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) | |||
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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.
Chairman KAGA~! is on the list? After all those meals made with the weirdest ingredients(shark fin? squid ink ice cream?), I doubt the head of the Gourmet Academy is going down anytime soon.
The Original IRON CHEF AMERICAN!
F’n BOBBY FLAY! 😉
BTW Tim
I do believe Rob beat you to Jimmy Carter. I suggest a wrestler, as they tend to croak pretty frequently these days, sadly.
The Original Don McMahon
I suggest Jake The Snake 😛
Re: BTW Tim
I suggest Steinbrenner.
Re: BTW Tim
Don, I doubt highly that Jake Roberts will die anytime soon. The man’s been through so much and did so much that he’s practically the Keith Richards of wrestling. For further proof of this, get his DVD released by WWE. He took 100 Percosets at once…and lived.
Nobody picked Dick Cheney? With his heart and high position, I figured he’d be a natural choice.
There is one more T at the end of my first name. Thanks.
Re: BTW Tim
Fortunately, I had one name left on my original list, so I went with New Jersey senator Frank Lautenberg.
Relax, man, you can use my real name.
Why wasn’t David Blaine in this list? One of these days, something’s going to go wrong with one of his stunts…
Three words……………
The Original GG/TXRDonald
EVEL FREAKING KNEIVEL!!!!!!!
And NOBODY picked the first major passing of the year, Sir Edmund Hillary…
We’re right on track, as you can see.