Title: It's Friday. It's 5.15. It's time for a death quiz
Description: Some say they should have lived forever
elvischomsky - August 22, 2008 10:33 AM (GMT)
Okay. Who are we talking about meeting their sorry end here?
Clue: I love 4 and 10 - the rest can go hang.
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1. “Do not kill him!”
2. “A bulls-eye!”
3. A waxwork.
4. Without legs.
5. “Shoot me in the chest!”
6. Sleeping on the left side.
7. The doctors just let him die.
8. The doctors kept him alive until November 20th.
'9. 'Are you serving the cause?''
10. “I was, I am - I shall be!"
Buy Kurious! - August 22, 2008 10:44 AM (GMT)
Are they all Rock(in') Stars?
elvischomsky - August 22, 2008 10:46 AM (GMT)
It should be obvious what they are.
Once someone gets one, then it's slam dunk da funk, as I believe you younglings say...
Buy Kurious! - August 22, 2008 10:52 AM (GMT)
Well, 5 is Mussolini?
erm... :unsure:
duckpin236 - August 22, 2008 11:08 AM (GMT)
Buy Kurious! - August 22, 2008 11:11 AM (GMT)
I've heard/read 10 before, but I don't know where...
Hmmm, something to do with anarchism, I suspect...
GraemeLovesPinkLady - August 22, 2008 11:12 AM (GMT)
#3 is Lenin. It my radical socialist phase I went to Russia and saw "Lenin" - no way, it's a waxwork.
I thought this thread would be about Crackerjack. I was looking forward to crushing grapes.
elvischomsky - August 22, 2008 11:12 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (duckpin236 @ Aug 22 2008, 11:08 PM) |
| #7 = Andy Warhol |
BGoogleK gets 5.
7... could be true about many old stiffs, DP, but it's not who I'm thinking of here.
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elvischomsky - August 22, 2008 11:14 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (GraemeLovesPinkLady @ Aug 22 2008, 11:12 PM) |
#3 is Lenin. It my radical socialist phase I went to Russia and saw "Lenin" - no way, it's a waxwork.
I thought this thread would be about Crackerjack. I was looking forward to crushing grapes. |
Correct.
But it is wax.
Can someone tell me how to post a photo on here?
For potential comedy value...
Buy Kurious! - August 22, 2008 11:16 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (elvischomsky @ Aug 22 2008, 11:12 AM) |
| BGoogleK gets 5. |
Which basically means you think I'm a liar and a cheat.
:cry2: :cry2: :cry2: :cry2: :cry2: :cry2:
Right, I'm off to sell cloth.
Good day to you, sir!
PS - I do read books occasionally, elvish.
I even remember what I've read...sometimes. :finger:
Nice quiz, tosspot. :beer:
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elvischomsky - August 22, 2008 11:23 AM (GMT)
So you just read books about fascism?
:(
elvischomsky - August 22, 2008 11:25 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Buy Kurious! @ Aug 22 2008, 11:11 PM) |
I've heard/read 10 before, but I don't know where...
Hmmm, something to do with anarchism, I suspect... |
Kind of. Fellow traveller. Sympatico. Wouldn't be hanged come the glorious day...
GraemeLovesPinkLady - August 22, 2008 11:26 AM (GMT)
You need to use img tags to post a photo.
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| [img]url address[/img] |
GraemeLovesPinkLady - August 22, 2008 11:28 AM (GMT)
#10 sounds like something Nietzsche might have said when he was in his riddled with syphilis phase.
Cappuccino and a slice of quiche - August 22, 2008 11:30 AM (GMT)
I'm 99% certain that 10 = Rosa Luxembourg so presumably we're talking the deaths of poltical leaders here...
duckpin236 - August 22, 2008 11:30 AM (GMT)
Cappuccino and a slice of quiche - August 22, 2008 11:31 AM (GMT)
duckpin236 - August 22, 2008 11:32 AM (GMT)
thanks for the gentle turndown of my Warhol guess; but, one of his superstars did say that. If you recall, Mr Warhol was hooked to an unmonitored IV which put fluid into his body so fast it killed him. He was worth $300 million and the hospital killed him.
