Yeah, rub it in :(:(
I thought the idea was to go for random guesses. Turns out, you target the terminally ill people. Who knew?
OK, note to self - when mrscritter announces that Swayze died, don’t whoop “Finally!” and dance a little jig. At least in front of her.
From Dirty Dancing to the Dirt Sleep – and he always seemed so clean cut.
‘Target’ sounds so… hostile. Really, I wish for the death of those on my list in the best, most positive way!
And by wish, I don’t really mean wish – I mean hop… er I mean, anticipate. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
The Swayze points I’m not revelling in. I just watched Road House last week, and will stop channel surfing for Dirty Dancing every single time. Now both players in my favorite SNL skit are gone.
amarone, is 96 any kind of record for the “least unique” pick?
I only have three years of data, and it depends on whether you mean least unique pick who died, or simply least unique pick.
In 2007 the least unique pick was Fidel Castro, with 114 out of 192 nominations - 59.4%. The least unique pick to die was Tammy Faye Messner, with 50/192, or 26%
In 2008 the lup was Castro again, with 86/161, or 53.4% The lup-who-died was Suzanne Pleshette with 21/161 or just 13%
Swayze was 96/181, or 53% Castro was 76/181, or 42%
Yep, I figured that last Christmas was the last Patrick Swayce Christmas.
OTOH, I see I reached second place, but I don’t think we will be able to catch **amarone **with his 362 points.
Well, damn. I was actually going to play in 2010, and Patrick Swayze was naturally on my list. I was hoping he’d make it another four months.
I finally score! Yay! Poor Patrick. Yay for me!
In 2005, the year Pope John Paul II died, he was picked by 132 out of 197, or 67%.
Best way to put it - is 96 the most number of people to get points from an individual celebrity death? And, on edit, I see that Andrew21 has answered the question 
No - see Andrew 21’s post immediately preceding yours.
The death of an icon… nobody puts baby in a coroner…
“Ditto”
ETA: or I feel like “Unchained Melody” should be playing
I was thinking “I’ve Had The Time Of My Life.”
Pfft. I had Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Patrick Swayze. I don’t see ever matching this year.
(And there really is something very fundamentally wrong when you hear “Patrick Swayze died” and say, out loud, “Oh good.”)