Mel Hall
Bill Gates
Mike Tyson
Tom Cruise
Dick Cheney
Sarah Palin
Peter Thiel
Donald Trump
George W Bush
Rush Limbaugh
Harlan Ellison
Donald Rumsfeld
Orson Scott Card
alt:
Madonna Ciccone
Adam Sandler
Jim Carrey
Tom Paxton
Bob Dylan
Jacob Dylan
Joan Baez
Don McLean
Loudon Wainwright III
Rufus Wainwright
Meat Loaf
Kris Kristofferson
Jim Steinman
Kinky Friedman
Chad Mitchell
Lee Hazelwood
Alternatives:
Nancy Sinatra
Garth Brooks
Cyndi Lauper
Mostly picked by watching old reruns of the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Justin Bieber basically for the same reason I always pick Yoko every year ------
William Holly Johnson
Michael C Hall
Michael J Fox
Dick Dale
David Crosby
Max Gail
Earvin “Magic” Johnson Jr.
Tom Brokaw
Tracee Talavera
Justin Bieber
Jimmy Carter
Yoko Ono
John Hurt
Alternates:
Valerie Harper
Kenny Rogers
Betty White
Kenneth “Ken” Thompson
William “Bill” Gates
Steve Wozniak
Gordon Moore
Cliffard Neuman
Linus Torvalds
William “Bill” Joy
William “Bill” Inmon
Ralph Kimball
Robert"Bob" Thomas
Vinton “Vint” Cerf
Robert “Bob” Kahn
Adele Goldberg
Alternate
Albert “Al” Gore
Kenneth “Ken” Thompson - Unix
William “Bill” Gates - Microsoft
Steve Wozniak - Aapple
Gordon Moore - Moore’s Law/Intel
Cliffard Neuman - Kerberos
Linus Torvalds - Linux
William “Bill” Joy - Sun Microsystems
WilliM “Bill” Inmon - Data Warehousing
Ralph Kimball - Data Warehousing
Robert"Bob" Thomas - Creeper
Vinton “Vint” Cerf - TCP/IP
Robert “Bob” Kahn - TCP/IP
Adele Goldberg SmallTalk-80
Alternate
Albert “Al” Gore Invented the Internet
Haven’t done this in a while. Unearthed an old list, removed people who actually died in the interim, when I wasn’t playing and received no points, and added some new ones. I think I checked close enough that they are all currently alive.
David Attenborough
Don Rickles
Mel Brooks
George H W Bush
Joanne Woodward
Candice Bergen
Pele
Peter Sallis
Gary Glitter
Tim Conway
Bob Newhart
John Williams
Donald Trump
Alternates:
Betty White
William Shatner
Macaulay Culkin
Mary Tyler Moore
Ed Asner
Valerie Harper
Gavin Macleod
Cloris Leachman
Georgia Engel
Betty White
Alan Alda
Loretta Swit
Jamie Farr
Wayne Rogers
Gary Burghoff
Mike Farell
Alternates:
David Ogden Stiers
William Christopher
Now that’s a pretty cool themed list!
Gary Busey
Bob Newhart
Ben Jones
Peter Noone
Jim Nabors
Martin Landau
Stephen Hawking
Mary Kate Olsen
Nick Nolte
Jimmy Snuka
Tommy Chong
Jimmy Carter
Ed Asner
Alternates
Henry Kissenger
Don Rickles
Okay, here is my FINAL list:
Sumner Redstone
Kirk Douglas
Charlie Sheen
Walter Koenig
Dick Cheney
Jimmy Carter
Hal Holbrook
Buzz Aldrin
George H.W. Bush
Frances Sternhagen
Shelley Duvall
Paul Dooley
Val Kilmer
Donald Trump (June 14, 1946) Call it a combo of wishful thinking and figuring there’s a reason he didn’t release his medical records as a candidate
Luke Halpin (April 4, 1947), former ‘Flipper’ star
Gregg Allman (Dec. 8, 1947), rock musician
Rush Limbaugh (Jan. 12, 1954), radio pundit
A.A. Gill (June 28, 1954), Sunday Times & Vanity Fair restaurant critic
The Amazing Jonathan (John Szelas) (Sept. 9, 1958), magician
Val Kilmer (Dec. 31, 1959), actor
William ‘the Refrigerator’ Perry (Dec. 16, 1962), former Chicago Bear
Gord Downie (Feb. 6, 1964), Tragically Hip lead singer
Leah Bracknell (July 12, 1964), former ‘Emmerdale’ actress
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (July 28, 1971), ISIS leader
Kseniva Sobchak (Nov. 5, 1981), Russian socialite/critic of Vladimir Putin
Johnny Manziel (Dec. 6, 1992), football player
Alternates:
Slim Dunlap (Aug 14, 1951), replaced Bob Stinson in the Replacements. So if he gets bumped to the main list, he’ll be a replacement Replacement replacement
Tommy Chong (May 24, 1938), comedian
Plain Jane version
Donald Trump
Luke Halpin
Gregg Allman
Rush Limbaugh
A.A. Gill
The Amazing Jonathan
Val Kilmer
William Perry
Gord Downie
Leah Bracknell
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Kseniva Sobchak
Johnny Manziel
Alternates
Slim Dunlap
Tommy Chong
DING DING DING
Some of you have picked KIRK DOUGLAS, but he’s turning 100 in a few days, you won’t get any points for him, he’s an invalid pick.
Lonely are the brave.
Not “invalid” I wouldn’t think. Just pointless. But then, who says we can’t be pointless?
I made a new rule saying:
That means “100 exactly” too, since points can not be gotten.
Sorry, I missed your new rules. I guess this game is going to be fairly different now.
Billy Graham
Jimmy Carter
George Bush (Sr.)
Prince Phillip (Duke of Edinburgh)
Brian Aldiss
Ursula K. Le Guin
Michael I of Romania (King Michael)
Hugh Downs
Robert Silverberg
Don Rickles
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Noam Chomsky
Walter Mondale
Alternates:
Andrew Jackson Young, Jr.
Rosalynn Carter
Jim Nabors
Not too much, no. Just nobody over or already 100, because…what would be the point of that?
The point would be going for the Grim Reaper award, quantity not quality.
In fact, that is just what Andrew21 did a year ago. He had 7 unique picks that scored him 0 points. I think he was had a theme of no one under 110, or something like that. So he won the Inside Track award, because no one else came close to 7 unique.
So what is the POINT of making a rule about something POINTLESS?