Buy Kurious! - August 22, 2008 11:37 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (elvischomsky @ Aug 22 2008, 11:23 AM) |
So you just read books about fascism?
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No, History, dear.
Which is greater than your "Our Gang, Your Gang" dialectics, shirley?
JUDY!
FUCKING!
GARLAND!
Is one of them Hitler? He's a hero of mine, obviously.
Along with Elmyr de Hory, Richard Nixon, and Ilse fucking Koch. :grrr:
Cheek!
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elvischomsky - August 22, 2008 11:42 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Cappuccino and a slice of quiche @ Aug 22 2008, 11:31 PM) |
| Is 7 Stalin? |
Correct!
elvischomsky - August 22, 2008 11:47 AM (GMT)
Ah, there we go, thanks Graeme.
Yes - I know that's a church behind me and not really anything to do with communism, don't patronise me!
Lenin's tomb is just opposite, but it was closed for the annual rewaxing.
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elvischomsky - August 22, 2008 11:50 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Cappuccino and a slice of quiche @ Aug 22 2008, 11:30 PM) |
| I'm 99% certain that 10 = Rosa Luxembourg so presumably we're talking the deaths of poltical leaders here... |
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Very well done.
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :applaud:
Buy Kurious! - August 22, 2008 12:04 PM (GMT)
I swear on my life I haven't googled this, hence no name; but I think I know who 4 is.
I read something in the Guardian about 2 or 3 years ago about a writer who was a political prisoner, and it was one of the most inspiring things I'd ever read.
I wrote his name down somewhere and intended to get his book(s), but he was so inspirational I've forgotten his name.... :(
Am I along the right lines, elvis?
elvischomsky - August 22, 2008 12:11 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Buy Kurious! @ Aug 23 2008, 12:04 AM) |
Am I along the right lines, elvis? |
In the sense that you don't have a clue - as ever- yes.
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Buy Kurious! - August 22, 2008 12:14 PM (GMT)
:lol:
Well, does anyone know who I'm talking about, coz I really want to find out more now.
I seem to remember he had a wife and a kid and his wife had to travel long distances to meet him, which was once in a while.
Oh, I hate my brain... :(
Just give me a name, someone, anyone!
Grease For Roads - August 22, 2008 12:30 PM (GMT)
2. John F. Kennedy :whistle:
Mere Pseud. - August 22, 2008 12:35 PM (GMT)
If Stalin is suitable for a correct answer #8 should be JFK.
elvischomsky - August 22, 2008 12:37 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Grease For Roads @ Aug 23 2008, 12:30 AM) |
| 2. John F. Kennedy :whistle: |
Most wrong.
elvischomsky - August 22, 2008 12:40 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Mere Pseud. @ Aug 23 2008, 12:35 AM) |
| If Stalin is suitable for a correct answer #8 should be JFK. |
Even more hopeless.
To narrow it down, everyone's favourite Cuba invading, Nam warring unconvicted war criminal is not on here.
GraemeLovesPinkLady - August 22, 2008 12:47 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (elvischomsky @ Aug 22 2008, 11:47 PM) |
Lenin's tomb is just opposite, but it was closed for the annual rewaxing.
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You didn't miss anything. You queue up for ages, but when you finally get into The Room, they always keep you moving, and you are four or five metres away.
If you follow the road behind you in the photo for about a hundred yards you'll get to a beryozka (foreign currency shop) where I had a pretty scary experience, when loads of russians with roubles descended upon me when I stopped to talk to one for a moment...I was just starving and wanted something recognisably edible to eat, they wanted vodka that wouldn't blind them...<<shudder>>. I also managed to get completely lost in Goom that day. In fact, my whole trip to Russia was a bit of a disaster and our party ended up being escorted to the airport.
elvischomsky - August 22, 2008 12:48 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (duckpin236 @ Aug 22 2008, 11:30 PM) |
| # 6 = Bobby Seale |
Is still alive, love.
elvischomsky - August 22, 2008 12:49 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (GraemeLovesPinkLady @ Aug 23 2008, 12:47 AM) |
| QUOTE (elvischomsky @ Aug 22 2008, 11:47 PM) | Lenin's tomb is just opposite, but it was closed for the annual rewaxing.
