Top o' the Mortem: Easy Rider, Kids Say the Darndest Things and NOT Webster

by boobs on Jun 3, 2010 2:58 PM EDT

Things started slow but picked up quite a bit of late. Gary Coleman, Dennis Hopper and Art Linkletter were among the recent falling stars, and with three correct picks so far, BK has taken the lead.

After a fast start, Justin has fallen from first to 13th, the worst slide in the history of the RR bereavement pools. As always, please speak up if I've missed someone.

1. BK: 137 points (Dennis Hopper, Ernie Harwell, Art Linkletter)
2. boobs: 120 points (Dennis Hopper, Ernie Harwell, Kama Chinen)
3. BegalRed: 109 points (Dennis Hopper, Ernie Harwell)
4. JoshuaR: 108 points (Gary Coleman)
5. Brian B's wife: 104 points (Dennis Hopper, Art Linkletter)
6. Madville: 91 points (Lena Horne, John Forsythe)
7. boobs' friend Steve: 80 points (Ernie Harwell, Mary Josephine Ray, Kama Chinen)
8. boobs' coworker Brian: 76 points (Dennis Hopper)
8. boobs' mom: 76 points (Dennis Hopper)
8. nlt-Andrew: 76 points (Dennis Hopper)
8. Petey Hendrix: 76 points (Dennis Hopper)
8. tHan: 76 points (Dennis Hopper)
13. Justin: 74 points (Charlie Wilson)
14. Highlifeman: 61 points (Art Linkletter, John Forsythe)
15. Brian B: 33 points (Ernie Harwell)
15. Red Menace: 33 points (Ernie Harwell)

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 1. Kirk Douglas 2. Sparky Anderson $$ 3. Bob Feller 4. Eli Wallich $$ 5. John Paul Stevens 6. Gordie Howe $$ 7. Olivia De Havilland 8. Wolfgang Puck $$ 9. Jean Stapleton $$ 10. Hal Holbrook $$ 11. John Dingell $$ 12. Dave Brubeck $$ 13. Jon Forsythe 14. Lena Horne $$ 15. Mitch Miller $$ 16. Phyllis Diller 17. Hamid Karzai 18. Daniel Akaka $$ 19. Whitey Ford $$ 20. Betty White	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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I could have sworn Billy Graham was gone, but he's still with us

Had to look it up to double check

by Highlifeman21 on Jun 3, 2010 3:12 PM EDT reply actions

i always think he's dead every time I do one of these posts

Retractions are for journalists! -Gray

by boobs on Jun 3, 2010 3:15 PM EDT up reply actions

Best line I've heard of the recent deaths was from Jeffrey Ross

“Dennis Hopper, Art Linkletter, and Gary Coleman have all died. Like they say, these things always happen in two and a halfs.”

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by Slyde on Jun 3, 2010 4:12 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs

too soon!

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by 'tHan on Jun 3, 2010 4:17 PM EDT up reply actions

two and a half soon

Go, Reds! They're my favorite team!

by PeteyHendrix on Jun 3, 2010 6:14 PM EDT up reply actions

Rue McClanahan has died

she was into cougaring before cougaring was cool !

Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Jun 3, 2010 5:32 PM EDT reply actions

also..what is up with picking people only famous for being old ??

Mary Josephine Ray ?

Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Jun 3, 2010 5:38 PM EDT reply actions

if they make the news, they count

i dont really mind it, just because theyre virtually worthless. I mean, i got 11 points for kama chinen. although, if enough people are against it, i can change the rules next year

Retractions are for journalists! -Gray

by boobs on Jun 3, 2010 6:12 PM EDT up reply actions

Did those make CNN.com?

"aaron harnann is so aweseom" - justin

by BK on Jun 3, 2010 7:23 PM EDT up reply actions

yes

Retractions are for journalists! -Gray

by boobs on Jun 3, 2010 7:42 PM EDT up reply actions

here's the chinen one

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/04/worlds-oldest-person-dies-a-week-before-turning-115/

It was linked on the front page when it happened. the mary josephine ray one i cant find, but i think it’s because it was an AP report that has since gone off CNN’s servers. she was the oldest person in the US when she died

Retractions are for journalists! -Gray

by boobs on Jun 3, 2010 7:51 PM EDT up reply actions

i remember her now

she died, and then three hours later the person who took over as the oldest person in the U.S. died. that’s weird.

Retractions are for journalists! -Gray

by boobs on Jun 3, 2010 7:55 PM EDT up reply actions

For the record, Art Linkletter was in favor of marijuana legalization. :)

Go, Reds! They're my favorite team!

by PeteyHendrix on Jun 3, 2010 6:31 PM EDT reply actions

So is Excalib8

Anyone got him in the pool?

"i may be an idiot but i’m correct." -- 'tHan

by jch24 on Jun 3, 2010 6:35 PM EDT up reply actions

How in God's name if Art Linkletter is does Mitch Fucking Miller get to stay on the planet.

I swear on my Mom’s walker…I’m putting myself on next year’s dead pool list.

My name is Madville and I'm a JonnyGomesLaynceNixaddict.

by Madville on Jun 3, 2010 10:26 PM EDT up reply actions

John Wooden apparently died

BK’s lead grows…

Retractions are for journalists! -Gray

by boobs on Jun 3, 2010 6:41 PM EDT reply actions

Where did you hear that?

It hasn’t hit the internet yet…

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Jun 3, 2010 6:52 PM EDT up reply actions

KGJ's career, Galarraga's perfect game, Wizard of Westwood

It’s true, these things do happen in threes!

"i may be an idiot but i’m correct." -- 'tHan

by jch24 on Jun 3, 2010 6:55 PM EDT up reply actions

i had john wooden!

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by 'tHan on Jun 3, 2010 7:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, that isn't anywhere yet

Sad if it did

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by BK on Jun 3, 2010 7:22 PM EDT up reply actions

john wooden is the most glorified cheater of all time

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by 'tHan on Jun 3, 2010 7:29 PM EDT up reply actions

But he has a pyramid of success!

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Jun 3, 2010 7:39 PM EDT up reply actions

truth

RIP Bryan S. You will be missed.

by btcoop71 on Jun 3, 2010 10:33 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm listening

tell me more

by Highlifeman21 on Jun 4, 2010 8:02 AM EDT up reply actions

you just need to listen to an interview with bill walton

talking about his time at UCLA and all the money and Free tickets he received. the players don’t even try to deny it, but it never gets reported on

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by 'tHan on Jun 4, 2010 8:45 AM EDT up reply actions

Because his name doesn't begin with a C

And doesn’t end with alipari.

RIP Bryan S. You will be missed.

by btcoop71 on Jun 4, 2010 9:48 AM EDT up reply actions

You guys are really starting to sound like the poor opressed evangelical Christian faction

"i may be an idiot but i’m correct." -- 'tHan

by jch24 on Jun 4, 2010 10:35 AM EDT up reply actions

I guess I don't consider that cheating

free schwag goes on @ all major schools in their big revenue sports (I know, gross generalization), so I don’t really get all up in arms about it, nor consider it cheating

Now if coaches went the whole Blue Chip route and “bought” prospects/players/recruits, then I’d have issue with it. What teams do to keep their players happy and still in school, I could give 2 shits about that.

I’ll have to read up more on this, since I’d never heard anything about it, although I admittedly don’t pay much attention to UCLA, and their dynasty ’twas before my time.

by Highlifeman21 on Jun 4, 2010 10:20 AM EDT up reply actions