Announcement: "Nearly Departed"

[alice_loves_cats]

My favourite Hungarian writer and sorta-friend got kicked out of 
school in his day (he's 53 now) for starting this game. Although, his 
version did have money involved. Not much money, but all the same. 
Everyone in the school was going crazy about this, so naturally word 
got to the teachers who eventually tracked it back to him, and 
wheeee... out he went. And that was still in the socialist period 
when you really did *not* want to have that sort of stuff on your 
CV...

So watch out, you guys! :-)

Love, Alice



--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Cindy C." <cindysphynx at c...> 
wrote:
> Hi, folks!
> 
> I'm writing to let you all know about a new Yahoo group for people 
who
> are seriously disturbed and bent and darn proud of it! ;-)
> 
> Long ago, a friend told me about a rather interesting game she 
plays.
> The idea is that the participants each think of 50 famous RL people
> they believe will expire in the next six months. Players get points
> when one of their predictions comes true.
> 
> <awkward silence>
> 
> What's that?
> 
> You guys think that's *sick?* Yep, it sure is.
> 
> You got a problem with that? ;-)
> 
> Seriously, we've set up a Yahoo group called "Nearly Departed" to 
use
> Yahoo's features to make the scoring easier and so that we can 
compare
> notes ("No, no, no, Jack Lord died 20 years ago!"). Besides, we need
> a place to post messages consoling each other when J-Lo goes to the
> Great Beyond! <veg> Already, we've had a sob session over Robert
> Palmer. Can you believe it; he looked so robust? Also welcome are
> opinions about famous people, quips, smart remarks and general chit
> chat, especially sightings of famous people who might fall ill in 
the
> near future.
> 
> Membership? Well, it's a closed Yahoo group (meaning that we'll
> receive no spam), but we don't mean to exclude anyone. *No one* is
> unwelcome or banned or any of that, and *anyone* can invite anyone
> they think might be interested – *especially* if the prospective
> member has a good sense of humor. For logistical reasons, however, 
we
> really want to keep the group below 50 people so we can keep track 
of
> things. Invitations are first come, first served.  No money is
> involved -- that would be so *tacky!*  
> 
> So far, Melody, Gail, Morgan D, Silver Dragon, Tyler, Jen Reese, 
Nox,
> Eileen and I are on board. If you join, you'll need to post your 
list
> of the nearly departed by Nov. 1 –- that's when Round One begins. To
> join, go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nearly_Departed/ and click
> "Join This Group." One of us will shoot you an invitation.
> 
> Cindy –- who was going to predict the demise of Dick Clark before
> someone explained that he is a cyborg who can never die