GHOUL POOL 2008

 

Ghoul Pool 2007

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.

 

Contact: j_grim_shaw_55@yahoo.com

Ghoul Pool 2007 Final Standings

This week’s column

 

 

 

Entrant 1

THE USHER OF THE CRYPT

21 points

 

1. Dr. Michael De Bakey.  He by-passed a lot, but couldn't by-pass the grave. (1, 10) (10.5 points)

2. Carl Kassell.  Wait, Wait, DO tell me as soon as this  marble-mouthed talking head hits the silk.

3. Olivia de Havilland.  By the end of '08, she'll be Gone with the Wind.

4. Earl Butz.  This is the year Nixon's Secretary of Agriculture gets planted. (1, 10) (10.5 points)

5. Miep Gies.  Hid Anne Frank from the Nazis for a long time, but  can't hide herself from the Grim Reaper any longer. (1, 10)

6. Art Linkletter.  One of the darndest things kids are going to say this year is "Art Linkletter finally died."

7. Rep. Arthur Glenn Andrews.  (Died but didn’t make the AP wire.)

8. Billy Werber.  When he takes his dirt nap, teammate Babe Ruth will welcome him to that big Diamond in the sky.

9. Sen Claiborne Pell.  Can't be GRANTED any more years.

10. Ace Parker.  Football Hall of Fame QB who is about to get sacked for the last time.

 

River Phoenix Memorial Category:

 

Jack Osbourne.  Keep on rock climbin' --  maybe you'll make a big hit (read "splat") this year, dummy.

 

 

 

Entrant 2

JUDGE CRATER

42 points

 

1. Composer Elliott Carter Jr. -- won Pulitizer for music in 1833.

2. Lena Horne -- pipes can't hold out forever.

3. Sonny von Bulow -- I ain't giving up on you, hon. (21 points)

4. Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed -- either really sick or not.

5. Patiricia Dunn -- former HP CEO, either really sick or that's just what she told the judge.

6. Nelson Mandela

7. Colm Feore -- actor gets casting call from God

8. Mayor of Munchkinville Meinhardt Raab

9. David Rockefeller -- 86 Rock

10. Harold Pinter (21 points)

 

River Phoenix Memorial:

Starchild Abraham Cherrix, Virginia teenager who went to court to get his chemo stopped.

 

 

Entrant 3

MRS. ESTES KEFAUVER

63 points

 

1. John Wooden - Winningest College Coach - Ya can't win 'em all (3, 10, 15)

2. Mark Felt - 6 Feet Deep Throat  (21 points)

3. Mitch Miller - Wilted Rose of Texas

4. Jack Kevorkian - Death with dignity, or not.  (3, 18)

5. Sherwood Schwartz - No longer "Here on Gilligan's Isle"

6. Van Johnson - Go home to Bonnie Jean - "Brigadoon" (21 points)

7. Eli Wallach - starred in "A Lovely Way to Die"

8.  Vintner Robert Mondavi - Probably aging well, but still (21 points)

9. Andrew Wyeth - Bye bye Helga

10. Willard Wirtz - Sec. of Labor 1962-69

River Phoenix Memorial:

Newborn baby of Jamie Lynne Spears -- poor little thing never had a chance.

 

 

Entrant 4

THE MOMINATOR

 

1. the late Bob Barker .......... bye bye (4, 21)

2. the late Hugh Hefner .......... hell hell hello

3. the late Suzanne Somers .......... sayonara, shill

4. the late Jesse Jackson .......... joins Jerry?

5. the late Babs Bush .......... now  60  years too late, burn baby burn

 

To Lessen Green-House "Gas" & Ozone Damage We Bid Adieu To:

 

6. Ann Coulter .......... achieves personal "perfection" & spares humanity her

inane, insane neighing

7. Pat Roberson .......... a major, moral victory when HE's gone

8. Larry King .......... very, very late

 

And  -- Rolling Heads of State:

 

9. Kim Jon Il .......... came up --------------- short

10. Vlad Putin .......... by ------------------- popular demand

 

River Phoenix Memorial Category:

 

Jenna Bush .......... Jen's Story:  A Journey of Privilege, Pretense. And that's all she wrote ...

 

 

 

Entrant 5

THE ROASTER

42 points

 

1. Fidel Castro (depending on your definition of “alive,” he’s probably been dead for 6 months, but just try and prove it!) (5, 12,16, 21)

2. Dick Clark (the ball will finally drop for good) (5, 16, 18)

3. Estelle Getty (farewell, golden girl) (21 points)

4. Michael Jackson (fatal facial cave-in)

5. Rev. Fred Phelps (hey, a girl can dream, can’t she?)

6. Sidney Pollack (misty water colored memories…) (21 points)

7. Mickey Rooney (most memorable for that horrifying spectacle in Breakfast at Tiffany’s) (5, 21)

8. Sen. Robert Byrd (one more KKK member gone to hell in a hand basket) (5, 8)

9. Pres. Pervez Musharrif (payback’s a bitch)

10. Carol Channing (Goodbye, Dolly)

 

