Posted in Scored Deaths on Dec 29th, 2008
Danielle gets on the score board with Eartha Kitt’s death on Christmas day – she gets her Ghoulpool cherry popped AND scores a solo shot!! She is the game’s 48th scored death.
Not much to say, other than I found it very ironic that she died on Santa’s day… The world is a wondrous place.
Posted in Scored Deaths on Dec 26th, 2008
Harold Pinter has made the Ghoulpool lists every year since we started 9 years ago, and the persistence has paid off. The Nobel Prize winner died December 24th from cancer at the age of 78. Seven people were lucky enough to have his name, but it did not shake things up in the money list. That’s surprising to me.
The great English provocateur — playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, poet and human-rights activist — won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2005. Although he was too ill to accept the award in person, he appeared on video with a scathing denunciation of U.S. foreign policy and the Iraq War.
Posted in Scored Deaths on Dec 23rd, 2008
The West African country of Guinea has been thrown into confusion by the death of President Lansana Conte, who ruled the country for nearly 25 years.
“We regret to announce to the people of Guinea the death of Gen. Lansana Conte after a long illness,” Sompare said, according to Le Jour. Conte was 74.
A 40-day period of national mourning has been declared.
Conte came to power in a military coup on April 3, 1984.
Posted in Scored Deaths on Dec 19th, 2008
Mark Felt, the FBI official who as the anonymous journalistic source “Deep Throat” helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon, died on Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa, Calif. He was 95.
Felt suffered from congestive heart failure but the immediate cause of death was not known on Thursday night.
I’m resisting the urge to post some real Deep Throat pictures, because of the Holy Season.
Congrats to Dio and Die For My Benefit for their respective scores.
Posted in Scored Deaths on Dec 15th, 2008
.. but he was found because Terry took my advice and did a little fact checking on his list. Lo and behold, he walks away with 65 points for his troubles. Not bad, Terry! Way to stay alert!!
Clay Felker, a visionary editor who was widely credited with inventing the formula for the modern magazine, giving it energetic expression in a glossy weekly named for and devoted to the boisterous city that fascinated him — New York. Mr. Felker edited a number of publications besides New York magazine. There were stints at Esquire, The Village Voice, Adweek and others. He also created an opposite-coast counterpart to New York and called it New West.
Posted in Scored Deaths on Dec 12th, 2008
99 year old Arthur Glenn Andrews died way back in September – September 25th to be exact – and Brent discovered his score by doing a quick review of his list. When Mr. Andrews died, he was the oldest living former member of the US Congress. Now, he’s not.
There’s two lessons here for whoever wants to smarten up:
1) Review your list and see who might already be dead. Find one, and get your points!
2) 99 year olds die frequently.
Congrats to Brent for his score, and moving up in the rankings a few notches.
Posted in Random Crap on Dec 12th, 2008
Bettie Page, the 1950s secretary-turned-model whose controversial photographs in skimpy attire or none at all helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, died Thursday. She was 85.
Page was placed on life support last week after suffering a heart attack in Los Angeles and never regained consciousness, said her agent, Mark Roesler. He said he and Page’s family agreed to remove life support. Before the heart attack, Page had been hospitalized for three weeks with pneumonia.
And a special Merry Christmas:
