2008 Ghoul Pool Rosters

The rosters are now set up for the 2008 Ghoul Pool. Because A) everyone’s lists were unique enough to do it, and B) this’ll give us more opportunity to score points, I’ve expanded the lists to 15 candidates apiece, since that’s the number of picks everyone was able to make before someone’s list of 20 was exhausted. The draft order went as follows:

1. Ben Ziek

2. Destina Faroda (nangbaby)

3. Tim Connolly (loogaroo)

4. Justin Lollie (enfarcer)

5. Rob Seidelman (mmxfan)

6. Don Paluga (originaldonald)

7. Jarrett Jones

8. Chico Alexander (chairmanchico)

Picks were made in reverse order for all even-numbered rounds. (Hence, Chico got the last pick in the first round, but the first pick in the second). If someone already picked a person on your list, I skipped it and moved on to the next entry.

On that note, with the first pick in the 2008 Ghoul Pool Draft, Ben Ziek selected…

…Fidel Castro, 81 years old, former dictator of Cuba.

Here are all of the choices. Names in red are selections that have passed away this year; the number in parentheses indicates the number of points scored for the pick.

Ben Ziek	Destina Faroda (21 pts.)	Tim Connolly (8 pts.)	Justin Lollie (59 pts.)
Fidel Castro	Ariel Sharon	Zsa Zsa Gabor	David Lee Edwards
Walter Cronkite	Jesse Helms	Wilford Brimley	Jack Narz
Phyllis Diller	B.B. King	Patrick Swayze	Pat Summerall
Kenny Rogers	Billy Graham	Ted Kennedy	Art Linkletter
Monty Hall	Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh	Nancy Reagan	Donnie Iris
Margaret Thatcher	Mills Lane	Shirley Temple-Black	Don Bluth
Lily Tomlin	Garrett Morris	Robert Byrd	Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Bobby Heenan	Betty Ford	Betty White	Garrick Utley
Debbie Reynolds	Roger Ebert	Andy Rooney	Gloria Stuart
Miley Cyrus	Berry Gordy	Larry King	Dave Brubeck
Wayne Newton	Harry Belafonte	Stephen Hawking	Howard Baker
Don Rickles	Della Reese	Carl Reiner	Chuck Bednarik
Gene Okerlund	Elizabeth Taylor	David Crosby	Tom Bosley
Tony Bennett	Kirk Douglas	Joe Paterno	Maya Angelou
Carlos “Konnan” Ashenoff	Andy Griffith	Frank Lautenberg	Neil Sedaka
	Myron Cope (21)	Charlton Heston (8)	Gordon Hinckley (3)
			Sydney Pollack (27)
			Yves Saint-Laurent (29)
Rob Seidelman	Don Paluga	Jarrett Jones	Chico Alexander
Hugh Downs	Hugh Hefner	Barrack Obama	Bob Barker
Jimmy Carter	Doyle Brunson	Dave Chappelle	Dick Clark
Donald Rumsfeld	Britney Spears	Jose Canseco	James Earl Jones
Don Shula	Lindsey Lohan	Sandra Bullock	Richard Dysart
Bruno Sammartino	Paris Hilton	Hans Von Spakovsky	Estelle Getty
Gary Birdsong	Queen Elizabeth 2	John Kerry	Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Bill Watts	Kanye West	Barry Bonds	Rutger Hauer
Herbert Stempel	Fifty Cent	Peter Wong	Eddie Levert
Richard Petty	Paul Newman	Earvin Johnson	Barbara Walters
Wayne Huizenga	Clint Eastwood	Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud	Ed McMahon
Keith Richards	Angela Lansbury	Liam Neeson	Little Richard
Mel Gibson	Warren Buffett	Dan Inouye	Norman Schwarzkopf
Rush Limbaugh	Ted Turner	Colt Brennan	Dan Morgan
Larry Flynt	Barron Hilton	Steve Jobs	Takeshi Kaga
Huey Lewis	Art Modell	Richard H. Carmona	Aretha Franklin

Once again, to recap: every time someone on your list dies, you earn whatever their age was subtracted from 100 as points. (Thus, if Castro died tomorrow, Ben would score 19 points; if Lindsay Lohan bites it, Don racks up 79 points.) However, the score awarded is cut in half is the death is a suicide, drug-related, or on account of a pre-existing terminal illness.

364 days left in the year. May the most morbid person win.

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