Ship of Fools: Circus: 2012 Celebrity Death Pool

Thread closed

Printer-friendly view

»	Ship of Fools » Ship's Locker » Limbo » Circus: 2012 Celebrity Death Pool (Page 1)

Email this page to a friend or enemy.

Pages in this thread: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Source: (consider it)

Thread: Circus: 2012 Celebrity Death Pool

Imaginary Friend

Real to you
# 186

Posted

2011 was a good year for celebrity deaths: Dictators, rock stars, and actors; those loved, hated, and tolerated; the old, young, and in-between. The question is, is there any way that 2012 can top it? Well, let's find out: I am pleased to announce the 2012 Ship of Fools Celebrity Death Pool.

This OP is largely the same as last year, so if you're an old hand at this game there won't be any surprises. If you've not partaken of this seasonal delight in the past, then please read the introduction and rules below.

For the uninitiated, the gist of it is that you have to pick who is going to die in the next calendar year. If one of your choices does pop their clogs, you are awarded points as explained below. The winner is the person with the most points. The deadline for posting your list is the end of this year (which we shall take to be 23.59 EST on December 31st, 2011) and if you miss this deadline you will not be able to take any further part.

So, have fun, think carefully, and read the rules below!

You must pick 13 well-known people whom you think will shuffle off this mortal coil in 2012. That is, starting from 00.01 EST on January 1st 2012 and ending at 23.59 EST on December 31st 2012.
The definition of well-known is that their deaths will be reported by at least one major news outlet. Examples outlets include (but are not limited to) The Guardian, CNN, IMDB, Al Jezeera, or the Church Times(!).
All selections must be real people: No fictional characters, please.
Points are awarded according to the following formula: 100 minus the celebrity's age at the time of death. For example, if the person you choose dies at the age of 67, you will earn 33 points.
You earn 50 bonus points if the death occurs in such a way as to clearly prove the existence of God (for example, if some doofus dies from burns after trying to torch a church).
You cannot choose anyone under the age of 18.
You can choose an inmate scheduled to be executed, but you only earn points if the person dies by some means other than the state-sponsored execution. For example, a shiv in the stomach counts, lethal injection does not.
You are disqualified if you contribute in any way to the death of one of your chosen candidates. The one exception is if you are a police officer or member of the armed services and kill someone in the line of duty.
All entries must be submitted on this thread no later than 23.59 EST on December 31st 2011. No entries will be accepted after this time. You may however make changes to your list up until this time, but only if someone pops their clogs before the beginning of the year or you've put someone in twice.

There are also a couple of extraneous categories:

Inside Track with the Grim Reaper Award: person who picks the first death of 2012.
Quantity Not Quality Award: person who picks the most people who croak in 2012, regardless of their points value.

This is now the 9th time we have done this, and each time someone questions the merits of what we are doing. Please bear in mind:

This is only a game,
These are not death "Wish Lists" - You choose who you think might die, not who you want to die.
The Circus is the place for games, not discussion, so debating the rights and wrongs of what we are doing should be done somewhere else.

Have fun!

Edited to add:
The leaderboard is now up and running, and can be found here.

<small>[ 02. February 2012, 20:28: Message edited by: Imaginary Friend ]</small>

<small>[ 13. February 2013, 04:27: Message buggered about with by: Ariston ]</small>

[ 12. July 2016, 12:15: Message edited by: Belisarius ]

--------------------
"We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass."
Brian Clough

Posts: 9455 | From: Left a bit... Right a bit... | Registered: May 2001 | IP: Logged

Welease Woderwick

Sister Incubus Nightmare
# 10424

Posted

Here's my little list - and there's precious few of them that would be missed!

1. Murdoch of Twisted News Corp.

2. General Than Shwe, leader of the military government in Burma.

3. L K Advani - Indian politician and promoter of hatred and communal violence.

4. Thatcher, Margaret Hilda the truly appalling.

5. Newt Gingrich, would-be President of the USA.

6. Jean Marie LePen, French politician and promoter of hatred and communal violence.

7. Robert Mugabe, the ruination of Zimbabwe.

8. Bal Thackeray - another promoter of hatred and communal violence in India, and admirer of Hitler.

9. Pat Robertson - alleged Christian.

10. Ian Paisley - another alleged Christian and promoter of hatred and communal violence in Ireland this time.

11. John McCain - I reckon that the election campaign did nothing to add to his health.

12. Gerry Adams - just to be fair.

13. Philip Mountbatten, of Greece, Denmark and Britain, husband of "Brenda".

--------------------
I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?

Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005 | IP: Logged

Amanda B. Reckondwythe

Dressed for Church
# 5521

Posted

And mine:

1. Rev. Billy Graham
2. Zsa Zsa Gabor
3. C. Everett Koop (former US Surgeon General; featured on Life Alert commercial)
4. Fidel Castro
5. Muhammad Ali
6. Jimmy Carter
7. Olivia de Havilland
8. Rush Limbaugh
9. Abigail Van Buren ("Dear Abby")
10. Andrew Lloyd Webber
11. Nelson Mandela
12. Rupert Murdoch
13. Her Majesty the Queen

--------------------
"I take prayer too seriously to use it as an excuse for avoiding work and responsibility." -- The Revd Martin Luther King Jr.

Posts: 10542 | From: The Great Southwest | Registered: Feb 2004 | IP: Logged

jedijudy

Organist of the Jedi Temple
# 333

Posted

About half of my list is the same as last year's.

1. Rev. Billy Graham
2. Robin Williams
3. Lindsay Lohan
4. Michael Douglas
5. Serena Williams
6. Dick Cheney
7. Pete Doherty
8. Eddie Van Halen
9. Muhammed Ali
10. Andrew Lloyd Webber
11. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
12. Aretha Franklin
13. Jerry Lewis

--------------------
Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.

Posts: 18017 | From: 'Twixt the 'Glades and the Gulf | Registered: Aug 2001 | IP: Logged

joan knox

Knoxy is my homeboy
# 16100

Posted

And here we go:

1/ Terry Pratchett
2/ Michael Douglas
3/ Mary Tyler Moore
4/ Fidel Castro
5/ Robert Mugabe
6/ Margaret Thatcher
7/ Pope Benedict XVI
8/ Joan Rivers
9/ Phil the Greek/ Duke of Edinburgh
10/ Courtney Love
11/ Jerry Lewis
12/ Robin Williams
13/ Pete Doherty

You watch, I bet Lindsay Lohan is mince now I've left her out of this year's list...

[ 19. December 2011, 15:10: Message edited by: joan knox ]

--------------------
Jesus saves, Allah protects, Buddha enlightens, Cthulhu thinks you'll make a nice sandwich

Posts: 906 | From: edinburgh | Registered: Dec 2010 | IP: Logged

Hedgehog

Ship's Shortstop
# 14125

Posted

From oldest to youngest:

(1) Betty White
(2) Henry Kissinger
(3) Pope Benedict XVI
(4) James Garner (the actor, not the politician)
(5) Helmut Kohl
(6) Jim Bunning
(7) Emperor Akihito
(8) Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud
(9) Tom Baker
(10) Bob Dylan
(11) Hulk Hogan
(12) Macaulay Culkin
(13) Lindsay Lohan

--------------------
"We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it."--Pope Francis, Laudato Si'

Posts: 2740 | From: Delaware, USA | Registered: Sep 2008 | IP: Logged

Adam.

Like as the
# 4991

Posted

Let's give this a shot this year:

1. HM Liz (Queen)
2. Urban Meyer -- head coach with a heart condition... should be easy points, no?
3. Katy Perry
4. Dale Earnhartt Jnr
5. Cardinal Rigali
6. President Thabo Mbeki
7. Joe Donnelly
8. Keith Richards
9. Vera Lynn
10. Helen Mirren
11. Sir Peter Tapsell
12. Clint Eastwood
13. Bruce Forsyth

--------------------
Ave Crux, Spes Unica!
Preaching blog

Posts: 8164 | From: Notre Dame, IN | Registered: Sep 2003 | IP: Logged

Spike

Mostly Harmless
# 36

Posted

1. Margaret "milk snatcher" Thatcher
2. Prince Philip
3. Denis Healey
4. Kylie Minogue
5. Ian Paisley
6. Pope Benedict
7. Liz Smith
8. Clive Dunn
9. Lemmy
10. Ken Dodd
11. Michael Heseltine
12. Prince Charles
13. Tracey Emin

--------------------
"May you get to heaven before the devil knows you're dead" - Irish blessing

Posts: 12860 | From: The Valley of Crocuses | Registered: May 2001 | IP: Logged

Schroedinger's cat

Ship's cool cat
# 64

Posted

1. Billy Graham
2. Margaret Thatcher
3. HM Queen Elizabeth II
4. Lindsey Lohan
5. Robert Mugabe
6. Donald Sinden
7. Rick Parfitt
8. Bernie Eccleston
9. Patrick Moore
10. Stephen Hawking
11. John McCain
12. Ian Paisley
13. Bill Treacher

I had to replace 3 this year. That is a record.

--------------------
Blog
Music for your enjoyment
Lord may all my hard times be healing times
take out this broken heart and renew my mind.

