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Dal Segno
al Fine
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1. Margaret Thatcher (increasingly frail)
2. Barack Obama (the threat of assassination)
3. Prince Philip (though looking well when I last talked to him)
4. Prince Charles (a long shot, but hey ho)
5. Stephen Hawking (now retired, aged 67)
6. Pope Benedict XVI (still working, despite being knocked down)
7. Norman St John Stevas (retired politician)
8. Ed Balls (current politician)
9. Clive James (presenter, essayist, novelist)
10. John Sentamu (archbishop)
11. Richard Dawkins (archatheist)
12. Bruce Forsyth (agéd TV personality)
13. Amy Adams (young actress - 35 is young from where I sit)
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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Same list as last year;
1. Amy Winehouse
2. Norman Wisdom
3. Margaret Thatcher
4. Elizabeth Taylor
5. Prince Phillip
6. Prince Harry
7. Billy Graham
8. Robert Mugabe
9. Ronnie Wood
10. Radovan Karadzic
11. Asif Zardari of Pakistan
12. George H.W. Bush (born 1924)
13. Mswati III of Swaziland.
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Cottontail
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1. Peter Falk
2. Dickie Attenborough
3. Peter Tork
4. Sonique (singer & DJ Sonia Clarke)
5. John Hartson (footballer)
6. Kathryn Joosten (actress, Desperate Housewives)
7. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
8. King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand
9. Ronnie Biggs
10. Simon McCorkindale (British actor)
11. Liz Dawn (actress, Coronation Street)
12. George O’Dowd, a.k.a. Boy George
13. Bernard Madoff
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Light User
Apprentice
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quote:
Originally posted by Light User:
8)The Rev Dr Edward Cornelis Florentius Alfonsus Schillebeeckx
Edward Schillebeeckx has thrown in the towel before the starting gun was fired. Please can I replace him with Pope Benedict, who has been looking a little off balance recently.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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1) Blues legend BB King, the greatest electric guitarist of all time.
2) Keith Richards (How he's survived this long is a mystery.)
3) HM Queen Elizabeth II
4) Pope Benedict XVI
5) Sarah Palin (Do I get extra points for irony if she is shot?)
6) David Beckham
7) Bruce Forsythe
8) Alan Tichmarsh
9) George W Bush
10) Bill Clinton
11) Silvio Berlusconi
12) Robbie Williams
13) Robin Williams
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Trudy Scrumptious
BBE Shieldmaiden
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Same old, same old list from last year. Every year it seems one overhyped young celebrity dies tragically young ... but it's never one of the ones on my list, so perhaps I really am giving them the gift of Endless Youth ...
1. Paris Hilton
2. Lindsay Lohan
3. Jessica Simpson
4. Amy Winehouse
5. Mary-Kate Olsen
6. Ashley Olsen
7. Nicole Ritchie
8. Brad Pitt
9. Angelina Jolie
10. Jennifer Aniston
11. Vince Vaughan
12. Owen Wilson
13. Orlando Bloom
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Trudy: quote:
...so perhaps I really am giving them the gift of Endless Youth ...
You and future armies of plastic surgeons. ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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Amazing Grace
High Church Protestant
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Uriel has given some excellent advice upthread to you aspiring DP players. I improved my, um, hit rate when I found a link to the then-current alt.tasteless dead pool and studied the list of the 4-years-in-a-row winner (her title is MCB, for Most Cynical B---). Anyone who survived was on my list. I also found something called "The Death List".
I think Peter Falk is the only one from the MCB I'm not picking up this year, in favor of some younger folks.
So here's my list for '10:
Kim Jong-il (although I hear he is better)
Muhammed Ali
Seve Ballesteros
Rev. Billy Graham
A. A. M. al-Megrabi (Lockerbie bomber)
Margaret Thatcher
Amy Winehouse
Elizabeth Taylor
Robert Mugabe (this is probably my real "death wish", here)
Keith Richards (it's a frackin' miracle he's lived so long)
Stephen Hawking (ditto)
Elizabeth Edwards (whose two-timing husband appears distressingly healthy, more's the pity)
Roger Ebert
After Jan 1, I'll post the "ones that got away" so you can point and laugh at me if they finally die this year.
