The Off Topic 2010 Celebrity Dead Pool

[Wezil]

drunkasaskunk (rank 5) was the only player to pick Mr. Fieger (57).

= (171 - 5) + (100 - 57) + 25 (unique)

= 234 points

Once again we have a new Dead Pool leader.

[SlowwHand]

I shouldn't have said anything!

[Wezil]

I would have noticed that one.

drunkasaskunk hasn't been around since we began.

[SlowwHand]

FORFEIT!

[Wezil]

Not afraid of a little competition are you?

[SlowwHand]

OK, fine. Bring it on, Skunky.

[embalmer42]

* Sigh *

[Wezil]

There's hope on the horizon for a few players.

SEOUL, South Korea - North Koreans celebrated leader Kim Jong Il's 68th birthday - one of the country's most important holidays - on Tuesday amid persistent questions about his health and the future leadership of the communist nation.

Kim appears active in photos churned out by state media but he is chronically ill and has given up on Western medicine in favour of rare, costly and in some cases outlawed traditional remedies, two North Korea experts said.

Like his father Kim Il Sung before him, Kim Jong Il leads the nation of 24 million with absolute authority. There are concerns abroad that his sudden death could trigger instability and a possible power struggle in the nuclear-armed nation.

Though his health remains a tightly guarded secret, Kim is believed to have suffered a stroke in August 2008. Since then, North Korean officials have travelled to Beijing to buy expensive, hard-to-find remedies such as bear gall bladder, rhinoceros horn and musk, a South Korean intelligence expert told The Associated Press.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2010/02/15/12891666-ap.html

You're grasping at straws when you're down to rhino horn for a cure.

[SlowwHand]

A rhinoceros has musk? Damn, Poly is so educational.

[ZEE]

wow Slowwy talking about education is an Oxymoron isnt it

[SlowwHand]

STFU, child.

[embalmer42]

Since he is under my protection, there should never have been a doubt.

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2010/02/18/lightfoot-alive.html

Lightfoot responds to death reports: 'I'm fine'

Last Updated: Thursday, February 18, 2010 | 5:03 PM ET Comments52Recommend29CBC News
Gordon Lightfoot, pictured here in 2005, says he was at the dentist when he heard reports about his death. (Aaron Harris/Canadian Press)
Canadian icon Gordon Lightfoot said he was at the dentist when he heard on the radio that he was dead.

The folk legend, whose hits include If You Could Read My Mind, Sundown and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, took the news lightheartedly and was soon on the phone with Toronto-based all-news station CP24.

"I'm fine, everything is good. I don't know where it comes from. It seems like a bit of a hoax or something," the 71-year-old singer said. "I was quite surprised to hear [it] myself.

"I haven't had so much airplay on my music now for weeks."

The initial reports of Lightfoot's death appeared on Canwest news sites on Thursday afternoon, spreading instantaneously across many blogs and Twitter posts.

The report was discovered to be untrue within minutes of the news being posted.

B.C. Fiedler Management, Lightfoot's concert tour promoters, put out a quick statement proclaiming Lightfoot "is alive and in good health" and that the report was "false and completely without merit."

"This is just an unfortunate prank," said promoter Bernie Fiedler.

In fact, the singer's 12-city spring tour of Eastern Canada, Quebec and Ontario kicks off at the end of March starting in St. John's.

Lightfoot has been beset by health problems over the past few years. He suffered a ruptured artery in his stomach in 2002.

One report of the fake death attributed the news to fellow singer Ronnie Hawkins.

Hawkins says he heard the rumour through his management firm in the U.S., which told him that they heard it by phone from someone claiming to be Lightfoot's grandson.

"Oh what a dirty, sick joke that is, but I'm glad it was a sick joke and not the truth," Hawkins said.


Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2...#ixzz0fvfXoNLR

[SlowwHand]

That must be startling.

[embalmer42]

[Wezil]

Like Abe Vigoda he has to make public statements about still being alive.