2023 RIP thread
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Perhaps more appropriate to LearnedLeague or other online quizzing, but composer Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away last Tuesday. He won an Oscar for the score for The Last Emperor, and is also known scoring the David Bowie film "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence".
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/arts ... -dead.html
No hits in the J-Archive. The only Sakamoto there is Kyu Sakamoto, performer of the only Japanese-language Billboard number 1, "Sukiyaki".
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/arts ... -dead.html
No hits in the J-Archive. The only Sakamoto there is Kyu Sakamoto, performer of the only Japanese-language Billboard number 1, "Sukiyaki".
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Boardgame designer Klaus Teuber, 70. He won the prestigious Spiel des Jahres award in 1995 for The Settlers of Catan, by far his most popular and famous game (and probably the most famous "Euro"-style game ever), but had won that prize three times previously: for Barbarossa in 1988, Adel Verpflichtet (published in English as Hoity Toity) in 1990, and Drunter und Drüber (published in English as Wacky Wacky West) in 1991.
https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/catan ... asses-away
("Catan" has three archive hits but Teuber himself does not.)
https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/catan ... asses-away
("Catan" has three archive hits but Teuber himself does not.)
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Logan Roy, CEO of media giant Waystar Royco-
https://www.vulture.com/article/logan-r ... royco.html
https://www.vulture.com/article/logan-r ... royco.html
Spoiler
Yes, I know...But he's more likely to show up on J! because he died than many people in this thread...
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I'm ashamed of how long it took me to realize this wasn't real and is a spoiler for a show I don't watch.davey wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 10:47 am Logan Roy, CEO of media giant Waystar Royco-
https://www.vulture.com/article/logan-r ... royco.htmlSpoiler
Yes, I know...But he's more likely to show up on J! because he died than many people in this thread...
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Master of the Mad Magazine fold-in, cartoonist Al Jaffee, at age 102.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/arts ... -dead.html
Not a single Archive hit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/arts ... -dead.html
Not a single Archive hit.

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There's a sort of comfort there for those of us who fear the game passing us by to realize it had already done so decades ago.MinnesotaMyron wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 5:47 pm Master of the Mad Magazine fold-in, cartoonist Al Jaffee, at age 102.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/arts ... -dead.html
Not a single Archive hit.![]()
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Ben Ferencz, 103, last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials in 1946.
Several archive hits for the city, none for Ferencz. I could see his name being used in a clue that asks for Nuremberg, or asked for in a $2000 clue in a category about famous people named Ben.
Several archive hits for the city, none for Ferencz. I could see his name being used in a clue that asks for Nuremberg, or asked for in a $2000 clue in a category about famous people named Ben.
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This is a HUGE spoiler for an episode that first aired less than 14 hours prior. Could you put it under a spoiler tag next time you post a fictional death for a very popular TV show right after it airs? I didn't have time to watch Sunday evening and didn't expect a J! thread to ruin the fun for me.davey wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 10:47 am Logan Roy, CEO of media giant Waystar Royco-
https://www.vulture.com/article/logan-r ... royco.htmlSpoiler
Yes, I know...But he's more likely to show up on J! because he died than many people in this thread...
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You're right. My apologies. I should have waited. My only excuse is that it blew up on social media and I didn't think it was avoidable. (it was also heavily hinted before the episode aired.)kerryoakie wrote: ↑Wed Apr 12, 2023 8:49 amThis is a HUGE spoiler for an episode that first aired less than 14 hours prior. Could you put it under a spoiler tag next time you post a fictional death for a very popular TV show right after it airs? I didn't have time to watch Sunday evening and didn't expect a J! thread to ruin the fun for me.davey wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 10:47 am Logan Roy, CEO of media giant Waystar Royco-
https://www.vulture.com/article/logan-r ... royco.htmlSpoiler
Yes, I know...But he's more likely to show up on J! because he died than many people in this thread...
I think it's the same impulse that makes people want to post real deaths before people can hear about them in the media. I've criticized others for that, so I should be ashamed for succumbing myself...
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What is wrong with someone posting about a real person dying before others read about it in the media? A message board isn’t any different than seeing it in a Twitter thread.
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Wasn't a real person, it was a fictional character on a TV show.
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Not really a disqualifier though... https://j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=4690
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Mary Quant, the "mother of the miniskirt", age 93. She has seventeen hits in the archive, almost all of them dealing with the miniskirt.
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Barry Humphries, aka Dame Edna Everage, at 89, from complications from hip surgery. At least 12 Archive appearances, the first being a personal appearance to read a clue.
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Oboist Blair Tindall, whose 2005 memoir Mozart in the Jungle was adapted into a 4-season TV series for Amazon. (1 Archive hit.)
Her 2006 marriage to Bill Nye the Science Guy was annulled after 7 weeks. I recommend checking out the "Personal Life" section of his wiki page for the rest of that story.
Her 2006 marriage to Bill Nye the Science Guy was annulled after 7 weeks. I recommend checking out the "Personal Life" section of his wiki page for the rest of that story.
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Len Goodman, competitive dancer, dance expert, and long-time judge of Dancing with the Stars, at 78, of bone cancer. I loved all three of the judges but I paid special attention when Len spoke; he tended to approach the dances from the more technical/academic and traditional angle, whereas Bruno and Carrie-Ann seemed more wowed by passion, spirit, verve.
One Archive hit in a 2018 BEFORE & AFTER category. (His co-judge Carrie-Ann Inaba has a lot more hits.)
One Archive hit in a 2018 BEFORE & AFTER category. (His co-judge Carrie-Ann Inaba has a lot more hits.)
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Harry Belafonte, at 96.
At least 30 Archive hits that mention his name and probably a lot more hits on his songs in clues where his name wasn't mentioned.
At least 30 Archive hits that mention his name and probably a lot more hits on his songs in clues where his name wasn't mentioned.
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Former Cincinnati Mayor Jerry Springer dies at 79.
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Yes, that's what he's most famous for.
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