Dead in 2007

[Father Demon]

CF related rankings:

MadMarchHare, 1st, 677 points (freaking cancer doctors)
Father Demon, 3rd, 390
FastFreddie, 4th, 309
Phanatic, 5th, 256
Sus, 10th, 130
phattymatty, 16th (tie), 49
rjs, 16th (tie), 49
Diomedes, 20th, 33

Rankings Page

All the Ghoulpool virgins have now busted their cherries.  No more zeros out there.

[MadMarchHare]

CF related rankings:

MadMarchHare, 1st, 677 points (freaking cancer doctors)
Father Demon, 3rd, 390
FastFreddie, 4th, 309
Phanatic, 5th, 256
Sus, 10th, 130
phattymatty, 16th (tie), 49
rjs, 16th (tie), 49
Diomedes, 20th, 33

Rankings Page

All the Ghoulpool virgins have now busted their cherries.  No more zeros out there.

Uhh..... it's actually 768. Stan Zemanek

[Father Demon]

god DAMN!!

Just when I was happy that I had gotten two scores in two days with you getting none.

[Diomedes]

I've come to view that game as a straight up donation.  There is no way I'm ever going to contend because I don't spend the time researching the sickest so-called celebrities.  Stan Zemanek?  Sure, he counts by the rules, but he and dozens of other names submitted are so obscure that it reduces the game to a contest of trivia and trivia research.

[Susquehanna Birder]

Yeah, really. I also don't have access to the "who-has-cancer hotline."

[rjs246]

I do, but I decided to keep it all above board and root for celebrities I hate to die. The way God intended.

[Father Demon]

I've come to view that game as a straight up donation.  There is no way I'm ever going to contend because I don't spend the time researching the sickest so-called celebrities.  Stan Zemanek?  Sure, he counts by the rules, but he and dozens of other names submitted are so obscure that it reduces the game to a contest of trivia and trivia research.

Next year's rules will hopefully fix that.  I'm not faulting MMH at all - he plays by the rules that we all do, and I know he uses publicly available information.  Congrats to him for doing his homework -- it should pay off.  But, as this game gets bigger and bigger, the committee oversight gets more and more difficult.  I'm looking for a cut & dried, black & white way of saying yes  or no to celebrity names.  Always open to suggestions.

BTW -- no matter who is winning, I still get a thrill out of hearing who kicked it and if I may have scored some points.  That never gets old.

[Wingspan]

I've come to view that game as a straight up donation.  There is no way I'm ever going to contend because I don't spend the time researching the sickest so-called celebrities.  Stan Zemanek?  Sure, he counts by the rules, but he and dozens of other names submitted are so obscure that it reduces the game to a contest of trivia and trivia research.

Would you sit down at a Baccarat table and play without having any knowledge as to how to play the game before hand?

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I've come to view that game as a straight up donation.  There is no way I'm ever going to contend because I don't spend the time researching the sickest so-called celebrities.  Stan Zemanek?  Sure, he counts by the rules, but he and dozens of other names submitted are so obscure that it reduces the game to a contest of trivia and trivia research.

Amazingly, I agree with this entire post with no exception.

Would you sit down at a Baccarat table and play without having any knowledge as to how to play the game before hand?

Good point.  However, most of us think the ghoulpool should be some slightly devious fun... not a deeply researched catalog of the demises of the barely famous.

Lady Bird Johnson = famous
Stan Zemanek = horseshtein

[MadMarchHare]

As mentioned, I spend maybe 5 min a day doing "research" - reading Google news.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

5 minutes a day, every day?  Just for ghoulpool?

[MadMarchHare]

What can I say, I'm a little OCD.
Scientist, remember?

[Wingspan]

5 minutes a day, every day?  Just for ghoulpool?

With over 26,000 post...i don't think you can win this debate.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I'm not going to pretend I don't waste large amounts of time on ridiculous shtein.

It's more along the lines that I'm impressed MMM can discipline himself to spend that much time morbidly predicting the demise of the semi-famous.

[Cerevant]

I guess the motivation comes from how much $$ is at stake...