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Bereavement Pool: ROSTERS

It's four days past the deadline, so I'm going to assume I have all the entries. We got a very good response from Red Reporters and family members, and this year's pool will include 15 participants. I will be cashing checks and money orders tomorrow and inserting the pot (in cash) into the official Binding Bereavement Binder. The winner will get $120, second place $20, third place $10.

Here are the rosters:

3 fast

  1. Stephen Hawking
  2. Phyllis Diller
  3. Queen Elizabeth II
  4. Mary Kate Olsen $$
  5. Keith Richards
  6. Cesar Laurean $$
  7. Nelson Mandela $$
  8. Dick Vitale $$
  9. Dick Clark
  10. Joe Paterno $$
  11. Fidel Castro
  12. Yogi Berra $$
  13. Ariel Sharon
  14. Stan Musial $$
  15. Jerry Lewis $$
  16. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  17. John Wooden
  18. Jack Kevorkian
  19. Billy Graham
  20. Estelle Getty $$
Alan
  1. Dom DeLouise $$
  2. Jack Klugman
  3. Margaret Thatcher
  4. Gary Glitter $$
  5. Kenny Baker $$
  6. David Prowse $$
  7. Stephen Hawking
  8. Lester "Beetlejuice" Green $$
  9. Lou Henson $$
  10. Hamid Karzai
  11. Bo Diddley
  12. Diego Maradona $$
  13. Pervez Musharraf
  14. Roger Ebert
  15. Andy Fordham $$
  16. Harold Pinter
  17. Roh Tae-woo $$
  18. Sirajuddin Haqqani $$
  19. Howard Dill $$
  20. Edna Parker $$
BLee
  1. Kirk Douglas
  2. Charlton Heston
  3. George H.W. Bush
  4. Al Davis $$
  5. Billy Graham
  6. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari $$
  7. George Steinbrenner
  8. B.B. King $$
  9. Omar bin Laden $$
  10. James Earl Jones $$
  11. Charlie Watts $$
  12. Ralph Wilson $$
  13. Jimmy Carter
  14. Amy Winehouse
  15. Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka $$
  16. Abe Vigoda
  17. Pete Doherty
  18. Paul McCartney $$
  19. Fidel Castro
  20. Eddie Van Halen $$
boobs
  1. Amy Winehouse
  2. Farrah Fawcett
  3. Elizabeth Edwards
  4. Fidel Castro
  5. Tony Snow $$
  6. Tony Yayo $$
  7. Bobby Murcer $$
  8. Muhammad Ali
  9. Soupy Sales $$
  10. George Steinbrenner
  11. Prodigy from Mobb Deep $$
  12. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  13. Billy Graham
  14. Lil Wayne $$
  15. Jack Kevorkian
  16. Doyle Brunson $$
  17. Fyvush Finkel $$
  18. Sen. Robert Byrd $$
  19. Pete Doherty
  20. Bob Barker
boobs' mom
  1. Barack Obama $$
  2. Dick Cheney
  3. Keith Richards
  4. Ernest Borgnine
  5. Phyllis Diller
  6. Ted Kennedy $$
  7. Jimmy Carter
  8. John Travolta $$
  9. Farrah Fawcett
  10. Elizabeth Edwards
  11. Kirk Douglas
  12. Colin Farrell $$
  13. Joan Collins $$
  14. Elizabeth Taylor
  15. Liza Minelli $$
  16. Robin Williams $$
  17. Loretta Lynn $$
  18. Brigitte Nielsen $$
  19. Connie Stevens $$
  20. John Daly $$
boobs' roommate
  1. Elizabeth Edwards
  2. John Wooden
  3. W. Mark Felt
  4. Ariel Sharon
  5. Billy Graham
  6. Ralph Stanley $$
  7. Sammy Baugh $$
  8. Lee MacPhail $$
  9. Bobby Doerr $$
  10. Russell Watson $$
  11. Charlton Heston
  12. Jesse Helms
  13. Fidel Castro
  14. Karl Malden
  15. Prince Philip $$
  16. Margaret Thatcher
  17. Ali al-Sistani $$
  18. Betty Ford
  19. Stuart Scott $$
  20. Kirk Douglas
Brian B
  1. Mike Tyson ## $$
  2. Ralph Houk $$
  3. Billy Graham
  4. Ed McMahon $$
  5. John Wooden
  6. Elizabeth Edwards
  7. Millvina Dean $$
  8. Kirk Douglas
  9. Elizabeth Taylor
  10. Paul Harvey
  11. Ariel Sharon
  12. Walter Cronkite
  13. Orlando Thomas $$
