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Thread: Circus: 2009 Ship Of Fools Celebrity Death Pool game thing
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Campbellite
Ut unum sint
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver,
JFK's baby sister, has died.
And founder of Special Olympics.
"She was a living prayer"
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I upped mine. Up yours.
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WTFWED?
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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I think I'm up to date with the scores. Sorry, EPR - life has been busyish...
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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I think I'm up to date with the scores. Sorry, EPR - life has been busyish...
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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Les Paul at the age of 94.
6 more for EPR, and Petrified makes it onto the board.
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East Price Road
Shipmate
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Originally posted by basso:
Les Paul at the age of 94.
6 more for EPR, and Petrified makes it onto the board.
Thanks Basso. I'm getting worried - I've now sent four people to their deaths!
![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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"Fishes stop and ask me where I'm bound." (Incredible String Band)
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Originally posted by basso:
Les Paul at the age of 94.
Good Lord! I had no idea he was still alive! He and Mary Ford contributed much to music. May he rest in peace. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Petrified
Ship’s ballast
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Originally posted by basso:
Les Paul at the age of 94.
6 more for EPR, and Petrified makes it onto the board.
Me having points this early has got to be a record.
When I saw the news my first thought was "yay, points at last" - every time someone famous dies the kids ask if I had them. ITTWACW.
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Campbellite
Ut unum sint
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Originally posted by East Price Road:
Thanks Basso. I'm getting worried - I've now sent four people to their deaths!
I wouldn't say that. You're more like the prophet preparing the way for them. ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
[ 17. August 2009, 20:30: Message edited by: Campbellite ]
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I upped mine. Up yours.
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WTFWED?
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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Originally posted by lady in red:
So I'd like to claim 65 points. What say our wise, sage and benevolent judges?
65 looks about right to me. I've added that score. I'm sure the real judges, who may qualify on one of those three counts, will be along shortly if we need a correction.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Ted Kennedy has passed.
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Organ Builder
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He was on my list, but for a change that was NOT the first thing I thought of when I heard the news.
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How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.--E.F. Benson
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Amazing Grace
High Church Protestant
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![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
May his memory always be a blessing.
Charlotte
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Organ Builder
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I was actually at a party with him (and about 500 other people) once.
When the Concert Hall at the Kennedy Center was re-done, there was a pre-opening gala for those involved in its refurbishment. After the concert, there was a party in one of the top-floor ballrooms. I had an invitation as one of those involved with the re-configuration of the Filene organ.
Both Sen. Kennedy and Newt Gingrich (then Speaker of the House) were at the party. They stood at opposite ends of the very long room--each near a bar. They each partook freely. It was very easy to approach Senator Kennedy and exchange a few words with him--and he was very gracious.
Newt was unapproachable, although as Speaker of the House that may have been because his security detail chose to make him that way.
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How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.--E.F. Benson
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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Originally posted by Amazing Grace:
May his memory always be a blessing.
Amen.
I've updated scores. Please check them - there were quite a few changes this time.
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Piglet
Islander
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I'm going to display some Olympic-standard stupidity here - how do we check scores? Is it just by going back to one's own posted list or are everybody's scores set out somewhere? I speak as someone who has played the game for a couple of years, but never knowingly scored any points - I must be as good an elixir of life as PeteC. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
The link to the score card was back on page 2 - my interest will become obvious when you check!
Thanks for that.
I did find it after rather a trawl, and like you, found the search worthwhile!
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East Price Road
Shipmate
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Ellie Greenwich is dead: co-writer of many of the all-time great pop songs running through our brains, from Da Doo Ron Ron to Leader Of The Pack.
RIP
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"Fishes stop and ask me where I'm bound." (Incredible String Band)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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As usual not a single point to me!
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Me, neither! Wiff Waff, I guess we are a blessing to those on our lists!
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ChaliceGirl
Shipmate
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I had Ted Kennedy on my list, but believe me, I'm not happy about it. I keep cryin like a baby at all the tributes on TV. Hitting me harder than I thought it would. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Piglet
Islander
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
Me, neither! Wiff Waff, I guess we are a blessing to those on our lists ...
... unlike Curiosity Killed, who seems to be a sort of kiss-of-death ...
BTW, thank you, CK, for the link to the score-board (not that I'm likely to appear on it).
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
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It's the first year I've scored anything, I'll have you know. The last couple of years I posted wish lists - President Mugabe et al; this year I posted a list of people who could do with the immortality granted by being on my death list - 'cept it didn't work.
