This list was submitted by USER00875 on Thursday, December 30th, 1999 at 8:57 PM PST for The 2000 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | September 18th, 2020 | 87 |
9 | Charles Schulz | February 12th, 2000 | 77 |
8 | Dudley Moore | March 27th, 2002 | 66 |
7 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
6 | Lou Holtz | Alive | ? |
5 | Tom Landry | February 12th, 2000 | 75 |
4 | Lady Bird Johnson | July 11th, 2007 | 94 |
3 | Ronald Reagan | June 5th, 2004 | 93 |
2 | Strom Thurmond | June 26th, 2003 | 100 |
1 | Liz Taylor | March 23rd, 2011 | 79 |
14 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