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Thread: 2014 Celebrity Death Pool
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Noooooo!
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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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Matt Black
Shipmate
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Warren Clarke has died
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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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Devoted listeners of New York's classical music station WQXR will remember the commercials featuring Jim Lebenthal, municipal bond guru extraordinaire, and those of his daughter Alexandra after he retired from the business -- a business founded, by the way, by his mother. Jim Lebenthal is now selling municipal bonds to finance renovations to 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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An die Freude
Shipmate
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I left Mullah Omar off my list this year, now rumour has it he's gone.
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"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable."
Walt Whitman
Formerly JFH
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Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
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will there be a 2015 game open for entries soon ?
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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The term of DC's mayor-for-life Marion Shepilov Barry has ended.
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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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The Rogue
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Wet Kipper:
will there be a 2015 game open for entries soon ?
When the Christmas decorations start going up.
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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:
quote:
Originally posted by Wet Kipper:
will there be a 2015 game open for entries soon ?
When the Christmas decorations start going up.
The tree outside our office already has lights on. Write to your MP if you like, it's a civil service office.
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
I thought this story was worth a mention not least because I had a wonderful Chemistry teacher who died after being hit by a cricket ball (late 20s I think). Dangerous game.
This is dominating Australian news today (and indeed, the last couple of days). Everybody is deeply shocked.
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Technology has brought us all closer together. Turns out a lot of the people you meet as a result are complete idiots.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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I'm a cricket fan. I am sorry to hear of this freak accident. But all the time I was reading the story, I was wondering about the poor fellow who bowled that ball. My heart goes out to him, as well.
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Even more so than I was before
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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Yeah, he has been receiving counselling ever since this happened, and is getting a heck of a lot of public support, but I think he is going to be absolutely devastated. He's even younger - just 22 years old.
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Technology has brought us all closer together. Turns out a lot of the people you meet as a result are complete idiots.
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Sipech
Shipmate
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It wouldn't surprise me if Abbott decides to not play again. At the very least, he'll take himself out of the game for some time. If he were to bowl, what might go through his mind in deciding when to bowl a short-pitched delivery?
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I try to be self-deprecating; I'm just not very good at it.
Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheAlethiophile
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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Originally posted by Sipech:
It wouldn't surprise me if Abbott decides to not play again. At the very least, he'll take himself out of the game for some time. If he were to bowl, what might go through his mind in deciding when to bowl a short-pitched delivery?
I doubt that he will be able to bowl with the level of commitment needed in the top level of the game. Even though it was a freak accident, nothing to do with him, I feel really sorry for him.
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Originally posted by Sipech:
And now PD James has died. Though no one yet knows who dunnit.
Just heard this. A sad loss, but 94 is a pretty good age really.
I blame the butler.
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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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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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I never wanted to put Dame James on my death list, since I always hoped for another novel out of her. Even though I recognised that Pemberley was probably her swan song.
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Even more so than I was before
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Piglet
Islander
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Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
... I was wondering about the poor fellow who bowled that ball. My heart goes out to him, as well.
Yea and amen - poor chap. RIP Mr. Hughes. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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Caissa
Shipmate
# 16710
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six points for me. I believe there is an unpublished novel that was set to be released after her death a la Agatha Christie.
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Huia
Shipmate
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I hope it's better than Pemberley.
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Charity gives food from the table, Justice gives a place at the table.
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Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
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Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
I never wanted to put Dame James on my death list, since I always hoped for another novel out of her. Even though I recognised that Pemberley was probably her swan song.
I saw her as part of a panel discussing Pride and Prejudice partly because she had written Death comes to Pemberley. She said then that she'd written Death comes to Pemberley as she knew she didn't have time to write one of her books, the immersion in the background, so DctP was something she could write as the background already existed and it was based on a book she loved.
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Mugs - Keep the Ship afloat
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Roberto Gómez Bolaños, more commonly known as Chespirito, one of the best loved film and television personalities of Mexico, is now making them laugh up yonder.
