Re: Celebrity Death List MMXI / The Death Thread 2011

by JGK Mon 17 Jan 2011, 04:02

Actually, I see that Paul Hibbert played one test.

Still, pretty amazing record given that quite a number would be in their 70s by now.

by WideWally Mon 17 Jan 2011, 04:26

Sadly, recent health reports on a 70s leggie are not at all promising. Hopefully, he will still be around for many more years.

by JGK Mon 17 Jan 2011, 04:33

by Fred Nerk Mon 17 Jan 2011, 05:01

I remember Carew well as a 'happy hooker' who had an excellent tour of Australia in 68-69, averaging 40 and scoring four half-centuries mostly in partnership with Roy Fredericks. That opening pair is now re-united. He came to Australia with no reputation at all and left rated the Windies third-best bat behind Sobers and Kanhai.

As was normal then, the Windies played a series in NZ on their way home, and Joey's only Test ton came in the first Test. Outside the six months of that OZ/NZ double tour, he scored only one other Test half century.

One story is that his nickname 'Joey' was another souvenir of that Oz tour, for his small stature and quick footwork.

Re TJ: There was a story in the Melb SPFSP before Christmas that Jenner was gravely ill with congestive heart disease (from memory), and unlikely to be around too much longer. He didn't look good at all in the pic with the report, and the story mentioned that his upcoming wedding had been brought forward. He commentated for the ABC in the Melb and Sydney Tests and addressed that report in one early shift on-air, but I only caught the tail end.

by skully Mon 17 Jan 2011, 06:18

WideWally wrote:Sadly, recent health reports on a 70s leggie are not at all promising. Hopefully, he will still be around for many more years.

JGK wrote:TJ?

On read the other day how crook he is. Surprised no-one grabbed him.

And in other rude health news, just saw Michael Douglas on the nooz on the red carpet at the Golden Globes saying he was cancer free. Fark it. Cool

by skully Mon 17 Jan 2011, 06:25

The full list of nominations so far:

skully wrote:Gough Whitlam (Former Aus PM)
Michael Douglas (Actor)
Norman Gordon (Saffie Test cricketer)
Luise Rainer (Actress)
Harry Morgan (Actor)
Chris Brown (singer - U30)

Zat wrote:Ronnie Biggs (Great Train Robber)
Kim Jong-il (North Korean Scumbag)
John Edrich (Former Test Cricketer)
Billy Graham (Will he take a closer step to god?)
Yitzhak Shamir (As Sharon in-stasis is taken)
Mary-Kate Olsen (She had the temerity to survive a year on qmy's list)

Fred Nerk wrote:Chuck Berry
Angus T. Jones (The obnoxious little sh!t who plays the obnoxious little sh!t in 'Two and a Half Men', born 1993)
Margaret Thatcher
Charlie Sutton (AFL's oldest surviving coach)
Bart Cummings
Tom Graveney

lardbucket wrote:Yevgeney Kalfelnikov
Angelina Jolie
Prince Harry
Bob Hawke
Slash
Sebastien Vettel

Nath wrote:Lindsay Lohan
Neil Harvey
'Superstar' Billy Graham (the wrestler)
Leif Garrett
Betty White
Shigeru Miyamoto

Bradman wrote:Jodie Sweetin (under thirty actress)
Fidel Castro (Revolutionary and seppo weeping wound)
Betty Ford (Gerry;'s widow)
B.B King (Blues man)
Andy Griffith (TV, recording artist)
Robert Mugabe (say no more)

Jontyh wrote:Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (Lady Gaga)
Anna Wing (Meeeeechelle)
Patrick MacNee (Steed)
Frederica Sagor Maas (Seppo Playwright)
Alfred Proksch (Austrian Olympian)
Dick Cheney (Seppo ex VP)

eowyn wrote:Amy Winehouse
Alex Ferguson
Naomi Campbell
Barak Obama
Engelbert Humperdink
Alastair Campbell

taipan wrote:Nelson Mandela
Julius Malema (I wish)
Keith Richards (yeah I know the joke)
Henry Kissinger
Neil Adcock
Britney Spears

JGK wrote:Aretha Franklin
Reg Simpson
James Earl Jones
Peter O'Toole
Margaret Whitlam
Rihanna

Growler wrote:Elizabeth Taylor
Harold "Dickie" Bird - sport category
Dr Ian Paisley - politics category
Eli Wallach
Clive Dunn
Michael Dunlop (motorcycle TT racer) - under 30 category

Blackadder wrote:Paris Hilton (Currently under 30, and I just don't mean her IQ)
Kirk Douglas
Nancy Reagan
Chuck Yeager
Richard Attenborough
George Bush Snr.

