of saying "very very very drunk". It can also punctuate normal conversation and be used as an adjective: see any Quentin Tarantino film. Here, Mr Capotelli is fucked in the "drowning man surrounded by sharks" way. And not in any of the more enjoyable ways.

Diagnosis: Fucked.

No, it was the stuntman's fall.

There was skepticism about Atkins pulling a "i'm so sick, let me out of jail" con till she did in October, iirc. If you were looking back at 2010, Simon Maccorkingdale was widely considered a "2011 cert, but too risky to leave off" for several DDP teams. But it happens all the time. "This person is totally living into Year X...oh wait, they've just died..."

One of those names spoke to my best friend a week before they died, and apparently you'd have thought they might have a month or two left from their energy and spirit. I've also had Hogmanay drinks with someone in end stage terminal cancer - didn't know at the time. Gone within a fortnight of it. So yeah, you never know.

Aye. Friend got terminal diagnosis in 2007. He's still going, in his 80s, and very cheery. Nothing's set in stone, we're all reliant on luck, flukes and general life vagaries. Shaun, likely does not equal definite, and there's no point worrying over something which might never happen. Cross the bridge if you get to it, I say.

Defeated 261-213 in the final round of voting by Rob Halfon.

He had the most American sports executive sounding name in the world.

Oh, now that's a shame. Old friend of mums.

1. Jenn Blake 2. Jason Busby 3. Gord Downie 4. Rayya Elias 5. Vanessa Greene 6. Anna Holmlund 7. Matt Hirst 8. Caroline Laws 9. Catherine Nevin 10. Simon Ricketts All but Number 6 will gone inside 2 years. Number 6 will outlive me.

Fate worse than death - she looks like an old Ann Widdecombe!

Darwin Award wannabe.

Trying to make Spade's first hours on the job at DDP HQ that more difficult?

From what I can gather sans a copy to hand, Bruce Welch says Cliff has lost a lot of weight since the sex accusations and looks "worryingly thin and frail".

Mandoza. I'm just going to assume that he was a cert on you and Spade's teams, and thus only a 10 pointer... November/December is the graveyard of smart "could have been" DDP picks. April/May is the graveyard of foolish picks.

Virginia Wade spotted in the crowd at Wimbledon looking surprisingly old. 72, though.

I'm very patient. 11th July or 31st December (2017) is the same in DDP points terms.

As a final update, I asked. They have no idea.

Cleggy. No wait, he's dead. Well, Sallis is. The other is just career dead.

It's a bit like that Penny Falls game. So many potential winners hanging just on the edge. Before long, gravity has to appeal to one of them.

Well, one causes intense pain, hearing issues, makes one highly contagious to the touch, and the other's ebola.