This list was submitted by RoloTomassi on Tuesday, December 28th, 2004 at 10:35 PM PST for The 2005 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Ian Paisley | September 12th, 2014 | 88 |
9 | Augusto Pinochet | December 10th, 2006 | 91 |
8 | Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown | September 10th, 2005 | 81 |
7 | Billy Graham | February 21st, 2018 | 99 |
6 | Freddy Fender | October 14th, 2006 | 69 |
5 | Art Modell | September 6th, 2012 | 87 |
4 | Glenn Ford | August 30th, 2006 | 90 |
3 | Mary Travers | September 16th, 2009 | 72 |
2 | Liza Minnelli | Alive | 79 |
1 | James Doohan | July 20th, 2005 | 85 |
9 points | 2 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