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6 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

True story: OJ Simpson was considered for the role of The Terminator...but the producers didn't think he'd make a convincing killer

Juice rather than  mimetic polyalloy.

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Week 15 update

One death this week, OJ Simpson: OJ Simpson, ex-NFL star who was acquitted of murder, dies aged 76 | OJ Simpson | The Guardian

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One of the most successful and popular sports stars of his generation, Simpson’s career with the San Francisco 49ers and Buffalo Bills, as well as his post-retirement starring roles in Hollywood movies such as The Naked Gun, was ultimately overshadowed by the 1994 murders and their aftermath.

From a low-speed car chase across Los Angeles, broadcast live, in which Simpson attempted to flee pursuing police officers in a Ford Bronco, to the televised trial that captivated the attention of millions of viewers in the US and globally on a daily basis, the events heralded a blending of celebrity and crime that has become a staple of media ever since.

My knowledge of recent American cultural history is based near exclusively on things which have featured in The Simpsons. I've just discovered he was originally intended to be in Last Exit to Springfield, widely regarded as the best Simpsons episode, but he turned it down. What a change in history that would be. Outside of that there's probably an understandable reason that someone born in the UK in the early 90s probably hasn't seen much of his media presence.

Anyway, the point is that outside of a vague general idea of who he was or what he's known for, I didn't really appreciate how significant his trial was when it happened. Seeing the clips on the news of his trial and reading recollections from Americans this week though, I've really been taken aback by how current it all seems. His trial, the TV coverage of it, it feels like the sort of media circus that we're all too used to nowadays. 

I don't really have any opinion on the trial or the question of his guilt, but from my brief exposure to it this week it seems to me that OJ Simpson's most significant cultural impact goes well beyond his sporting prowess, his acting or images of him wearing gloves or driving a truck. I don't even want to think about what a similar case would be like now with social media. Oscar Pistorius is probably the closest recent comparable and that was nothing to what I've seen of OJ this week. If Donald Trump ever reaches a courtroom, would he compare? Could the trial even happen?

Simpson died at 76 so he's worth 49 Base Points for @BillyAnchor and @doulikefish. @ICTChris gets a Vice-Captain bonus to give him a total of 74 points.

As a result, the standings look like this:

1. mozam76 402
2. Billy Jean King 380
3. lolls 316
4. Forest_Fifer 297
5. psv_killie, sparky88 291
7. Indale Winton 284
8. Ned Nederlander 282
9. lichtgilphead 279
10. Moomintroll 263
11. The_Craig 254
12. pub car king 238
13. The DA 228
14. JustOneCornetto 225
15. Arch Stanton 207
16. parxyz 206
17. cdhafc1874 204
18. Oystercatcher 198
19. weirdcal 191
20. Melanius Mullarkant 176

21. amnarab, The Naitch 169
23. El Guapo, mathematics 164

25. Salvo Montalbano 163
26. alta-pete 156
27. blackislekillie, Bully Wee Villa, choirbairn, Desp, peasy23 150
32. tamthebam 144
33. Savage Henry 134
34. Arbroathlegend36-0 126
35. Arabdownunder 117

36. buddiepaul, chomp my root, scottsdad, Trogdor, TxRover 113
41. sleazy, Sweaty Morph 100
43. Craig fae the Vale 95

44. ThomCat 94
45. pawpar 90
46. invergowrie arab, Karpaty Lviv, Ray Patterson 78
49. DG.Roma, Lofarl, Mark Connolly, qos_75, sensorsoupe, Sergeant Wilson, Shotgun 75
56. ICTChris 74
57. D Angelo Barksdale 71
58. Raidernation 60

59. Florentine_Pogen 58
60. Aim Here, Darren 51

62. BillyAnchor, doulikefish 49
64. stanton 25

65. Everyone else 0

The spreadsheet has also been updated with these scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CsroU6IlQNJOesOqCc5gsI7SCw8ywBS-PUzQwLTJe4g/edit?usp=sharing

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