2006 Ghoul Pool

Rules and FAQs

THE CURRENT STANDINGS

Names in bold face are on multiple lists. For easy reference, the entrant numbers of those lists will be found after the name (in parenthesis, and in a purple font).

Names of the * cough * deceased will appear in a bold red font.

 

 

 

THE MONGOOSE OF DEATH

entrant 1

16 points

  1. george mcgovern (16 points)
  2. lloyd bentsen (16 points)
  3. sargent shriver - his daughter looks like a georgia o'keefe cow skull. (5.33 points)(1, 3, 6)
  4. joan fontaine - hoping she's not immortal. (16 points)
  5. gloria stuart - people that got some on the Titanic should have died decades go. And, she was in a hanson video. (8 points) (1, 10)
  6. jack lalanne - every unhealthy person in the world is gunning for him. (16 points)
  7. abe vigoda - his name sounds like an insect corpse. (16 points)
  8. maximilian schell (16 points)
  9. karl malden - deserves it just for his performance as omar bradley. (8 points) (1, 3)
  10. duke snider - because marvelous marv throneberry is already dead. (16 points)

Under Thirty: brad renfro (8 points)(1, 6)

 

THE SUPREME REALITY

entrant 2

40 points

  1. Brooke Astor 8 points) (2, 12)
  2. Joseph Barbera (8 points)(2, 3)
  3. Earl Butz (8 points)(2, 4)
  4. Jules Dassin (16 points)
  5. Milton Friedman (16 points)
  6. Ernest Gallo (5.33 points) (2, 4, 13)
  7. Miep Gies (5.33 points) (2, 6, 13)
  8. Dolores Hope (16 points)
  9. Stanley Kunitz (16 points)
  10. Charles Lane (5.33 points)(2, 3, 9)

Under Thirty: Kanye West (16 points)

 

GHOULIO

entrant 3

12 points

  1. Michael DeBakey (pioneer of open-heart surgery. But unless he's developed a full-body transplant procedure, he's going.) (16 points)
  2. Shecky Greene (his body is actually 94% tumor, 6% flesh at this point.) (16 points)
  3. John Kenneth Galbraith (4 points)
    4. (mad good economist, has most recently been studying the diminishing returns of living.) (3, 4, 7, 12)
  4. Augusto Pinochet (8 points) (last time I checked, you can't overthrow death.) (3, 7)
  5. Sargent Shriver (Maria's daddy. Likes to arm wrestle with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Won't be doing it much longer.) (5.33 points) (1, 3, 6)
  6. Charles Lane (don't you mean It WAS a Wonderful Life? (5.33 points)( 2, 3, 9)
  7. George Beverly Shea (Satan's own personal vocalist) (16 points)
  8. Joe Barbera (8 points) (2, 3)
  9. Claude Levi-Strauss (the first line of a bio i just read makes it sound like he's already dead: Claude Levi-Strauss was a popular French anthropologist most well-known for his development of structural anthropology.) (8 points) (3, 14)
  10. Karl Malden (he may die, but his nose never will. Does that still count?) (8 points) (1, 3)


Under Thirty: Lindsay Lohan (car crash, definitely a car crash) (8 points)(3, 9)

 

JUDGE CRATER

entrant 4

36 points

  1. Wendy Wasserstein (16 points)
  2. John Kenneth Galbraith (4 points)(3, 4, 7, 12)
  3. Sonny von Bulow (16 points)
  4. Mitch Miller (follow the bouncing heart monitor)(16 points)
  5. Earl Butz (Judge Crater wants three things: die, die, die)(8 points) (2, 4)
  6. Gian Carlo Menotti (bound to hit a low note sooner or later)(16 points)
  7. Ernest Gallo (that red wine can't preserve him forever) (5.33 points)(2, 4, 13)
  8. Maryann Mahaffey (16 points)
    9. (longtime Detroit City Council president)
  9. Meinhardt Raab (munchkin coronor in Wiz of Oz)(16 points)
  10. Eleanor Mondale (ailing daughter of former veep)(16 points)

Under Thirty: Zahara Jolie(-Pitt) (16 points)

 

