Can we please have the points from the Libyan jury…
They say celebrity deaths come in threes.. And October obliged by kicking off with Apple supremo Steve Jobs, 56, followed it up by grabbing ‘Coronation Street’ and hotpot supremo Betty Driver, 91, and then rounded things off nicely with the You Tube-friendly popping of Libyan supremo Muammar “Colonel” Gaddafi.
After the fairly recent coup of Liz Taylor, this news* has seen Corey scurrying triumphantly to the top of the Clogpoppers leaderboard. Debate is currently swirling over the exact details of Gaddafi’s passing, but Clogpoppers can see no reason to avoid handing out the extra two “murder points”, although should jerky mobile phone-snapped footage of the actual point of death be confirmed, a further point will be added for the bonus “public assassination” point. You gotta love hunted dictators!
*Corey’s original prediction said that Gaddafi would face “death by spider bite”, which would have garnered an 20-point Bizarre Prediction Bonus. However, the eyewitness reports still coming out of Sirte seem to pooh-pooh this idea, and we at Clogpoppers have no reason to disbelieve them at present.
October 21, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Ahh yea!! But I am really going to make everybody hate me when I take Bashar al-Assad as my next choice….
October 21, 2011 at 8:36 pm
Is that an official pick? Apparently “pro-democracy” Syrians are gunning for him in the bid for their country to be the next Dead Dictator Hotspot.
Meanwhile, Mugabe, Castro and Kim Jong-Il are still on The List…
October 21, 2011 at 8:44 pm
I feel like it is pretty easy to take al-Assad (though I also I thought I was going to get Muammar points in a matter of weeks when I took him).
I am leaning towards him, but I am going to sleep on it before I choose… I’ll mail my official pick in the morning!!
October 22, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Actually Corey, you’ve got two picks to make – you have yet to replace Liz Taylor on your Predictions list. Will you go for a Political Leader Double-Header and keep fingers crossed for suicide squads, or something entirely more frivolous?
October 22, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Really? I didn’t realize I was playing with a short hand… well in that case I will definitely officially take Bashar al-Assad…. it’s a risk because if he isn’t violently overthrown and killed by death, then I may be stuck with him for a long while… also…. I predict that he is shot and killed by a nail gun!
I’ll have to put some thought into my other pick…
October 22, 2011 at 3:09 pm
OH I GOT IT!!! DICK CHENEY!!!! I dont see him on the list!!!! I take him and I predict that he dies when the DEVIL himself rises from far down in the deepest darkest pits of the underworld and declares: I WANT MY SOUL BACK! DIck then crumples into dust and the faint dark outline of his blackened soul drifts eerily into the Devils body as he slithers back down into his underground lair….
October 22, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Rock on! The rarely-mentioned Dick and Bash combo – may your predictions not live to see the new year!
October 27, 2011 at 12:39 am
Aw man, I love Clogpoppers. I just logged on and read the whole of this thread and it made my night.
October 27, 2011 at 1:08 am
Kit likes to Dick and Dash…
… That’s a very weak sex pun in American English so my apologies if that went way to the right for you Islanders… But get it, Dick and Dash: Have sexual intercourse and then make a hasty retreat for the door! Ahem, is this thing on?
October 29, 2011 at 7:55 am
Corey
Get Kit to buy you the complete box set of ‘Carry On’ films for Christmas. Revel in the saucy humour of the British, with its brazen double entendres and silly made-up names. Then, and only then, you can come back here with your weak puns of a sexual nature!
October 29, 2011 at 4:05 pm
WOW! That is crazy, I seriously just read the Wikipedia about the ‘Carry On’ films the day before yesterday!! I was looking at the history of postcards (uh, should I admit that) and that led me to the British Seaside postcards which led me to the Carry On Films…
so anyway. Carry On Poppin’