This list was submitted by lindbergh on Thursday, December 31st, 2015 at 11:53 AM PST for The 2016 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
This list is in the Rec Road Boneyard.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | George H.W. Bush | November 30th, 2018 | 94 |
9 | Zsa Zsa Gabor | December 18th, 2016 | 99 |
8 | Stephen Hawking | March 13th, 2018 | 76 |
7 | Chuck Berry | March 18th, 2017 | 90 |
6 | Don Rickles | April 6th, 2017 | 90 |
5 | Kirk Douglas | February 5th, 2020 | 103 |
4 | Fidel Castro | November 25th, 2016 | 90 |
3 | Pete Fountain | August 6th, 2016 | 86 |
2 | Robert Mugabe | September 5th, 2019 | 95 |
1 | Prince Philip | April 9th, 2021 | 99 |
16 points | 3 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