Newest Stiffs:
Charles Van Doren · 93
February 12th, 1926 — April 9th, 2019
For 11 points: who cheated like a punk on game shows in the 50s while disgracing his family name?
Dick Dale · 81
May 4th, 1937 — March 16th, 2019
Surf's down.
Luke Perry · 52
October 11th, 1966 — March 4th, 2019
New zip code for Luke.
Katherine Helmond · 89
July 5th, 1929 — February 23rd, 2019
Who's the moss?
Peter Tork · 77
February 13th, 1942 — February 21st, 2019
Bass player for a fake band. This is one of those days for us.
Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Jeff Dunham · 57
(b) April 18th, 1962
Malcolm Marshall
would have been 61 today
April 18th, 1958 — November 4th, 1999One of the world's most accomplished and celebrated cricket players, which means he couldn't make it in a real sport.
James Woods · 72
(b) April 18th, 1947
Hayley Mills · 73
(b) April 18th, 1946
Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
would have been 95 today
April 18th, 1924 — September 10th, 2005Truly an inspiration, Clarence became a successful musician and singer despite his horrific dental deformity.
Henry Hyde
would have been 95 today
April 18th, 1924 — November 29th, 2007Dr. Jekyll, however, is doing fine.
Barbara Hale
would have been 97 today
April 18th, 1922 — January 27th, 2017She was in movies for 35 years and on TV for 48 years. And she'll still be remembered as Perry Mason's secretary. Raymond Burr can suck it.
Leonid Kinskey
would have been 116 today
April 18th, 1903 — September 8th, 1998We're no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of one little character actor don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that.
Today's Celebrity Deaths:
Doris Roberts · 90
died 3 years ago today
November 4th, 1925 — April 18th, 2016Everybody mourns, Raymond.
Dick Clark · 82
died 7 years ago today
November 30th, 1929 — April 18th, 20125!
4!
3!
2!
Dick? Dick?
Thor Heyerdahl · 87
died 17 years ago today
October 6th, 1914 — April 18th, 2002After a lifetime of bold research and daring exploration, including crossing both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans on rafts made out of twigs and fucking reeds, he died of boredom.
Rick Rude · 40
died 20 years ago today
December 7th, 1958 — April 18th, 1999One of his fans eulogized him in an e-mail to us, which read "... he was a pretty good guy in real life, and just acted like a schmuck in the ring." Rest in peace, ravishing one.
Terry Sanford · 80
died 21 years ago today
August 20th, 1917 — April 18th, 1998A former Senator, Governor and University President who twice ran for the Democratic Presidential nomination, but you can bet that if he weren't on 59 lists, we wouldn't even be talking about him.
Linda Schele · 55
died 21 years ago today
October 30th, 1942 — April 18th, 1998The noted Mayan scholar and historian, of course. Not only did we not know who she was when she was alive, but she was dead for a week before somebody finally pointed out that she was on a list. What are we, the goddamned FBI?
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Here are the ten lists in the lead for the current game …
| Stiffs | Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Zoommaster | 2 | 17 |
| 2. | Life Elevated #3 | 2 | 16 |
| 3. | Venus Lovemotion | 2 | 15 |
| 4. | @@@@@@ | 2 | 13 |
| 5. | Depressed 12 | 2 | 13 |
| 6. | News Is Blue, The News Is Blue | 2 | 13 |
| 7. | Herb | 2 | 12 |
| 8. | The Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 2 | 12 |
| 9. | Well Nobody Died, Did They? #2 | 2 | 12 |
| 10. | Aardvark2 | 2 | 11 |