Re: Celebrity Death List MMXI / The Death Thread 2011

[PeterCS]

Is that Jones there behind the screen, evidently half-expecting the immolated script to explode and cover his cursed blasphemous body with a plague of boils, leeches and slugs?

[LeFromage]

Just his head - the rest of his body is safely tucked away in an Islam-proof wooden case.

[PeterCS]

Maybe he is just a head, Futurama-style, and the rest is faked up for the cameras?

[skully]

Busy day at work. So nobody noteworthy died overnight or today?

[taipan]

Kurt Cobain.

[Fred Nerk]

er yeah, but noteworthy?

(ducks for cover)

[LeFromage]

Why - is Courtney Love a member?

[skully]

Why is Courtney Love?

[Allan D]

Busy day at work. So nobody noteworthy died overnight or today?

This bloke gave up the ghost on Friday:

David S.Clarke

Let's raise a glass to his memory.

[JGK]

Am kicking myself for not having him on the list (although query his celebrity status). We know his brother's kids reasonably well and they had known for a while that he was close.

But it is a sad day when the world loses an investment banker and wine grower.

[skully]

Must admit I did think "I wonder if JGK knew about this dude?" But does he really count as a celebrity? Millionaires Club memeber, sure, but a celeb??

[JGK]

You make the rules so if you say "No he doesn't count" then I will feel better about the world.

[JGK]

And I actually bought a case of stuff from Poole's Rock wines the other day - got a good deal too.

[WideWally]

I saw on the Wikipedia Deaths in 2011 page that EJ McGuire had died. Sadly, he was a Canadian Ice Hockey coach.

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=558573

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[skully]

You make the rules so if you say "No he doesn't count" then I will feel better about the world.

But given I chose Mrs Neville Luise Rainer (2 time Oscar winning German actress) who none of us probably had heard of other than horrie, then I would've just said "meh, he'll do" if you had've nommed him. I don't know quite a few of the "celebs" chosen.

[taipan]

You make the rules so if you say "No he doesn't count" then I will feel better about the world.

But given I chose Mrs Neville Luise Rainer (2 time Oscar winning German actress) who none of us probably had heard of other than horrie, then I would've just said "meh, he'll do" if you had've nommed him. I don't know quite a few of the "celebs" chosen.

Fark me. Aussies claiming the cultural high ground.

[skully]

Is that an indigenous burial ground outside Jo'burg?

[taipan]

Yeah we have loads of them.

[JGK]

They used to he called gaols.

[JGK]

You make the rules so if you say "No he doesn't count" then I will feel better about the world.

But given I chose Mrs Neville Luise Rainer (2 time Oscar winning German actress) who none of us probably had heard of other than horrie, then I would've just said "meh, he'll do" if you had've nommed him. I don't know quite a few of the "celebs" chosen.

Qunt. I didn't ask for much.

[Allan D]

Indeed, a perfect combination of professions - one provides the means of losing money, the other the means for not caring about it.

Do all Australians know each other, or at least their relatives?

[eowyn]

Am kicking myself for not having him on the list (although query his celebrity status). We know his brother's kids reasonably well and they had known for a while that he was close.

But it is a sad day when the world loses an investment banker and wine grower.

I'd be more upset if we'd lost an investment wanker and whine maker.


PS you don't grow wine.

[JGK]

Thanks taily.

[WideWally]

RIP Sidney Lumet

He directed many famous movies.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/09/sidney-lumet-dead_n_847014.html

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[Big Dog]

RIP Sidney Lumet

He directed many famous movies.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/09/sidney-lumet-dead_n_847014.html

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Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, Network......some of my favorite movies.

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