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12-01-2018, 07:35 AM
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Celebrity Death Pool 2019
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!!! And let me tell you, it’s great to be back as Death Mistress. I want to give a huge, I tell you, huge shout out to phungi for handling this sucker for 2017 and 2018.
So, I’m ready to wield the ceremonial scythe again, after having some time off. Here, once again, are the rules. Please read and follow them, especially if you are playing for the first time. Following the format makes it so much easier for me. The Rules: 1. You pick 13 celebrities (that's thirteen, not ten) whom you predict will die within the calendar year 2018. If any of your celebrities dies, you score 100 points minus their age at death. Whoever has the most points at the end of the year wins the undying *snort* admiration of the SDMB. 2. All picks must be time- and date-stamped by midnight Chicago time, Dec. 31st, 2018. (That's U.S. Central time, which is six hours behind Greenwich.) 3. Valid picks are not: a. already dead b. a fictional character c. non-human d. under age 18 at death, 'cause we're macabre but not THAT macabre. e. a registered member of the SDMB, 'cause that would be weird f. hostages held by terrorist organizations g. famous solely as a result of their illness or associated actions/events. It’s really hard to define “celebrity” Best we can do is someone who’s death is rather widely reported in major media outlets, because of something they’ve done, be it art, politics, athletics, science, music, the military, or even serial murder. It’s not going to be your Aunt Mabel who was in the local paper because her apple pie won first place in the county fair. HOWEVER, if you DO have a question about whether or not someone’s choice qualifies, please, I’d prefer a PM about it to start off with, rather than thrashing it out in public and possibly causing resentment. Remember, people, it’s only a game! It’s supposed to be fun! 4. You can pick people who are 100 or more years old but you won't score points for them. See the "Quantity Not Quality" award, below. 5. If we are uncertain about the celebrity's age at death, we will go by the higher age (lower score). 6. Prisoners held on death row will be valid for scoring points only if they die by means other than official execution. I call this the “Whitey Bulger“.rule. 7. Any poster who kills or otherwise contributes to the death of any celebrity mentioned in this thread is disqualified. It's just a game, people. The only exceptions to this rule would be deaths caused by those posters serving as members of the police or armed forces of any country, in the line of duty. 8. Editing your choices: be careful! You can make changes to your list before the end of the year, but it has to be clear which names are your final choices. It might be advisable to submit one or more "alternates" with your list, in the event that one of your picks dies during December 2018. If you have no alternates, and one of your picks has died the remaining twelve will be all you have. You may have no more than 13 picks. If you pick more than 13, or if any of your picks is otherwise invalid, I may ask for clarification. Otherwise, I will submit the first 13 names on your list. Do me a favor: check twice, post once. We have no rule about submitted lists having to be unique, despite claims of "copying" anyone else's list. We will just turn up our noses at you if you do this. Sharing news of celebrities in ill health and whatnot is up to individual posters. If a poster playing the game gets banned during the year, this does not invalidate their entry, although they won’t be able to gloat in the thread if and/or when they do get points. If a player changes their username at some point, post this news on the thread, or PM me, so I know who you are. Some celebrities have common, identical or similar names. It is helpful to be specific. Spelling counts! Please try to spell celebrities' names correctly. Names that weren’t originally spelled in English can be tricky, I know, but if you aren’t sure of a name, try looking at what a major news outlet, like CNN or the BBC, uses. While all deaths garnering points must occur during the calendar year, I know that a death might go unreported for a day or so. So, I will not post official total points for 48 hours after 12/31/2019. If you find that one of your picks died, say, late on 12/31/2019, and you didn’t hear about it until Jan. 2, 2020(this is a not so subtle hint to check your lists)then post a cite by midnight, Jan. 2, 2020, and you will get your points. After that you will be out of luck. Additional awards: The "Opening Kickoff" Award: awarded to the poster or posters who pick the first listed celebrity to die in 2019. The "Quantity Not Quality" Award: awarded to the poster or posters who pick the greatest number of celebrities who died, regardless of their actual point value. The "Inside Track With the Grim Reaper" Award: awarded to the poster or posters who had the most unique picks that died. The "Robbing the Cradle" Award: awarded to the poster or posters who pick the youngest celebrity to die in 2019, but see rule 3.d. The "Final Hours" Award: awarded to the poster or posters who pick the last listed celebrity to die in 2019. List Format: I have two spreadsheets that allow me to post game standings and produce various other statistics. The pain is "loading" the data into the sheets. I can do each list in a single cut and paste if you do the following two things. First, please observe, what I, Baker, refer to as the “Pope” rule, that is, use the name a celebrity is most commonly known by. It isn’t necessarily their birth name. If a person is known primarily by a titled name, please use that. So it wouldn’t be Jorge Bergoglio, it would be Pope Francis. And don’t put down Elizabeth Windsor, put down Queen Elizabeth II. For all I know there are other celebrities with the plain names. If you do pick George or Lizzy, under their lesser known names, I might not notice it, to give you those points if and when they shuffle off this mortal coil and go to join the choir invisible. And second, post your list in a plain format. An example of a plain list follows here: Sam Brownback Jeff Colyer Pat Roberts Jerry Moran Tim Huelskamp Mike Pompeo Kevin Yoder Derek Schmidt Kris Kobach Ron Estes Ken Selzer Donald Trump Mike Pence However, I know that many of you like to include commentary within your lists, such as: Donald(Pumpkin-in-Chief)Trump Sam(only 26% approval rating as governor)Brownback That’s fine, it’s entertaining. But if you do that, please include the list again in plain format for me to copy & paste. It’s good to be the Death Mistress! Have fun, sickos, and “May the odds be ever in your favor!” |
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#2
12-01-2018, 08:15 AM
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Our Death Mistress is in the house!!