Posts: 18859 | From: At the bottom of a deep dark well. | Registered: May 2001 | IP: Logged

Schroedinger's cat

Ship's cool cat
# 64

Posted

quote:
Originally posted by Spike:

9. Lemmy

You know, I reckon he is almost as indestructible as Ozzy.

--------------------
Blog
Music for your enjoyment
Lord may all my hard times be healing times
take out this broken heart and renew my mind.

Posts: 18859 | From: At the bottom of a deep dark well. | Registered: May 2001 | IP: Logged

Piglet
Islander
# 11803

Posted

Having had four of my list croak in 2011, this may no longer be The 13 People Least Likely To Snuff It list, and my Kiss of Life™ credentials may be somewhat buggered.

Here goes anyway ...

1. HM The Queen
2. HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
3. Baroness Thatcher
4. Ian Paisley
5. Fidel Castro
6. Robert Mugabe
7. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
8. Sir Terry Pratchett
9. Prof. Stephen Hawking
10. Pete Doherty
11. Lindsey Lohan
12. Rick Parfitt
13. Pope Benedict XVI

--------------------
I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music

Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006 | IP: Logged

Uncle Pete

Loyaute me lie
# 10422

Posted

/Fanfare on:

Death List for 2012
1. Billy Graham (an American evangelist)
2. George H, Bush (Satan)
3. James Earl Carter
4. George W. Bush (Spawn of Satan)
5. Robert Mugabe
6. H.R.H The Prince Philip (just because)
7. HM the Queen (her kiss of life from her devoted subject)
8. Asif Ali Zadari
9. Margaret Hilda, Baroness Thatcher (the Bloody Baron – isn’t she dead yet?)
10 Ali Abdullah Saleh
11. Stephen Hawking (well he’s a medical miracle, he’s gotta go sometime!)
12.The Countess Mountbatten of Burma (she’s getting a little long in the tooth)
13 Bashar al-Assad

/fanfare off

--------------------
Even more so than I was before

Posts: 20466 | From: No longer where I was | Registered: Sep 2005 | IP: Logged

Bob Two-Owls
Shipmate
# 9680

Posted

This should ensure good health for the following people...

1. Charlie Sheen
2. Michael Douglas
3. HRH Prince Philip
4. Pope Benedict XVI
5. Margaret Thatcher
6. Brian Wilson (Beach Boys)
7. Peter Sutcliffe (Yorkshire Ripper)
8. Sir Peter Tapsell (father of the House of Commons)
9. Lord Carrington (father of the House of Lords)
10.Ozzy Osbourne
11.Muhammad Ali
12.Fidel Castro
13.Patrick Moore

Posts: 1262 | Registered: Jul 2005 | IP: Logged

Caissa
Shipmate
# 16710

Posted

1. Hugo Chavez
2. Ariel Sharon
3. P.D. James
4. Duke of Edinburgh
5. Robert Mugabe
6. Jimmy Carter
7. George H.W. Bush
8. Nelson Mandela
9. Margaret Thatcher
10. Billy Graham
11. Bashar Al-Assad
12. Fidel Castro
13. Stephen Hawking

Posts: 972 | From: Saint John, N.B. | Registered: Oct 2011 | IP: Logged

Queen Mousie
Shipmate
# 9925

Posted

Here is my list for 2012

1. Stephen Hawking
2. Lindsay Lohan
3. Rev. Billy Graham
4. Senator John McCain
5. Doris Day
6. Jerry Lewis
7. Fidel Castro
8. Pope Benedict XVI
9. Michael Douglas
10. ZaZa Gabor
11. Maestro James Levine
12. Jose Carreras
13. Camilla Duchess of Cornwall

--------------------
Illegitimi non carborundum

Posts: 167 | From: On a clear day you can see L.A. L.A. Land | Registered: Aug 2005 | IP: Logged

An die Freude
Shipmate
# 14794

Posted

1. Julian Assange
2. Hosni Mubarak
3. Ali Abdullah Saleh (former dictator of Yemen)
4. Oleg Kashin (Russian reporter)
5. Raul Castro
6. Bashar Al-Assad
7. Kim Jong-Un
8. Hugo Chavez
9. Moktar Ali Zubeyr (American election year...)
10. Miley Cyrus
11. Keith Richards
12. Charles Taylor (former Liberian dictator)
13. Madonna

--------------------
"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable."
Walt Whitman
Formerly JFH

Posts: 851 | From: Proud Socialist Monarchy of Sweden | Registered: May 2009 | IP: Logged

Dee.
Ship's Theological Acrobat
# 5681

Posted

Hello All,

My first ever crack at the celebrity death pool, a few NZ locals but mostly you will all recognise them. In no particular order...

