Oh yeah, we are a bunch of sick bastards. (That was funny, Hoopy.)
Rick Huxley, bass player for the Dave Clark Five, no longer glad all over at 72.
Tom Aspell of NBC News. Age 62. Lung cancer. Reported on NBC Nightly News just now.
A minor celebrity but someone could have been on him as a unique pick (it would make sense in a Death Pool manner:eek:).
John Alleman, the unofficial spokesman for the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, has died of a heart attack. He was 52…
Thank you.
No comment needed, that one just writes itself.
There’s no need to fear! (The guy who created) *Underdog *is here!
http://todaynews.today.com/_news/2013/02/15/16975006-underdog-cartoons-co-creator-dies-at-85?lite
If Benedict XVI dies this year (after 2/28) do we still get credit for him?
well, yeah, he’d still be famous, only then for resigning
I meant that he’d no longer be Benedict XVI.
I think the reference is to the fact that his name will likely go back to Joseph Ratzinger, though we would obviously get credit for him no matter what.
We simulposted, but this is what I meant.
I don’t suppose anyone had child-murderer Subhan Anwar on their list?
This brings up an issue from the OP of this thread. I asked that players use the most well known name a person uses, especially if it’s a titled name. I even called it “the Pope rule”. as is “don’t call him Joseph Ratzinger, call him Pope Benedict XVI.”
Yet some players persisted in including a celebrity named Joseph Ratzinger. Now, they would have eventually got their points if Benedict XVI had kicked off. But I would have awarded the points for Benny, and waited for the folks who had Joe to say, “Where’s my points, huh?”
Hey, there’s two Billy Grahams and folks who used them would make sure I knew which one they meant. And there’s two Raul Castro’s as well. So please, I’m asking you, next year don’t make it harder for me by refusing to allow a well known person the title most know them by, especially when the two names are completely different.
Next year, all my picks are going to be pairs with the same names.
People got credit for former President Gerald Ford. Granted, he didn’t change his name.
So, for 2014, we should use Joseph Ratzinger?
You trying to annoy Baker, or what?
I want in!
Using pairs of the same names is fine, so long as the players distinguish between them, like Billy Graham the evangelist or the wrestler.
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We ain’t got no cookies!
I don’t have to show you no stinking cookies!