Wall of Mouths

What an action packed day

1st RoyBatty - 26 (Gary Carter *UNIQUE* 12, Dick Clark 6, Robin Gibb 8)
2nd Realityfuck 20 (Etta James 7, Whitney Houston 13 *UNNATURAL*)
3rd Chr1s – 16 (Abdelbaset al-Megrahi *JOKER*)
Idlevice2 - 16 (Robin Gibb *JOKER*)
5th Caffinebomb - 15 (Etta James 7, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi 8)
6th Theng - 14 (Etta James *JOKER*)
7th Crazy Horse - 13 (Whitney Houston *UNNATURAL*)
Silverginger5 - 13 (Whitney Houston *UNNATURAL*)
9th Dermot - 9 (Bob Holness *UNIQUE*)
10th Gav 8 (Abdelbaset al-Megrahi)
11th Thefanthattriedtostrangleitself 6 (Jan Goossenaerts *UNIQUE*)
Mfgeorge - 6 (Dick Clark)
13th Everyone Else - 0

I *think* only 3 people had him… let me know if I missed anyone out. There’s that many different variations of his name it’s hard to tell!!

1st Realityfuck 20 (Etta James 7, Whitney Houston 13 *UNNATURAL*)
2nd RoyBatty - 18 (Gary Carter *UNIQUE* 12, Dick Clark 6)
3rd Chr1s – 16 (Abdelbaset al-Megrahi *JOKER*)
4th Caffinebomb - 15 (Etta James 7, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi 8)
5th Theng - 14 (Etta James *JOKER*)
6th Crazy Horse - 13 (Whitney Houston *UNNATURAL*)
Silverginger5 - 13 (Whitney Houston *UNNATURAL*)
8th Dermot - 9 (Bob Holness *UNIQUE*)
9th Gav 8 (Abdelbaset al-Megrahi)
10th Thefanthattriedtostrangleitself 6 (Jan Goossenaerts *UNIQUE*)
Mfgeorge - 6 (Dick Clark)
12th Everyone Else - 0

buffalo-boy wrote:

Mountain Goats are OK, bit smooth and over-produced for me

In that case, check out any of their albums from before 2003. All their albums from before that date have famously minimal production - you can hear the tape hiss etc… all the songs are just John Darnielle and a guitar.

Their last album like that was All Hail West Texas (2002 I think). From Talahassee onward their sound was a lot more polished.

I would probably go for ‘The Life of the World to Come’ by the Mountain Goats. Don’t think it would be to most Therapy? fans’ tastes though - a lot of the songs are piano driven. But it’s all about life and death issues / religious stuff… plus the last song is about a murderer, which you’d probably be able to relate to if you were on Death Row!

I’m reading Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett at the mo. Highly recommended for any hardcore Therapy? fans… I’ve already spotted a few references from it that are in the last couple of Therapy? albums. You can definitely see Beckett’s influence on the lyrics of Crooked Timber and ABCOL. It is pretty hard going though. Molloy, his first novel in the trilogy, wasn’t so tough.

Tough luck, dudes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17808639

Well done guys…

1st Realityfuck 20 (Etta James 7, Whitney Houston 13 *UNNATURAL*)
2nd RoyBatty - 18 (Gary Carter *UNIQUE* 12, Dick Clark 6)
3rd Theng - 14 (Etta James *JOKER*)
4th Crazy Horse - 13 (Whitney Houston *UNNATURAL*)
Silverginger5 - 13 (Whitney Houston *UNNATURAL*)
6th Dermot - 9 (Bob Holness *UNIQUE*)
7th Caffinebomb - 7 (Etta James)
8th Thefanthattriedtostrangleitself 6 (Jan Goossenaerts *UNIQUE*)
Mfgeorge - 6 (Dick Clark)
10th Everyone Else - 0

Couple of updates here - firstly, for RoyBatty:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Carter

and also Thefanthattriedtostrangleitself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Goossenaerts

1st Realityfuck 20 (Etta James 7, Whitney Houston 13 *UNNATURAL*)
2nd Theng - 14 (Etta James *JOKER*)
3rd Crazy Horse - 13 (Whitney Houston *UNNATURAL*)
Silverginger5 - 13 (Whitney Houston *UNNATURAL*)
5th RoyBatty - 12 (Gary Carter *UNIQUE*)
6th Dermot - 9 (Bob Holness *UNIQUE*)
7th Caffinebomb 7 (Etta James)
8th Thefanthattriedtostrangleitself 6 (Jan Goossenaerts *UNIQUE*)
9th Everyone Else - 0

Very surprised no one had him!

^Well 3 WOMbles expected it!

As with Amy Winehouse last year, I’m gonna assume that this was an “unnatural cause”…

1st Realityfuck 20 (Etta James 7, Whitney Houston 13 *UNNATURAL*)
2nd Theng - 14 (Etta James *JOKER*)
3rd Crazy Horse - 13 (Whitney Houston *UNNATURAL*)
Silverginger5 - 13 (Whitney Houston *UNNATURAL*)
5th Dermot - 9 (Bob Holness *UNIQUE*)
6th Caffinebomb 7 (Etta James)
7th Everyone Else - 0

Four people have him (including me!)

