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Thread: Circus: 2010 SoF Celebrity Death Pool
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basso
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His death came so close to the deadline that the change should be allowed. I've made the change.
Light User and Uriel, may I have your changes too?
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Light User
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Originally posted by basso:
His death came so close to the deadline that the change should be allowed. I've made the change.
Light User and Uriel, may I have your changes too?
Hello. Please could I replace him with Sister Wendy Beckett. She's getting on a bit now and has heart problems. She still gets up at 1.30am and eats gruel in a draughty old caravan.
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Uriel
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Originally posted by basso:
His death came so close to the deadline that the change should be allowed. I've made the change.
Light User and Uriel, may I have your changes too?
I'll call up Paul Allen from the subs-bench.
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Campbellite
Ut unum sint
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Originally posted by Light User:
She still gets up at 1.30am and eats gruel in a draughty old caravan.
Which means she'll probably outlive us all.
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Suffering for Jesus since 1966.
WTFWED?
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Timothy the Obscure
Mostly Friendly
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I have a post-apocalytic vision (a movie script, actually) in which the only surviving people in Britain are Keith Richard and Margaret Thatcher, and they set out on a journey to Lynchburg, Tennessee to capture the last remaining stocks of Jack Daniels (Maggie complaining all the way, of course...)
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Welease Woderwick
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Originally posted by Timothy the Obscure:
I have a post-apocalytic vision (a movie script, actually) in which the only surviving people in Britain are Keith Richard and Margaret Thatcher, and they set out on a journey to Lynchburg, Tennessee to capture the last remaining stocks of Jack Daniels (Maggie complaining all the way, of course...)
Poor Keith Richard! That is Hell on Earth for the poor guy - enough to make the worst acid trip seem like a walk in st James's Park on a warm summer day!
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Timothy the Obscure
Mostly Friendly
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Mary Daly. Don't think anybody had her.
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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
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Benny Diction 2
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1. Margaret Thatcher
2. Robert Mugabe
3. Andrew Lloyd Webber
4. Jordon
5. Simon Cowel
6. Silvio Berlesconi
7. Heather Mills
8. Tony Bennett
9. Russell Brand
10. Kirk Douglas
11. Melyn Hayes
12. Lionel Blair
13. Bridget Bardot
Totally random.
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"The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England." Tony Benn
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Benny Diction 2
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Sorry in my eagerness to join in this game I didn't bother to read the rules! (The story of my life.) So obviously I have missed the boat so to speak. Still some of my nominations are already picked up.
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Benny Diction
"The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England." Tony Benn
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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Originally posted by ChaosFilledWorld:
I do not think this thread is particularly suitable and is rather in bad taste. Predicting Deaths- a game? Not to the loved ones family if these so called predictions come true.
Please reread the OP:
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This is now the 7th 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.
(Bad taste? Probably.)
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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This thread is for Celebrity Death Pool nominations only. Any discussion of whether it is an appropriate game to play should be made on a separate thread in the Styx. Bearing in mind that the first game of Celebrity Death Pool on these boards was started by Erin.
Chorister, Host.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Jyoti Basu, veteran Communist politician in West Bengal, on my list and the one I most didn't want to die has gone to chat with Marx and Lenin at the Great Politburo Meet in the Sky - I claim my 5 points.
Am I the first of the year?
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Am I the first of the year?
You are. Later than last year by five days.
Still, well done.
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Welease Woderwick
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It's my first ever points after years of the same list!
Rest in peace, Jyoti Basu, you were a great servant of the Bengali people.
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East Price Road
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I don't think anyone had Kate McGarrigle. . She and her sister Anna made some of my favourite records of the 1970s. I've just been playing them again, even though they are well worn.
RIP.
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Ship's Roundhead
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Originally posted by East Price Road:
I don't think anyone had Kate McGarrigle. .
One of their songs. Talk to me of Mendecino is the individually most played track on itunes on this PC.
According to the screen its been played 257 times.
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L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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ken
Ship's Roundhead
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If you want to hear her sing, try the videos linked here. Worth listening to.
I suppose the December concert in London was here last. I wish I had known of it before and been able to see it. But then the ticket I would have bought before they would out would have been denied to someone else...
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L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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Nobody had Kate McGarrigle.
No hits for Erich Segal, either.
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Timothy the Obscure
Mostly Friendly
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Originally posted by East Price Road:
I don't think anyone had Kate McGarrigle.
RIP.
![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) I saw her and Anna many times back in the 1970s at the Ark in Ann Arbor. Such beautiful voices, and she wrote an amazing number of absolutely perfect songs.
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East Price Road
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Re Kate McGarrigle:
Thanks ken for the link to those songs. And Tim the O: I'm not a great concert-goer but I did see them once in the 1970s in London, at the New Victoria. I'm still playing my K & A records - so many entrancing songs....
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jedijudy
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I was sad to hear about Pernell Roberts' death.
A true fan of Bonanza here. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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MrSponge2U
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Author and social activist Howard Zinn has died. Sad to hear.
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MrSponge2U
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Also, J.D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye
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fletcher christian
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zelda rubinstein went into the Light last night.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Originally posted by fletcher christian:
zelda rubinstein went into the Light last night.