River Phoenix Memorial: 

Amy Winehouse (didn’t go to rehab, no, no, no) (5, 10, 11, 17, 18)

 

 

Entrant 6

“Entrant 16”

21 Points

 

1. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (21 points)

2. Doris Lessing

3. PD James

4. Nadine Gordimer

5. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

6. Louis Auchincloss (6, 7)

7. Russell Baker

8. Helen Thomas

9. Berry Gordy

10. Gore Vidal

 

Under 30

Paris Hilton (6, 14)

 

 

 

Entrant7

Borg9

21 Points

 

1. Jules Dassin (21 points)

2. Maximilian Schell

3. Robert Morgenthau

4. Hutton Gibson

5. Eunice Kennedy

6. Louis Auchincloss (6, 7)

7. Kevin McCarthy

8. Richard Attenborough

9. Movita

10. IM Pei

 

UNDER 30: 

Blake Fielder-Civil

 

 

 

Entrant 8

Red Santa Poop

 

1. Gloria Stuart (8, 10)

2. Karl Malden

3. Yitzhak Shamir

4. Joan Fontaine

5. Charlotte Bloomberg

6. Jack Klugman

7. Bob Feller

8. William B. Saxbe

9. Sargent Shriver

10. Hugh Carey

 

Under 30:

Mischa Barton, destined to meet the same fate as Marissa Cooper

 

 

 

Entrant 9

MY BROTHER'S REAPER

 

1. Jon Bauman - aka"Bowzer"- ShaNaNa no more

2. Monte Hall - chose the wrong door for sure this time

3. The DONALD - protruding lips, 'hot comb' and/or wig got out-trumped

4. Dr.Joyce Brothers - used up her $64K

5. Dame Judi Dench - her time 'went by'

6. Rachel Zoë - maybe she can doll-up the reaper

7. Jean Harris - her time to reunite with the diet doctor

8. Greg Page - the yellow shirted wiggler can't wiggle out of this

9. Dick Van Dyke  and (9, 17)

10. Mary Tyler Moore - they were a 'couple' and now can go out as a

couple.  Chitty-chitty-bang-bang!!!  And one facelift too many. (9, 19)

 

Under 30:

Frank Agnello-son of Victoria Gotti

 

 

 

Entrant 10

The Fellowship of Fatality

31.5 points

 

 

1. Gloria Stuart (8, 10)

2. Albert Rosellini

3. John Wooden (3, 10, 15)

4. Albert Hofmann (10.5 points) (10, 19)

5. Oscar Niemeyer

6. Claude Levi-Strauss (10, 12, 18)

7. Miep Gies (1, 10)

8. Jacques Barzun

9. Michael DeBakey  (10.5 points) (1, 10)

10. Earl Butz (10.5 points) (1, 10)

 

RIVER PHOENIX:

Amy Winehouse (5, 10, 11, 17, 18)

 

 

 

Entrant 11

TRIPLE D

 

1. Boy George  - because

2. Peter Graves - just because he really ought to

3. Roman Polanski - does he think he will finally get all those virgins in the here after? And does he think he will be able to re-enter the USA as a 'spirit?'

4. Dan Gottlieb - no more "Voices"

5. Dr. Robert Jarvik - that 'll teach him not to copy someone else's invention and claim it for his own

6.theRev.AlSharpton-his 'soul bro' JamesBrown doesn't like to be kept waiting, so croak soon, real soon

7. Ed Koch - still gonna ask St.Pete:"How my do'n?"

8. Bill Parcells - the BIG TUNA gets harpooned - even with his new job

9. Bill Cosby - he still needs to

10.O.J.Simpson - perhaps this time he will get his " due" in jail.  And, yes, he REALLY needs to croak

 

Under 30

Amy Winehouse - ALL her tours will be permanently cancelled (5, 10, 11, 17, 18)

 

 

 

Entrant 12

SHOCKandAWE

 

1. Ryan O’Neal

2. Zsa Zsa Gabor

3. Fidel Castro (5, 12, 16, 21)

4. Annette Funicello

5. Claude Levi Strauss  (10, 12, 18)

6. Abigail Van Buren

7. Farrah Fawcett (12,16)

8. Oral Roberts

9. Soupy Sales

10. Paul Harvey

 

Under 30

Hillary Duff (10, 21)

 

 

Entrant 13

Juggernauto

52.5 points

 

1. John Paul Stevens.. Finally The Last Idiotic Decision

2. Barbara  Hale. Perry needs me!!!

3. Toni Morrison. PleasePleasePlease

4. Robert Byrd. Still can't believe he choked on a PORK BONE (5, 8, 13)

5. Everett Koop. Latex Poisoning ???

6. Eddie Arnold  Make The World Go Away? (10.5 points) (13, 21)

7. Jim McKay. The agony of death. (21 points)

8. Daniel Schorr. It's a conspiracy; I Think..!!!

9. Sammy Baugh. Gone out for a long one. (21 points)

10. Maya Angelou. I Know Why The Fat Lady Sings

 

Under 30

David Banda. I should have stayed home, chasing lions!!!!!

