Dead Pool Hit

MI Wakefield · Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 76

Hong Kong actress/comedienne Lydia "Fei Fei" Shum, 60, cancer.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/bedlam/atdp2008.html has been updated.

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obbzerver · Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 18

On Feb 20, 7:54 pm, "MI Wakefield" wrote:
> Hong Kong actress/comedienne Lydia "Fei Fei" Shum, 60, cancer.
>
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/bedlam/atdp2008.htmlhas been updated.

Show of hands, who here even knows someone who's heard of her?

DE · Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 4

On Feb 21, 6:10 am, obbzer...@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Feb 20, 7:54 pm, "MI Wakefield" wrote:
>
> > Hong Kong actress/comedienne Lydia "Fei Fei" Shum, 60, cancer.
>
> >http://www3.sympatico.ca/bedlam/atdp2008.htmlhasbeen updated.
>
> Show of hands, who here even knows someone who's heard of her?

Sits on hands.

But she's popular in Vancouver, BC.

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=4b6f5c54-5039-484b-97e1-b33a3e6aea20

"Vancouver publicist Andrew Poon said Sum emigrated to Vancouver in
the mid-1980s. Because she emigrated prior to the influx of Hong Kong
immigrants, she wound up bringing along a lot of the cast from the
television show, said Poon."

Second hand story; My daughter tells me that they have an intern at
work, a young woman whose last name is Poon. One doctor was praising
her, "I sure like that young girl Poon." Hilarity ensued.

Mortimer Schnerd, RN · Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 25

obbzerver@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Feb 20, 7:54 pm, "MI Wakefield" wrote:
>> Hong Kong actress/comedienne Lydia "Fei Fei" Shum, 60, cancer.
>>
>> http://www3.sympatico.ca/bedlam/atdp2008.htmlhas been updated.
>
>
>
> Show of hands, who here even knows someone who's heard of her?

I cannot tell a lie. Never heard of her.

--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

Dean Dark · Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 59

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:22:27 -0500, "Mortimer Schnerd, RN"
wrote:

>obbzerver@yahoo.com wrote:
>> On Feb 20, 7:54 pm, "MI Wakefield" wrote:
>>> Hong Kong actress/comedienne Lydia "Fei Fei" Shum, 60, cancer.
>>>
>>> http://www3.sympatico.ca/bedlam/atdp2008.htmlhas been updated.
>>
>> Show of hands, who here even knows someone who's heard of her?
>
>I cannot tell a lie. Never heard of her.

And, in a nutshell, *there's* the problem with the 100-age rule.

All you have to do is find someone with advanced cancer, then twist
and turn to find some way to argue that they are a "celebrity."

Wakefield's recent change to loosen the definition of "celebrity" has
helped to facilitate this, as well.

Dean Dark · Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 59

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:39:34 -0500, "MI Wakefield"
wrote:

>> Do you understand the concept of a conflict of interest?
>
>Yep. That's why when some poeple asked if they could send in their entries
>last fall, I asked them not to, because my list wan't ready.

You *really* don't get it, do you?

*That's* not where the significant conflict of interest lies. The
real conflict is in the adjudication of celebrity-ness. No name that
*you* ever pick will fail whatever your "test" is, will it?

This has been pointed out to you many times now, but I guess you've
just got a blind spot for ethics.

>> No? Citizen Ted does.
>
>Citizen Ted was the exception rather than the rule ... Emasculator and Uncle
>Brian were certainly entered in pools they ran, and to the best of my
>recollection, so was Paul Atriedes.

Is this all too subtle for you? They were single point pools where
the celebrity-ness of a pick was usually obvious to all and seldom
challenged.

There simply wasn't the motivation or need to find obscure, young
people with terminal illnesses who are nonetheless well known, but
only in Bongobuggerland, and to argue and bend the rules to claim that
are, somehow, celebrities.

And, my point is not whether Citizen Ted participated in his own pools
or not, you shifty, obfuscating little buffoon. It's that he plainly
stated in this forum that he thought that *you* should either run this
pool, or participate in it, but not both.

>> But you don't. It stinks like a 3 day old herring.
>
>You are volunteering to run the pool next year!

I would happily serve on, or chair, a non-playing little "committee"
of, say, three people who would come up with a definition of and
series of tests for "celebrity" that is conventional and logical, in
order to replace your debased, corrupt and shifting ones, and who
would also collect and vet all entries ahead of time and rule on the
eligibility of each, and then resolve any disputes throughout the
year.

*Then* you could monitor and edit the web site for the pool, as well
as participate in it if you wanted to. But I suspect that's not what
really appeals to you, is it?

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