The former Tory council leader, Andrew Johnson, not only lost power on Thursday but was also left consoling his wife, Shona, who also forfeited her seat.
Keane, meanwhile, missed the World Cup of his peak years, though was left to console himself with a rich linguistic legacy: "Saipan, verb.
Thomas, who had been visiting the family, is quickly dispatched back to the cathedral, while Alexander is left to console himself in the arms of the comely Melissa (Ivy Vahanian), daughter of his sister's governess and a poor family relation.
Sam Allardyce would have chosen a more salubrious way to celebrate managing 1,000 games in English football, but was left to console himself with the knowledge that things should have been even worse.
While Sony claimed at E3 to have clearly left its console competition in the dust, it appears to still be looking into the rearview mirror for inspiration as it plots its future.
And when the graphics are physically unable to get any better (nothing that I saw of PS4 looked meaningfully different to anything that the PS3 can already output) and controller innovation seems to have hit the skids, there's really only two vectors left for console platforms to compete.
The Iranian team, led by Mohammad Javad Larijani, head of the Iranian Judiciary's human rights council, was left to console itself with 5 nay votes and 20 abstentions.
Microsoft claims that no personal details leave the console to be stored in the cloud without explicit permission, and has assured us privacy is taken very seriously.
I remember (back in the days before save games) having to leave my console turned on for days as I made my way through every level.
