We have ourselves a winner/terribly sad loss
The Chipp family loss is Damien TW's gain as the 2006 Celebrity Sweepstakes lands itself a winner.
Yes yes, it's a particularly poor taste competition but it's just made one young man $200-plus richer so I do hope he puts his dubious morals aside for the briefest of moments and takes us all out for dinner.
Just for future reference, his remaining two picks were:
'Craig Nicholls (The Vines lead singer). He is bound to o.d. on smack trying to have an original idea while recording their third album.
And Jack Abramoff (Washington lobbyist). Is sure to be assassinated before he gets to name names.'
No doubt Mr. Nicholls and Mr. Abramoff are highly relieved that Damien 'Kiss Of Death' TW secured himself another victim in the ailing and politically respected Don. Terribly sad, but then he was rather old and frail and I think we can all breathe a sigh of relief that Richie Benaud has made it through another year unscathed.
And some final words from the winner himself:
'Thanks!
I've never been so pleased to hear that someone has died before.'
We are all going to hell. That's right, I said it.
436 days til the next election.
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oh no. it appears that this game is only fun when it's someone cunty who dies.
i'm with mskp.
in an agreement way.
not as in "with with".
Why couldn't it have been Howard? At the very least Abbott and/or Costello.
Please?
Make him go away. I don't know that I can wait another 436 days...
ps I would have settled for Tom Cruise.
speaking of peter/tim costello, their pop popped off this week. not that i'm celebrating that in any way. just saying.
and how long do you reckon they'd had "goodbye mr chipp" waiting in the obit section? do you think they have a list of headings/captions all ready for when public figures die?
like that scene out of frontline, melbourne girl, where they keep a file of anyone over 70 (or something equivalent) to have a story ready when they die.
larson_b
funny 'cos it's true.
Won't someone think of the previous year's winners?
Hey I thought the total prize pool was going to be $300-plus.
That means some people that entered did not pay!
Can I have a list of the names of the people that did not pay, so I can predict their deaths too?
I am glad I am not the only one who plays Celebrity Death Raffle.
I never paid. No one ever asked me to. Come and catch me, Damien!
And, dammit. Pavarotti has been looking really fat and disgusting lately. I was so hopeful.
I always knew this game as "Cold Lotto"..... apparently we are lesser taste where I come from*.
*Bris-Vegas - all classy....
I don’t need to catch you jellyfish, I just need to predict your demise.
You’re on the death-list!
I am glad I am not the only one who plays Celebrity Death Raffle.
Why did my comment just get posted twice??
I think my computer maybe next....even if it is not a celebrity.
They do keep a file of ready-to-print obits.
Plus they also call people up occasionally for updates for their obit.
"Hi, I'm just writing your obituary, and I was wondering if you could tell me whatchya been doing lately...."
Something to look forward to.
scary thing is, sublime-ation, they've called me already.
*touches wood*
*ACTUAL wood*
And didn't the Brittish civil service get press recently for having already planned Thatcher's state funeral?
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The last, (and generally awful), movie based on the exploits of Clint Eastwood's hard talkin', fast shootin', rule breakin', 44 Magnum totin', bad lovin' "Dirty" Harry Callahan was based on this game. It was called The Dead Pool.
Someone was trying to win the game by knocking off celebrities before their time. It is worth seeing, despite it's general crapness, and lack of a showdown involving a 44 Magnum, because Jim Carrey plays a rock star, who is brutally murdered. And somehow I find this comforting.
Oh, and personally, I was pretty saddened to hear about Don Chipp. Even though he was a bloody Liberal once upon a time, and the Democrats were a middle ground party between the left and right. Just goes to show how far to the right politics have shifted that they are now about as left wing as it gets in politics in Australia.
Damn.
Phyllis Diller's week long 89th birthday party had me pretty excited there for a while.
Congratulations, Damien. A job well done.
Did you have any insider information, perhaps? Or did you top him off yourself, to ensure victory?
(Not that I'm challenging your win.)
Thanks Bevis,
You could say I had my finger on the pulse!
Let's remember that Mr Chippy (suddenly I imagine a van playing the greatest hits of the Carpenters, circling the neighbourhood) was a member of the Liberal Party and one of the men that contributed to the dismissal of Gough. I will acknowledge that he was a greatly improved Liberal once he defected, though a Tory all the same.
Once I heard the news (of Chipp's death) I did sit bolt upright in bed and think "fuck yeah, I won celebrity sweepstakes!" If that makes me an aggressive, arrogant little sod then so be it.
If I can be equally as successful in following years by predicting the demise of other Tories, you should all shower me in sex and glory for ever and ever
Carefull what you ask for, Damien - being showered in sex sounds a little akin to bukkake to me... ;-)
Tis true, I wasted six odd months of my life at the herald scum, they have prepared obits. I helped prepare them.
I had/have no time for those evil fucker democrats who sell out "the workers" (think the original IR reforms, GST etc) any chance they can get. And Chipp was a MEGA monarchist.
However this whole situation got me and a mate thinking about how we're going to feel when Gough goes. It's going to hurt. Gough is the reason I could go to uni. Gough is the reason the Nat Gallery has Blue Poles and we have Medicare. He was the tall stranger who first took notice of all this land rights malarkey. Sigh...
I love Gough.
So anyway we've planned a road trip, we're driving to Sydney and going to the State funeral. Anyone else wanna come along? Not sure of the date just yet, I'm hoping he'll make a 100 and get a telegram from the Queen of Australia - cos he was the one who made her Queen of Australia.
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