I don’t think it’s been officially confirmed, but his behaviour over the past few months has been very odd - and considering his history it isn’t much of a stretch to assume he’s using again. Which is why he ultimately made the cut for my list.
That reminds me:
Just wondering if you mean Howard Stern the radio guy or Howard Stern the Anna Nicole Smith guy?
Age at death is what counts.
I would assume the radio guy, since the Anna Nichole Smith guy is usually refered in his publicity materials as Howard K. Stern
Artie Lange reportedly has been admitted to a New Jersey hospital
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2010/01/howard-stern-sidekick-artie-lange-hospitalized/1
Wow. He works fast. Winston Smith was asking about him just yesterday, and he’s already half-tits-up.
What can I say? The guy’s a winner! Er. In a manner of speaking.
The ‘First Blood’ Award is mine. ALL MINE!
Does anyone know of dead pools in pre-computer times? Dead pool zines, perhaps. Just idle curiosity, though I suppose one could get a phd researching the history of dead pools.
Hey! you’re not the only vulture circling over Artie Lange.
Well, there was the Clint Eastwood movie - The Dead Pool, 1988, sort of before computers.
Before cool computers, anyway.
Longtime Chicago Sun-Times sportswriter Bill Gleason has died at 87.
There are a lot of Chicago area Dopers; maybe somone had him?
My mother’s office had a non-computer based Death Pool. It began around 1990 or so. It wasn’t pre-computer, but certainly before the Internet gained popularity among the masses.
Mostly we just picked the teams that would die first in the NCAA Basketball Tournament.
So did my Death Pool Bingo idea totally get burried upthread?
Re: Dead Pools and how long they’ve been around.
I remember hearing about one in a brief comment in the early 90’s by a radio DJ. It was when either Marlena Deitrich or Greta Garbo (she was german, that is all I remember.) died and the comment was something like, " We didn’t know she was even still alive. Someone scored if they had her on their Dead Pool."
That stuck with me and it was about 1991 or maybe 1992 I started playing with some like minded sickos.
Some Trek fans have or have had a death pool for the original cast. I don’t know when it started, but I know it was before 1999, because that’s when DeForest Kelley died. That was the first I heard of it, in the context of many participants having had James Doohan as their pick, and having thought Kelley would be one of the longest-lived.
I have heard about “ghoul pool” since I moved to the St Louis region 20 yrs ago. I am sure it has been around for years and years before that time.
It was the premise of a Dirty Harry movie in 1988.
no, altho in theory it sounds fun, it’s be a bitch and a half to manage - Look at it this way - you have eleven months to work out the kinks - and host it yourself for 2011. 
This.
Nope.