# Weekend Feud: Let's Get Morbid! by MadTheSwine \[Game Over\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 6, 2008, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939 "2008-12-06T02:09:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/81 "2008-12-08T00:20:41Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > #6 – I wasn’t expecting to do that well with my answer to 10, but I guess there were several anti-conch answers. > > Good feud! Thanks, **Mad** and **Dolores**! and thank you Twick ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/82 "2008-12-08T01:32:29Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > …Good feud! Thanks, **Mad** and **Dolores**! Roger that! ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/83 "2008-12-08T01:43:01Z")
1. Freddy Mercury 2. Sadat 3. Otis Redding 4. John Wayne Gacy 5. John Belushi 6. Virginia Wolfe 7. Dumbledore (Harry Potter) 8. Bought the farm 9. Jayne Mansfield 10. A phrase that includes the word “death.” ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/84 "2008-12-08T02:13:09Z")
Wow, I was reading the answers and thinking “It seemed like I did okay, but I really bombed a couple and missed another”. Then I saw I got second place. That must have been a very tough one. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/85 "2008-12-08T02:23:17Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Wow, I was reading the answers and thinking “It seemed like I did okay, but I really bombed a couple and missed another”. Then I saw I got second place. That must have been a very tough one. There were only two questions that more than half of us agreed on, and they had 28 and 29 people – very low-consensus game. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/86 "2008-12-08T02:27:41Z")
I thought this was a great feud with great questions, no true conchs. Oh,and i got 5th place again. lets see, I got 5th on the potty mouth feud and the death feud. . going back to check my list of priorities again. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/87 "2008-12-08T02:38:17Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > 1. A non-American who was assassinated. > 2. Franz Ferdinand of Austria 16 > **2. Gandhi 8** > 3. Anwar Sadat 6 > **2. Mohandas Gandhi 5** > 4. John Lennon 4 > **2. Mahatma Gandhi 3** > 5. Benazir Bhutto 2 > 6. Julius Caesar 2 > 7. Idi Amin 1 > 8. Kaiser Wilhelm 1 > 9. Leon Trotsky 1 > 10. Yitzhak Rabin 1 did that many Ghandi’s get assassinated? Note to self, don’t name kids **Gandhi.** ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/88 "2008-12-08T04:33:00Z")
Mahatma Gandhi and Mohandas Gandhi are the same person. Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi (no relation to Mahatma) were also assassinated. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/89 "2008-12-08T06:50:56Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Worm and Otak were scared to death to play this one. I really need to beat you! One of these days… be afraid, be very afraid 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/90 "2008-12-08T06:55:00Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > Mahatma Gandhi and Mohandas Gandhi are the same person. Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi (no relation to Mahatma) were also assassinated. And, in case it’s not obvious, “Gandhi” on its own generally refers to Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi. Thus, all three names in the commented upon list were presumably the same person. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/91 "2008-12-08T14:08:43Z")
> [@Indistinguishable](#): > > … Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi. … This makes it sound as though it were a nickname, like “Lefty” or “Toots.” Mahatma is an honorific meaning “great soul.” ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/92 "2008-12-08T14:32:35Z")
> [@Indistinguishable](#): > > And, in case it’s not obvious, “Gandhi” on its own generally refers to Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi. Thus, all three names in the commented upon list were presumably the same person. Oh crap! I thought they were two separate people, and that Ghandi by itself wasn’t specific enough, so I counted them all separate. In my mind I was thinking father and son, and how sad it was that they both got assassinated. :smack: I’ll fix the standings tonight when I get home. (This one is scored on the spreadsheet on my home computer.) Sorry guys! ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/93 "2008-12-08T15:53:17Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > This makes it sound as though it were a nickname, like “Lefty” or “Toots.” Mahatma is an honorific meaning “great soul.” I am aware of the meaning of “Mahatma”. I didn’t realize putting it in quotation marks like so would give the impression you received, but I can see it now. But is not a personalized honorific kind of a special lofty nickname, anyway? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/94 "2008-12-08T16:01:59Z")
> [@Indistinguishable](#): > > I am aware of the meaning of “Mahatma”. I didn’t realize putting it in quotation marks like so would give the impression you received, but I can see it now. But is not a personalized honorific kind of a special lofty nickname, anyway? 🙂 Sorry – should have thrown in a smiley of some sort – I was teasing. I chuckled when I read your post – picturing the great man in his loincloth and glasses, but with spats and a fedora, like a '30s gangster. ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/95 "2008-12-08T16:04:05Z")
No worries; now I’m smiling at the image as well. [I’d toss in another smiley, but I’d feel odd using two in a row so quickly, like an embarrassing return to the trappings of youth. Ah, what the hell: :)] ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/96 "2008-12-08T16:39:26Z")
> [@](#): > > This makes it sound as though it were a nickname, like “Lefty” or “Toots.” Mahatma is an honorific meaning “great soul.” As you wrote, Mahatma was a honorific title. Gandhi’s nickname was “Pinto”. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/97 "2008-12-08T16:48:21Z")
Diana! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/98 "2008-12-08T16:49:43Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > Oh crap! > > I thought they were two separate people, and that Ghandi by itself wasn’t specific enough, so I counted them all separate. In my mind I was thinking father and son, and how sad it was that they both got assassinated. :smack: > > I’ll fix the standings tonight when I get home. (This one is scored on the spreadsheet on my home computer.) > > Sorry guys! Well, while the Mahatma and Mohandas Gandhis should be combined, you could make a legit case for keeping just plain ‘Gandhi’ seperate, as Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi have all been assassinated. And I say this as one of the people who’d benefit from ramming all the Gandhis together. Appropos of nothing, while Rajiv Gandhi was Indira Gandhi’s son, Indira Gandhi is not related to Mohandas Gandhi. She was, however, the daughter of Indian PM Jahawaral Nehru. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/99 "2008-12-08T17:17:12Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > Well, while the Mahatma and Mohandas Gandhis should be combined, you could make a legit case for keeping just plain ‘Gandhi’ seperate, as Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi have all been assassinated. And I say this as one of the people who’d benefit from ramming all the Gandhis together. Agreed. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939/100 "2008-12-08T18:59:26Z")
Besides the Gandhi quandary, this should be noted: > [@](#): > > 1. Besides Buddy Holly someone who died in a flying machine. > 2. The Big Bopper 5 > 3. Big Bopper 2 Yes, I pick up a few points this way, but so do six other people. I’ll accept the decision to combine the “Mahatma” and “Mohandas” answers while keeping the simple “Gandhi” replies separate, since intent cannot be assumed. Guess I should have gone with my initial impulse to type _Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi_… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-lets-get-morbid-by-madtheswine-game-over/475939.md?page=6)