Posted in Random Crap on Jun 29th, 2009
I’ll be the first to admit. This week is probably the best holiday I have ever experienced. Ed McMahon. Farrah Fawcett. Micheal freakin Jackson. Billy Mays. No one has received this many gifts since Santa tripped and spilled his bag in front of Cindy Lou.
It’s been a celebocaust this week, with as few as four A-List celebs checking out, and maybe more to come.
Posted in Administrative on Jun 26th, 2009
All Ghoulpoolers… As more and more news comes out about Michael Jackson’s death, we at Ghoulpool will be keeping an eye on it and how it affects scoring. Final points will be determined based on the OFFICIAL cause of death. So while it may come out as OD or whatever, points may be adjusted. But, if it comes out as heart attack, brought on by exhaustion/drugs/bulimia/blowing Bubbles, then the heart attack cause would still be natural causes.
Just a note to clear anything up.
Posted in Scored Deaths on Jun 25th, 2009
Rumors abound that maga-icon pop star Michael Jackson has died in Los Angeles. TMZ is reporting, but no confirmation from other sources (yet).
Edit: NBC News reporting that Los Angeles Times confirming his death.
From TMZ:
Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.
A source tells us Jackson was dead when paramedics arrived. A cardiologist at UCLA tells TMZ Jackson died of cardiac arrest.
Posted in Scored Deaths on Jun 25th, 2009
Well, we all knew it was coming, but it doesn’t make this one very easy. What guy my age didn’t have the poster – you know the one, the red bathing suit and apparent cold room – hanging on their bedroom wall? And what girl my age didn’t want The Farrah for a hair style?
Good news – six people scored points today with her death, including three cherries popped (Dr. Death #1, Feral Fodder, and Live As If You Are Dying #1). The three others are Die For My Benefit, Team Dirt, and Terry. Congrats to all.
Posted in Scored Deaths on Jun 24th, 2009
Scott A pads his lead with yet another solo shot – scored when 57 year old explorer Jerri Neilsen died on June 23rd, marking the game’s 16th scored death.
Neilsen was an American physician with extensive ER experience, who in 1998 was hired to spend a year at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, as the station’s only doctor.
Posted in Scored Deaths on Jun 23rd, 2009
5 scores. 15th scored death in the game. We’re not setting any records, that’s for sure. Maybe the second half of the year will let loose with the demises!
Live As If You Are Dying #3 moved up into 5th place with this score, while four others all got their Ghoulpool cherry popped: Charles #1, Danielle #1 and #3, and Team Dirt. Congrats to all.
Posted in Random Crap on Jun 11th, 2009
Here’s one of those stories that seems too sad to be true:
“An Italian woman who arrived late for the Air France plane flight that crashed in the Atlantic last week has been killed in a car accident,” the Times of London reports.
Johanna Ganthaler died when a car she was riding in “veered across a road in Kufstein, Austria, and swerved into an oncoming truck. Her husband was seriously injured.”
The Air France jet crashed over the Atlantic Ocean on May 31. All 228 people on board are presumed dead.
Posted in Scored Deaths on Jun 11th, 2009
The 14th scored death in the game – Richard Quick, who won one men’s title at Auburn, seven women’s titles at Stanford – he was with the Cardinals from 1988 through 2005 – and five women’s titles at Texas as the swim coach, died from brain cancer at the age of 66 on June 10th. He also coached three U.S. Olympic teams.
In what can only be called the slowest scoring game in our nine year history, Quick’s death cam 32 days after the 13th death was scored. Maybe the Grim Reaper has been hit by the depression as well.