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The Rules

 

THE BASICS:

 

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Pick 10 different celebrities who are alive as at 1st January 2008, but who, in your opinion, will no longer be with us by 31st December 2008.

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Nominate one of them as your "joker".

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For each celeb demise that you guess correctly, you'll score points, and if your joker sadly passes away, your grief will be alleviated by the fact that you'll score double points.

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The Person with the most points at the end of the year will, unsurprisingly, be deemed to be the winner.

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In the event of a dead heat on points, the winner will be selected according to the following criteria, applied in this order:

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The most hits (i.e. correctly-chosen deceased celebs).

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The youngest average age of hits.

 

 

OTHER RULES:

 

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All of your chosen celebs must be:

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Human.

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At least 16 years old as at 1st January 2007.

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Actual real-life people, not characters out of soap operas and the like.

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Named individuals, not just "Pope Wotsisface" or "the oldest person in the world".

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Players must not murder their chosen celebs. That's cheating, and cheating is wrong.

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The date of death is taken as that in the country/region where the person died, i.e. local time is used. If the time of death is reported as exactly midnight local time, the date of the day just beginning is used. This may be relevant in deciding bonuses (see below).

 

DEFINITIONS:

 

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"Celebrity" means someone who, upon their death, gets a written obituary in a British national newspaper or on the BBC News website. This does mean that you can't always be sure when picking your team whether each person will be famous enough or not, but that's all part of the game.

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"Obituary" simply means an article which mentions the fact that the person has died. It doesn't have to be the conventional biographical write-up.

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"Alive" means drawing breath, not decomposing, that kind of thing.

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"No longer with us" is the opposite of the above.

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"Death" means the transition from the former to the latter. The death of a career (e.g. Michael Jackson) doesn't count.

 

SCORING:

 

The value of the basic death depends on the person's age:

 

16-29 years: 12 points

30-49 years: 10 points

 

50-59 years: 9 points

 

60-69 years: 8 points

 

70-79 years: 7 points

 

80-89 years: 6 points

 

90-99 years: 5 points

 

100-109 years: 4 points

 

110+ years: 3 points

 

On top of this, bonus points are awarded as follows:

 

Unique pick: +1 if you were the only competitor to pick that person.

Unlucky 13: +2 for a celeb who dies on the 13th of any month.

 

Unnatural causes: +3 for murder, suicide or accident (but not State executions).

 

Party pooper: +5 for a celeb who dies on their birthday or Xmas Day.

 

Joker: Take the total of all the above and double it.

 

1.Clint Eastwood

2.Fidel Castro [Joker]

3.George Bush snr

4.Ravi Shankar

5.Paul Newman

6.Chuck Berry

7.Charlton Heston

8.Patrick Moore

9.Michael Foot

10.Queen Eilizabeth II

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QBLA Grand Master

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  asymmetrical head said:
britney spears

michael jackson (joker)

david crosby

john goodman

fat joe

margaret thatcher

mick mars

queen elizabeth

dick cheney

fidel castro

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alex higgins

kirk douglas

charlton heston

shane mcgowan

arthur c clarke

jimmy saville

paul newman

clint eastwood

britney spears

patrick moore - joker

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01. Jimmy Savile

02. Nancy Reagan

03. Patrick Moore

04. Michael Moore

05. Joan Rivers

06. Ozzy Osbourne

07. Ken Dodd

08. Margaret Thatcher

09. Bobby Robson [Joker]

10. Amy Winehouse

 

 

 

edit: Bobby Robson is still alive right???

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britney spears (joker)

dick cheney

amy winehouse

dick clark

kirk douglas

bob barker

hasselhoff

larry king

one of the spice girls

some black sports star

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I don't see Andy Dick on anyone's list, but he should be. That guy is going to be found dead sooner or later.

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After this I listened to geogaddi and I didn't like it, I was quite vomitting at some tracks, I realized they were too crazy for my ears, they took too much acid to play music I stupidly thought (cliché of psyché music) But I knew this album was a kind of big forest where I just wasn't able to go inside.

- lost cloud

 

I was in US tjis summer, and eat in KFC. FUCK That's the worst thing i've ever eaten. The flesh simply doesn't cleave to the bones. Battery ferming. And then, foie gras is banned from NY state, because it's considered as ill-treat. IT'S NOT. KFC is tourist ill-treat. YOU POISONERS! Two hours after being to KFC, i stopped in a amsih little town barf all that KFC shit out. Nice work!

 

So i hope this woman is not like kfc chicken, otherwise she'll be pulled to pieces.

-organized confused project

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Richard D James

 

Tom Jenkinson [joker]

 

Mike Paradinas

 

Amon Tobin

 

Rob Brown

 

Sean Booth

 

Michael Sandison

 

Marcus Eoin

 

Richard Devine

 

Joyrex

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Going for a nice conservative list.

 

1) J.D. Salinger [Joker]

2) Milton Babbitt

3) George H W Bush

4) Ray Bradbury

5) Dave Brubeck

6) Lauren Bacall

7) Humphrey Lyttelton

8) Harper Lee

9) Frances Bay

10) Patrick Moore

 

cma - I had absolutely no idea Michael Foot was still alive. Had to Google it to make sure.

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michael jackson

parky

gordon brown

margaret thatcher

ratzinger

 

 

and an each way on schwarzenegger

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1: Amy Winehouse

2: Britney Spears

3: Walter Koenig

4: Jeremy Clarkson (joker)

5: Eminem

6: John Prescott

7: Dave Lee Travis

8: Johnny Walker (Radio 2 DJ)

9: Ken Livingstone

10: Gene Wilder

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alright, hopefully none of my picks have died already:

 

fidel castro

james earl jones (joker)

dick clark

muhammad ali

kirk douglas

farrah fawcett

mark felt (sperm burper...errr deepthroat)

zsa zsa gabor

billy graham

kevorkian

 

next year, ill pick hillary clinton if she gets president, because i think the first woman president of the USA should get picked off for good measure.

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  G. I. Raffe said:
Heath Ledgar (Joker)

fix'd

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  On 4/11/2010 at 6:25 AM, 'Rambo' said:

I enjoy the fragility of the rolling lol tbh. The broken lol is like our own mortality staring us in the face, reminding us to enjoy that sunset.

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lol, you guys couldn't fix a burger.

 

 

It's Ledger

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After this I listened to geogaddi and I didn't like it, I was quite vomitting at some tracks, I realized they were too crazy for my ears, they took too much acid to play music I stupidly thought (cliché of psyché music) But I knew this album was a kind of big forest where I just wasn't able to go inside.

- lost cloud

 

I was in US tjis summer, and eat in KFC. FUCK That's the worst thing i've ever eaten. The flesh simply doesn't cleave to the bones. Battery ferming. And then, foie gras is banned from NY state, because it's considered as ill-treat. IT'S NOT. KFC is tourist ill-treat. YOU POISONERS! Two hours after being to KFC, i stopped in a amsih little town barf all that KFC shit out. Nice work!

 

So i hope this woman is not like kfc chicken, otherwise she'll be pulled to pieces.

-organized confused project

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0. britney spears

1. amy winehouse

2. pete doherty

3. paris hilton

(cover the bases)

 

4. dolly parton

5. patrick moore [joker]

6. terry wogan

7. stephen hawking

8. arthur c. clarke

9. margaret thatcher

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  On 5/7/2013 at 11:06 PM, ambermonk said:

I know IDM can be extreme

  On 6/3/2017 at 11:50 PM, ladalaika said:

this sounds like an airplane landing on a minefield

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