Apolyton Celebrity Dead Pool 2009

[SlowwHand]

I can't shake Wezil to save my life.

[-Jrabbit]

Yeah, but nobody else has a realistic chance. You two are the Yankees-Red Sox of the 2009 Dead Pool.

[Wezil]

I can't shake Wezil to save my life.

Ronnie Biggs is going to put me over the top.

[SlowwHand]

Did y'all even notice my turn of a phrase? You didn't, did you?

[embalmer42]

Did y'all even notice my turn of a phrase? You didn't, did you?

I did Sloww (even though you did miss Wezil's attempt at LSD humour earlier ). However, I'm trying to stay out of this thread until I at least get some points.

[Wezil]

It looks like there will be a 2010 game for you to get no points in as well embalmer.

[SlowwHand]

Ex-Miss Argentina dies after cosmetic surgery
38-year-old Solange Magnano passed away after procedure on her buttocks


updated 8:35 p.m. MT, Mon., Nov . 30, 2009

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A 38-year-old former Miss Argentina has died from complications after undergoing cosmetic surgery on her buttocks.

Solange Magnano, a mother of twins who won the crown in 1994, died of a pulmonary embolism Sunday after three days in critical condition following a gluteoplasty in Buenos Aires.

Close friend Roberto Piazza said the procedure involved injections and the liquid "went to her lungs and brain."

"A woman who had everything lost her life to have a slightly firmer behind," he said.

Magnano's burial Monday was shown on Argentine television.

Dr. Gonzalo Cortes y Tristan said she arrived at his hospital with an acute respiratory deficiency. Her condition deteriorated until she suffered the embolism.

[Tuberski]

I can't shake the Wezil to save my life.

Fixed.

ACK!

[Wezil]

Ah yes, but she's looking good.

[Wezil]

I still think we need a prize of some sort.

[SlowwHand]

A Grim Reaper trophy?

[SlowwHand]

Not on my list. RIP

Doctor who attended JFK in Dallas has died

by ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted on December 8, 2009 at 12:47 AM


DALLAS - Dr. Malcolm Oliver Perry II, who attended to President John F. Kennedy at Parkland Memorial Hospital after he was shot in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, has died. He was 80.

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the teaching hospital for Parkland, said Monday that Perry died Saturday in Tyler after a battle with lung cancer.

Perry was an assistant professor of surgery at UT Southwestern and a vascular surgeon on the Parkland staff when he became the first staff surgeon to treat Kennedy.

In an extensive interview by the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination, Perry recalled taking the case over from the senior resident, checking the president's vital signs and finding none but noting a convulsive effort to breath. He performed a tracheotomy on the president while other staff doctors and surgeons gathered to help.

Perry and another surgeon performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Kennedy until no brain activity was detected on the trauma room instruments. At 1 p.m., Kennedy was declared dead by Dr. Kemp Clark, the UT Southwestern neurosurgery chairman, from a catastrophic head wound.

Dr. Robert McClelland was the last surgeon to attend Kennedy in Trauma Room 1. McClelland, a longtime friend and Parkland and UT Southwestern colleague of Perry's, remembers that the shock of realizing whom they were treating faded quickly when they entered the trauma room.

"At Parkland we're accustomed, all of us are, to treating many different cases," McClelland told The Associated Press on Monday. "Of course, it's the president," he said. Was it hard to put that aside? "No, not really. Everything was so rapidly happening that we were called on the peak of the moment."

Perry told the commission that the neck wound Kennedy suffered from the sniper's first rifle shot would likely have not been fatal. However, he testified that neither he nor Clark could tell from their examinations from where the bullets came.

The vascular surgeon also was one of the doctors to operate on presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, who was shot two days after Kennedy's death by Jack Ruby.

After a long career, Perry retired in 2000 as professor emeritus of surgery at UT Southwestern. But McClelland, now 80, said that after the assassination his friend never mentioned their role in the case, and that they never discussed it even among themselves.

"No, we didn't, for reasons he kept to himself. Immediately after, he had a bad experience with interviews that hurt him deeply. Whenever the subject threatened to come up, he'd raise an eyebrow and that would be that," he said.

Perry was born in Allen, Texas, a once-tiny farming-and-railroad town about 20 miles north of Dallas that is now one of the city's fastest-growing suburbs. He was raised by his grandfather and namesake, Dr. Malcolm O. Perry I, a general practitioner in the small town.

[SlowwHand]

Evangelist Oral Roberts dies in Calif. at age 91 (AP) - 16 minutes ago

AP - Oral Roberts, a pioneer in televangelism who founded a multimillion-dollar ministry and a university that bears his name, died Tuesday. He was 91. Roberts died of complications from pneumonia

Barely made the year.

[Wezil]

God finally called him home.

Anyone pick him?

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Oral Roberts, the evangelist who rose from humble tent revivals to found a multimillion-dollar ministry and a university bearing his name, died Tuesday. He was 91.

Roberts died of complications from pneumonia in Newport Beach, Calif., according to his spokesman, A. Larry Ross. The evangelist was hospitalized after a fall on Saturday. He had survived two heart attacks in the 1990s and a broken hip in 2006.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2009/12/15/12166166-ap.html

[Wezil]

Barely made the year.

I saw you lurking in the thread and thought it might be for the same reason.