I have Castro, Sharon, and Kim on my list this year, so I’m sure they’ll be around for a while.
I think he basically needed to do that, to continue to qualify for the semi-prozine Hugo.
Nelson Munsey, who played cornerback for the NFL’s Baltimore Colts from 1972 to '77, has died at the age of 61. He helped the Colts win the American Football Conference East championship in 1975.
Frank McCourt is gravely ill with meningitis and is unlikely to survive, the author’s brother said Thursday.
Walter Cronkite has died. And that’s the way it is, July 17, 2009.
Just heard on my local news Walter Cronkite has died. Will post a link soon. Beat to the draw by thismuch.
R.I.P. :mad:
the irony is not lost on me that yesterday morning this wewbsite began broadcasting all the recordings (some audio, some video) from the Apollo 11 mission (it being the 40th anniversary and all)
The second score for me in a month, after going ofer the first 6. Things are starting to turn around.
I forget, you made eight points or two?
I don’t even know. I scored with Jacko and Uncle Walter, but I guess Walt couldn’t have been worth that much. He was like a thousand years old.
ETA, when I say “I scored with them” I mean in the death pool.
Eight, according to CNN.
Death has been very very good to you, Dio.
I’m finally on the board for a measly eight points, but hey, I’ll take 'em. It beats the goose egg I ended up with in 2008.
Gordon Waller of the '60s British pop group Peter and Gordon died July 16.
When checking my list to see if I had Walter Cronkite, I figured I’d check up on the people who were on my list.
Turns out, Dan Brown, Defensive Coordinator at Fresno State, passed away in March.
So turns out I scored 50 points before the Farrah Fawcett/Michael Jackson day. Sweet.
Henry Allingham, who had been certified just last month by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s oldest man, has died at the age of 113. A veteran of World War I (he was the last known survivor of the Battle of Jutland), Allingham was a founding member of Britain’s Royal Air Force. During World War II, he helped devise a system to neutralize magnetic mines that Germany was planting in the harbor of his homeland’s port of Harwich.
Would you lose 13 points if you had him? I think you should get 10 points for getting a pick who dies ,then 1 for every year under 100.
Woohoo I’m on the board!
I mean, RIP Walter Cronkite.
Henry Allingham is one of those people that sound like they would have been a pleasure to met.