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Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
Well Well. 2016 was certainly a . . . productive . . . year, let's see what happens in 2017.

As always, The Rules. If you've played before, you know 'em; like some of our lists, they haven't changed much in the last few years.

1. You must pick 13 well-known people whom you think will shuffle off this mortal coil in 2017. That is, starting from 00.01 UTC (GMT, really) on January 1st 2017 and ending at 23.59 UTC on December 31st 2017, as determined by the United States Naval Observatory.

2. The definition of "well-known" is that their deaths will be reported by at least one major news outlet. Examples outlets include (but are not limited to) The Guardian, CNN, IMDB, VeloNews, Al Jezeera and the Church Times.

3. All selections must be real natural born people. No fictional characters, abstract entities or "corporate persons" will be accepted. I don't care what Mitt Romney or the SCOTUS says . . .

4. Points are awarded according to the following formula: 100 minus the celebrity's age at the time of death. For example, if the person you choose dies at the age of 67 you will earn 33 points. Should you pick someone who is 100 years old when they die you will receive no points; should your person be over 100, you will lose points.

5. You earn 50 bonus points if the death occurs in such a way as to clearly prove the existence of God (for example, if some doofus dies from burns after trying to torch a church) or they win a Darwin.

6. You cannot choose anyone under the age of 18.

7. You can choose an inmate scheduled to be executed but you only earn points if the person dies by some means other than the state-sponsored execution. For example, a shiv in the stomach counts; lethal injection does not.

8. You are disqualified if you contribute in any way to the death of one of your chosen candidates. Exceptions will be made if you are a police officer or member of the armed services and kill someone in the line of duty.

9. The Monty Python "I'm Getting Better!" rule: if your person turns out to not be dead after all, and this revivification is confirmed before this year's contest ends, you lose your points. We're not changing the results after this year's contest ends, though. Those of you who follow the la vie school of "dictators, drones, and Hellfire" should probably take note.

10. All entries must be submitted on this thread no later than 23.59 UTC on December 31st 2016. No entries will be accepted after this time. No exceptions - you've got (nearly) a month, after all. You may make changes to your list up until this time but only if someone pops their clogs before the beginning of the year or if you've put someone in twice. Surprisingly, this does happen.

Bonus awards:
Inside Track with the Grim Reaper: given for picking the first death of 2017.
Quantity Not Quality: given for picking the most people who croak in 2017, regardless of their points value.
Sudden Death: given for picking the last death of 2017.
Why Does it Always Happen to Me? given to the person who changes the most 2016 picks who then die in 2017. To qualify for this award, you must have entered lists for both years.

Disclaimer: This is only a game. The Ship, its management and their associated lackeys do not necessarily endorse the death any human being. One should not necessarily view this as a "wish list;" reviewing past years will show that truly evil and nasty dictators seem to have a habit of lingering while those figures we truly respect and admire often don't. The Circus is a place for games, not discussion of the rights or wrongs of those games; if you want to discuss the ethics of this one, there are other places you can do that. Personally, one of the things I like about this game is reading the obits and memories people post, whether they are on someone's list or not.

There are no prizes although all winners will be entitled to place a bragging comment in their sig.

We'll keep records through the year and will occasionally post scores and other interesting facts.

Good luck to all players and bad luck to your nominees!
 
Posted by Baker (# 18458) on :
 
I'm going to try for the Inside Track With th Grim Reaper award this year.

Zsa-Zsa Gabor
Vera Lynn
Danielle Darrieux
Wiliam Woodson
Lorna Gray
Earl Cameron
June Foray
Marsha Hunt
Nehemiah Persoff
Lewis Gilbert
Nanette fabray
Carol Channing
Peter Sallis
 
Posted by Teekeey Misha (# 18604) on :
 
In the "Knocking on and looking shaky" category:
1. Sir Bruce Forsyth CBE
2. HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh KG KT
3. Rt Hon Norman, Baron Tebbit of Chingford CH
4. Christopher Plummer CC
5. Rt Hon Sir Gerald Kaufman MP
6. HH Pope Benedict XVI

In the "Knocking on but looking ok" category:
7. Miss Debbie Reynolds
8. William Shatner
9. Rt Rev’d Desmond Tutu CH
10. Harry Belafonte Jr
11. HH Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

In the "Not knocking but looking shaky" category:
12. Prof Stephen Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA

In the "Looks ok but I heard a rumour" category:
13. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
 
Posted by Uncle Pete (# 10422) on :
 
Death comes to the Ship (Uncle Pete’s version)

HM The Queen
HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
The Right Hon. The Countess Mountbatten of Burma
Sir John Major
HH The Pope Emeritus
HH The Pope Francis
Dalai Lama
Robert Mugabe
Peter Mansbridge
Conrad Black
Lloyd Robertson
Jean Chretien
George Herbert Walker Bush
 
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
As I am pointless again [take it any way you want] I'll opt for the same as last year and the year before:

1. Rupert Murdoch.

2. General Than Shwe.

3. L K Advani.

4. Narendra Modi.

5. Newt Gingrich.

6. Jean Marie LePen.

7. Robert Mugabe.

8. Raj Thackeray.

9. Pat Robertson.

10. Elizabeth Windsor-Mountbatten

11. Mitt Romney.

12. Gerry Adams.

13. Philip Mountbatten.

Surely one or more has got to go sometime!
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
Oh, okay.

1. Donald Trump
2. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
3. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
4. Gulmurod Khalimad
5. Abu Luqman
6. Ayad al-Jumaili
7. Abu Muhummad al-Shimali
8. Isnilon Totoni Hapilon
9. Juan Pablo Ledezma
10. Joost van der Westhuizen
11. Vivian Campbell
12. Neil Peart
13. Peter Schickele
 
Posted by Japes (# 5358) on :
 
I am lacking in imagination, so here's last year's list with just one alteration.

Justin Beiber
George Carey
Jeremy Clarkson
Michael Douglas
Bruce Forsyth
Rolf Harris
Barry Manilow
Robert Mugabe
Ennio Morricone
Paul McCartney
Anne Robinson
Harry Styles
Donald Trump
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Going for a complete change. This year's kiss of life goes to:

1. David Attenborough - Natural History Broadcaster
2. David Jason - Actor (Dangermouse, Only Fools and Horses)
3. Honor Blackman - Actress (The Avengers, Goldfinger)
4. June Whitfield - Actress (Terry and June, Absolutely Fabulous)
5. Sean Connery - Actor (Highlander, The Rock)
6. Brian Blessed - Actor, raconteur (Z Cars, The Black Adder)
7. Peter Sallis - Actor (Wallace & Gromit, Last of the Summer Wine)
8. Terry Jones - Actor, comedian (Monty Python)
9. Bernard Cribbins - Actor (The Railway Children, Doctor Who)
10. Tom Baker - Actor (Doctor Who, Little Britain)
11. Judith Kerr - Author (The Tiger Who Came to Tea)
12. Quentin Blake - Illustrator (works of Roald Dahl)
13. John Noakes - tv presenter (Blue Peter)
 
Posted by Jack the Lass (# 3415) on :
 
Changing my list a bit - will keep some, and some new faces:

1. Robert Mugabe.
2. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
3. Stephen Fry.
4. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.
5. Donald Trump.
6. Brad Pitt.
7. Sir Alex Ferguson.
8. Esther Rantzen.
9. Robbie Shepherd (Scottish broadcasting legend - definitely hoping this is the kiss of life...)
10. Nicholas Sarkozy.
11. Ion Iliescu (former president of Romania).
12. Anne Widdecombe.
13. Nigel Farage.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
Going for a complete change. This year's kiss of life goes to:

1. David Attenborough - Natural History Broadcaster
2. David Jason - Actor (Dangermouse, Only Fools and Horses)
3. Honor Blackman - Actress (The Avengers, Goldfinger)
4. June Whitfield - Actress (Terry and June, Absolutely Fabulous)
5. Sean Connery - Actor (Highlander, The Rock)
6. Brian Blessed - Actor, raconteur (Z Cars, The Black Adder)
7. Peter Sallis - Actor (Wallace & Gromit, Last of the Summer Wine)
8. Terry Jones - Actor, comedian (Monty Python)
9. Bernard Cribbins - Actor (The Railway Children, Doctor Who)
10. Tom Baker - Actor (Doctor Who, Little Britain)
11. Judith Kerr - Author (The Tiger Who Came to Tea)
12. Quentin Blake - Illustrator (works of Roald Dahl)
13. John Noakes - tv presenter (Blue Peter)

That is a National Treasures list! If you win I shall call you to Hell.
 
Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
This is not a wish list. Really! [Two face]

1. Donald Trump
2. Jeff Sessions
3. General James Mattis
4. Rep. Tom Price
5. Betsy DeVos
6. Governor Nikki Haley
7. Elaine Chao
8. Steve Mnuchin
9. Wilbur Ross
10. Rudy Giuliani
11. David Petraeus
12. Sarah Palin
13. Ben Carson
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
That is a National Treasures list! If you win I shall call you to Hell.

Yes it is. It's the essence of hedge-betting/accounting. Go for the option you don't want to happen. It's lie betting on Australia to win the Ashes.

And if I do win, I'll be sending myself to Hell.

jedijudi - I take it that you're rather fond of Mike Pence, then? [Snigger]
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
I am just re-using my pristine baseball-themed list from last year. Birth years after the name.

1. Bobby Doerr (1918)
2. Red Schoendienst (1923)
3. Tommy Lasorda (1927)
4. Jim Bunning (1931)
5. Henry "Hank" Aaron (1934)
6. Bill Mazeroski (1936)
7. Brooks Robinson (1937)
8. Willie McCovey (1938)
9. Gaylord Perry (1938)
10. Steve "Lefty" Carlton (1944)
11. Rod Carew (1945)
12. Mike Schmidt (1949)
13. Cal Ripken, Jr. (1960)

I guess this is pretty much the last year where there is any sense in listing Bobby Doerr. Unless I want to go all in on the Grim Reaper award or something.

And, just as a precaution, if he or anybody on this list should depart before 2016 dawns, then my backup name will be Nolan Ryan (1947).
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
Just one change from last year, last time I made changes two of the previous list died.

So here are the people I am keeping alive for another year by including here ...

HRH Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh AKA Phil the Greek
Sir Paul McCartney
Sir Michael Philip (Mick) Jagger
Angela Rippon OBE, journalist
Antoine (Fats) Domino Jr
Paul Hollywood, baker
Colin Baker (former Time Lord)
Robert Fripp (Musician and Crimson King)
Bonnie Raitt
Carrie Fisher
John Major (Former Prime minister who had an affair with ...
Edwina Currie (Who said she would like to die bonking George Clooney)
George Clooney (Going for a double whammy!)
 
Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
jedijudi - I take it that you're rather fond of Mike Pence, then? [Snigger]

[Confused]
Oh, Rats!!! [brick wall]
 
Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Hedgehog:

I guess this is pretty much the last year where there is any sense in listing Bobby Doerr. Unless I want to go all in on the Grim Reaper award or something.

I'm doing exactly that! And they're all 85 or older, so also hoping to be in the running for Quantity, Not Quality.

Here is my list:

William Goldman (1931)
Toni Morrison (1931)
Alice Munro (1931)
Tom Wolfe (1931)
Derek Walcott (1930)
John Barth (1930)
Milan Kundera (1929)
Ursula K. LeGuin (1929)
Robert Bly (1926)
Stan Lee (1922)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919)
Beverly Cleary (1916)
Herman Wouk (1915)
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by RuthW:
Beverly Cleary (1916)
Herman Wouk (1915)

Wow! Listing two "negative pointers"! You might make history by getting the all-time lowest score in this game!
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Hedgehog:
quote:
Originally posted by RuthW:
Beverly Cleary (1916)
Herman Wouk (1915)

Wow! Listing two "negative pointers"! You might make history by getting the all-time lowest score in this game!
I believe someone (was it Uriel?) submitted a list of centenarians some years ago.
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
It was indeed Uriel - he'd romped to a win the previous year by careful reading up on who was really quite ill, so picked a team of super-centenarians (ie those 110 or older) the next year. I believe that only three of them died in that time.

AG
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Goodness, it's that time of year again ...

Kiss of Life
HM Queen Elizabeth II
HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
HH Pope Francis
Dr. Francis Jackson (Organist Emeritus, York Minster)

If Dr. Jackson lives beyond 2nd October, he won't be worth any points, but that's fine by me.

Megalomaniacs and assorted political nutters
Donald Trump
Mike Pence (just in case)
Robert Mugabe
Kim Jong-un
Nigel Farage

National Treasures
Peter Sallis
Stephen Fry

Others
Paul Hollywood
Justin Bieber (might as well have someone who'll garner a decent score)
 
Posted by Kittyville (# 16106) on :
 
Only one change from last year's stunningly successful effort:

Robert Mugabe
Bob Hawke
Paul Keating
Derryn Hinch
Sister Wendy
Zayn Malik
Bono
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Ivan Milat
Joanna Lumley
Ken Livingstone
Peter Robinson
Gerry Adams
 
Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Hedgehog:
quote:
Originally posted by RuthW:
Beverly Cleary (1916)
Herman Wouk (1915)

Wow! Listing two "negative pointers"! You might make history by getting the all-time lowest score in this game!
I'm doubling my chances of getting the Inside Track with the Grim Reaper award. Though I suppose I should have done as Uriel did and researched which writers were ill.
 
Posted by Trudy Scrumptious (# 5647) on :
 
I honestly thought I was going to get at least one winner from my Kardashian list last year (Lamar Odom was not looking at all well this time in 2015) but for better or for worse they are all still with us. I have reproduced my list along with a few additions (had to google to find a couple more people associated with this bizarre reality-TV family, so I'd have a full 13 names this year).

1. Kim Kardashian
2. Kourtney Kardashian
3. Khloe Kardashian
4. Kris Jenner
5. Kylie Jenner
6. Kendall Jenner
7. Caitlyn Jenner
8. Kanye West
9. Rob Kardashian
10. Blac Chyna (aka Angela Renee White)
11. Tyga (aka Micheal Ray Stevenson)
12. Lamar Odom
13. Scott Disick
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
To make sure I don't miss the boat here's my list for 2017.

1. Donald Trump
2. Robert Mugabe
3. Pete Doherty
4. Keith Richards
5. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
6. Khloe Kardashian
7. Alex Ferguson
8. Marcus Trescothick
9. Stephen Hawking
10. Silvio Berlusconi
11. George W Bush
12. Vladimir Putin
13. Paul Gascoigne
 
Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 
after a single "success" in this year, just one change:
1. Buzz Aldrin
2. Ursula Andress
3. Sir Stirling Moss
4. Ringo Starr
5. Lou Ferrigno
6. Aretha Franklin
7. Elliott Gould
8. Michael Crawford - "Oooh, Betty"-
9. Gary Numan (back in after Scott Glenn's death)
10. Rustie Lee
11. Adam West
12. Paul Gadd / Gary Glitter
13. Stanley Baxter
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
There is still time for all of these to leave us before the end of the year, but I will put my list up so I don't forget.

