LilyoftheValley, you deserve an award for having two picks go on the same day, unless I’m wrong on the days and Thompson died late Saturday. 
I replaced Keith Richards with Hunter S. Thompson at the last minute–whew! Richards is never going to die.
Although suicide, instead of an accidental overdose of drugs or the wrong guy’s wife, was not what I was expecting. Not gonzo.
“Play it again.”
A search called up this thread, but not the post- so w/o looking up the post, I’ll just confirm that Monday, a stroke took the TV-Radio-Internet Teaching Pastor who taught us the value of the Great Pyramid, cussin’ & a good cigar- all while extolling the Grace of God through Jesus Christ- Dr. W. euGene Scott. God bless ya, ya Old Fart!
Now get on your phones.
I just saw a breaking-news banner on CNN.com that the Pope is back in the hospital.
That don’t mean he’s dead though. Now if it were a British hospital…
What a memorable score! If you get another biggie this week, you will get the Death Trifecta, which would be cool to put on a resume. 
CNN is now saying that the Pope has had a tracheotomy.
Maybe we should have a separate ‘Popewatch’ thread.
Should I mention that the Pope is on my list?
Note to self: Don’t ask Shirley to help me write my resume.
Is there anyone who didn’t include the Pope?
I didn’t pick him.
I think the Mystical Lance Murdock chose to spend his pointage elsewhere.
In that case,it looks fairly good for the Pope if Lance ‘the Reaper’ Murdock has not called him 
65 participants (out of 197) did not include the Pope.
It seems to be slowly getting worse for John Paul II. It seems that every time he is sick, it’s a little worse than it was the previous time. Two hospital trips in a month is not good news for any old man.
It’s good news for 132 of us sickos, though.
After many days of puttering around, I finally have a long-overdue Death Pool update.
The big news is that Captain Lance Murdoch has dropped to third place!
But first: I am invoking Rule #5 with regard to Sandra Dee. Her age has been given as 60, 62, and 63. Per Rule #5, I am going with age 63, making her worth a not-too-shabby 37 points. With that in mind…
LilyoftheValley leaps nimbly on to the scoreboard and takes the lead with 70 points: 37 points for Sandra Dee and 33 points for Hunter S. Thompson.
A mysterious newcomer known only as Rachm Qoch appears in our midst with 65 points: 40 points for the passing of science fiction writer Jack L. Chalker and 25 points with the death of Dr. Gene Scott, both of which are unique picks.
Irreverent Tone and
ladybug - also share 37 points for Sandra Dee and are tied for fifth place.
Kilvert’s Pagan, the poster formerly known as tpayne and
racer72 - speed into sixth place with 33 points each for Hunter S. Thompson.
Congratulations, scorers!
And nobody picked Ernst Mayr, Gnassingbe Eyadema, Karl Haas, Merle Kilgore, Dan Lee, Keith Knudsen, Doris Boshart, Sammi Smith, Sister Lucia dos Santos, Dick Weber, F. M. Busby, John Raitt, or Edward Patten.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go rest up before the Pope snuffs it.
Don’t forget VunderBob and amarone! And what about those who picked Johnny Carson?
Post #471, Feb. 1st.
Oops, my bad. I misread your tallys, how they skipped from second to fifth.
I’m pacing myself.
Henry Grunwald, the former Time editor who wrote the editorial in which the magazine called for Richard Nixon to resign the presidency of the United States of America, died at the age of 82 in New York. Also passing away recently was Peter Benenson, who was 83. Amnesty International owes its existence to Mr. Benenson’s reaction to a 1961 newspaper article about two Portuguese students who had been arrested and imprisoned for drinking a toast to liberty in a Lisbon cafe.