ETA: Damn, this means I've got to start putting together my 2019 list! 
Last edited by RTFirefly; 12-01-2018 at 08:19 AM. |
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#3
12-01-2018, 09:20 AM
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I have to remove George Bush from my potential list.
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#4
12-01-2018, 09:25 AM
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Queen Elizabeth
Meat Loaf Jimmy Carter Rosalynn Carter The Amazing Johnathan Pat Boone Pat Robertson Joe Piscopo John Rhys-Davies Hal Holbrook Donald Trump Larry Flynt James Randi Alternates: Mary-Kate Olsen Ashley Olsen Dan Rather |
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#5
12-01-2018, 09:52 AM
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The Shroom is Dead! Long live the Mistress!
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#6
12-01-2018, 12:23 PM
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Are we doing the "two separate lists in two separate threads" nonsense this year for those of us with themed lists?
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#7
12-01-2018, 01:29 PM
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As usual, I post a preliminary list that will usually change in the last day, just in case I do forget to make the changes later or on time.
Kaing Guek Eav Olivia Newton-John Artie Lange Fernando Ricksen Leah Bracknell Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Linda Nolan Marieke Vervoort Kamala Little Richard Ric Flair José José Sean Connery Alts: Donald Trump Dick Cheney Baker. Will you set an email to get secret lists from posters as we did last year? |
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#8
12-01-2018, 01:33 PM
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#9
12-01-2018, 02:05 PM
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Thank you, oh great DeathMistress for once again taking up the reins of this most gruesome, macabre, somewhat disgusting but dang fun game! You might want to change calendar year 2018 to calendar year 2019 in rule number one. I shall wait a few days at least to post my list. I must first decide who deserves to become immortal.
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#10
12-01-2018, 02:19 PM
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I have never scored a single point.
 Prince Phillip Johnny Knoxville Queen Elizabeth Charlie Sheen Steve-O Travis Pastrana Bam Margera Andy Bell Josh Todd Bombshell McGee Danny Bonaduce Michael Schumacher Max Verstappen Again, a perverse pleasure in sandwiching the Queen between Knoxville and Sheen. |
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#11
12-01-2018, 02:56 PM
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus
John Williams Gene Hackman David Geffen Valerie Harper Dustin Hoffman Stephen King Tina Turner William Hurt Val Kilmer Kevin Spacey Penny Marshall Art Garfunkel Alternates: Matt Lauer Steven Spielberg Madonna
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Which is crazier? To the hear the Voice of God when it's really only thunder? Or to hear only thunder when it's really the Voice of God? |
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12-01-2018, 03:58 PM
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12-01-2018, 09:01 PM
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Marla Gibbs
Fred Willard Steven Tyler Ringo Starr Nichelle Nichols Dick Van Dyke Billy Joel Wilford Brimley Deep Roy Olivia Newton John Alternates; Stephen King Richard Dreyfuss Harvey Keitel
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I can't help being a gorgeous fiend. It's just the card I drew. |
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#14
12-01-2018, 09:11 PM
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One way to handle this is to wait until 11:59pm CST 12/31 to post one's list, but as mentioned, Mahaloth came up with a way of submitting lists secretly before the deadline, with the lists submitted that way being revealed by the DM on January 1. A lot of people took advantage of that in this year's game. |
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#15
12-01-2018, 09:22 PM
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I want to encourage participation but that means I'd be posting someone's list for them on 1/1. And I have things I'd rather be doing the morning after my birthday. If not having secret lists would stop someone from playing I'll take them, so just PM me the list and I'll put it aside in a special file. |
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12-01-2018, 09:49 PM
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For the past two years I waited to the last minute and then missed the deadline. So, I am here, now posting:
Henry Kissinger Joni Mitchell Ralph Nader Willie Mays Ronnie Wood Don Newcombe Whitey Ford Red Schoendienst Girma Wolde-Giorgis Pope Benedict XVI ALTS: Hosni Mubarak Ciriaco Di Mita Dick Van Dyke |
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12-01-2018, 10:07 PM
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For the last few weeks I've actually had the wherewithal to add names to my list when I stumble upon celebrity illness articles. So for the first time in a while my list is peopled with new names.
