35 Virgins.
On The Web.
What are the odds?
Don’t hit me.
What are the ods of 35 Virgin Dopers?
Johnny Ramone, nee John Cummings, of The Ramones.
Prostate cancer got him at the ripe old age of 55.
Ahhh, crap. That has multiple levels of suckiness.
- I’m a huge Ramones fan.
- I had him on my early list for next year.
Damn. 
Quite good, actually
Speaking of which, when will the thread start for next year? I think I’ll play.
Ooooh, 45 points for me!
I’m also quite sad, though, because I’m also a big Ramones fan.
I wanna be sedated.
And with the death of Johnny Ramone, Spiff fearlessly leaps into second place with 65 points! Whoo-hoo! He will also get credit for a unique dead celebrity.
Zog_10, welcome! I will open up the 2005 game on December 1st and accept submissions through the end of 2004.
Russ Meyer of “Vixens” fame and
singer Skeeter Davis http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/20/obit.davis.ap/
have both passed away recently. I’m guessing no one had them on their list - but you never know.
Here is an obituary for Meyer, whose Beyond the Valley of the Dolls was written by none other than film critic Roger Ebert.
It seems Rodney Dangerfield has risen to the top.
Huh?
Nothing on Google.
Channel 4 KNBC in Burbank, where Dangerfield is hospitalized, had nothing on their 11:00 news headlines about it.
I’ll wait until the news is over and then let you know what I hear.
Last news – he was in a coma - but not pushing up daisies - he still was getting no respect. 
Nope. Nothing on Channel 4 news.
11:35PM 9/23/04
Naw…not dead yet. Just on everyone’s short list for next year’s pool.
I hope Rodney Dangerfield recovers, because he is not on my list year. He is on my 2005 short list.
Really, though, if he is dying, he is going one of the worst possible ways. I can’t imagine what pain he is in and how his family feels right now.
Nobody picked Russ Meyer or Skeeter Davis.
And Dangerfield isn’t dead yet. I mean, come on. Show some respect. 
Hang in there, Mr. Dangerfield.
John E. Mack, the Harvard Medical School professor of psychiatry who gained some notoriety for studying the transformational aspects of 200 people’s perceived encounters with extraterrestrial aliens, has died at the age of 74. Mack, who was also the author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), was killed by a car while in London as a speaker at the T.E. Lawrence Society Symposium.
Anybody have Geoffrey Beene ?
I haven’t checked this thread in a long time. I had no idea I was in third place.
Oh, sure. That’s what THEY want you to believe. :eek: Of course, we all know he was transported to outer space, to live out the rest of his centuries in his true form as a Grey.
Seriously, though, hit by a car. That’s awful. Did anyone pick him?