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We've had quite a few passings since the last update. We must be getting a lot better at this, because there's a lot more names on the top lists, and it's only August. Nearly everyone's on the board at this point. If you aren't, shame on you. The big rivercrossers included Eunice Kennedy ShriverBob NovakWalter Cronkite and, last night, Ted Kennedy.  

Brian B and my mom are still out in front, but Brian B's wife is making her move, trying to become the first person in the history of the RR Bereavement Pool to be in the money in consecutive years. Good luck Mrs. B! EDIT: I missed Bobby Robson. Apparently he was some soccer guy who was important enough to pass through the pearly gates of ESPN on his way out. Menace is in third!

As always, if I've overlooked someone or made a math mistake, let me know.

1. Brian B: 331 points (Michael Jackson, Jack Kemp, Millvina Dean, Ted Kennedy, Robert Novak, Les Paul)
2. boobs' mom: 234 points (Farrah Fawcett, Karl Malden, Ted Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Walter Cronkite)
3. Red Menace: 206 points (Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Ted Kennedy, Robert Novak, Sir Bobby Robson)
4. Brian B's wife: 181 points (Paul Harvey, Karl Malden, Ted Kennedy, Robert Novak)
5. ctnyc: 163 points (Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Ted Kennedy, Robert Novak, Les Paul)
6. Petey Hendrix: 151 points (Dom DeLuise, Karl Malden, Ted Kennedy)
7. Cesar Hernandez: 141 points (Michael Jackson, Dom DiMaggio, Walter Cronkite)
8. boobs: 130 points (Ted Kennedy, Jim Johnson)
9. boobs' coworker Steve: 123 points (Karl Malden, Ted Kennedy, Robert Novak)
10. 3fast: 118 points (Ted Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Walter Cronkite)
11. Chandrathan: 115 points (Ed McMahon, Karl Malden, Ted Kennedy)
12. nlt-Andrew: 87 points (Ed McMahon, Ted Kennedy)
13. RedinWrigleyville: 75 points (Michael Jackson)
14. BengalRed: 48 points (Ted Kennedy)
14. boobs' coworker Brian: 48 points (Ted Kennedy)
14. Brendan: 48 points (Ted Kennedy)
17. Madville: 33 points (Dom DiMaggio)
18. Joshuar9476: 28 points (Karl Malden)

Star-divide

3fast

1. Stephen Hawking
2. Margaret Thatcher
3. Billy Graham
4. Amy Winehouse
5. Kirk Douglas
6. Nelson Mandela
7. Stan Musial
8. Ariel Sharon
9. John Wooden
10. Jerry Lewis
11. Dick Clark
12. Ted Kennedy
13. Elizabeth Taylor
14. Betty Ford
15. Robert Mugabe $$
16. Charlie Watts $$
17. Fidel Castro
18. Eunice Kennedy Shriver
19. Buzz Aldrin $$
20. Walter Cronkite

BengalRed

1. Amy Winehouse
2. Fidel Castro
3. George Steinbrenner
4. Art Donovan
5. Bob Feller
6. Hugo Chavez $$
7. Dick Clark
8. Jimmy Carter
9. Frank Gifford $$
10. Patrick Swayze
11. Queen Elizabeth $$
12. Robert Byrd
13. Mickey Rourke $$
14. John Daly
15. Tony Bennett
16. Keith Richards
17. Nancy Reagan
18. Peter Falk
19. Ted Kennedy
20. Mike Wallace $$

boobs

1. Elizabeth Edwards
2. Ted Kennedy
3. Seve Ballesteros
4. Patrick Swayze
5. Fidel Castro
6. Ariel Sharon
7. John Wooden
8. Muhammad Ali
9. Billy Graham
10. Fyvish Finkel $$
11. Robert Byrd
12. Soupy Sales $$
13. Gertrude Baines $$
14. Zsa Zsa Gabor
15. Lil Wayne $$
16. Bob Barker
17. Steve Jobs
18. Myles Brand
19. Stephen Hawking
20. Jim Johnson (Eagles) $$

boobs' coworker Brian

1. Andy Rooney
2. Barbara Walters $$
3. Pete Townshend $$
4. Roger Daltrey $$
5. Mick Jagger $$
6. Ted Kennedy
7. Robert Byrd
8. John McCain $$
9. John Chaney $$
10. Dick Cheney
11. Dick Clark
12. Dick Vitale $$
13. Bill Cosby $$
14. Hamid Karzai $$
15. Nouri al-Maliki $$
16. Pete Rose $$
17. Jack Nicholson $$
18. Robert De Niro $$
19. Nancy Reagan
20. Joan Rivers $$

boobs' coworker steve
(formerly boobs' roommate)

