Celebrity Croakers Thread 2014
 

Time for a reset.

Here are the rules

Pick 5 people that you think will croak over the next year to 11.59pm on December 31st 2014. Select one of these to be your Joker.

A valid celebrity croaker must have their death reported on the BBC's website to earn points.

Earn points for the joker's age at death less than 100. For example, Justin Bieber is currently 19. if you picked him and he dies before his birthday in 2014 you would earn 81 points.

If your joker passes away in 2014, you earn double the points for each year that the croaker missed his 100th birthday.

To streamline the process this year, I've created this handy google drive doc, where you can add your BE name and your picks. Please give me a shout if you have any problems accessing it or putting your picks in.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...2c&usp=sharing

Let the discussions and deaths commence!

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Done.

Something missing from the rules is that you're stuck with the list until one of them dies and with the joker until the joker dies (or the end of the year in both cases).

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I can't see who you picked as Joker, DBD.

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Column L. So many times Sharon let me down, I hope he "lives" forever.

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Good point. You can't pick again until one of your picks has shuffled off this mortal coil.

And you can't pick a new joker unless they've bought it


Crowdsourcing rules.... any more for any more?

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done

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How do I do it? Just type in names and then dump out of the site?

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Yes. Note to scroll to the right.

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And don't worry if you have issues or challenges - you can either PM me or reply on this thread. I'll be cleaning up as I go, but a shared doc helps me with the admin. I'll be refining the sheet as we go...

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I entered a line of 5, but I fear I may have accidentally ended up typing into someone else's entry too....I don't know how or why this happened! I have PM'd Pretty Flowers and asked her to check it, but if your entry has changed, my apologies if it was me that caused it! :o

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Souvy, you've picked 6. Your Joker wasn't one of your 5! :p

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Is column A my name? I don't know where to put the user name? Sorry!

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Forget my question pleased..I managed:thumbup:

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Your joker doesn't show up slanty because you have her as Cyrus in column L but Citrus in column F. I expect there's a slanty citrus joke there somewhere but I can't do it.

Yorkiechef's entry has similar issues while Souvy is just being greedy.

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Does Yorkie have to specify which Gaddafi son, or is there only one left?

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I've checked the spreadsheet and all seems to be in order, apart from Souvy's double entry and Yorkiechef's Gadaffi son who needs a first name. I'll wait for you both to alter these before I pm you with a spanking...

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Fixed, probably. I stuck with Rolf and have him as my joker. I lost Brucie, so he probably now has mere days to live.

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Thanks Souvy. Any more for any more?

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Many thanks PF, you fixed my Miley Citrus!

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Mouldy Citrus would have been more accurate about her :p

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I'm in I think, but my joker's not slanty. Could you pop in and tilt it for me?

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Slantyness now abounds :starsmile:

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Oh good, 5 jokers?

It won't do any good. My runners are always immediately conferred with immortality.

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I think i've done it.

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Alan2000 these are your picks

Andy Murray's girlfriend - Name Please
Jennifer Ennis
David Beckham
Joey Essex
Sir Braddley Wiggins
Dr. Who - Not a real person

So, you need to drop one and choose real people. Or not. Depends how competitive you are I suppose...

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To be pedantic, Alan2000 isn't a real username either.

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I think somebody might be having a bit of a laugh at my expense.

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None of them look likely to die anytime soon, especially the Doctor as he's only recently died anyway.

Hopefully their picks live forever.

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No-one had US musician Phil Everly down on their list!

Died last night according to the BBC.

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I'll keep them though. Remove dr who; Andy Murrays gf is called Kim sears, she can be my joker.

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also, who's Jennifer Ennis?

Do you mean Jessica Ennis the runner or Jennifer Aniston the actress?

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That's who he probably meant.

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Commiserations Oink.

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Heads up for Maplease, so have you mate!

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I've finally got my act in gear for this year. A bit of goal-hanging with Sharon, in whose favour I've dropped Tony Bennett so he's bound to croak. Nicholas Parsons, last year's joker, is showing alarming signs of continuing robust good health into his 90s, so I've switched my joker to Hamid Karzai in expectation of some shenanigans in the last months of his administration... Phil the Greek and Jean Chretien make up my five.

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RIP Simon Hoggart, aged 67

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Saif please, he has two sons with that name, one is already dead. Thanks

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Some points coming...........

Novo and Yorkie should jump into an early lead, having given Sharon as their joker. OV and I will have to be satisfied with normal points.

dbd has, of course, completely cocked up in giving him a repreive (thus condemning him to death).