 

 

Entrant 14

The Old War Whores

 

1. George Bush (Sr.)

2. George W. Bush

3. Dick Cheney

4. Donald Rumsfeld

5. John Ashcroft

6. Alberto Gonzales

7. Karl Rove

8. Ariel Sharon  (14, 16)

9. Benjamin Netinyahu

10. Walden O'Dell

 

Under Thirty

Paris Hilton (6, 14)

 

 

Entrant 15

JEEPER CREEPER

 

1. John Wooden  (A "Woody" can't last forever, can it?) (3, 10, 15)

2. Henry Kissinger  (The Kiss of death) (15, 21)

3. Stan Musial  (After all, he is just The Man)

4. Betty White  (Thought she was already dead)

5. Yogi Berra  (It ain't over til it's over, but picking winners here is 90% mental and the other half pure luck!)

6. Jimmy Carter  (Before The Devil Knows Your'e Dead)

7. Roslyn Carter  (One outta two ain't bad)

8. Muhammed Ali  (O Death, where is thy Sting?)  

9. Doris Day  (Day becomes eternal night) (15, 21)

10. Oprah Winfrey  (If there's a God....)

 

River Phoenix Memorial pick:

Britney Spears  (See Oprah...and I promise to go to church every Sunday!)

 

 

Entrant 16

THE LOO RAWLS

 

1. Dr. Mahathir Mohamad (Malaysia)

2. Fidel Castro (5, 12, 16, 21)

3. Bhumibol Adulyadej (Thailand)

4. Jerry Lewis

5. Osama Bin Laden

6. Ariel Sharon (14, 16)

7. Betty Ford

8. Phyllis Diller

9. Dick Clark (5, 16, 18)

10. John Jay O'Connor

 

Under 30: Mary Kate Olson

 

 

 

Entrant 17

MORGUE MISTRESS

10.5 POINTS

 

 

1. Regis Philbin

2. Joe Paterno

3. Roger Ebert

4. Dick Van Dyke (9, 17)

5. Charleton Heston (10.5 Points) (17, 19)

6. Angela Lansbury

7. Don Zimmer

8. Shimon Peres

9. Eddie Van Halen

10. Eli Weisel

 

Under 30

Amy Winehouse (5, 10, 11, 17, 18)

 

 

 

Entrant 18

THOR THUMB

 

1. Jack Kevorkian (3, 18)

2. Mitzi Gaynor

3. Claude Levi Strauss (10, 18)

4. Dick Clark (5, 16, 18)

5. Farrah Fawcett (12, 16)

6. Joe Esterhasz

7. Maureen O’Hara

8. Les Paul

9. Rose Marie

10. Efrem Zymbalist Jr.

 

 

UNDER THIRTY

Amy Winehouse (5, 10, 11, 17, 18)

 

 

 

Entrant 19

DER TODESMACHER

42 POINTS

 

1. Charlton Heston (10.5 Points) (17, 19)

2. Mindy Cohn

3. Beverly Cleary

4. Phyllis A. Whitney (Dead But Too Old)

5. Jayne Meadows.

6. Ricardo Montalban

7. Albert Hoffmann (10.5 points) (10 19)

8. Mary Tyler Moore (9, 19)

9. Ray Bradbury

10. Richard Widmark (21 Points)

 

 

 

UNDER THIRTY

Haley Joel Osment

 

 

Entrant 20

CARDINAL FANG

42 POINTS

 

1. Arthur C. Clarke (21 points)

2. Ernest Borgnine

3. Essie Mae Washington-Williams (Daughter of Strom Thurmond—world’s oldest Love Child)

4.  Louise Rainer

5. Harold Bloom

6. Nancy Reagan

7. Fred Pohl

8. B.K.S. Iyengar

9. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (21 points)

10. Jack Chick

 

UNDER THIRTY

Avril Lavigne

 

Entrant 21

Hates Gumbi

10.5 points

 

1. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2. Peggy Fleming

3. Fidel Castro (5, 12, 16, 21)

4. Henry Kissinger (15, 21)

5. Elizabeth Taylor

6. Bob Barker (4, 21)

7. Eddie Arnold (10.5 points) (13, 21)

8. Mickey Rooney (5, 21)

9. Doris Day (15, 21)

10. Kirk Douglas

 

under 30:  Justin Timberlake

 

 

 

THE CURRENT STANDINGS

FIRST PLACE: 63 points

MRS. ESTES KEFAUVER (entrant 3)

 

SECOND PLACE: 52.5 points

JUGGERNAUTO (entrant 13)

 

 

THIRD PLACE (tie): 42 points

JUDGE CRATER (entrant 2)

and

THE ROASTER (entrant 5)

and

CARDINAL FANG (entrant 20)

and

DIE TODESMACHER (entrant 19)