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Thread: Circus: 2008 Ship of Fools Celebrity Death Pool
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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The great thing about that story ( here on the BBC was the question she was apparently asked "Do I look like I'm dying?" In this picture, the answer is yes.
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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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Organ Builder
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She's probably not going to change the standings much--so many of us have her on our lists.
"Do I look like I'm dying?" is one of those questions that shouldn't be asked--like "How old do you THINK I am?"
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by LQ:
Liz Taylor is a dame?
Yup, DBE (Dame of the Order of the British Empire), awarded 1999 according to Wikipedia.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
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Originally posted by LQ:
Liz Taylor is a dame?
Yup, DBE (Dame of the Order of the British Empire), awarded 1999 according to Wikipedia.
I think it is only an honorary title as she is currently a US citizen, albeit British born.
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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Originally posted by LQ:
Liz Taylor is a dame?
You thought she was a man? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
British honours can be awarded to anyone, but you have to be a British citizen to use the title ( but not the letters ).
So she is Liz Taylor, DBE, but she is not Dame Liz Taylor. Wheras Evelyn Glennie* is both Evelyn Glennie DBE and Dame Evelyn Glennie.
*First sensible hit with Google on Dame.
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Knopwood
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
British honours can be awarded to anyone, but you have to be a British citizen to use the title ( but not the letters ).
So that's the Mail's flub then.
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Organ Builder
Shipmate
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Originally posted by Gwai:
Alas!!
The world is the worse for his loss. God keep him.
I'm afraid I didn't realize he was still alive...
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marmot
Mountain mammal
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Originally posted by Organ Builder:
She's probably not going to change the standings much--so many of us have her on our lists.
Hey, I'd still be happy to get on the board this year, just to prove my choice of Anna Nicole wasn't a fluke.
Love Liz's publicists comment: "...At present, she is surrounded by family, friends and fabulous jewels."
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Mad Geo
Ship's navel gazer
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Bernie Mac. RIP.
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The5thMary
Shipmate
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
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Originally posted by LQ:
Liz Taylor is a dame?
You thought she was a man?
British honours can be awarded to anyone, but you have to be a British citizen to use the title ( but not the letters ).
So she is Liz Taylor, DBE, but she is not Dame Liz Taylor. Wheras Evelyn Glennie* is both Evelyn Glennie DBE and Dame Evelyn Glennie.
*First sensible hit with Google on Dame.
This just in: Evelyn Glennie RULES!!!!!!!! She rules, I tell you!
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The5thMary
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Originally posted by PeteCanada:
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
Ivan Dixon of the TV show Hogan's Heroes.
![[Frown]](frown.gif) I loved Hogan's Heroes
Are you serious? That wretched show? Ohhh, it's so amusing to laugh about those wacky, bumbling Nazis! I liked the theme music, that was it.
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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Originally posted by Zappa:
I presume someone's got Paul Newman lined up
Surprisingly, no. He might be one of the good guys that noone wanted to pick. (Not that that's stopped some shipmates...)
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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The great soul man Isaac Hayes was just found dead. He was 65.
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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
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Very few points but definitely worth marking is the death at 91 of Leo Abse.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Very few points but definitely worth marking is the death at 91 of Leo Abse.
I was very sad to read that last night, he was a great man and I wonder if the gay men in UK younger than me realise how much they owe to his courage.
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Uriel
Shipmate
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Just to report a few from my own list.
Arbella Ewing died on 22nd March, aged 114.
Tsuneyo_Toyonaga died on 22nd February, aged 113.
Clementine Solignac died on 25th May, aged 113.
So that's -40 points to me, and three for the "quantity not quality" award.
Cheers,
Uriel.
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Timothy the Obscure
Mostly Friendly
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Jerry Wexler, August 15th, at 91. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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This one tops the irony list: Dave Freeman, author of "100 Things to do before you die" was killed in a fall in his home earlier this week, at age 47.
[ 26. August 2008, 21:50: Message edited by: Mamacita ]
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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As announced by Ags on the Mornington Crescent thread....
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Soror Magna
Shipmate
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Ernest Borgnine is on my list, and he's taunting me:
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Borgnine: 'Acting Keeps Me Alive'
22 August 2008 1:29 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Movie veteran Ernest Borgnine refuses to retire from movies, claiming acting has helped him live to the age of 91.
The Oscar winner is still as busy as ever and has three new films out in 2008.
And Borgnine claims some of his late contemporaries may still be alive if they'd carried on working. ...
OliviaG
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philip99a
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Originally posted by Chorister:
As announced by Ags on the Mornington Crescent thread....
And another Ken Campbell. I knew him quite well for a while, long ago. And saw lots of his shows (including the excellent 24hr The Warp at the ICA, the obit says 22hr but I think that's wrong) A lovely man, manic, a great entertainer; the world is a much poorer place without him. RIP indeed
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Jahlove
Tied to the mast
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Pink Floyd's Richard Wright
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Soror Magna
Shipmate
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CBC Radio has just announced the death of Paul Newman; there's a banner headline on the CNN website. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif) OliviaG
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Yes, at age 83. Sigh. Those gorgeous blue eyes...
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Very sad, he was a great actor - and really dishy with it ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
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Austrian neo-Nazi Jorge Haider has died in a road accident.
42 points to anyone who nominated him.
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kentishmaid
Shipmate
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Levi Stubbs of The Four Tops has died.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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I'd love to know what he'll be wearing for the viewing.
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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
I'd love to know what he'll be wearing for the viewing.
A light walnut outfit, well polished and lined in red velvet with brass accessories.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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I so much enjoyed his stories. I'll miss reading new ones.
RIP
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Bullfrog.
Prophetic Amphibian
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Studs Terkel.
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Others say God's a drunkard for pain
Me, I believe that the Garden of Eden
Was burned to make way for a train. --Josh Ritter, Harrisburg
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ken
Ship's Roundhead
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Now we'll know what the angels really think.
Bye bye Studs,
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Originally posted by Bullfrog.:
Studs Terkel.
The end of an era. Rest in peace, Studs.
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kentishmaid
Shipmate
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Author Michael Crichton has just died of cancer. I certainly enjoyed Jurassic Park better in the book rather than the film version.
Don't recall seeing him on anyone's list, though.
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Mad Geo
Ship's navel gazer
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Holy CRAP. That's a shame.
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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Originally posted by Celtic Knotweed:
Just spotted on the BBC - Sydney Maurice Lucas, one of the last UK WW1 veterans has died. (Yes I know he was now an Australian, but he was British in WW1).
Only 108, so I guess he wasn't old enough for Uriel's list.
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Organ Builder
Shipmate
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I suppose it is time to start thinking about who will snuff it in 2009. Although most of my present list remains hale and hearty...
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Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
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think about it all you like - the new thread won't open until mid-December
Wet Kipper
Circus Host
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