I do have a few spares.

1. Billy Graham
2. Pope Emeritus Benedict
3. HM Queen Elizabeth II
4. Paul Gascoigne
5. Terry Jones
6. Michael Schumacher
7. Michael Crawford
8. Martin Landau
9. Prince Philip
10. Stephen Hawking
11. Dick Van Dyke
12. Bernard Cribbins
13. Bruce Forsyth
 
Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
A mixture of people I hope I don't get any points for and some...
1: Rolf Harris
2: Terry Jones
3: Craig Palmer of ELP
4: Queen Elizabeth II
5: Prince Phillip
6: Billy Graham
7: Shirley Bassey
8: David Attenborough
9: Tom Jones
10:Michael Schumacher
11:Kim Jong un
12:Pope Benedict
13:Mick Jagger
 
Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
Drat, just remembered the name I was going to include...
 
Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
Just checked the rules - can I swap Billy Connolly for Paul McCartney?
 
Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
Oops - I meant for Michael Schumacher. That's the problem of altering lists on paper.
 
Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 
Rule #4 is interesting. If you nominate Kirk Douglas and he dies before Dec 7 or 8 or whenever it is, because he is 100, you get a score of 0 for him. He dies after his birthday in 2017, you get -1.
 
Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 
I have never played before. Here is my listing, just over ½ Canadians.

Canadians:

1. Brian Mulroney, former Canadian PM
2. Valdy (Vladimir Horsdahl), folk singer
3. Gordon Lightfoot, folk singer
4. Joni Mitchell, singer and artist
5. William Shatner, actor
6. Michael J. Fox, actor
7. Christopher Plummer, actor

Others:
8. George Bush the elder, USA politico
9. Henry Kissinger, USA politico
10.Stan Lee, USA comic book guy
11.Steven Hawking, UK physicist
12.Helmut Kohl, German politico
13.Chuck Berry, USA singer
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
Oops - I meant for Michael Schumacher. That's the problem of altering lists on paper.

Yes, I actually had to think about this one. And I can't decide. There are sound reasons of policy, long-standing tradition (I think some of those rules have been around since before I ever started Hosting here...the first time 'round), the expectations of others who have made strategic calculations based on your choices, etc for me to say no—but, let's be honest, I should probably try to keep my contracts class reasoning to the contracts exam, and away from people who don't deserve to be disgorged.

So go ahead. Make my day. Let's have your best argument for why I should let you change your list, contrary to the rules.
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by St. Gwladys:

3: Craig Palmer of ELP

No points there then, unless you mean Carl Palmer.
 
Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
I'm not doing very well am I? My reading of the rules led me to think I could change a name before the deadline - not a pun, honest - and yes, I did mean the Palmer of Emmerson, Lake and Palmer.
Can I claim cognitive fogging or "cog fog" which is a well known side effect of MS and a generally good excuse otherwise? [Overused]
 
Posted by Baker (# 18458) on :
 
I need to make a change to my list, since, in the words of the OP, one of my choices has "popped their clogs" before 12/31.

Zsa Zsa Gabor having died, I will replace her with Betty White.
 
Posted by Salicional (# 16461) on :
 
1. Jimmy Carter
2. Barbara Walters
3. George H.W. Bush
4. Barbara Bush
5. Julie Andrews
6. Bob Barker
7. Cloris Leachman
8. Bill Cosby
9. Empress Michiko
10. John Williams
11. King Salman
12. Betty White
13. Lindsay Lohan
 
Posted by Abigail (# 1672) on :
 
I've never done this before but I'd like to join in this year please...

My list:
1. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
2. Bruce Forsyth
3. Ken Dodd
4. Judi Dench
5. David Attenborough
6. Billy Graham
7. Robert Redford
8. Bobby Charlton
9. Andrew Marr
10. David Steel
11. Michael Aspel
12. Norman Tebbit
13. Desmond Tutu
 
Posted by Og: Thread Killer (# 3200) on :
 
Going with the 80's theme

1. Steve Guttenberg (actor)
2. Sting (dude)
3. Jim Kerr (Singer Simple Minds)
4. Andrew McCarthy (actor)
5. John Cusack (actor)
6. René Auberjonois (actor)
7. Paul Gascoigne (sport)
8. David A Stewart (singer)
9. Robert De Niro (actor)
10. John Hillerman (actor)
11. Burt Reynolds (moustache)
12. Michael Stipe (musician)
13. Jim Davis (cartoonist)
 
Posted by Enoch (# 14322) on :
 
I've not posted to this rather tasteless thread before, but here goes, and in no particular order.

1. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.
2. June Whitfield.
3. Paul Gascoine (Gazza).
4. Winnie Mandela.
5. Prince Philip.
6. James Earl (Jimmy) Carter.
7. Robert Mugabe.
8. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev.
9. George H. W. Bush (Sen).
10. Nigel Lawson (Lord Blaby).
11. Douglas Hurd (Lord Westwell).
12. Joseph (Sepp) Blatter.

And finally one who if he reaches his terminal event in 2017 is less likely to do so through natural causes
13. Kim Jong Un.

I did wonder if Donald Trump ought to get in under that heading, but I'd suspect that if that were going to happen, it would be more likely to be 2018.
 
Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
Windsor Davies
Tommy Steel
Prince Philip
Barry Humphries
Carrie Fisher
Ken Dodd
Bruce Forsyth
Prince Charles
Nicholas Parsons
HM Queen Elizabeth
Cliff Richard
June Whitfield
Roy Hudd
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
1. Benedict, Pope Emeritus
2. Mamnoon Hussain- President of Pakistan
3. Valerie Harper- actor
4. Mary-Kate Olsen- actor, fashionista
5. Rip Torn- actor
6. Mary Tyler Moore- actor
7. Carrie Fisher- actor, writer
8. Stephen Hawking- scientist
9. Glen Campbell- singer
10. Joni Mitchell- musician, composer
11. Fran Drescher- actor
12. Kim Jong-un- “Beloved Leader”
13. Fuad Masu- President of Iraq

Done.
 
Posted by Cottontail (# 12234) on :
 
I give up. Death is random. I am therefore ditching my carefully considered list of slightly sickly people, and am choosing British Rock Icons instead.

I sincerely hope they all make it through. Don't be a bastard, 2017.

1. Mick Jagger
2. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
3. Ray Davies
4. Paul McCartney
5. Peter Gabriel
6. Kate Bush
7. Van Morrison
8. Robert Smith
9. Eric Clapton
10. Debbie Harry
11. Marc Almond
12. Shirley Bassey
13. Robert Plant
 
Posted by Kyzyl (# 374) on :
 
Fairly random list.

Kyzyl's 2017 Celebrity Death Pool
1. Val Kilmer
2. Ian McKellen
3. Walter Mondale
4. Jimmy Carter
5. Elizabeth II
6. Prince Phillip
7. Kim Jong-un
8. Hank Aaron
9. George H. W. Bush
10. Barbara Bush
11. David Crosby
12. Donald Trump
13. Sandra Day O’Connor
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
1. Benedict, Pope Emeritus
2. Mamnoon Hussain- President of Pakistan
3. Valerie Harper- actor
4. Mary-Kate Olsen- actor, fashionista
5. Rip Torn- actor
6. Mary Tyler Moore- actor
7. Jimmy Carter- former US president
8. Stephen Hawking- scientist
9. Glen Campbell- singer
10. Joni Mitchell- musician, composer
11. Fran Drescher- actor
12. Kim Jong-un- “Beloved Leader”
13. Fuad Masu- President of Iraq

Revised to replace Carrie Fisher RIP.
 
Posted by Banner Lady (# 10505) on :
 
1. Prince Phillip of Great Britain
2. Benedict, Pope Emeritus, Italy
3. President Assad of Syria
4. President Wiranto of Indonesia
5. President elect Trump of the USA
6. Past Prime Minister Bob Hawke of Australia
7. Prof. Stephen Hawking
8. Bill Wyman
9. Sean Connery
10.Clint Eastwood
11.Richard O'Brien
12.Tim Curry
13. Ellen DeGeneres
 
Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :
 
Somehow, amongst 2016's celebrity carnage, all mine are carried forward:

1) Ringo Starr
2) Keith Richards
3) Rolf Harris
4) Pele
5) Baroness Trumpington
6) Bruce Forsyth
7) George H W Bush
8) Prince Phillip
9) Mark “The Undertaker” Calaway
10) Tracey Emin
11) Brian Matthew
12) Paul Gambaccini
13) Jimmy Tarbuck
 
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on :
 
Let's give this a whirl... a suitably random selection!

1. Robert Mugabe
2. Michael Schumacher
3. Dame Judi Dench
4. Lindsay Lohan
5. Sir Michael Gambon
6. Rt Rev Richard Harries
7. Sir Chris Bonington
8. David Attenborough
9. Dame Janet Baker
10. Bruce Forsyth
11. Michael Heseltine
12. Sir Trevor Macdonald
13. Anton Mosiman
 
Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
Some old favourites and some new entries:

1. Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
2. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
3. The Lord Howard of Lympne
4. The Lord Kinnock
5. Alex Salmond MSP
6. Michael J Fox
7. Charlie Sheen
8. Abu Muhammad al-Shimali
9. Lil Wayne
10. Bret Michaels
11. George H W Bush
12. Boy George
13. Bashar al-Assad
 
Posted by Dal Segno (# 14673) on :
 
My list from last year were are successful in seeing out the year, so I'm recycling them.

Tony Blair (ex PM of UK)
Bob Hawke (ex PM of Oz)
Geoffrey Palmer (ex PM of NZ)
Jim Bolger (ex PM of NZ)
George HW Bush (ex President of USA)
George W Bush (ex President of USA)
Benedict XVI (ex Pontiff)
Teresa May (current PM of UK)
Neil Armstrong (astronaut)
Neil Diamond (musician)
Neil Gaiman (author)
Neil Kinnock (politician)
Neil Young (musician)
 
Posted by Teekeey Misha (# 18604) on :
 
Debbie Reynolds' carelessly passing 3 days early leaves me a gap, which I shall plug with Prunella Scales.
 
Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
As Carrie Fisher was on my list for next year, I'd like to replace her with the Rt Rev'd Michael Perham
 
Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
After a moderately successful 2016, there are several exciting new opportunities on my list of the despotic and the despicable. The survivors can ride.

1. King Mswati III of Swaziland
2. Emperor Akihito of Japan
3. Hosni Mubarak
4. Mullah Fazlullah
5. Abdelaziz Bouteflika
6. Silvio Berlusconi
7. Than Shwe
8. Omar al Bashir
9. Nursultan Nazarbayev
10. George Bush Snr

A few non-despotic picks:

11. Michael Douglas
12. Ben Jonson (Olympic cheat and famous anabolic steroid abuser - bad for the heart)
13. Peter Stringfellow (long shot - but I personally have a theory that he's dead already and just hasn't stopped moving about)
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Dal Segno:
My list from last year were are successful in seeing out the year, so I'm recycling them.

You might want to check those, Dal Segno, given that Armstrong died in 2012...

AG
 
Posted by Goldfish Stew (# 5512) on :
 
1. William Shatner
2. Queen Elizabeth 2
3. Donald Trump (a little wistful?)
4. Stan Lee
5. Miley Cyrus
6. Mickey Rooney
7. Stephen Hawking
8. Elton John
9. Clint Eastwoond
10. Dustin Hoffman
11. Kirk Douglas
12. Cher
13. Betty White
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Ariston, I checked on ISIS leaders too, well they came up on the world's most wanted list. Wikipedia gives Abu Muhummad al-Shimali as dying on 30 August 2016.
 
Posted by Vulpior (# 12744) on :
 
I've never done this before, but I've been talking with friends about this version and various other forms of the death pool, and I've settled on this list:

Eddie Obeid
Shirley Bassey
Philip Mountbatten
Ben Cousins
Jimmy Carter
Julie Andrews
Maggie Smith
Nichelle Nichols
George Carey
Gina Reinhart
Tom Lehrer
Stephen Hawking
Miley Cyrus
 
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
1. President Assad
2. Pope Benedict
3. Sara Coward
4. Bruce Forsyth
5. Michael J. Fox
6. Paul Gascoigne
7. Stephen Hawking
8. Katie Hopkins
9. Clive James
10.Rob Kardashian
11.Liza Minelli
12.Vladimir Putin
13.Donald Trump
 
Posted by Tree Bee (# 4033) on :
 
After a few recent rejigs, here's my 2017 list

1 Coltrane, Robbie
2 Douglas, Michael
3 Forsyth, Bruce
4 Fox, Michael J
5 Hallenga, Kristin
6 Hawking, Stephen
7 Jackson, Janet
8 James, Clive
9 Matthew, Brian
10 Maynard, Bill
11 Minnelli , Liza
12 Robbins, Ted
13 Skellern, Peter
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
Ariston, I checked on ISIS leaders too, well they came up on the world's most wanted list. Wikipedia gives Abu Muhummad al-Shimali as dying on 30 August 2016.

Well, isn't that something.

Subbing, oh, Abdul Rashid Dostum.
 
Posted by Light User (# 14254) on :
 
Brian Reader (Hatton Garden jewel heist participant)
Sister Wendy Beckett
Gregg Allman
Patriarch Emeritus Mesrob II
Norma Waterson
Mother Delores Hart
Father Lazarus El Anthony
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Sangharakshita (aka Dennis Lingwood) - Prominent British Buddhist
Sister Catherine Wybourne
Bruce Langhorne (Folk musician and chilli sauce manufacturer)
Martin McGuinness
Tina Turner
 
Posted by Surfing Madness (# 11087) on :
 
Never get any points, but here is my 2017 list.


Prince Philip
Justin Timberlake
Bear Grylls
Donald Trump
Jimmy Carter
Hugh Jackman
Alex Salmond
Geoffrey Boycott
Willie Nelson
Mary Berry
Nigel Lawson
Dolly Parton
Martina Navratilova
Stella Rimington
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
Carrie Fisher RIP

I substitute Elke Sommer
 
Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
Ariston, I checked on ISIS leaders too, well they came up on the world's most wanted list. Wikipedia gives Abu Muhummad al-Shimali as dying on 30 August 2016.

I have
Abu Muhammad al-Shimali on my list too, and I don't think he's dead. The man who is dead is a different Abu Muhammad: Abu Muhammad al-Adnani al-Shami.

Which Abu Muhammad did Ariston have?
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
I can pretty much quote my registration post from last year, with a couple of alterations:

Feckin' Nora, it's the 31st again! How did that happen?

