Top O' the Mortem: You've got to bereave
by boobs on Nov 29, 2010 12:01 AM EST
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PrintSince the last post at the end of the summer, there have been five casualties that have paid great dividends to some of our contestants. Most notably, Barbara Billingsley (aka June Cleaver) helped BK pad his lead.
But Madville has made a huge push with a coupla unique picks. God smote American bandman Mitch Miller (age 99), and Madville also profited from the demise of dear old Sparky Anderson (76). That vaults Madville all the way up to second place.
Also making a tremendous move was Joe Nolan's Glasses, who guessed correctly on the passing of British film dude Simon MacCorkindale -- as did my mom and Brian B's wife -- and made the pick of the year with 50-year-old cyclist and Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon.
Shockingly, NYCRedsFan is still the only person not to have any points and the only person who hasn't paid. Here are the updated standings:
1. BK: 264 points (Dennis Hopper, Ernie Harwell, Art Linkletter, John Wooden, George Steinbrenner, Barbara Billingsley)
2. Madville: 216 points (Lena Horne, John Forsythe, Mitch Miller, Sparky Anderson)
3. boobs: 198 points (Dennis Hopper, Ernie Harwell, Kama Chinen, Robert Byrd, George Steinbrenner)
4. Brian B's wife: 197 points (Dennis Hopper, Art Linkletter, John Wooden, Simon MacCorkindale)
5. Joe Nolan's Glasses: 193 points (John Wooden, Laurent Fignon, Simon MacCorkindale)
6. nlt-Andrew: 180 points (Dennis Hopper, Robert Byrd, John Wooden, George Steinbrenner)
6. Petey Hendrix: 180 points (Dennis Hopper, Robert Byrd, John Wooden, George Steinbrenner)
8. boobs' mom: 176 points (Dennis Hopper, Robert Byrd, Simon MacCorkindale)
9. boobs' coworker Brian: 173 points (Dennis Hopper, Robert Byrd, Ted Stevens)
10. tHan: 147 points (Dennis Hopper, John Wooden, George Steinbrenner)
11. BegalRed: 142 points (Dennis Hopper, Ernie Harwell, Robert Byrd)
12. boobs' friend Steve: 139 points (Ernie Harwell, Mary Josephine Ray, Kama Chinen, John Wooden, Robert Byrd)
13. Brian B: 119 points (Ernie Harwell, John Wooden, Ralph Houk)
14. Red Menace: 111 points (Ernie Harwell, Robert Byrd, George Steinbrenner)
15. JoshuaR: 108 points (Gary Coleman)
16. Justin: 107 points (Charlie Wilson, Robert Byrd)
17. ctnyc: 78 points (Robert Byrd, George Steinbrenner)
18. JohnU: 71 points (John Wooden, George Steinbrenner)
19. Highlifeman: 61 points (Art Linkletter, John Forsythe)
20. RedinWrigleyville: 45 points (George Steinbrenner)
21. boobs' coworker Jim: 26 points (John Wooden)
| bengalred 1. Larry Flynt 2. Courtney Love 3. Amy Winehouse 4. Robert Byrd 5. Liz Taylor 6. Fidel Castro 7. Ariel Sharon 8. Bob Feller 9. John Madden 10. Ernie Harwell 11. Dennis Hopper 12. Alec Baldwin $$ 13. Mike Tyson $$ 14. Margaret Thatcher 15. Stephen Hawking 16. Jimmy Carter 17. Muhammad Ali 18. Dick Clark 19. Queen Elizabeth II 20. Ernest Borgnine |
BK 1. Muhammad Ali 2. Artie Lange 3. Dennis Hopper 4. John Wooden 5. Mary-Kate Olsen 6. Fidel Castro 7. Billy Graham 8. Marvin Miller $$ 9. George Steinbrenner 10. Helen Gurley Brown $$ 11. Art Linkletter 12. Sargent Shriver 13. Phyllis Diller 14. Ernie Harwell 15. Jack Klugman $$ 16. Sandra Day O'Connor 17. Pauline Phillips $$ 18. Bob Feller 19. Kirk Douglas 20. Barbara Billingsley $$ |
