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Thread: 2014 Celebrity Death Pool
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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Dutch poet Gerrit Kouwenaar has joined the Heavenly writing team. The next edition of the Bible will be with words in strange fonts written up-side-down and sideways to resemble pictures.
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I know why God made the rhinoceros, it's because He couldn't see the rhinoceros, so He made the rhinoceros to be able to see it. (Clarice Lispector)
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Let us hope that S. Truett Cathy, the founder of the Chick-Fil-A fast food empire, whose conservative stance against same-sex marriage prompted a boycott, is not refusing to serve same-sex couples at the heavenly banquet -- if invited to cater same, that is.
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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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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
Let us hope that S. Truett Cathy, the founder of the Chick-Fil-A fast food empire, whose conservative stance against same-sex marriage prompted a boycott, is not refusing to serve same-sex couples at the heavenly banquet -- if invited to cater same, that is.
In Old Harry's Game, a radio comedy set in Hell, there was a section reserved for popes, who were all, perpetually 9 months pregnant.
On a similar basis, this guy ought to be given a food franchise, with exclusively gay and lesbian customers. If they want to lay off the ambrosia for a day or two.
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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The Rogue
Shipmate
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Someone I thought had already died - Ian Paisley
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If everyone starts thinking outside the box does outside the box come back inside?
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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by The Rogue:
Someone I thought had already died - Ian Paisley
Twelve points to a lot of people. An interesting day for St Peter.
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I can see St Peter wearing his Triple Crown and the shield with the crossed keys welcoming him at the Pearly Gates.
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Matt Black
Shipmate
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John Bardon, aka Jim Branning, is now supping pints at the celestial banquet rather than the Queen Vic
[ 12. September 2014, 15:41: Message edited by: Matt Black ]
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"Protestant and Reformed, according to the Tradition of the ancient Catholic Church" - + John Cosin (1594-1672)
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I can see St Peter wearing his Triple Crown and the shield with the crossed keys welcoming him at the Pearly Gates.
His path will take him nowhere near the Pearly Gates.
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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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Stetson
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I can see St Peter wearing his Triple Crown and the shield with the crossed keys welcoming him at the Pearly Gates.
His path will take him nowhere near the Pearly Gates.
I'll bet NOW he wishes that purgatory existed.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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It does . . . but his path won't lead anywhere near it either.
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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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ChastMastr
Shipmate
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I agree Paisley was a dreadful man who did many awful things, but shouldn't we be praying for his soul rather than assuming he's damned? ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
May God have mercy on him and all others named in this thread, and bring them to Him in the end. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Piglet
Islander
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Don't get me wrong - I wouldn't have voted for Paisley if he'd been the last man on earth - but I don't believe he was all bad, and certainly no worse than some of the extremists on the other side of the Political Divide.
I understand that the people of North Antrim found him to be a very good constituency MP, who would fight for their rights no matter which foot they kicked with.
He may have been a loony, but at least he didn't actually kill anyone, which can't be said of all NI politicians.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Prince Nicholas Romanovich Romanov, the oldest member of the Russian Empire's Romanov Dynasty, is holding court up above.
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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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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
# 1984
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Aha, memorials.
DT
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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell
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Stercus Tauri
Shipmate
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quote:
Crap spouted by The Rogue:
Someone * thought had already died - Ian Paisley
* almost literally bumped into Ian Paisley at Heathrow a couple of times, as the Belfast shuttle must have arrived about the same time as the one from Edinburgh - and remember him as a giant, towering over me. For years * hated him, but one day * heard an interview where he was asked, "Why are you always so negative, Ian?" "* am NOT!" he replied. How could * hate him after that?
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Country singer George Hamilton IV has gone to that Abilene, Sweet Abilene, in the sky.
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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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The Rogue
Shipmate
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I'm not sure if I have asked this before. Does anyone have any links to previous Death Pools? I have got the first one in 2004 and then 2007 all the way up to the present. So it is 2005 & 2006 that I am looking for.
Cheers,
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If everyone starts thinking outside the box does outside the box come back inside?
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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She was on my list! Wow.