1. Margaret Thatcher
2. Phil the Greek/Duke of Edinburgh
3. Fidel Castro
4. Lindsay Lohan
5. Rev Billy Graham
6. Dr James Dobson
7. Nelson Mandela
8. Pope Benedict XVI
9. Charlie Sheen
10.Sir Roger Douglas (evil architect of Right wing Rogernomics in 80s NZ)
11.Ian Mune (loca Kiwi Actor)
12.Miley Cyrus
13.Barak Obama (Another lone gunman AKA JFK?)

--------------------
Jesus - nice bloke, bit religious

Posts: 2679 | From: Under Downunder | Registered: Mar 2004 | IP: Logged

la vie en rouge
Parisienne
# 10688

Posted

Right, I'm getting my list in early this year. Missing the deadline last time round resulted in three(!) of my regulars falling off the perch, and I'm not missing out again.

I'm majoring on ailing despots and ex-despots with a few random others thrown in for good measure.

1. Margaret Thatcher (if I take her off the list she'll die to spite me - pretty surprised she didn't keel over this year, TBH. Yes I do have her in the ailing ex-despots category [Two face]

.)
2. Fidel Castro
3. Hosni Mubarak
4. Peter Stringfellow (long shot - but I personally have a theory that he's dead already and just hasn't stopped moving about)
5. Ronnie Biggs
6. Abdelbaset al Megrahi
7. Silvio Berlusconi
8. Paul Daniels (just because)
9. Billy Graham
10. Michael Douglas
11. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
12. Hugo Chavez
13. Ben Jonson (Olympic cheat and famous anabolic steroid abuser - bad for the heart)

--------------------
Rent my holiday home in the South of France

Posts: 3696 | Registered: Nov 2005 | IP: Logged

BessLane
Shipmate
# 15176

Posted

Here's my list for 2012...

1. Fidel Castro
2. Nancy Reagan
3. Jimmy Carter
4. Loretta Lynn
5. John Madden
6. Merle Haggard
7. Hugh Hefner
8. Michael J. Fox
9. Arnold Palmer
10. Clint Eastwood
11. Sandra Day O'Connor
12. Gordie Howe
13. Joe Paterno

--------------------
It's all on me and I won't tell it.
formerly BessHiggs

Posts: 1388 | From: Yorkville, TN | Registered: Sep 2009 | IP: Logged

Japes

Shipmate
# 5358

Posted

Margaret Thatcher (Former UK Prime Minister)
Jaques Chirac (Former French President)
Val Doonican (Singer)
Michael Douglas (Actor)
Bruce Forsyth (UK - TV presenter)
Barry Manilow (Singer)
Robert Mugabe (President of Zimbabwe)
Ennio Morricone (Composer)
Ian Paisley (Politician - founder of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster)
Terry Pratchett (author)
William Roache (longest serving actor in longest running soap opera in the UK)
Anne Robinson (TV presenter, journalist UK)
Delia Smith (Chef, writer of books)

As last year with one alteration. I'd quite like the Queen to get through her Jubilee year without her husband dying.

Edited for punctuation mess up..

[Edited for code. iF]

[ 24. December 2011, 02:02: Message edited by: Imaginary Friend ]

--------------------
Blog may or may not be of any interest.

Posts: 2013 | From: Somewhere in the middle | Registered: Dec 2003 | IP: Logged

Jack the Lass

Ship's airhead
# 3415

Posted

1. Margaret Thatcher
2. Robert Mugabe
3. Brad Pitt
4. Katie Price (aka Jordan)
5. Nelson Mandela
6. Rolf Harris
7. Alex Ferguson
8. Prince Harry
9. Stephen Hawking
10. Stephen Fry
11. George H Bush
12. Hamid Karzai
13. Rupert Murdoch

--------------------
"My body is a temple - it's big and doesn't move." (Jo Brand)
wiblog blipfoto blog

Posts: 5767 | From: the land of the deep-fried Mars Bar | Registered: Oct 2002 | IP: Logged

Sarasa
Shipmate
# 12271

Posted

1 Robert Mugabe
2. Margaret Thatcher
3. Fats Domino
4. Little Richard
5. Jerry Lee Lewis
6. Rabbi Lionel Blue
7. Christian Bale
8. Pete Townsend
9. Roger Daltrey
10. Fidel Castro
11. Alex Ferguson
12. Bruce Forsyth
13. Vince Cable

--------------------
'I guess things didn't go so well tonight, but I'm trying. Lord, I'm trying.' Charlie (Harvey Keitel) in Mean Streets.

