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The Eric and Ray Show

Rant-Man's Notebook

By Jim "Rant-Man" MacQuarrie

Dead Pool Update

Back at the start of the year, I proposed a sick little game called a Dead Pool. Now it's time for the periodic update. Let's see who's playing, and how they're doing. (The players posted their picks on our much-neglected message board.)

Dreadstar went first:
Bob Hope
Al Stewart (he meant Warren Zevon, but didn't correct it in time...)
Pope John Paul II
Richard Pryor
Annette Funicello
Kate Hepburn
Jesse Helms
Kirk Douglas
Boris Yeltsin
Abe Vigoda
Wild? hmmmm...
Rush Limbaugh
Fidel Castro

Then our own Chris Kohler chose:
Ronald Reagan
Strom Thurmond (one can only hope)
James Doohan
Stan Lee
Ray Bradbury
Christopher Lee
Scott Weiland
Charlton Heston
Henry Kissinger
George Steinbrenner (again, one can only...)
Wild Cards:
Al Davis
Saddam Hussein (just to get the warmongering over with, PLEASE)

GofQ (Goddess of Quilting; you can Be a God or Goddess, too!) offered her list:
Mike Wallace
Eli Wallach
Richard Widmark
Stuart Whitman
Fay Wray
Jane Wyatt
Jane Wyman
Jan-Michael Vincent
Sargent Shriver
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Wild Cards:
Meredith Vieira
Cal Worthington

Keith Carroll chimed in:
I'm not happy about my first pick, but:
Warren Zevon (i'm surprised no one else picked him)
Rupert Everett (He looks sick to me)
Jack Ramsay (The ESPN Basketball guy, is he famous enough?)
Kim Jong Il (Maybe there will be an uprising)
Peter O'Toole (his recent comments will be his death knell)
Chrisopher Reeve
Marlon Brando
Margaret Thatcher
Queen Elizabeth
Hubie Brown (I may be disqualified if he turns out to have been an animated corpse for years)
Wild Cards
Dr. Phil (His commercials annoy me ot no end)
Reverend Al Sharpton (How this man is still a public figure is beyond me)

IvyThePlant (she rants good) offered these:
Harry Morgan
Gerald Ford
Barry Watson
Ian McKellan
Adam West
Harlan Ellison
Frankie Laine
Rip Taylor
Sunny Skylar (I couldn't find if she was dead so I'm assuming still alive) (That's because Sunny Skylar was a pseudonym; his real name was Selig Shaftel.)
Gary Coleman
Wild Cards:
Ben Affleck
Goldie Hawn

And my own list:
Madame Chiang Kai Shek
Dear Abby (which is to say, Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips, the original "Abigail Van Buren," not the current one. That's her daughter, Jeanne Phillips.)
Luise Ranier
Leni Riefenstahl
Johnny Cash
Rosa Parks
Billy Graham
Carlo Ponti
Gen. William Westmoreland
Artie Shaw
Wild Cards:
Adam Sandler
Christina Aguilera

There you have it, six players, each with 12 choices, for a total of 72 potential corpses. For ease of use, here they are in alphabetical order:

Ben Affleck
Christina Aguilera
Ray Bradbury
Marlon Brando
Hubie Brown
Johnny Cash
Fidel Castro
Madame Chiang Kai Shek
Gary Coleman
Al Davis
Dear Abby
James Doohan
Kirk Douglas
Dr. Phil
Harlan Ellison
Rupert Everett
Gerald Ford
Annette Funicello
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Billy Graham
Goldie Hawn
Jesse Helms
Kate Hepburn
Charlton Heston
Bob Hope
Saddam Hussein
Kim Jong Il
Henry Kissinger
Frankie Laine
Christopher Lee
Stan Lee
Rush Limbaugh
Ian McKellan
Harry Morgan
Peter O'Toole
Rosa Parks
Carlo Ponti
Pope John Paul II
Richard Pryor
Queen Elizabeth
Jack Ramsay
Luise Ranier
Ronald Reagan
Chrisopher Reeve
Leni Riefenstahl
Adam Sandler
Reverend Al Sharpton
Artie Shaw
Sargent Shriver
Sunny Skylar (AKA Selig Shaftel)
George Steinbrenner
Al Stewart
Rip Taylor
Margaret Thatcher
Strom Thurmond
Meredith Vieira
Abe Vigoda
Jan-Michael Vincent
Mike Wallace
Eli Wallach
Barry Watson
Scott Weiland
Adam West
Gen. William Westmoreland
Richard Widmark
Stuart Whitman
Cal Worthington
Fay Wray
Jane Wyatt
Jane Wyman
Boris Yeltsin
Warren Zevon

Now let's see how we're doing. A quick stop at the Dead People Server reveals all...

No stiffs yet. Saddam Hussein is a possible, but unconfirmed.

We now return to our regular stuff....

 

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