The 2012 Off Topic Celebrity Dead Pool

[Wezil]

I'm going to expect a team from you next year Molly.

[molly bloom]

Too morbid. I'm not like Maude.

(Lame excuse to post pic of excellent film's poster)

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[Uncle Sparky]

Molly - Both Ruth Gordon & Hal Ashby died long ago - you'll have to produce a new list.

[-Jrabbit]

RIP comedian Phyllis Diller, 95.

[Uncle Sparky]

Fang will also be missed...

RIP

[Uncle Sparky]

Strong Western Ally and brutal dictator Meles Zenawi is dead -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...?newsfeed=true

Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi's death sparks fears of turmoil.
Mourners throng outside airport and world leaders pays tribute, but human rights groups condemn 21-year authoritarian reign.
ne of Africa's most powerful and divisive leaders, Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, has died of an undisclosed illness, raising fears of a regional power vacuum.

David Cameron was among the world leaders who paid tribute to Meles, a towering political figure who shaped modern Ethiopia in his own image. The country is now one of Africa's fastest-growing economies and among the United States' closest allies on the continent. But human rights groups condemned Meles as an authoritarian strongman whose 21-year rule was marred by rigged elections and the persecution, imprisonment and torture of critics.

Meles, 57, died in a hospital in Brussels on Monday after contracting an infection, authorities said. The prime minister had not been seen in public for about two months, and speculation about his health increased after he failed to attend a meeting of African Union heads of state in the capital, Addis Ababa, last month.

His demise raises the prospect of political turmoil in Africa's second most populous country. Kenya's prime minister, Raila Odinga, said: "One fears for the stability of Ethiopia upon his death, because you know that the Ethiopian state is fairly fragile and there is a lot of ethnic violence … I don't know that [Ethiopian politicians] are sufficiently prepared for a succession: this is my fear – that there may be a falling out within the ruling movement."

[molly bloom]

Molly - Both Ruth Gordon & Hal Ashby died long ago - you'll have to produce a new list.

Cyril Cusack and Viv Pickles too. Remember Cyril in '1984' with John Hurt and Richard Burton ?

[Uncle Sparky]

True. Cyril died quite a while ago. I remember him as The Captain in Fahrenheit 451.
Vivian is alive and lives in London.

[Sava]

i'm gonna win soon

[Uncle Sparky]

One...One dead puppeteer... 'a...'a...'a...

http://www.calgaryherald.com/enterta...663/story.html

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Jerry Nelson, a master of voices and puppetering who voiced Muppets including Count von Count during more than 40 years with Sesame Street, has died. He was 78.

Also a musician and actor, he took part in dozens of Muppet projects, from the 1971 TV movie Tales From Muppetland: The Frog Prince, to 1979’s The Muppet Movie, to the 1980s series Fraggle Rock, to last year’s The Muppets.

Nelson joined Sesame Street, which debuted in 1969, early in the show’s run. He soon took on major characters including The Count, Mr. Snuffleupagus, and Sherlock Hemlock.

Brought to you by the letters R.I.P.

[Japher]

They should stuff him and shove their hand up his arse and make him talk funny.

[Lord Avalon]

[SlowwHand]

i'm gonna win soon

But you're such an astute loser.

[-Jrabbit]

Awesome vid, Avalon. Nice post.

[embalmer42]

Apparently Neil Armstrong is no more.

RIP





http://www.torontosun.com/2012/08/25...oon-dead-at-82

[Sparrowhawk]

One small step....

[Wezil]

Neil Armstrong was 82 and a unique pick (no bonus) for embalmer42 (7)

= (171 - 7) + (100 - 82)

= 182 points


Embalmer is on the board.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

RIP

[Uncle Sparky]

Does anyone know how the alien that popped out of his chest is doing?

[embalmer42]

Neil Armstrong was 82 and a unique pick (no bonus) for embalmer42 (7)

= (171 - 7) + (100 - 82)

= 182 points


Embalmer is on the board.

A momentary lack of my powers of protection, one that I am sure will not be repeated anytime soon.

[SlowwHand]

Stephen "Stevie" Ray Vaughan (October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990)

[OzzyKP]

Uhh, ok.

[SlowwHand]

Uhh, this is August 27.

[-Jrabbit]

The man famed for "asking the musical question," Hal David, has died.

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Saturday, September 1, 2012 -- 5:29 PM EDT
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Hal David, Oscar- and Grammy-Winning Songwriter, Is Dead at 91

Hal David, the songwriter who in the 1960s and ’70s gave pop-music vernacular the questions “What’s it all about?,” “What’s new, pussycat?” and “Do you know the way to San Jose?” died Saturday in a Los Angeles hospital. He was 91.

The cause was a stroke, according to his wife, Eunice.

[Hauldren Collider]

Sun Myung Moon dies at 92. Good riddance.

I have some family that are ex-moonies. Ruined their lives

GAPYEONG, South Korea – The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the self-proclaimed messiah who turned his Unification Church into a worldwide religious movement and befriended North Korean leaders as well as U.S. presidents, has died, church officials said Monday. He was 92.

Moon died Monday at a church-owned hospital near his home in Gapyeong, northeast of Seoul, two weeks after being hospitalized with pneumonia, Unification Church spokesman Ahn Ho-yeul told The Associated Press. Moon's wife and children were at his side, Ahn said.

Moon, born in a town that is now in North Korea, founded his religious movement in Seoul in 1954 after surviving the Korean War. He preached new interpretations of lessons from the Bible.

The church gained fame -- and notoriety -- in the 1970s and 1980s for holding mass weddings of thousands of followers, often from different countries, whom Moon matched up in a bid to build a multicultural religious world.

The church was accused of using devious recruitment tactics and duping followers out of money; parents of followers in the United States and elsewhere expressed worries that their children were brainwashed into joining. The church responded by saying that many other new religious movements faced similar accusations in their early stages.

In later years, the church adopted a lower profile and focused on building a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a fledgling automaker in North Korea. It acquired a ski resort, a professional soccer team and other businesses in South Korea, and a seafood distribution firm that supplies sushi to Japanese restaurants across the U.S.

The Unification Church claims millions of members worldwide, though church defectors and other critics say the figure is no more than 100,000.

In 2009, Moon married 45,000 people in simultaneous ceremonies worldwide in his first large-scale mass wedding in years. Some were newlyweds and others reaffirmed past vows. He married an additional 7,000 couples in South Korea in February 2010. The ceremonies attracted media coverage but little of the controversy that dogged the church in earlier decades.

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Moon is survived by his second wife and 10 children.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09...der-dies-at-2/

[Uncle Sparky]

I agree. Only when we get rid of all religion can we create heaven on earth.

[Wezil]

You should have picked him Sparky.

[Uncle Sparky]

I was thinking of doing an all religious figure one.

[Hauldren Collider]

Kicking myself that I didn't think of him, actually.

[Wezil]

solomwi had him in both 2010 & 2011