Uh, no, I had already experience with that before, on an early dead pool I did choose a couple of prospects that had become famous thanks to their funding efforts for finding a cure for their ailments, choices like that are not valid anymore; Susan Clark was already known for her morning radio show **before **she became sick.
Games have rules. That’s what makes them worthwhile to play.
Known where? Anyplace outside of Montana?
I believe we have this discussion about celebrity every year. And it basically comes down to “I know it when I see it.” I tried googling “Susan Clark radio” and in the first 10 links, 4 were about her. (Apparently Susan Clark is a popular name in radio! :))
I find it amusing that you think googling celebrity death pools is a tad ghoulish. Read any page in any of the Death Pool threads since they started in 2000 (Wow, its been a while. :eek:) and you will find jokes a lot more ghoulish than using google to find someone for a list. There’s a reason the most common joke in the threads is about how crowded the handbasket heading down will be. 
If Susan Clark had became a radio personality because she had cancer and was dying, you would have an argument about her being famous for being sick. But she had been in radio for almost 20 years, on the air as a DJ and host most of the time. A local celebrity yes, but still a celebrity.
But “Susan Clark” doesn’t come up with anything. When I search for such nondescript names as “Ed Schultz” or “Michelle Block” or “Laurie Roth”, they pop up on the first page of results, without needing the extra “radio” modifier. Those people seem to be notable enough to show up in Google just based on their name, which suggests to me that they are celebrities. But Google doesn’t think Susan Clark the Montana radio host is important enough to show up in a basic search.
Susan Clark is no more a celebrity than my local car dealer who airs zany commercials.
Take another look at post # 1435. And that’s my final word on the subject.
Well, the two that I had circa 2008 were indeed local celebrities (and got points for them when there was no rule on the “famous just by being sick”), but what disqualify them now is **specifically **that they became celebrities thanks to their sickness, **not **that they were local celebrities; anyhow, what was pointed out by the rule makers before (Even before Baker became the rule maker and arbiter) was that local celebrities that can be found with Google and published on the press (that is, that can be found by everybody else) are ok to use.
Look, if you don’t want to make any effort at applying the limited rules of the game, just say so and I’ll drop it.
Drop it.
Fine.
NM
She is/was also an artist
http://www.kbllradio.com/pages/7160237.php
You’ve never played Calvinball, have you?
Radio DJs are encouraged to pick generic names. Was Susan Clark her real name or DJ name?
Her real name was Susan Edwards, but no explanation about why she used Clark. No mention of a husband, so not likely it was her maiden name. OTOH, if he was long gone it might have been.
It’s not just a game, it’s a way of life.
Or death.
News reports keep mocking me. So great, Gibbs recovery is confounding his doctors. Good for him. Do you have to rub it in?
As if all those bits they must had plug to his veins and lungs were useless.
Once again, you win again science! 
Is your local car dealer sick? How old is he? What’s his name, maybe he’ll be worth some points next year.
Well I’ll be, I thought he was dead, the most famous example:Cal Worthington is still alive, and he is worth just about 7 points.
Is his dog Spot still alive?
Last time I saw Cal his dog Spot was an elephant.