phungi
July 3, 2014, 4:39pm
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I am quite sure this is the first time I have gone 6 months shooting blanks…
Baker
July 3, 2014, 8:06pm
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carnivorousplant:
You and me, both.
It certainly isn’t as high scoring a year, is it?
Hatchette executive Matthew Richell, 41, is dead. Apparently Amazon is escalating things.
Okay, he crashed into some rocks while surfing and drowned. But I still want to know if Jeff Bezos has an alibi.
Louis Zamperini, World War II hero, Olympic distance runner and “Unbroken” subject, dies at 97
So is someone going to get a very big 3 points?
Downtown Chad Brown, Professional Poker Player, will no longer Flop. Dead at 52 .
I believe I had him on my list a couple of years ago.
Billionaire conservative donor Richard Mellon Scaife, dead at 18 points.
Well, here’s the standings from the 2013 Death Pool on July 4 last year:
If Ms. Nolan had waited until her birthday in October we would have had a tie for the lead!
Where am I going, and why am I in this handbasket?
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James Harness , of Discovery Channel’s ‘Gold Rush’ fame is staking a claim on the afterlife at 43 points.
Paul Horn dies at 84; Grammy winner was a pioneer of New Age music
How many folks are going to even know who this man was?
Stephen Gaskin - founder of The Farm in Tennessee
JohnT
July 7, 2014, 2:27pm
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Eduard Shevardnadze passes away for 14 points, er, at the age of 86.
Soccer great Alfredo di Stefano dies in Madrid at 88
http://www.laprensasa.com/309_america-in-english/2617311_soccer-great-alfredo-di-stefano-dies-in-madrid-at-88.html
Alfredo Di Stefano, said to have been one of the greatest players in the history of soccer and honorary president of Real Madrid, died in Madrid on Monday at the age of 88. EFE/File
Madrid, Jul 7 (EFE).- Alfredo di Stefano, honorary president of the Spanish soccer club Real Madrid, died at Madrid’s Gregorio Marañon hospital on Monday, three days after suffering cardiac arrest as he was leaving a restaurant [were he celebrated his birthday with his family], his family told Efe. He was 88.
Di Stefano, considered one of the four greats of world soccer together with Pele, Diego Maradona and Johan Cruyff, suffered cardiac arrest on a street near Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, and since then was in the hospital’s intensive care unit.
Fred Ordway , space pioneer, author, and consultant on Kubrick’s 2001.
Louis Brown Jr father of Nicole Brown Simpson, dead at 90
How have I gone half the year without scoring a point?
Hopefully, the people on my list all agree to go on the Carnival Cruise I booked for them this September.
Kenny Kingston, ‘Psychic to the Stars,’ Dies at 87
Mr. Kingston said that he held readings for John Wayne, Whoopi Goldberg and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, among others, and that some kept in contact after they died.
I wonder if any of the disembodied he communicated with told him when he was going to join them?
Baker
July 10, 2014, 1:18am
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The following is a list of the dead celebrities we have had so far, that have actually counted for points.
I make every effort to check all names people present here, and hope I haven’t missed any.
Paul Goggins
3 potential future picks of mine have kicked the bucket this year, but none on my main list. I apparently make some good choices, but I have to work on my timing
Rosemary Murphy, an Emmy Award-winning actress long ubiquitous on television, stage and screen, died on Saturday at her home in Manhattan. She was 89.