Sure my 16 month son picks my list!!

(Joke!! ;-))

How old is your baby mate? Congratulations! Quite an inappropriate thread to discuss such joyous matters in!! :-)

*bump*… in theory the deadline for entry to this has passed so get yer lists in as quick as ye can!

14 entrants isn’t too bad… but I know there’s a couple of dedicated players out there who’ve yet to enter :-)

Yes - Simon is the progenitor of all this! The Death Race Daddy!!

It’s never too late to get re-involved Si! :-)

“I am… Death Race”

Now hurry up and enter yer list!! ;-)

Thefanthattriedtostrangleitslf wrote:

Our what?

ZING! ;-)

Good man Crazy Horse - from first glance your list looks kosher!!

Right, seems I missed as trick in not putting Etta James down… a few of you had her. My lead was short lived!

1st Theng - 14 (Etta James *JOKER*)
2nd Dermot - 9 (Bob Holness *UNIQUE*)
3rd Caffinebomb 7 (Etta James)
Realityfuck 7 (Etta James)
5th Everyone Else - 0

Boom *tsch*! :-D

Phew! Thanks for the reassurance guys ;-)

That’s what I fear Gav!!

Hope so Chr1s! :-)

Come on peeps… there’s half as many entrants as last year!

Don’t tell me that Death Race is dead itself?? :-(

Exactly… you snooze, you lose! ;-) My first points in years!

1st Dermot - 9 (Bob Holness *UNIQUE*)
2nd Everyone Else - 0

Come on people… that’s 7 entries so far… we have to beat the 19 we had last year!!

Here’s my effort… got rid of about half of last year’s:

1) James Molyneaux
2) Doris Lessing
3) Murray Walker
4) David Coleman
5) Michael Douglas
6) Jean-Luc Godard
7) Ian Paisley Sr
8) Jeanne Moreau
9) Don King
10) Ian Brady
11) Ariel Sharon
12) Jack Charlton
13) Prince Philip
14) Fidel Castro
15) Margaret Thatcher - JOKER
16) Jimmy Carter
17) Pope Benedict XVI
18) Nadine Gordimer
19) Billy Bingham
20) Bob Holness

I’ve updated the Hall Of Fame here as I’ve been told Lola and Ci? are in fact the same person!

I think one or two other usernames might have changed as well… “sp” is now “msd” I believe. I miss Sam from these threads… he was always good value for death race dedication!

I’ve also included the points totals for the years we’ve had the current format :-)

2005: Deadsetgav
2006: Ci? (Lola)
2007: sp
2008: The Autosurgeon
2009: Caffinebomb
2010: Jobrok (with 22 points)
2011: Lola (with 38 points)

Ah right, didn’t know that! Doubly well done then!! Will have to amend the intro to the 2012 thread for ye :-)

Death Race 8 - 2012 Edition

Rules:

1) Pick TWENTY celebrities who you think are going to pop their clogs in 2012.

2) The only restrictions are that they have to be real people, 18+, and can’t be on death row / scheduled for execution.

3) The score you get for a death depends on the celebrity’s AGE as follows:

18-29 years: 12 points
30-49 years: 10 points
50-59 years: 9 points
60-69 years: 8 points
70-79 years: 7 points
80-89 years: 6 points
90-99 years: 5 points
100-109 years: 4 points
110+ years: 3 points

4) BONUS points are awarded as follows:

Unique pick: +3 if you were the only competitor to pick that person.
Unlucky 13: +2 for a celeb who dies on the 13th of any month.
Unnatural causes: +3 for murder, suicide or accident (but not State executions).
Party pooper: +5 for a celeb who dies on their birthday or Xmas Day (date of death is that of the region where they died).
Joker: Nominate one of your celebs as joker - if your joker dies you get double points for that person.

5) They must be famous enough to get a major news website obituary or to have a wikipedia entry that isn’t a stub

6) In the event of a tie, the following criteria is used in this order:

a) The most correctly-chosen deceased celebs.
b) The youngest average age of hits.
c) The first to score points that year.

7) The deadline is 28th Jan (but we won’t be too strict with that)

8) Remember to check that your entrants aren’t already dead

9) Committing murder is cheating

10) Good luck! :-)

HALL OF FAME:

2005: Deadsetgav
2006: Ci?
2007: sp
2008: The Autosurgeon
2009: Caffinebomb
2010: Jobrok
2011: Lola

Yeah, I think we’re onto a winner with the format all right. Right, will get the 2012 thread up now… lets see if anyone can beat Lola & Pip’s “20% hit rate” ;-)

Had a really good look through everyone’s there, but there wasn’t anyone we missed out.

So well done Lola - you said you were in it to win it - and you duly did :-)

Jobs as joker was a shrewd move.

Well done again and I’ll start the 2012 Race with a thread in a day or 2! Cheers!!