1. Elizabeth Edwards
2. John Wooden
3. Ariel Sharon
4. Billy Graham
5. Lee MacPhail
6. Bobby Doerr
7. Susan Atkins
8. Fidel Castro
9. Karl Malden
10. Margaret Thatcher
11. Robert Byrd
12. Wendy Richard $$
13. Myles Brand
14. Kirk Douglas
15. Patrick Swayze
16. Bob Novak
17. Steve Jobs
18. Ted Kennedy
19. Seve Ballesteros
20. Dick Dale $$

boobs' mom

1. Patrick Swayze
2. Farah Fawcett $$
3. Ted Kennedy
4. Nancy Reagan
5. Steve Jobs
6. Eunice Kennedy Shriver
7. Robert Byrd
8. Fidel Castro
9. Dick Clark
10. Kirk Douglas
11. Karl Malden
12. Phyllis Diller
13. Billy Graham
14. Rose Marie $$
15. Barbara Billingsley $$
16. Walter Cronkite
17. Nelson Mandela
18. Shirley Temple Black $$
19. Betty Ford
20. Jerry Lewis

Brendanukkah

1. Patrick Swayze
2. Steve Jobs
3. Tim Conway $$
4. Russell Johnson $$
5. Shia LaBeouf $$
6. Carol Channing $$
7. Jeff Conaway
8. Fidel Castro
9. Billy Graham
10. Jake "The Snake" Roberts
11. Gene Wilder $$
12. Jimmy Carter
13. Henry Kissinger $$
14. Charles Grodin $$
15. Mick Mars $$
16. John "Big Dawg" Thompson $$
17. Michael J. Fox
18. Ted Kennedy
19. J.D. Salinger
20. C. Everett Koop $$

Brian B

1. Jack Kemp $$
2. Harry Morgan
3. Ted Kennedy
4. Robert Novak

5. Les Paul
6. Lauren Bacall $$
7. Millvina Dean $$
8. John Wooden
9. Elizabeth Edwards
10. Ariel Sharon
11. Steve Smith (running back, Raiders) $$
12. Orlando Thomas $$
13. Carl Lindner $$
14. Michael Jackson
15. Seve Ballesteros
16. Susan Atkins
17. Miep Gies
18. Claude Levi-Strauss
19. Sargent Shriver
20. Ronnie Biggs
Brian B's wife

1. Fidel Castro
2. Robert Novak
3. Ariel Sharon
4. Kirk Douglas
5. Paul Harvey $$
6. Zsa Zsa Gabor
7. Miep Gies
8. Amy Winehouse
9. Karl Malden
10. Steve Jobs
11. Patrick Swayze
12. Don Baylor $$
13. Dick Cheney
14. Ted Kennedy
15. Oscar Niemeyer
16. Claude Levi-Strauss
17. Luise Rainer $$
18. Art Linkletter
19. Seve Ballesteros
20. Merle Haggard $$

cesarhernandez 

1. Patrick Swayze
2. John Wooden
3. Seve Ballesteros
4. Tony Dungy $$
5. Mean Joe Greene $$
6. Deacon Jones $$
7. Marv Levy $$
8. Bobby Doerr
9. Bob Feller
10. Dom DiMaggio
11. Michael Jackson

12. Jean Stapleton $$
13. Bob Barker
14. Walter Cronkite
15. Kirk Douglas
16. Billy Graham
18. Zsa Zsa Gabor
19. Myles Brand
20. BB King

