This list was submitted by USER01226 on Tuesday, December 31st, 2002 at 8:04 PM PST for The 2003 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
9 | Strom Thurmond | June 26th, 2003 | 100 |
8 | Leni Riefenstahl | September 8th, 2003 | 101 |
7 | Johnny Oates | December 24th, 2004 | 58 |
6 | Barney Kessel | May 6th, 2004 | 80 |
5 | Augusto Pinochet | December 10th, 2006 | 91 |
4 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
3 | Skeeter Davis | September 19th, 2004 | 72 |
2 | Sheb Wooley | September 16th, 2003 | 82 |
1 | Darryl Strawberry | Alive | 63 |
29 points | 4 hits |
He was called "The Master of Malaprop", which is where you purposely use the wrong word in a sentence, making it hilarious. For example, saying "You could have knocked me over with a fender." We assume the word "hilarious" meant something different back in the 60's.
(d) November 7th, 2020