The Graffe's Celebrity Death Pool

Edith Windsor, the lead plaintiff in the SCOTUS case that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, 88:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/12/politi...ity/index.html

RIP - Harry Dean Stanton

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...star-91-766020

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Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, pro wrestling manager, 73:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment...ling-1.4294811

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Originally Posted by PPatty

In my e-mail today, I just got an updated spreadsheet of a Dead Pool that four of us in college started back in September 1992. The idea is that first one to get all 25 wins, but actually two of us mistakenly picked people who were already dead, so it's really first one to 24. The list was just updated with Lena Horne and Ernie Harwell (one of my picks). Clearly, I'm terrible at this -- almost 18 years later and I still have 6 people alive on my draft picks:

Raisa Gorbachev - RIP
John Lee Hooker - RIP
BB King
The Queen Mother - RIP
Scott Muni - RIP
Wolfman Jack - RIP
Nelson Mandela
Jack Paar - RIP
Will Eisner - RIP
Joe Schuster - OOPS, was already dead
Jake LaMotta
Walter Cronkite - RIP
Benny Carter - RIP
Harry Helmsley - RIP
Kim-Il-Sung - RIP
Jonathan Winters
Erik Honekker - RIP
Sid Caesar
Ozzy Osborne
Harry Caray - RIP
Ernie Harwell - RIP
Clark Terry
Pope John Paul II - RIP
Fredrick Pohl - RIP
Ray Bradbury

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After 25 fucking years, I win:

http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/i...ll-dies-age-95

Yeah, I know, Ozzy's still alive, but I'm told that we changed it to first one to 24, because back in 1992, someone drafted someone who was already dead (Ralph Bellamy). It was close though -- one person also was down to one (Carol Channing).

Lady Lucan, widow of Lord Lucan (one of the great disappearances of the 70's), 80:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-41409597

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Originally Posted by Delores Mulva

Lady Lucan, widow of Lord Lucan (one of the great disappearances of the 70's), 80:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-41409597

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Wow, that's bringing it back.

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Originally Posted by Delores Mulva

Lady Lucan, widow of Lord Lucan (one of the great disappearances of the 70's), 80:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-41409597

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Wow. I had never heard of that story before. Crazy!

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Wow. I had never heard of that story before. Crazy!

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Me either. That's quite a story.

When I was a kid I used to love reading about people who disappeared, so I recognized the name.

This man helped develop stronger wrists for generations of males:

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...at-91.amp.html

https://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newsc...p-1200-800.jpg

I'll miss the articles.

There is no conceivable way that heaven could be a better place than earth for he,

Now HELL on the other hand...

I'd salute his passing, but I'd have to stand up to do it... and that would be awkward. Seriously, though, Playboy was an icon for decades.

The man every teen boy wanted to be back in the day. Apparently sex does make for a longer life, if he is any kind of an indicator.

A man so famous a type of D&D campaign was named after him: Monty Hall, 96:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manito...hall-1.4315396

I wonder if he was given a choice of which door to enter to the afterlife. "Aw, too bad, that one goes DOWN! See ya!"

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I wonder if he was given a choice of which door to enter to the afterlife. "Aw, too bad, that one goes DOWN! See ya!"

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"But wait! You can have what's behind these pearly gates... or you can trade it all for what's in this box!"

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"But wait! You can have what's behind these pearly gates... or you can trade it all for what's in this box!"

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"what is in the box?"

"Unknown but the return address label says E. Schrodinger"

Manson (marilyn) got crushed by a stage prop. His career and condition are pending.

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Originally Posted by Dawlin

Wow. I had never heard of that story before. Crazy!

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Also read up on the Jeremy Thorpe (MP) Affair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorpe_affair

and while the "Scandal" film was glossy (not seen anything but scenes fo it) check into some of the ugly facts of the curiously convenient case of sudden death of the doctor turned pimp who was behind the Lolita call girls that were involved


the Romans were CHUMPS compared to the sleaze and convenient deaths the British Establishment got up to