  14. Larry Hagman $$
  15. Andy Griffith
  16. Don Baylor $$
  17. Rowdy Roddy Piper $$
  18. Farrah Fawcett
  19. Steve Smith (former Raiders running back) $$
  20. Gary Coleman $$
Brian B's wife
  1. Fidel Castro
  2. Ariel Sharon
  3. Eunice Kennedy Shriver
  4. Studs Terkel $$
  5. Jack Klugman
  6. Kirk Douglas
  7. Charlton Heston
  8. Paul Harvey
  9. Bo Diddley
  10. Olivia de Havilland $$
  11. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  12. Britney Spears ##
  13. Roger Ebert
  14. Ron Santo
  15. Miep Gies $$
  16. Hamid Karzai
  17. Amy Winehouse
  18. Karl Malden
  19. Betty Ford
  20. Robert Mondavi $$
ctnyc
  1. Harvey Korman $$
  2. Karl Malden
  3. Andy Griffith
  4. Pervez Musharraf
  5. Fidel Castro
  6. John Wooden
  7. Paul Newman $$
  8. Dick Clark
  9. Robert Downey Jr. $$
  10. Jack Klugman
  11. Monte Irvin $$
  12. Robert McNamara $$
  13. Amy Winehouse
  14. Conrad Dobler $$
  15. Nancy Reagan
  16. George H.W. Bush
  17. Phyllis Diller
  18. Abe Vigoda
  19. Muhammad Ali
  20. Walter Cronkite
Gray
  1. Doris Lessing $$
  2. Rick Majerus $$
  3. Pete Doherty
  4. Amy Winehouse
  5. Haley Joel Osment $$
  6. Jesse Helms
  7. Farrah Fawcett
  8. Betty Ford
  9. Fidel Castro
  10. Pervez Musharraf
  11. Jack Kevorkian
  12. Ariel Sharon
  13. Kirk Douglas
  14. Louis Farrakhan
  15. Billy Graham
  16. Kenneth Arrow $$
  17. Paul Samuelson $$
  18. Ronald Coase $$
  19. Maya Angelou $$
  20. Nadine Gordimer $$
JD
  1. Muhammed Ali
  2. Elizabeth Taylor
  3. Amy Winehouse
  4. Pete Doherty
  5. Andy Dick $$
  6. Bob Barker
  7. Charlton Heston
  8. John Wooden
  9. Barbara Bush $$
  10. Kirstie Alley $$
  11. Queen Elizabeth
  12. Abe Vigoda
  13. Gerald Ford ++
  14. Fidel Castro
  15. JD Salinger $$
JD's wife
  1. Britney Spears $$
  2. Lindsay Lohan $$
  3. Betty White $$
  4. Hillary Clinton $$
  5. Clint Eastwood $$
  6. Gladys Knight $$
  7. Harry Morgan $$
  8. Courtney Love
  9. Charlton Heston
  10. Dick Clark
  11. Elizabeth Taylor
  12. Amy Whinehouse
  13. Mickey Rooney $$
  14. Lady Bird Johnson ++
  15. Fidel Castro
Madville
  1. Bob Howsam $$
  2. Bill Clinton $$
  3. Sally Field $$
  4. Michael Vick $$
  5. Rush Lumbaugh $$
  6. Courtney Love
  7. Wolfgang Puck $$
  8. Stephen Hawking
  9. Morgan Freeman $$
  10. George Lucas $$
  11. Hal Holbrook $$
  12. Boy George $$
  13. David Lee Roth $$
  14. Mary Tyler Moore $$
  15. Jack Nicholson $$
  16. Elton John $$
  17. Dick Cheney
  18. Josh Hamilton $$
  19. David Copperfield $$
  20. Jane Fonda $$
Man Mountain
  1.  John Wooden
  2.  Ernest Borgnine
  3.  Billy Graham
  4.  Seamus Heaney $$
  5.  Nancy Reagan
  6.  Sir Bobby Robson $$
  7.  George Mitchell $$
  8.  Stephen Baldwin $$
  9.  Patricia Neal $$
  10. Maxine Kumin $$
  11. Natasha Lyonne $$
  12. Ruth Bader Ginsburg $$
  13. Elizabeth Taylor
  14. Muhammad Ali
  15. Ed Asner $$
  16. Harold Pinter
  17. Adam "Pacman" Jones $$
  18. Amy Winehouse
  19. Bashar Assad $$
  20. Stephen Hawking
Red Menace
  1. Farrah Fawcett
  2. Ron Springs $$
  3. Muhammad Ali
  4. Stephen Hawking
  5. Ron Santo
  6. Louis Farrakhan
  7. George Steinbrenner
  8. Harold Pinter
  9. Ronnie Biggs  $$
  10. Jack Kevorkian
  11. Ariel Sharon
  12. Bo Diddley
  13. Fidel Castro
  14. Charlton Heston
  15. W. Mark Felt
  16. Peter O'Toole $$
  17. Eunice Kennedy Shriver
  18. Billy Graham
  19. Kirk Douglas
  20. King-Father Norodom Sihanouk $$
Legend:
$$: 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.