boobs 1. Kathryn Joosten $$ 2. Robert Byrd 3. Seve Ballesteros 4. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi 5. Dave Rose $$ 6. Dennis Hopper 7. Artie Lange 8. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 9. Peter Tork 10. Ernie Harwell 11. Fidel Castro 12. Fyvush Finkel $$ 13. Ariel Sharon 14. Teresa Heinz $$ 15. Stephen Hawking 16. Kama Chinen 17. Bryant Gumbel 18. Urban Meyer $$ 19. Elizabeth Edwards 20. George Steinbrenner |
boobs' coworker Brian 1. Andy Rooney 2. Barbara Walters $$ 3. Pete Townshend $$ 4. Roger Daltrey $$ 5. Robert Byrd 6. Ted Stevens $$ 7. Arlen Specter 8. Dick Cheney 9. Dick Vitale $$ 10. Hamid Karzai 11. Nouri al-Maliki $$ 12. Dennis Hopper 13. Zsa Zsa Gabor 14. Fidel Castro 15. Nelson Mandela 16. Seve Ballesteros 17. Nancy Reagan 18. Joan Rivers $$ 19. Lady GaGa $$ 20. Cher $$ |
boobs' coworker Jim 1. Kirk Douglas 2. Zsa Zsa Gabor 3. Elaine Stritch $$ 4. Rip Torn $$ 5. Fidel Castro 6. George H.W. Bush 7. Eli Wallach 8. Roger Ebert 9. Artie Lange 10. Owen Wilson $$ 11. John Wooden 12. Seve Ballesteros 13. Ernest Borgnine 14. Lara Flynn Boyle $$ 15. Don Rickles $$ 16. Nancy Reagan 17. Jake Lamotta 18. Hugh Hefner 19. Herman Wouk 20. Gene Hackman $$ |
| boobs' friend Steve 1. Elizabeth Edwards 2. John Wooden 3. Ariel Sharon 4. Billy Graham 5. Lee MacPhail 6. Bobby Doerr $$ 7. Ernie Harwell 8. Fidel Castro 9. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi 10. Margaret Thatcher 11. Robert Byrd 12. Ronnie Biggs 13. Ruth Bader-Ginsberg 14. Kirk Douglas 15. Mary Josephine Ray $$ 16. Kama Chinen 17. Steve Jobs 18. Zsa Zsa Gabor 19. Seve Ballesteros 20. Michael C. Hall |
boobs' mom 1. Bryant Gumbel 2. Ariel Sharon 3. Peter Tork 4. Nancy Reagan 5. Elizabeth Edwards 6. Robert Byrd 7. Fidel Castro 8. Dick Clark 9. Kirk Douglas 10. Phyllis Diller 11. Zsa Zsa Gabor 12. Billy Graham 13. Betty Ford 14. Jerry Lewis 15. Kim Jong-Il 16. Jeff Conaway 17. Olivia De Havilland 18. Stephen Hawking 19. Simon MacCorkindale 20. Dennis Hopper |
Brian B 1. Harry Morgan 2. Ralph Houk $$ 3. John Wooden 4. Paul Allen $$ 5. Ariel Sharon 6. Steve Smith (Raiders) $$ 7. Orlando Thomas 8. Andy Griffith $$ 9. Seve Ballesteros 10. Sargent Shriver 11. Ronnie Biggs 12. Ricky Stone $$ 13. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi (Lockerbie bomber) 14. Ernie Harwell 15. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 16. Kareem Abdul Jabbar $$ 17. Billy Graham 18. Dana Bible $$ 19. Tim Donaghy $$ 20. Kim Jong-il |
Brian B's wife 1. Fidel Castro 2. Herman Wouk 3. Ariel Sharon 4. Kirk Douglas 5. Simon MacCorkindale 6. Zsa Zsa Gabor 7. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi 8. Amy Winehouse 9. Harry Byrd Jr. $$ 10. John Wooden 11. Olivia DeHavilland 12. Don Baylor $$ 13. Dennis Hopper 14. Peter Tork 15. Oscar Niemeyer 16. Billy Graham 17. Luise Rainer $$ 18. Art Linkletter 19. B. B. King 20. John Demjanjuk |
ctnyc 1) Etta James $$ 2) Robert Byrd 3) Elizabeth Edwards 4) Nancy Reagan 5) Lindsay Lohan 6) Liz Taylor 7) Paul Michael Glaser $$ 8) George Steinbrenner 9) Roger Ebert 10) Steve Jobs 11) Orlando Thomas 12) Jack Kevorkian 13) Mary-Kate Olsen 14) Dick Clark 15) Margaret Thatcher 16) Adam Yauch $$ 17) Fidel Castro 18) Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi 19) Betty Ford 20) Rush Limbaugh |
| HighlifeMan 1. Dick Clark 2. Michael J Fox 3. Tom Sizemore $$ 4. Pat Summerall 5. Barack Obama 6. Michael Richards $$ 7. Tiger Woods $$ 8. Tom Cruise $$ 9. Eddie Van Halen $$ 10. Rush Limbaugh 11. Artie Lange 12. Mario Batali $$ 13. John Forsythe 14. John Demjanjuk 15. Travis Pastrana 16. Ronnie Biggs 17. Elizabeth Edwards 18. Art Linkletter 19. Roman Polanski $$ 20. Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary II |
