I’m pretty sure no one had him since he’s a fairly low level celebrity, but Sasha Petraske, who’s credited with reviving cocktail culture, died last Friday.
Actor Rod Taylor, star of The Birds and The Time Machine, has died at 16 points.
He died 8 months and 1,138 posts ago.
Not even HG Wells’ Time Machine could change that fact.
Nonetheless, as Fear Itself duly noted, Rod Taylor has indeed died. And, not unlike generalissimo francisco franco, he is still dead.
The Whiteboard, a webcomic about paintball players, has announced that Bob Gurnsey, the developer of the game, died August 24.
Civil rights member Amelia Boynton has died, and the lucky people who picked he’d for this list must now surrender 4 points.
If we were scoring like that, Andrew 21 would have -75 points, instead of zero! 
Perhaps you should use that method for next year. See who owes points from a consistently overdrawn account
I recently ran across a death pool in which they score like that, taking off points for people above 100.
Should we try that? Not for realsies, but keep a second score card just for funsies?
“Realsies”? “Funsies”?
:dubious:
Frank Petersen died a couple of days ago. He was the first black Marine aviator and the first black Marine general. 38 years of service, combat in 2 wars, 350 combat missions.
One of the things that makes the Death Pool interesting is the basic tension between getting the fewest points from the people normally most likely to die soon - the oldest people - and the most points from those normally least likely to die soon, the youngest people.
So the way you play it is a mixture of choosing between persons who are fairly likely to die soon due to age and its ailments, but for a small payoff (e.g. Jimmy Carter), gambling on relatively young people who might not die soon but would be a serious payoff if they did (e.g. Lindsay Lohan), and doing research to try to identify some people who, despite their relative youth, clearly have a limited life expectancy anyway (e.g. cricketer Martin Crowe).
And it tends to be a different mixture for everyone, so you get very different lists, which is what makes the game interesting.
But if you’re competing, formally or informally, for the score furthest below zero, it would all be about picking the supercentenarians of the most advanced age, because they’d simultaneously be the persons most likely to die soon, and the ones you’d get the most negative points for. So the lists of everyone engaged in that competition would look pretty much the same.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t do it anyway, but I’m just saying why it might not be all that interesting to do.
Rest well, General Petersen, and tell Chesty that we’ll regroup with you and him in heaven soon enough.
Semper Fi.
Darryl Dawkins has reportedly shattered his last backboard.
His death was front page news here in Topeka, since this was his hometown. Gen Petersen was in the same high school graduating class as my mother, although they didn’t know each other. It was a big school, plus, in those days, black and white students, while going to classes together, didn’t really socialize. In fact, my mother’s yearbook has pictures of their seperate homecomings. Sports teams were also segregated. That ended just a couple years after Mom finished school.
He caught the last flight to Lovetron.
And I’d have the lowest positive score. Wait, I still have the lowest positive score. Isn’t that some sort of accomplishment?
Hockey Hall of Famer Al Arbour is considered one of the greatest coaches in NHL history, and he is one of the most beloved coaches in NHL history.
Those two distinctions don’t always go hand-in-hand.
When Arbour, 82, died Friday, the NHL lost a decorated coach who was viewed as a father figure by many of the NHLers who played for him over his 22-season coaching career.