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Thread: 2017 Celebrity Death Pool
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kingsfold
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Lord Snowdon , the former husband of Princess Margaret has departed this life. Not sure if anyone had him....
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And in that light of life I'll walk 'til travelling days are done
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Kyzyl
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William Peter Blatty is scaring them in the great beyond...
(Can't seem to post link on this device, sorry)
[ 13. January 2017, 16:29: Message edited by: Kyzyl ]
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lilBuddha
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Perhaps your device is possessed. Link.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Earl of Snowdon
Dammit, why wasn't he on my list! ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Piglet
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If I'm honest, I probably thought he'd been dead for years, but that may be because I get him confused with the Earl of Lichfield, who has.
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Kyzyl
Ship's dog
# 374
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The last man on the moon has gone...
Gene Cernan
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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Or, as XKCD would remind us...
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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L'organist
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The creator of Doctor Dog and Mummy Laid an Egg, Babette Cole has died.
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Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet
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Sandemaniac
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Rachel Heyhoe-Flint has died aged 77.
AG
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
# 64
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I think you will find it is actually an unhyphenated double barrelled surname.
But it is still one the greatest names ever.
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Lord may all my hard times be healing times
take out this broken heart and renew my mind.
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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Roberta Peters, the coloratura soprano opera star and 35-year veteran of New York City's Metropolitan Opera Company, died yesterday.
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Kyzyl
Ship's dog
# 374
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Actor Miguel Ferrer
CNN obit
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The Rogue
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Gordon Kaye
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If everyone starts thinking outside the box does outside the box come back inside?
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Piglet
Islander
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We saw the live version of 'Allo, Allo! at the London Palladium in about 1990; it was even more risqué than the TV show and had everyone in fits.
RIP Rene. ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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Au revoir, au revoir, Rene. A genius character, played to perfection.
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Lord may all my hard times be healing times
take out this broken heart and renew my mind.
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Hedgehog
Ship's Shortstop
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Two baseball players, Yordano Ventura and Andy Marte, each died in separate car crashes in the Dominican Republic.
Ventura has been a starting pitcher for the Kansas City Royals for the last 4 years. A promising career cut short.
Marte was no longer in MLB. He was a general infielder (1st & 3rd) and played most frequently with the Cleveland Indians. He last played in 2014, playing in something like 4 games with the Diamondbacks.
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Og: Thread Killer
Ship's token CN Mennonite
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Mary Tyler Moore has died.
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I wish I was seeking justice loving mercy and walking humbly but... "Cease to lament for that thou canst not help, And study help for that which thou lament'st."
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Kyzyl
Ship's dog
# 374
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Here's Mary Tyler Moore with the iconic statue that is on Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis.
Minnesota Public Radio
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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I feared Mary Tyler Moore was not long for this world when I made my list.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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That's 20 for Lyda*Rose, and this year's Inside Track with the Grim Reaper award!
In 2016, despite the (then-noted) high number of noteworthy deaths (and a reference to the Scalia SCOTUS confirmation battle being HUGE...oh the irony...), nobody got a measly little point until 14 February.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Well, dang. What do you say when the death of somebody nice gets you points in the game? It wouldn't have felt as awkward if Kim Jong-un had croaked. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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Only the good die young...
(ETA: well, okay. Technically Kim would have been worth a passel more points, but...)
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Jack the Lass
Ship's airhead
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Did anybody have Tam Dalyell on their list? Another political giant ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Piglet
Islander
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He'll have finally found out the answer to the West Lothian Question.
RIP Mr. Dalyell.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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lilBuddha
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# 14333
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Butch Trucks, co-founder of the Allman Brothers Band, has died of an apparent suicide.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
# 333
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Mike Connors has died. Goodness, I hadn't thought of him in years.
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Baker
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# 18458
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John Hurt has died. One of the best English speaking actors in the world. He was 77.
Also, Barbara Hale, who played Della Street to Raymond Burr's Perry Mason, has died at the age of 94.
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Ad astra per aspera
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lilBuddha
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# 14333
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Fuck. I know all this is within the normal curves, but fuck.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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no prophet's flag is set so...
Proceed to see sea
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I'd missed the death of Tom Harpur on 02 Jan. He came to be well-known for his TV and radio show "Harpur's Heaven and Hell". Regardless of his controversial ideas (bestseller in Canada "The Pagan Christ"), he always came across as a kind, thoughtful decent priest.
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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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King Crimson Singer and bass player dies, the second in 2 months.
John Wetton, I have been a fan since seeing him in Mogul Thrash.
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Stetson
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# 9597
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quote:
Originally posted by Kyzyl:
[QB] William Peter Blatty is scaring them in the great beyond...
I quote this not out of any personal animosity toward William Peter Blatty, but simply because I think it was probably the most extraordinary opening paragraph I have ever read in a film-review, and Blatty himself was the direct inspiration...
"Shallowness that asks to be taken seriously..."
My own opinion of the film is not as negative as all that, but I think I'll save it for when William Friedkin kicks.
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Stetson
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# 9597
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I will say that Blatty did direct The Exorcist III, based on his book Legion, which I happen to think has the eeriest imagery of the whole series to that point(haven't seen the prequels).
Nurses station
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
# 10894
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quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
Bloomin' 'eck! Former South African rugby union captain, Joost van der Westhuizen has died, aged a mere 45.
Well then. 55 points for me!
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Kyzyl
Ship's dog
# 374
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"Professor" Irwin Corey, World's Foremost Authority...
Irwin Corey
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
Another 55 points for anyone who identified Tara Palmer-Tomkinson as having an appointment at the grey havens.
Very young really, although longer than might have been expected. And I am not sure that "socialite" is actually a job.
But genuinely sad at her death. She was, for me, the epitome of a certain class from the 1990s.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Richard Hatch is forever safe from the Cylons.
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Sandemaniac
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# 12829
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Fucking Ada, two people my age in a week!
AG
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
# 10192
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The great tenor Nicolai Gedda has died at 91. I was priviledged to hear him twice at the Met -- in The Bartered Bride and Eugene Onegin. The Heavenly Chorus is blessed to have him join them.
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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One of my earliest experiences of opera was hearing Gedda (opposite Sills!) in Manon. He never returned to San Francisco -- I'm sure that there's a buried explanation for that somewhere.
It's still one of my top few memories.
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St. Gwladys
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Peter Skellern, singer, songwriter and latterly, priest, has died.
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"Careful what you say sir, we're on board ship here"
From "New York Girls", Steeleye Span, Commoners Crown (Voiced by Peter Sellers)
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Trudy Scrumptious
BBE Shieldmaiden
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If I'd been seriously looking for points instead of going for young, annoying pseudo-celebrities, I'd have put on Canadian storyteller and radio host Stuart McLean on my list. He had melanoma, which almost never ends well, and had announced near the end of the year that the temporary hiatus originally planned for his show while he went through treatment, would be extended indefinitely as his cancer was not responding as well as hoped. So the recent news was not unexpected, though very sad. A great loss to his country.
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