Allan D wrote:Zsa Zsa Gabor
Trevor Bailey (of Essex and England and late of TMS not the clockwork radio inventor - that's Baylis)
Denis Healey
Justin Bieber
Hosni Mubarak
Larry King

Paul Keating wrote:Laurie Oakes
Mariah Carey
Wyatt Roy (under 30)
Rod Stewart
Laurie Lawrence (swimming coach)
Allan Greenspan

Demelza wrote:Ariel Sharon (politics)
Severiano Ballesteros (sport)
Mischa Barton (U30)
Patrick Moore (Stars at Night)
Eric Sykes
Andy Williams

horace wrote:Bob Simpson - obscure father in law of current chair of Oz NSP
Janette Howard - power behind the throne
Tammy Fraser - wife of ex PM Mal
Prince Billy - the older prince
Rose Hancock - celeb vulture
Doris Lessing - wonderful writer

How long do we leave it open for noms? End of Jan?

by Zat Mon 17 Jan 2011, 06:29

End of Jan? Sod that. Close it off now. It should be the quick and the dead...

by skully Mon 17 Jan 2011, 06:58

Was allowing for people being on holidays. And Smerkle might get over his sookin' by then.

by Henry Mon 17 Jan 2011, 07:06

Under 30- Malia Ann Obama (Barack's oldest daughter)
Politics- John Prescott
Sport- Salman Butt
Christopher Plummer (Captain Von Trap from the Sound of Music)
Ronnie Wood
Vanessa Redgrave

by Henry Mon 17 Jan 2011, 07:07

Oh, do I need one more?

by Fred Nerk Mon 17 Jan 2011, 07:09

Two more - somebody's already nabbed M Douglas.

by Henry Mon 17 Jan 2011, 07:13

Updated.

by skully Mon 17 Jan 2011, 07:13

Aye, Trev. 6 noms, but I already have Michael Douglas. So two more required. Terry Jenner is still available. Cool

by skully Mon 17 Jan 2011, 07:16

Cheers Trev. The full list of nominations so far:

skully wrote:Gough Whitlam (Former Aus PM)
Michael Douglas (Actor)
Norman Gordon (Saffie Test cricketer)
Luise Rainer (Actress)
Harry Morgan (Actor)
Chris Brown (singer - U30)

Zat wrote:Ronnie Biggs (Great Train Robber)
Kim Jong-il (North Korean Scumbag)
John Edrich (Former Test Cricketer)
Billy Graham (Will he take a closer step to god?)
Yitzhak Shamir (As Sharon in-stasis is taken)
Mary-Kate Olsen (She had the temerity to survive a year on qmy's list)

Fred Nerk wrote:Chuck Berry
Angus T. Jones (The obnoxious little sh!t who plays the obnoxious little sh!t in 'Two and a Half Men', born 1993)
Margaret Thatcher
Charlie Sutton (AFL's oldest surviving coach)
Bart Cummings
Tom Graveney

lardbucket wrote:Yevgeney Kalfelnikov
Angelina Jolie
Prince Harry
Bob Hawke
Slash
Sebastien Vettel

Nath wrote:Lindsay Lohan
Neil Harvey
'Superstar' Billy Graham (the wrestler)
Leif Garrett
Betty White
Shigeru Miyamoto

Bradman wrote:Jodie Sweetin (under thirty actress)
Fidel Castro (Revolutionary and seppo weeping wound)
Betty Ford (Gerry;'s widow)
B.B King (Blues man)
Andy Griffith (TV, recording artist)
Robert Mugabe (say no more)

Jontyh wrote:Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (Lady Gaga)
Anna Wing (Meeeeechelle)
Patrick MacNee (Steed)
Frederica Sagor Maas (Seppo Playwright)
Alfred Proksch (Austrian Olympian)
Dick Cheney (Seppo ex VP)

eowyn wrote:Amy Winehouse
Alex Ferguson
Naomi Campbell
Barak Obama
Engelbert Humperdink
Alastair Campbell

taipan wrote:Nelson Mandela
Julius Malema (I wish)
Keith Richards (yeah I know the joke)
Henry Kissinger
Neil Adcock
Britney Spears

JGK wrote:Aretha Franklin
Reg Simpson
James Earl Jones
Peter O'Toole
Margaret Whitlam
Rihanna

Growler wrote:Elizabeth Taylor
Harold "Dickie" Bird - sport category
Dr Ian Paisley - politics category
Eli Wallach
Clive Dunn
Michael Dunlop (motorcycle TT racer) - under 30 category

Blackadder wrote:Paris Hilton (Currently under 30, and I just don't mean her IQ)
Kirk Douglas
Nancy Reagan
Chuck Yeager
Richard Attenborough
George Bush Snr.

