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Thread: 2014 Celebrity Death Pool
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Piglet
Islander
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Although their political views were very different from mine, I admired Messrs. Benn and Crow for sticking to their principles and fighting for what they believed to be right - an example we could all follow.
RIP.
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Ariston
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
In a World where action movie adverts have become a bit more boring.
So, of course, his best work.
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Organ Builder
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Originally posted by Japes:
Tony Benn has died, aged 88.
Given some of the real scoundrels on my list, why did he have to give me my first points since Michael Jackson died?
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How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.--E.F. Benson
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The Rogue
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So far this year the angel of death has struck our lists six times. Ariel Sharon, Chris Chattaway, Claudio Abbado, Pete Seeger, Shirley Temple Black and Tony Benn will be ineligible for next year's game.
Eight contestants have scored once each so the Quantity Not Quality award is currently shared. Claudio Abbado was furthest away from getting a telegram from the queen so Light User is leading the main competition. The first celebrity to disturb the obituary writers was Ariel Sharon so Caissa gets the Inside Track with the Grim Reaper award.
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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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I was just about to post the same thing, SC. I always enjoyed Two Fat Ladies- great, no-nonsense, slightly tongue-in-cheek stuff.
CDW was one of my (very few) "celebrity sightings" - I saw her at Edinburgh Airport once while en route somewhere.
RIP.
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Kyzyl
Ship's dog
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
Clarissa Dickson Wright has joined her friend in the heavenly kitchen.
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No! That is sad. I just watched her "Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner" series on You Tube this past week.
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Piglet
Islander
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British actor Malcolm Tierney has died - Charlie Gimbert from Lovejoy will be ducking and diving in Heaven.
My late father-in-law's auction-house in Colchester was the setting for Gimbert's in the Lovejoy books, but I hasten to add that he was nothing like Gimbert!
RIP Mr. Tierney
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Originally posted by piglet:
I was just about to post the same thing, SC. I always enjoyed Two Fat Ladies- great, no-nonsense, slightly tongue-in-cheek stuff.
CDW was one of my (very few) "celebrity sightings" - I saw her at Edinburgh Airport once while en route somewhere.
RIP.
Oh, no! ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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I cannot expect people to believe “
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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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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Fred Phelps just earned 16 points for several people.
I pray that he now knows we have a loving Father -- who loves EVERYONE.
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~Tortuf
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Hedgehog
Ship's Shortstop
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Here is a link to the BBC report of Phelps' death.
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"We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it."--Pope Francis, Laudato Si'
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St. Gwladys
Shipmate
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+16 points.
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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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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
+16 points.
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Can't say the man hasn't contributed something of value to the Ship.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
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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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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His Holiness Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch, will not be attending the upcoming ecumenical council.
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"I take prayer too seriously to use it as an excuse for avoiding work and responsibility." -- The Revd Martin Luther King Jr.
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cygnus
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He's only one point, but Indian writer Khushwant Singh died last week at the age of 99. I was lucky enough to meet him in Delhi a few years ago- a charming man with a wicked sense of humour, and in no way politically correct.
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lilBuddha
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One less Time Lord, Kate O'Mara dies.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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Frankie Knuckles has died. I have heard some of his music, and love it, but his influence on the music scene is huge. Everyone has heard Knuckles inspired music.
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Blog
Music for your enjoyment
Lord may all my hard times be healing times
take out this broken heart and renew my mind.
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lilBuddha
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Author, naturalist and cofounder of the Paris Review, Peter Matthiessen has transcended this plane of existence.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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lilBuddha
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Acting legend, Mickey Rooney has died. May his path be no more troubled.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
Peaches Geldof has been found dead aged 25
I was just coming to post that. Really sad news. So young.
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Blog
Music for your enjoyment
Lord may all my hard times be healing times
take out this broken heart and renew my mind.
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lilBuddha
Shipmate
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Not as famous as the other recent, But a tremendously funny man, John Pinette laughs no more.
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I put on my rockin' shoes in the morning
Hallellou, hallellou
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Mary Anderson, who played Maybelle Merriwether in Gone With the Wind and was one of its last surviving cast members, has entered that great Tara in the skies.
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"I take prayer too seriously to use it as an excuse for avoiding work and responsibility." -- The Revd Martin Luther King Jr.
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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The Heavenly Choir will be getting another bass/baritone: John Shirley-Quirk has died.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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Sue Townsend of "Adrian Mole" fame has died at 68.
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"...that is generally a matter for Pigwidgeon, several other consenting adults, a bottle of cheap Gin and the odd giraffe."
~Tortuf
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maleveque
Shipmate
# 132
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died.
Anne L.
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Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif) What a huge loss.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
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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An die Freude
Shipmate
# 14794
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Stumbling in and realized I probably needed to look up the people on my list, just to guard my interests.
Turns out Miley Cyrus, Lindsay Lohan and Justin Bieber are all still alive. Dokka Umarov, on the other hand, is not. 50 points.
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Walt Whitman
Formerly JFH
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The Rogue
Shipmate
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If I may be pedantic, 51 points. Had he survived another 26 days he would have died on his fiftieth birthday.
I'll do a full round up in the next few days.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
What a huge loss.
OTOH what a huge legacy. It's sad but his death will wake people up to what he did.
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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lilBuddha
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The Hurricane is calmed, Rubin Carter has died.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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lilBuddha
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Originally posted by TheAlethiophile:
Farewell to Bob Hoskins. You were a good'un.
Oh my, genuine tears roll down my cheeks, one of the best ever.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Efrem Zimbalist Jr. has changed his address from 77 Sunset Strip to the Elysian Fields.
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"I take prayer too seriously to use it as an excuse for avoiding work and responsibility." -- The Revd Martin Luther King Jr.
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Hedgehog
Ship's Shortstop
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. has changed his address from 77 Sunset Strip to the Elysian Fields.
I am sitting here trying to think what my favorite role of his was. For years, he was the face of the FBI. And he was brilliant as suave con man Daniel Chalmers in Remington Steele.
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"We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it."--Pope Francis, Laudato Si'
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Piglet
Islander
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Elena Baltacha, Scottish tennis player and former British ladies' No. 1 seed, has died aged 30.
Poor girl - may she rest in peace.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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An die Freude
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General Choe Ryong-Hae has been removed from top positions in North Korea, according to the BBC. The articles are inaccessible here in China so I cannot link them. Could be nothing, could be 34 points coming up.
[ 06. May 2014, 08:27: Message edited by: JFH ]
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"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable."
Walt Whitman
Formerly JFH
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Sioni Sais
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# 5713
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Seveteen Points for anyone who had Leslie Thomas, author of "The Virgin Soldiers" and the "Dangerous Davies" series.
Another talented Newport boy gone.
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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An die Freude
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# 14794
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Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul, director of the Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man, was found dead, only 36 years old. The police have concluded that no crime was involved but are reluctant to reveal more information concerning where he was found. Massive loss for Swedish film, and for documentary film as a genre internationally.
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"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable."
Walt Whitman
Formerly JFH
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ArachnidinElmet
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H.R. Giger, artist and creator of cyber-craziness, best known for Alien, has died.
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'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka
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Kyzyl
Ship's dog
# 374
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Jerry Vale...
Jerry Vale
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