Joe Nolan's Glasses 1. Roger Ebert 2. John Goodman $$ 3. Steve Jobs 4. Pacman Jones $$ 5. Yitzhak Shamir 6. Simon MacCorkindale 7. Peter Tork 8. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi 9. Andy Dick $$ 10. Charles Manson $$ 11. Betty Ford 12. Margaret Thatcher 13. Hamid Karzai 14. Ariel Sharon 15. Billy Graham 16. Travis Pastrana 17. Michael C Hall 18. Laurent Fignon $$ 19. John Wooden 20. Paul Prudhomme $$ |
JohnU 1. Dick Clark 2. Liz Taylor 3. Sen. Arlen Specter 4. Kirk Douglas 5. Muhammad Ali 6. Sid Caesar $$ 7. George Steinbrenner 8. Johnny Mathis $$ 9. Abe Vigoda $$ 10. Fidel Castro 11. Mike Love $$ 12. Henry Kissinger $$ 13. Johnny Wooden 14. Yogi Berra 15. Slim Whitman $$ 16. Billy Graham 17. Hugh Hefner 18. Phyllis Diller 19. Nelson Mandela 20. Zsa Zsa Gabor |
JoshuaR 1. Nancy Reagan 2. Rick Majerus $$ 3. Dick Clark 4. Seve Ballesteros 5. Kim Jong Il 6. Tony Bennett $$ 7. Verne Troyer $$ 8. Larry King 9. Peter Falk 10. Bob Dole 11. Richard Petty $$ 12. Larry Flynt 13. Yogi Berra 14. Neil Armstrong $$ 15. Emperor Akihito of Japan $$ 16. Gary Coleman $$ 17. Steve Jobs 18. Tommy Lasorda $$ 19. Michael J. Fox 20. Art Donovan $$ |
Justin 1. Ariel Sharon 2. Bob Dole 3. Steve Jobs 4. Elizabeth Taylor 5. Harry Morgan 6. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 7. Jimmy Carter 8. Dick Clark 9. Ray Bradbury $$ 10. Billy Graham 11. Dick van Dyke $$ 12. Robert Byrd 13. George HW Bush 14. Elizabeth Edwards 15. Michael C. Hall 16. Dan Rather $$ 17. Andy Rooney 18. Roger Ebert 19. Charlie Wilson $$ 20. Kirk Douglas |
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Madville 1. Kirk Douglas |
nlt-andrew 1. Ayman Al-Zawahiri $$ 2. George Steinbrenner 3. Elizabeth Taylor 4. Fidel Castro 5. Dennis Hopper 6. Nelson Mandela 7. Ariel Sharon 8. Kim Jong Il 9. Lee MacPhail 10. Sargent Shriver 11. Yitzhak Shamir 12. Barbara Bush $$ 13. Oscar Niemeyer 14. Robert Byrd 15. Zsa Zsa Gabor 16. Billy Graham 17. Bob Feller 18. Mohammed Ali 19. John Wooden 20. Bill Clinton $$ |
nycredsfan 1. Nelson Mandela 2. Andy Rooney 3. Amy Winehouse 4. Roger Ebert 5. Dick Clark 6. Nancy Reagan 7. Ariel Sharon 8. Peter Falk 9. Courtney Love 10. Keith Richards 11. Fidel Castro 12. Queen Elizabeth II 13. Muhammad Ali 14. Desmond Tutu $$ 15. Lawrence Taylor $$ 16. Kim Jong Il 17. Zsa Zsa Gabor 18. BB King 19. Lindsay Lohan 20. Betty White |
Petey Hendrix 1. Fidel Castro 2. Roger Ebert 3. John Madden $$ 4. Billy Graham 5. Ireland's Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan $$ 6. Mindy McCready $$ 7. Sen. Robert Byrd 8. Dennis Hopper 9. Kirk Douglas 10. Slim Pickins $$ 11. Ariel Sharon 12. B.B. King 13. Dick Cheney 14. John Wooden 15. James Earl Jones $$ 16. Betty Ford 17. George Steinbrenner 18. O.J. Simpson $$ 19. Mickey Rooney 20. Steve Jobs |
RedInWrigleyville 1. Bernie Madoff $$ 2. Barack Obama 3. Ken Griffey Sr $$ 4. Robert Redford $$ 5. Ryan Freel $$ 6. Steve Jobs 7. Rodney Dangerfield $$ 8. Olivia Mary de Havilland 9. Mickey Rooney 10. Andy Rooney 11. Stan Musial 12. George Steinbrenner 13. Bill Bidwell $$ 14. Virginia Hala McCaskey $$ 15. Carot Top $$ 16. Mick Jagger $$ 17. Elton John $$ 18. Keith Richards 19. Muhammed Ali 20. Jose Canseco $$ |
