Graeme Wall wrote:
On 12/03/2014 17:09, Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:
Recliner wrote:

Many of those commuters are Telegraph readers. Here's its surprisingly
rapid obituary

They have the obituaries of suitably famous people ready and waiting for
years, they don't wait until someone actually croaks before writing them.

Yes, of course, but I didn't expect them to be so well prepared for a
52-year old.

Anyone can die young and also this allows the main incidents in their public
life to be recorded at the time.

It's like the Olympics - they have to prepare every single competiting
country's national anthem just in case an obscure country wins a gold medal
and it has to be played immediately - which happens more often than you'd
think.


Not unknown to play the wrong anthem at such times.

Didn't that happen in Glasgow in the 2012 Olympics? The DPRK women's
football team were not amused to see the South Korean flag:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18993023