Charlotte
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la vie en rouge
Parisienne
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Some recycling from me, with the deceased duly replaced. A reprieve for Ariel Sharon (who shows no sign of getting switched off any time soon) and Joseph Kabila (the political situation in the Congo seems to have stabilised)
First the tyranical despots:
1) Kim Jong Il seems to have gotten better, but still not a well man
2) Fidel Castro more of entertaining despot, but sicker
3) Moussa Dadis Camara Head of the Guinean junta - one assassination attempt already
Released from prison on account of impending death:
4) Ronnie Biggs
5) Abdulbaset al Megrahi
The old and the sick
6) Margaret Thatcher if I take her off the list she'll die to spite me
7) Brian Wilson he of the Beach Boys. Looking in a bad way last time I saw him
8) Liz Taylor sick
9) Jimmy Saville old and a smoker
10) Johnny Halliday recent hospitalisation
11) Mohamed Ali sick
Wildcards
12) Peter Stringfellow walking corpse
13) Ben Johnson Olympic cheat and famous anabolic steroid abuser (bad for the heart)
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Zappa
Ship's Wake
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- Bob Dylan (
![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif) - but with his lifestyle and one near death experience he can't go on for ever): b. May 24, 1941 - Bob Hawke (former Oz Prime Minister) b.9 December 1929 ... and, come to think of it,
- Gough Whitlam (former Oz Prime Minister), b. 11 July 1916, and
- Malcolm Fraser (former Oz Prime Minister) b. 21 May 1930
- Jimmy Carter, b. October 1, 1924
- Britney Spears, b. December 2, 1981
- Benny Sixteen, b. 16 April 1927
- Maggie Thatcher b. 13 October 1925
- Barrack Obama (God help us all if I'm right
![[Frown]](frown.gif) ) b. August 4, 1961 - Keith Richards, b. 18 December 1943
Definitely not a wish list!
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Zappa, Zappa, Zappa. It's thirteen (un)lucky bastards, not a top ten list. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif) ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Sarasa
Shipmate
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Here's Mine:
Robert Mugabe
Margaret Thatcher
Fats Domino
Little Richard
Jerry Lee Lewis
Rabbi Lionel Blue
Kim Jong Il
David Hasselhoff
Robbie Williams
Pete Townshend
Fidel Castro
Alex Ferguson
Bruce Forsyth
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Going for some shake-ups and creativity this year. We'll see.
1. Cedric the Entertainer AKA Cedric Antonio Kyles
2. 50 Cent AKA Curtis James Jackson III
3. Bryant Gumbel
4. Andrew Greeley
5. Elizabeth Edwards
6. Pete Doherty
7. Elizabeth Taylor
8. Louie Anderson
9. Harmid Karzai
10. Jalal Talabani
11. Mohammed Ali
12. Stephen Hawking
13. Amy Winehouse
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Teufelchen
Shipmate
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Like all of my nominees for last year, I'm still alive. Here goes with a suspiciously similar roster for the forthcoming year:
1. Bernard Lawrence Madoff, record-breaking fraudster and former NASDAQ chairman (b. 29/04/1938)
2. Lt Gen Dr Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, gun and vodka magnate, Hero of Socialist Labour, Hero of the Russian Federation and Knight of St Andrew (b. 10/11/1919)
3. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, the Rt Hon the Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven LG, OM, PC, FRS (b. 13/10/1925)
4. The Rt Revd and Hon Dr Ian R K Paisley (Snr) MP, MLA, PC (b. 06/04/1926) (and I predict that he will pass away between the dissolution of Parliament and the General Election)
5. His Excellency Robert Gabriel Mugabe OJ (Hon), President of Zimbabwe (b. 21/02/1924)
6. Steven Paul Jobs, CEO of Apple, Inc. (b. 24/02/1955)
7. Boris Abramovich Berezovsky aka Platon Elenin (b. 21/03/1946)
8. Paul Francis Gadd, aka Gary Glitter (b. 08/05/1944)
9. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, Former President of Cuba, World Hero of Solidarity (b. 13/08/1926)
10. Fred Waldron Phelps Sr (b. 13/11/1929)
11. Marie-Christine Anna Agnes Hedwig Ida Windsor née von Reibnitz, HRH Princess Michael of Kent (b. 15/01/1945)
12. HRH Princess Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel of Kent, the Hon Lady Ogilvy LG, DCVO (b. 25/12/1936)
13. The Most Reverend Peter Jasper Akinola, Primate of Nigeria (b. 27/01/1944)
Yes, the only updates are the birthdates and a few changes of honours. Maybe I should submit this as my List of Life on the other thread...
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Ferijen
Shipmate
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I'm afraid several of my list had a rather bad year last year, in terms of life that is. So here, with replacements for Patrick, Jade and Wendy, and with no hopes of getting lots of points...