In which case, here's most of last year's squad. One gone that I am aware of, one changed as he's now in a safer job. Well, not in the old one.

1. Aretha Franklin
2. Bashar Al-Assad
3. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
4. Donald Trump
5. George H W Bush
6. Clive James
7. Michael Douglas
8. Paul Gascoigne
9. Michael Schumacher
10. Alan Stanford
11. Bernie Madoff
12. John Edrich
13. Jerry Lee Lewis

AG
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
quote:
Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
Ariston, I checked on ISIS leaders too, well they came up on the world's most wanted list. Wikipedia gives Abu Muhummad al-Shimali as dying on 30 August 2016.

I have
Abu Muhammad al-Shimali on my list too, and I don't think he's dead. The man who is dead is a different Abu Muhammad: Abu Muhammad al-Adnani al-Shami.

Which Abu Muhammad did Ariston have?

Better catch—I had the one who wasn't dead. Unnecessary and unwarranted change undone.
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
Eight hours remaining*

*Okay, more eight hours, fifteen minutes, and a leap second remaining, but I'm not waiting fifteen minutes and a second to make it perfectly accurate. Sue me.

But only after you get your lists in.
 
Posted by ThunderBunk (# 15579) on :
 
My 2016 list seems to have preserved all those listed, so the amendments are purely capricious:

Dame Judi Dench
Bruce Forsythe
Geoffrey Palmer (British actor)
George H W Bush
The Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI
Tony Blair
Jean-Marie le Pen
Donald Trump
Mick Jaggar
Jason Orange
Melvyn Bragg
Colin Dexter
Dick van Dyke
 
Posted by Auntie Doris (# 9433) on :
 
Just remembered I had better do this!

My list has a few adjustments.

1. Madonna
2. Fat Boy Slim
3. Gary Barlow
4. Kim Kardashian
5. Kanye West
6. Shirley Bassey
7. Prine Philip
8. Bruce Forsyth
9. Miley Cyrus
10. Liam Payne
11. Billy Graham
12. Donald Trump
13. Mike Pence

Auntie Doris x
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Auntie Doris:
7. Prine Philip

I presume this is "Prince Philip". I don't want you losing points because of a typo.
 
Posted by Bene Gesserit (# 14718) on :
 
A first-time pooler here:

1 Rolf Harris
2 David Cameron
3 Susan Boyle
4 Richard Hammond
5 Desmond Tutu
6 Stephen Hawking
7 Kanye West
8 George Bush (Dubya)
9 George Galloway
10 June Brown
11 Pope (Emeritus) Benedict XVI
12 Pope Francis
13 Keith Richards
 
Posted by Mamacita (# 3659) on :
 
Donald Trump
Dick Cheney
Mitch McConnell
Jeff Sessions
Clarence Thomas
Pat Robertson
Vladimir Putin
Prince Philip
Queen Elizabeth
Jimmy Carter
George Herbert Walker Bush
Pope Emeritus Benedict
Desmond Tutu

[ 31. December 2016, 22:18: Message edited by: Mamacita ]
 
Posted by Auntie Doris (# 9433) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Auntie Doris:
Just remembered I had better do this!

My list has a few adjustments.

1. Madonna
2. Fat Boy Slim
3. Gary Barlow
4. Kim Kardashian
5. Kanye West
6. Shirley Bassey
7. Prine Philip
8. Bruce Forsyth
9. Miley Cyrus
10. Liam Payne
11. Billy Graham
12. Donald Trump
13. Mike Pence

Auntie Doris x

Ooops yes sorry - Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh!

Auntie Doris x
 
Posted by Banner Lady (# 10505) on :
 
Oh no. First casualty of note for 2017...Father Mulcahy of MASH will always have a soft spot in my heart.
 
Posted by Banner Lady (# 10505) on :
 
RIP William Christopher . Not sure when during the last 24 hours he made the final curtain call, but its 2017 on this side of the world.
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
We are LIVE!

...as are, I assume, the folks on our lists.

For now.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Banner Lady:
Oh no. First casualty of note for 2017...Father Mulcahy of MASH will always have a soft spot in my heart.

A wonderful character. Another person who showed faith in action in his character.
 
Posted by Baker (# 18458) on :
 
I think we can say William Christopher died in 2016.

The following article said he died Saturday morning.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/01/entertainment/william-christopher-mash-obit/
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
Aaaaand we are off!

Art critic John Berger shuffles off at 90.

AG

(You're welcome, BTW. —A, CH)

[ 03. January 2017, 04:29: Message edited by: Ariston ]
 
Posted by Baker (# 18458) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Surfing Madness:
Never get any points, but here is my 2017 list.


Prince Philip
Justin Timberlake
Bear Grylls
Donald Trump
Jimmy Carter
Hugh Jackman
Alex Salmond
Geoffrey Boycott
Willie Nelson
Mary Berry
Nigel Lawson
Dolly Parton
Martina Navratilova
Stella Rimington

This list has fourteen names.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
Aaaaand we are off!

Art critic [URL=http:// http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38492516]John Berger[/URL] shuffles off at 90.

AG

Working link
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
Thanks, LB, the perils of posting late from a clunky tablet. I know, Perview Psot is my Fiend...

AG
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
Thanks, LB, the perils of posting late from a clunky tablet. I know, Perview Psot is my Fiend...

AG

lol and no worries

[ 03. January 2017, 10:29: Message edited by: lilBuddha ]
 
Posted by Surfing Madness (# 11087) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Baker:
quote:
Originally posted by Surfing Madness:
Never get any points, but here is my 2017 list.


Prince Philip
Justin Timberlake
Bear Grylls
Donald Trump
Jimmy Carter
Hugh Jackman
Alex Salmond
Geoffrey Boycott
Willie Nelson
Mary Berry
Nigel Lawson
Dolly Parton
Martina Navratilova
Stella Rimington

This list has fourteen names.
Opps....meant to take Nigel Lawson off. Sorry about my inability to count!
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
Jill Saward has died. It looks like this year is not getting any better than last.

RIP Jill. You made more of a difference than most people ever will.
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
What a brave lady. May she rest in peace and rise in glory. [Votive]
 
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
[Votive] R.I.P. Jill Saward.
 
Posted by Baker (# 18458) on :
 
I'm not from the UK. I never heard of this story.
But as a fellow victim(I wasn #4 of 6 victims of a serial rapist) I applaud her courage.

I hope the judge who said her trauma hadn't been so great came to know how disgusting he sounded.
 
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
Knew Jill personally when she was younger and have followed her career with interest ever since. I also applaud her bravery, concern for others and feel for her husband and sons at such a loss far too soon. [']
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Baker:
I'm not from the UK. I never heard of this story.
But as a fellow victim(I wasn #4 of 6 victims of a serial rapist) I applaud her courage.

I hope the judge who said her trauma hadn't been so great came to know how disgusting he sounded.

The stories made big news splashes in the UK when they originally happened, but I suspect not further afield. And it was the work of Jill - and others inspired by her - that have changed the face of rape cases, and made us realise just how appalling those comments were.

IIRC, the comments were not unique, that represented the state of thought at the time, something that Jills work has made a huge difference to.
 
Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :
 
Om Puri, Indian actor and mainstay of Oscar-winning Brit pics has died.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Oh, no! I liked him. [Votive]
 
Posted by Baker (# 18458) on :
 
I can't say I knew him. But looking at that first picture in the link, and seeing that he had a cameo in Gandhi, I'll ask. Wasn't he the guy, in that movie, who burst in on Gandhi after he said he'd start eating again, the one who confessed he'd killed a child? Then Gandhi told him how to make up for it.
 
Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :
 
I'm not sure; I knew him better as the Dad in East is East.
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Just because this is another amazing story, Sunday on Radio 4 announced this morning that the Reverend Una Kroll MD died on Friday aged 93. This article is from 2014 but tells her story. She was an early woman doctor who became a nun and missionary, when returned to England in the 1960s became a feminist and is remembered for her protest at General Synod in 1978 when she cried out "We asked for bread and you gave us stones" after the vote against allowing women priests. She became an Anglican priest in the Church of Wales, then converted to Catholicism.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Nat Hentoff has died at 91. I remember him from when I subscribed to the Village Voice (the "Village" being Greenwich Village in New York City), but he was also the author of dozens of books and a jazz enthusiast.
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Peter Starstedt has died aged 75 - known for singing Where do you go to my Lovely?.

And Iran's ex-President Rafsanjani has also died aged 82.

[ 08. January 2017, 17:11: Message edited by: Curiosity killed ... ]
 
Posted by Enoch (# 14322) on :
 
Mario Soares has just died. He was 93.

He may not be well known to younger shipmates. He was a major figure in the Iberian peninsula's equivalent of perestroika and glasnost in the 1970s, a first step in the historical process that in 2016 appears to have gone sharply into reverse.
 
Posted by Baker (# 18458) on :
 
Nobody had her, she was worth negative points, but Clare Hollingworth, noted reporter, credited with the first story of WWII. in 1939, has died in Hong Kong.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/clare-hollingworth-reporter-who-broke-news-about-start-of-world-war-ii-dies-at-105/2017/ 01/10/6aa9ca72-d73f-11e6-b8b2-cb5164beba6b_story.html?utm_term=.f8ee75df87f6

It's people like that who make you realize how little you have accomplished.
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Former England football manager, Graham Taylor, has died. Only 72.
 
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on :
 
Lord Snowdon , the former husband of Princess Margaret has departed this life. Not sure if anyone had him....
 
Posted by Kyzyl (# 374) on :
 
William Peter Blatty is scaring them in the great beyond...
(Can't seem to post link on this device, sorry)

[ 13. January 2017, 16:29: Message edited by: Kyzyl ]
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Perhaps your device is possessed. Link.
 
Posted by Uncle Pete (# 10422) on :
 
Earl of Snowdon

Dammit, why wasn't he on my list! [Waterworks]
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
If I'm honest, I probably thought he'd been dead for years, but that may be because I get him confused with the Earl of Lichfield, who has.
 
Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
Former England football manager, Graham Taylor, has died. Only 72.

Do I not like that.
 
Posted by basso (# 4228) on :
 
Another one for negative points: the inventor of the pinyin system of writing Chinese has died at 111 [!]
 
Posted by Kyzyl (# 374) on :
 
The last man on the moon has gone...

Gene Cernan
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
Or, as XKCD would remind us...
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
The creator of Doctor Dog and Mummy Laid an Egg, Babette Cole has died.
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
Rachel Heyhoe-Flint has died aged 77.

AG
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
I think you will find it is actually an unhyphenated double barrelled surname.

But it is still one the greatest names ever.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Roberta Peters, the coloratura soprano opera star and 35-year veteran of New York City's Metropolitan Opera Company, died yesterday.
 
Posted by Kyzyl (# 374) on :
 
Actor Miguel Ferrer
CNN obit
 
Posted by The Rogue (# 2275) on :
 
Gordon Kaye
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
RIP Gordon Kaye and thank you for making us laugh.

Rene Artois was one of the great comic character.
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
We saw the live version of 'Allo, Allo! at the London Palladium in about 1990; it was even more risqué than the TV show and had everyone in fits.

RIP Rene. [Tear]
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
Au revoir, au revoir, Rene. A genius character, played to perfection.
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
Two baseball players, Yordano Ventura and Andy Marte, each died in separate car crashes in the Dominican Republic.

Ventura has been a starting pitcher for the Kansas City Royals for the last 4 years. A promising career cut short.

Marte was no longer in MLB. He was a general infielder (1st & 3rd) and played most frequently with the Cleveland Indians. He last played in 2014, playing in something like 4 games with the Diamondbacks.
 
Posted by Og: Thread Killer (# 3200) on :
 
Mary Tyler Moore has died.
 
Posted by Kyzyl (# 374) on :
 
Here's Mary Tyler Moore with the iconic statue that is on Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis.

Minnesota Public Radio
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
I feared Mary Tyler Moore was not long for this world when I made my list. [Tear]
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
That's 20 for Lyda*Rose, and this year's Inside Track with the Grim Reaper award!

In 2016, despite the (then-noted) high number of noteworthy deaths (and a reference to the Scalia SCOTUS confirmation battle being HUGE...oh the irony...), nobody got a measly little point until 14 February.
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
Well, dang. What do you say when the death of somebody nice gets you points in the game? It wouldn't have felt as awkward if Kim Jong-un had croaked. [Hot and Hormonal]
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
Only the good die young...

(ETA: well, okay. Technically Kim would have been worth a passel more points, but...)

[ 26. January 2017, 12:40: Message edited by: Ariston ]
 
Posted by Jack the Lass (# 3415) on :
 
Did anybody have Tam Dalyell on their list? Another political giant [Frown]
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
He'll have finally found out the answer to the West Lothian Question.

RIP Mr. Dalyell.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Butch Trucks, co-founder of the Allman Brothers Band, has died of an apparent suicide.
 
Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
Mike Connors has died. Goodness, I hadn't thought of him in years.
 
Posted by Baker (# 18458) on :
 
John Hurt has died. One of the best English speaking actors in the world. He was 77.

Also, Barbara Hale, who played Della Street to Raymond Burr's Perry Mason, has died at the age of 94.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Fuck. I know all this is within the normal curves, but fuck.
 
Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 
I'd missed the death of Tom Harpur on 02 Jan. He came to be well-known for his TV and radio show "Harpur's Heaven and Hell". Regardless of his controversial ideas (bestseller in Canada "The Pagan Christ"), he always came across as a kind, thoughtful decent priest.
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
King Crimson Singer and bass player dies, the second in 2 months.

John Wetton, I have been a fan since seeing him in Mogul Thrash.
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Bloomin' 'eck! Former South African rugby union captain, Joost van der Westhuizen has died, aged a mere 45.
 
Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Kyzyl:
[QB] William Peter Blatty is scaring them in the great beyond...

I quote this not out of any personal animosity toward William Peter Blatty, but simply because I think it was probably the most extraordinary opening paragraph I have ever read in a film-review, and Blatty himself was the direct inspiration...

"Shallowness that asks to be taken seriously..."

My own opinion of the film is not as negative as all that, but I think I'll save it for when William Friedkin kicks.
 
Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :
 
I will say that Blatty did direct The Exorcist III, based on his book Legion, which I happen to think has the eeriest imagery of the whole series to that point(haven't seen the prequels).

Nurses station
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
Bloomin' 'eck! Former South African rugby union captain, Joost van der Westhuizen has died, aged a mere 45.

Now he was on the Death List I failed to post - because he was known to be ill with Motor Neurone Disease.
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
Bloomin' 'eck! Former South African rugby union captain, Joost van der Westhuizen has died, aged a mere 45.

Well then. 55 points for me!
 
Posted by Kyzyl (# 374) on :
 
"Professor" Irwin Corey, World's Foremost Authority...

