I've yet to receive all the money, so no picture of this year's official Bereavement Folder yet, but trust me, it will be pretty.
Usually I go through every selection and make sure everyone's still alive, but this year I was long on list and short on time, so I just eye-balled it. As always, if you see any mistakes, such as unique entries not marked, non-unique entries inappropriately marked, dead folks on the list or hits I haven't noted, please speak up. Please note, though, that if you listed someone who is already dead, it's too late to substitute. You just lost that selection. I don't think anyone did, however.
It looks like Justin has already taken the lead with his studious pick of Charlie Wilson, that great American who picked a fight with Russia in Afghanistan and armed Osama bin Laden. Also, if you've seen the movie or read the book, you know he was a very successful philanderer.
1. Justin: 74 points (Charlie Wilson)
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 McCorkindale 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 |
Madville 9. Jean Stapleton $$ |
nlt-andrew 1. Ayman Al-Zawahiri $$ 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 |