The Dead Pool 2008

[b0und]

Bob Dole



b0und (fuck it, can't think of anyone else)

 

[Spartacus]

Farrah Fawcett

is she sick?

 

[eddymerckx]

is she sick?

cancer--said she is seeking "alternative treatment"

 

[redguru]

On Wednesday, May 16, 2007, it was reported that a malignant polyp was found in the area where Fawcett had been treated for the initial cancer. Doctors contemplated whether to implant a radiation seeder (which differs from conventional radiation), and is used to treat other types of cancer, but decided against it and planned to pursue aggressive conventional treatment. Fawcett, however, rejected the notion of more chemotherapy and radiation, which she had not handled well previously and chose to travel to Germany (with O'Neal) for an experimental cancer treatment

 

[Spartacus]

this saddens me
she was my childhood favorite
I spotted her as ms texas in some obscure movie before she got famous

had about a dozen of her posters on my teen walls
the original (pictured above)

 

[seattle rick]

John Wayne

 

[Powerbuilder333]

John Wayne

Bobbitt?

 

[Spartacus]

John Wayne

one selection per USER
not username

 

[biteme]

My crystal ball tells me Mikhail Gorbachev.. I relaxed my mind and that name popped into my head.

 

[Spartacus]

1934: An employee of a New York newspaper organises what may have been the world's first example of what we would now recognise as a dead pool. He writes the names of 100 famous people on individual slips of paper, places them into a hat, and persuades 100 of his colleagues to each draw a slip and throw $1 per week into a 'winner takes all' pot from then until one of the celebrities dies. Amazingly, the competition ends in a dead heat (pardon the pun!) when two of the chosen celebs - aviation pioneer Wiley Post and comedian Will Rogers - both die in the same plane crash in Alaska in August 1935. The two winners receive about $3,500 apiece - the price of a large suburban family home.