The 2012 Off Topic Celebrity Dead Pool

[Sparrowhawk]

One small step....

[embalmer42]

Apparently Neil Armstrong is no more.

RIP

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/08/25/neil-armstrong-first-man-on-the-moon-dead-at-82

[-Jrabbit]

Awesome vid, Avalon. Nice post.

[SlowwHand]

i'm gonna win soon

But you're such an astute loser.

[Lord Avalon]

In memoriam

[Japher]

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

[Uncle Sparky]

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

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

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.

[Sava]

i'm gonna win soon

[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.

[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]

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."

[Uncle Sparky]

Fang will also be missed...

RIP

[-Jrabbit]

RIP comedian Phyllis Diller, 95.

[Uncle Sparky]

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

[molly bloom]

Too morbid. I'm not like Maude.

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