Mel Brooks Ruth Buzzi Sean Connery Billy Connolly Tim Conway Windsor Davies Glenn Fabry Marie Fredriksson Liza Minnelli Bob Newhart Betty White June Whitfield John Williams BACKUPS David Attenborough Quentin Blake Gary Glitter NOTES Glenn Fabry is a British comic book artist Windsor Davies and June Whitfield are British sitcom actors Marie Fredrikkson is from the band Roxette |
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12-01-2018, 10:39 PM
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12-01-2018, 11:55 PM
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12-02-2018, 12:29 AM
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Paul Lepage
Eddie Lampert Prince Phillip Orrin Hatch Jaromir Jagr Damien Hess aka MC Frontalot Justin Bieber Hugh Jackman Jon Bon Jovi Steven King Jeff Bezos Bashar Al Assad Shigeru Miyamoto Alternates: Elvis Costello Dale Earnhardt Jr. Emmanuel Macron Last edited by boffking; 12-02-2018 at 12:29 AM. |
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12-02-2018, 06:14 AM
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12-02-2018, 07:39 AM
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12-02-2018, 11:27 AM
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Here are the three celebrities that I forgot to include initially. In order to keep my alternates in their designated roles, please add: Linda Ronstadt Frances Sternhagen Michael McKean
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I can't help being a gorgeous fiend. It's just the card I drew. |
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12-02-2018, 08:54 PM
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You know you have been in the Death Pool too long if you can quickly scroll through the thread and still realize someone didn't pick 13.
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12-03-2018, 08:21 AM
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12-03-2018, 12:10 PM
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I have revised my list removing Red S. and following the 13 plus 3 rule.
Henry Kissinger Joni Mitchell Ralph Nader Willie Mays Ronnie Wood Don Newcombe Whitey Ford Ed Kranepool Girma Wolde-Giorgis Pope Benedict XVI Hosni Mubarak Ciriaco Di Mita Dick Van Dyke ALTS: Mel Brooks Ian St. John David Crosby |
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#27
12-04-2018, 03:37 PM
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Mike Tyson
James "Buster" Douglas Ruth Bader-Ginsberg Bill Clinton Robert Downey Jr. Paul McCartney Arnold Schwarzenegger Lindsay Lohan Gordon Moore Betty White Bob Dylan Woody Allen Bill Cosby Regards, Shodan |
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12-04-2018, 03:53 PM
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Gutsy. |
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12-04-2018, 06:36 PM
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Hi, I have never played before but would like to submit my humble offering of 13 names (and three alternates) in the hope that the Death Pool deities find them worthy. Also, are there 13 for a Baker's dozen?
Val Valentino Michael Gambon Maggie Smith Billy Joel Michael Caine Paddy Ashdown Randy Orton John Motson Eric Idle Timothy West Glenn Hoddle Jimmy Carter Joan Plowright Alternates: Uri Geller Christopher Awdry Justin Bieber |
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#30
12-04-2018, 06:44 PM
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No, it's for the "lucky" connotations of the number thirteen. |
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12-05-2018, 09:30 AM
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Regards, Shodan Last edited by Shodan; 12-05-2018 at 09:31 AM. |
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12-05-2018, 02:42 PM
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Keith Richards
Bill Clinton MaryKate Olsen Lance Armstrong Vladimir Putin Dick Cheney Bernie Madoff Lindsey Lohan Steve Bannon Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Kate Gosselin Russell Brand Justin Bieber Alternates: Pat Boone Hillary Clinton |
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12-05-2018, 02:56 PM
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John Madden
Jimmy Carter Shannon Dougherty Betty White Charlie Sheen Wilford Brimley Paula Deen Sandy Koufax Bob Dole Pete Rose John Mellencamp Billy Joel Rush Limbaugh Alternates: Daniel Day Lewis Tom Hanks Sally Fields |
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12-06-2018, 06:36 AM
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Phungi is keeping that one while Baker graciously takes back the main game. |
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#35
12-06-2018, 07:23 AM
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The idea of a separate 'themed list' thread is that a themed list tends to score fewer points than a list that draws from the entire population of celebrities. Having a separate thread means you don't have to choose between having a theme and going for max points.
