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  1. 3 minutes ago, La Tombe said:

    Huge miss for the DL…but it was unpredictable. 


    This reminds of a quote from The Apprentice last night:

     

    Once we’d explained it it was self explanatory!!

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  2. 8 minutes ago, Lafaucheuse said:

     

    Ladies and Gentlemen… 

     

     ! Here are the results of the 2023 In Memoriam Award Ceremony 

      

     

    Biggest Female Death 

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    She was simply the best ! With 18 votes, Tina Turner was by far the biggest female death of 2023 according to you. No comparaison to Sinead O Connor and Rosalynn Carter who both received one vote. We didn't want to lose you Tina…

     

     

    Biggest Male Death

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    Kissinger voted as biggest male death of the year ! The votes were much more diverse here : Matthew Perry came close to overshadow old Henry while Yevgeny Prigozhin received two votes and Barker, Belafonte and Berlusconi both were mentioned once. 

     

     

    Most Socking One

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    Bing ! Matthew Perry finally wins a category : most shocking death of the year with a little advance on his fellow nominees. The votes here were even more diversified : Paul Reubens, Sinead O'Connor both received 3 mentions, Andre Braugher and Paul Cattermole totalized two votes and Lisa Marie Presley, Andy Rourke, Tatjana Patitz and Bray Watt were considered once each. 

     

     

    The Saddest One

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    The most subjective category didn't disappoint : the votes were so sparsed here that it's a five-way tie between Sinead O'Connor, Paul O'Grady, Michael Gambon, Andre Braugher and… Perry again ! They both received only two votes… Which means the other 11 nominees received one vote each (amongst which we can point out the presence of Barry Humphries, Bobby Charlton, Norman Lear, Sakamoto, Richard Franklin and Book's favorite, Ingrid Steeger ;) ) 

     

     

     

    The Best Received One

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    Back to a more consensual category : Rolf Harris wins the best-received death of the year with 8 votes. A little more than Kissinger (6 votes) and Kaczynski (3 votes). Luis Garavito and Pat Robertson were considered one time each ! 

     

     

     

    The Most Awaited One

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    Kissinger wins a second election ! Most awaited death of the year, the one that made you think "at laaaast, finally !" saw Bob Barker collecting 3 votes, McGowan and Alagiah 2, and coffin-teasers Carman Sevilla, Dianne Feinstein and Chabello only one. 

     

     

     

    The Biggest Survivor

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    At the complete opposite end of the spectrum from the 'saddest' category, the biggest survivor category was (almost) unanimous. All of you (20) voted for the peanut farmer in this category. An evidence, but will he be voted biggest survivor of 2024 for the next edition of the In Memoriam Award ? Wait and see… Only one person voted for Zhang Lixiong, I'll let you guess who ;) 

     

     

     

    The Biggest Miss

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    Another tie in this category : George Alagiah and Ted Kaczynski win the biggest miss of 2023, just in front of Sandra Day O'Connor and Giorgio Napolitano who tie for second place with 3 votes each. Then comes Gianlucca Vialli, and with one vote each, Phyllis Coates and Jimmy Buffett. 

     

     

     

    The Most Promising one

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    Carter wins a second category and is elected as the most promising figure to die in 2024. If it continues in the same vein as January, you all might have done the wrong choice here… Chomsky, Rantzen and Ira Schab were also mentioned here. Wait and see if your prediction comes true ! 

     

     

     

    To sum up, we had 21 voters this year. Matthew Perry, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter and Rolf Harris were the most voted persons in general and Matthew Perry appeared the most, winning almost 3 categories this year. Surprised Joanne Woodward wasn't even mentioned once (for promising and biggest survivor). Bennett, Kundera, Al Fayed, Jane Birkin or even Lucile Randon (for most awaited one) were among the ones that I was most surprised not to see appear a single time. A very sparse year in term of voting in general. Interesting. Hope 2024 will bring an even more diverse way of voting !

     

     

    Well, that's all for this year folks, see you in early 2025 for the next In Memoriam Award of 2024. 

    Thanks for your participation ! 


    Most socking?


  3. 1 minute ago, Commtech Sio Bibble said:

    In the UK a lot of 'major' soap star's deaths seem to fall under the radar for a while. Neville Buswell went unnoticed for a month, Ernst Walder went unnoticed for close to a year and Andy Devine went unnoticed for 6 months and there's at least one more recently who's name I can't remember off the top of my head. Whilst non of those had international fame within the UK, Corrie and Emmerdale are massive and Devine and Buswell both played big characters and Walder was one of the original cast members of Corrie and was in a relationship with the soap's creator at some point.

    Paula Tilbrook may be the one you’re forgetting.

     

    Died Dec19 and announced in Jul20.

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  4. A perfectly timed addition - Not added at aged 90 and sitting on the list for the next 10 years in varying positions.

     

    No, added at age 100 for the first time and spent 3 days alive on the list.

     

    Ideal.

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  5. 10 hours ago, The Daredevil said:

    Julie Walters is not a bad addition (feeling she'll go in 2025), but she should be vacating a lower position IMO. She is one of the youngest candidates and we don't actually know if she's still at all ill (that update was in March), and the fact she has just completed filming for Paddington in Peru suggests she has since recovered. Her previous cancer run-ins are enough to give her a spot though.


    If you want her to vacate a lower position that must mean you want her at a higher position?!

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