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Source: (consider it) Thread: Circus: 2012 Celebrity Death Pool
lilBuddha
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quote:
Originally posted by Imaginary Friend:
Um, just to clarify, are you claiming those points? Because it seems to me that nobody has that name on any list. Or perhaps I'm being dense. [Confused]

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quote:
Originally posted by piglet:
TB, do you mean that your omission killed him? [Eek!]

Next year, how do you feel about leaving off Robert Mugabe?

Maybe we can start another list of people we're leaving off our lists with points awarded for deaths of those on that list.
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Thanks. [Hot and Hormonal]

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quote:
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Ernest Borgnine has just sailed the PT-73 to other shores.

Sigh... I had him in 2010.

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Curiosity killed ...

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James Grout, actor - he was also the Professor in Old Harry's Game. Andy Hamilton promised his wife, Noreen, that the "biggest round of applause for the night" would be for James at the recordings on Sunday evening.

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I doubt that anybody listed him, but Jim Packard, long-time announcer on Michael Feldman's Whad'yaknow radio show, died back in June. The rapport between Feldman and Packard was tremendous and added a lot to the show (rather like George Fenneman added to Groucho Marx's "You Bet Your Life"). I will miss him. Jim had a great radio voice.

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Celeste Holm died early this morning at 95.

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Kitty Wells has joined the heavenly chorus. She was the very first female country music superstar with an impressive career. I'm not a fan of country music, but I admire her trailblazing and long career.

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7 Habits of Effective People author Stephen Covey has passed away due to a bicycle accident at age 79.

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Jon Lord, best remembered from his days with Deep Purple has died (of pancreatic cancer, which is an awful way to go [Votive] ).

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The news is over for Sir Alastair Burnet

He has a classic newsreader's voice: calm and in control. I'm not sure if that was a good thing or not.

[ 20. July 2012, 10:16: Message edited by: The Rogue ]

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It seems as though it's the journalists' time now. Outspoken and controversial social and political critic Alexander Cockburn has written his last piece.

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Men of forty or so will be sad to hear of the death of Angharad Rees. Thanks to her own name and that of her character in Poldark she caused a rash of girls named Angharad and Demelza, mostly at their father's suggestion.

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Alexander Cockburn has filed his last column.

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Sally Ride has flown her last mission

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Astronaut Sally Ride, age 61.



[Votive]

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Sherman Hemsley is movin' on up...to a deluxe apartment in the sky.

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Chad Everett is now practicing medicine at the heavenly hospital.

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Not to be confused with C. Everett Koop, right? [Biased]

Edited to add: I've updated the scoreboard because I missed Light User's pick of Samuel Youd earlier. My apologies for that.

[ 27. July 2012, 21:15: Message edited by: Imaginary Friend ]

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Curiosity killed ...

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Geoffrey Hughes has died aged 68, I'm afraid that's another 32 points for me.

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Mary Tamm, best known for playing Romana on Doctor Who before regenerating into Lalia Ward, died Thursday.

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Curiosity killed ...

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Don't think anyone had her but Maeve Binchy has died at 72 and
Tony Martin at 98, not sure about anyone having him, but I wouldn't have gone for only 2 points.

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bummer about Maeve Binchy. I was a fan.

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Anyone had Gore Vidal?

AG

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quote:
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Anyone had Gore Vidal?

AG

Not that we know of [Biased]

Quite a guy, RIP Gore Vidal.

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I don't know whether anyone had him, but Sir Bernard Lovell has died, one of the pioneers of radio-astronomy.

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Marvin Hamlisch is now composing for the heavenly musicians. The music industry has been losing a lot this year.

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quote:
Originally posted by Niteowl2:
Marvin Hamlisch is now composing for the heavenly musicians.

Or de-composing, as the case may be.

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Carlo Curley passed away today. Another Heavenly musician.

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Very sad to hear about Carlo - I remember with fondness (and a slight headache) an evening in his company in Belfast fuelled by many bottles of Chardonnay.

Great musician and all-round Good Chap - may he rest in peace and rise in glory.

[Votive]

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Last time on the ockey for Sid Waddell.

One of his many quotes: "William Tell could take an apple off your head, [Phil] Taylor could take out a processed pea."

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The director of the only Willy Wonka film, Mel Stuart, has died.

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The Rogue
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[Hot and Hormonal] for misspelling oche

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Helen Gurley Brown Fiesty former Cosmopolitan editor has died.

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Ron Palillo, otherwise known has Horshack, has joined fellow sweathog Epstein in heaven.

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Harry Harrison, RIP [Frown]

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quote:
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Harry Harrison, RIP [Frown]

[Waterworks] The Stainless Steel Rat was the first place I encountered a hero who wasn't good.

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Saxophanist Bill Tillman is free from blood sweat and tears.

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Timothy the Obscure

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quote:
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quote:
Originally posted by ken:
Harry Harrison, RIP [Frown]

[Waterworks] The Stainless Steel Rat was the first place I encountered a hero who wasn't good.
And Bill The Galactic Hero anticipated Hitchhikers Guide in the sharp-edged SF parody department by a decade and a half, and totally took the piss out of Heinlein's crypto-fascist phase. And he invented steampunk. Harry never got the credit he deserved.

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ken
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quote:
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And he invented steampunk.

You mean maybe A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! Hurrah!? A fun book.
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Harry never got the credit he deserved.

Well he did in the rather small corner of fandom that was the Friday evening Brighton pub meeting!

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Tony Scott anyone?

[Edited to fix link. [Smile] iF]

[ 20. August 2012, 17:40: Message edited by: Imaginary Friend ]

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Oh dear, looks like a bad link, sorry about that.

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Very tragic. RIP

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The world is a little less funny today. Phyllis Diller.

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I'll miss her. She was a funny lady, and an accomplished pianist. I know she was 95, but I wish she could have been spared a bit longer...

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Dom Mintoff, who made Malta a genuinely independent nation, has died at 96. Proof that fire in the belly doesn't shorten your life.

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Anyone have one giant leap for Neil Armstrong ?

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quote:
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Anyone have one giant leap for Neil Armstrong ?

Yes.

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Curiosity killed ...

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No only Armstrong there is Lance

and Imaginary Friend - I am claiming Geoffrey Hughes

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Legendary Songwriter Hal Davis of the song writing duo Burt Backrach/Hal Davis has gone to write for the heavenly choir.

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Max Bygraves crooning with the angels now.

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