Page 1 of 3

Dead or Alive: a macabre guessing game

Posted: Wed October 05, 2022 1:30 am
by daft twat
Loretta Lynn has passed. She is another in an increasingly long line of celebrities I thought might have already been dead ages ago. Like if you told me she died in 1996, I would have believed you.

So the game is this: Name a celebrity you think might exist (or not!) in this gray area. RM guesses dead or alive without looking it up. Eventually someone looks it up, posts the truth, and then adds a new name.

First celebrity: Angela Lansbury

Re: Dead or Alive: a macabre guessing game

Posted: Wed October 05, 2022 2:37 am
by epilogue
Totally alive

Re: Dead or Alive: a macabre guessing game

Posted: Wed October 05, 2022 2:40 am
by Norah
Do we have a picture of Angela Lansbury?

Re: Dead or Alive: a macabre guessing game

Posted: Wed October 05, 2022 2:43 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Alive.

Re: Dead or Alive: a macabre guessing game

Posted: Wed October 05, 2022 4:05 am
by washing machine
Dying

Re: Dead or Alive: a macabre guessing game

Posted: Wed October 05, 2022 4:09 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: Dead or Alive: a macabre guessing game

Posted: Thu October 06, 2022 9:45 pm
by B
Henry the Eighth

Re: Dead or Alive: a macabre guessing game

Posted: Thu October 06, 2022 10:59 pm
by Mickey
Dev

Re: Dead or Alive: a macabre guessing game

Posted: Thu October 06, 2022 11:45 pm
by daft twat
Judd Hirsch
Bobby Orr
James Garner
Kathie Lee Gifford
Gallagher

Re: Dead or Alive: a macabre guessing game

Posted: Thu October 06, 2022 11:48 pm
by wease
daft twat wrote:Judd Hirsch
Bobby Orr
James Garner
Kathie Lee Gifford
Gallagher
Alive
Don’t know them
Dead
Alive
Dead

Re: Dead or Alive: a macabre guessing game

Posted: Thu October 06, 2022 11:50 pm
by Simple Torture
wease wrote:
daft twat wrote:Judd Hirsch
Bobby Orr
James Garner
Kathie Lee Gifford
Gallagher
Alive
Don’t know them
Dead
Alive
Dead
Bobby Orr is alive

Re: Dead or Alive: a macabre guessing game

Posted: Thu October 06, 2022 11:52 pm
by bart
...orr is he

Re: Dead or Alive: a macabre guessing game

Posted: Thu October 06, 2022 11:53 pm
by Simple Torture
The actors who played the following parts on Gilligan's Island:

Gilligan
The Skipper
The Professor
Mary Ann
Ginger
Mr. Howell
Mrs. Howell

Re: Dead or Alive: a macabre guessing game

Posted: Thu October 06, 2022 11:56 pm
by bart
pretty sure Ginger is the only one still alive

Re: Dead or Alive: a macabre guessing game

Posted: Thu October 06, 2022 11:59 pm
by Simple Torture
Not really part of the guessing game, but I recently heard tbat Ron Howard is the last surviving person to have appeared on The Andy Griffith show; I'm not sure if they meant main cast or altogether, but it'd be crazy if it was all actors, not just the regulars.

Re: Dead or Alive: a macabre guessing game

Posted: Thu October 06, 2022 11:59 pm
by Simple Torture
bart wrote:pretty sure Ginger is the only one still alive
bart is correct.

Re: Dead or Alive: a macabre guessing game

Posted: Fri October 07, 2022 12:02 am
by wease
Simple Torture wrote:
bart wrote:pretty sure Ginger is the only one still alive
bart is correct.
Damn. She must be close to 100 by now

Re: Dead or Alive: a macabre guessing game

Posted: Fri October 07, 2022 12:05 am
by daft twat
wease wrote:
daft twat wrote:Judd Hirsch
Bobby Orr
James Garner
Kathie Lee Gifford
Gallagher
Alive
Don’t know them
Dead
Alive
Dead
3 for 4 on your guesses.

Re: Dead or Alive: a macabre guessing game

Posted: Fri October 07, 2022 12:06 am
by Simple Torture
wease wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
bart wrote:pretty sure Ginger is the only one still alive
bart is correct.
Damn. She must be close to 100 by now
88

Re: Dead or Alive: a macabre guessing game

Posted: Fri October 07, 2022 12:08 am
by Simple Torture
Burt Bacharach
Bob Barker
Boutros Boutros-Ghali