and thank you Twick
Roger that!
- Freddy Mercury
- Sadat
- Otis Redding
- John Wayne Gacy
- John Belushi
- Virginia Wolfe
- Dumbledore (Harry Potter)
- Bought the farm
- Jayne Mansfield
- A phrase that includes the word “death.”
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.
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.
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going back to check my list of priorities again.
did that many Ghandi’s get assassinated?
Note to self, don’t name kids Gandhi.
Mahatma Gandhi and Mohandas Gandhi are the same person. Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi (no relation to Mahatma) were also assassinated.
I really need to beat you!
One of these days… be afraid, be very afraid 
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.
This makes it sound as though it were a nickname, like “Lefty” or “Toots.” Mahatma is an honorific meaning “great soul.”
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!
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.
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: :)]
As you wrote, Mahatma was a honorific title. Gandhi’s nickname was “Pinto”.
Diana! :smack:
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.
Agreed.
Besides the Gandhi quandary, this should be noted:
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…