Posts: 2035 | From: London | Registered: Jan 2007 | IP: Logged

Sylvander
Shipmate
# 12857

Posted

1. Helmut Schmidt
2. Margaret Thatcher
3. Ottmar Walter
4. Horst Eckel
5. Hans Schäfer (3-5 are 1954 world cup winners)
6. René Girard
7. V. Giscard d’Estaing
8. Tankred Dorst (writer)
9. The Duke of Edinburgh
10. Paul Gascoigne
11. Benoîte Groult
12. Fidel Castro
13. Gabriele Wittek (German cult leader, may have been to the taxidermist already)
I trust that non-US and UK media also count as „major news outlets“. I am happy to provide access to our equivalent of the Church Times if the need arises.

Posts: 1589 | From: Berlin | Registered: Jul 2007 | IP: Logged

Sioni Sais
Shipmate
# 5713

Posted

1. Margaret Thatcher
2. Robert Mugabe
3. Pete Doherty
4. Keith Richards
5. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
6. Ariel Sharon
7. Alex Ferguson
8. Marcus Trescothick
9. Stephen Hawking
10. Silvio Berlusconi
11. George W Bush
12. Vladimir Putin
13. Paul Gascoigne

--------------------
"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"

(Paul Sinha, BBC)

Posts: 24276 | From: Newport, Wales | Registered: Apr 2004 | IP: Logged

Matt Black

Shipmate
# 2210

Posted

1. Big Bad Bob Mugabe
2. Thatch
3. George Herbert Walker Bush
4. Pete Doherty
5. Phil the Greek
6. Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
7. John Sargeant
8. Lord Lawson of Blaby
9. Bashir al-Assad
10. Michael Douglas
11. Kirk Douglas
12. Billy Graham
13. Freddie Starr

--------------------
"Protestant and Reformed, according to the Tradition of the ancient Catholic Church" - + John Cosin (1594-1672)

Posts: 14304 | From: Hampshire, UK | Registered: Jan 2002 | IP: Logged

la vie en rouge
Parisienne
# 10688

Posted

quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
4. Keith Richards

Now I think you're barking up the wrong tree on that one. As this article points out ("Why is Keith Richards still alive?") the fact that he survived all that drug-taking in earlier life proves that the erstwhile Mr Richards must have the constitution of an ox. [Big Grin]

--------------------
Rent my holiday home in the South of France

Posts: 3696 | Registered: Nov 2005 | IP: Logged

kaytee
Shipmate
# 3482

Posted

My first time at this.

1. Clive Dunn
2. Margaret Thatcher (a popular choice it seems)
3. Michael Douglas
4. Kirk Douglas
5. George Michael
6. Dick Van Dyke
7. Nelson Mandela
8. Harry Redknapp
9. Larry Hagman
10. Whitney Houston
11. Bruce Forsyth
12. Ken Dodd
13. Nicholas Parsons

--------------------
'Lying is a vital survival skill – and a terrible habit.' ~ The Doctor

Posts: 152 | From: Hertfordshire, UK | Registered: Oct 2002 | IP: Logged

Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
# 1984

Posted

My first time too:

1) Duke of Edinburgh
2) Pete Doherty
3) Shane MacGowan
4) Rupert Murdoch
5) Bashar Al Assad
6) Mahmoud Ahmedinajad
7) King Abdullah Al Saud
8) Anne Widdecombe
9) Lindsey Lohan
10) Lulu
11) Marianne Faithful
12) Deborah Harry
13) Katie Price

--------------------
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell

Posts: 19219 | From: Erehwon | Registered: Aug 2005 | IP: Logged

Jack the Lass

Ship's airhead
# 3415

Posted

Actually I want to tweak my list a wee bit. Off comes Stephen Fry at number 10 and in goes Ion Iliescu, former president of Romania. Fewer points, but more likely points [Smile]

(no I don't have insider information, but he is knocking on a bit). So the list now looks like this:

1. Margaret Thatcher
2. Robert Mugabe
3. Brad Pitt
4. Katie Price (aka Jordan)
5. Nelson Mandela
6. Rolf Harris
7. Alex Ferguson
8. Prince Harry
9. Stephen Hawking
10. Ion Iliescu
11. George H Bush
12. Hamid Karzai
13. Rupert Murdoch

[ 24. December 2011, 11:17: Message edited by: Jack the Lass ]

--------------------
"My body is a temple - it's big and doesn't move." (Jo Brand)
wiblog blipfoto blog

Posts: 5767 | From: the land of the deep-fried Mars Bar | Registered: Oct 2002 | IP: Logged

St. Gwladys
Shipmate
# 14504

Posted

My first time:
1: Duke of Edinburgh
2: Al Megrahi (who's been terminal for the last couple of years!)
3: Terry Pratchett
4: Pope Benedict
5: Margaret Thatcher
6: Michael Douglas
7: Dolly Parton
8: Mandela
9: Kim Jong-un
10: Bruce Forsyth
11: Ken Dodd
12: Cilla Black
13: Lulu

