2021 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool

The Game Room
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I posted in the RIP Norm thread in Cafe Society.

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Sir Clive Sinclair, who created the Sinclair ZX series of home computers in the 80s, extremely popular across the world (Americans may know them as Timex I think) has died aged 81.

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Jane Powell must have been pretty young back then. I’d have thought she’d be older than 92 by now. RIP.

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And here’s the thing - CONAN SCREWED IT UP and Norm STILL salvaged it! I guarantee you that bit about the spider and web over the fire wouldn’t have been in there if Conan hadn’t broken the tension by going “how long was that drive?”, so Norm had to make some other stuff up on the fly to try to rebuild the tension before he got to the bit about the gun and finally the punch line.

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One for the Nebraskans - true local legend Leta Powell Drake has passed away.

I never met her but she was literally a friend-of-a-friend (said friend is understandably quite saddened by the news) and apparently a force of nature.

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To some, apparently.

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Looks like Team Dirt moves into 5th place with 16 pts and a unique pick as the former President of Algeria ends his retirement (sorry, I cannot spell his name right).

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Team Dirt and GIGObuster both had the unspellable individual:

Rank Player Score Picks(Unique)
1 psychonaut 191 4(1)
2 GIGObuster 186 5(2)
3 jeezums 166 4
3 RTFirefly 166 4
5 Team Dirt 153 7(1)
6 Happy_Lendervedder 152 5
7 Registered at Last 142 3
8 phungi 135 4(1)
9 RobotDevilDog 93 3
10 Hal Briston 89 4(1)
11 Superdude 75 2
12 candide 63 2
12 CreaseMunky 63 2
12 Hoopy_Frood 63 2
12 It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery 63 2
12 Rebo 63 2
17 Queen_Anne_s_Lace 51 2
18 Dung_Beetle 48 2
18 WolfpackJeep 48 2
20 Mahaloth 46 3
21 J_P_L 43 2
22 smithsb 40 2(1)
23 GreaterZamboni 37 2(1)
23 imthjckaz 37 2
25 xizor 36 2
26 a35362 31 2
26 amarinth 31 2
26 critter42 31 2
26 NotherYinzer 31 2
26 Precambrianmollusc 31 2
31 ataraxy42 30 1
31 BobLibDem 30 1
31 Borborygmi 30 1
31 Captain_Klutz 30 1
31 Catamount 30 2(1)
31 D_Anconia 30 1
31 Dr Girlfriend 30 1
31 jenstvns 30 1
31 JohnT 30 1
31 kayT 30 1
31 Little_Nemo 30 1
31 Loach 30 1
31 Lsura 30 1
31 Maus_Magill 30 1
31 McDeath_the_Mad 30 1
31 Mean_MrMustard 30 1
31 Mona_Lott 30 1
31 Ponch8 30 1
31 Reindeer_Flotilla 30 1
31 Stephe96 30 1
31 Tristan 30 1
31 vivalostwages 30 1
31 Wallet 30 1
54 irritant 29 1(1)
55 Paul_in_Saudi 28 3
56 zadscmc 27 2(1)
57 Snowboarder_Bo 23 2(2)
58 Sapphiredragon76 22 1(1)
59 Zero00 20 2
60 Hatchie 17 1(1)
61 Slow_Moving_Vehicle 14 1
62 GuanoLad 13 1
62 lel 13 1
64 Pardel_Lux 12 1
64 Shoeless 12 1
66 Baker 10 1(1)
66 commasense 10 3(2)
66 kitap 10 2
69 ProfPepperwinkle 9 1
70 Old_Wench 8 1(1)
71 Biotop 7 1(1)
71 madsircool 7 1
73 Dancer_Flight 1 1
73 Gatopescado 1 1
73 SpoilerVirgin 1 1
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Oh great death shroom could you add 25 points to my total on your next update? Seems my pick for Gerd Muller was missed. Thanks.

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As much as I would like to keep pace with the leader, I have to report about the Bouttaficca or whatever dictator, I don’t have him here, I have him on the themed list.

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Bouttaficca? Isn’t that the guy that Amy Fisher was schtupping and then went and shot his wife?

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Reminds me of Newsradio when Bill gets an FCC complaint against him.

Dave: “Well, Bill, there are many ways to try and pronounce Buttafuoco…but of all the ways possible, let’s just say you chose the absolute worst way to attempt to say that word.”

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sorry to those prognosticators of death that were incorrectly represented.

25 points to jeezums for Gerd Muller and a tie for first, and Team Dirt got the Unique Pick for “he who shall not be spelled”

Rank Player Score Picks(Unique)
1 jeezums 191 5(1)
1 psychonaut 191 4(1)
3 GIGObuster 186 5(2)
4 RTFirefly 166 4
5 Team Dirt 153 7(1)
6 Happy_Lendervedder 152 5
7 Registered at Last 142 3
8 phungi 135 4(1)
9 RobotDevilDog 93 3
10 Hal Briston 89 4(1)
11 Superdude 75 2
12 candide 63 2
12 CreaseMunky 63 2
12 Hoopy_Frood 63 2
12 It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery 63 2
12 Rebo 63 2
17 Queen_Anne_s_Lace 51 2
18 Dung_Beetle 48 2
18 WolfpackJeep 48 2
20 Mahaloth 46 3
21 J_P_L 43 2
22 smithsb 40 2(1)
23 GreaterZamboni 37 2(1)
23 imthjckaz 37 2
25 xizor 36 2
26 a35362 31 2
26 amarinth 31 2
26 critter42 31 2
26 NotherYinzer 31 2
26 Precambrianmollusc 31 2
31 ataraxy42 30 1
31 BobLibDem 30 1
31 Borborygmi 30 1
31 Captain_Klutz 30 1
31 Catamount 30 2(1)
31 D_Anconia 30 1
31 Dr Girlfriend 30 1
31 jenstvns 30 1
31 JohnT 30 1
31 kayT 30 1
31 Little_Nemo 30 1
31 Loach 30 1
31 Lsura 30 1
31 Maus_Magill 30 1
31 McDeath_the_Mad 30 1
31 Mean_MrMustard 30 1
31 Mona_Lott 30 1
31 Ponch8 30 1
31 Reindeer_Flotilla 30 1
31 Stephe96 30 1
31 Tristan 30 1
31 vivalostwages 30 1
31 Wallet 30 1
54 irritant 29 1(1)
55 Paul_in_Saudi 28 3
56 zadscmc 27 2(1)
57 Snowboarder_Bo 23 2(2)
58 Sapphiredragon76 22 1(1)
59 Zero00 20 2
60 Hatchie 17 1(1)
61 Slow_Moving_Vehicle 14 1
62 GuanoLad 13 1
62 lel 13 1
64 Pardel_Lux 12 1
64 Shoeless 12 1
66 Baker 10 1(1)
66 commasense 10 3(2)
66 kitap 10 2
69 ProfPepperwinkle 9 1
70 Old_Wench 8 1(1)
71 Biotop 7 1(1)
71 madsircool 7 1
73 Dancer_Flight 1 1
73 Gatopescado 1 1
73 SpoilerVirgin 1 1
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What’s so hard about عبد العزيز بوتفليقة? Just remember the ت before و rule.

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Singer Sarah Dash, best known as co-founder and member of Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, has died at 76.

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Garson was also in Stargate SG-1 and a very funny episode of X-files where he was the luckiest guy in the world(but his luck cost others).