RG-III - he’s 24 years old! 25 in February. Makes me wonder who is the youngest nominated celebrity in the pool.
I once had an 18-year-old boxer who was in a coma.
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The above list has fourteen names. If I don’t hear back from you I’ll cut off the last name on the list.
Sorry. Here you go:
George R. R. Martin
Silvio Berlusconi
James Earl Jones
Queen Elizabeth II
Macaulay Culkin
Diane Rehm
Timothy Poole
Dan Rather
Rupert Murdoch
Henry Kissinger
Richard Simmons
Fidel Castro
Shirley MacLaine
Thank you!
Hey, let’s give him his due: he wasn’t just a grandmaster (there are dozens of those at any time), he was the world chess champion from 1969 to 1972.
This is just one of her future past lives.
Sorry about that! I’ll remove Bill Nye from the list.
The actors/celebrities
Oprah Winfrey
Matt Lauer (I keep hoping)
Lindsey Lohan
Bill Cosby
Morgan Freeman
James Earl Jones
Edward James Olmos
The authors
Terry Pratchett
Jean Auel
The politicians
Dick Cheney
George H.W. Bush
Fidel Castro
Queen Elizabeth II
Alternates:
Tamora Pierce, author
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Clean list:
Oprah Winfrey
Matt Lauer
Lindsey Lohan
Bill Cosby
Morgan Freeman
James Earl Jones
Edward James Olmos
Terry Pratchett
Jean Auel
Dick Cheney
George H.W. Bush
Fidel Castro
Queen Elizabeth II
Alternates
Tamora Pierce
Pope Benedict XVI
My Dead Letters theme lists have done better than any of my unthemed from years past, so I’m sticking with it. I have to replace two dead authors from last year.
Alice Munro
Tomas Transtromer
Ursula LeGuin
Philip Roth
George R R Martin
Terry Pratchett
Chuck Palahniuk
Orson Scott Card
Günter Grass
Stephen King
Toni Morrison
Tim LaHaye
Beverly Cleary
Thank you, Baker, for running this! I used to do it over at another, now defunct, message board and I’m here to say that it’s a lot of work and we are all much obliged to you.
My list:
- Brian Blessed
- Mary Tyler Moore
- Carl Reiner
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- Richard Chamberlain
- Ed Asner
- Bob Newhart
- Valerie Harper
- Rose Marie
- Helmut Kohl
- Pope Emeritus Benedict
- Joseph Wambaugh
- Stephen Fry
Alts:
O.J. Simpson
Nancy Reagan
Jean Auel
You need to submit a clean list. No numbers and no commentary. Your alts are in the proper format, BTW.
Thanks!
And I’d sure hate to see Brian Blessed pass.
"Oh well, who wants to live forever? DIVE!!!
Only 46 entries so far, here are the top 13 celebrities selected.
Valerie Harper 11
George H.W. Bush 10
Fidel Castro 9
Jimmy Carter 9
Lindsay Lohan 9
Muhammad Ali 9
Dick Cheney 8
Sam Simon 7
Nancy Reagan 6
Barbara Bush 5
Bill Cosby 5
Billy Graham-e 5
Charlie Sheen 5
Has Valerie Harper taken a turn for the worse? I had heard that she had gotten better.
Yeah, well, I just put that there in order to avoid the possibility that he might be mistaken for some other famous Boris Spassky (perhaps a mistake on my part, any other famous Boris Spassky would almost certainly be worth more points).
Mrs. Plant (v.3.0) believes her to be a good pick for “dangerous living”.
I’m thinking about her. I had so many that survived 2014.
Aretha Franklin
Nancy Reagan
Barbara Bush
Tony Danza
Lindsay Lohan
George H. W. Bush
Penny Marshall
Michael Douglas
Valerie Harper
Mary Tyler Moore
Loretta Lynn
Jimmy Carter
Dick Cheney
Morgan Fairchild
Pete Rose
Sarah Palin
Oops:smack: Will do.
Brian Blessed
Mary Tyler Moore
Carl Reiner
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Richard Chamberlain
Ed Asner
Bob Newhart
Valerie Harper
Rose Marie
Helmut Kohl
Pope Emeritus Benedict
Joseph Wambaugh
Stephen Fry
Alts:
O.J. Simpson
Nancy Reagan
Jean Auel