--------------------
"I say - are you a matelot?"
"Careful what you say sir, we're on board ship here"
From "New York Girls", Steeleye Span, Commoners Crown (Voiced by Peter Sellers)

Posts: 3333 | From: Rhymney Valley, South Wales | Registered: Jan 2009 | IP: Logged

Niteowl

Hopeless Insomniac
# 15841

Posted

1. Lindsay Lohan
2. Steve Tyler
3. Billy Graham
4. Etta James
5. Alec Baldwin
6. George Michael
7. Vladimir Putin
8. Kirk Douglas
9. Zsa Zsa Gabor
10. Miley Cyrus
11. Charlie Sheen
12. Aretha Franklin
13. George H.W. Bush

--------------------
"love all, trust few, do wrong to no one"
Wm. Shakespeare

Posts: 2437 | From: U.S. | Registered: Aug 2010 | IP: Logged

Zappa
Ship's Wake
# 8433

Posted

Forgot last year,. so ...

HRH Prince Phillip
His Bobness Dylan
Michail Gorbachev
Benny XVI
Justin Beiber (mauled to death by paternity-suing virginal fans)
Josef Islam
Julian Barnes
Barack Obama
Aung Sun Suu Kyi
Robert Redford
George Herbert Walker Bush
Gough Whitlam (OZ Prime Minister 1972-1975)
Bob Hawke (OZ Prime Minister 1983-1991)

--------------------
shameless self promotion - because I think it's worth it
and mayhap this too: http://broken-moments.blogspot.co.nz/

Posts: 18917 | From: "Central" is all they call it | Registered: Sep 2004 | IP: Logged

Imaginary Friend

Real to you
# 186

Posted

Best get this done:

Margaret Thatcher (milk snatcher)
Des Lynham
Bruce Forsythe
Pete Doherty
Tom Jones
Stephen Hawking
Hamid Karzai
Mordechai Vanunu
Fidel Castro
Jackie Charlton
Michael J. Fox
Robert Mugabe
Richie Benaud

--------------------
"We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass."
Brian Clough

Posts: 9455 | From: Left a bit... Right a bit... | Registered: May 2001 | IP: Logged

Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
# 1654

Posted

now I'm in a quandry. for 2011 I took out 2 of my regulars for 2 new people. nothing happened to any of the 4, and only 1 of my regulars passed away, so now i've got too many to choose from, and I know what will happen to whoever leave out.

Sod it. Robert Downey Jr is bound to last another year, so let's go for:

Buzz Aldrin
Ursula Andress
Bernie Ecclestone
Ringo Starr
Lou Ferrigno
Aretha Franklin
Elliott Gould
Shane McGowan
Gary Numan
Delia Smith
Adam West
Roy Wood
Stanley Baxter

--------------------
- insert randomly chosen, potentially Deep and Meaningful™ song lyrics here -

Posts: 9841 | From: further up the Hill | Registered: Nov 2001 | IP: Logged

Auntie Doris

Screen Goddess
# 9433

Posted

Here is my 2011 list updated for 2012

My 2011 list....

1. Ken Dodd
2. Prince Philip
3. Val Doonican.
4. Michael J Fox
5. Maggie Thatcher
6. Lesley Phillips
7. Fidel Castro
8. George Michael
9. Nelson Mandela
10. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
11. Billy Graham
12. Muhammad Ali
13. George Bush Snr

--------------------
"And you don't get to pronounce that I am not a Christian. Nope. Not in your remit nor power." - iGeek in response to a gay-hater :)

The life and times of a Guernsey cow

Posts: 6019 | From: The Rock at the Centre of the Universe | Registered: May 2005 | IP: Logged

Campbellite

Ut unum sint
# 1202

Posted

quote:
Originally posted by Zappa:
Forgot last year,. so ...
Justin Beiber (mauled to death by paternity-suing virginal fans)

Point of order! Justin Bieber is only 17.

--------------------
I upped mine. Up yours.
Suffering for Jesus since 1966.
WTFWED?

Posts: 12001 | From: between keyboard and chair | Registered: Aug 2001 | IP: Logged

Schroedinger's cat

Ship's cool cat
# 64

Posted

quote:
Originally posted by Campbellite:

quote:
Originally posted by Zappa:
Forgot last year,. so ...
Justin Beiber (mauled to death by paternity-suing virginal fans)
Point of order! Justin Bieber is only 17.

Can't we have an exception because he is SO obnixiously vile??

--------------------
Blog
Music for your enjoyment
Lord may all my hard times be healing times
take out this broken heart and renew my mind.

