Ed Kirkpatrick, who played for five Major League Baseball teams from 1962 to '77, has died at the age of 66. An outfielder who generally served as a part-time player, Kirkpatrick compiled a lifetime batting average of .238 and hit 85 home runs.
OK, my Christmas shopping and 2011 list are both done. If Zsa Zsa doesn’t make it until 31 December, I will have to revise.
I’d rather have 7 measly points with a possible ZsaZsa pointage and start the year off with my cherry popping to get things rolling than be on pins and needles until a more suitable stiff cocks up his toes, so to speak.
I’m not proud.
She could be the Zelda Rubenstein of 2011, Zelda was the Lou Rawls of 2010.
Silent film child star Marie Osborne Yeats dead at 99. The most amazing thing to me in the obit is that she retired in 1976 and then went on to enjoy that retirement for the last 34 years of her life. I’ll be working until I’m dead, even if I make to 99.
William Self, the 20th Century-Fox production executive whose name appeared in the credits of dozens of 1960’s and '70’s series, has died at the age of 89. One of Self’s most famous decisions was to insert the written “POW!” – “BIFF!” – “BAM!” effects into Batman after a test audience for the show apparently failed to realize that the Adam West-Burt Ward vehicle was not supposed to be an action program so much as a campy comic book for the small screen.
NHL coach Pat Burns dies from cancer at 58.
Yay!
Damn. He was on my 2011 [del]Gift of Life[/del]Death Pool list.
Everyone on my 2011 list has already died.
Making you the Angel of Premature Death?
I just wonder how we could definitively prove it.
Then again, if everyone on your list died, how far back did you make it, and how varied was it from your 2010 list? What prompted you to call it your 2011 list, and not any other year?
And, further, this implies that you people just go for the low hanging fruit. [And not just low hanging old fruit.]
Am I the only person that goes for the theme? [[And seriously, perhaps more point weight should be given to theme lists.]]
And I think short guys from Arkansas should get double points. :rolleyes:
Having a “short guys from Arkansas” theme sounds like you know a lot about Razorback jockeys with stage four lung cancer. But are they really celebrities?
Heck if I know.
I’m a sort guy from Arkansas.
a sort guy? Accounting is it then?
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I just watched a program on the Doolittle raid, and it noted there were 6 survivors left, and I briefly considered adding them all to next year’s list. But even if all six died. they would only add a total of a couple dozen points.
If only I could count on some youthful sports team to die in a plane crash…
It still brings up the point about “celebrity” though. If I were to read that so-and-so died and in the obit it was mentioned he was part of the Doolittle raid, that would be one bit in the guy’s life who was better known as an insurance agent for All State for 35 years or whatever. I don’t think anyone, apart from family members, is actually impressed by anything these guys did. Not sure if getting the Medal of Honor would make a person a celebrity. Notable, perhaps, but that’s different.
And if a plane full of a sports team went down, who are the celebrities? The coach, maybe, depending on his life time record. The freshman forward from Burlap, PA, might have become famous, but we’ll never know now.
Sorry if this should be in the rules thread, but I’m assuming “celebrity” means just that: either someone we’ve become tired of hearing about, or someone everyone one knows from that tv show X number years ago that I thought was already dead.
Wow. That’s pretty tough.
Not at all. How many Medal of Honor winners do you know of that appeared on cereal boxes, tv shows, got movie deals and went on to fame and fortune?
I can think of one.
That in itself is a pretty stringent threshold.