This list was submitted by USER00058 on Sunday, January 3rd, 1999 at 6:44 AM PST for The 1999 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Joe DiMaggio | March 8th, 1999 | 84 |
9 | Rick Hendrick | Alive | ? |
8 | Not Famous | ||
7 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
6 | Sarah Knauss | December 30th, 1999 | 119 |
5 | Allen Funt | September 5th, 1999 | 84 |
4 | Sylvia Sidney | July 1st, 1999 | ? |
3 | Buddy Ebsen | July 6th, 2003 | 95 |
2 | Vaclav Havel | December 18th, 2011 | 75 |
1 | Leni Riefenstahl | September 8th, 2003 | 101 |
25 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