Farewell Folks!
Those we’ll miss (and some we won’t) who passed away during 2011.
Elizabeth Taylor
‘The Most Beautiful Girl in the World’ left some serious jewellery in her will to her Aids charity. After it was sold on Ebay, it raised enough to buy every man on the planet a condom.
Peter Falk (Columbo)
The annoying detective with the mucky raincoat, best known for overly complicated plots best resigned to Daytime Living channels.
Sir Jimmy Saville
Did lots and lots for charity whilst jangling jewellery and riding a bike in Spandex. They don’t make ‘em like this anymore. Great bloke.
Colonel Gaddafi
Got caught up a drainpipe and said to the fella who found him “what did I ever do to you?”. “Have some gold bullion” might have been a better thing to say given the circumstances
Steve Jobs
MegaGeek without whom most of you wouldn’t be viewing this. Changed the world.
Kim Jong-il
After being given a girly name, then a hairstyle to match, set about building the biggest toy soldier set ever seen. I am crying writing this. Its orders.
Amy Winehouse
Thirstier than a V8 Range Rover but a brilliant singer. I would have been narked though if I’d have paid £30 to see her, she stumbled on in heels, drank wine, sung half a song and went off again.
Dr Harry Coover
Inventor of Super Glue. Died peacefully in his sleep. So I won’t say he came to a ‘sticky end’. Oh duh, I just did.
Cheetah (Tarzan’s Monkey)
Loved watching football and fingerprinting apparently. So he never wanted to be an actor, he always wanted to be a ‘policechimp’ then.
Betty Ford
Set up a clinic to help sustance abuse. It obviously worked for her as she was the grand old age of 93 when the curtain came down.
Knut
The famous Berlin polar bear. Famous if only to have the worst anagram name in the animal kingdom. Bad enough being confined to a zoo, lots of visitors shouting “there’s that Knut over there” must have really made him think the Arctic Circle was a much better place.