Irwin Corey
 
Posted by mr cheesy (# 3330) on :
 
Hans Rosling. Dammit.
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Another 55 points for anyone who identified Tara Palmer-Tomkinson as having an appointment at the grey havens.
 
Posted by Tree Bee (# 4033) on :
 
And comedy writer Alan Simpson has died.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
Another 55 points for anyone who identified Tara Palmer-Tomkinson as having an appointment at the grey havens.

Very young really, although longer than might have been expected. And I am not sure that "socialite" is actually a job.

But genuinely sad at her death. She was, for me, the epitome of a certain class from the 1990s.
 
Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
Richard Hatch is forever safe from the Cylons.
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
Fucking Ada, two people my age in a week!

AG
[Eek!] [Eek!]
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
The great tenor Nicolai Gedda has died at 91. I was priviledged to hear him twice at the Met -- in The Bartered Bride and Eugene Onegin. The Heavenly Chorus is blessed to have him join them.
 
Posted by basso (# 4228) on :
 
One of my earliest experiences of opera was hearing Gedda (opposite Sills!) in Manon. He never returned to San Francisco -- I'm sure that there's a buried explanation for that somewhere.
It's still one of my top few memories.
 
Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
Peter Skellern, singer, songwriter and latterly, priest, has died.
 
Posted by Trudy Scrumptious (# 5647) on :
 
If I'd been seriously looking for points instead of going for young, annoying pseudo-celebrities, I'd have put on Canadian storyteller and radio host Stuart McLean on my list. He had melanoma, which almost never ends well, and had announced near the end of the year that the temporary hiatus originally planned for his show while he went through treatment, would be extended indefinitely as his cancer was not responding as well as hoped. So the recent news was not unexpected, though very sad. A great loss to his country.
 
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
Sara Coward (Caroline in The Archers) has died.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Not exactly a celebrity and not on anyone's list, but Norma McCorvey (Roe of Roe v. Wade) might now find out which of her positions was correct.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Omar Abdel Rahman, who was convicted of conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and of planning more attacks as part of a "war of urban terrorism" in the US, has died in a North Carolina prison.
 
Posted by Kittyville (# 16106) on :
 
Dan Vickerman , former Wallaby, has died at a tragically young 37.
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Dick Bruna, the creator of Miffy the rabbit, has died. [Frown]
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
Probably only a celebrity to a very narrow segment of very nerdy people, but Kenneth Arrow, economist, logician, and mathematician, died yesterday. Besides being related to half the economist establishment (do economists have establishments?), some of his work is truly beautiful in its elegance, simplicity, and . . . well, wit. I used his impossibility theorem once in analyzing a metaphysical problem; it's truly a thing of logical beauty.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Ariston:
Probably only a celebrity to a very narrow segment of very nerdy people, but Kenneth Arrow, economist, logician, and mathematician, died yesterday. Besides being related to half the economist establishment (do economists have establishments?), some of his work is truly beautiful in its elegance, simplicity, and . . . well, wit. I used his impossibility theorem once in analyzing a metaphysical problem; it's truly a thing of logical beauty.

I must find out more about Dr Arrow. A quick read of his obituary shows that he knew the truth about healthcare economics almost half a century ago, and more besides.
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
It's game over, man!
Bill Paxton, the actor who specialised in whiny, annoying characters, has died, aged 61.
 
Posted by Kyzyl (# 374) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
It's game over, man!
Bill Paxton, the actor who specialised in whiny, annoying characters, has died, aged 61.

A simple posting of the fact would have been sufficient.
 
Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :
 
Gutting. One of my favourite actors, growing up, and in some of my favourite films. [Frown]
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
It's game over, man!
Bill Paxton, the actor who specialised in whiny, annoying characters, has died, aged 61.

Nice. Not accurate if one is more familiar with his greater body of work, and a kind of bitchy comment about someone far nicer than many celebrated actors.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
I'll always think of him as Bill Hendrickson. [Frown]
 
Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :
 
MILD SPOILER

To me, he was the guy who finds the money in A Simple Plan, which I liked enough to watch several times. I'll always remember his voiceover at the end, about how he and his wife don't really have normal lives, after what they did.

Otherwise, he kinda fell through the cracks of my mind. I wasn't a big devotee of many of his other films.
 
Posted by Teekeey Misha (# 18604) on :
 
Sir Gerald Kaufman has died aged 86, so 14 points for me but I can't figure out how to paste anything with this new 'phone!
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Teekeey Misha:
Sir Gerald Kaufman has died aged 86, so 14 points for me but I can't figure out how to paste anything with this new 'phone!

Notice
 
Posted by Teekeey Misha (# 18604) on :
 
Thanks lB; I have trekked across the country to access t'interweb intending to add this and was pleased somebody had already helped me out.
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
Robert Osborne, longtime host for Turner Classic Movies, has died, age 84. A gentleman with a remarkable knowledge and love of classic films. TCM won't be the same without him.
 
Posted by The Rogue (# 2275) on :
 
John Surtees who won championships on both four and two wheels is drowning out the heavenly choirs with the sounds of revving engines.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
Oh - a sad loss. There are few people who have the skill and drive to be a racer, and live a long time. He was one - superb racer. I actually saw him a few years ago, driving at Goodwood. At 80, still better able to handle a car than 90% of those I meet on the roads.

RIP to an age of racing.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Sister Sledge is now one member fewer. RIP Joni.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Robert Waller, author of what may well have been the most over-rated book of the 20th century, has died at 77.
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Chuck Berry has died, aged 90. Thank you for the guitar riffs.
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
Bye bye bye bye.
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Martin McGuinness has died. His friendship with Ian Paisley was a model of reconciliation.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
The Big Apple is looking a little less polished now that Jimmy Breslin, that "unmade bed of a reporter," has gone to the big orchard beyond.
 
Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :
 
Colin Dexter now writing crime novels for the angels.
 
Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 
Derek Walcott died last Friday. (13 points for me.)
 
Posted by Beenster (# 242) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger:
Colin Dexter now writing crime novels for the angels.

That makes me terribly sad, he was a nice man. Very understated. Hope there are no murders in heaven for him to have to write a novel about and he can rest in peace.
 
Posted by Baker (# 18458) on :
 
One of my celebs has decided to deprive me of any points at all.

Dame Vera Lynn has turned one hundred years old.
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
Just a few days after Chuck Berry, Chuck Barris has died. Or, more appropriately, been "gonged."

In my younger days, the similarity of their names caused me a Great Deal of Confusion.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Hedgehog:
Just a few days after Chuck Berry, Chuck Barris has died. Or, more appropriately, been "gonged."

In my younger days, the similarity of their names caused me a Great Deal of Confusion.

And I confused him with George Barris
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, poet, reluctant politician, and consummate fine human being, has died at 84.

After leaving Russia, he taught at my undergrad college for about twenty years, where he was known as something of a prankster, a generous spirit, someone who would always push young artists to better themselves and their art. One of my composer friends had the honor of collaborating with Yevtoshenko, something he shares with one of the greats.

Somewhere around here, I have the copy of The Evening Rainbow that he signed, in Russian, with the instruction (I hardly remember the context, it was one of his many jokes) that now I had to read War and Peace.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
Gilbert Baker, creator of the Rainbow Flag, the emblem of gay rights, has furled his banner for the last time.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Richard N. Bolles has parachuted into Heaven.

(Is it possible to parachute upwards?)
 
Posted by Tree Bee (# 4033) on :
 
Brian Mathew has died.
It was on the cards after leaving his Sounds of the Sixties radio show, but he was talking about doing more recordings.
 
Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on :
 
It appears not after all!
 
Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :
 
Well, that gained and lost me points in short order!
 
Posted by Tree Bee (# 4033) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger:
Well, that gained and lost me points in short order!

Me too.
A few red faces at the Beeb methinks!
 
Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :
 
I completely forgot to post this last week.

David Storey , Angry Young Man, playwright and author of This Sporting Life, and native of the Rhubarb Triangle, has died.
 
Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :
 
Don Rickles, maestro of insult humour.

One of my favorite jokes of his: "I make fun of everyone, the whites, the blacks, the yellows, the purples...Mostly the blacks." A rather self-aware take of the perils of racial humour.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
The nicest thing I remember about Don Rickles is that several years ago Westboro picketed his show in Chicago. So he must have done something right!
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
The nicest thing I remember about Don Rickles is that several years ago Westboro picketed his show in Chicago. So he must have done something right!

He was, by every account I've heard, a very nice person. The insults were the hook which gained him fame, but not who he was.
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
Tim Piggott-Smith, Ronald Merrick in The Jewel in the Crown, has died.

A fine actor with a fantastic voice.
 
Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :
 
Brian Matthew: BBC Radio 2 broadcaster dies at 88

We've got our points back.

[ 10. April 2017, 00:28: Message edited by: Ariston ]
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
J. Geils, an icon of the seventies and early eighties, is riffing with other heavenly strings.
 
Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
J. Geils, an icon of the seventies and early eighties, is riffing with other heavenly strings.

My blood runs cold....
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Eddie's unappreciated brother, Charlie Murphy has died.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Rock guitar legend, Allan Holdsworth has progressed to another level.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Live and Let Die sheriff Clifton James is policing a different jurisdiction.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
Former American football great Aaron Hernandez, serving a life sentence for murder and recently acquitted of another murder, has tragically decided to hang up his spikes for good.
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Former England and Aston Villa footballer, Ugo Ehiogu has sadly died and ridiculously young age of 44.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Erin Moran, best known for playing Joanie Cunningham on the television show "Happy Days" has died at 56.
 
Posted by Pangolin Guerre (# 18686) on :
 
Tripped across this by accident last night - Toby Smith, original keyboardist for Jamiroquai, 11 April, dead at 46. "Acid jazz" was very much part of the sound track of my life in the '90s, and still is.
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
12 points for anyone who had Robert M Pirsig , author of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

I wonder if I can find an excuse to use a beer can as shim stock by way of tribute?

AG
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
12 points for anyone who had Robert M Pirsig , author of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

I wonder if I can find an excuse to use a beer can as shim stock by way of tribute?

AG

That is a sad loss. It is a sublime and brilliant book.
 
Posted by Pangolin Guerre (# 18686) on :
 
Jonathan Demme, director of Philadelphia, and Silence of the Lambs, dead at 73, of complications related to cancer.
 
Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :
 
I re-watched Silence Of The Lambs a few years back, and found that it has not aged well. It's very much of that early 90s "serial-killer chic" era. Hopkins whole "debonair sociopath" schtick wears thin real quickly.

And there was absolutely no reason to re-make The Manchurian Candidate, which doesn't really work outside of a Cold War context anyway. (Al Qaeda running a brainwashing centre in the middle of the desert?)

I guess Something Wild was entertaining enough, from what I remember of it. And there were a few funny scenes in Married To The Mob. Philadelphia barely rose above a made-for-TV message movie.

I seem to recall liking Rachel Getting Married, but can't remember anything about it.

[ 26. April 2017, 16:52: Message edited by: Stetson ]
 
Posted by Light User (# 14254) on :
 
Bruce Langhorne, the inspiration behind Bob Dylan's Mr Tambourine Man, who later went on to invent his own brand of chilli sauce, passed away a couple of weeks ago.

I'm up to the dizzy heights of two successful hits now.
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
That's 22 for you, then!
 
Posted by Teekeey Misha (# 18604) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Stetson:
I re-watched Silence Of The Lambs a few years back, and found that it has not aged well.

I couldn't tell how well it's aged; I swear that I have never seen that film all the way through. I have started watching it at least half a dozen times but have fallen asleep partway through every single time. Have given up on it now.

[Aside]NB This is not necessarily a comment on the quality of the film! [/Aside]
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Stetson:
I re-watched Silence Of The Lambs a few years back, and found that it has not aged well. It's very much of that early 90s "serial-killer chic" era. Hopkins whole "debonair sociopath" schtick wears thin real quickly.

Criticizing a movie for those that copied it is a fair tactic.
Thank you as well, for the critiques and spoilers* in an unexpected place! We are in the circus, so perhaps this is a game? Find out what people hate and then sprinkle that into other threads so they might encounter it unexpectedly, how fun!

*Who doesn't love spoilers? Having a movie that one might wish to see ruined aforetime, sublime.
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
Cartoon genius Leo Baxendale has died at 86.

AG
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
DJ Robert Miles, best known for his hit dance track Children has passed away at the unreasonably young age of 47.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Then Went Michael Parks

[ 10. May 2017, 21:02: Message edited by: lilBuddha ]
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Magic Grandad is himself being taken on a tour, and the Crowman possibly finds out who makes who.
Geoffrey Bayldon has died.
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Ian Brady has died, aged 79. No further comment.
 
Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
Rhodri Morgan, ex Wales First Minister - he may have been parachuted into the job, but he has no need of a parachute now.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Former Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes has died at 77. Ailes resigned from his post leading Fox News last July, amid allegations of sexual harassment.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
Chris Cornell from the band Soundgarden has also died, possibly by his own hand.

He was the same age as me.
 
Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
Chris Cornell from the band Soundgarden has also died, possibly by his own hand.

He was the same age as me.

Oh no. [Waterworks]
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
Motorcycle world champion Nicky Hayden has died, aged 35 after a cycling accident in Italy.
 
Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :
 
Not sure how I missed this but, Powers Boothe has died. One of my favourite actors for portraying men of dubious character.
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
11 points for anyone who had Sir Roger Moore on their list. I had two stars of James Bond films, but neither one was Sir Roger.

May you now be with the other Saints. [Angel]
 
Posted by Matt Black (# 2210) on :
 
Raising an eyebrow in his memory
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
He needs to be canonised.

Saint The Saint
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Matt Black:
Raising an eyebrow in his memory

Absolutely. To me (perhaps because he happened to be the first Bond I saw), he was the Bond - you can keep Sean Connery and his shilly voishe.

RIP Sir Roger. [Frown]
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Actor, business woman and philanthropist Dina Merrill dead at 93.

Also, noted conflict photographer, Stanley Greene dies at 68.
 
Posted by Teekeey Misha (# 18604) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
...he was the Bond - you can keep Sean Connery and his shilly voishe.

He was certainly not the "best Bond", but he was my favourite Bond. I also especially liked Moore because he was so unpretentious; he didn't claim to be a particularly talented actor. When Roy Plumley observed on Desert Island Discs that the Bond role wasn't especially stretching Moore as an actor, Moore replied, "It's probably just as well."
[Overused]

ETR an errant speech mark!

[ 24. May 2017, 14:07: Message edited by: Teekeey Misha ]
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
From the notice in the Telegraph, he was quoted as describing his range as an actor as “everything from ‘raises left eyebrow’ to ‘raises right eyebrow’”.

I think there was a little more to him than that. [Smile]
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
Damn it. I scored some points. [Frown] Jim Bunning has died.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
Another of music's greats has gone. Gregg Allman has died at 69.
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
Prog rock and Jazz fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth, the best guitarist I have ever seen, died of a heart attack aged 70 back on 15th April.
 
Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :
 
John Noakes has gone to the Blue Peter sofa in the sky.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
A sad loss. He always came over as a lovely, funny man.

The dream Blue team for me were John Noakes, Peter Purves and Valerie Singleton. They made the show something very very special.
 
Posted by Japes (# 5358) on :
 
Oh. John Noakes. May he rest in peace and rise in glory.

(I was more of a Magpie watcher, as that's what my siblings preferred but I did watch Blue Peter then I could get to the TV first. It was John Noakes, Peter Purves, and Lesley Judd who were my Blue Peter dream team.)
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
That's another part of my childhood gone.
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
That's another part of my childhood gone.

And mine. [Frown]

Down, Shep!
 
Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
Damn. I stack my list with ailing despots and forget about Manuel Noriega.
 
Posted by Teekeey Misha (# 18604) on :
 
Roy Barraclough has died aged 81.

He was known to many through his character "Alec Gilroy" in Coronation Street, but is remembered by the more discerning Lancastrian as "Cissie" alongside Les Dawson's "Ada".
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
I think I might have expected him to be older than 81 - he seems to have been around for such a long time.

RIP.

eta: I'm probably more taken aback that Julie Goodyear (the actress who played Bet Lynch, his on-screen wife) is 75.

[Eek!]

[ 01. June 2017, 21:36: Message edited by: Piglet ]
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Peter Sallis, best known as half of Wallace & Gromit and as Norman Clegg from Last of the Summer Wine, has died aged 96.

Thank you for making us smile and laugh. Our lives were all the richer for you. [Votive]
 
Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
RIP Wallace
 
Posted by Bishops Finger (# 5430) on :
 
The journey to Heaven will indeed be A Grand Day Out !

IJ
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
RIP Mr. Sallis, and Wallace. [Tear]
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
Bye bye Bodger. Badger is speechless with grief.
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
RIP Batman, aka Adam West.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
RIP Batman, aka Adam West.

I am literally crying. He is my favourite Batman.
 
Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :
 
This. Adam West is, and always will be Batman.


quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
RIP Batman, aka Adam West.

I am literally crying. He is my favourite Batman.

 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
RIP Batman, aka Adam West.

I am literally crying. He is my favourite Batman.
He isn't my favourite. He is simply the only Batman.

Holy Resting in Peace Adam.
 
Posted by Kyzyl (# 374) on :
 
Anita Pallenberg...

Variety
 
Posted by Barnabas Aus (# 15869) on :
 
Countess Mountbatten of Burma has ascended to the immortal mansions. Royal Central

[Edited to fix link. Imaginary Friend, Circus host]

[ 16. June 2017, 07:39: Message edited by: Imaginary Friend ]
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Barnabas Aus:
Countess Mountbatten of Burma has ascended to the immortal mansions. Royal Central

There's an extra "http" in your link.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by Barnabas Aus:
Countess Mountbatten of Burma has ascended to the immortal mansions. Royal Central

There's an extra "http" in your link.
I don't see that. Though I did note a missing :
Working Link

I hope.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Helmut Kohl has died at 87.
 
Posted by Uncle Pete (# 10422) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Barnabas Aus:
Countess Mountbatten of Burma has ascended to the immortal mansions. Royal Central

[Edited to fix link. Imaginary Friend, Circus host]

FINALLY!!!!!! Some points after a long drought.
 
Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :
 
John Avildsen, best known for directing Rocky and The Karate Kid.

Though personally I prefered Joe.

[ 17. June 2017, 17:38: Message edited by: Stetson ]
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Stephen Furst, best known as Flounder in 'Animal House', has died at 63.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
Brian Cant has died.

[Waterworks] [Waterworks]
He was the best and definitive childrens presenter. Changed the way that childrens programs were presented - never patronising, but always being childish-funny.
 
Posted by The Rogue (# 2275) on :
 
Whatever he did he always had a smile in his voice. My favourite was from Trumpton:
quote:
A fire? A real fire?
Which I don't suppose he wrote but he made it special.
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
C'mon, 55 points, c'mon . . .
 
Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :
 
BBC reporting the death of Paddington Bear creator Michael Bond

{Linkfix. —A}

[ 29. June 2017, 02:55: Message edited by: Ariston ]
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger:
BBC reporting the death of Paddington Bear creator Michael Bond

[Waterworks]
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger:
BBC reporting the death of Paddington Bear creator Michael Bond

I think your link has some extra stuff at the beginning. Try this one.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger:
BBC reporting the death of Paddington Bear creator Michael Bond

I think your link has some extra stuff at the beginning. Try this one.
[Waterworks] [Waterworks]
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
RIP Mr. Bond - you created a very lovable little bear. [Tear]
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
I only found out in his obituraries that he also created The Herbs, brilliantly brought to life by Oliver Postgate, and very fondly remembered. Although I must have been 6 or 7, they stick in my mind.
 
Posted by Tree Bee (# 4033) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
I only found out in his obituraries that he also created The Herbs, brilliantly brought to life by Oliver Postgate, and very fondly remembered. Although I must have been 6 or 7, they stick in my mind.

I too loved watching The Herbs and didn't realise Michael Bond created them.
I still sometimes sing,"I'm a rather fat feathery owl called Sage, I am using my wing to turn over the page."
Just me then.
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
I did know that Michael Bond had written The Herbs, but his publisher lived next door to my grandparents and we were given free books.

I tend to sing,"I'm a very friendly lion called Parsley"
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
I'm Dill the dog,
I'm a dog called Dill,
[something about his tail]
catch it I never will.
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
The Herbs

The other one I sang is Bayleaf the Garden

My name is Dill
I'm a dog called Dill
I'd like my tail to get
But I haven't caught it yet
 
Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :
 
Barry Norman is now reviewing heavenly films.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger:
Barry Norman is now reviewing heavenly films.

Apparently, his daughter graduated the same year as I did from my university, and he turned up in a white roller.

Of course, I never saw it.
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Very sad to hear of his death. I always enjoyed his programmes; his dry sense of humour could make even a non-film-buff like me take an interest in the silver screen.

May he rest in peace.
 
Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :
 
Grotbags is terrorising the little angels.
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
He touched many, and was a true star to those who followed football, but Bradley Lowery has died, aged 6.

[Votive]
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Poor little soul. [Tear]

May he rest in peace.
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Not that anyone is likely to have her, but Ms Sheila Michaels has died. She fought to allow women to be addressed as Ms, not Miss or Mrs.

And Nelsan Ellis, Lafayette in True Blood has died at 39.
 
Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
And Nelsan Ellis, Lafayette in True Blood has died at 39.

[Waterworks]
 
Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Ariston:
C'mon, 55 points, c'mon . . .

It's looking quite likely.
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
Then, subject to the MP"IGB"R9, 55 points for you, me, and Sandemaniac,

Points revocable upon confirmed revivification before the end of the year . . . but only confirmed.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Maryam Mirzakhani is now describing the symmetry of the Heavenly Spheres.
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
The great zombie film director, George A Romero has died.

No doubt he'll be undead by the morning and be coming to eat our brains. [Angel]
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
Martin Landau, who was in the first 3 seasons of Mission: Impossible, has died.

Unless we pull off the face mask and find that it was actually somebody else.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
Oooo - points!!!

Sadly. I really loved him in MI.
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Ariston:
Then, subject to the MP"IGB"R9, 55 points for you, me, and Sandemaniac

Well that is good news, 'cos I'd forgotten I had him!

AG
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Shit. Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington has died, aged 41. I saw them in concert just a couple of weeks ago.
 
Posted by Pine Marten (# 11068) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
Shit. Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington has died, aged 41. I saw them in concert just a couple of weeks ago.

Hanged himself apparently. Hadn't got over the death of his friend Chris Cornell [Frown] RIP, Chester and Chris.
 
Posted by Matt Black (# 2210) on :
 
Deborah Watling, who played Patrick Troughton's Doctor Who's assistant Victoria, has permanently gone into the space-time continuum
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Father is not coming home, Kevin.

[ 22. July 2017, 21:53: Message edited by: lilBuddha ]
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
A moment of silence for Rocket J. Squirrel & Cindy Lou Who (who is no more than two). At least now June Foray and Mel Blanc can be together delighting the Heavenly Host with their voices.
 
Posted by Baker (# 18458) on :
 
I got the point for June Foray!!!

Darn, though, I learned my first pun on the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.
 
Posted by Tree Bee (# 4033) on :
 
Robert Anker 27 year old member of dance group Diversity has died.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
Eleven points for Jeanne Moreau.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
If there truly is a Heaven, let us hope Sam Shepard had the right stuff.
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Robert Hardy, best known as Siegfried from All Creatures Great and Small has died, aged 85.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
Robert Hardy, best known as Siegfried from All Creatures Great and Small has died, aged 85.

I just saw that (and came here to post it). I loved him in "All Creatures Great and Small" -- he was exactly the way I pictured his character in the books.

[Waterworks] and [Votive]
 
Posted by Kitten (# 1179) on :
 
Hywel Bennett has died
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Sorry to hear about both these gentlemen - their TV characters were part of my (fast-disappearing) youth.

I remember my mum having a bit of a thing for Robert Hardy's voice, and that started me off on listening more intently to actors' voices, and deciding which ones I'd be happy to listen to reading the phone book. Mr. Hardy was one of them.

May they both rest in peace.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
I think I need to watch "Sense and Sensibility" this evening, in honor of Robert Hardy and Alan Rickman.

[Tear]
 
Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
I think I need to watch "Sense and Sensibility" this evening, in honor of Robert Hardy and Alan Rickman.

[Tear]

I'll join you. [Tear]
Just yesterday, I was hearing Sir John Middleton in my head, and thought I must watch S&S again soon!
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
I think S&S will have to wait until tomorrow. Several storm systems just blew in and collided. I don't think I've ever seen this much rain fall at once (in addition to fierce winds). Power outages are being reported throughout the Phoenix area, so probably not a good time to watch television.
 
Posted by Cottontail (# 12234) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
Robert Hardy, best known as Siegfried from All Creatures Great and Small has died, aged 85.

The report says he was 91, for the sake of those counting.

I met him once, in a doorway. He harrumphed at me and shoved his way past. I smiled to see in his obituary that he described himself as 'difficult'.

I met Seamus Heaney two weeks later, in the same doorway. He stepped back, held the door open for me, and gave a little bow. [Smile]
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Cottontail:
quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
Robert Hardy, best known as Siegfried from All Creatures Great and Small has died, aged 85.

The report says he was 91, for the sake of those counting.
When the news was first reported, they said 85. I didn't check his birth date and it seems most of the news outlets didn't either for about 15 minutes.
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Cottontail:
... I met him once, in a doorway ... I met Seamus Heaney two weeks later, in the same doorway ...

Do you make a habit of hanging around doorways frequented by well-known gentlemen? [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Cottontail (# 12234) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
quote:
Originally posted by Cottontail:
... I met him once, in a doorway ... I met Seamus Heaney two weeks later, in the same doorway ...

Do you make a habit of hanging around doorways frequented by well-known gentlemen? [Big Grin]
I was going in as they were coming out ... or the other way round ... I can't quite remember. Anyway, it was a long time ago in a place far far away, and they were the only two gentlemen I met in that particular doorway. [Biased]
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
All the others weren't gentlemen.....?
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
All the others weren't gentlemen.....?

It sounds as if Robert Hardy wasn't much of a gentleman either.
[Biased]
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
All the others weren't gentlemen.....?

It sounds as if Robert Hardy wasn't much of a gentleman either.
[Biased]

I know. Disappointing, isn't it? [Disappointed]
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
Two baseball players have passed (although neither were on my list). (1) Don Baylor of the then "California" Angels (before they became the Anaheim Angels, before they became the Los Angeles Angels) and later the very first manager of the Colorado Rockies, and (2) catcher Darren "Dutch" Daulton of the late 1980s/early 1990s Philadelphia Phillies.
 
Posted by Mamacita (# 3659) on :
 
Glen Campbell has died at the age of 81.

The 2011 documentary that showed his struggle with Alzheimer's was heartbreaking. May he be at peace.
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
I was afraid this might happen. My pick wasn't the kiss of life. [Votive]
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
I saw this last night, came here to post, and then forgot....

A sad loss, but expected. His music what not my style, but I actually quite enjoy it, in small doses.
 
Posted by The Rogue (# 2275) on :
 
Not many points for the world's oldest man
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
The inventor of the sonic screwdriver has died.
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Sir Bruce Forsyth has died, aged 89. [Votive]

I make that 11 points for 11 people.

[ 18. August 2017, 15:40: Message edited by: Sipech ]
 
Posted by Japes (# 5358) on :
 
I heard the news about Bruce Forsyth as I put on the radio and with the immediate thought of "Oooo! Points!! [Hot and Hormonal]
 
Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :
 
11 points, but such sad news. A true national treasure.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
Points!

I am in two minds about this. I think he was brilliant - he made the Generation Game a huge success, and the Saturday evening entertainment slot.

I just feel that in Strictly, he was showing his age. I feel that he might have been better leaving sooner, with people wanting more.

But he was one of the last of the all-round entertainers. A generation and a skillset that is no more.
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
It was always nice to see him...
 
Posted by M. (# 3291) on :
 
We went to see Johnny Dankworth and Cleo Laine some years back. One of their supporting acts was ill and Bruce Forsyth stepped in at the last minute. He played piano wonderfully. Yes, he was an all round performer in his day.

M.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Dick Gregory, a pioneering force of comedy in the 1960s who parlayed his career as a stand-up into a life of social and political activism, died Saturday of heart failure at 84.

Some friends and I went to see him in 1968.
 
Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :
 
I saw a headline saying Jerry Lewis was dead, and his wiki page is updated along those lines, but I'm not seeing much else about it, including on this thread.
 
Posted by Bishops Finger (# 5430) on :
 
Reported by the BBC, So It Must Be True:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40994864

IJ
 
Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :
 
Thanks. I was surprised to see that Dick Gregory seemed to be getting the bigger lead. I'm pretty much indifferent to both comics, but I would have assumed Lewis was the better known. (Bias: I was raised by parents born in the mid-30s, who pretty much missed out on the 1960s, culturally speaking.)
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Bishops Finger:
Reported by the BBC, So It Must Be True:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40994864

IJ

But Fox News has reported it too. Does that mean it's fake? [Confused]
 
Posted by Baker (# 18458) on :
 
I'm really surprised that not one player had Jerry Lewis.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
At 81 Sir Colin Meads has died. He set the bar for "hard man" and I don't think anyone has come near it.
 
Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Baker:
I'm really surprised that not one player had Jerry Lewis.