* Margaret Thatcher
* Prince Phillip
* Bruce Forsyth
* Nelson Mandela
* Pope Benedict
* Julie Andrews
* Judi Dench
* the Queen
* Russell Watson
* Robert Mugabe
* Kim Jong Il
* Terry Wogan
* Fidel Castro
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Petrified
Ship’s ballast
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Here's mine:
1) Patrick Moore
2) Norman Wisdom
3) Ronnie Biggs
4) Michael Foot
5) Clive Dunn
6) Seve Ballesteros
7) Kirk Douglas
8) Nelson Mandela
9) Margaret Thatcher
10) Prince Phillip
11) Fidel Castro
12) Mohammed Ali
13) Billie Graham
a few new additions - all guaranteed another year.
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Sparrow
Shipmate
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Vera Lynn
Rolf Harris
Patrick Moore
Dick Francis
Keith Richard
Margaret Thatcher
Prince Philip
Jimmy Carter
Amy Winehouse
Lester Piggott
Paul Gascoigne
Diego Maradona
Noel Gallagher
[ 30. December 2009, 13:57: Message edited by: Sparrow ]
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Imaginary Friend
Real to you
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Here's my entry. I've gone for a few of the elderly and infirm, but I've focused on possible assassination targets (which is probably a high-risk strategy). Anyhow, here are the vexed baker's dozen:- Seve Ballesteros
- Fidel Castro
- Jackie Charlton
- David Frost
- Nick Griffen
- Stephen Hawking
- Hamid Karzai
- Rupert Murdoch
- Cecile Richards
- Arial Sharon
- Mordechai Vanunu
- Murray Walker
- Amy Winehouse
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Brian Clough
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Zappa
Ship's Wake
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quote:
Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
Zappa, Zappa, Zappa. It's thirteen (un)lucky bastards, not a top ten list.
Okay ... here's a further three:
- Bryce Courtenay. b. 14 August 1933 (Australo/South African novelist)
- Sam Hunt. b. 4 July 1946 (NZ poet)
- Colin "Pinetree" Meads. b. 3 June 1936. NZ rugby behemoth (named player of the {20th} century by NZ Rugby Football Union - lucky for him Rich McCaw arrived in the 21st century, but I realize most of you have no idea what I'm gabbling about so I'll shut up!)
That's pretty random.
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Yam-pk
Shipmate
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Steven Spielburg
Maragret Thatcher
Prince Phillip
Noam Chomsky
Elizabeth Taylor
Leslie Nielsen
Pete Docherty
Gene Hackman
Eric Sykes
Tony Blair
Warren Mitchell
Richard Attenborough
Ariel Sharon
[ 30. December 2009, 18:48: Message edited by: Yam-uk ]
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jacobsen
seeker
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1. Queen Margarethe of Denmark
2. Prince Henrik her husband.
3. Queen Elizabeth 2nd of England.
4. Prince Philip her husband.
5. Dame Janet Baker.
6. Lady Thatcher
7. Dame Vera Lynn
8. Lord Webber
9. Placido Domingo
10.Pope Benedict -
11.Revd Ian Paisley Senior
12.Stephen Dawkins
13.Mugabwe
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Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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jacobsen
seeker
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Sorry, I've conflated two names. It should read Stephen Hawking.
[ 30. December 2009, 18:52: Message edited by: jacobsen ]
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Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
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Okay, so I got the Inside Track award with one of my 2009 entrants, but the rest of them (originally picked in 2006) are still going strong, unless I missed a memo.
So with one substitution, my list is:
I shall re-use my listed originally started in the 2006 game, and all still going strong.
1. Buzz Aldrin
2. Ursula Andress
3. Bernie Ecclestone
4. Peter Falk (Columbo)
5. Lou Ferrigno (the original TV Hulk)
6. Aretha Franklin
7. Robert Downey Jr.
8. Shane McGowan (Pogues bloke)
9. Gary Numan (80's synth-pop)
10. Ringo Starr
11. Delia Smith
12. Adam West (original TV Batman)
13. Roy Wood (from Wizzard - wish it could be Christmas every day)
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Joyeux
Ship's Lady of Laughter
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In no particular order
1. Billy Graham
2. Fats Domino
3. Pat Boone
4. Aretha Franklin
5. Queen Elizabeth II
6. Nancy Reagan
7. Steve Jobs
8. Steven Hawking
9. Hu Jintao
10. Raoul Castro
11. Fidel Castro
eta (and I obviously can't count...)
