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Not Memento Mori wrote:New year, new thread- who wants to do it?

Children of the Harvest, I have returned following a year in exile. Mori the Usurper has been sent to the dungeons to think about his actions

I have watched from the shadows with great interest as the offerings poured in last year to keep the Old Gods satisfied. And now, the cycle must begin anew.


2023 Sacrifices:

Ken Block - rally driver
David Gold - West Ham co-owner
Fay Weldon - author
Gianluca Vialli - former footballer
Joan Sydney - actress
Earl Boen - actor
Jeff Beck - musician
Lisa Marie Presley - singer
Gina Lollobrigida - actress
Gina Lollobrigida - Irish musician
Van Conner - musician
David Sutherland - cartoonist
David Crosby - musician
Sylvia Syms - actress
Tom Verlaine - musician
Annie Wersching - actress
Paco Rabanne - fashion designer
Burt Bacharach - singer/songwriter
David "Trugoy" Jolicoeur - rapper
Raquel Welch - actress
Tim Aymar - singer
Christian Atsu - footballer
Richard Belzer - actor
Dickie Davies - TV presenter
John Motson - sports commentator
Betty Boothroy - politician
Just Fontaine - footballer
Steve Mackey - musician
Tom Sizemore - actor
Margaret Lake (Mystic Meg) - TV personality
Chaim Topol - actor
Robert Blake - actor
Lance Reddick - actor
Paul O',Grady - TV presenter
Ryuichi Sakamoto - musician
Nigel Lawson - politician
Bernadette Hunt - Gladiator
Paul Cattermole - singer
Gareth Richards - comedian
Michael Lerner - actor
Al Jaffee - cartoonist
Mark Sheehan - musician
Barry Humphries - entertainer
Len Goodman - TV personality
Harry Belafonte - musician, activist
Jerry Springer - broadcaster
Gordon Lightfoot - singer songwriter
Terrence Hardiman - actor
Andy Rourke - musician
Ray Stevenson - actor
Tina Turner - singer
Treat Williams- actor
Cormac McCarthy - author
Glenda Jackson - actress and MP
Craig Brown - Scottish football manager
Frederic Forrest - actor
Julian Sands - actor
Alan Arkin - actor
Tony Bennett - singer
George Alagiah - newsreader/broadcaster
Trevor Francis - footballer
Chris Bart-Williams - footballer
Sinéad O'Connor - singer
Paul Reubens - entertainer
William Friedkin - director
DJ Casper - singer
Sir Michael Parkinson - broadcaster
Mohamed Al Fayed - businessman
Jimmy Buffett - singer
Steve Harwell - singer
Jean Boht - actress
Roger Whittaker - singer-songwriter
David McCallum - actor
Sir Michael Gambon - actor
Jake Abraham - actor
Burt Young - actor
Haydn Gwynne - actress
Bobi - World's Oldest Dog (31!)
Sir Bobby Charlton - footballer
Angelo Bruschini - musician
Bill Kenwright - Everton chairman
Richard Roundtree - actor
Matthew Perry - actor
Adam Johnson - Ice hockey player
Johnny Ruffo - actor
Joss Ackland - actor
Annabel Giles - actress, presenter
Terry Venables - football manager
Henry Kissinger - diplomat
Shane MacGowan - singer-songwriter
Geordie Walker - musician
Alistair Darling - politician
Brigit Forsyth - actress
Denny Laine - musician
Benjamin Zephaniah - writer and poet
Andre Braugher - actor
Emmanuelle Debever - actress
Steve Halliwell - actor
James McCaffrey - actor
Lee Sun-kyun - actor
Tom Wilkinson - actor

Nonce & Wrong'ns Appendix - You Kill 'Em, We Grill 'Em
Rolf Harris - nonce
Ted Kaczynski - Unabomber
Silvio Berlusconi - politician and all round cheeky chappy

Three days in to the new year and we already have a name on the list, not the greatest of starts that's for sure.

Preezy wrote:
Children of the Harvest, I have returned following a year in exile. Mori the Usurper has been sent to the dungeons to think about his actions

McRae, Schumacher and Block. Three motorsport legends who defied the dangers of their disciplines, only to be done in by horrible, unrelated and pointless accidents.

In regards to Schumacher and Block, this has underlined how I have no interest at all in doing any winter sports.

What's the best that can happen?

You have fun?

It seems unlikely.

Didn't realise Jeremy Renner has had a near-death experience and is currently fighting in critical condition

LewisD wrote:Didn't realise Jeremy Renner has had a near-death experience and is currently fighting in critical condition

Is he dead?

LewisD wrote:Didn't realise Jeremy Renner has had a near-death experience and is currently fighting in critical condition

More proof that Mori is right about the evils of snow.

Jeremy Renner apparently seems to have run over himself with a snow plow or something. Lucky to be alive.

Memento Mori wrote:Lucky to be alive.

First reports were it rolled over his leg, but it's now being revealed he received blunt trauma to his chest too.

Pretty horrific.

Blunt trauma to his chest sounds extremely grim. Paralysis I'd imagine.

rinks wrote:McRae, Schumacher and Block. Three motorsport legends who defied the dangers of their disciplines, only to be done in by horrible, unrelated and pointless accidents.

David Leslie too, he was a big name in the btcc during the 90's and early 00's, only to end up killed in a plane crash.

Vermilion wrote:

rinks wrote:McRae, Schumacher and Block. Three motorsport legends who defied the dangers of their disciplines, only to be done in by horrible, unrelated and pointless accidents.

David Leslie too, he was a big name in the btcc during the 90's and early 00's, only to end up killed in a plane crash.

Oh god, I didn’t know that. I was a big BTCC fan in that era. Winklehock, Tarquini, Harvey, etc. And my favourite, the fabulously grumpy John Cleland.

rinks wrote:

Vermilion wrote:

rinks wrote:McRae, Schumacher and Block. Three motorsport legends who defied the dangers of their disciplines, only to be done in by horrible, unrelated and pointless accidents.

David Leslie too, he was a big name in the btcc during the 90's and early 00's, only to end up killed in a plane crash.

Oh god, I didn’t know that. I was a big BTCC fan in that era. Winklehock, Tarquini, Harvey, etc. And my favourite, the fabulously grumpy John Cleland.

Yeah, it was such a shame, see here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7321589.stm

Richard Burns too, I know it wasn’t death by misadventure but to survive a career in WRC and be finished off by a brain tumour seems massively unfair.

I remember feeling the change of direction toward gymkhana and x games following Colin McRae’s death in DiRT 2 was a little insensitive. Ken Block was pretty much the face of that.

Will Hoy (another BTCC legend) also suffered from one and was taken too soon.

rinks wrote:

Vermilion wrote:

rinks wrote:McRae, Schumacher and Block. Three motorsport legends who defied the dangers of their disciplines, only to be done in by horrible, unrelated and pointless accidents.

David Leslie too, he was a big name in the btcc during the 90's and early 00's, only to end up killed in a plane crash.

Oh god, I didn’t know that. I was a big BTCC fan in that era. Winklehock, Tarquini, Harvey, etc. And my favourite, the fabulously grumpy John Cleland.

The golden era of BTCC