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Thread: 2016 Ship of Fools Celebrity Death Pool
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Sipech
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Given the way this year is going, I wouldn't be surprised if it climaxes with David Attenborough, Mary Berry, Andy Murray and the Queen dying in a 4-way head-on car crash.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Presumably the Queen's chauffeur and footman would survive? Seems unfair to include them.
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
Does anyone have Common Sense, Democracy or Hope? All three seem to have finally breathed their last.
How would you determine their ages?
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Sioni Sais
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No more encores of Suzanne everyone. Leonard Cohen has died at 82.
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Jamat
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
No more encores of Suzanne everyone. Leonard Cohen has died at 82.
Democracy is comin..
To the USA!
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
No more encores of Suzanne everyone. Leonard Cohen has died at 82.
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
And Napoleon Solo has died. So U.N.C.L.E. cannot save us.
More importantly, the last of the Magnificent Seven is no more.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Tree Bee:
Now Leon Russell has died aged 74.
I had him on my list a while ago, but not this year.
Sad but inevitable in a way. In his earlier days he was the twin of my brother, who died earlier this year.
RIP Leon: you can accompany Joe Cocker in Heaven's everlasting Rock Festival.
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jedijudy
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Gwen Ifill is reporting the news to the angels, now. ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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Amos
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William Trevor has died. A very fine writer.
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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Maybe not hugely well know but Craig Gill had died. He was the drummer with Inspiral Carpets, who had some fantastic songs, including This is How it Feels, which still blows me away.
He was only 44.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Florence Henderson has joined the Heavenly Bunch.
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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WaPo is saying the same thing.
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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Fidel Castro would be the fourth from Gwai's list this year. Is that a record? I don't recall anyone getting four in any previous years.
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The Rogue
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Ten points for five people.
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Baker
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I play on another board, and one player, the lead, has had nine out of their thirteen die. Now that's creepy.
They didn't pick Fidel though.
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Piglet
Islander
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I have a feeling I might have had him in previous years*, but not this year. Does that mean I killed him? ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
* probably on my "isn't he dead yet?" list
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
# 64
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As mentioned in All Saints, Ron glass - Shepherd Book in Firefly - has died.
A fantastic example of Christian presence in the real world.
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
As mentioned in All Saints, Ron Glass - Shepherd Book in Firefly - has died.
A fantastic example of Christian presence in the real world.
According to Wikipedia, he was a Buddhist.
![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
As mentioned in All Saints, Ron Glass - Shepherd Book in Firefly - has died.
A fantastic example of Christian presence in the real world.
According to Wikipedia, he was a Buddhist.
His character I mean, whose faith was never defined. But he was an example of how to be spiritual in the fact of difficult circumstances.
My bad - I expressed this badly.
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
As mentioned in All Saints, Ron Glass - Shepherd Book in Firefly - has died.
A fantastic example of Christian presence in the real world.
According to Wikipedia, he was a Buddhist.
His character I mean, whose faith was never defined. But he was an example of how to be spiritual in the fact of difficult circumstances.
My bad - I expressed this badly.
I only knew him from Barney Miller -- I'm not familiar with Firefly.
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Baker
Shipmate
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I'm rather bummed that Ron Glass has died. I loved his character on Barney Miller. And I saw him in a few other things, although not Firefly.
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Hedgehog
Ship's Shortstop
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
As mentioned in All Saints, Ron Glass - Shepherd Book in Firefly - has died.
A fantastic example of Christian presence in the real world.
According to Wikipedia, he was a Buddhist.
His character I mean, whose faith was never defined. But he was an example of how to be spiritual in the fact of difficult circumstances.
My bad - I expressed this badly.
From one of the episodes:
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Zoë (on seeing Book grab a shotgun): Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killin'?
Book: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.
Always loved that line. Ron Glass played the part so well. RIP.
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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"I'm not familiar with Firefly". You are dead to me. Dead, you hear?
Hedgehog - probably his best line. His was one of the stories that I really missed getting fully explored and understood. I think this represents a person with a deep spirituality, but who also knew how to handle a gun, was not scared by the gritty real world. I don't think he ever sold out to either side.
