Thank you very much for your kind words! I was not being completely serious. Kind of sorta, like, you know, humblebragging, man. It worked! 
My 0 picks with 0 points is fortunately not complicating things.
Anything I can do to help, folks!
I always root for Space Rock, 2021 or 2022, …,2026.
Not me. I almost always vote Cthulhu, because why vote for the lesser evil?
Hatchie had him as an alternate:
How does one get a unique hit and share an opening kick off award?
Is a shared “unique” a “binique”?
When 2 people die on the same day and both are the first to score. They both got unique picks and shared the opening kickoff.
“twinique”, or maybe “dunique”
I have two picks so far: the first one was unique (von Däniken). But on the same day, someone else had a unique pick too, a different one (forgot which pick it was, but it gave more points). Thus the shared Opening Kickoff Award which, I learned, is not granted by the time of death, which can often not be ascertained, but by the date of death. The second one was not unique, but the other person did not have that one, so that put me for a very short while on top. The others I shared this pick with were ten points behind me (von Däniken died aged 90). The second not unique pick was enough to overtake the other Opening Kicker.
Then reality set in and many others had their picks score many more points than I have so far. But as Thumper668 writes: the year is still young!
No I’ve never heard of him. I don’t think I’m part of the target audience. Would have been good for someone with a rapper themed list. Quickly ruled a suicide.
The other unique pick was Bob Weir of the Dead. Determining time of death on the same day is fraught – reported, vs, last breath, vs. many time zones is just too difficult, so you have to learn to share. Two unique picks to start the scoring is pretty rare, I think.
(Unless, of course, some reports a death that happened even earlier in January but withheld it for family privacy, a thing which has been known to happen.)
I was on this bandwagon.
https://people.com/eric-dane-dead-greys-anatomy-star-was-53-11717334
Bob Weir was my unique pick, so I was in first for at least a day, maybe two.
In other news, Mike Wagner, a defensive stalwart for the Steeler in the 70s, has picked off his last pass at age 76.
Eric Dane dead at the age of 53 of ALS. He was thisclose to making my list this year, but I figured his diagnosis was so recent and he was so young that he’d be a good candidate in a couple years from now. Alas…
CrashEdit and Fresh91 get on the board, It’s Not Rocket Surgery surges into the top 10 and GIGOBuster gets to 2nd place with Eric Dane. A bunch more of us get pushed into 59th place.
| score | picks | unique | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WolfpackJeep | 153 | 4 | |
| 2 | GIGObuster | 147 | 4 | |
| 3 | Martonio77 | 137 | 3 | |
| 3 | Registered at Last | 137 | 3 | |
| 3 | RobotDevilDog | 137 | 3 | |
| 3 | Schubert | 137 | 3 | |
| 3 | Happy Lendervedder | 137 | 3 | |
| 3 | Superdude | 137 | 3 | |
| 9 | Cazzle | 131 | 3 | |
| 10 | It’s Not Rocket Surgery | 130 | 3 | |
| 11 | jeezums | 125 | 3 | |
| 12 | phungi | 115 | 3 | |
| 13 | Tristan | 105 | 2 | |
| 13 | Little Nemo | 105 | 2 | |
| 15 | Catamount | 100 | 3 | |
| 15 | Wheelz | 100 | 3 | |
| 15 | Loach | 100 | 2 | |
| 18 | SirCreep | 86 | 3 | |
| 19 | gkster | 85 | 2 | |
| 19 | Hoopy Frood | 85 | 2 | |
| 21 | candide | 84 | 2 | |
| 21 | Culling The Herd | 84 | 2 | |
| 21 | Moriarty | 84 | 2 | |
| 21 | Dung Beetle | 84 | 2 | |
| 21 | Gyrate | 84 | 2 | |
| 21 | Thumper668 | 84 | 2 | |
| 21 | Stephen96 | 84 | 2 | |
| 21 | Scoobysnax | 84 | 2 | |
| 29 | notfrommensa | 79 | 2 | |
| 29 | RivkahChaya | 79 | 2 | |
| 31 | Dancer Flight | 53 | 1 | |
| 32 | billiefan2000 | 52 | 1 | |
| 32 | Jack Batty | 52 | 1 | |
| 32 | Dr.Girlfriend | 52 | 1 | |
| 32 | xizor | 52 | 1 | |
| 32 | Lsura | 52 | 1 | |
| 32 | IKnowItsOver | 52 | 1 | |
| 32 | imthjckaz | 52 | 1 | |
| 32 | JakeYourBooty | 52 | 1 | |
| 32 | Mean Mr.Mustard | 52 | 1 | |
| 32 | Jegpeg | 52 | 1 | |
| 32 | RTFirefly | 52 | 1 | |
| 32 | CreaseMonkey | 52 | 1 | |
| 44 | nearwildheaven | 48 | 2 | |
| 45 | CrashEdit | 47 | 1 | |
| 45 | Fresh91 | 47 | 1 | |
| 47 | Pardel-Lux | 42 | 2 | 1 |
| 48 | ataraxy22 | 32 | 1 | |
| 48 | kitap | 32 | 1 | |
| 48 | Mahaloth | 32 | 1 | |
| 48 | Monstera deliciosa | 32 | 1 | |
| 48 | Precambrianmollusc | 32 | 1 | |
| 48 | SunUp | 32 | 1 | |
| 54 | Railer13 | 22 | 1 | 1 |
| 55 | Lord Feldon | 17 | 1 | 1 |
| 56 | Mrs Ducky | 16 | 1 | |
| 56 | LoneRhino | 16 | 1 | |
| 58 | irritant | 11 | 1 | 1 |
Still no update on @Baker ?
Through a fellow Doper, I have obtained Baker’s name and address. However, I don’t really feel comfortable reaching out via snail mail; I wouldn’t even know what to say. I have no other contact information.
If anyone else feels close enough to her to send off a letter, feel free to message me for the info.
Jesse Jackson was also the first serious black candidate for president. I don’t think he ever had a chance of winning the primary, but he was high-profile, taken seriously by the press, got a lot of votes, and then begged by the Democrat party not to run independently, and siphon votes from the D-party’s candidate-- a very real concern.
PS: I voted for him in the primary.
I know what you mean by this, but let’s not forget to light a candle for Shirley Chisholm as well.