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Ok, the rules of the game made understandable here.
I reckon, at 700 celebrities we should be able to choose from numbers one to five (being the amount of celebrities we want at a pound each) and We'll start friday [1st of July 2005] and it will run until next year [1st of July 2006] The idea, in short will be to place all the celebrity death nominee names in a hat and I will distribute the celebrity names (minus anybody who has died to date) evenly to everyone who wants a shot. For example. If you choose to have five celebrities, you place five pounds aside as you contribution and I pick five names from the hat for you. The first person who's celebrity pops his/her clogs wins and all participants have to mail the winner their stake money. Obviously, the more celebrities you have, the better chance of winning. In the event of a draw (no-one on the list dying, hardly likely) no-one loses out and can continue to play for the following year. Understood? Who wants to play?
eta: just had a quick read, they operate a points sytem, which we can do as well. If ye like.
[ 27.06.2005, 11:05: Message edited by: New Way Of Decay ]
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I can't promise they'll be brilliant for you Mask, but I'll close my eyes and think of a teary-eyed 100 yearer who mutters 'kill me' when being wheeled around social events, as at least one of your choices. The random hand of fate however might choose you five slebs that live in a bunker, in Hawaii.
[ 27.06.2005, 11:16: Message edited by: New Way Of Decay ]
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OK, nobody fucking move. I am compiling a candidate list from a site that has already started and added a couple. The next stage is for me to sort them out. I'll post them in catergory order. I think the best course of action is this:
After I place up the list, forumites can make their suggestions as to who they think would be an excellent addition. As we already have a massive list (some of whom I don't know of) pick a name you would like to take off the list. This way we have some interaction, even for those who don't want to join in (ie Swap Sir Toby Nobody Person for Stephen Hawkins)
Names for players will be picked out of the hat on Thursday 30th June 2006
The start date is Friday 1st July 2005. Only people who die at 00.00 hours will count. Not ten minutes to, not 10 seconds to, but 00.00 hours.
The game will last one year from the start date until 1st July 2006 00.00 hours
You cannot back out, besides, everyone will know you as a moaney loser who won't stump a fiver for a year of ongoing fun (morbid or not)
I (Michael Televison) will compete for fun, but will not be eligible to win the cash prize, because I mean, fucking hell you'd think me a fraud wouldn't you?
The prize money, can be forwarded to me and I will forward it further should anyone have any problems with keeping anonymity. I know this may worry people, but come on. I go to every meat I can and weigh the same as a bag of sugar. Your money is safe.
Prize money is sent at the end of the competition
Stakes must be a minimum of £1.00 but people may claim additional stakes on names that havn't been taken randomly (an example of this would be £5.00 pound stake on 5 celebrities initially, then a pound for each requested celbrity after.
£10.00 stake maximum, which will give you double the chance of an average player.
The adjudicators decision is final - besides, I don't know if this will work, most of you fuckers won't play I swear
Any other suggestions? please. Points system is one per death. Celebrity couples deaths will work if you own both people and receive double points. For instance: both celebs shuffle off - 1 point each x2 = 4 points. Risky, but rewarding. Right, I'm off to finish off the starter list. We have until Thursday to come up with suggestions.
[ 27.06.2005, 18:05: Message edited by: New Way Of Decay ]
It'll cost you five pouns for your first 5 randoms and a pound to request Thatcher if she isn't currently in hospital. I'm just loading up the dishwasher and I'll get the first few categories up to give you a taster. Put six pounds on the mantlepiece and you're in Abby.
eta: It would appear that ben has announced Thatchers death years ago. This could make things difficult.
[ 27.06.2005, 16:03: Message edited by: New Way Of Decay ]
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Those lists make for great reading. It's mad that someone has had the idea that, say, Bruce Grobbelaar ("Armed Forces, White) will snuff it this year.
Unless they know something I don't and he's taken up arms again?
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Yeah, see I don't want them to die. I think the names have been picked with age, circumstances and health in mind. Then randoms have been thrown in to even up the mix. Don't make me feel bad mart. This thread could last a year. You in?
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I know I'll get a lot of stick about this, but much-loved animated simian brand Coco the Monkey totally fucks me off - he has to have been the most loathsome fixture of weekend morning television for at least a couple of decades running; what's more, he's getting worse - the Coco Pops adverts now feature a whole cast of characters with whom, it's assumed by the advertisers, we're completely familiar and comfortable - a Coco Pops mythos, even.
The sooner this wretched ape falls victim to the burgeoning trade in bushmeat the better, little fucker.
quote:My friend Adam is an ant-eater / He eats his ants by th-uh metre!
Speculation: is Coco actually an updated 'cute black person', trading on horrid racist imagery of yesteryear - happy 'natives' in the jungle, dancing and singing and easily tempted by cereal 'so choclatey it turns the milk brown'? Whatever the case, he and his creators deserve a lonely, unhappy death.
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My names coco I'm a monkey like you, I live in the jungle not in the zoo...
I think he represents the black African native in particular, mocking the West Indian Black and African migrant, as he dances about in a place where he used to 'eat leaves when their weren't any shops' (this a reference to Africa before Live Aid and western support?) the jungle = home, the zoo = western society (mainly the ghetto or poorer parts of US and UK). Look out for political despot characters and aids ridden baby characters in later episodes.
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One Mojito, two Gin and Tonics, Three Bacardi Lime Sodas, and a couple of pints of Stella please.
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Aileen Wuornos is dead too. Lethal injection, apparently - not so much of a gamble.
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quote:Originally posted by squeegy: If I can figure a way to get you the money, I'm in. I am disappointed that Cliff Richard and Robert Mugabe didnt make it.
Robert Mugabe is I'm sure, I need to get all the others up tonight. I can put Cliff Richard in too. As I automatically lose as host to the game, should the time arise, you could pay me via pay pal and I will forward on your stakes with mine, or vice versa. Or we could send you jacobs crackers to the value of the prize money.
quote:Originally posted by Gail: Yes. Substitute Ann Diamond and Shula Hebdon-Lloyd. Please.
Will do.
quote:Originally posted by scrawny: Aileen Wuornos is dead too. Lethal injection, apparently - not so much of a gamble.
Thanks. Want a replacement?
Is ben ok?
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