Well, while I think his popularity in France might have been somewhat exaggerated, I believe it remains the case that towards the end he was more popular in continental Europe relative to the USA, and probably anglosphere generally. I remember Hardly Working, which was I believe the last film marketed as a genuine Jerry Lewis film, opened in my hometown, and didn't last a week in the theatres. Whereas my understanding is that it did quite well in Europe.

So, just speculation on my part, but I'd guess that for a lot of people who would be playing this game, he was barely on the radar as a public figure.
 
Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :
 
Jean-Luc Godard on Jerry Lewis

From 1980. You'll notice that Cavett observes that Lewis is popular with "Europeans", but doesn't mention France specifically. I'd be willing to bet that this specific interview is what prompted the idea that he was big in France, since IIRC it was shortly after this that I first heard people saying that.
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Doubt he was on any lists but Brian Aldiss has died aged 92 - he was a science fiction author, for those who don't live with their noses in a book.

Also another one that was probably not on any lists Richard Gordon (pen name) of the Doctor in the House books has died aged 84. I've read the books, heard the radio versions, not really seen the films.
 
Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
Doubt he was on any lists but Brian Aldiss has died aged 92 - he was a science fiction author, for those who don't live with their noses in a book.

Also another one that was probably not on any lists Richard Gordon (pen name) of the Doctor in the House books has died aged 84. I've read the books, heard the radio versions, not really seen the films.

Oh... [Tear] a double whammy.

I saw Brian Aldiss book speak at a Bradford Fantastic Film Festival about his book, Prometheus Unbound (made into a film with John Hurt, and Michael Hutchence as Lord Byron), and life in general. He was an interesting writer and was never backward in coming forward with an opinion for interviews about the state of modern SF.

I also had a weird obsession in my teen years with some of the early Richard Gordon books, but hadn't spared him a thought in years.
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Baker:
I'm really surprised that not one player had Jerry Lewis.

I honestly thought he had died years ago. Can't get points from the already dead, after all. I honestly can't say I'd heard any mention of him in a very, very long time.

So, of course, I'm reading the obits. Half the reason I like this game is finding out about people I know nothing about.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
Dick Gregory, a pioneering force of comedy in the 1960s who parlayed his career as a stand-up into a life of social and political activism, died Saturday of heart failure at 84.

Some friends and I went to see him in 1968.

Damn. Another hero gone.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
A genuine national treasure.
 
Posted by Eigon (# 4917) on :
 
I grew up on the Doctor in the House films - they were usually on TV in the afternoons at weekends, along with swashbucklers, and other films in black and white. Also I rather liked Dirk Bogarde, who starred in them.
There was also a TV series in the 1970s starring Richard O'Sullivan. And the TV sent me on to read the books, mostly picked up at jumble sales.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Chainsaws continue to be Massacred, even though Tobe Hooper has died. His legacy dies on.

[ 28. August 2017, 18:23: Message edited by: lilBuddha ]
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor has died,aged 85.
 
Posted by Tree Bee (# 4033) on :
 
Walter Becker of Steely Dan has died.
 
Posted by Kitten (# 1179) on :
 
Sir Peter Hall, founder of the RSC has died aged 86
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
Its not quite right to say Peter Hall founded the RSC - what he did was to change the name when the original charter was reincorporated and to get funding from the Arts Council for a permanent company of actors, as opposed to just hiring people per season.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Multitalented mobster impersonator Frank Vincent got an offer he couldn't refuse.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
The long and storied career of Harry Dean Stanton has come to an end.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
'The man who saved the world' and possiblely the last sane one whose finger was over the launch button, dies.
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
... possibly the last sane one whose finger was over the launch button ...

Just when the world could do with somebody of his common sense and integrity.

May he rest in peace.
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
William G Stewart, the former host of 15 to 1, has died.

Rest in peace and rise in glory, you wonderful patriarch of daytime quiz shows. Go and join Richard Whiteley. For now, though, it's lights out. [Tear] [Votive]
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
I heard this on my way home, and forgot to post it.

A sad loss, he was a brilliant host.
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
Liz Dawn who played Vera Duckworth in Coronation Street has gone to a better soap.

And Anthony Booth, Alf Garnett's "scouse git" son-in-law and, in real life, father-in-law of Tony Blair, has died at the age of 85.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
And today Lady Lucan has died. Police say they are no suspicious circumstances.

Yeah, sure.
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
... Anthony Booth, Alf Garnett's "scouse git" son-in-law and, in real life, father-in-law of Tony Blair, has died at the age of 85.

Goodness - I had him in the "I thought he'd been dead for years" file.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Hugh Hefner has gone to the Playboy Mansion in the sky.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
Another one in the "how did he last so long" file.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
Another one in the "how did he last so long" file.

To quote the American philosopher W. Martin Joel:
quote:
Only the Good die young

 
Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :
 
My favorite Hef memory.

1989 or thereabouts, he was being interviewed with his new wife, Kimberley Conrad(about 27), on one of those Entertainment Tonight-type shows. Hef ended the interview with some ruminations on his future.

HEF: And now, I look forward to starting my new life.

KC(in a singsong voice): Honey, your new life?

TOGETHER: OUR new life!
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Monty Hall is now making his biggest deal ever.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Tom Petty has run down his last dream.
Sad day.
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
Tom Petty has run down his last dream.
Sad day.

A real heartbreaker.
 
Posted by simontoad (# 18096) on :
 
papers reporting here that Tom Petty is not dead yet. Let's hope for a full recovery. Some outlets jumped the gun.
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
Nobody had him, otherwise, the Monty Python rule would be getting some good quality use.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Ariston:
Nobody had him, otherwise, the Monty Python rule would be getting some good quality use.

I think it is definite now that he has died.
[Votive]
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
WaPo says it's true, so . . .
 
Posted by simontoad (# 18096) on :
 
Yep. He's gone. I saw him when he toured with Saint Bob in I'm going to say 1984. *sigh*
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
Loved Petty's music, ever since American Girl.

It looks like the Travelling Wilburys are getting the band back together. Better get Bob and Jeff on next year's list.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Lawrence Argent, the acclaimed sculptor who created the 40-foot-high “big blue bear” sculpture that has become an artistic icon for Denver, Colorado, died on October 4 at the age of 60.

I’m not usually a fan of “public art” but “I See What You Mean” (as it was officially called) certainly made me smile. He stands on his hind legs, his paws and nose pressed against a steel-framed glass wall of the Colorado Convention Center. I’ve admired him from the sidewalk as well as from inside the Convention Center.
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
I confess I'd not heard of Mr. Argent, but I love the bear!

I think he's just put Denver on to my bucket list ... [Smile]
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Don't think he was on anyone's radar. Comedian Sean Hughes has died, aged just 51.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
Don't think he was on anyone's radar. Comedian Sean Hughes has died, aged just 51.

Still a bright light extinguished, for all that.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
He was a great comedian. Really shocked to hear this, a sad loss.
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Always liked him on Never mind the Buzzcocks.

RIP. [Frown]
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Now recording audiobooks for the angels, Roy Dotrice has died.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
Now recording audiobooks for the angels, Roy Dotrice has died.

I don't follow Game of Thrones so this is another of those "Gosh, was he still alive". I first saw him fifty-something years ago in the series of "Misleading Cases" (and he was made up to look seventy-odd). I seem to remember he once proved that a cheque could validly be written on a cow.

I wonder what voice he will use when addressed by St Peter?
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
Roy Dotrice was in the RAF with a friend of mine: prior to that he'd been in a workhouse [Eek!]

I remember him as Shallow with the RSC in the early 1960s.
 
Posted by Jonah the Whale (# 1244) on :
 
Bummer. I listened to all five GoT audio books. If Mr. Martin had got his act together then Mr. Dotrice could have recorded the rest of the series.
 
Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
I saw his one-man show "Brief Lives" in the early 70s. Magnificent and also funny (and the most cluttered set I've ever seen!)
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Gord Downie now bringing Canadian flavour to the hipsters in the afterlife.

[ 19. October 2017, 00:26: Message edited by: lilBuddha ]
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
Rosemary Leach has died - I cannot place her, but I recognise her name.
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
I certainly recognise her - she turned up in various television roles, serious and comic, although I can't put my finger on a specific one at the moment.
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
Robert Guillaume has died. He played Benson in Soap and Benson and also played Isaac Jaffee in SportsNight (a show cancelled way too early).
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Rock ‘n’ Rill legend Fats Domino is finding his thrill on a more ethereal hill. And teaching the angels the Twist.
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
Rock ‘n’ Rill legend Fats Domino is finding his thrill on a more ethereal hill.

Ain't that a shame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbfMlk1PwGU

[ 25. October 2017, 15:50: Message edited by: balaam ]
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Just because she is interesting,
Iona Opie died recently. And because I loved the illustrations for What-a-Mess so much, Joseph Wright, children's illustrator.

[ 06. November 2017, 15:28: Message edited by: Ariston ]
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
Good lord, I thought Iona Opie was long gone!

AG
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
Pitcher Roy Halladay has died in a plane crash. 2-time Cy Young Award winner; he pitched the 20th "perfect game" in MLB history and the second playoff no-hitter.

A potential Hall of Famer, but he just retired from baseball in 2013 and I don't think he is even eligible to be on the ballot until 2018 or 2019.

[Votive]
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Antonio Carluccio has died at the age of 80. He made food with a smile.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
Antonio Carluccio has died at the age of 80. He made food with a smile.

He was worth any number of Jamies and Gordons. He took ordinary ingredients and showed us how to make great food.
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
He also cooked in some pretty splendid restaurants. Looked like a chef should too - well fed, not lean and hungry.
 
Posted by Gill H (# 68) on :
 
He will be much missed in our house.
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
John Hillerman, the small town Texan who played snooty Brits on TV and in movies -most notably on Magnum, PI- has died at 84
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
I'm sure Mr Hillerman may have been a fine actor but his faux 'English' accent didn't take in any Brits.
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Tim Gudgin, the voice of Saturday afternoons, has died aged 87.
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
A whopping one point for me, as it is being announced that Bobby Doerr has died at age 99.
 
Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
I'm sure Mr Hillerman may have been a fine actor but his faux 'English' accent didn't take in any Brits.

I'd be curious to know what Brits think about Hillerman's fellow Yank Paul Benedict's accent.

There's a real-life interview with Benedict elsewhere on You Tube, and he doesn't sound at all like an Englishman.
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
Tim Gudgin, the voice of Saturday afternoons, has died aged 87.

Will he and James Alexander-Gordon be taking it in turns to read out the heavenly footie results?

RIP. [Votive]
 
Posted by Tree Bee (# 4033) on :
 
Actor Keith Barron has died.
 
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
Tim Gudgin, the voice of Saturday afternoons, has died aged 87.

Will he and James Alexander-Gordon be taking it in turns to read out the heavenly footie results?

RIP. [Votive]

Not forgetting Len Martin (Tim Gudgin's predecessor on Grandstand, who died during the 90s).
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
Keith Barron also appeared in Baby Love - a British soft-porn(ish) offering of 1968 which starred a sometime chorister (Linda Hayden - nee Higginson) in my Godfather's choir.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Hopefully not on a Highway to Hell, AC/DC founder Malcolm Young has died.
 
Posted by Dark Knight (# 9415) on :
 
Saw yesterday lB.
[Waterworks]
 
Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
David Cassidy has died. Another name from my teens...
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
And mine, St. G.

RIP Mr. Cassidy. [Votive]
 
Posted by Dark Knight (# 9415) on :
 
Was the utterly unlamented Manson on anyone's list?
 
Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 
I don't know if she was on anyone's list, but the former Wimbledon champion Jana Novotna has died, aged only 49.
 
Posted by Dark Knight (# 9415) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
David Cassidy has died. Another name from my teens...

I am finding no confirmation of this. Where did you see it?
 
Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Dark Knight:
Was the utterly unlamented Manson on anyone's list?

Probably not St. Peter's.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Dark Knight:
quote:
Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
David Cassidy has died. Another name from my teens...

I am finding no confirmation of this. Where did you see it?
I can find no confirmation of death either, but it cannot be long before this happens, given what I have read.
 
Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
Saw David Cassidy's death reported on Facebook but checked it via Google. There was nothing in the newspaper today, so it might not be right.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Stejjie:
I don't know if she was on anyone's list, but the former Wimbledon champion Jana Novotna has died, aged only 49.

That is really sad - and so young.
 
Posted by Anglican_Brat (# 12349) on :
 
Della Reese of "Touched By an Angel" fame has died

I admit to being a fan of the show when I was a young child, and I admit now, a lot of it was saccharine and overly sentimental, but still Della Reese's character did have some pearls of wisdom.
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Very sad to hear about Jana Novotna - she was such an entertaining player to watch, in an era when the ladies' game could be a bit dull. I'm choking up remembering her crying on the Duchess's shoulder - it seems a shame that she's mostly remembered for a match she lost.

RIP [Votive]
 
Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
Saw David Cassidy's death reported on Facebook but checked it via Google. There was nothing in the newspaper today, so it might not be right.

Wikipedia still lists him as living.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
TV news tonight reported that he is in hospital suffering from organ failure.

[ 20. November 2017, 23:14: Message edited by: Amanda B. Reckondwythe ]
 
Posted by Dark Knight (# 9415) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
Saw David Cassidy's death reported on Facebook but checked it via Google. There was nothing in the newspaper today, so it might not be right.

It isn't. Facebook is powerful, but it can't kill people. Yet.
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Dark Knight:
Facebook is powerful, but it can't kill people. Yet.

That's what it WANTS you to think! [Paranoid]
 
Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Anglican_Brat:
Della Reese of "Touched By an Angel" fame has died

I admit to being a fan of the show when I was a young child, and I admit now, a lot of it was saccharine and overly sentimental, but still Della Reese's character did have some pearls of wisdom.

Someone told me about an episode in which they go back in time and convert Mark Twain to Christianity. Which, to the extent that you can be offensive about a dead guy who nobody now living ever met, is pretty offenive. Though it does reflect a rather American obsession with having their national icons all be religiously correct.

(Caveat: I never actually saw the episode, or any other of that show. I tend to trust the person who described it to me.)
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Rodney Bewes, one of the Likely Lads, has died aged 79.
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
I did not think this was likely.
Another of Basil Brush's sidekicks is gone. [Frown]

Beaten to it by seconds.

[ 21. November 2017, 18:56: Message edited by: balaam ]
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
Rodney Bewes has died. Best known for playing alongside James Bolam in The Likely Lads.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
I don't believe that, in the time it took me to type my post out, TWO people posted the same.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
Saw David Cassidy's death reported on Facebook but checked it via Google. There was nothing in the newspaper today, so it might not be right.

It now seems to be official -- David Cassidy has died at 67. (Lots of news sources are reporting this now.)
 
Posted by The Rogue (# 2275) on :
 
Now official. He was a part of my childhood but then a lot of people appearing on this thread were.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, renowned Russian baritone, has died at 55.

