The 2012 Off Topic Celebrity Dead Pool

[-Jrabbit]

Stick with conscious self-deception. You'll feel better about life.
And death.

[DaShi]

My memory has me winning last year. This year as well, until I look at the scores again.

[Dinner]

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAA... Some of us have had Slump seasons...

I've only been playing this year but so far my slump season started on Jan 1st.

[ColdWizard]

My four hits are in my top six, so I'm doing disturbingly well.

[Wezil]

We'd send you to the minors Ming but this is the minors.

Looks like we're stuck with you.

[Ming]

Slump season.

It happens to the best of them.

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAA... Some of us have had Slump seasons...

[Wezil]

Slump season.

It happens to the best of them.

[-Jrabbit]

It's not even June and I'm starting to worry about this year's outcome. Seems I picked all the wrong musicians.

[Lorizael]

Ah, so that was faded glory's plan.

[Wezil]

Dying will earn you a 25 point penalty immediately +1 point penalty for every day you continue with the tactic.

[DaShi]

Question: How many points do you get if you die?

[Ming]

The way this year is going, if I had just randomly picked a bunch of musicians, I might have scored my first "death" in years

[-Jrabbit]

Another one of the all-time greats has passed. RIP, Doc...

Doc Watson, Folk Musician, Dies at 89
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: May 29, 2012

Doc Watson, the guitarist and folk singer whose flat-picking style elevated the acoustic guitar to solo status in bluegrass and country music, and whose interpretations of traditional American music profoundly influenced generations of folk and rock guitarists, died on Tuesday in Winston-Salem, N.C. He was 89.

Mr. Watson, who had been blind since he was a year old, died in a hospital after recently undergoing abdominal surgery

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/arts/music/doc-watson-folk-musician-dies-at-89.html?_r=1&emc=na

[Ming]

They included that on the FRONT PAGE of the Wall Street Journal this morning... granted, just a sentence, but it was there

[Uncle Sparky]

Eugene Polley died today - he invented the Flash-Matic in the 50s, the 1st TV wireless remote. Couch Potatoes would not exist without this man!

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/n...s-television-r