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Thread: 2015 Celebrity Death Pool
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An die Freude
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I can't find the thread from 2014, but I believe I had the North Korean general who was supposedly executed the other day - but removed him for this year because the country seemed to stabilise.
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Hedgehog
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
King of the Blues, B.B. King has died.
![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif) The thrill really is gone.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Happy Rockefeller, wife of former New York governor and U.S. vice-president Nelson Rockefeller, is enjoying happiness in heaven.
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Pigwidgeon
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John Nash, the mathematician who inspired the movie A Beautiful Mind, died along with his wife in a taxi accident.
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Hedgehog
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
John Nash, the mathematician who inspired the movie A Beautiful Mind, died along with his wife in a taxi accident.
Geez. What were the odds?
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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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Lyda*Rose
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Anne Meara, a very fine comedienne, has passed. I used to enjoy watching and listening to her routines with her husband Jerry Stiller, when I was a kid.
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Kyzyl
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Author Tanith Lee
Tor Page
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Sipech
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Don't think many spotted this coming. Charles Kennedy, the former Lib Dem leader, has died. Ridiculously young too, I might add.
RIP Charlie. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Originally posted by Sipech:
Don't think many spotted this coming. Charles Kennedy, the former Lib Dem leader, has died. Ridiculously young too, I might add.
RIP Charlie.
Very sad, he was a good and principled man.
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Uncle Pete
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Jacques Parizeau est mort, Jacques Parizeau has died.
Premier of Québec during the almost-successful sovereignty referendum in 1995, he will be forever remembered, against his will, in Canada as famously blaming his defeat on bankers and the ethnic vote. (aka J*w* and n***ers) His supporters are trying to whitewash his reputation, but to me he stands as a shining example of never giving a public speech while drunk.
Nevertheless, he was a brilliant economist, who did some fine things. His family will miss him.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Heavenly Anarchist:
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Originally posted by Sipech:
Don't think many spotted this coming. Charles Kennedy, the former Lib Dem leader, has died. Ridiculously young too, I might add.
RIP Charlie.
Very sad, he was a good and principled man.
Probably too principled for party politics. This is very sad.
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(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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Piglet
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Shocked and saddened to hear of Charles Kennedy's death - way too young, and by all accounts a decent and honourable man.
RIP.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Stetson
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Pete wrote:
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in Canada as famously blaming his defeat on bankers and the ethnic vote. (aka J*w* and n***ers)
Actually, it was "money and the ethnic vote", and while I have heard the first part interpreted as anti-semitic, I think it's just as plausible that he meant the corporate money that had been poured into things like the Unity Rally.
I know all respectable, tolerant Just Society fans are supposed to be appalled at what Parizeau said, and I was too. That said, as an Albertan, I've lost track of the number of times I've heard someone in polite company say "The reason Alberta is such a right-wing backwater is because of all the American farmers who moved there in the early 20th Century", without provoking anything but murmurs of assent.
[ 02. June 2015, 14:52: Message edited by: Stetson ]
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Tariq Aziz, a Chaldean Catholic and deputy prime minister of Iraq under Sadaam Hussein, and familiar to American TV viewers as the voice of Iraq during the Iraq War, is (let us hope) advocating the cause of persecuted Christians at the only throne that matters.
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Stetson
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
Tariq Aziz, a Chaldean Catholic and deputy prime minister of Iraq under Sadaam Hussein, and familiar to American TV viewers as the voice of Iraq during the Iraq War, is (let us hope) advocating the cause of persecuted Christians at the only throne that matters.
Well, whatever else may be said about the regime Aziz served, it did, if largely by default, keep the country's Christian population relatively well protected.
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basso
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Ronnie Gilbert has died.
I'm not really a folkie, but she was part of my youth. Songs like "The Golden Vanity" I'll always hear in her voice.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger:
14 points for anyone who had James Last
Back in the 1970's he was my parent's #1 choice. No party or BBQ was complete without his classics arrangements played very loud!
I expect the Heavenly harps will be drowned out at times.
