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Thread: Circus: 2008 Ship of Fools Celebrity Death Pool
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Mad Geo
Ship's navel gazer
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Damn, it was just a seizure.
On the other hand, the (accidental) link I provided actually did sum up my sentiments at the time in a picture!
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
Excuse me, I'm crying I'm laughing so hard now.....
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Beautiful Dreamer
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Ted Kennedy isn't human, he's a cyborg. He's been so accident-prone (a plane crash?) that anyone else would have been gone a long time ago. But then again, all that alcohol probably has him pickled and preserved pretty well....
Wiki article
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More where that came from
Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!
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The Blessed Pangolin
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True story.... some years ago, there had been a spate of celebrity passings. I was in my local, chatting with the owner, and he started joking about starting a death pool. I thought it was amusing, in a morbid sort of way. The idea took off like a rocket, but I felt that there was some bad juju about this. It was very popular, and the pool was getting pretty rich. It was won by one of the popular regulars, an old newspaper man (ironically, who wrote obituaries at one point in his career), who chose Robert Stanfield (leader of the Progressive Conservatives in Canada in the 1970s). Unfortunately, he had a stroke about a month or two after he won the pool, and was never quite whole after that. He succumbed to cancer last autumn. Bad juju, indeed.
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Knopwood
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How did Bob Stanfield pass on - underwear too tight? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Mad Geo
Ship's navel gazer
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quote:
Originally posted by LQ:
quote:
Originally posted by Mad Geo:
Damn, it was just a seizure.
It's a brain tumour.
Jerk. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
15 months, baby.
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Diax's Rake - "Never believe a thing simply because you want it to be true"
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Campbellite
Ut unum sint
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Admit it, MadgeO, your gonna miss him when he's gone.
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I upped mine. Up yours.
Suffering for Jesus since 1966.
WTFWED?
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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Margot Boyd (Marjorie Antrobus in "The Archers") has died, aged 94.
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Queen Mousie
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Dick Martin from Rowen & Martin's Laugh In died, he was 86.
Anyone have him on their list?
QM
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Sidney Pollack is dead at age 73. I have an urge to go rent "Tootsie" and watch that hilarious scene in the booth at the Russian Tea Room.
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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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Sandemaniac
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Beryl Cook, painter of jolly large ladies (punctuate that as you will), will paint no more.
AG
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Mad Geo
Ship's navel gazer
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Fashionista
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the pilgrim
Ship's Brownist
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Comedian Harvey Korman is gone. I loved him in the Carrol Burnett show, and all those silly comedy movies like Blazing Saddles.
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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"That's Hedley!"
Korman was a brilliant comic actor, and he will be missed.
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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He was quite the Man.
Rats.
Bo Diddley died today. 21 points if anyone had him.
my favorite quote from the obit: ''A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun.''
I have no idea what it means, but I love it.
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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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Mad Geo
Ship's navel gazer
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Bo No Mo.
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MrSponge2U
Ship’s scrub
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Jim McKay, host of Wide World of Sports and for the Olympics for many years, died over the weekend. He was a true class act.
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sig? what sig?
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Uriel
Shipmate
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One of my selections is still going strong. I hope his inclusion on my list adds to his longevity.
Cheers,
Uriel.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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quote:
Originally posted by the pilgrim:
Comedian Harvey Korman is gone. I loved him in the Carrol Burnett show, and all those silly comedy movies like Blazing Saddles.
![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
We were just discussing him recently on the movie quotes thread!
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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The great journalist Tim Russert has died of a heart attack this afternoon at the age of just 58. He collapsed in his office at NBC news.
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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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Mad Geo
Ship's navel gazer
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Damn, you beat me by 8 minutes or so!
58. Wow.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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RIP ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
He's going to be sorely missed, especially during the rest of the campaign season.
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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Cyd Charisse, at 87.
13 points for footdoc and RuthW.
(edited duff link)
[ 19. June 2008, 19:41: Message edited by: Chorister ]
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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George Carlin. ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
29 points if anyone had him.
