On Sat, 28 Jan 2012, Tony Duell wrote:
  I am fond of pointing out that if the so-called
'celebrities' (pop stars,
 footballers, etc) all vanished overnight then life would go on much the
 same. If all the dustment disappeeared overnight, there would be major
 helth problems in a couple of weeks. So which is acutally more valuable? 
 " . . . until they were all suddenly wiped out by a virulent disease
 contracted from a dirty telephone."  (demise of Golgafrincham, where they
 got rid of the useless third of society - HHGTTG by Doglas Adams) 
And so we've come back to the B Ark again. :-)
- Dave