Bereavement Pool Update: Stayin Alive
We're entering the home stretch, but there's been a whole lotta livin' goin on. Since my last update on July 16, only 2 entries have croaked: Estelle Getty (3 fast) and Paul Newman (ctnyc), both unique picks.
Remember, the contest runs though 11:59 p.m. on December 31.
Here are the updated rankings:
1. boobs: 185 points (Bobby Murcer, Tony Snow)
2. Brian B's wife: 143 points (Charlton Heston, Robert Mondavi, Bo Diddley)
3. ctnyc: 136 points (Harvey Korman, Paul Newman)
4. Red Menace: 87 points (Charlton Heston, Bo Diddley)
5. boobs' roommate: 80 points (Charlton Heston, Jesse Helms)
6. 3 fast: 66 points (Estelle Getty)
7. Madville: 61 points (Bob Howsam)
8. Alan: 46 points (Bo Diddley)
9. BLee: 41 points (Charlton Heston)
9. JD: 41 points (Charlton Heston)
9. JD's wife: 41 points (Charlton Heston)
And here are the updated rosters:
3 fast
- Stephen Hawking
- Phyllis Diller
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Mary Kate Olsen $$
- Keith Richards
- Cesar Laurean $$
- Nelson Mandela $$
- Dick Vitale $$
- Dick Clark
- Joe Paterno $$
- Fidel Castro
- Yogi Berra $$
- Ariel Sharon
- Stan Musial $$
- Jerry Lewis $$
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- John Wooden
- Jack Kevorkian
- Billy Graham
- Estelle Getty $$
- Dom DeLouise $$
- Jack Klugman
- Margaret Thatcher
- Gary Glitter $$
- Kenny Baker $$
- David Prowse $$
- Stephen Hawking
- Lester "Beetlejuice" Green $$
- Lou Henson $$
- Hamid Karzai
- Bo Diddley
- Diego Maradona $$
- Pervez Musharraf
- Roger Ebert
- Andy Fordham $$
- Harold Pinter
- Roh Tae-woo $$
- Sirajuddin Haqqani $$
- Howard Dill $$
- Edna Parker $$
- Kirk Douglas
- Charlton Heston
- George H.W. Bush
- Al Davis $$
- Billy Graham
- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari $$
- George Steinbrenner
- B.B. King $$
- Omar bin Laden $$
- James Earl Jones $$
- Charlie Watts $$
- Ralph Wilson $$
- Jimmy Carter
- Amy Winehouse
- Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka $$
- Abe Vigoda
- Pete Doherty
- Paul McCartney $$
- Fidel Castro
- Eddie Van Halen $$
- Amy Winehouse
- Farrah Fawcett
- Elizabeth Edwards
- Fidel Castro
- Tony Snow $$
- Tony Yayo $$
- Bobby Murcer $$
- Muhammad Ali
- Soupy Sales $$
- George Steinbrenner
- Prodigy from Mobb Deep $$
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Billy Graham
- Lil Wayne $$
- Jack Kevorkian
- Doyle Brunson $$
- Fyvush Finkel $$
- Sen. Robert Byrd $$
- Pete Doherty
- Bob Barker
- Barack Obama $$
- Dick Cheney
- Keith Richards
- Ernest Borgnine
- Phyllis Diller
- Ted Kennedy $$
- Jimmy Carter
- John Travolta $$
- Farrah Fawcett
- Elizabeth Edwards
- Kirk Douglas
- Colin Farrell $$
- Joan Collins $$
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Liza Minelli $$
- Robin Williams $$
- Loretta Lynn $$
- Brigitte Nielsen $$
- Connie Stevens $$
- John Daly $$
- Elizabeth Edwards
- John Wooden
- W. Mark Felt
- Ariel Sharon
- Billy Graham
- Ralph Stanley $$
- Sammy Baugh $$
- Lee MacPhail $$
- Bobby Doerr $$
- Russell Watson $$
- Charlton Heston
- Jesse Helms
- Fidel Castro
- Karl Malden
- Prince Philip $$
- Margaret Thatcher
- Ali al-Sistani $$
- Betty Ford
- Stuart Scott $$
- Kirk Douglas
- Mike Tyson ## $$
- Ralph Houk $$
- Billy Graham
- Ed McMahon $$
- John Wooden
- Elizabeth Edwards
- Millvina Dean $$
- Kirk Douglas
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Paul Harvey
- Ariel Sharon
- Walter Cronkite
- Orlando Thomas $$
- Larry Hagman $$
- Andy Griffith
- Don Baylor $$
- Rowdy Roddy Piper $$
- Farrah Fawcett
- Steve Smith (former Raiders running back) $$
- Gary Coleman $$
- Fidel Castro
- Ariel Sharon
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver
- Studs Terkel $$
- Jack Klugman
- Kirk Douglas
- Charlton Heston
- Paul Harvey
- Bo Diddley
- Olivia de Havilland $$
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Britney Spears ##
- Roger Ebert
- Ron Santo
- Miep Gies $$
- Hamid Karzai
- Amy Winehouse
- Karl Malden
- Betty Ford
- Robert Mondavi $$
- Harvey Korman $$
- Karl Malden
- Andy Griffith
- Pervez Musharraf
- Fidel Castro
- John Wooden
- Paul Newman $$
- Dick Clark
- Robert Downey Jr. $$
- Jack Klugman
- Monte Irvin $$
- Robert McNamara $$
- Amy Winehouse
- Conrad Dobler $$
- Nancy Reagan
- George H.W. Bush
- Phyllis Diller
- Abe Vigoda
- Muhammad Ali
- Walter Cronkite
- Doris Lessing $$
- Rick Majerus $$
- Pete Doherty
- Amy Winehouse
- Haley Joel Osment $$
- Jesse Helms
- Farrah Fawcett
- Betty Ford
- Fidel Castro
- Pervez Musharraf
- Jack Kevorkian
- Ariel Sharon
- Kirk Douglas
- Louis Farrakhan
- Billy Graham
- Kenneth Arrow $$
- Paul Samuelson $$
- Ronald Coase $$
- Maya Angelou $$
- Nadine Gordimer $$
- Muhammed Ali
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Amy Winehouse
- Pete Doherty
- Andy Dick $$
- Bob Barker
- Charlton Heston
- John Wooden
- Barbara Bush $$
- Kirstie Alley $$
- Queen Elizabeth
- Abe Vigoda
- Gerald Ford ++
- Fidel Castro
- JD Salinger $$
- Britney Spears $$
- Lindsay Lohan $$
- Betty White $$
- Hillary Clinton $$
- Clint Eastwood $$
- Gladys Knight $$
- Harry Morgan $$
