This list was submitted by USER03807 on Thursday, January 24th, 2002 at 9:00 AM PST for The 2002 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Osama bin Laden | May 2nd, 2011 | 54 |
9 | John Galbraith | April 29th, 2006 | 97 |
8 | Ted Williams | July 5th, 2002 | ? |
7 | Dudley Moore | March 27th, 2002 | 66 |
6 | Sheb Wooley | September 16th, 2003 | 82 |
5 | Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | March 30th, 2002 | 94 |
4 | Milton Berle | March 27th, 2002 | 93 |
3 | David Brinkley | June 11th, 2003 | ? |
2 | Madame Chiang Kai-Shek | October 23rd, 2003 | 106 |
1 | Al Hirschfeld | January 20th, 2003 | 99 |
24 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