Posts: 18859 | From: At the bottom of a deep dark well. | Registered: May 2001 | IP: Logged

LutheranChik
Shipmate
# 9826

Posted

My noob effort:

1. Prince Philip
2. Joe Paterno (legendary American college football coach, presently implicated in condoning/covering up the sexual predation of a subordinate coach at Penn State University)
3. Margaret Thatcher
4. George Bush Sr.
5. Billy Graham
7. Robert Wagner, actor
8. Lindsay Lohan, celebrity hot mess
9. Charlie Sheen, celebrity hot mess
10. Mick Jagger -- just to take a different tack than the Keith Richards nominations. Haven't seen or heard much of him lately either.
11. Brett Michaels, yet another celebrity hot mess
12. Pete Seeger, iconic American folk singer and activist :-( [Votive]

13. Loretta Lynn, American country singer

--------------------
Simul iustus et peccator
http://www.lutheranchiklworddiary.blogspot.com

Posts: 6462 | From: rural Michigan, USA | Registered: Jul 2005 | IP: Logged

East Price Road
Shipmate
# 13846

Posted

1. Clive Dunn
2. Maya Angelou
3. Antony Worrall Thompson
4. Ozzy Osbourne
5. Raymond Briggs
6. Shirley Williams
7. Roger Ebert
8. Ronnie Biggs
9. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
10. Charles Chilton
11. David Coleman
12. Prince Philip
13. Margaret Thatcher

--------------------
"Fishes stop and ask me where I'm bound." (Incredible String Band)

Posts: 739 | From: West Yorkshire | Registered: Jun 2008 | IP: Logged

Hedgehog

Ship's Shortstop
# 14125

Posted

quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:

quote:
Originally posted by Campbellite:

quote:
Originally posted by Zappa:
Forgot last year,. so ...
Justin Beiber (mauled to death by paternity-suing virginal fans)
Point of order! Justin Bieber is only 17.
Can't we have an exception because he is SO obnixiously vile??

If Wikipedia is to be believed, he will turn 18 on March 1, so maybe we can agree to a compromise: No points if he dies before March 1, 2012. Full points if he shuffles off his mortal coil on March 1 or thereafter.

--------------------
"We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it."--Pope Francis, Laudato Si'

Posts: 2740 | From: Delaware, USA | Registered: Sep 2008 | IP: Logged

Kyzyl

Ship's dog
# 374

Posted

Never played before but here goes nothing:
1. Prince Phillip
2. Billy Graham
3. Margaret Thatcher
4. George H.W. Bush (#41)
5. Zsa Zsa Gabor
6. Jimmy Carter
7. Fidel Castro
8. Kim Jong-Un (yep, the new guy)
9. Hosni Mubarak
10. Mahmoud Ahmedinejad
11. Hamid Karzai
12. Robert Mugabe
13. Nelson Mandela
14. Desmond Tutu

--------------------
I need a quote.

Posts: 668 | From: Wapasha's Prairie | Registered: Jun 2001 | IP: Logged

Mockingale
Shipmate
# 16599

Posted

1. Dick Cheney
2. Betty White
3. Pope Benedict XVI
4. Kim Jong Un
5. Archbishop Desmond Tutu
6. Silvio Berlusconi
7. Elizabeth II
8. Rebecca Black (Friiiiday)
9. Woody Allen
10. Rush Limbaugh
11. Madonna
12. Newt Gingrich
13. John Cleese

[ 29. December 2011, 04:44: Message edited by: Mockingale ]

Posts: 679 | From: Connectilando | Registered: Aug 2011 | IP: Logged

Sparrow
Shipmate
# 2458

Posted

1. Nelson Mandela
2. Margaret Thatcher
3. Mickey Rooney
4. Patrick Moore
5. Liam Gallagher
6. Paul Gascoigne
7. Kirk Douglas
8. President Assad of Syria
9. Jeremy Clarkson
10. George Michael
11. Denis Healey
12. Jimmy Carter
13. Prince Philip

--------------------
For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life,nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Posts: 3149 | From: Bottom right hand corner of the UK | Registered: Mar 2002 | IP: Logged

Curious
Shipmate
# 93

Posted

OK - here goes:

Prince Philip (but hopefully not before the Diamond Jubilee celebrations)
Margaret Thatcher
Nelson Mandela
Billy Graham
Stephen Hawking
Ian Paisley
Terry Pratchett
Cliff Richard
Lionel Blue
Desmond Tutu
George Michael
Patrick Moore
Rupert Murdoch

--------------------
Erin - you are missed more than you could know. Rest in peace and rise in glory - to provide unrest in the heavenly realms.