(Personally, I think he'll be adding more to the Heavenly Chorus than David Cassidy, but tastes differ.)
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Perhaps he'll be adding to a different bit of the Heavenly Chorus - I'd like to think that it has something for all tastes. [Smile]

May they both rest in peace. [Votive]

PS 55 is far too young - it's my age. [Frown]
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Just because I loved Rosie's Walk and Titch, particularly You'll Soon Grow Into Them so much, Pat Hutchins has died. Also known for Rosie and Jim.
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
Well surprise, surprise, surprise. Jim Nabors has died. Just yesterday, I was listening to a recording of him singing a Christmas tune...
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
Yipes! They are playing it again right now! Jim Nabors singing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."

I think the playlist on this holiday channel is pretty well set far in advance, so it is probably just a coincidence.
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Christine Keeler, remembered for the Profumo Affair and "Well, he would say that would say that wouldn't he?" comment has died aged 75.

Also Shashi Kapoor
 
Posted by Dark Knight (# 9415) on :
 
I was just thinking about Keeler and the Profumo affair the other day - I think I saw a headline related to it.

That comment was made by Mandy Rice Davies, not Keeler.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
John Anderson, who ran as an Independent for the U.S. Presidency in 1980, has died at 95.
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
The famous Christine Keeler quote is, "Discreiion is the polite word for hypocricy."
 
Posted by Uncle Pete (# 10422) on :
 
King Michael of Romania. Aetatis 96.One of the last living actors in the history of the Second World War. He brought Romania into the conflict on the side of the Allied Forces, and for his pains his country was overrun by the Soviet steamroller and he was forced to abdicate in 1947.

In his old age he regained his citizenship and his death is being mourned by the current Romanian government.

He was a first cousin to Prince Philip of Greece who also fashioned a career outside his native land, marrying money.
 
Posted by Tree Bee (# 4033) on :
 
More than miffed aboutJohnny Hallyday’s death.
He was on my list for several years till I removed him for 2016.
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by balaam:
The famous Christine Keeler quote is, "Discreiion is the polite word for hypocricy."

Discreiion and hypocricy are not words at all, "Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy."
 
Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
Poor Johnny. I had him for a few years as well and took him off the list when he seemed to be getting better.
 
Posted by Gill H (# 68) on :
 
Listening to his duet from the children’s musical ‘Emilie Jolie’ today.
 
Posted by Tree Bee (# 4033) on :
 
Max Clifford has died.
Anybody have him?
 
Posted by Tree Bee (# 4033) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Tree Bee:
Max Clifford has died.
Anybody have him?

I could have put that better.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
I had just heard that he had been taken ill, and had put him on my list for next year.

I can't say I am sad at his loss. He has spent his life hiding misdemeanours for money.
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Tree Bee:
quote:
Originally posted by Tree Bee:
Max Clifford has died.
Anybody have him?

I could have put that better.
Yes.

You could have said that celebrity publicist, self publicist and convicted sex offender Max Clifford has died.
 
Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :
 
Cheggers has swapped this life for the afterlife.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
Just heard that. He was something of a prick in recent years on twitter in particular, but I remember his peak times, when he was brilliant.

He was a big child, and in his Swap Shop times that was perfect.
 
Posted by TurquoiseTastic (# 8978) on :
 
Poor Cheggers. I remember him fondly. Cheggers Plays Pop...Pop...Pop....

I always felt his natural age was about 17, in contrast to John Craven, say, whose natural age was about 57. When comparing modern footage to archive I would always think "Wow, Cheggers looks so old now!" but "Oh, John Craven looked so young then!"
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Is anyone starting the ball rolling for 2018 or are we waiting for the launch of the new ship?
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
I believe we are waiting for the new Ship--but people should be assembling their lists now to be ready to post them quickly once we get on board.
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Theologian R C Sproul has died.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
Just read this Heinz Wolff has died. He was one of the brilliant expressive scientists from my youth.
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
Cyclist Sharon Laws. Former British road race and Time trial champion, from cervical cancer.
 
Posted by ChaliceGirl (# 13656) on :
 
Is there a 2018 pool yet? Don't see one?
 
Posted by Bishops Finger (# 5430) on :
 
King Michael I of Romania may not have been exactly a celebrity, but seems to have been a decent chap, who stood up against totalitarian regimes.

IJ
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by ChaliceGirl:
Is there a 2018 pool yet? Don't see one?

I think people may be waiting for the advent of the new Ship. In that case it will likely start a little later than usual.
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
quote:
Originally posted by ChaliceGirl:
Is there a 2018 pool yet? Don't see one?

I think people may be waiting for the advent of the new Ship. In that case it will likely start a little later than usual.
I have my list ready to copy and paste, I suggest that we all should be suitably prepared.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Jeepers! I hadn't a Scooby she was still around; the voice of Daphne, Heather North has died.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose years of shielding sexually abusive priests caused generations of pain, has died at the age of 86.
 
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose years of shielding sexually abusive priests caused generations of pain, has died at the age of 86.

If he's very lucky, he has a long, long haul in purgatory. If not... [Devil]
 
Posted by Baker (# 18458) on :
 
What's the current standings of players?

And isn't there going to be a 2018 thread?
 
Posted by Uncle Pete (# 10422) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Baker:
What's the current standings of players?

And isn't there going to be a 2018 thread?

We are waiting to be teleported to a new board. The old threads (or new ones) will not be coming with us. See Styx seriatim.
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Baker:
What's the current standings of players?

And isn't there going to be a 2018 thread?

Current standings: uh, I think I'm winning? Yeah. That's it. Of course I'm winning. In counting, there is strength.
Gimmie a moment this break (it's been Finalsseason here at Ye Olde Lahskool), and I'll count your kills.

2018 thread: Uncle Pete, post 453, supra
Rules will probably be more-or-less the same, assuming that...um...okay, I honestly have No Idea if we're actually migrating over by 1 January. We're a few days out, and y'alls know as much about it as I do. Maybe more (see Lahskool excuse, supra).

So, what to do? Well. Right now, I'm thinking a shortened schedule, so that everyone has a chance to research, find fiends and friends, and pick their Lucky 13. We'll start the Abbreviated Death Pool two weeks after we jump ship; this should give everyone time enough to settle in and get to picking.
 
Posted by Tree Bee (# 4033) on :
 
Sadly, Gogglebox star (very like Mr Bee) star Leon has died.
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
Heather Menzies-Urich, best known as Louisa von Trapp in The Sound of Music, has died.

In terms of scores, my Very Unofficial Tally shows Ariston leading on points with 110 (from only two hits!!!), followed by Light User at 87 and Leorning Cniht and Sandemaniac at 55.

In terms of most hits (The Quantity not Quality Award), there is currently a tie between Tree Bee and Light User, both with 3 hits.

I really may be wrong about this, but I think the current leader for the Sudden Death Award (for last death in 2017) is me, with Bobby Doerr dying on November 14. But the whole point of that award is that anybody can get it with an opportune passing in the next few days.
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Hedgehog:
... anybody can get it with an opportune passing in the next few days.

And, let's face it, there nearly always seems to be a sleb of one sort or another who croaks over Christmas/New Year.

I think I may be in for the wooden spoon for 2017 - so far I don't think I've had any hits at all.
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
I think I may be in for the wooden spoon for 2017 - so far I don't think I've had any hits at all.

According to my notes, you got Peter Sallis (4 points)(June 2, 2017).
 
Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 
yeah, leave that wooden spoon for me !
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Wet Kipper:
yeah, leave that wooden spoon for me !

Ummmmmm, no. You have 12 very sad points for Adam West (June 9).

Assuming I haven't made a mistake (and I usually assume that I have--it saves time in the long run), we had 44 players for 2017, and 19 of them have so far failed to get even one hit. But I haven't looked at today's obituaries yet....
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Hedgehog:
But the whole point of that award is that anybody can get it with an opportune passing in the next few days.

Which I won, sadly, with Carrie fisher last year.

There's still time.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
(Pictures Carrie Fisher in the great beyond laughing herself silly at the idea of her “opportune passing.” Seriously, she would have loved that, right?)
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
Rose Marie has died. It is not many people who can boast of over 80 years in front of the camera. She was in a sound short in 1929 and was still performing into 2013.
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
I'm startled to hear I have 55 - who did I get, I wonder?

AG
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi whose death was announced on 22 June 2017, but more recent reports suggest he is still alive.

I forgot to post my list, I'm blaming the shingles of the month before, but he was on it, along with Joost van der Westhuizen (45 points) and Sarah Coward (31 points)
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Hedgehog:
quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
I think I may be in for the wooden spoon for 2017 - so far I don't think I've had any hits at all.

According to my notes, you got Peter Sallis (4 points)(June 2, 2017).
Thanks Hedgehog - I'd forgotten he was on my list.

WK, do help yourself to that spoon ... [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
And it has been announced that mystery writer Sue Grafton has died, with the Kinsey Milhone Alphabet series ending at "Y" is for Yesterday. We know that she intended the last book in the series to be called "Z" is for Zero but apparently it was not yet written as of her death.
 
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Really sad about Sue Grafton. I loved the way she described starting the series: as a way of dealing with the messy divorce her ex-husband had just put her through, by murdering him in print. The later books didn't continue with that foreword, but the first few did.
 
Posted by Og: Thread Killer (# 3200) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
quote:
Originally posted by Baker:
What's the current standings of players?

And isn't there going to be a 2018 thread?

We are waiting to be teleported to a new board. The old threads (or new ones) will not be coming with us. See Styx seriatim.
Uh, you know, its less then 24 hours until 2018 for a lot of people and somebody is going to die in the next couple of days, so maybe a new game could be started and somebody could...you know...cut and paste something from here?
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
It was said earlier that the new thread will start 2 weeks after the new boards. There will be a difficult time when people will die and you have no chance of gaining points.

We can, however, record the sadness at their passing. I know that is what your real concern is.
 
Posted by Og: Thread Killer (# 3200) on :
 
My wish is for an enjoyable game to continue. If that has to be later, so be it.
 
Posted by Auntie Doris (# 9433) on :
 
Um, so is there no 2018 game launched yet?

Auntie Doris x
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Would it be possible to give ourselves a few days after the re-launch to get our lists together, and just start from there?

As Og and SC said, we'll probably lose a few deaths and points, but it can't be helped, and we'll all be in the same boat, so it won't matter.

For myself, I haven't even thought about who's going on my 2018 Kiss of Life™ list, so it'll give me a little time to think about it.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Gun Crazy star Peggy Cummins gets another shot at Howard Hughes.
 
Posted by Uncle Pete (# 10422) on :
 
For the time being, why not just continue into 2018 with the 2017 lists - and start the 2018 lists once the new boards have been set up?
 
Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 
kinda like "extra time" in a sports match
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Thomas S. Monson, president and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died Tuesday night at the age of 90.
 
Posted by Enoch (# 14322) on :
 
Am I the only person who's managed to score a complete zero? All mine have survived the whole of 2017. I haven't done the maths but they must now have achieved a staggering cumulative age. This was my list if anyone wants to check.
quote:

1. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.
2. June Whitfield.
3. Paul Gascoine (Gazza).
4. Winnie Mandela.
5. Prince Philip.
6. James Earl (Jimmy) Carter.
7. Robert Mugabe.
8. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev.
9. George H. W. Bush (Sen).
10. Nigel Lawson (Lord Blaby).
11. Douglas Hurd (Lord Westwell).
12. Joseph (Sepp) Blatter.

And finally one who if he reaches his terminal event in 2017 is less likely to do so through natural causes

13. Kim Jong Un.

There are some on that list I'm quite surprised to see still going. I begin to wonder. Do I have some special gift to confer immortality?
 
Posted by Pangolin Guerre (# 18686) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
Gun Crazy star Peggy Cummins gets another shot at Howard Hughes.

Oh, too bad. That is one crazy-ass film. I saw it for the first time only three or four years ago at TIFF. Highly entertaining, and sociologically fascinating.
 
Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Enoch:
Am I the only person who's managed to score a complete zero? All mine have survived the whole of 2017. I haven't done the maths but they must now have achieved a staggering cumulative age. This was my list if anyone wants to check.

I’m on a duck as well. There’s always an element of chance in this game (I’ve won it in the past when the CIA blew up a particularly young and high scoring Taliban commander).
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
My 2015 list not only scored a duck, but 2 of the people I'd removed from the 2014 list died.

I'm tempting that again this year, by making a few changes.

One of these years my full list will survive and I'll pop my clogs, the ultimate irony.
 
Posted by Trudy Scrumptious (# 5647) on :
 
I scored a perfect zero, somehow managing to keep all the members of the Kardashian family and all their annoying hangers-on alive to bless the world for another year. I might just keep the list untouched into 2018 and see if their luck continues to hold.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
The after life gets more of that Muscle Shoals Soul, as Rick Hall sets up a recording studio on a higher plane.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Dick Van Dyke’s younger brother Jerry gets a heavenly gig first.

[ 06. January 2018, 22:27: Message edited by: lilBuddha ]
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
Thirteen points to anyone who nominated astronaut John Young
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
Motorheads classic lineup are now serenading the angels. Or whoever. Fast Eddie Clarke has died.
 
Posted by simontoad (# 18096) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
The after life gets more of that Muscle Shoals Soul, as Rick Hall sets up a recording studio on a higher plane.

Oh LB, you gave me a start. I misread your post as Rich Hall. Rick, I was ignorant about.
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
Motorheads classic lineup are now serenading the angels. Or whoever. Fast Eddie Clarke has died.

There are no surviving members of Motörhead I have seen play live. RIP fast one.
 
Posted by The Rogue (# 2275) on :
 
I've done some research and I reckon 20 of the 45 players scored no points.

However, people might be more interested in the other end of the game so by my calculations the top scorers in 2017 are Ariston and Light User with 87 points each. Third was Tree Bee with 54 points.

The Quantity Not Quality award was certainly well-named as Baker scored a measily 7 points for his 5 celebrities now remembered and not seen.

Zappa won the Inside Track With The Grim Reaper award for identifying Mary Tyler Moore as being the first of our celebrities to transfer to other realms on 25th Jan and Hedgehog won the Sudden Death award for realising that Bobby Doerr would be the last one to go on 13th Nov.

Three people share the Why Does It Always Happen To Me award with two scores each. They are St Gwladys, Cottontail and Light User.

I appreciate that other people have been doing tallies so please do speak up if you have different ideas on the winners. I think that the uncertainty surrounding some of the terrorists might lead to differences. Google is my friend but it appears that it might not know everything. I will put up my full lists in a few moments.
 
Posted by The Rogue (# 2275) on :
 
It doesn't matter how carefully I check stuff something always slips through. Ariston's score according to my spreadsheet should be 104 plus whatever Ayad al-jumaili would have scored. I have a date of death of around the beginning of April and no date of birth. If anyone can supply better details then please do.