Allan D wrote:Zsa Zsa Gabor
Trevor Bailey (of Essex and England and late of TMS not the clockwork radio inventor - that's Baylis)
Denis Healey
Justin Bieber
Hosni Mubarak
Larry King

Paul Keating wrote:Laurie Oakes
Mariah Carey
Wyatt Roy (under 30)
Rod Stewart
Laurie Lawrence (swimming coach)
Allan Greenspan

Demelza wrote:Ariel Sharon (politics)
Severiano Ballesteros (sport)
Mischa Barton (U30)
Patrick Moore (Stars at Night)
Eric Sykes
Andy Williams

horace wrote:Bob Simpson - obscure father in law of current chair of Oz NSP
Janette Howard - power behind the throne
Tammy Fraser - wife of ex PM Mal
Prince Billy - the older prince
Rose Hancock - celeb vulture
Doris Lessing - wonderful writer

Henry wrote:Malia Ann Obama (Barack's oldest daughter) (U-30)
John Prescott (Politics)
Salman Butt (Sport)
Christopher Plummer (Captain Von Trap from the Sound of Music)
Ronnie Wood
Vanessa Redgrave

Noice, 17 lists so far. Cool

Nominations close at the end of Jan 2011.

by Fred Nerk Mon 17 Jan 2011, 07:18

"Christopher Plummer (Captain Von Trap from the Sound of Music)"

Wasn't that David Tomlinson?

by Henry Mon 17 Jan 2011, 07:20

Fred Nerk wrote:"Christopher Plummer (Captain Von Trap from the Sound of Music)"

Wasn't that David Tomlinson?

No, he was George Banks from Mary Poppins. Died in 2000.

by Zat Mon 17 Jan 2011, 07:23

And still dead.

by JGK Mon 17 Jan 2011, 07:23

TJ should be off bounds for anyone coming in late.

Otherwise I'll switch Peter O'T for TJ.

by skully Mon 17 Jan 2011, 07:25

Nerky in "getting-his-frollicks-mixed-up" shocker. snigger

by skully Mon 17 Jan 2011, 07:25

JGK wrote:TJ should be off bounds for anyone coming in late.

Otherwise I'll switch Peter O'T for TJ.

Fark off, no switching, ya sook. thefinger

by Henry Mon 17 Jan 2011, 07:29

Zat wrote:And still dead.

Died a week before English cricket was reborn at Lord's on July 1st 2000.

by WideWally Mon 17 Jan 2011, 12:37

WideWally wrote:
lardbucket wrote:
WideWally wrote:
Bradman wrote:OK! Got it.

Lindsay Lohan (under thirty actress)
Fidel Castro (Revolutionary and seppo weeping wound)
Betty Ford (Gerry;'s widow)
B.B King (Blues man)
Andy Griffith (TV, recording artist)
Robert Mugabe (say no more)

I hope this doesn't happen before (or during) the Bluesfest at Byron Bay over the Easter weekend. I was thinking of going to that. Last I heard BB is performing there along with Bob Dylan, CW Stoneking, Washington, Elvis & many others.

Do you have a link to that, Wally?

Looks as though Monday is sold out already.

http://www.bluesfest.com.au/pages/?ParentPageID=11&PageID=81

.

Lardy, were any of those acts of interest?

by lardbucket Mon 17 Jan 2011, 12:40

Just reading it now - missed your earlier reply. Definitely yes!

CW Stoneking, Jeff Lang, Toots and the Maytals, Jethro Tull (can't imagine what incarnation that might be) for starters ...

and BB King of course

by lardbucket Mon 17 Jan 2011, 12:44

Fark me, Captain Matchbox and Tony Joe White as well.

'jolly good show'

by WideWally Mon 17 Jan 2011, 12:44

CW Stoneking - now there's a character!

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