This list was submitted by USER00943 on Sunday, December 31st, 2000 at 8:39 PM PST for The 2001 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
9 | Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | March 30th, 2002 | 94 |
8 | Strom Thurmond | June 26th, 2003 | 100 |
7 | Madame Chiang Kai-Shek | October 23rd, 2003 | 106 |
6 | Anne Lindbergh | February 7th, 2001 | 94 |
5 | Buddy Ebsen | July 6th, 2003 | 95 |
4 | Ronald Reagan | June 5th, 2004 | 93 |
3 | Arlene Francis | May 31st, 2001 | 93 |
2 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
1 | Milton Berle | March 27th, 2002 | 93 |
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