He was great.
(and it's good to see you aboard again, LATA. missed you.)
[ 23. June 2008, 06:53: Message edited by: comet ]
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Evil Dragon Lady, Breaker of Men's Constitutions
"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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Mad Geo
Ship's navel gazer
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Damn. We saw his last tour and he was sure dark humor after the passing of his wife. I wonder if he wasn't glad to go.....
bummer though.
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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I have to agree with MadGeo. Carlin had seemed to be a very angry, bitter man for the last several years. Still a genius though.
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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This quote of Carlin's (thanks, Gort) sheds some light on my last comment:
quote:
"Inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist."
More discussion of George Carlin over in
All Saints.
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Knopwood
Shipmate
# 11596
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Anyone get 14 points for Jesse Helms?
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Scarlet
Mellon Collie
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quote:
Originally posted by Scarlett:
My list for 2008:
8. Jesse Helms (notorious former NC Senator)
Yes, I did! Finally! He's been on my list every year. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
I'll gladly take those 14 points.
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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Step away from the ship for a day and poof! - somebody on the deathpool list dies. [1]
I think Scarlet was the only one who had Jesse.
[1] I'm now taking bribes to be missing more frequently. (The line forms on the right.)
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Campbellite
Ut unum sint
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Has anybody done a mid year summary? I think I am 0-13 so far. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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I upped mine. Up yours.
Suffering for Jesus since 1966.
WTFWED?
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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The scorecard is here.
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Tony Snow has finally succumbed to colon cancer at age 53. (Former Bush White House Press Secretary and prior to that a commentator at Fox News.)
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Organ Builder
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Mamacita:
Tony Snow has finally succumbed to colon cancer at age 53. (Former Bush White House Press Secretary and prior to that a commentator at Fox News.)
I blame myself. He almost made my list, but I cut him at the last minute. If he had been on my list he would still be alive and healthy.
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Organ Builder
Shipmate
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Estelle Getty at the age of 84.
16 points--and the first one from my list. I guess I'm not the Kiss of Life after all.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Congratulations on your points!
I liked Golden Girls and watched it with captions well into syndication, Never needed captions for Sophia though, she came through clear as a bell.
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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quote:
Originally posted by basso:
Step away from the ship for a day and poof! - somebody on the deathpool list dies.
I'm now taking bribes to be missing more frequently. (The line forms on the right.)
It happened again - I was afk again yesterday and another one bit the dust...
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
# 10422
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I'm betting if you go again, that Blessed Margaret of Thatcher will pop her clogs.
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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
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Jo Stafford, big band and popular singer of the forties and fifties, has died aged 90.
I don't think anyone had nominated her, but it's well worth remembering a voice like that.
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kentishmaid
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quote:
Originally posted by PeteC:
I'm betting if you go again, that Blessed Margaret of Thatcher will pop her clogs.
Betting? Or hoping? ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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Petrified
Ship’s ballast
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As previously, inclusion in my list has guaranteed another year of perfect health.
Places will be available for purchase later in the year.
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At this time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock.
SoF a "prick against Bigotterie"
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Organ Builder
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Petrified:
As previously, inclusion in my list has guaranteed another year of perfect health.
Places will be available for purchase later in the year.
Well, I had thought the same. The year isn't over yet--and the one who gave me points is one I will miss.
I think the real money would want to pay to stay OFF Cusanus' list...
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marmot
Mountain mammal
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RIP Randy Pausch of the Last Lecture.
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Sioni Sais
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quote:
Originally posted by Trudy Scrumptious:
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Originally posted by Mad Geo:
She's not dead yet, but I wish I had her on my list.
I think you'll find debauched young celebrities are my speciality, although I always seem to miss the one who actually dies.
Trudy, it's like shooting into a flock of starlings. You're going to hit something, but it won't be the starling you aimed at.
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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Shes on my list. But then I would feel ill having eaten a KFC.
![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
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Lord may all my hard times be healing times
take out this broken heart and renew my mind.
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