Death Watch

[THE GRIM REAPER]

Based on a post by Qball on OT, and a similar game at the SDMB.

We will play over the period 1 Dec'02 / 1 Jun'03.

For anyone on your list who dies in that time frame, you get points according to 100-AGE AT DEATH.

You can only pick public figures, whose death will make the international news (like CNN and BBC, nothing local).

Players:
DP (I made my list first)
Taflinel
Faeriefire
One Skunk Todd
Ataraxy
Qball
Suspence13
Kevin Costello
Duphrates
IS
Agamemnon
Courk

The list:

code:

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Alex ' Hurricane ' Higgins	Dup			


Anna Nicole Smith		Aga	


Augusto Pinochet		IS		


Billy Graham			IS		


Bob Dole			Fae					


Bob Hope		        Taf  Qba  IS		


Britney Spears			Fae					


Buddy Ebsen			Dup			


Calista Flockhart    	        DP					


Charlton Heston			Qba				


Christina Aguilera		Qba				


Christopher Lee			Kev				


Clint Eastwood			Fae					


Courtney Love			Aga	


Desmond Carter			Sus					


Dick Cheney			OST  Ata  Kev  IS   Cou


Elizabeth Taylor		Taf  Cou


Ernest Carter			Sus					


Fidel Castro			Fae  Ata  Kev  Cou


Gabriel Garcia Marquez		Ata					


George Best	                DP					


George Bush (elder)		Kev				


George W Bush			Cou


Gerald Ford			Dup			


Gregory Peck			Aga	


Harrison Ford			Fae					


Ian Brady			Aga	


James Collier			Sus					


Jay Neill			Sus.................................63pts


Jerry Lewis			Kev				


Jiang Zemin			Ata  Kev				


John Mills			Aga  Dup			


John Travolta			Aga	


Johnny Cash			Ata				


Joseph Barbera			Sus					


Julia Child			Ata  Qba  Sus		


Katherine Hepburn		Qba					


Keith Richards		        Taf					


Kirk Douglas			Ata  Qba  Dup			


Leonard Rojas			Sus					


Lou Reed	                DP					


Madeleine Albright		Fae					


Margaret Tatcher		OST					


Marlon Brando			Qba  Cou


Michael Barrymore		Dup			


Michael J Fox			OST					


Michael Jackson	                DP				


Muhammad Ali 	                DP   Taf				


Mullah Omar			OST					


Nelson Mandela			Ata					


Noelle Bush			OST					


Osama bin Laden		        Taf  IS   Cou


Ozzy Osbourne			Aga	


P Diddy		                Taf					


Paul McCartney			Kev				


Pele				IS		


Peter O'Toole			Dup			


Peter Ustinov			Dup			


Pope John Paul II	        DP   Qba  IS  Cou


Prince Bernhard	                DP					


Queen Elizabeth			Fae					


Ralf Schumacher			Aga	


Ray Bradbury			Fae					


Red Auerbach			Sus					


Richard Attenborough		Aga	


Richard Branson	                DP				


Robert Downey Jnr		Dup			


Ronald Reagan		        Taf  OST  Qba  Sus  Kev  Dup  IS	


Rosa Parks			Sus					


Saddam Hussein		        Taf  Ata  Kev  IS   Cou


Salman Rushdie	                DP				


Sandra Day O'Connor		Fae					


Sarah Brady			OST					


Shane McGowan			Aga	


Stephen Hawking			OST  Qba  Kev				


Steven King			IS		


Strom Thurmond			OST  Cou


Ted Turner			Fae					


Tom Clancy			Ata				


Whitney Houston 	        DP   Taf			


Winona Ryder			OST				


Yassir Arafat		        Taf					


Zsa Zsa Gabor			Cou

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Current status:

code:

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Suspence13         63 points

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[This message has been edited by Dragon Phoenix (edited 12-20-2002 01:36 AM).]

[Taflinel]

Sent...
That was ... fun?

