I did send a note today to a35362, If he is very busy, I will see if me or other dopers can continue or help him with this peculiar tradition. 
It did not save the Incredible Mr. Limpet (Don Knotts) though. 
a35362 is a she.
Woops.
Good thing I did not send her a gendered note.
Quote:
*Well known for his daring feats with cobras, Ali Khan had also made it into the 1997 Guinness Book of World Records, living in a glass enclosure filled with more than 5,000 scorpions for 21 days. He set another record by living with 400 snakes for 40 days. *
:eek:
Self-help guru Alan Carr has died. His stop-smoking book alone is said to have sold over 4 million copies.
Okay, the 2007 game thread is up. Sorry for the delay – it snowed a little here and the computer cafe I’ve been using this week was closed. I hope to have the 2006 game scoreboard updated today or tomorrow.
Youse guys who are already posting your 2007 picks here: they gotta go on the other thread, okay? Otherwise, they’re invisible and invalid.
YAY! I just posted. I’m stickin’ with my list of immortals.
Augusto Pinochet has heart attack. Yay!
Had successful bypass surgery and is in stable condition. Boo!
Is battling pulmonary edema. Yay!
Has a history of recovering from serious health problems. Boo!
Has underlying problems from diabetes; received a pacemaker after 2005 stroke. Yay!
I’m so conflicted.
And evil.
CRAP.
All my shortlisters are buying the farm prematurely.
Pinochet is the Strom Thurmond of Politicians. He is immortal and will never die. I gave up on him for pointage awhile back.
I don’t think wishing for the death of a bad person is evil.
Well, look at it this way. It’s making it easier to pare down from the 40 or so people on my list. (I had him too)
Max, 19 (to meet the age requirement), died today after almost as many years as George Clooney’s beloved pet potbellied pig. 
How much is that in pig years?
- Charlotte, while hanging out in her web, said she heard that directly from Wilbur’s snout. To God’s ears.
Violation of Rule 3, subsection C
but I don’t think anybody picked him
Emmett Kelly Junior, the “hobo clown” who performed at thousands of hospitals in addition to his work in circuses and at the World’s Fair of 1964-65, has died at the age of 83.
I thought he died years ago.
Damn…I’m just finding out about this now.
Well Mr. Carr, thank you much for showing me how stupidly easy quitting smoking really was.