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Pigwidgeon
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Hermann Zapf creator of the Zapf Dingbats, Palatino, Optima, and many other fonts has died.
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Sandemaniac
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Cookery writer and home economist Marguerite Patten has died at 99.
I hope the funeral spread will do her justice.
AG
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marzipan
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Christopher Lee has died aged 93 (I thought he was much younger!)
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Now containing 50% less cheese
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Og: Thread Killer
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Originally posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger:
14 points for anyone who had James Last
My childhood is dying off. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Thankfully things keep being added to replace them.
![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
Not sure I should be happy about getting points. ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
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Hedgehog
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Harry Rowolht died on June 15. I have his translation of Winnie-the-Pooh, obtained back when I was trying to learn German.
Hey, it is important to learn how to say "Rum-tum-tiddly-um" in a foreign language! Otherwise people think you are illiterate!
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Cottontail
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Sir Christopher Woodhead, former chief inspector of schools in England, has died aged 68.
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Pigwidgeon
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I really hope that Donald Featherstone doesn't cover the heavenly lawn with pink flamingoes.
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lilBuddha
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Will 8 angels be enough to greet him? Actor Dick Van Patten will now find out.
[ 24. June 2015, 06:27: Message edited by: lilBuddha ]
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Hallellou, hallellou
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LeRoc
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On a small theatre stage up there, Dutch singer Thé Lau is teaching the angels about his love for language.
A hero of mine. He is missed.
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The Rogue
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Steed has gone
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If everyone starts thinking outside the box does outside the box come back inside?
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Oscar the Grouch
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Originally posted by The Rogue:
Steed has gone
The quintessential English Gentleman!
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Celtic Knotweed
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Originally posted by Oscar the Grouch:
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Originally posted by The Rogue:
Steed has gone
The quintessential English Gentleman!
Sandemaniac and I discovered this whilst having a pre-dinner drink earlier this evening. We raised our glasses to the gentleman, having watched the Avengers episode which starred Christopher Lee the other week in memory of Mr Lee.
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Uncle Pete
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If my parents and some of us kids were playing cards, the game was abandoned (to resume later) when the Avengers' theme song was played. It was family hour on the telly.
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lilBuddha
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Originally posted by Matt Black:
Sir Nicholas Winton, the 'British Schindler', has now himself been saved by a higher power.
The article calls him a "reluctant" hero. And whilst I recognise this is poor reporting skill, I would point out he not not at all reluctant in his heroism. He was reluctant in the desire to seek praise for it.
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I put on my rockin' shoes in the morning
Hallellou, hallellou
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Matt Black
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Agreed totally.
Meanwhile....
Douze points for Val Doonican
[ 02. July 2015, 09:50: Message edited by: Matt Black ]
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Japes
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12 points for me!
Luckily no one was in the workshop when I said this accidentally in my out loud voice..
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Bishops Finger
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No disrespect to the late great Ron Moody (MHRIPARIG), but we sometimes tend to forget that Dickens' Fagin - the deliberate corrupter of children - is one of the nastiest and most evil characters in English literature.
I'll get me tatty ol' coat......
Ian J.
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Alaric the Goth
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
Chris Squire bassist of the group Yes has been found dead.
Indeed, sadly. I only went to see them once, at Manchester Apollo I believe, in 1998. Chris Squire was one of my favourite members of the band, and the person mos t consistently in 'Yes'.
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Lunatics and monsters underneath my bed' ('Totem', Rush)
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The Rogue
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17 points if you had Omar Sharif.
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Pigwidgeon
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The Heavenly Chorus is now enriched by the magnificent voice of Jon Vickers. I saw/heard him several times at the Metropolitan Opera, and his Parsifal will stay with me forever.
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Cottontail
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Very sad to hear of the death of Jules Bianchi, aged just 25.
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Sandemaniac
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...he was my substitute, if any of my first team popped off before January 1st.
Probably inevitable given what happened, and no-one goes into motor racing not knowing there's a risk, but all the same... ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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