Ta ta

[Lucresia]

Oooh. Sounds cool. When I get back from retreat (leaving today be back like saturday) I will send my list.

[Faeriefire]

sent.
(Hope I picked good people )

[One Skunk Todd]

Sent

[Ataraxy]

Sent my list.

[firemeboy]

Of course if any of you get all 10, you know the FBI will come looking for you...

[Internet Stranger]

Im having a problem with the international part. I can only come up with a few obvious ones. I mean, how international do these people have to be?

If Italy's biggest movie star dies, will I hear about it? Would he/she count for someone else? If an American actor/actress dies, would the rest of the world know about it?

Clarify that a bit for me plase.

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"I didn't know she was your sister I swear!"

www.InternetStranger.com

[Beartalon]

IS - Try CNN World. It usually covers every famous person in all nations somewhere.

[Qball]

entry sent ...

[Dragon Phoenix]

Only deaths reported on CNN and/or BBS websites will be counted.

[Chuck]

That gives Ted Turner a big advantage.

[Suspence]

sent...

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I hate people who try to write interesting things in their signature

[Dragon Phoenix]

You can strike James Coburn off your list of candidates - or in other words: bump.

[Werebear]

Can I just send in GL names?

[Duphrates]

Sent.....

[Duphrates]

How about using this site.




[This message has been edited by Duphrates (edited 11-19-2002 09:52 AM).]

[Dragon Phoenix]

Interesting site, but I think CNN and BBC should cover it.

[James Coburn]

Bump!
I need some friends up here!

[Ataraxy]

Can I edit my list before Dec. 1?

[Dragon Phoenix]

Everybody can submit changes before Dec 1st.

[Dragon Phoenix]

Last few days....

[Courk]

I sent my list in.

[Dragon Phoenix]

Final day....

[Dragon Phoenix]

And we're off... everybody who spots someone on the list kicking the bucket, please post here.

[Agamemnon]

Zsa Zsa Gabor will live forever, for she is a witch!

[Courk]

She was just in an accident, and she's 85. I think its a pretty good guess.

[Suspence]

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/South/12/12/executions.ap/

Confirms the death of Jay Neill at age 37. 63 points for me.

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[Duphrates]

Hmmm, I seem to thimk that somewhere we said that no one on Death Row was to be included or is that the Dead Pool I'm playing at work?

[Suspence]

I didn't see a rule like that. I picked 5 folks on death row and they are all either dead now or had their sentence commuted, but only 1 made CNN, which is the only requirement I saw. Man, I thought my "death row" idea was clever, and not only had other people already thought of it, they made a rule against it.



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[Dragon Phoenix]

There was no rule against it in this game. For the same reason, terminally ill celebrities could have been picked.

First blood to Suspence13.

[Duphrates]

Fair enough, Mod has spoken.

[Suspence]

Terminally ill celebs, why didn't I think of that. What celebs are terminally ill?

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[This message has been edited by Suspence13 (edited 12-21-2002 11:32 AM).]

[Suspence]

All my death row inmates are now dead:

James Collier - 55 - 12/11/02
Leonard Rojas - 52 - 12/4/02
Desmond Carter - 35 - 12/10/02
Ernest Carter - 36 - 12/17/02
Jay Neill - 37 - 12/12/02

The way I see it, CNN just cost me 222 points. They really need to expand their coverage of dead people.

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[Suspence]

I was gonna pick Strom Thurmond, because, let's face it, he's on his last legs, but then I realized, if he kicks the bucket, he earns me exactly 0 points.


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[Dragon Phoenix]

Nobody picked Joe Strummer...

[Suspence]

Or George Roy Hill http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/27/obit.hill.ap/index.html

or Herb Ritts http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/12/26/ritts.obit.ap/index.html



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[Dragon Phoenix]

* checks list *

Nope, no-one had Maurice Gibb.

[Qball]

Nobody had Richard Crenna ....

[Dragon Phoenix]

Or Fred Rogers.

They are not exactly dropping like flies, are they?