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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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I don't think anyone had Jack Kyle, who has died at 88. Not only was he probably Ireland's greatest rugby player, guiding them to a Grand Slam and two further Five Nations titles, but after rugby he practiced medicine in Indonesia and then, until he was seventy-four, in Zambia.
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe: Roberto Gómez Bolaños, more commonly known as Chespirito, one of the best loved film and television personalities of Mexico, is now making them laugh up yonder.
Best loved all around Latin America. This is having a big impact here. Just to give you an idea: the original run of his show was in the seventies, but it is still watched in syndication by close to a hundred million people every day today. Without any doubt a comic genious.
I hope St. Peter won't be too hard on him when he's a bit naughty sometimes. It was all 'accidentally on purpose'. Que descanse en paz*, El Chavo.
(*Rest in peace)
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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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Pancho
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by LeRoc:
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe: Roberto Gómez Bolaños, more commonly known as Chespirito, one of the best loved film and television personalities of Mexico, is now making them laugh up yonder.
Best loved all around Latin America. This is having a big impact here. Just to give you an idea: the original run of his show was in the seventies, but it is still watched in syndication by close to a hundred million people every day today. Without any doubt a comic genious.
I hope St. Peter won't be too hard on him when he's a bit naughty sometimes. It was all 'accidentally on purpose'. Que descanse en paz*, El Chavo.
(*Rest in peace)
He's a big, big deal throughout Latin America (Spanish and Portuguese speaking) and the Latino community in the U.S. Somewhere else online someone said it was as if Jerry Lewis stayed at peak popularity for 60 years but Chespirito was really more like Charlie Chaplin (in my opinion).
T.V. network Univision showed his funeral mass on Sunday, held at Azteca stadium in Mexico City
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“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places and calling to their playmates, ‘We piped to you, and you did not dance;
we wailed, and you did not mourn.’"
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The Rogue
Shipmate
# 2275
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Jeremy Thorpe has fought his last election.
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If everyone starts thinking outside the box does outside the box come back inside?
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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Yet another one who was on my "I thought he'd been dead for years" list.
RIP.
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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sharkshooter
Not your average shark
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Jean Beliveau has passed away. A gentleman's hockey player.
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Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. [Psalm 19:14]
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Mili
Shipmate
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Not well know internationally, but she made an impact here in Australia and might get a kick out of being on the death pool thread. Stella Young comedian, journalist, disability advocate, broadcaster etc has died too soon.
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Hedgehog
Ship's Shortstop
# 14125
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Ken Weatherwax, almost certainly better known as Pugsley from "The Addams Family" TV series, has died. Age 59.
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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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lilBuddha
Shipmate
# 14333
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Not on anyone's list, or likely on your radar at all, but noted photographer Phil Stern has died.
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I put on my rockin' shoes in the morning
Hallellou, hallellou
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Sandemaniac
Shipmate
# 12829
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Thirty points if anyone had Mandy Rice-Davies.
AG
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"It becomes soon pleasantly apparent that change-ringing is by no means merely an excuse for beer" Charles Dickens gets it wrong, 1869
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Heavenly Anarchist
Shipmate
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Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
Thirty points if anyone had Mandy Rice-Davies.
AG
Only yesterday I was watching an Andrew Marr history documentary which discussed the Profumo affair. I wonder how she felt later on about her infamy.
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'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.' Douglas Adams
Dog Activity Monitor
My shop
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Actress Billie Whitelaw is now drawing a heavenly audience.
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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
# 5713
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Britain's greatest soul singer, Joe Cocker, has died, at the age of seventy.
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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Good moaning.
RIP.
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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The Rogue
Shipmate
# 2275
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Here is a BBC summary of various Brits who have died this year. I hadn't realised some of them had gone and I hadn't heard of some at all. YMMV.
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If everyone starts thinking outside the box does outside the box come back inside?
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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
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Originally posted by The Rogue:
Here is a BBC summary of various Brits who have died this year. I hadn't realised some of them had gone and I hadn't heard of some at all. YMMV.
Thanks, that was good to watch. Some I'd forgotten about; several left us far too early.
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— Woody Guthrie
http://saysaysay54.wordpress.com
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