The Reverend Bogangles of Death

entrant 5

24 points

  1. Sid Caesar (8 points) (5, 6)
  2. Alan Greenspan (16 points)
  3. Estelle Getty (8 points)(5, 15)
  4. Richard Attenbourough (16 points)
  5. Hutton Gibson (16 points)
  6. Eunice Kennedy Shriver (16 points)
  7. Maureen O'Hara (16 points)
  8. Shelley Winters (8 points) (5, 6)
  9. Mickey Rooney (8 points) (5, 15)
  10. Al "Grandpa Munster" Lewis (16 points)

Under Thirty: Natasha Lyonne (8 points) (5, 12)

 

Mrs. Estes Kefauver

entrant 6

24 points

  1. Sid Caesar (8 points)(5, 6)
  2. Zsa Zsa Gabor (16 points)
  3. Miep Gies (5.33 points)(2, 6, 13)
  4. Van Johnson (16 points)
  5. Jack Kevorkian (16 points)
  6. Harold Pinter (16 points)
  7. Lou Rawls (16 points)
  8. Sherwood Schwartz (16 points)
  9. Sargent Shriver (5.33 points)(1, 3, 6)
  10. Shelley Winters (8 points) (5, 6)

Under Thirty: Brad Renfro (8 points) (1, 6)

 

 

THE LOO RAWLS

entrant 7

17.33 points

  1. Gerald Ford (5.33 points)(7, 9, 10)
  2. Margaret Thatcher (16 points)
  3. Sandra Day O'Connor (16 points)
  4. Ariel Sharon (3.2 points)(7, 8, 9, 10, 15)
  5. P.W. Botha (16 points)
  6. John Kenneth Galbraith (4 points) (3, 4, 7, 12)
  7. Phil Rizzuto (8 points) (7, 10)
  8. Arthur C. Clarke (16 points)
  9. John Glenn (16 points)
  10. Augusto Pinochet (8 points) (3, 7)

Under Thirty: Julian Casblancas (Strokes' lead singer) (16 points)

 

 

THE OLD WAR WHORES

entrant 8

8 points

  1. George Bush Sr.(16 points)
  2. George Bush Jr (16 points)
  3. Dick Cheney (16 points)
  4. Donald Rumsfeld (16 points)
  5. John Ashcroft (16 points)
  6. Alberto Gonzolez (16 points)
  7. Saddam Hussein (8 points)(8, 9)
  8. Ariel Sharon (3.2 points)(7, 8, 9, 10, 15)
  9. Benjamen Netinyahou (16 points)
  10. Walden O'Dell (16 points)

Under Thirty: Paris Hilton (16 points)

 

 

Jesus Allah Buddha

entrant 9

13.33 points

  1. Ariel Sharon (he has 2 girl names, how did he live so long?) (3.2 points)(7, 8, 9, 10, 15)
  2. Dick Clark (will the world end if the undead is not here to usher in the new year?) (8 points)(9, 10)
  3. Margaret Thatcher (rust defeats the Iron Lady, rust in peace.) (16 points)
  4. Gerald Ford (5.33 points) (7, 9, 10)
  5. Betty Ford (part of the Ford Corporation's reorganization plan: a few models must be phased out. While the "Betty" was ahead of her time (running on alcohol and other alternative fuels), she just didn't handle well.) (16 points)
  6. Lady Bird Johnson (avian flu's 1st North American victim?) (5.33 points)(9, 10, 15)
  7. Saddam Hussein (8 points)(8, 9)
  8. Shane Macgowan (I would hate to see this troubled soul go on to the great alehouse in the sky, but his demise would help put me near the top. Hell, he's been tempting the grim reaper for most of his life! P?g mo th?in!) (16 points)
  9. Billy Graham (go home to Jesus already!) (16 points)
  10. Charles Lane (time to move from the slow lane into the exit lane.) (5.33 points) (2, 3, 9)

Under Thirty: Lindsay Lohan (I have a feeling her father will do her in before her eating disorders and substance abuse have a chance to do the job.) (8 points)(3, 9)

The Fellowship of Fatality
entrant 10

21.33 points

  1. Ariel Sharon (3.2 points)(7, 8, 9, 10, 15)
  2. Red Auerbach (16 points)
  3. Lady Bird Johnson (5.33 points)(9, 10, 15)
  4. Gerald Ford (5.33 points)(7, 9, 10)
  5. Kirk Douglas (8 points)(10, 15)
  6. Gloria Stuart (Old lady in Titanic) (8 points)(1, 10)
  7. Bob Shepard (Yankees announcer) 16 points)
  8. Dick Clark (8 points)(9, 10)
  9. Phil Rizzuto (8 points)(7, 10)
  10. Ralph Kiner (16 points)

Under Thirty: Edward Furlong (8 points)(10, 13)



Girl Friday

entrant 11

  1. Andy Griffith (16 points)
  2. Courtney Love (she's constantly one headline away)(16 points)
  3. Rupert Murdoch (alternatively, he lives forever)(16 points)
  4. Nadine Gordimer (16 points)
  5. Lech Walesa (16 points)
  6. Ed McMahon (16 points)
  7. Mike Wallace (8 points)(11, 14)
  8. Peter O'Toole (16 points)
  9. Harry Belafonte (16 points)
  10. Beverly Sills  (16 points)

Under Thirty: Haley Joel Osment (pay it forward, indeed)(16 points)

 

 

Thor Thumb

entrant 12

4 points

  1. John Kenneth Galbraith (4 points)(3, 4, 7, 12)
  2. Norman Mailer (16 points)
  3. Levon Helm (16 points}
  4. Brooke Astor(8 points) (2, 12)
  5. James Arness (16 points)
  6. BB King (16 points)
  7. Ingmar Bergman (8 points)(12, 15)
  8. Fidel Castro (8 points)(12, 15)
  9. Tom Snyder (16 points)
  10. Eddie Fisher (16 points)


Under Thirty: Natasha Lyonne (8 points)(5, 12)

 

Die Todesmacher

entrant 13

48 points

  1. Miep Gies (5.33 points)(2, 6,13)
  2. Ahmet Ertegun (16 points)
  3. Phyllis A. Whitney (16 points)
  4. Bruce Bennett (16 points)
  5. Darren McGavin (16 points)
  6. Vincent Sherman (16 points)
  7. Hywel Bennett (16 points)
  8. Studs Terkel (16 points)
  9. Luise Rainer (16 points)
  10. Ernest Gallo (5.33 points)(2, 4, 13)

Under Thirty: Edward Furlong (8 points)(10, 13)

 

ShockAndAwe

entrant 14

32 points

1. Annette Funicello (16 points)

2. Don Knots (16 points)

3. Harry Morgan (16 points)

4. Walter Cronkite (16 points)

5. Paul Harvey (16 points)

6. Mike Wallace (8 points)(11, 14)

7. Oral Roberts (16 points)

8. Claude Levi-Strauss (8 points)(3, 14)

9. Ray Bradbury (16 points)

10. Patsy Ramsey (16 points)

UNDER THIRTY: McCauley Culkin (16 points)

 

 

HATES GUMBI

entrant 15

16 points

  1. June Allison (16 points)
  2. Estelle Getty (8 points)(5, 15)
  3. Ingmar Bergman(8 points) (12, 15)
  4. Mickey Rooney(8 points) (5, 15)
  5. Lady Bird Johnson(5.33 points) (9, 10, 15)
  6. Henry Kissinger (16 points)
  7. Fidel Castro(8 points) (12, 15)
  8. Ariel Sharon(3.2 points) (7, 8, 9, 10, 15)
  9. John Forsythe (16 points)
  10. Kirk Douglas (8 points)(10, 15)

UNDER THIRTY: Britney Spears (16 points)

 

CARDINAL FANG

entrant 16

16 points

1. Robert Altman (16 points)

2. Ernest Borgnine (16 points)

3. Robert Byrd (16 points)

4. Jacques Barzun (16 points)

5. Harold Bloom (16 points)

6. Helen Thomas (16 points)

7. Fred Pohl (16 points)

8. B.K.S. Iyengar (16 points)

9. C. Everett Coop (16 points)

10. Jack Chick (16 points)

 

UNDER THIRTY: Christina Aguilera (16 points)



THE CURRENT STANDINGS

FIRST PLACE: 48 points

DIE TODESMACHER (entrant 13)


SECOND PLACE: 40 points:

THE SUPREME REALITY(entrant 2)




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