Well, Baker, it does sound like you enjoyed your Birthday, anyway. Thanks for doing this job so that we can all be ghouls. You win the BEST DEATH MISTRESS award for the second year in a row, I believe.
Tied for 21st in my first year! Woo hoo!!
Huzzah!
Wow. 4 points. Olivia, you let me down, girl. Tsk, tsk.
Woot! It’s a major award, and I won it! Fra-gee-lay!! 
Congratulations, Sir!
So way back in December 2012, I put together what I thought was a great list. Had it all typed out and formatted and everything. But then I went to a New Years’ party and forgot to post it. For posterity, here it is:
[ol]
[li]Eiji Toyoda (b. 1913) Industrialist and my annual 99-year-old pick[/li][li]Jerry Brown (b. 1938) Governor of California[/li][li]Bonnie Franklin (b. 1944) Actress[/li][li]Marcia Strassman (b. 1948) Actress[/li][li]Hugo Chavez (b. 1954) Dictator[/li][li]Jeff Charles (b. circa 1955) Sports announcer[/li][li]Scott Thorson (b. 1958) Liberace’s lover[/li][li]Mike Atta (b. 1960) Punk guitarist[/li][li]Christopher Cassidy (b. 1970) Astronaut going up in 2013[/li][li]Manisha Koirala (b. 1970) Bollywood actress[/li][li]Macaulay Culkin (b. 1980) Actor[/li][li]Lindsay Lohan (b. 1986) Actress[/li][li]Chris Kushneriuk (b. 1987) Hockey player[/ol][/li]
So how did I do? Eh, so-so. These three were the only ones who died:[ul]
[li]Eiji Toyoda (5 days after his 100th birthday, for 0 points)[/li][li]Bonnie Franklin (69 points)[/li][li]Hugo Chavez (58 points)[/ul][/li]
127 points. Would have been in 18th place.
Nah, 73 points. Remember, points = 100 - (age at death), not age at death. So Bonnie Franklin would have gotten you 31, and Chavez 42. You’d have been in a tie for 42nd, which still wouldn’t have been anything to be ashamed of.
Ha ha! Brain fart. Indeed, 73 points. And one (probable) unique pick.
I’ll take 57th. Since that’s what I have.
Woot!
128th place is MINE baby!!!
I think it would have been. Toyoda died on 9/17, and it didn’t even get mentioned in the thread over the next couple of weeks.
Tied for 47th place in my first time playing. Not bad.
Last celebrity death of 2013: Fresh Prince’s James Avery died December 31st. He was truly a fine actor and taught Will Smith a lot.
Alas, this will not help anyone as no player selected him.
Anyone have radio loudmouth Bob Grant on their 2013 lists? A number of people had him for 2014, but he was too fast for them.
Charlie Hill, first Native American comic to appear on the Tonight Show, died December 30
Brian
Bill Overstreet, WWII pilot who famously flew under the Eiffel Tower, died.
Brian
That’s the Charlie Hill link, again.
Whoops, here is a Bill Overstreet link:
Brian