ghoulpool.us ™

I saw an article today that made me think about how useful dead people can be. You’d think, that once a person dies, they really can’t help out too much more around the house. Well, the old adage about ‘you learn something new everyday’ never rang more true.

Original Story.

UNDERTAKERS have been accused of using human ashes to grit the path outside their funeral home.

Workers at a Co-op parlour claimed their boss laughed about the grotesque practice, which they said has been going on for years.

 Read more... (646 words, 2 images, estimated 2:35 mins reading time)

Read Full Post »

Rock Stars lead charmed lives full of sex, drugs, and Rock and Roll. We all want to be them and live vicariously through their escapades and various home movies. One thing we don’t consider very often is the rather high mortality rate that these purveyors of the perverse suffer from. Certainly it is not for us to feel sorry for these guys and gals as they generally bring it on themselves, however this is a profession that should be included amongst one of the worlds more dangerous professions based on statistics.  Read more... (470 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Read Full Post »

Rosie O’Donnell announced today that she is quitting The View. And somehow, this is national news almost as important as Anna Nicole’s baby killing a paparazzi lawyer. What the hell.. it beats talking about rising fuel costs, immigration issues, and the War on Terror. News today has become the new sitcom for Americans — please feed us just enough that we can swallow with 22 minutes, plus commercials.

So, as I understand it, this fat pig Rosie was looking for more money from ABC, and ABC said “We don’t pay our hot people that much money, why would we give to a troll?”  Read more... (550 words, 1 image, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

Read Full Post »

Boris Yeltsin, who got his start as the evil Russian spy on the Rocky & Bullwinkle show, died today in his kremlin at the age of 76.

In an historical event, Boris became the only person to make the jump from movies and television to rule a nation as President. It’s a feat that has never been attempted, and won’t happen again until Arnold Schwarchenegger is able to change the Constitution in his favor to allow body-builders to run for the office of the President of the United States.

Read Full Post »

Lobby Loyde, whose loud, plectrum-bending guitar style blasted from rock pubs and concert venues throughout the 60s and 70s, was acknowledged as a father figure of Australian rock music.

He died in Box Hill Hospital last night after a long battle with lung cancer that eventually spread throughout his body.

He was a driving force behind the Aztecs, whose founder and singer, Billy Thorpe, died of a heart attack in February.

Loyde was born John Baslington Lyde in Longreach, Queensland, in 1941. His mother was a classically trained pianist and his father a jazz trumpeter and as a teenager he joined them in country town performances in outback Queensland.  Read more... (123 words, 1 image, estimated 30 secs reading time)

Read Full Post »

April 20th is indeed a cursed date in history. Everyone and their dog knows about the two most cited events of this date is history: 1) Adolf Hitler was born in 1889, becoming the most famous advertisement for pulling out early ever, and 2) the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. But, certainly, there are other events that occured on April 20th that prove it is the most cursed date in history.  Read more... (579 words, 2 images, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

Read Full Post »

One of the rules in Ghoulpool is that you can only have 25 names on your list. What that means is that each year, usually sometime in December, I start compiling all the names I have added to a list throughout the year. Every time I hear or read a story about a sick or aged celebrity, the name goes on the list. When December comes, I start to rank them based on whatever news I can find out. Invariably, I have about 35 to 40 names that are worthy of making the list, and I have to pare it down to 25.  Read more... (361 words, 1 image, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Read Full Post »

So I checked out the Internet Death Clock site (http://www.deathclock.com/), and it just told me that I had only 12 more years to live. My oldest son would probably not be married yet, and my daughter would be only 14 years old. Seems to be a cruel future for all three of my kids. At least my wife will get paid, as my life insurance policy makes me worth more dead than alive. So at least she’s got that going for her.  Read more... (402 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Read Full Post »

Hawaiian singing legend, Don Ho, died on Saturday April 14th at the age of 76. I saw Don Ho when I lived in Hawaii, and I’m confident he looked much better than he does now. Don Ho is the game’s 13th death.

Heart failure was the official cause. He had a history of heart trouble, and even traveled to Thailand to undergo an experimental stem cell procedure on his heart. Ho had a pacemaker installed last fall.  Read more... (208 words, 1 image, estimated 50 secs reading time)

Read Full Post »

Happy April Fools Day, ghoulers!

The Waiver Wire is now officially closed, and no more names will be accepted. The changes to the lists for the April 1st waiver wire period are like this:

People dropped:
Scott A – Conrad Furrey
Steve – Annie Lebowicz
Dr. Death – Dropped his blank spot he had because he was not smart enough to realize he had the same name on his list twice
FF – Magic Johnson
Brent – Jack Nicholson
rjs – Screech Diamond
Ernie – Arthur C Clark
FFM – Margaret Thatcher  Read more... (199 words, estimated 48 secs reading time)

Read Full Post »