The 2012 Off Topic Celebrity Dead Pool

[Guynemer]

Okay, so I understand it:

No celeb can be used for more than one daily double (or hat trick, etc) for a single player, but a celeb can be used for both a DD and a HT and even a GS too.

Example: Four celebs die on the same day = 2 daily doubles, a hat trick, and a grand slam

[Wezil]

We had a similar question not long ago. My ruling:

You can claim as many daily doubles and weekly triples as you can muster (without reusing a celeb on each - a double celeb can play into a triple) but only one grand slam per month regardless of the extent of the carnage.

[Guynemer]

That actually raises a question. Now, the odds of this are slim to none, but...

can a daily double overlap with another daily double? If you had three go on the same day, would you get a DD for #1 & #2, and another for #2 & #3, and yet another for #1 & #3? Same question regarding hat trick and grand slam; if I had one go on the 1st, the 4th, and the 7th; I'd get a HT. If I then had one go on the 9th, would I get another HT?

[Wezil]

No, not yet. I had a daily double (M Jackson and F Fawcett).

[Uncle Sparky]

Have we ever had a 'hat trick'?

[Wezil]

holy ****!

I think this is the first time I've ever been in first place; two in a week. Took me nearly all year last year to get two.

I was in first place for all of two days.

The fame and glory was nice while it lasted.

[-Jrabbit]

RIP, Etta James.

[SlowwHand]

BRAGGART!

[Guynemer]

holy ****!

I think this is the first time I've ever been in first place; two in a week. Took me nearly all year last year to get two.

[Wezil]

Joe Paterno was 85 and a choice of two players.

Guynemer (3) = (171 - 3) + (100 - 85) = 183 points

SlowwHand (8) - 178 points.


Guynemer takes the lead and sets himself up for future bonus points.

[Wezil]

Well, that was quick.

State College, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Joe Paterno, whose tenure as the most successful coach in major college football history ended abruptly in November amid allegations that he failed to respond forcefully enough to a sex abuse scandal involving a former assistant, died Sunday, a family spokesman said. He was 85.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/22/us/pennsylvania-obit-paterno/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[Wezil]

Who?

[Dinner]

I've never heard of this person. She deserves to be outlawed because of that.

[Wezil]

His sons are refuting the death rumors but it does sound like Paterno took a turn for the worse.

[Guynemer]

Reports of Joe Paterno's death surface, but there are some denials as well.