Rest in peace, dear little Zelda!
I thought the following quote, taken from the website fletcher christian linked to, is very touching:
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During the filming of Poltergeist III (1988), she was doing a photo shoot when she paused and lurched. Director Gary Sherman . . . asked her what was wrong. She responded with a comment like "I don't know, was just a jolt. I'm fine." Several minutes later Sherman was pulled aside and told . . . [that Zelda's] mother had just died. After developing the film from the photo shoot, it was discovered that every photo had come out fine, except one, which had an inexplicable cloud of light . . . covering half of her with a semi-transparent haze. Rubenstein said she knew the jolt had to have been her mother's passing.
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Schroedinger's cat
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Originally posted by MrSponge2U:
Also, J.D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye
That is so sad, a real tragedy. I had always hoped that he would make an appearance before he died. Catcher is one of those awesome books that you have to read.
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Piglet
Islander
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Did anyone have Ian Carmichael? I must confess that for me he came into the "I thought he'd been dead for years" category. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
RIP
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Japes
Shipmate
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RIP John Dankworth
I shall go and dig out my copy of "Suite for Emma", some pieces he wrote for clarinet and piano for Emma Johnson, and have a tootle in his honour.
[Edited for clarity!]
[ 07. February 2010, 11:27: Message edited by: Japes ]
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Tree Bee
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Originally posted by Japes:
RIP John Dankworth
I shall go and dig out my copy of "Suite for Emma", some pieces he wrote for clarinet and piano for Emma Johnson, and have a tootle in his honour.
[Edited for clarity!]
This is sad. Cleo announced his death at a concert celebrating the Stables 40th anniversary,(in Wavendon, Milton Keynes) last night. John was a local hero.
Turns out he gave a friend of mine away at her wedding too.
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Timothy the Obscure
Mostly Friendly
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Walter Morrison, inventor of the Frisbee. Bet nobody had him.
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Timothy the Obscure
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
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Originally posted by MrSponge2U:
Also, J.D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye
That is so sad, a real tragedy. I had always hoped that he would make an appearance before he died. Catcher is one of those awesome books that you have to read.
Well he seemed to have a pretty good life after his withdrawal--and it's rumored he had 15 completed novels in his closet that might get published now....
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East Price Road
Shipmate
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Originally posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger:
Anyone have Dick Francis?
Yes, Sparrow had - well done.
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Originally posted by East Price Road:
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Originally posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger:
Anyone have Dick Francis?
Yes, Sparrow had - well done.
Much to my sadness - I loved his books.
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Queen Mousie
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Did anyone have Kathryn Grayson? She was one of the big movie musical stars back in the 30's and 40's. She passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 88.
QM
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Joyeux
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Somehow I didn't have her on my list (at least, I don't think I did... *checking*), as I didn't realize that she hadn't died already. And I claim to be a fan of the MGM movie musicals.
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marmot
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Alexander Haig
He has been on one list or other of mine in the past, but not this year.
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I doubt anyone had John Reed - many years ago my family got tickets for several of the Gilbert & Sullivan Operettas each year when he played the principal comedian. Magical times.
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Piglet
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I thought John Reed had been dead for years - I grew up listening to him singing patter songs on old D'Oyly Carte recordings:
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"... everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man, and I can't think why
(Chorus): He can't think why ..."
RIP
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Light User
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The former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kingston, Lawrence Burke was emancipated from his earthly tabernacle just over a month ago. Sadly (for me) the British press have allowed his passing to occur with no fanfair whatsoever, thereby depriving me of any death pool points.
I really thought The Telegraph or The Times might have given him a mention.
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Light User
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Originally posted by Light User:
The former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kingston, Lawrence Burke was emancipated from his earthly tabernacle just over a month ago. Sadly (for me) the British press have allowed his passing to occur with no fanfair whatsoever, thereby depriving me of any death pool points.
I really thought The Telegraph or The Times might have given him a mention.
Please excuse my moronic misspelling of fanfare. For my future reference, how long do I get to edit a post? All I did was get up and put the cat out before returning to my seat. I might briefly have looked up to see if I could find a gap in the clouds, but that was about it. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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You only get a couple of minutes, Light User. Don't let the cat distract you in the future. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
There's nothing in the rules about coverage in UK (or US) sources. I find the reports easily enough in Google News, so I think we should give the points. (Hosts?)
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Imaginary Friend
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Well, it was reported in The Gleaner, which is apparently Jamaica's oldest daily newspaper. So I guess that counts as a "major news outlet" and the points should stand.
Perhaps we need a more watertight definition of what counts as an allowable source though?
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Lyda*Rose
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Nah. This is the Circus. I doubt anyone is going to get pissy about a legitimate news outlet. I think the rule was mostly to exclude people nominating third tier celebs like the local Pistachio Festival Queen or the Mayor of East Podunk.
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Imaginary Friend
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I guess another point is that it would be better if objections are raised when entries are submitted, not when (or if ) the person actually dies.
But I'm sure you're right: We can all play nice, right? ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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