Therefore Ariston is the outright winner with at least 104 points unless the terrorist was 117 when he died.
 
Posted by The Rogue (# 2275) on :
 
Right, then, full scores.

1st Ariston 104 points (at least) from Joost van der Westhuizen, Isnilon Hapilon & Ayad al-Jumali.

2nd Light User 87 points for Gregg Allman, Bruce Langhorne & Martin McGuiness.

3rd Tree Bee 54 points for Bruce Forsyth, Brian Matthew & Peter Skellern.

4th= Spike 42 points for Bruce Forsyth & Michael Perham.

4th= North East Quine 42 points for Bruce Forsyth & Sarah Coward.

6th Lyda*Rose 39 points for Glen Campbell & Mary Tyler-Moore.

7th= Thunderbunk 25 points for Bruce Forsyth & Colin Dexter.

7th= Teekeey Misha 25 points for Bruce Forsyth & Gerald Kaufman.

9th= The Phantom Flan Flinger 23 points for Bruce Forsyth & Brian Matthew.

9th= no prophet's flag is set so... 23 points for Helmut Kohl & Chuck Berry.

11th Schroedinger's Cat 22 points for Bruce Forsyth & Martin Landau.

12th Sipech 21 points for Peter Sallis & John Noakes.

13th= Hedgehog 16 points for Bobby Doerr & Jim Bunning.

13th= Og: Thread Killer 16 points for John Hillerman.

15th RuthW 73 points for Derek Walcott.

16th Wet Kipper 12 points for Adam West.

17th= balaam 11 points for Fats Domino.

17th= Japes, Auntie Doris, Abigail & kingsfold 11 points all for Bruce Forsyth.

22nd= Baker 7 points for all of Peter Sallis, Danielle Darrieux, Lorna Grey, June Foray & William Woodson.

22nd= Uncle Pete for Countess Mountbatten.

24th= Piglet for Peter Sallis.

24th= Goldfish Stew for Mickey Rooney.
 
Posted by The Rogue (# 2275) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by The Rogue:
It doesn't matter how carefully I check stuff something always slips through.

And the Inside Track With The Grim Reaper is rightfully Lyda*Rose's, not Zappa's who didn't post a list.

One day I will get the hang of LOOKUP in Excel.
 
Posted by The Rogue (# 2275) on :
 
There was some discussion at the beginning of this thread about allowing competitors to change their picks. The current rule is quite strict that changes can only be made if one of the picks dies before the competition starts counting. I'm not sure why this should be unless it is to avoid nightmares for the scorer in keeping track. However, as the threads on Old Ship and New Ship are linear then I don't see this as a major problem so I propose we relax this rule in 2018.

Does anyone have any comment on this? I might change my mind after seeing how it works out!
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Thanks are due again to The Rogue, for all your reckonings and accountings!

[Overused]
 
Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
Yes, thanks!
When do we need to post for 2018?
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
Many thanks as well, given that I have my feet propped up and a cuppa coffeetea* brewing. It's my reward for Killing All Of You.

*Brew coffee. Steep green tea in the coffee. It's a grad student special.
 
Posted by Jack the Lass (# 3415) on :
 
I doubt she was on anyone's list, but Irish singer Dolores O'Riordan (from the band The Cranberries) has died aged 46 [Frown]
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
It is so young, and she was not, as far as I know, a heavy drug user. Tragic loss - the Cranberries may not have been global megastars, but their music is really good.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Ariston:
Many thanks as well, given that I have my feet propped up and a cuppa coffeetea* brewing. It's my reward for Killing All Of You.

*Brew coffee. Steep green tea in the coffee. It's a grad student special.

My first though was ewww but tomorrow I shall be trying cheese tea, so...

ETA: Not a meal featuring cheese, but cheese tea.

[ 15. January 2018, 17:27: Message edited by: lilBuddha ]
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
One minute I'm 4th, the next I'm nowhere.

Wonder who they did blow up if it wasn't him...

AG
 
Posted by simontoad (# 18096) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Jack the Lass:
I doubt she was on anyone's list, but Irish singer Dolores O'Riordan (from the band The Cranberries) has died aged 46 [Frown]

I saw something on telly claiming she lived with bi-polar disorder.
 
Posted by SvitlanaV2 (# 16967) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
The Cranberries may not have been global megastars

The band did experience global success in the 90s, though.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by SvitlanaV2:
quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
The Cranberries may not have been global megastars

The band did experience global success in the 90s, though.
I am not denying their influence and success. It is more that they had one major hit, and many people, I suspect only know Linger.

And I say it partly with regret - they had a wonderful sound.
 
Posted by SvitlanaV2 (# 16967) on :
 
It depends on the country, I suppose. 'Zombie' was certainly a bigger hit in some places. But I speak as a fan, so....

Dolores and I were of an age, so her death feels strange to me.
 
Posted by Jack the Lass (# 3415) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by SvitlanaV2:
It depends on the country, I suppose. 'Zombie' was certainly a bigger hit in some places. But I speak as a fan, so....

Dolores and I were of an age, so her death feels strange to me.

I first saw the news broken on a Romanian news agency site I follow on facebook - I then actively went to look for more on the BBC website.

She was of an age with me too (I'm just a couple of years older). The Cranberries will always remind me of a great holiday to Canada in 1995, I bought the CD while I was out there but one of my travelling companions really didn't like her voice so refused to let me play it in the car and I had to wait till we got home.
 
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
Now the news that Jason King has gone to the eternal Department S.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
Now the news that Jason King has gone to the eternal Department S.

Or is this just what they want you to think...
[Paranoid]
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
It is so young, and she was not, as far as I know, a heavy drug user. Tragic loss - the Cranberries may not have been global megastars, but their music is really good.

The altrock crowd in California loved them. [Votive]
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
Former England football captain Jimmy Armfield has died at 82.

Took him off my list a couple of years ago, didn't I...

AG

Wot no sig?
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Naomi Parker Fraley, aka Rosie the Riveter, has died at the age of 96.
 
Posted by The Rogue (# 2275) on :
 
Tinky Winky has gone.
 
Posted by Pangolin Guerre (# 18686) on :
 
Hugh Masekela has joined the band eternal.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Pangolin Guerre:
Hugh Masekela has joined the band eternal.

Real sadness and tears. He was one of the best.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by The Rogue:
Tinky Winky has gone.

Ay-ay.
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
Ursula K Le Guin has died at 88.

AG
 
Posted by Pangolin Guerre (# 18686) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
quote:
Originally posted by Pangolin Guerre:
Hugh Masekela has joined the band eternal.

Real sadness and tears. He was one of the best.
Yep, indeed. Great musician and a man of principle.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
Ursula K Le Guin has died at 88.

AG

[Tear]
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
Ursula K Le Guin has died at 88.

AG

Really sad, as I have just started reading her Wrinkle in Time series.
 
Posted by Brenda Clough (# 18061) on :
 
I trust you mean her Earthsea series, the YA books Le Guin is best known for. A Wrinkle in Time was authored by Madeleine L'Engle.
 
Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Mark E Smith has died.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
No sorry, I am just wrong. typing while tired andd without checking. The Earthsea series is on my list too.

And Mark E Smith is a shock too. A musical genius.
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Ingvar Kamprad, the Swedish founder of the Ikea furniture chain, has died at the age of 91.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
When they have built his coffin, I am sure there will be some screws and strange shaped pieces left over.
 
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
RIP Mr. Kamprad. The world would be poorer (and my house somewhat emptier) without your furniture.

[tangent]
We have six IKEA dining chairs, acquired over a period of time (there was no IKEA in Northern Ireland at the time, and we'd get a couple each time we were over on the mainland with the car), and by the time D. had assembled the last one, he could do it in about half an hour, without any bits left over. [Big Grin]
[/tangent]
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
RIP Mr. Kamprad. The world would be poorer (and my house somewhat emptier) without your furniture.

[tangent]
We have six IKEA dining chairs, acquired over a period of time (there was no IKEA in Northern Ireland at the time, and we'd get a couple each time we were over on the mainland with the car), and by the time D. had assembled the last one, he could do it in about half an hour, without any bits left over. [Big Grin]
[/tangent]

I have built any amount of IKEA furniture and compared to MFI and the other flat-pack stuff we got used to in the UK it is a joy AND you can move it around! The only problem I have had concerns over-tightening screws so that they protrude through surfaces.

Oh, and getting stuff to the car if the store is busy and there are too few staff to help.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
I wish it was just my imagination but, sadly, it isn't. Dennis Edwards of the Temptations joins the oldies show in the sky.
 
Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 
School's out forever. Alice Cooper died today at age 70.

Last week Canadian jazz great Tommy Banks played his last note.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by no prophet's flag is set so...:
School's out forever. Alice Cooper died today at age 70.

Source? I'm seeing Car accident, unharmed
 
Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
quote:
Originally posted by no prophet's flag is set so...:
School's out forever. Alice Cooper died today at age 70.

Source? I'm seeing Car accident, unharmed
Wikipedia still lists him without a date of death.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
Nothing on the BBC - not usually the first to report, but generally reliable.

A car accident - he is more indestructable than that.
 
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
Nothing on the BBC - not usually the first to report, but generally reliable.

A car accident - he is more indestructable than that.

Sources that were saying died are now saying survived, life imitates art.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
Alice Cooper lives here in Phoenix, and I'm sure we'd be among the first to know. There's nothing on local news. According to media reports, he was in a car accident but was uninjured.

His songwriter, though, is writing for a different audience now.
 
Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
Alice Cooper lives here in Phoenix, and I'm sure we'd be among the first to know.

Look for flags flown half-mast at the local golf courses.
 
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
Look for flags flown half-mast at the local golf courses.

Shit, they fly at half-mast whenever someone's pet canary dies.

[ 04. February 2018, 01:22: Message edited by: Amanda B. Reckondwythe ]
 
Posted by aliehs (# 18878) on :
 
Saddened to see that HANNAH HAUXWELL is no longer shepherding her flock on the Pennines.
She was 91.and living in Barnard Castle. She died 30th January 2018
Yorkshire Post
Known as The First lady of the Dales; do you recall those stunning TV documentaries about her?
 
Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
When they have built his coffin, I am sure there will be some screws and strange shaped pieces left over.

Sorry I'm late for the wake, but there's this topical cartoon.
 
Posted by aliehs (# 18878) on :
 
[Eek!] [Help]
I think I have killed the Bafflegab thread.
[brick wall]
idiot that I am. and I was enjoying it so much
 
Posted by Pangolin Guerre (# 18686) on :
 
John Mahoney , best known as Frasier and Niles Crane's "Dad", has died, age 77.
 
Posted by Gill H (# 68) on :
 
Oh, sad loss. I loved him in that.
 
Posted by simontoad (# 18096) on :
 
vale Frasier's Dad. Loved the armchair and the small doggie companion.
 
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by aliehs:
[Eek!] [Help]
I think I have killed the Bafflegab thread.
[brick wall]
idiot that I am. and I was enjoying it so much

It has only been four days. Leave it a week then if no one has answered, supply the answer yourself with a new poser.
[Smile]
 
Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 
Sorry about blowing it on Alice Cooper. I got excited about fake news [Hot and Hormonal]

However, John Perry Barlow has died. Lyricist, electronic freedom foundation founder....FWIW

Cassidy:
"I have seen where the wolf has slept by the silver stream
I can tell by the mark he left, you were in his dream...Quick beats in an icy heart
Catch colt draws a coffin cart
There he goes and now here she starts."
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Prince Henrik of Denmark, the husband of Queen Margrethe who was famous for his public unhappiness at never being named king, has died at the age of 83.

Per his wishes, he will not be buried next to his wife's future tomb.
 
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
The angels are a bit confused right now. Ruud Lubbers is talking some incomprehensibly complex language to them.
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
Morgan Tsvangirai has died aged 65.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-43066175

AG
 
Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
One point for those who have Billy Graham on their lists. [Angel]
 
Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
One point for those who have Billy Graham on their lists. [Angel]

The utlimate interview

Graham actually has a better rapport with his host in that interview then he does in his interview with William F. Buckley. I think maybe because in the former, the two participants knew they didn't share much common ground to begin with, which probably takes some of the pressure off.

Caveat: I've only watched a small bit of his interview with Buckley, but from what I recall, it was kind of stilted and awkward.
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
RIP Billy. While I might have some disagreements with him, he was a good man, a faithful Christian, and his influence across Christianity will be felt for a long time.
 
Posted by Soror Magna (# 9881) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
One point for those who have Billy Graham on their lists. [Angel]

Yep, that was my first thought ... "Big deal, he's only worth one point."
[Hot and Hormonal]
 
Posted by Pangolin Guerre (# 18686) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Stetson:
quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
One point for those who have Billy Graham on their lists. [Angel]

The utlimate interview

Graham actually has a better rapport with his host in that interview then he does in his interview with William F. Buckley. I think maybe because in the former, the two participants knew they didn't share much common ground to begin with, which probably takes some of the pressure off.

Caveat: I've only watched a small bit of his interview with Buckley, but from what I recall, it was kind of stilted and awkward.

I wasn't aware of the Allen-Graham interview. I was never a fan of Billy Graham - nor was I hostile - but in that interview he comes off as gracious and quite funny. Good on him. Actually, Woody seems to have enjoyed it, as well, and was gracious in his "I hope I didn't provoke you."
 
Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
Bloody hell, another one not much older than me!

Emma Chambers, best known as Alice in Vicar of Dibley.

53 is no age.

AG
 
Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
Younger than me. Such a loss - so good playing Alice.

Is she the last one of the old boards?
 
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Nanette Fabray died Thursday -- she would have been worth 3 points.
 
Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 
so, when this place closes tomorrow, will someone tot up our 14month scores and announce winners in the new ship?
 
Posted by The Rogue (# 2275) on :
 
I am intending to do that - probably over the weekend.
 
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
Younger than me. Such a loss - so good playing Alice.

Is she the last one of the old boards?

😟 Nooooo!
 
Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
Let's not go out with that. Instead, someone who lived in a blaze of life and glory: Cynthia Heimel, "an urban romantic with a scathing X-ray vision that penetrates her most deeply cherished fantasies," author of Get Your Tongue out of My Mouth, I’m Kissing You Good-Bye and Sex Tips for Girls:

quote:
It is our main purpose in life, and all those other activities — playing the trumpet, vacuuming carpets, reading mystery novels, eating chocolate mousse — are just ways of passing the time until you can fuck again. Well, maybe not eating chocolate mousse. If it is made with good Swiss chocolate and topped off with Devon cream, eating chocolate mousse is almost as good as fucking.


Somehow, that seems to be a fitting epitaph to the Circus and the Ship.

[ 28. February 2018, 05:53: Message edited by: Ariston ]
 


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