Dead, dead, dead - someday you'll be dead

And apparently there has been a much higher death toll amongst the big names than I had realised. I knew about the big ones like Arthur C Clarke and Heath Ledger, but I had missed Michael Crichton, Anthony Minghella, Levi Stubbs (aka Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors) and Geoffrey Perkins. Geoffrey Perkins? Who will carry the HHGTTG candle now that the two great powers behind it are gone!? Where will the new Mornington Crescent be birthed? And who will Michael Moore vilify in the absence of Charleton Heston? Dead in 2008.

Captives

According to Wikipedia, "...Father Christmas was bought by the Coca-Cola company. He remains their prisoner." I just lolled all over my desk.

The accursed 'Credit Crunch' made sense of

I'm so pleased to finally see a clear explanation of where it all went wrong! http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/newcapitalism.pdf