Posts: 1372 | From: Betwixt and between | Registered: May 2001 | IP: Logged

Spike

Mostly Harmless
# 36

Posted

quote:
Originally posted by Curious:
Prince Philip (but hopefully not before the Diamond Jubilee celebrations)

Perhaps there should be extra points awarded if he dies during the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

--------------------
"May you get to heaven before the devil knows you're dead" - Irish blessing

Posts: 12860 | From: The Valley of Crocuses | Registered: May 2001 | IP: Logged

Cottontail

Shipmate
# 12234

Posted

Here we go! Good luck to all below:

1) Etta James
2) Frank Carson
3) Jim Bowen
4) Ayotollah Al Khamenei
5) Hugo Chavez
6) Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
7) HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
8) Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
9) Ronnie Biggs
10) King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand
11) Wojciech Jaruzelski
12) Liz Dawn
13) Richard Attenborough

--------------------
"I don't think you ought to read so much theology," said Lord Peter. "It has a brutalizing influence."

Posts: 2377 | From: Scotland | Registered: Jan 2007 | IP: Logged

Timothy the Obscure

Mostly Friendly
# 292

Posted

OK, won't wait till the last minute because when I do I get confused by that GMT thing...

Dick Cheney
Randy Quaid
Rupert Murdoch
Fidel Castro
Margaret Thatcher
Billy Graham
Bill Wyman
Etta James
Robert Mugabe
Lindsay Lohan
Doris Lessing
Prince Philip
James Garner

--------------------
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
- C. P. Snow

Posts: 6114 | From: PDX | Registered: May 2001 | IP: Logged

Grits
Compassionate fundamentalist
# 4169

Posted

I haven't done this for a few years, so I think I'll give it a go:

1. Lindsay Lohan
2. Zsa Zsa Gabor
3. Kirk Douglas
4. Stephen Hawking
5. Courtney Love
6. Billy Graham
7. Gary Busey
8. Keith Richards
9. Jimmy Carter
10.Dick Clark
11.Fidel Castro
12.Muhammad Ali
13.Doris Day

--------------------
Lord, fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and shut it when I've said enough. Amen.

Posts: 8419 | From: Nashville, TN | Registered: Feb 2003 | IP: Logged

Banner Lady
Ship's Ensign
# 10505

Posted

Good to go!

Politicians whose time is up:
Margaret Thatcher
Gough Whitlam
Fidel Castro
Hosne Mubarak

Tottering princes:
Pope Benny
HRH Phillip

Celebs whose star is waning:
Hugh Hefner (surely all shagged out by now)
Snoop Dog (because no one called that can expect to live to an old age)

Sports stars:
Mohammed Ali
Alvaro Bautista (one of the unluckiest motorbike riders on the circuit)

I did briefly consider some older female hollywood celebs, but figured that much botox and silicon has to have a preservative value. Micky Rooney will be like George Burns - just laughing stops you dying, while Rupert Murdoch is just too plain pernickety to lie down and die yet.

--------------------
Women in the church are not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed.

Posts: 7080 | From: Canberra Australia | Registered: Oct 2005 | IP: Logged

Banner Lady
Ship's Ensign
# 10505

Posted

quote:
Originally posted by Banner Lady:
Good to go!

Politicians whose time is up:
Margaret Thatcher
Gough Whitlam
Fidel Castro
Hosne Mubarak

Tottering princes:
Pope Benny
HRH Phillip

Celebs whose star is waning:
Hugh Hefner (surely all shagged out by now)
Snoop Dog (because no one called that can expect to live to an old age)

Sports stars:
Mohammed Ali
Alvaro Bautista (one of the unluckiest motorbike riders on the circuit)

I did briefly consider some older female hollywood celebs, but figured that much botox and silicon has to have a preservative value. Micky Rooney will be like George Burns - just laughing stops you dying, while Rupert Murdoch is just too plain pernickety to lie down and die yet.

Darn - forgot to number them:

Politicians whose time is up:
1.Margaret Thatcher
2. Gough Whitlam
3. Fidel Castro
4. Hosne Mubarak
5. Robert Mugabe
6. Malcolm Fraser
7. Aung Sun Su Chi

Tottering princes:
8. Pope Benny
9. HRH Phillip

Celebs whose star is waning:
10. Hugh Hefner
11. Snoop Dog

Sports stars:
12. Mohammed Ali
13. Alvaro Bautista

--------------------
Women in the church are not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed.

Posts: 7080 | From: Canberra Australia | Registered: Oct 2005 | IP: Logged

Pages in this thread: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Thread closed

Printer-friendly view

UBB.classic^TM 6.5.0

sip of fools mugs from your favourite nautical website