This list was submitted by USER01427 on Saturday, December 22nd, 2001 at 5:09 PM PST for The 2002 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
9 | Billy Wilder | March 27th, 2002 | 95 |
8 | Hume Cronyn | June 15th, 2003 | 91 |
7 | Jack Elam | October 20th, 2003 | 82 |
6 | Red Buttons | July 13th, 2006 | 87 |
5 | Olivia de Havilland | July 26th, 2020 | 104 |
4 | Norman Mailer | November 10th, 2007 | 84 |
3 | Strom Thurmond | June 26th, 2003 | 100 |
2 | Katharine Hepburn | June 29th, 2003 | 96 |
1 | Buck Owens | March 25th, 2006 | 76 |
9 points | 1 hit |
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