I think this is wilfull bubble living. I have a television but it's not connected to any sort of service, it can only play DVDs. I don't trouble with the local rags so I never really know when iced hockey peters outs and the Superbowl leaguey thing starts but even I've seen The Sopranos and The Wire. I know who Phil and Kirstie were and who Charlie Sheen is. Surely even the minimal communication with the natives requires passing acquaintance with the cultural icons of the age.

How can you live without knowing Tony's reaction to the proposal that he have a prostrate exam?

Not looking good for Nelson. Good for anyone who has him though.

Manfred von Richtofen got a lot of his kills on poorly defended observer aircraft but they all counted. I think it demonstrates the innate worthlesness of 'points'. But then again I don't care. If some miracle killed my spoiler I'd feel responsible, I'm supposed to use these powers for good. In some cases this is black humour, satire, and a memorial, all depends who the celebrity is. Whatever you want to make of it.

Looks like I'll be making it onto the scoreboard quite soon.

Mandela

Prince Philip

Mubarak ( old Egyptian pres)

Gadaffi' son - wotshisface, you know, thingy.

Are these picks? Not to be picky but you need five and to specify one as a joker. Also which of Gaddaffi's sons do you mean? I'm fairly sure that he has more than one...

RIP Mick Aston off Time Team, you know the prof with the wild white hair and the dodgy hand knitted jumpers. Only 66.

Bonnie Langford

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23180456

Clive James, please, and make Mandela my joker, ta.

Oh I say, that's a little unsporting. Choosing minor celebrities with acknowledged terminal diseases is a little like pickling your conkers in vinegar, don't you think? Not strictly against the rules, but not quite the done thing...

Unsporting? It's a death pool.

As for "minor", if the BBC reports his death, and it is in itself an unremarkable death, then he's as much a celebrity as any other reported dead person.

Clive James a minor celeb?! For goodness sake my husband knows who James is, how minor can that be?

Bloody ambulance chasers, the lot of us!

I remember watching Clive James when he had funny guests on.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit...tte-Nolan.html


Bernadette Nolan, which is sad as she doesn't seem to have done anyone any harm.

Ahem, post 324.