{"id":286,"date":"2004-12-29T15:24:55","date_gmt":"2004-12-29T20:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=286"},"modified":"2005-05-04T01:35:03","modified_gmt":"2005-05-04T06:35:03","slug":"i-see-dead-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"I see dead people."},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally, and with 57 hours to spare, I’ve completed my Dead Pool 2005<\/a> roster. Fortunately for these 15 people, my predictions usually suck eggs, so they can look forward to a prosperous new year:<\/p>\n

\nWilliam Rehnquist – 10\/1\/24 – Supreme Court Justice
\nGerald Ford – 7\/14\/13 – Former U. of Michigan center, part-time President of the United States
\nPope John Paul – 5\/18\/20 – Pope
\nBilly Graham – 11\/7\/18 – Minister of stadiums nationwide
\nNancy Reagan – 7\/6\/21 – Just Say No! (to life!)
\nKirk Douglas – 12\/9\/16 – Actor, Michael’s dad
\nManuel Noriega – 2\/11\/34 – Former Panamanian dictator, not a fan of loud rock music
\nBoris Yeltsin – 2\/1\/31 – Former Russian president, walking cirrhosis display
\nArtie Shaw – 5\/23\/10 – Big Band Leader, really really old guy<\/strike>
\nPaul Harvey – 9\/4\/18 – Radio commentator, good day!
\nRosa Parks – 2\/4\/13 – accidental activist, president of the Andre3000 Playa-Hatin’ Fan Club
\nRalph Kiner – 10\/27\/22 – Baseball Hall of Famer, Mets Announcer
\nDarryl Strawberry – 3\/12\/62 – Former NY Met, overdose waiting to happen
\nElizabeth Taylor – 2\/27\/32 – Perfume saleswoman, actress
\nEunice Kennedy Shriver – 7\/10\/21 – Special Olympics founder, and a Kennedy
\nRichard Pryor – – Comedian \/ Chevy Chase’s corporate janitor \/ starting pitcher for the Hackensack Bulls\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those who didn’t quite make the cut include: Stephen Hawking, Richard Pryor, Louie Anderson, Jesse Helms, Imelda Marcos, Bob Feller, James Brown, David Crosby, Norman Lear, C. Everett Koop, Jack Kevorkian, Estelle Getty, Muhammed Ali, Jim McKay, Lawrence Taylor, Dick Clark, Richard Petty, Nipsey Russell, Willie Mays, Bob Barker and Rudy Galindo.<\/p>\n

There’s 21 good names there, so if anyone wants to bank on my poor prediction skills and make a list out of that, you’re more than welcome. SOMEONE has to profit, right? <\/p>\n

In other dead people news, I just found out that Jerry Orbach died. While he’s most famous as Det. Lenny Briscoe on Law & Order, let me reiterate that he was just as cool when he played Charlie Pegler, manager of the Hackensack Bulls in “Brewster’s Millions”<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally, and with 57 hours to spare, I’ve completed my Dead Pool 2005 roster. Fortunately for these 15 people, my predictions usually suck eggs, so they can look forward to a prosperous new year: William Rehnquist – 10\/1\/24 – Supreme Court Justice Gerald Ford – 7\/14\/13 – Former U. of Michigan center, part-time President of … Continue reading I see dead people.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}