2024 Celebrity Death Pool #7

Who should replace Dick as our mascot if he ever pops his little clogs?

  • Bob Mortimer

    Votes: 31 17.9%

  • Clint Eastwood

    Votes: 13 7.5%

  • Killer Cliff Richard

    Votes: 25 14.5%

  • Larry The Cat

    Votes: 70 40.5%

  • Ozzy Osbourne

    Votes: 34 19.7%
  • Total voters
    173
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TruthTeller1036 said:
Diagnosis Murder reminds me of six weeks holiday when I was spending the holidays with my Nan while my mom was at work, always used to be on channel 5 before Neighbours
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It reminds me of 9/11. I’d just put the two toddlers down for a nap, made my sandwich and coffee, and turned the tv on to watch it. Ended up watching hours of rolling news coverage instead.
 
Sir Lancelot said:
Now you know how I feel when I'm spending December putting a thousand plus entries onto a spreadsheet... or when a family member dies and your natural response is "Aw. Poor Aunty Linda. That's such a shame, Mum. Nul points."
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Notable deaths on this day (Oct 13th) in history include:

54AD Claudius, Roman emperor, died of poisoned mushrooms
1905 Henry Irving, Victorian actor, first actor to receive a knighthood, inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, died aged 67 (unlike Dracula)
1938 E.C. Segar, American cartoonist and creator of Popeye, died aged 43
1945 Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon, died aged 86. Chocolate must be good for you if he lived that long.
1974 Ed Sullivan, TV Host, died of esophageal cancer aged 73
1996 Beryl Read, British actress, died of pneumonia aged 77
2002 Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian and author (Band of Brothers), died aged 66 from lunch cancer
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Now now.
 
Notable deaths on this day (Oct 14th) in history include:

1066 Harold II, last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England, die at the battle of Hastings aged 44. That was one in the eye for Royalty.
1944 Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshall, committed suicide by cyanide pill aged 52 after being implicated in a plot to assassinate Adolf ‘He Only Has One Ball’ Hitler
1945 Lionel Martin, founder of Aston Martin, died aged 67
1959 Errol Flynn, actor and legendary swordsman, bit of a nasty perv tbh, died of a heart attack aged 50
1977 Bing Crosby, singer and actor, weed fan and one of the reason tape recording became popular, died of a heart attack aged 74 on a golf course. It’s what he would have wanted.
1986 Mary Lund, first woman to receive an artificial heart, died aged 40
1990 Leonard Bernstein ,conductor and composer, died of a heart attack aged 72
1995 Edit Pargeter, English author of the Brother Cadfael mysteries (as Ellis Peters) died of a stroke aged 82
1997 Harold Robbins, American author, died aged 81
1998 Frankie Yankovic, American accordionist somehow not related to Weird Al Yankovic, died aged 83
2008 Richard Cooey, American rapist and murderer, executed
2009 Captain Lou Albano, wrestler and manager, died of a heart attack aged 76
2011 Simon MacCorkindale, actor (Manimal, Falcon Crest) died of bowel cancer aged 58. I loved Manimal. It was so stupid.
2016 Jean Alexander, Hilda Ogden, died aged 90. She is flies with the ducks now.
2022 Robbie Coltrane, actor (The Young Ones, Nuns On The Run, Cracker, Harry Potter), died aged 72 RIP Hagrid.
2023 Piper Laurie, actress (Carrie, Twin Peaks) died aged 91
 
I know she’s not a celebrity but a poor lady has just been killed by her pet hamster.
 

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Notable deaths on this day (Oct 15th in history include:

1917 Mata Hari, exotic dancer and spy, executed for doing the macarena (well, spying)
1964 Cole Porter, composer and lyricist, died of kidney failure
1971 Sylvester Magee, last living American slave and oldest person who ever lived, died at 130
1976 Carlo Gambino, mafia criminal, died aged 74
2011 Elizabeth Driver, actress (Coronation Street), died aged 91 from pneumonia
2023 Suzanne Somers, actress, Three’s Company, dies from complications of breast cancer, aged 76
 
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