2024 Celebrity Death Pool #5

[Sir Lancelot]

Recap:

*Stuff happened

*We placed votes for the St Patrick's Bonus Round (Friday 15th-Sunday 17th March)

*Dick Van Dyke is not dead yet...


And now, on we go...

 

[Buntu]

I’m drinking, does that count as celebrating? Haha I’ve just got back from London, twas horrifically heaving

 

[VC10]

Fecking slim pickings everywhere.........

Where are the pine boxes

 

[Kerrie86]

Just been down a rabbit hole and caught up on all the drama I’d apparently TOTALLY missed. No wonder this thread is quiet. Hope all the usuals are ok

 

[Sir Lancelot]

Last day for the Bonus Round... will any of the nominated celebs die today? Who knows!?

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

We got one (death if not somebody named).

 

[Curly Top]

Poor Steve had cancer

 

[Sir Lancelot]

Nul points.
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The (at present) four people who said we shouldn't do a Death Pool for 2025 because we're sick and disrespectful; would you care to elaborate further?

 

[WickedThread]

We got one (death if not somebody named).

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He was one I’d never nominate in case it gave him accidental mortality. I don’t entirely know why but I took a dislike to him years ago.
Has anyone else watched the “OG” Lloyd Webber Phantom rock opera short, with Steve as the Phantom?

 

[VC10]

Nul points.
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The (at present) four people who said we shouldn't do a Death Pool for 2025 because we're sick and disrespectful; would you care to elaborate further?

........ I luv this thread & the frisson when somebody pops off

 

[Kerrie86]

........ I luv this thread & the frisson when somebody pops off

Or dies!

 

[Sir Lancelot]

Deaths this weekend so far include:

Ernesto Bergamasco, Italian boxer
Steve Harley, British musician
Pinu Khan, Bangladeshi politician
Hennadiy moskal, Ukranian politician
Roger Pfund, Swiss artist
Emmet Staff, Irish Politician
Joe Camp, American film director
Peter Kelly, Scottish actor


Nul points

 

[WickedThread]

Deaths this weekend so far include:

Ernesto Bergamasco, Italian boxer
Steve Harley, British musician
Pinu Khan, Bangladeshi politician
Hennadiy moskal, Ukranian politician
Roger Pfund, Swiss artist
Emmet Staff, Irish Politician
Joe Camp, American film director
Peter Kelly, Scottish actor


Nul points

Emmett Stagg died?? Aw that’s sad.
He was one of the stalwarts back when (Irish) Labour were worth a damn. From friends in Kildare he was regarded as a decent constituency worker.

I was always happy for the Irish public never fell for his constituency rival (and economic traitor, in my eyes) Charlie McCreevy’s smear campaign. That fucker is top of my 2025 list

 

[Serene Serena]

I hope Steve Harley has come up to Jesus and made him smile

 

[WickedThread]

Nul points.
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The (at present) four people who said we shouldn't do a Death Pool for 2025 because we're sick and disrespectful; would you care to elaborate further?

I was tempted to vote for that, for the laugh. Maybe they couldn’t fight the impulse

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

I was tempted to vote for that, for the laugh. Maybe they couldn’t fight the impulse

Maybe they meant we're sick and disrespectful and we should absolutely carry on?

 

[Sir Lancelot]

There are much worse threads than this one; we're just playing a darkly-humoured game that is basically the same as betting on greyhounds or placing lottery numbers.

Oh well.

For everyone who thinks this thread is sick or disrespectful, even those who have bitched about it in the past (even though I know some of them have a 2024 list of nominated celebs...) I apologise.

 

[Sir Lancelot]

(but did I have my fingers crossed at the time...?)
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Since everyone is off having a good time on the Lunatics thread or wherever, here are some famous people who died on this day in history:

180AD Marcus Aurelius, as played by Richard Harris
461 Saint Patrick
1853 Christian Doppler, of the Doppler Effect (not a band name... or is it?)
1891 Napolean Bonaparte, or Boney to his friends
1912 Lawrence Oates, British explorer and self-sacrificer
1956 Irene Joilot-Curie, French chemist and physicist, daughter of Marie Curie (the person, not the charity shop)
1961 Susanna Salter, 1st US female mayor
1993 Helen Hayes, actress and 1st female EGOT winner
1995 Ronnie Kray
1997 Jermaine Stewart, American singer (We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off...)
1999 Rod Hull, emu botherer
2010 Alex Chilton, singer and guitarist
2016 Paul Daniels, he liked that but not a lot
2023 Lance Reddick, actor

 

[Reality_tv_lover]

What happened?

 

[Serene Serena]

I am really sad about the death of Steve Harley. I grew up with 70's music as the soundtrack to my childhood, thanks to my lovely stepdad who is still a rock n roller despite being a pensioner now. He will thump me if he sees me refer to him as that

You've done it all
You've broken every code
And pulled the rebel to the floor