With the death of writer Janet Frame, we welcome
cadolphin
Captain Lance Murdoch and
Rico
to the scoreboard with 21 points each! Congratulations!
They are now tied for 2nd place, and Sternvogel drops to 3rd.
Hey, it’s a long year. Plenty of time for a comeback…
In the meantime, here’s an article from New Zealand about Janet’s memorial service, which the poet helped prepare.
We’re Number Four! We’re Number Four!
Ah, screw it.
Terribly sad.
Claude Ryan has died at the age of 79. That’s another 21 points for the Captain. That shoots me up to 42 points overall.
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And Captain Lance Murdoch shoots into the lead with 42 points! Congratulations!
Quite a change from last year’s slow-starting game…
Somehow this has been missed around here.
Julius Schwartz died last weekend, apparently of pneumonia. Born June 15, 1915.
Lok
But, alas, nobody picked him.
I wish I had. It would have kept him alive another year. 
Lok
As of March 1st, our scoreboard stands thusly:
Captain Lance Murdoch is in the lead with 42 points.
Angel Heart
Caricci
Mullinator and
zoog - are tied for second place with 41 points each.
cadolphin and
Rico - are tied for third place with 21 points each.
Sternvogel - 16 points
NoGoodNamesLeft and
Santos L Halper - tied with 15 points each.
Congratulations to our scorers!
The Drudge Report had a story that Marge Schott has assumed room temperature. Anyone have her?
Alas, no.
Character actor ** John Randolph ** died in late February.
Anyone pick him?
I would like to note that I had the foresight to choose Jean Bertrand Aristide. My hopes were high for a few days there, but it looks like he escaped. That might have been my best chance to score this year.
Nope, sorry.
Paul Winfield?
(As seen on the Fox News website…)
Also actor Spalding Gray, aged 62. His body has finally been located following his disappearance in January when he was believed to have jumped off the Staten Island Ferry.
Nope, nobody picked either one.
(Now one of you Trekkers give us the quote from “Darmok” about the captain being dead. Go on, you know you want to.)
Err, memory’s a bit rusty, but do you mean this one from Picard?
“He who was my companion, through adventure and hardship, is gone forever…”
“Chaka, when the walls fell.”
Now I wish I’d thought to include that in my post in the Paul Winfield thread. (On preview I see that ivylass beat me to it in that thread.)