- Courtney Love
- Charlton Heston
- Dick Clark
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Amy Whinehouse
- Mickey Rooney $$
- Lady Bird Johnson ++
- Fidel Castro
- Bob Howsam $$
- Bill Clinton $$
- Sally Field $$
- Michael Vick $$
- Rush Lumbaugh $$
- Courtney Love
- Wolfgang Puck $$
- Stephen Hawking
- Morgan Freeman $$
- George Lucas $$
- Hal Holbrook $$
- Boy George $$
- David Lee Roth $$
- Mary Tyler Moore $$
- Jack Nicholson $$
- Elton John $$
- Dick Cheney
- Josh Hamilton $$
- David Copperfield $$
- Jane Fonda $$
- John Wooden
- Ernest Borgnine
- Billy Graham
- Seamus Heaney $$
- Nancy Reagan
- Sir Bobby Robson $$
- George Mitchell $$
- Stephen Baldwin $$
- Patricia Neal $$
- Maxine Kumin $$
- Natasha Lyonne $$
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg $$
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Muhammad Ali
- Ed Asner $$
- Harold Pinter
- Adam "Pacman" Jones $$
- Amy Winehouse
- Bashar Assad $$
- Stephen Hawking
- Farrah Fawcett
- Ron Springs $$
- Muhammad Ali
- Stephen Hawking
- Ron Santo
- Louis Farrakhan
- George Steinbrenner
- Harold Pinter
- Ronnie Biggs $$
- Jack Kevorkian
- Ariel Sharon
- Bo Diddley
- Fidel Castro
- Charlton Heston
- W. Mark Felt
- Peter O'Toole $$
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver
- Billy Graham
- Kirk Douglas
- King-Father Norodom Sihanouk $$
Alan
BLee
boobs
boobs' mom
boobs' roommate
Brian B
Brian B's wife
ctnyc
Gray
JD
JD's wife
Madville
Man Mountain
Red Menace
Legend:
$$: Unique pick, worth 25-point bonus.
++: JD and wife entered only 15 picks, and each picked a person who was already dead. I got their entries right up against the deadline, so they have accepted their disadvantaged fate.
##: Replaced Steve Fossett.
Check here for the originial post.
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18 comments
Comments
You missed
Paul Newman
Often wrong, never uncertain.
by sidnancy on Oct 21, 2008 5:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Oops
Never mind. He wasn’t bolded like some of the others.
Often wrong, never uncertain.
by sidnancy on Oct 21, 2008 5:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i dont know why
but the bolds aren’t taking for me. i’ve tried to go back 3 times and put them in. some kind of glitch
What do you mean, "blank slate"?
by boobs on Oct 21, 2008 5:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wow! this is sort of sick.....
but I have to say I love it!!! :) You all find a lot of ways to have fun here don’t ya! :) I’ll be watching your lists to see who scores points next! This is a great way to pass the off-season!!! :)
"It ain't braggin' if you can back it up."
-Dizzy Dean
by thegashousegang on Oct 21, 2008 8:17 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
there ain't no sorta about it mister
that being said, I’m totally in for ’09
Politickin' in God's Country
by chesirecat on Oct 22, 2008 10:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
sick but fun!
"It ain't braggin' if you can back it up."
-Dizzy Dean
by thegashousegang on Oct 26, 2008 11:22 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Why is Mary Tyler Moore still alive
Sgt. McCAin and Sarah The Impaler don't scare me none.
by Madville on Oct 23, 2008 12:42 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
she's only 71 dude
most parts of her are younger than that
What do you mean, "blank slate"?
by boobs on Oct 23, 2008 6:06 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Looks like she's gonna make it after all
by Brendanukkah on Oct 23, 2008 9:52 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh, Lounukkah!
Vote Pops in '08. I promise nothing and I'll do it!
by Pops Daniels on Oct 23, 2008 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
These people should all be dead

Sgt. McCAin and Sarah The Impaler don't scare me none.
by Madville on Oct 23, 2008 11:35 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
anyone suspicious that boobs is winning
i bet he is systamically killing those on his list. He is a witch.
"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"
by justin007000 on Oct 26, 2008 4:40 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
boobs witch?

"If you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you? You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company."
by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 26, 2008 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Boob is a witch not Witch Boobs...
Sgt. McCAin and Sarah The Impaler don't scare me none.
by Madville on Oct 26, 2008 9:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Give Brian B's wife another 54 points
with the great Studs Terkel. She’s back in first.
What do you mean, "blank slate"?
by boobs on Oct 31, 2008 5:57 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
You'd think Jane Fonda would just die out of tedium.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
by Madville on Oct 31, 2008 8:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

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