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You didn't miss anything. You queue up for ages, but when you finally get into The Room, they always keep you moving, and you are four or five metres away.
If you follow the road behind you in the photo for about a hundred yards you'll get to a beryozka (foreign currency shop) where I had a pretty scary experience, when loads of russians with roubles descended upon me when I stopped to talk to one for a moment...I was just starving and wanted something recognisably edible to eat, they wanted vodka that wouldn't blind them...<<shudder>>. I also managed to get completely lost in Goom that day. In fact, my whole trip to Russia was a bit of a disaster and our party ended up being escorted to the airport.
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See. I told you they should have stuck to that communism thing...
elvischomsky - August 22, 2008 12:54 PM (GMT)
"I seem to remember he had a wife and a kid and his wife had to travel long distances to meet him, which was once in a while"
OOOH AMAZING, BK!
This is like Britain's Psychic Challenge on Channel 5, presented by Tricia Godard.
Buy Kurious! - August 22, 2008 12:56 PM (GMT)
When (or before) this is done, can someone give me a list of names who that political prisoner might be, coz it's really fucking pissing me off now.
I've just trawled through a load of old notebooks, full of adolescent shit and I've found nothing.
Sorry, to clutter your quiz up elvis, but it's your fault....!!!
Buy Kurious! - August 22, 2008 12:57 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (elvischomsky @ Aug 22 2008, 12:54 PM) |
"I seem to remember he had a wife and a kid and his wife had to travel long distances to meet him, which was once in a while"
OOOH AMAZING, BK!
This is like Britain's Psychic Challenge on Channel 5, presented by Tricia Godard. |
Oh, for once, give me a break, love - this is really bugging me now...I can't remember any more... :cry2:
duckpin236 - August 22, 2008 01:00 PM (GMT)
[a] at least you can tell I don't use google!!
[b] I am thinking of the Chicago Black Panther who was asleep when the cops broke in a shot him many times and then claimed self defense
elvischomsky - August 22, 2008 01:10 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Buy Kurious! @ Aug 23 2008, 12:57 AM) |
| QUOTE (elvischomsky @ Aug 22 2008, 12:54 PM) | "I seem to remember he had a wife and a kid and his wife had to travel long distances to meet him, which was once in a while"
OOOH AMAZING, BK!
This is like Britain's Psychic Challenge on Channel 5, presented by Tricia Godard. |
Oh, for once, give me a break, love - this is really bugging me now...I can't remember any more... :cry2:
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Gramsci?
elvischomsky - August 22, 2008 01:13 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (duckpin236 @ Aug 23 2008, 01:00 AM) |
[a] at least you can tell I don't use google!!
[b] I am thinking of the Chicago Black Panther who was asleep when the cops broke in a shot him many times and then claimed self defense |
Ah, good call DP.
But that was Fred Hampton - killed by the US state and forgotten, while everyone was looking the JFK/RK/MLK way.
Bonus point.
:applaud:
Buy Kurious! - August 22, 2008 01:17 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (elvischomsky @ Aug 22 2008, 01:10 PM) |
| QUOTE (Buy Kurious! @ Aug 23 2008, 12:57 AM) | | QUOTE (elvischomsky @ Aug 22 2008, 12:54 PM) | "I seem to remember he had a wife and a kid and his wife had to travel long distances to meet him, which was once in a while"
OOOH AMAZING, BK!
This is like Britain's Psychic Challenge on Channel 5, presented by Tricia Godard. |
Oh, for once, give me a break, love - this is really bugging me now...I can't remember any more... :cry2:
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Gramsci?
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:wub: :wub: :wub:
:cry2: :cry2: :cry2:
:applaud: :applaud: :applaud:
Thank you.
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rijkard - August 22, 2008 01:20 PM (GMT)
you don't need any of that information now
carry on
