This list was submitted by USER00876 on Thursday, December 30th, 1999 at 9:29 PM PST for The 2000 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Tom Landry | February 12th, 2000 | 75 |
9 | Hafez Assad | June 10th, 2000 | ? |
8 | Charles Schulz | February 12th, 2000 | 77 |
7 | Nancy Marchand | June 18th, 2000 | 71 |
6 | Lloyd Bentsen | May 23rd, 2006 | 77 |
5 | Don Budge | January 26th, 2000 | 84 |
4 | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | August 24th, 2004 | 78 |
3 | Boris Yeltsin | April 23rd, 2007 | 76 |
2 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
1 | Ronald Reagan | June 5th, 2004 | 93 |
39 points | 5 hits |
He was called "The Master of Malaprop", which is where you purposely use the wrong word in a sentence, making it hilarious. For example, saying "You could have knocked me over with a fender." We assume the word "hilarious" meant something different back in the 60's.
(d) November 7th, 2020