Mr Owl PhD Posted March 24, 2016 Report Share Posted March 24, 2016 Cruyff > Urn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted March 24, 2016 Report Share Posted March 24, 2016 Hey Now!... Gary's dead http://www.tmz.com/2016/03/24/garry-shandling-dead/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 Shandling is one of those people I never thought would die. Crappy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35899711 Kapow. Not one of the ones I picked it seems, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted March 26, 2016 Report Share Posted March 26, 2016 16 hours ago, scottyboy said: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35899711 Kapow. Not one of the ones I picked it seems, though. Though on that note, Abu Omar al-Shishani is (pretty surely...) dead. http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/14/politics/u-s-confirms-death-of-isis-operative-omar-al-shishani/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_al-Shishani Definitely had an unnatural causes one now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted March 29, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2016 Patty Duke http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/oscar-winning-actress-patty-duke-dies-aged-69/403461?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=pattyduke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted March 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2016 (edited) Ronnie Corbett. It's goodnight from him. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3517054/Comedy-legend-Ronnie-Corbett-died-aged-85.html Edited March 31, 2016 by Lemonade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsum_Fantastic Posted March 31, 2016 Report Share Posted March 31, 2016 bastard, beat me to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Improved Thinker Posted March 31, 2016 Report Share Posted March 31, 2016 I was going to post this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted March 31, 2016 Report Share Posted March 31, 2016 Oh man, Ronnie has been on my list for years. 2016: The Year Of Persistence Paying Off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted March 31, 2016 Report Share Posted March 31, 2016 I guess when you turn 30 is about the time that everybody that was on TV/radio when you were a child starts to die. It's pretty depressing. AT LEAST NONE OF THEM WERE PAEDOS, EH? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted March 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2016 I imagine Corbett is points for a few people. I'll do an update later tonight, including scottyboy's ISIS guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted March 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2016 Ronnie Corbett Age 85 6 points No bonuses apply This was a unique pick for @kirsten who earns 9 points. Abu Omar Al Shishani Age 30 10 points +3 points Unnatural Causes bonus. I'll give the benefit on the doubt on this one, his death it is unconfirmed therefore I reserve the right to revoke points if it turns out he isn't. Wikipedia still has him down as living but "reported dead". Anyway, 13 points +3 unique pick for @scottyboy make a tidy 16 points. Current leaderboard: Player / Points / Number of picks / Average Age 1 . Bigsby - 34 / 2 / 67 2 . kirsten - 18 / 2 / 85 3 . colb - 17 / 2 / 74 4 . Scottyboy - 16 / 1 / 30 5 . Jaseyboi - 15 / 2 / 86 6 . Jim McGymerson - 9 / 1 / 89 7 . Improved Thinker - 5 / 1 / 94 8 . Graham Knight - 5 / 1 / 94 9 . Scubby - 0 / 0 / 0 10 . MattJimF - 0 / 0 / 0 11 . Lucius - 0 / 0 / 0 12 . Kaiz - 0 / 0 / 0 13 . ca_gere - 0 / 0 / 0 14 . Stroopy121 - 0 / 0 / 0 15 . Delboy1969 - 0 / 0 / 0 16 . James Broonbreed - 0 / 0 / 0 17 . Lemonade - 0 / 0 / 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted March 31, 2016 Report Share Posted March 31, 2016 Zaha hadied 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted April 1, 2016 Report Share Posted April 1, 2016 Ooft, was not expecting Ronnie to be a unique pick! C'mon, Sally Jessy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Atom Posted April 1, 2016 Report Share Posted April 1, 2016 Finally living up to her title... (Presumably died in) Agony Aunt, Denise Robertson: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35941395 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted April 3, 2016 Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 On 31/3/2016 at 2:27 AM, Lemonade said: I'll give the benefit on the doubt on this one, his death it is unconfirmed therefore I reserve the right to revoke points if it turns out he isn't. Wikipedia still has him down as living but "reported dead". Anyway, 13 points +3 unique pick for @scottyboy make a tidy 16 points. Fair dos. Wiki actually (as I type this...) has him dead (based on CNN and ultimately US officials), as it did when I made the above post; but I did see that when you posted, the death date was gone from Wiki (whilst still talking about him in the past tense, amusingly enough). This being Wiki, people are arguing about it and changing it in real time. Daesh/IS are denying he's dead and have provided some photos which sceptics have stated/shown (I'm not interested/well-informed enough to know which) are years old (if he were alive, he's hardly going to call a press conference and invite CNN, I guess). The US military/intelligence/officials seem convinced they hit and at least vegetebalised him in that airstrike, and that (or because) he literally hasn't been heard from since (seems they intercepted and listened in on his comms as a matter of course) that airstrike, before which they got last minute info about his whereabouts. With Jihadi John there was a few months of silence between the pretty-sure-we-got-him announcements and the obituary from Daesh, so dunno what to make of this. I've very much inclined to think he's dead for real, this time (and tbf apparently he's been falsely reported as dead a few times) contingent on what I said comms/intelligence being legit. Otherwise, interesting point generally - I'd considered putting Mullah Omar (ex-head honcho of the Taliban) on my list for multiple years, but didn't because it seemed he was pretty much like a ghost in how secretive and (presumably, thus) how sheltered he was. And then last year the Taliban came out and said he was dead, the twist in the tale being that he'd died up to, what was it?, 2 years earlier. So what'd have happened if I picked him, say, last year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted April 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 I should not have taken Bam Margera out of my team this year. http://damn.com/bam-margera-family-therapy-episode-1/?utm_source=acv&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=bamacv&utm_rcreplace_3430=5178 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 Cesare Maldini subbed off in fatal injury time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted April 5, 2016 Report Share Posted April 5, 2016 It's a "death" trap! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35965835 Admiral Ackbar voice actor Erik Bauersfeld dies at 93 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted April 6, 2016 Report Share Posted April 6, 2016 http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/obit-merle-haggard-1.3523425 Merle Haggard has gone to the Big City in the sky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted April 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2016 That sounds like the kind of person Bigsby would have. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted April 6, 2016 Report Share Posted April 6, 2016 (edited) That was my immediate thought. Bigsby written all over that one. Edit: nope, nae cunt had him! Edited April 6, 2016 by ca_gere 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted April 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2016 It's his birthday as well. Could have had our first Party Pooper bonus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted April 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 Howard Marks aka Mr Nice, drug smuggler, author, etc. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/10/howard-marks-dies-aged-70?CMP=share_btn_tw I'm sure everyone has read Mr Nice at least once when they were a weed-smoking student. A good read. I think I have a signed copy somewhere. Now seems like a good time to dig it out and eBay it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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