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Had to go with Sam Simon although Billy Graham is my sentimental choice.

Bel Kaufman, author of "Up The Down Staircase" has died at 103. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/arts/bel-kaufman-up-the-down-staircase-writer-dies-at-103.html?ref=obituaries

Blackie, Thanks for your work in hosting the DDP. You've done a great job and it's good to see deadpoolers expressing their appreciation.

I'm Spain, amigos.

Casey Kasem Kicks June 25.

That's a very odd way of phrasing that Robert Mugabe's biographer has died. Just saying. If En@lish isn't your first language, then not so............... I didn't mean to offend, as I wrote, "just saying".

That's a very odd way of phrasing that Robert Mugabe's biographer has died. Just saying.

I voted for Sam Simon.

Here's a Guardian Obit: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/17/rachel-bunny-mellon-dies-103-edwards-aristocrat

People who use Drill Instructors are usually 18 to 20.

It'll be Rev. Billy Graham. After being a huge tease for 18 years or so he will finally come through.

It seems as though the Reverend will beat out the Superstar.

You never know for sure but Nancy's a much better candidate than Barbara.

We're currently experiencing a very significant snowstorm here in the northeast US. It looks like we'll get 2-3 feet of snow and the winds are up to 85 miles per hour. It reminds me very much of the Great Blizzard of 1978 when my wife and I got our first apartment together. Fortunately, I don't have to go anywhere and we haven't lost power .....yet.

Not currently but who knows what's in store?

I didn't get a confirming email when I submitted my team. Is there a problem or am I just paranoid?

I say let them play (especially since I might be one of them).

Here's Mine: Van Cliburn (Joker) Bonnie Franklin Penny Marshall Katherine Crowe Clive James Mary Tyler Moore Guy Innes-Ker Bernie Nolan Zsa Zsa Gabor Buddy Ryan Norman Spinrad Jack Pardee Michael Weiner Hugo Chavez Sir Henry Cecil Sub #1 Annette Funicello Sub #2 Salvatore Iaconesi

There are a lot of different ways to handle this issue. In the league that I'm in, at least half of the other contestants must say they've heard of a new candidate or he/she is permanently banned. Once a celeb has been in the league, they can't be challenged. My league is small so we can use a rule like this. Other options are like what the Derby Dead Pool uses, they must be mentioned in one of several national newspapers/websites. Another idea is that any celeb must have a wikipedia page. I would suggest that the New York Times could be used as a yardstick. It seems to me that anyone of any real celebrity is mentioned there. On the issue of extreme old age, my own feeling is that if a person has lived to a remarkable age, that is an accomplishment worthy of celebrity. Others, obviously feel differently. I hope you reach consensus.

Delightfully irrelevant. Thank you Banshees and Happy Thanksgiving to you and all my deathlist friends.

Hosni Mubarak.

Dead now. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-sun-myung-moon-20120903,0,619774.story

I suggest you leave the name alone and put deaths in "The Dead of 2012".

Sounds like things have taken a turn for the worse... http://www.express.c...ms-tells-family

Congratulations Spade. (As you can see, I'm a man who's not afraid to call a Spade a Spade)