I guess that puts him on everyone’s 2011 short list
Not mine. The fact that he has stents means he’s just gained anywhere from 5-10 years. Now if he had failed to survive the operation… but that’s a different story.
Anyway, I’m expecting a St Valentine’s Day Massacre. A whole slew of rapidly aging celebrities to pass into the great beyond in the next 96 hours. (midnight Thursday to Midnight Sunday) I have zero reason to base this on, it’s all death pool hunches.
I’ll send flowers.
to quote a friend
maybe I should clarify - that’s the obit for Walter Frederick Morrison
A bit off topic here…
I had to explain today at work exactly what a Dead Pool was to my boss and co-supervisor.
I explained the scoring system. The Rules Hey, even Twisted Peeps like us have to have someintegrity. I told them they will come over to the dark side soon enough and join in the morbid jocularity that is the sweet, sweet " Wooo Hooo! I just scored on a dead midget!!!" fist pump.
They don’t look at me the same way anymore.
I guess I shouldn’t have told them that I popped my DP cherry one year with the Pope, huh.
Can I put you on my list in a related pool “Dopers not playing in the pool next year” ? 
Sure! I might add it to my Obit that I am worth 62 points upon expiration. Heh.
Dick Francis, a unique pick for Lok.
Damn. I would rather have had his next book for many more years. 
Nice, Lok. Nice.
From the article link:
From my experience working at a public library, I would have thought he wrote more than 40. I am amazed that he was not only a jockey, but the Queen Mother’s jockey.
My department head at the library was really, really angry that a horse was “murdered” in one of his novels.
Reading was an occupational hazard there, but I have not read any of his novels.
Knack’s lead singer Doug Fieger dies at 57
http://www.freep.com/article/20100214/ENT07/100214021/1319/Knacks-lead-singer-Doug-Fieger-dies-at-57
40 sounds about right for his books. I would count, but I can only reach the hardbacks, my paperbacks are all boxed up.
And not only was he the Queen Mother’s jockey, she apparently loved to read his novels when they were published every year.
If they were talking about “Bolt”, the only one I can think of with a horse being killed outright, I would think the last Sid Halley book, “Come to Grief” would have really set them off. The horses were mutilated and it was much nastier in many ways than the earlier one.
From the obit:
“My Sharona” was No. 1 for six weeks in 1979.
Longest damn 6 weeks of my life… Everywhere you went that damn song was playing.
Yes, it was pretty grim. 
I still have the 45 of it.
And I gots me some DP pointage!!!
But the little girls understand.
The Chimpmunks’ cover of “My Sharona” (from the classic album Chipmunk Punk) kicks ass. “My, my, my wheeeeeeeeeeeee!”