12. Mugabwe
13. Barack Obama
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Barnabas62
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1. Margaret Thatcher
2. Billy Graham
3. Prince Philip
4. Ronnie Biggs
5. al Megrahi
6. Michael Schumacher
7. Lindsay Lohan
8. Nancy Reagan
9. John Madden
10. Nelson Mandela
11. Robert Mugabe
12. George H W Bush
13. Sir Jimmy Saville
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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I'm going for a thematic list this year.
Queen Elizabeth II
Emperor Akihito
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
Margaret Thatcher
Robert Mugabe
Morgan Tsvangirai
Nelson Mandela
Moussa Dadis Camara (dictator of Guinea)
Ariel Sharon
Hugo Chavez
Raul Castro
Ali Abdullah Saleh (President of Yemen)
Vladimir Putin
Obama would have fit the theme, but I just couldn't put him on my list.
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Eloise
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1. Ariel Sharon
2. Steve Jobs
3. Dick Clark
4. Dave Davies
5. Russell Watson
6. Ivica Osim
7. Emadeddin Baghi
8. Hamid Karzai
9. Paul Shan Guo-hsi
10. Dave Grant
11. Ruth Bader Ginsberg
12. David Hasselhoff
13. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi
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Kepler's Puppet
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Some of them have to go one of these years....
Billy Graham
Margaret Thatcher
Fidel Castro
John F. Nash Jr.
Chuck Yeager
Dick van Dyke
Russel Johnson
Don Rickles
Mickey Rooney
Muhammad Ali
Pat Robertson
HM Queen Elizabeth II
J. I. Packer
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Mountain mammal
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Mary Tyler Moore
Julie Andrews
Dick Cheney
Dick Clark
Elizabeth Taylor
Whitney Houston
Lauren Bacall
Kirstie Alley
William Shatner
Leonard Nimoy
Rush Limbaugh
Victoria Beckham
Rachel Zoe
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Leaf
Shipmate
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First time playing... and turning over the cards, I see...
1. Jack Black (overweight comedian who smokes - the ghosts of John Belushi and Chris Farley are already hovering)
2. Prince Harry (because William isn't interesting enough to die)
3. Pete Doherty (duh)
4. Robert Mugabe (also duh)
5. Sophia Loren (because even grace and beauty can't live forever)
6. Dick Cheney (see Robert Mugabe)
7. Hugh Hefner (old + ick)
8. Monty Hall (old as dirt, and I needed Canadian content)
9. Courtney Love (because everybody else has Amy Winehouse)
10. Woody Allen (old + ick)
11. Mario Battali (celebrity chef who always looks like he's about to blow a blood vessel)
12. Roger Clemens (ditto - and "no steroids" my ass, let's see what the Grim Reaper says)
13. Dick Clark (although he may be animatronic)
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Uriel
Shipmate
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Following the average performance of my Are You Being Served? theme list in 2009, I have decided to be competitve for 2010. I am therefore entering a "seriously ill" list, which runs as follows:
1) Cardinal Cahal Daly
2) Abdel Bassett Al-Megrahi
3) Umara Yar'Auda
4) The Duke of Roxburghe
5) Sara Payne
6) Teresa Heinz Kerry
7) Seve Ballesteros
8) Steve Prescott
9) Bryant Gumbel
10) Bernie Madoff
11) Elizabeth Edwards
12) Ronnie Biggs
13) Brian Lenihan
Should any of these pass away before midnight tonight I would also like to place the following on the subs bench:
Sub 1) Paul Allen
Sub 2) Melanie Griffith
Sub 3) John Hartson
The only way to play this game is on reports of ill health. Choosing someone for being disliked or a fast-living rock star is a weak strategy. That said, I would genuinely like to wish each and every one on my list all the best for 2010, and I hope I finish 2010 on zero points.
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Schroedinger's cat
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quote:
Originally posted by Uriel:
The only way to play this game is on reports of ill health. Choosing someone for being disliked or a fast-living rock star is a weak strategy. That said, I would genuinely like to wish each and every one on my list all the best for 2010, and I hope I finish 2010 on zero points.
That depends on whether you are playing to try to win, or just for a bit of fun!