But if you just want a themed list, and you want to have it in this thread, that's A-OK AFAICT. |
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#36
12-06-2018, 07:42 AM
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I missed last year because the Themed Death Pool was done as another thread, so my Mary Tyler Moore Show list was put in there and I never got around to doing one for the real Death Pool, not that my zero points mattered. This list was slapped-together by googling for celebrities who are, or have been, old or sick. Not being a pop-culture maven, the only thing that took a little time was finding people that I have actually heard of
 Kathleen Blanco Tom Brokaw Tommy Chong Sean Connery Shannen Doherty Michael Douglas Michael J. Fox Valerie Harper Val Kilmer Joan Lunden Liza Minnelli Olivia Newton-John Kenny Rogers Alternates: Jimmy Carter Jim Kelly Julia Louis-Dreyfus Michael Douglas is the actor, son of Kirk. There are several other semi-famous ones. Kenny Rogers is the singer, not the former MLB pitcher Jim Kelly is the former NFL QB, not the British author. |
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12-06-2018, 02:22 PM
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12-06-2018, 03:51 PM
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And as the DeathMistress of the regular list, I also agree.
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12-06-2018, 03:55 PM
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And your list looks like a good one too. |
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#40
12-06-2018, 09:41 PM
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Your humble DeathMistress submits her list. These folks are frim oldest to youngest.
Conrad Bachmann Charlotte Stewart Fred Ward Richard Marcus Michael Gross Thomas Rosales, Jr. Helen Shaver Marcelo Tubert Reba McEntire Kevin Bacon Finn Carter Chris Gartin Robert Jayne Alt: Ariana Richards |
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12-07-2018, 08:49 AM
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12-07-2018, 08:56 AM
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#43
12-07-2018, 11:42 AM
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Here is my list.
Lukasz Gottwald Donald Trump Bashar Assad Justin Bieber Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Pat Robertson Kim Kardashian Hassan Nasrallah Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Steve Bannon Wayne LaPierre Louis Farrakhan Roger Waters Alternates: James Taylor Bob Seger Little Richard Hopefully all 13 people on my main list die in 2019 (or 2018), while the alternates are just random musicians I picked off the top of my head. |
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12-07-2018, 06:18 PM
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Oh well, I've just checked on one of my sure-fire picks for 2019 and found he has died.
The rest are, of course, now sure-fire survivors. |
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12-07-2018, 06:26 PM
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And another, Jael Strauss, bit the dust just the other day.
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12-08-2018, 05:50 AM
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Stephen King
Tommy Lasorda Ruth Bader-Ginsberg Jimmy Carter Queen Elizabeth Paul McCartney Kirk Douglas David Hasselhoff Olivia De Havilland Betty White Hal Holbrook Woody Allen Bill Cosby Charlie Sheen Johnny Depp Michael J. Fox |
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12-08-2018, 12:10 PM
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She'd been on my list of prospects too - found out (like you probably did) when I was Googling my prospects to verify that they were (a) still living, and (b) still in questionable health. |
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12-08-2018, 12:12 PM
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#49
12-09-2018, 08:08 PM
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Here's my list.
Bob Barker Pope Benedict XVI Thad Cochran Bill Cosby Neil Diamond Tony Dorsett Selena Gomez Sarah Hyland José José Demi Lovato Andrés Manuel López Obrador Nichelle Nichols Regis Philbin Alternates Queen Elizabeth II Prince Philip |
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#50
12-09-2018, 08:43 PM
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It has been entirely too long.
Without further ado: George Takei Jimmy Carter Meat Loaf Melania Trump Jane Dee Hull Sandra Day O'Connor Ruth Bader Ginsburg Angela Merkel Johnny Manziel Urban Meyer Melania Trump Rex Tillerson Stevie Nicks Alternates: Fritz Hollings Meghan Markle Valerie Bertinelli |
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