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Thread: 2015 Celebrity Death Pool
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lilBuddha
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OK, this was reported here 3 days after his death. In April.
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Piglet
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RIP Colonel Potter.
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lilBuddha
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Am I missing something? He died 4 years ago.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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For some weird reason his death notice is going all around FB today. Is it his birthday?
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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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Welease Woderwick
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No, just checked, Born 10th April 1915 according to IMDb.com
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lilBuddha
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Morgan did die in early December, so I can understand the confusion there. James Best, maybe seen in a roundup of this year's deaths?
Two such announcements in a row had me thinking I was missing something.
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
Morgan did die in early December, so I can understand the confusion there. James Best, maybe seen in a roundup of this year's deaths?
Early December of 2011.
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The Rogue
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If he had just died he would have scored zero points for anyone that chose him.
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lilBuddha
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Not likely on anyone's list, but Native American activist John Trudel has died.
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Piglet
Islander
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
Am I missing something? He died 4 years ago.
My apologies - I think I clicked a link on FB, and assumed it was "current".
I've also seen several recent references on FB to the death of Dave Brubeck, who died in 2012 according to Wikipedia.
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Pigwidgeon
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Annette Funicello seems to die about every six months.
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Piglet
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quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
Annette Funicello seems to die about every six months.
Has anyone else noticed that the periphery of their Facebook page regularly has headlines suggesting either (a) the death of Angela Lansbury/Dame Maggie Smith/Cher/Sally Field* or (b) the irretrievable breakdown of a royal marriage?
Doesn't that sort of thing count as libel?
* delete as appropriate
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Trudy Scrumptious
BBE Shieldmaiden
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quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
Annette Funicello seems to die about every six months.
Has anyone else noticed that the periphery of their Facebook page regularly has headlines suggesting either (a) the death of Angela Lansbury/Dame Maggie Smith/Cher/Sally Field* or (b) the irretrievable breakdown of a royal marriage?
Doesn't that sort of thing count as libel?
* delete as appropriate
I often wonder about that myself. I mean it's just obvious click-bait, but I've seen both Cher and Sally Field "Facebook ad-dead" in the past week. Maybe the celebs in question just don't think it's worth suing these companies for such clearly fake death stories?
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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They keep doing that to Betty White, which is just Not OK.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Brings Emily Dickinson to mind.
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Sipech
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Press Association are reporting that former football pundit, Jimmy Hill, has died at the age of 87.
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Sioni Sais
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quote:
Originally posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger:
Confirmed by BBC
May his chin be in heaven 10 minutes before the rest of him.
Every professional footballer should say a big thank you to the late Jimmy Hill for his near single-handed campaign to remove the £20 per week wage limit for footballers.
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Pigwidgeon
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Conductor Kurt Masur has died at age 88.
![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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Meadowlark Lemon, the "clown prince" of basketball's barnstorming Harlem Globetrotters, has died at 83.
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lilBuddha
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Influential in many ways cinematographer Haskell Wexler has died.
*a cinematographer is one of a good director's best friends.
S/he helps create the "look" of a film.
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Kittyville
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Lemmy Kilmister has regrettably stolen a march on Schroedinger's Cat (see 2016 Death Pool thread) and gone early.
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Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
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Spike has him as a "carryover" too.
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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He is a sad loss, as a through-and-through rocker. I am amazed that he made it to 70, given his lifestyle.
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take out this broken heart and renew my mind.
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Piglet
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According to the Telegraph, the poor bloke had been diagnosed with cancer just a couple of days before he died.
Heaven will be a tad noisier - RIP.
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Banner Lady
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Stevie Wright of the Easybeats has also gone to the big rock concert in the sky. He was the first Oz based rocker to make it internationally. He was 68.
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The Rogue
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A reminder that there are only a few hours to post your lists for 2016 on the new thread.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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The speech is written, when is the glittering prizegiving?
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The Rogue
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Time is now up for all those celebrities who wanted to show us that their time is not up. As it may take a few days for news to filter through completely I will wait a bit until I am sure that the Church Times has had ample opportunity to gather its reports and update its obituary columns before making my final report.
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Pigwidgeon
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Is it true that this year's cash prize is double what it was last year?
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The Rogue
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quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
Is it true that this year's cash prize is double what it was last year?
Yes. The winner must nominate a charity for it to go to.
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guinness girl
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so who won?
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Piglet
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I was wondering that, but I was too polite to ask. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
I'm 100% sure it wasn't me though - I suspect that, like old Norwegian Eurovision entrants, I finished up with nul points
[ 11. January 2016, 02:27: Message edited by: Piglet ]
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The Rogue
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Sorry, still working on it. Should be sometime this week.
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The Rogue
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At last I have the results. Fanfare, please.
The winner of the Inside Track with the Grim Reaper award (first death of the year) is North East Quine, ably assisted by Leon Brittan.
The Sudden Death Award (last death) is shared between Schroedinger's Cat and Spike for Lemmy.
Quantity not Quality is also shared. For predicting three deaths Cottontail (Leonard Nimoy, Sam Simon & Chris Woodhead) and Sipech (Leonard Nimoy, Richie Benaud & Christopher Lee) need mantlepiece space for six months each.
Why Does It Always Happen To Me's inaugural winner is balaam who changed his mind on Terry Pratchett & BB King.
And the main competition was won by Cottontail whose three successes netted 90 points. Gwai was second with 75 points from two and An die Freude third with 73 points from one.
Well done, everyone, and thank you for playing.
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The Rogue
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Just to complete the records for 2015 there was one death since my last report - Lemmy. Yogi Berra had also died as mentioned in this thread but not picked up by me. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
Final standings were:
90 Cottontail
75 Gwai
73 An die Freude
50 Dal Segno
47 Schroedinger's cat
46 Japes
41 Stejjie
41 jedijudy
40 Sipech
34 BessLane
34 guiness girl
34 Heavenly Anarchist
34 Kyzyl
34 St. Gwladys
32 Spike
27 Uncle Pete
25 North East Quine
22 Mamacita
14 Og: Thread Killer
12 Auntie Doris
12 Lyda*Rose
10 Hedgehog
10 la vie en rouge
Everyone else (21 of us) should avoid any job opportunities which involve any form of prophecy.
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Cottontail
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Woohoo! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
What do I do now? Make a speech? Gloat a little? Repent humbly?
Thank you, The Rogue, for your worryingly painstaking work. And thank you also to Leonard, Sam, and Chris. May all three of them now rest in peace.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Congratulations, Cottontail! Party like it's Dia de los Muertos!
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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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Japes
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Congratulations, Cottontail!
I'm impressed with my own score for 2015.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Oops! I didn't realize that my kiss of life failed someone! The problem: my list this year is the same as last year's!
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