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Jahlove
Tied to the mast
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Simon Dee
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“Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” - Mark Twain
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Jahlove
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Keith Waterhouse
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“Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” - Mark Twain
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jacobsen
seeker
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CAN ANYONE TELL ME IF WE ARE NOW PLAYING FOR 2010? ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Campbellite
Ut unum sint
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All in good time Jacobsen. Check the OP for this thread for details.
Death lists for 2010 will probably not start until the begining of December.
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Suffering for Jesus since 1966.
WTFWED?
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jacobsen
seeker
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Campbellite, I did read the OP and it didn't answer my question.
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Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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The answer is "no".
We are on 2009 now. In December a new thread will be started for making 2010 list entries. Players' ability to make 2010 entries will be ended more or less at 11:59PM Dec. 31, 2009 UK/Ship time. (There has been in the past some wiggle room for people unsure of UK/Ship time. Like us in CA who are sort of airheads to begin with.) But the 2010 thread will stay open throughout 2010 for that game.
After the end of 2009, final points will be tallied and a winner declared for the 2009 game thingy on the 2009 thread. The 2009 thread will be then closed sometime in January. All 2010 activity will be on the 2010 thread.
Makes sense?
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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jacobsen
seeker
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Thank you, Lyda Rose. All has been revealed..
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
After the end of 2009, final points will be tallied and a winner declared for the 2009 game thingy on the 2009 thread.
There should be a winner or six for the "kiss of life" prize! ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Patrick Swayze has died at age 57 from pancreatic cancer.
This may not be AS, but I'm adding one anyway:
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Poor man. He was quite a fighter of that horrid disease. He did some very good work in this past year.
[ 15. September 2009, 01:10: Message edited by: Lyda*Rose ]
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Trudy Scrumptious
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It's odd ... just this evening I used the phrase "Nobody puts Baby in a corner" and was shocked my husband didn't know what movie it came from ... which immediately led me to wonder if Patrick Swayze was dead yet. Then I heard the news. While glad for the points he has earned me, I'm sorry he's gone.
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Books and things.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Poor Patrick.
I finally got some points.
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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philip99a
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Keith Floyd, celeb chef and on-screen tippler, is at the pearly gates, glass of wine in hand.
Anyone spot that coming?
Anyone ever eat in his restaurant? I think it was in Devon and went bust eventually.
[ 15. September 2009, 08:21: Message edited by: philip99a ]
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We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time T. S. Elliot (Four Quartets)
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Petrified
Ship’s ballast
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"wine-fuelled flamboyance"
I love that - sometimes he was so flamboyant he could barely stand.
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Organ Builder
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My first thought when I heard about Patrick was "I think he's on my list..." ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) Then I was properly ashamed of myself. Then I thought "Hmmm.....43 points..."
This is the first year a place on my list hasn't been the kiss of life. I'll have to be more careful next year...
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Piglet
Islander
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I've just picked up my first 43 points (and lost my elixir-of-life status), and I rather wish I hadn't.
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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It's an odd feeling, playing this game.
Kelly and I saw '9' last weekend. As the credits ran, she said "I thought I recognized Christoper Plummer's voice. I wasn't sure he was still alive."
I said that I was pretty sure that he was, because if he'd died in the last few years, I'd probably have remembered it. She gave me a close relative of the look, and said, "Well, yes. You would, wouldn't you?"
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FreeJack
Shipmate
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I saw the two news stories today - and thought what a loss x2. Then I wonder who on the Death Pool got 78 points today.
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Joyeux
Ship's Lady of Laughter
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Yeah. My second response to hearing the news about Mr Swayze was "I bet that he was on several lists."
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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basso - we all have our roles to play on the ship. you are the angel of death.
it's okay. embrace it. we love you for it.
poor patrick, but the point boost is nice. I loved DD, but felt his more memorable roles were in Outsiders and Red Dawn.
I'll never forget lusting after the way that boy could DANCE.
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"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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He and Wesley Snipes were good in drag in To Wong Foo thanks for everything, Julie Newmar although the film wasn't a patch on Priscilla.
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Fancy a break in South India?
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Amazing Grace
High Church Protestant
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Comic actor Henry Gibson (most famous for "Laugh-In" back in the late sixties) died today.
I don't know if he was on any lists, but I wanted to commemorate his passing.
He was 73, which made me think "man, he was young when he did that series". (I was a lot younger when I watched it .
SOCK IT TO ME!
Charlotte
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