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Hedgehog
Ship's Shortstop
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Grant Tinker has died. He was the producer of many good and/or great TV series over the years. And, when head of NBC, he showed patience with series--even if they started with low ratings (such as "Cheers" and "Hill Street Blues"), if the concept was good he would give the series time to find its audience. As I have had many favorite series get summarily cancelled over the years, I appreciated his approach.
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Baker
Shipmate
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When will the 2017 game start? I love the morbidness! I've run death pools on two other boards and it's a blast!
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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Originally posted by Sipech:
I can speak English. I learn it from a book.
Thank you for the laughs, Andrew Sachs.
Oh no! Some of his skits could have me ROTFLMAO.
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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A real loss. He was awesome as Manuel, of course, but he also did lots of voiceover work (which he was excellent at). When you hear that work, you realise just how hard he was working for Manuel.
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Piglet
Islander
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Que?
RIP Manuel.
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St. Gwladys
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There was a big article about him in our newspaper today. Apparently, he died late November, but his funeral was this week
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Teekeey Misha
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Since we're into Advent, shouldn't the 2017 Ship of Fools Celebrity Death Pool be launching right about now? I'm concerned that my preferred candidates... umm I mean... "selections" might opt out before I get them in!
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Misha
Don't assume I don't care; sometimes I just can't be bothered to put you right.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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I know nothing.
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Ariston
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Yeah, it probably should. Time to pull out your lists of vile terrorists and celebrity gossip!
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An die Freude
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What's the score by the way?
In the interest of settling this in the... appropriate way, may I point out that Mullah Akhtar Mansour is now widely considered dead, including by Wikipedia. Wikipedia holds his birth year as being circa 1968.
May I also plead the case that Mokhtar Belmokhtar scorewise be included in this year's reapings, as he was only removed from the U.S. Justice Dept.'s Rewards for Justice list in January this year, thus confirming his death which may or may not (with admittedly a heavy lean to the former ![[Biased]](wink.gif) ) have occured in 2015? As he was suspected to have died in 2015 but without a confirmation, putting him on my 2016 list was apparently allowed. What would our eminent judge say on a special case such as this?
(What do you mean this is a blatant, overly competitive call-out for more points in a silly game on a website for faith and humour? All I want is a little bit of justice! ![[Razz]](tongue.gif) )
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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I think from previous years, you are allowed to have any one who is not confirmed dead. However, the actual date/year of death is what is taken, when sufficient evidence its identified.
In the name of Justice, of course.
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Uncle Pete
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For another example Raoul Wallenberg who was widely believed to have died somewhere in the 50s, has just had his death confirmed and listed as 1952, per The Economist who ran an obituary on him a few weeks back.
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Hedgehog
Ship's Shortstop
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Originally posted by An die Freude:
What's the score by the way?
Well, I've got zero. It isn't competitive, but it is easy to keep track of.
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An die Freude
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Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
For another example Raoul Wallenberg who was widely believed to have died somewhere in the 50s, has just had his death confirmed and listed as 1952, per The Economist who ran an obituary on him a few weeks back.
Wouldn't have given you many points though... (Wallenberg was born in 1912.)
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Hedgehog
Ship's Shortstop
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The Green Hornet has stung his last villain.
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Sipech
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Peter Vaughan (aka Grouty, from Porridge) has now served his life sentence.
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Hedgehog
Ship's Shortstop
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The Voice of Lord's (Johnny Dennis) has been silenced.
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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Helen Roseveare has died. I hadn't realised she was still alive. I read "Give Me This Mountain" when I was a very new Christian in my teens.
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Sandemaniac
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The Emerson Lake & Palmer reunion is looking increasingly threadbare.
Random observation - apparently Emerson was a huge Bonzo Dog Band fan, and was on the same physical mailing list as me until he died.
AG
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St. Gwladys
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I love "I believe in Father Christmas", although it must be the most cynical Christmas song ever.
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
I love "I believe in Father Christmas", although it must be the most cynical Christmas song ever.
It is one of the vanishingly few Christmas songs I can listen to. Although I think Fairytale might beat it for cynicism.
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