I knew I should have picked Crick this year. The only reason I didn’t is because my brain locked up at the last minute and I couldn’t think of their names, only “the DNA guys.” Stupid brain. Take that! :smack:
Now, I get them mixed up. Was Crick the eugenics advocate who wanted to make Gattaca a reality or was that Watson?
Although Crick apparently made “eugenic pronouncements” from time to time, it sounds as if Watson is the one you’re thinking of.
A lengthy * New York Times* obituary of Crick can be found here (site requires registration).
Well, I just read about that this morning, way to be late with keeping up with the news on my part.
I’ve also got Watson this year, but given how much I know about him, I don’t think I could do much of a farewell post. I just remembered “those DNA guys” myself when making out the pool.
As of August 1st, the scoreboard stands as follows:
Still in the lead is Captain Lance Murdoch with 95 points.
Coming in at second place is notfrommensa with 58 points.
Tied for third place are
Angel Heart and
zoog with 48 points.
earthpuppy and
Mudshark - tied with 45 points.
Caricci and
Mullinator - tied with 41 points.
Sternvogel - 40 points
smam - 38 points
cadolphin and
Rico - tied with 28 points.
Diceman
Diogenes the Cynic
eman77
Etherman
Harlow
JerH
Krebnar the Magnificent
Mikie
Mona Lott
SandyHook and
Stephe96 - tied with 27 points.
Lathe of Heaven (formerly Nightsky) and
Mudshark - tied with 25 points.
DeVena
gobear and
Skammer - tied with 23 points.
NoGoodNamesLeft and
Santos L Halper - tied with 22 points.
Uvula Donor - 21 points
Munch and
Spiff - tied with 20 points.
amarone and
lel - tied with 19 points.
Saitou - 18 points
Single Serving Friend - 13 points
Mr. Babbington - 12 points
Cicada2003 - 10 points
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cbawlmer
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Earthman
Evil One
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Flymaster
Frumious Bandersnatch
The Great Zamboni
Gyrate
Hal Briston
Horseflesh
Hugh Jass
Idle Thoughts
Infectious Lass
Irreverent Tone
Kat
katie1341
kka
Little Nemo
Lok
Lsura
Mad Matt
Max Torque
Mehitabel
Miabella
mishaa
Ms Macphisto
Nurse Carmen
Omniscient
plnnr
Royal Nonesuch
Shirley Ujest
SpazCat
Squonk
Stinkum
Sublight
sunfish
swannguy
thumbupmybum
tolyri
vivalostwages
Wicked Blue
WIGGUM
williamweigand
wolf_meister and
zamboniracer - tied with 7 points.
ataraxy22 - 3 points
In other news:
Captain Lance Murdoch
Mr. Babbington
notfrommensa
Sternvogel and
Uvula Donor - all have at least one unique dead celebrity;
Captain Lance Murdoch and Sternvogel have two each.
Captain Lance Murdoch has a total of four dead celebrities.
earthpuppy
Mudshark and
Uvula Donor have three dead celebrities each.
Congratulations, scorers!
Personally I have a good feeling about Yasser Arafat (and I don’t say that often). I’ve read he’s sick and I’ve been hearing a lot of talk about assassination. Probably too much to hope for that he’ll go before his birthday this month though.
Yeah, don’t get greedy … 
Great work with the update, a35362! I did notice, however, that you have Mudshark scoring both 45 and 25 points. Which is correct?
D’oh! :smack: Mudshark has 45 points, 'cause he picked Marlon Brando. I didn’t correctly update my master list. Good call!
Anybody have Henri Cartier-Bresson?
Nope, nobody had him.
Rick “Superfreak” James has died at age 56. Leaping on to the scoreboard with 44 points, please welcome Ebola Gay, who is now in fifth place! Woo-hoo!
Rick James is super dead, super dead.
“Rick James is dead bitch” and I didn’t have him??? Grrr…
It’s a simulpost, simulpost!
Now I’m gonna have that repetitive tune stuck in my head all day.
*She’s a very kicky girl,
The kind you don’t take home to muth-ah,
something something something,
Oh, girl!
Temptations, SING!*
Ahem…
*She’s a very kinky girl
The kind you don’t take home to mother
But she will never let your spirits down
Once you get her off the streets
Blow, daddy!*
Red Adair, who gained fame for fighting oil-well fires around the world, has died at the age of 89.
But nobody picked him.
With the death of Fay Wray at age 96, six of our contestants add four points to their totals:
cadolphin* now has 32 points.
eman77* and
Stephe96* - tied with 31 points.
5 time champ and
Shirley Ujest - tied with 11 points.
ataraxy22 - now has 7 points.
*now has three dead celebrities
Congratulations, scorers!