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Wesley J
Silly Shipmate
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- 1. The Pope, Bene16
(e.g. jumped at for the 3rd time by a young lady in a red jumper, and this time she'll get 'im!) - 2. David Cameron, Head of UK conservatives
(e.g. finally caught up with by Lore, his evil twin) - 3. Tiger Woods, (s)ex-golf player
(e.g. clubbed dead by [ex-]wife or [ex-]lover[s]) - 4. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian Supreme Leader
(coz he's a nutter, and NOT Diana Ross) - 5. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President
(e.g by falling into a very tiny tank of nuclear waste. Not just irate, but irradiated.) - 6. Amy Winehouse, singer and pop star
(Champagne bottles are not the only ones going pop. 'Captain, the liver canna take any more!') - 7. Barbara Bush, Silver Fox and wife of ex-US Prez Bush no. 1.
(The fox hunting season is on!) - 8. Bill Gates, Founder of successful, but somewhat crappy computer software
("The Pearly Gates can not be opened as Windows To Heaven has just crashed. Send error report.") - 9. David Blunkett, former UK Home Secretary
(e.g. by stumbling over his guide dog at home, into a secretaire) - 10. Fred Waldron Phelps, Sr., Westboro Baptist Church head
(e.g. in a gay nightclub, run by a massive former WBC member) - 11. Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, former leader of the DUP
(e.g. his vocal cords blow it, as does his aorta) - 12. Jacques Chirac, former French Prez
(e.g. mauled by his dog - again, but for good; though some might say, for food.) - 13. Anne Robinson, botoxed UK TV host
('She's the weakest link. Goodbye.')
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markey
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Here's my lot and in no particular order -
1. Margaret Thatcher
2. Robert Mugabe
3. Muhammed Ali
4. Hamid Karzai
5. Barack Obama
6. Tony Blair
7. Jimmy Carter
8. Amy Winehouse
9. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
10. Stephen Hawking
11. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
12. Ian Paisley
13. Colonel Gaddafi
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Organ Builder
Shipmate
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I was a little more successful in 2009, so I'm not assuming that I'll give the kiss of life anymore. I've tweaked the remainders a bit--I'm undoubtedly a horrible person since I have real twinges about removing someone from the list. I don't want to hear of their death and have the first thought in my mind be "Damn, why did I remove them from this year's list?"
Thanks to the Ship--and this game--I am aware of a much more international dying set. Here are my choices for 2010:
1. Cardinal Cahal Daly (OK, so he's 92--not very many points but he's a good shot for First Blood).
2. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi.
3. Ronnie Biggs.
4. Peter Tork.
5. Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
6. Jerry Lewis
7. Robert Mugabe
8. Hamid Karzai
9. Steven Hawking
10. Elizabeth Taylor
11. Nancy Reagan
12. Billy Graham
13. Fidel Castro
If one of these pops in the next few hours, my alternates would be:
A. Zsa-Zsa Gabor.
B. Betty Ford.
I've left Amy Winehouse off the list this year, in spite of her youth and a self-destructive streak that is legendary across the continents.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Mine is almost the same as last year, but my research time was limited this year. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
1. Rev. Billy Graham
2. Joanne Woodward (Because she misses Paul?)
3. Lindsay Lohan
4. Kirk Douglas even though he's not worth many points anymore.
5. Britney Spears
6. Mike Tyson
7. Pete Doherty
8. Eddie Van Halen
9. Robert Downey Jr.
10. Andrew Lloyd Webber
11. Marilyn Manson
12. Betty Ford even though she's not worth many points anymore.
13. Jackie Cooper even though he's not worth many points anymore.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Originally posted by marmot:
Kirstie Alley
William Shatner
Leonard Nimoy
You killing off the rest of the Star Trek crew? ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Tom Day
Ship's revolutionary
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My turn...
Margaret Thatcher
George Bush snr
Michael Winner
Ronnie Wood
Bobby Charlton
Bruce Forsyth
Dave Swarbrick
Prince Charles
Prince Harry
Jack Tweed
Jason Donovan
Tony Blair
Manmohan Singh
There we go
Tom Day
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Sandemaniac
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Ye gods, as a non-news junkie, trying to sort a 13 out has been a bloomin' nightmare. I think I might stick to the fitness race next year. Or, of course, I could try to name it a bit further in advance...
1. Tiger Woods
2. Hugo Chavez
3. Rush Limbaugh
4. Sharif Ahmed (Somali President)
5. Russell Watson
6. Jimmy Armfield
7. Shahid Malik (Communities Minister)
8. Paul Gascoigne
9. Annemarie van Kesteren (wife of Man U goalie Edwin Van der Sar - so read the Sun for her...)
10. Alan Stanford
11. Bernie Madoff
12. Tony Blair
13. Jerry Lee Lewis (can you tell that I was getting a bit desperate towards the end...?)
Good luck... to some of them!
