The official 2018 death pool
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@PleegWat said in The official 2018 death pool:
@boomzilla Keep betting on the queen, gotta be right some time.
Before, or after, Charles, though?
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@PleegWat I'm sticking with Charlie Sheen. Who will probably turn out to be the Keith Richards of his generation now that I've staked my claim.
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@boomzilla said in The official 2018 death pool:
@PleegWat I'm sticking with Charlie Sheen. Who will probably turn out to be the Keith Richards of his generation now that I've staked my claim.
All of the Sheen are one Sheen. The Sheen is the Sheen and will be forever the Sheen.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The official 2018 death pool:
He helped spread the "Only fags get AIDS" message,
The problem is he forgot IV illegal drug users? (The hemophiliac problem was solved as soon as they started screening blood donors.) Sure, there are rare cases where people don't fall into one of the above categories. But then it would just be a rare disease, and would not have gotten much attention.which
rightly
stigmatized the disease, and delayed research into treatment for years/decades.
When you see it clearly, you realize it's no different than lung cancer. The vast majority of cases are caused by a behavior. In the case of lung cancer, the right solution was found, addressing the suicidal behavior. The difference is that smokers are not a politically favored group.
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@Vault_Dweller said in The official 2018 death pool:
I went back to the top of the thread and saw this:
@DoctorJones said in The official 2018 death pool:
My money is on Stan Lee
Congratulations!
I thought about saying "called it", but I couldn't bring myself to do it. 😢
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@PleegWat said in The official 2018 death pool:
@boomzilla Keep betting on the queen, gotta be right some time.
She's the first person I think of every time I see this thread, and I keep hoping I'm wrong.
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I'll be honest, I had never heard of her. Interesting story though.
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The issue was that in dry weather, it was prone to a build-up of static electricity, which caused sparks to fly between its circuits, preventing it from working.
"To our horror it was a dry day and the engineers were setting this non-working machine up for our big story," Ms Berezin said.
"Ed Wolf [our head of engineering brought] a full pail of water and without a word to anyone throws the pail of water over the whole thick carpet in the room.
"The water sank into the carpet, which stayed damp for three or four hours, and the machine worked perfectly."
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Attention celebrities: Time is running out! You have only a few hours left to get into this year's pool. Don't wait; die now, before it's too late!
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@HardwareGeek said in The official 2018 death pool:
Attention celebrities: Time is running out! You have only a few hours left to get into this year's pool. Don't wait; die now, before it's too late!
Meanwhile, for those who want to make an early start for next year...
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@PJH said in The official 2018 death pool:
Meanwhile, for those who want to make an early start for next year...
Australian celebrities may now apply.
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@HardwareGeek said in The official 2018 death pool:
Attention celebrities: Time is running out! You have only a few hours left to get into this year's pool. Don't wait; die now, before it's too late!
I think the last one who caught that train on time, so to speak, is Kader Khan:
Never heard of him but that's not really much different from most "celebrities" and maybe Indians ( @stillwater ?) know him?
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@remi Looks like he was pretty famous but way way before my time.
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@stillwater That's my usual reaction to most celebrity deaths. It's almost as if people dying in their eighties/nineties have been
retiredout of public life for the last 20-30 years or more.How surprising, not.