Celebrity Croakers Thread 2013
 

Are we going to do this? Are we? Are we?

I'm happy to perform spreadsheeting/ point awarding and verification services as appropriate....

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I'm in. However, I am changing tactics this year. All those pins I stuck into that model of Stepehn Harper did no good at all.

So, my five are:

Hugo Chavez
Fidel Castro
Nelson Mandela
George Bush Snr.
Margaret Thatcher (Joker)

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Gerry Adams
Shane McGowan
Margaret Thatcher
Phil the Greek
Hugo Chavez(joker)

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Assuming somebody volunteers to collate all this stuff:

Thatcher
David Attenborough (yes yes, I know)
Cliff Richard
Bhumibol Adulyadej (The King Of Thailand)
Bashar al-Assad (Syrian dude) - Joker.

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Sounds like we are a go, and am happy to admin/ make this happen.

I'm also going to enter - you can check if I'm cheating....


1. Thatcher, Thatcher, Milk Snatcher (Joker)
2. Prince Phillip
3. Lindsey Lohan
4. Liz Dawn
5. George Bush the Elder

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Unfortunately Wilko Johnston will be a sure thing.

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I see no good reason to change last years list. After all they're all a year older. :(

David Coleman
Geoffrey Howe
Giscard d'Estaing
Brian Mulroney
Rupert Murdoch (joker).

Kudos to PF for volunteering. It's a PITA.

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Will have a go, but what does the joker thing mean?

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Double bubble.

And to clarify my entry, I mean they will die this year, even if they are officially alive or a few years yet.

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Yes, that was pretty crap news.

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Lindsay Lohan. Joker
Thatcher
Michael Douglas
Liza Minelli
Prince charles

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Norman Tebbit
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Kirk Douglas
Lester Piggott (joker)
Ken Dodd

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Well anyone I pick is bound to stay alive for at leat another 50 years so I'll go off and do my list of "people on the list just to make up numbers".

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I like the Prince Charles one. That'd be fun and would kick the legs from under the more popular choices of Phil & Liz.

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Please bear me in mind when compiling your list.

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Well he's not been looking well lately. A bit peaky I think.

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Missed out last year, so here goes...

1. Margaret Thatcher
2. Prince Philip (Joker)
3. Nicholas Parsons
4. Bob Barker (The original Price is Right guy)
5. Macauley Culkin

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Tony Benn
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Roy Hattersley
Feddie Starr (Joker)
Marianne Faithfull

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*Ellen Page
Barack Obama
*Erin Andrews
*Taylor Swift
*Justin Bieber (Joker)
**


* I have no idea who these people are
** I have no idea how to play this game

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What are the rules? I didn't play last time.

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Sadly, I came in with a "nul points" last year, so there's no real reason to revise my list. Maybe one of them will actually croak this year...

Duke of Edinburgh
Thatcher
Jean Chretien
Nicholas Parsons (joker)
Tony Bennett

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I *think* it's this. Pick five people. You get points if they die. Points = 100 - age of person. Double for joker.

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Clive James
Jerry Lewis
Jack Osbourne (Joker)
George Bush Senior
Aretha Franklin

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+ to count as famous, their death must be noted on the BBC. It's no good picking some iced hockey player who's world famous only in Alberta.

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I'm in. New tactics this year:

Stuart Hall
Donald Sutherland
Donald Trump (Joker)
Mrs T
Phil the Greek.

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That's about it. I think the only exception to the iced hockey rule might be Garry Wetski.

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And I thought Hugo Chavez was a bit of a cheap choice. :thumbdown:

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Not that I'm keeping score this year, but how old is that particular revolutionary runner?

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Holy sh*t that really did make me laugh out loud!

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Well everyone knows he's riddled with cancer. Its not against the rules, I suppose.

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OK here are my picks

Michael Douglas (joker)
Muhammed Ali
Michael J Fox
Betty White
Duke of Edinburgh.

Though I have to say whilst trawling google and looking at similar thread on many forums doing this lovely competition, one forum had a long list of rules (I like our 2) and one of them is this

8. Any poster who kills or otherwise contributes to the death of any celebrity mentioned in this thread is disqualified. It's just a game, people. The only exceptions to this rule would be deaths caused by those posters serving as members of the police or armed forces of any country, in the line of duty.

Wow thats quite scary that you need to put that one in there :blink:

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okay, i'll take

1. Ronnie Biggs (Joker)
2. Nelson Mandela
3. George Bush Sr
4. Anna Wing
5. Mickey Rooney

i can't quite remember, if someone does kick the bucket, do you pick a new person to replace them?

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Yes :)

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Prince Charles
Lindsay Lohan
Justin Beiber (Joker)
Jeremy Beadle
George H.W. Bush

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There's a reason we haven't seen 'Beadle About' for a while.

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Yeah, it's a bit goal hangy.

Player in game of speculation about death behaves tastelessly, shock, horror!

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In that case, can I take Margaret Thatcher then please?

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That's okay. I don't follow hockey anyway. In fact I was enjoying the lockout.

But if I understand you, I'd be better of to pick a high school drama student from Whitby than Lanny Mcdonald?

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Dick Van Dyke
Paul Gascoigne
Dickie Davies (world of sport)
Hulk Hogan
June Brown (Dot Cotton) of that there Eastenders

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Has Lanny McDonald done anything other than play ice hockey a long time ago? If not I don't think he'd qualify as "famous" and, anyway, he can't be worth a lot of points now. A random drama student is a bit of gamble, can you count on picking one who'll go postal?