This list was submitted by DGD on Saturday, December 31st, 2011 at 4:40 PM PST for The 2012 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Etta James | January 20th, 2012 | 73 |
9 | William Janklow | January 12th, 2012 | 72 |
8 | Robin Gibb | May 20th, 2012 | 62 |
7 | Gary Carter | February 16th, 2012 | 57 |
6 | Billy Graham | February 21st, 2018 | 99 |
5 | Margaret Thatcher | April 8th, 2013 | 87 |
4 | King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud | January 22nd, 2015 | 90 |
3 | Muhammad Ali | June 3rd, 2016 | 74 |
2 | Penny Marshall | December 18th, 2018 | 75 |
1 | Ronnie Biggs | December 18th, 2013 | 84 |
34 points | 4 hits |
"Put a coupla pennies on Ol' Blue Eyes .... He's a goner."
No, that's no good. We gotta do better than that. How 'bout
"Start spreadin' the news -- he's dead."
No, that's lame. This death is big. This death is bigger than big. It's huge. We need something really fantastic, like
"The Chairman is as stiff as a board."
That sucks. Dammit, we've got to think harder!
"From Here To Eternity."
Awful.
"Shot down in May."
Pathetic. Wait a sec,
"He did it--"
No, no, that's worse than the Henny Youngman thing. Jesus, the pressure is killing us. Do you people have any idea what this is like? Seventy-five million of you bloodthirsty sons-of-bitches are gonna be checking into this site right here, just to see what we write about Frank, and you know what? Yeah, he was a big star and a boozer and a womanizer and a pig and everything, but we know you bastards, and you're vicious. You're gonna want us to go for the jugular on this one, and man, we just weren't ready. Yeah, yeah, we shoulda seen it coming, it's true, but, jeez, the guy's like a statue or something, you know? Somehow, we just couldn't imagine it really, actually happening. And now it's happened, and we're completely stuck. Shit. We're fucked. We've been waiting and waiting for them to plant this old fart and put us in the spotlight, and now that baby's trained right on us, and we don't know what the hell to do. Okay, hang on. We've just got to pull it together and give it our best shot. Okay. Let's take a deep breath. We can get through this. Alright. Here we go. Ready?
"He's been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet -- and now he's a corpse."
God, that's horrible. Sorry.
(d) May 14th, 1998