In a patriotic spandex jumpsuit only rivaled by Elvis.
Congrats.
I also thought this year was going to give me one big goose egg, 31 points all the sudden.
Best line from an early Knievel “biographical” movie:
Reporter - It is true that you kidnapped our wife?
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Knievel* - That is absolutely true! [scene cuts to flashback of Knievel going inside his future wife’s college dorm with his bike and taking her away. (the movie points out she did accept his rushed proposal so calling it a kidnapping was just Knievel way of pumping up his wild side)]
With a great big fat thank you to The Numbers Lady of Death for all her years of keeping track of Dead Peeples!
Richard Leigh, one of the three men who collaborated on the book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, has died at the age of 64. With Henry Lincoln and Michael Baigent, Leigh produced a work which claimed that Jesus Christ had married Mary Magdalene, and that the descendants of this union continued to exert a secret influence on European affairs.
Vladimir Kryuchkov , the former head of the Soviet KGB, has died.
Pimp C, rapper, dead at 33 (and that’s a post I never thought I’d make)
You even rhymed it. You’re a ghetto poet and you don’t even know it.
Poker star David ‘Chip’ Reese has died at the age of 56.
Ian Smith, who served as prime minister of Rhodesia from 1964 to 1979, died last month at the age of 88. Smith declared independence from the United Kingdom in 1965, and sought to preserve the country’s white minority’s dominance over the blacks who composed 96% of the populace. He had left his homeland (now known as Zimbabwe) in 2005, and moved to Cape Town, South Africa, where he passed away.
Ginger Meggs creator, James Kemsley, died 12/3/07 of a motor neuron disease
[nitpick]Artist, not creator. Kemsley was the fourth artist to draw the strip[/nitpick]
German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen is dead, age 79. He was going to be on my 2008 list. 
Bah! I just came in here to post that. I did do a thread search and came up with gwendee earning some points.
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Peter Zinner, a name nobody probably knows, but anyone who saw “The Hunt for Red October” will remember in possibly his only role as an actor: Admiral Podorin, who, after reading the letter Captain Ramius has sent him, knocks over his (coffee? hot tea?).
Bill Willis, who was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame after starring with the Cleveland Browns from 1946 to '53, died last month at the age of 86. I just learned this from my mother, who was supervised by Willis when she worked for Cleveland’s Summer Playground program as a high-school student.
Bill Hartack, who won five Kentucky Derbies during his career as a jockey, was 74 when he passed away last month. Hartack won over 4000 races in the USA, and then spent a few years as a jockey in Hong Kong.
Rep. Julia Carson, the first black and first woman to represent Indianapolis in Congress, died Saturday, a family spokeswoman said. She was 69.
There goes my one sure thing for next year.