I thought I was granting her many decades more of life. It is a sad loss, because she was the last of the Mitford sisters, and so the last of a period that is now lost to us - a time of innocence, and a time of European unity to a level we don't see today.
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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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Heavenly Anarchist
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quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
She was on my list! Wow.
I thought I was granting her many decades more of life. It is a sad loss, because she was the last of the Mitford sisters, and so the last of a period that is now lost to us - a time of innocence, and a time of European unity to a level we don't see today.
I have a biography of the Mitford girls on my shelves and they were fascinating for their diversity in character. Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love is a wonderful caricature of her family life growing up and a description of an entirely different age.
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maleveque
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
She was on my list! Wow.
I thought I was granting her many decades more of life. It is a sad loss, because she was the last of the Mitford sisters, and so the last of a period that is now lost to us - a time of innocence, and a time of European unity to a level we don't see today.
I had her on my list, too! Not many points, though. I, too, was sure I was guaranteeing her many more years.
- Anne L.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Christopher Hogwood has joined the Academy of Really Ancient Music.
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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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An die Freude
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There are internet reports that Kim Jong Un has not made any public appearances for more than a month...
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Walt Whitman
Formerly JFH
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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One can but hope.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Walter Josef Fischer, one of Germany's most prolific subway graffiti vandals -- oops, I mean artists -- has been struck and killed by a subway train.
I doubt if he was on anyone's list, but I respectfully submit that his manner of death argues for the existence of God.
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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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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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And Gaby Aghion, who founded the fashion house of Chloe, is now designing robes for the heavenly choir.
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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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L'organist
Shipmate
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Kim Jong Un - not dead: apparently he's broken both of his ankles falling off the 'lifts' in his shoes ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
RIP Michael Scott-Joynt, Bishop of Winchester 1995-2011, in the vanguard opposing Jeffrey John as a suffragan bishop.
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Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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Haiti's 'Baby Doc' Duvalier is dead at 63 -- how can someone with no heart die of a heart attack?
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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And Father Benedict Groeschel, one of the shining lights of Mother Angelica's Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), is gently chiding the saints for their weaker moments while on earth.
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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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Sipech
Shipmate
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Elizabeth Pena, one of the stars of Batteries Not Included has added her voice to the choir invisible. Source: BBC
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
Elizabeth Pena, one of the stars of Batteries Not Included has added her voice to the choir invisible. Source: BBC
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Too soon!
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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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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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The angels' robes are now being designed by Oscar de la Renta.
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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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Piglet
Islander
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And they'll be listening to that wonderful saxophone solo from Baker Street. If you scroll down the page, you can get an actual earworm. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
RIP.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Piglet
Islander
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That's another little bit of my youth gone, although I must admit I remember him as much for the Green Cross Code advert:
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Hey, you must be out of your TINY MINDS!
RIP.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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Imagine Raphael Ravenscroft and Jack Bruce jamming...
...nice.
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The Rogue
Shipmate
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Another scores update.
Since my last report the additionally dead include Sally Farmiloe, Richard Attenborough, Ian Paisley, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, Lynda Bellingham and Gough Whitlam.
Twenty one of the forty three players have now scored points and top of the tree is Tree Bee with sixty seven points from two deaths. Cottontail is next with fifty six points and JFH third with fifty one points.
The Quantity Not Quality title is being lead by kankucho who has correctly predicted four deaths.
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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Joan Quigley, whose astrological predictions allegedly called the shots during the Reagan White House years, is now among the stars.
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"...that is generally a matter for Pigwidgeon, several other consenting adults, a bottle of cheap Gin and the odd giraffe."
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The Rogue
Shipmate
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Now Acker Bilk is joining the choir (and band) invisible.
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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I was devastated to learn that Tom Magliozzi has just driven through the Pearly Gates. He will be deeply missed. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
For those of you not in the U.S., Tom and his brother did a weekly radio show about car repairs and whatever else struck their fancy. Even those of us with no interest in car repairs listen devotedly every week (they've been on in reruns the past two years), and my biggest fear is always that I'll drive off the road laughing if I'm in my car when I listen.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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What will we do without Click and Clack?
He was way too young, and I'll miss him. ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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