| Red Menace 1. Seve Ballesteros 2. Ron Springs (NFL) $$ 3. Stephen Hawking 4. George Steinbrenner 5. Ronnie Biggs 6. Ariel Sharon 7. Peter Falk 8. Fidel Castro 9. Stan Musial 10. Billy Graham 11. Muhammed Ali 12. Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi (Lockerbie Bomber) 13. Annette Funicello $$ 14. Ernie Harwell 15. Robert Byrd 16. Louis Farrakhan $$ 17. Kirk Douglas 18. Dick Clark 19. David Prowse $$ 20. Jack Kevorkian |
tHan 1. Betty White 2. John Wooden 3. Dennis Hopper 4. Peter Falk 5. Zsa Zsa Gabor 6. Oscar Niemeyer 7. Courtney Love 8. Dolores Hope $$ 9. Fidel Castro 10. Jake LaMotta 11. Chyna $$ 12. Jake “the snake” Roberts $$ 13. George H.W. Bush 14. George Steinbrenner 15. Yitzhak Shamir 16. Pat Summerall 17. Steven Tyler $$ 18. Muhammed Ali 19. Pete Doherty $$ 20. Jeff Conaway |
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He still hasn't paid?
Surely you can’t be serious…
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
Leslie Nielsen was the last person that didn't pay boobs
Just sayin’…
by Brendanukkah on Nov 29, 2010 12:07 AM EST up reply actions
I watched Airplane! on Friday..
Now he’s gone. Terrifying.
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
Looks like you picked the wrong day to give up cigarettes.
"The USA despite its flaws and corruption and overall messiness is still a great and powerful instrument of freedom and hope for the entire world." - Madville
It's been a tough year for the Airplane! cast
Peter Graves, Barbara Billingsley, and now Leslie Nielsen.
Anybody have Julie Hagerty or Robert Hays? What about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?
Red Reporter or follow on Twitter: @redreporter. Buy The Wire-to-Wire Reds today!
I've got Kareem
but I seemed to have lost the touch of death since 2009.
On the other hand, remember when I announced the impending demise of Ralph Houk?
by Brian B on Nov 29, 2010 2:51 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
"Someday, when the breaks are beating the boys, I'll go out there, and win just one for the Zipper."
“I don’t know where I’ll be then, but I won’t smell too good, that’s for sure.”
"Red Reporter - An elitist clique full of like-minded douchebags." - BK
Mitch Miller was such a 'gutsy' pick...
I should get extra points for him.
I don’t think there’s anyway we can catch B (The Grim Reaper) K
"Men today are pussies or gay" Aja Warren
Almost got Bob Feller today too
"Aroldis Chapman is a seven course meal followed by four hours of sex on the table with a nymphomaniac model heiress who owns her own brewery." - jch24
by BK on Nov 29, 2010 7:26 PM EST up reply actions
That's why I said "almost"
"Aroldis Chapman is a seven course meal followed by four hours of sex on the table with a nymphomaniac model heiress who owns her own brewery." - jch24
Studies have shown
On average, a 25% increase in ass-whoopins results in a 65% decrease in sass.
"He’s like if Ron Gant and Eric Davis had a white baby." -- GlennBraggsSwingAndMissBrokenBat on Drew Stubbs
Bob Feller would be worth a lot more points
if he didn’t lose several seasons serving in WWII.
by Red Menace on Nov 30, 2010 1:13 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, but the Japanese soldiers he met there
Were worth a ton of points in the 1943 Bereavement Pool.
by Brendanukkah on Nov 30, 2010 1:52 AM EST up reply actions
I think I'll just wait and send my $10 directly to BeeK when it becomes official
see what I did there with uzr? it’s like a LOL cats saber-pun combo.--Verka Serduchka
i don't know
madville is starting to get old enough that he probably has inside information.