Chandrathan

1. Patrick Swayze
2. Artie Lange $$
3. Andy Rooney
4. Peter Falk
5. George Steinbrenner
6. Jake Lamotta $$
7. Ted Kennedy
8. J.D. Salinger
9. Steve Jobs
10. Nancy Reagan
11. Ed McMahon
12. Chyna $$
13. Fidel Castro
14. Seve Ballesteros
15. Bobby Heenan $$
16. Jake "The Snake" Roberts
17. Steve-O
18. Karl Malden
19. Oscar Niemeyer
20. Claude Levi-Strauss

ctnyc

1.  Steve Jobs
2.  Patrick Swayze
3.  Art Linkletter
4.  Ariel Sharon
5.  Eunice Kennedy Shriver
6.  Ted Kennedy
7.  Robert Novak

8. Fidel Castro
9. John Wooden
10. Margaret Thatcher
11. George Steinbrenner
12. Seve Ballesteros
13. Andy Griffith $$
14. Claude Levi-Strauss
15. Billy Graham
16. Jeff Conaway
17. Amy Winehouse
18. Muhammad Ali
19. Zsa Zsa Gabor
20. Les Paul

Joshuar9476

1. Nancy Reagan
2. Rick Majerus $$
3. Dick Clark
4. Seve Ballesteros
5. Kim Jong Il
6. Tony Bennett
7. Verne Troyer $$
8. Larry King
9. Peter Falk
10. Karl Malden
11. Richard Petty $$
12. Larry Flynt $$
13. Yogi Berra
14. Steve-O
15. Emperor Akihito of Japan $$
16. Gary Coleman $$
17. Mindy McCready
18. Tommy Lasorda $$
19. Michael J. Fox
20. Art Donovan

Joshuar9476's Wife (ashes)

1. Sacha Baron Cohen $$
2. George HW Bush
3. Barbara Streisand $$
4. George Strait $$
5. Dennis Rodman $$
6. Sheryl Crow $$
7. Kat Von D $$
8. Peter Graves $$
9. Robin Williams
10. Meryl Streep $$
11. Sean Connery $$
12. Ozzie Osbourne $$
13. Betty White $$
14. Bob Barker
15. Tony Hawk $$
16. Hugh Hefner $$
17. Ray Anthony (Big Band Leader) $$
18. Elizabeth Edwards
19. Eddie Murphy $$
20. Clint Eastwood

Justin

1. Bob Dole $$
2. J.D. Salinger
3. Fidel Castro
4. Jack McKeon $$
5. Harry Morgan
6. Rod Blagojevich $$
7. Jimmy Carter
8. Jose Conseco $$
9. Bob Huggins $$
10. Pete Van Wieren $$
11. Bob Gibson $$
12. Bruce Froemming $$
13. George Voinovich $$
14. Elizabeth Edwards
15. Lindsay Lohan $$
16. Dan Rather $$
17. Andy Rooney
18. Magic Johnson $$
19. Peter Gammons $$
20. Harold Ramis $$
Madville

1. Patrick Swayze
2. Kirk Douglas
3. Eli Wallich $$
4. Olivia DeHavilland $$
5. Beverly Cleary $$
6. Hal Holbrook $$
7. Jon Forsythe $$
8. Mary Tyler Moore $$
9. Bob Feller
10. Dom DiMaggio
11. Phyllis Diller
12. Lee MacPhail
13. Dick Cheney
14. Whitey Ford $$
15. Sparky Anderson $$
16. John Paul Stevens $$
17. Wolfgang Puck $$
18. John Dingell $$
19. Daniel Akaka $$
20. Robert Byrd 
nlt-andrew

1. Steve Jobs
2. Ted Kennedy
3. Elizabeth Edwards
4. Fidel Castro
5. Margret Thatcher
6. Patrick Swayze
7. Ariel Sharon
8. Kim Jong Il
9. Ed McMahon
10. Sargent Shriver
11. Yitzhak Shamir $$
12. Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth $$
13. Seve Ballesteros
14. Robert Byrd
15. Zsa Zsa Gabor
16. Billy Graham
17. Bob Feller
18. Helen Thomas $$
19. John Wooden
20. Kirk Douglas