A list of the most popular picks:

#  Person          Selections
1  Fidel Castro         10
2  Billy Graham          8
2  Amy Winehouse         8
4  Kirk Douglas          7
5  Charlton Heston       6
5  Ariel Sharon          6
7  Muhammad Ali          5
7  Farrah Fawcett        5
7  Stephen Hawking       5
7  Elizabeth Taylor      5
7  John Wooden           5
12 Pete Doherty          4
12 Elizabeth Edwards     4
12 Jack Kevorkian        4
15 Dick Clark            3
15 Bo Diddley            3
15 Phyllis Diller        3
15 Betty Ford            3
15 Zsa Zsa Gabor         3
15 Jack Klugman          3
15 Karl Malden           3
15 Pervez Musharraf      3
15 Harold Pinter         3
15 George Steinbrenner   3
15 Abe Vigoda            3

Other multiple (2) picks: Bob Barker, Ernest Borgnine, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Dick Cheney, Walter Cronkite, Roger Ebert, Queen Elizabeth, Louis Farrakhan, W. Mark Felt, Andy Griffith, Paul Harvey, Jesse Helms, Hamid Karzai, Courtney Love, Nancy Reagan, Keith Richards, Ron Santo, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Margaret Thatcher.

For integrity's sake, I e-mailed the picks made by me and my mom early (my roommate missed the first deadline, so I just posted him with everyone else.) Here is the full-disclosure e-mail address and password:
boobsisnotacheater@gmail.com
b00bsisnotacheater  (notice the zeroes).

As far as the Fossett pick and any other dusputable picks, here is my suggestion. If no one objects, I think they should be allowed to replace that pick, especially since they got their entries in early and I failed to notice. No one will lose uniqueness bonus points if they pick people who were unique selections for other people.

I would extend the same courtesy to any other picks that are in violation of the rules that I haven't noticed.

Update [2008-2-8 12:45:10 by boobs]: I edited the list to reflect Brian B and wife's new picks. JD's wife will still receive uniqueness bonus for Britney Spears since she was the only person to pick her as of the posting of the rosters.

I'm sure there are some other mistakes in here, but I hope I copied down everyone's roster correctly. Let me know if there's anything I screwed up and I'll get it fixed right away. Not that rooting for Soupy Sales to die is fun, exactly, but this oughta be pretty entertaining.

Good luck everyone!