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Mamacita
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1. Anwar al-Awlaki
2. Seve Ballesteros
3. Dwayne Michael Carter aka Lil Wayne
4. Fidel Castro
5. Dick Cheney
6. Roger Ebert
7. Elizabeth Edwards
8. Rush Limbaugh
9. Loretta Lynn
10. Bernie Madoff
11. John McCain
12. Abdelbaset al-Myradi
13. Amy Winehouse
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Celtic Knotweed
Shipmate
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With some help from Sandemaniac in the collecting of names for a few (so I may have some typos as I can't always read his handwriting!)...
- Hamed Kazai (President of Afghanistan)
- Jalal Talabani (President of Iraq)
- Nouri al-Malik (PM of Iraq)
- Ayatollah Khamenei
- President Ahmedimjab of Iran
- Robert Mugabe
- Morgan Changerai
- Vladimir Putin
- Tony Blair
- Hu Jintao (Premier of People's Republic of China)
- Margaret Thatcher
- Neil Kinnock
- George W Bush
Some are a wish list, some are from being a bit of a political news-site reader. Some might be both ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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Jahlove
Tied to the mast
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Same as last year (with one alteration)
1. Michael Flatley: Terpsichorean
2. Ben Fogle: Action Man TV Presenter
3. Kerry Katona: Irritating Iceland Advertizer
4. Tony Blair: Liar
5. George Bush snr (GHWB): POTUS (1989-1993)
6. Alex Allen: Chairman of the UK Joint Intelligence Committee (Spy)
7. Pete Doherty: UK’s most famous drug addict
8. Barack Obama: POTUS
9. Elizabeth Taylor: Movie legend
10. Amy Winehouse: Troubled songstress and unwell person
11. David Icke: Conspiracy Theorist (one day *They* will get him)
12. Brian Wilson: Beach Boy
13. Robert Mugabe: Will the Devil get tired of looking after his own this year?
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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Originally posted by Light User:
Edward Schillebeeckx has thrown in the towel before the starting gun was fired. Please can I replace him with Pope Benedict, who has been looking a little off balance recently.
How deep is your substitutes' bench? You need to replace Cardinal Daly as well.
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ebeth
Shipmate
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1. Bernie Madoff
2. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Megrahi
3. Ariel Sharon
4. Betty Ford
5. Billy Graham
6. Nelson Mandela
7. Elizabeth Edwards
8. Louis Farrakhan
9. Margaret Thatcher
10. Rush Limbaugh
11.Tiger Woods
12. Michael J. Fox
13. Fidel Castro
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Mr.e
Apprentice
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Here's my list. Put it together rather quickly, so don't know how I'll do this year.
1. Courtney Love
2. Steven Tyler
3. Senator Robert Byrd
4. Andy Rooney
5. Roger Ebert
6. Keith Richards
7. Queen Elizabeth II
8. Bernie Madoff
9. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
10. Hillary Rodham Clinton
11. Amy Winehouse
12. Peter Falk
13. Joaquin Phoenix
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marmot
Mountain mammal
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
quote:
Originally posted by marmot:
Kirstie Alley
William Shatner
Leonard Nimoy
You killing off the rest of the Star Trek crew?
Kirstie Alley is morbidly obese. Shatner is a bloated boozebag. And did you see Nimoy in the latest Trek movie? He looks like the Crypt Keeper .
[ 01. January 2010, 02:51: Message edited by: marmot ]
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Originally posted by marmot:
quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
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Originally posted by marmot:
Kirstie Alley
William Shatner
Leonard Nimoy
You killing off the rest of the Star Trek crew?
Kirstie Alley is morbidly obese. Shatner is a bloated boozebag. And did you see Nimoy in the latest Trek movie? He looks like the Crypt Keeper .
But, but, but...I had such a huge crush on Spock when I was young. In my mind, he always looks like he did when I was a teen.
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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And we're off for the new year.
We've got 63 participants this year, and 398 proposed victims.
Here are the favorites:
31 Margaret Thatcher
25 Robert Mugabe
20 Amy Winehouse
18 Fidel Castro
14 Billy Graham
14 Prince Philip
13 Nelson Mandela
12 Muhammad Ali
11 Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
11 Pope Benedict XVI
11 Queen Elizabeth II
10 Pete Doherty
10 Stephen Hawking
The new scorecard is here. Please free free to check my work.
(There are three people who chose Cardinal Daly, and can replace him with a second choice...)
Good luck, if that's what we should call it.
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