Petey Hendrix

1. Fidel Castro
2. Roger Ebert $$
3. John Madden
4. Billy Graham
5. Patrick Swayze
6. Mindy McCready
7. Sen. Robert Byrd
8. Teddy Kennedy
9. Kirk Douglas
10. Dom DeLouise $$
11. Ariel Sharon
12. B.B. King
13. Karl Malden
14. John Wooden
15. James Earl Jones $$
16. Betty Ford            
17. George Steinbrenner
18. O.J. Simpson $$
19. Myles Brand
20. Steve Jobs

RedinWrigleyville

1. Robert Redford $$
2. John Wooden
3. Ken Griffey Sr. $$
4. Margaret Thatcher
5. Larry King
6. George HW Bush
7. Clint Eastwood
8. Al Sharpton $$
9. Steve Jobs
10. Michael Jackson
11. George Steinbrenner
12. Howie Mandell $$
13. Bill Murray $$
14. Barack Obama $$
15. Bode Miller $$
16. John Daly
17. Ryan Freel $$
18. Bernard Madoff $$
19. Chad Kroeger $$
20. Carrot Top $$

Red Menace

1. Seve Ballesteros
2. Ron Springs (NFL) $$
3. Patrick Swayze
4. Ron Santo $$
5. Louis Farrakhan $$
6. Sir Bobby Robson $$
7. Ted Kennedy
8. Robert Novak

9. George Steinbrenner
10. Ronnie Biggs
11. Jack Kevorkian $$
12. Ariel Sharon
13. Peter Falk
14. Fidel Castro
15. Eunice Kennedy Shriver
16. Stan Musial
17. Billy Graham
18. Kirk Douglas
19. Robert Byrd
20. Steve Jobs

Seattle Slim

1. Robin Williams
2. George HW Bush
3. Johnny Rotten $$
4. Manuel Noriega $$
5. Boy George $$
6. Steve Forbes $$
7. Ross Perot $$
8. Keith Richards
9. Sara Jane Moore $$
10. DMX $$
11. Wayne Newton $$
12. Kim Jong Il
13. Dick Van Dyke $$
14. Robert Byrd
15. Mohammed Ali
16. Pat Robertson $$
17. Oscar Robertson $$
18. Ron Jeremy $$
19. Yogi Berra
20. Dick Clark

$$ -- Unique pick.
Note: Though Wendy Richard died, her obituary did not appear on cnn.com, thus no points were awarded.

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You people are fucking sickos

And that’s why I log in so frequently

by Excalib8 on Aug 26, 2009 1:31 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

i still have no hits

that is why i’m going to use this list again next year, some of these people have to die.

Bloop

by justin007000 on Aug 26, 2009 1:42 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

i suggest a different course of action

What do you mean, "blank slate"?

by boobs on Aug 26, 2009 1:47 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

yes

"There's nothing cool about your game." - Jeff Brantley, talking smack about Nyjer Morgan.

by PeteyHendrix on Aug 26, 2009 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

...as will the other 19 people on your list...

"We, as for me all seasons you are affected peculiarly in the edge of my seat and are happy concerning the fact that the Adam Dunn fan has been mixed up exactly." - Reynard-san

by BK on Aug 26, 2009 5:57 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Um, can you refrain from calling them "hits" please?

We’re a little sensitive to that. These untimely events are mere gratuitous circumstances which may or may not have beneficial repercussions.

by Brian B on Aug 26, 2009 2:40 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions   0 recs

I tried that pretty much this year

Some of these people just hang although their lives are pretty much already over…e.g. MTM

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
George Carlin

by Madville on Aug 26, 2009 2:50 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

You're missing Les Paul.

Thankyouverymuch.

by Brian B on Aug 26, 2009 2:36 PM EDT via mobile reply actions   0 recs

youre right

thanks and sorry

What do you mean, "blank slate"?

by boobs on Aug 26, 2009 3:17 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

(Don’t forget to give ctnyc points too)

by Brian B on Aug 26, 2009 3:45 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions   0 recs

its been done

What do you mean, "blank slate"?

by boobs on Aug 26, 2009 4:19 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

So would this...

….be considered insensitive?

