Last July, social gaming startup Kixeye made what has to be the weirdest recruitment video in history, where thinly veiled stand ins depicted EA as a senile coot, Kabam as a soulless formulaic machine, and Zynga as a psychopathic child.

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No bills of any importance will also be accomplished in the Senate, with a senile old man called Harry Reid of Nevada.

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The man who is legendarily hands on and runs a global empire that, he said, employs 53, 000 people (of which the News of the World represented one percent, he pointed out) is surely not a senile old dodderer who was blissfully aware that dark arts being practice by his journalists.

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The chemical is used as the starting point for other drugs, including nicergoline, a treatment for senile dementia.

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The coup was medical: on November 6th 1987, the prime minister, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, gathered a council of seven doctors who pronounced Mr Bourguiba senile and incompetent.

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In his first political campaign for a seat as a circuit county judge, McCarthy published campaign literature falsely claiming that his opponent was 73, senile and guilty of financial corruption despite knowing that the gentleman was 66, in full control of his mental faculties and had never done anything that had so much as a whiff of corruption.

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This raises problems for pensions (Japan has a pay-as-you-go system) and health care (the number of people with senile dementia is set to reach 2.6m in 2015, up from 1m in 1990).

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Herbert Molderings, a German art historian, believes that the provenance given at the time of sale was questionable: the collection, made by a Nazi businessman, was left to his widow, only to disappear from her estate after she became senile.

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