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Thread: 2015 Celebrity Death Pool
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Mamacita
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Although I don't think anyone had him on their list, 9I am seeing several FB posts saying that Marcus Borg has died. May he rest in peace and rise in glory.
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MSHB
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Originally posted by Mamacita:
Although I don't think anyone had him on their list, 9I am seeing several FB posts saying that Marcus Borg has died. May he rest in peace and rise in glory.
Yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Borg
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MSHB
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Originally posted by MSHB:
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Originally posted by Mamacita:
Although I don't think anyone had him on their list, 9I am seeing several FB posts saying that Marcus Borg has died. May he rest in peace and rise in glory.
Yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Borg
Assuming that is reliable... although I did also find a reference on Twitter ... still, rumour.
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Pigwidgeon
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Religion News Service is reliable and has it as well.
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Sandemaniac
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25 points for anyone who had Leon Brittan.
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Originally posted by MSHB:
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Originally posted by MSHB:
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Originally posted by Mamacita:
Although I don't think anyone had him on their list, 9I am seeing several FB posts saying that Marcus Borg has died. May he rest in peace and rise in glory.
Yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Borg
Assuming that is reliable... although I did also find a reference on Twitter ... still, rumour.
Well, I tend to think that the 10 different priests, scholars, and seminarians who all flooded my newsfeed at the name time were pretty reliable sources.
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Sandemaniac
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And a prize, I think, for being first?
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Sipech
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No. Someone had Leon Brittan.
Unless King Abdullah died first but was reported later?
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Sandemaniac
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It's like buses... you wait for ages, then two com along at once!
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Sipech:
No. Someone had Leon Brittan.
Unless King Abdullah died first but was reported later?
Do we have an absolutely, definitely and confirmed DoD for King Abdullah? I suppose getting reliable news out of Saudi Arabia is only slightly easier than getting Bibles in.
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The Rogue
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I'll take a trip down there and find out personally. Will the Ship of Fools research fund cover the cost?
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Only if you MW his funeral. (We'll make an exception for a non-Trinitarian place of worship.)
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
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Originally posted by Sipech:
No. Someone had Leon Brittan.
Unless King Abdullah died first but was reported later?
Do we have an absolutely, definitely and confirmed DoD for King Abdullah? I suppose getting reliable news out of Saudi Arabia is only slightly easier than getting Bibles in.
The BBC said this evening that he was buried today within hours of his death as is usual custom, so it would appear Leon Brittan died first.
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Timothy the Obscure
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Ernie Banks, "Mr. Cub," has made the celestial All-Star Team. I hope they have a World Series in Heaven, so he can finally get to play in one.
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Hedgehog
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Originally posted by Timothy the Obscure:
Ernie Banks, "Mr. Cub," has made the celestial All-Star Team. I hope they have a World Series in Heaven, so he can finally get to play in one.
And despite having loaded my list with Baseball Hall of Famers, I am ashamed to admit that I did not include him. He'd probably still be alive if I had. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Originally posted by Timothy the Obscure:
Ernie Banks, "Mr. Cub," has made the celestial All-Star Team. I hope they have a World Series in Heaven, so he can finally get to play in one.
![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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Kyzyl
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Tangerine Dream has lost a section...
Edgar Froese
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Joe Franklin, generally regarded as the creator of the talk show, has a whole new lineup of celebrities to interview.
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The Rogue
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Including Demis Roussos
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Sioni Sais
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Rod McKuen has died at 81.
RIP Rod, you woke a lot of people up to poetry and Jacques Brel.
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Miss Farnaby has finally gone to meet Mulbery's Dad
Loved her in Marple too, and in Henry V many years ago.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Pianist Aldo Ciccolini is tickling the ivories up yonder.
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Uncle Pete
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Fuddle duddle, eh? I booted Knowlton Nash for Max Keeping. Guess who croaked, eh?
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Japanese inventor Kenji Ekuan, who designed high-speed trains including the famous Bullet Train, as well as Yamaha motorcycles and (not forgetting) the Kikkoman Soy Sauce dispenser bottle, has ridden the train to glory.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Firenze:
Lotte Hass has gone to sleep with the fishes.
I missed this! My brother has a couple of their books. The photographs of giant clams and manta rays made an amazing impression.
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Piglet
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Steve Strange, of the New Romantic band Visage, has died aged 55.
Far too young.
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I heard about that last night. Very sad - he was just a few years older than me.
He was involved in all sorts of electronica as well. He will be missed.
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Sioni Sais
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Louis Jourdan has died at 93.
Heck, he was one good looking man.
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lilBuddha
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Michele Ferraro, creator of Nutella, goes to spread diabetes to the Angels.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Michele Ferraro, creator of Nutella, goes to spread diabetes to the Angels.
I hope they bury his vile concoction with him. ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
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Mamacita
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Singer Lesley Gore has died of cancer at age 68, and we'll cry if we want to.
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Kelly Alves
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That's not funny.
( ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif) )
NOT. FUNNY.
( ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) )
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Welease Woderwick
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I appreciate that nobody will have this character on the list, though many should have guessed, but English Cricket died today in Wellington, New Zealand after a long illness. Mourned by a many except a few diehards in St Johns Wood, North London who are still not completely sure that life has completely ended.
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Lyda*Rose
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A man who has given many parade fans something to wake up to on January first: Raul Rodriguez has been ushered on high in a flower covered chariot. Perhaps something like this.
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Sipech
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
English Cricket died today in Wellington, New Zealand after a long illness. Mourned by a many except a few diehards in St Johns Wood, North London who are still not completely sure that life has completely ended.
Odd. I recall the obituary marked the date as the 29th of August 1882.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I appreciate that nobody will have this character on the list, though many should have guessed, but English Cricket died today in Wellington, New Zealand after a long illness. Mourned by a many except a few diehards in St Johns Wood, North London who are still not completely sure that life has completely ended.
A long illness, but a rapid final decline.
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Sandemaniac
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Odd. I recall the obituary marked the date as the 29th of August 1882.
Random tangent - the editor of the Sporting Times lived, at the time of publication, in a house where I spent six years in its later incarnation as a boarding school.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I appreciate that nobody will have this character on the list, though many should have guessed, but English Cricket died today in Wellington, New Zealand after a long illness.
What, again? How many times is that?
Or is it like Mark Twain, reports of whose death were "greatly exaggerated"?
Perhaps not ...
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Piglet
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Now that Mrs. Fox is flirting in Heaven, there are only two left - Private Pike and the Vicar.
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Sioni Sais
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Dan Topolski has died at 69. Dan Who? you may ask, but he made a huge contribution to British rowing and sculling becoming consistently world class, rather more than one or two guys every decade or so.
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Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 to 1987, a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, and an influential figure in higher education, the Roman Catholic Church, and national and international affairs, died on Thursday, February 27, at 97.
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Just seen that Leonard Nimoy has died.
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Og: Thread Killer
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His last tweet is going to be on tshirts for years. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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He has finally Beamed Up.
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