"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word."
-President Andrew Jackson
by justin007000 on Nov 30, 2010 1:07 PM EST up reply actions
high five!
"Aroldis Chapman is a seven course meal followed by four hours of sex on the table with a nymphomaniac model heiress who owns her own brewery." - jch24
by BK on Nov 30, 2010 7:04 PM EST up reply actions
No Santo for any of you?
I’m surprised.
"And then there was the USAID guy in Kandahar who drove a giant pink Cadillac, which the locals set on fire one day. If you wanted to destroy something symbolic during a riot, you just could not do better than that. Good stuff." - Ghosts of Alexander
Not voting for Ron Santo is habit-forming
by Brian B on Dec 3, 2010 9:30 AM EST via mobile up reply actions 5 recs
Most people have one foot in the grave
Ron Santo was not “most people.”
by Brendanukkah on Dec 3, 2010 1:46 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
nice
I was trying to do this, but couldn’t figure out the best way.
"And then there was the USAID guy in Kandahar who drove a giant pink Cadillac, which the locals set on fire one day. If you wanted to destroy something symbolic during a riot, you just could not do better than that. Good stuff." - Ghosts of Alexander
Ron Santo:
Another old Cubs fan who never saw the Cubs win a World Series.
"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word."
-President Andrew Jackson
If you bereave then you can achieve, just look at me.
"I bet that sex Bengals fan is really pissed now." -DT3428
I bereave it's "life after love"
Retractions are for journalists! -Gray
by boobs on Dec 5, 2010 3:29 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
ah yes
i bereave i owe you an apology.
by Charlie Scrabbles on Dec 5, 2010 9:50 AM EST up reply actions
i cant bereave you!
how could you treat me so unbereavably bad?
by Charlie Scrabbles on Dec 5, 2010 11:37 AM EST up reply actions
Don't you think it's time for you to bereaving?
Red Reporter or follow on Twitter: @redreporter. Buy The Wire-to-Wire Reds today!
But I want to bereave so badly.
"Red Reporter - An elitist clique full of like-minded douchebags." - BK
do you bereave in magic?
"And a high fly ball to center field. He hit it a ton. And the 2010 National League Central Division Champs are the Cincinnati Reds!"
Loa Tsu bereave that the Tao that is the Toa is not the Toa
Wait that sounds racist…
"Men today are pussies or gay" Aja Warren
This may be the new benchmark for Madville posts that I absolutely do not understand.
"there no countrey called west xylophone" Youtube
Elizabeth Edwards
<a href="http://www.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_2_0_t&bvm=list&topic=blended&usg=AFQjCNHJSogYyiagbtQe2w7G2fr-2E1kzg&sig2=iE6JpLO6ajobyU8I5Vfp1Q&cid=17593827847722&ei=zbb-TOC2DZu0NeP6pJ8C&rt=HOMEPAGE&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2010%2F12%2F08%2Fus%2F08edwards.html" >You can put her on the board.
"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word."
-President Andrew Jackson
i had edwards last year and took her off the list this year ...
… i thought she had gotten better … goes to show you never know
"And a high fly ball to center field. He hit it a ton. And the 2010 National League Central Division Champs are the Cincinnati Reds!"
Bob Feller has been moved to hospice
his days are numbered
Follow on Twitter: @redreporter. Buy The Wire-to-Wire Reds today!
but is that number bigger or smaller than 22?
This one might test the time-of-death rule.
Retractions are for journalists! -Gray
Feller is on my list this year...
I mean if he’s in hospice I hope he croaks B4 New Years Eve at 11:59pm
Besides he morphed into Roberta Feller
"Men today are pussies or gay" Aja Warren
you got your wish..
he has died..
Nobody listens to Andrew
by nlt-andrew68 on Dec 15, 2010 11:19 PM EST up reply actions
Christ on a fucking hubcap...
BK will you promise to shoot me if I ever get that old?
"Men today are pussies or gay" Aja Warren
Why wait, buddy? I'll shoot you now!
I’m just that good of a friend.
"He’s like if Ron Gant and Eric Davis had a white baby." -- GlennBraggsSwingAndMissBrokenBat on Drew Stubbs
You can always count on your friends to know what is best for you!
"Men today are pussies or gay" Aja Warren
kill irt
"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word."
-President Andrew Jackson
by justin007000 on Dec 11, 2010 3:38 AM EST up reply actions
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