First time I shot her, shot her in the side.
Hard to watch her suffer, but with the second shot she died...

by btcoop71 on Aug 26, 2009 3:20 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

mainly just not funny.

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Aug 26, 2009 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Ted prolly would have thought this OK.

He himself made self deprecating remarks and black humor about Chappaquiddick..but was never cavalier about the incident.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
George Carlin

by Madville on Aug 26, 2009 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Weak Sauce

"I'm going to become rich and famous after I invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet"

by jch24 on Aug 26, 2009 9:52 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

stuffed with italian sausage

What do you mean, "blank slate"?

by boobs on Aug 27, 2009 1:51 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Not to be outdone....

http://www.lex18.com/news/former-uk-coach-billy-gillispie-arrested-and-charged-with-dui/#redo

First time I shot her, shot her in the side.
Hard to watch her suffer, but with the second shot she died...

by btcoop71 on Aug 27, 2009 8:53 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

big month for ex UK coaches

"Plain and simple, I wake up in the morning and piss excellence"

by obc2 on Aug 29, 2009 1:05 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

meanwhile

tubby smith continues to be the perfect example of class

and somewhere eddie sutton is drunk

Made from 100% Recycled Awesome,

by 'tHan on Aug 29, 2009 1:20 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Next year I am putting my own name in the pool.

If I die and win…please take the money and have a ‘Talk Like a Curmudgeon Party" at O’Bryon’s.

If I don’t die and win – then you’ll have at least one more year of obnoxiousness and I’m keeping the $.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
George Carlin

by Madville on Aug 26, 2009 4:49 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I need to synchonize my lists next year

In my other death pool I had Corazon Aquino who would have been unique here. That would have pushed me into a close second. I must have dropped her for Bob Byrd because older peeps have more value here.

by Red Menace on Aug 27, 2009 2:14 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Hey Brian B

Any chance you could put the chick from the Progressive commercials on your list next year?

Will you stop it with the vegetables

by Man Mountain on Aug 28, 2009 7:54 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Please look again..harder Chuck

AND IN REAL LIFE



SKANK PATROL

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
George Carlin

by Madville on Aug 28, 2009 2:25 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Buzz, your girlfriend...

What do you mean, "blank slate"?

by boobs on Aug 28, 2009 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

KevinMcCallister'd

Made from 100% Recycled Awesome,

by 'tHan on Aug 29, 2009 9:09 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Led astray by GIS once again...

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Aug 29, 2009 12:25 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Saw her in a movie with Jack Black

She didn’t wear any make up and wasn’t as hot.

by Excalib8 on Sep 2, 2009 4:50 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I'll be 21 eventually...

haha

People Don't Kill People. Burning Couches Kill People.

by crolfer on Aug 28, 2009 9:32 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

BOOBS IS THINKING ABOUT MOVING THE AGE ELGIBILITY TO 25

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
George Carlin

by Madville on Aug 28, 2009 2:26 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

RIP Erich Kunzel

Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Sep 2, 2009 7:14 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

wow one of the most noted modern conductors

I believe he and teh Cincinnati pops have recorded more music than any other orchestra.

Bloop

by justin007000 on Sep 2, 2009 12:39 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

He spoke at my college graduation

Tons of respect for the guy, definitely a Cincinnati icon.

"We, as for me all seasons you are affected peculiarly in the edge of my seat and are happy concerning the fact that the Adam Dunn fan has been mixed up exactly." - Reynard-san

by BK on Sep 2, 2009 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

they were talking about him on the radio this morning

and they played a clip of him speaking. he said something like this, “i want people to remember me as a music entertainer. Beethoven was a music entertainer. Bach, Strauss, Mozart were music entertainers. Irving Berlin, George Gershwin were all music entertainers. that’s what i am.”

i hadnt heard of the guy until that radio clip i heard this morning, but boy, my first impression was not a glowing one.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Sep 2, 2009 3:58 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

i have a friend who works at CCM

she says he was an egotistical asshole, and makes crazy demands on CCM when he “Graces them” with his presence. She hated dealing with him.

Bloop

by justin007000 on Sep 2, 2009 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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