{"id":33,"date":"2003-04-28T00:56:03","date_gmt":"2003-04-28T06:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2003-04-28T00:56:03","modified_gmt":"2003-04-28T06:56:03","slug":"new-death-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2003\/04\/new-death-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"New Death Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more morbid things my friends and I do from time to time is have a death pool, where you select a bunch of celebrities, and if one of yours dies<br \/>\nfirst, you win.  In the last pool we did, Princess Diana barely beat out my Mother Teresa, and since she died by misadventure, we had to pay double.  The way<br \/>\nthings worked this time, the three of us went around suggesting names, rejecting anyway that were not known to all of us (I can&#8217;t believe they didn&#8217;t know who<br \/>\nLeni Reifenstahl was) or that we weren&#8217;t sure as to their actual existence (Saddam and Osama).  We then did odd-finger to see who went first (George won), then<br \/>\npicked from the list until we each had ten.<\/p>\n<p>George:<UL><br \/>\n<LI>Pope John Paul II<br \/>\n<LI>Dan Quayle<br \/>\n<LI>Charlton Heston<br \/>\n<LI>Meg Ryan<br \/>\n<LI>Pete Rose<br \/>\n<LI>Ronald Reagan<br \/>\n<LI>O. J. Simpson<br \/>\n<LI>Walter Cronkite<br \/>\n<LI>Mick Jagger<br \/>\n<LI>Dick Cheney<\/UL><\/p>\n<p>JP:<UL><br \/>\n<LI>Ed McMahon<br \/>\n<LI>Hulk Hogan<br \/>\n<LI>Boris Yeltsin<br \/>\n<LI>Stephen Hawking<br \/>\n<LI>Chi Chi Rodriguez<br \/>\n<LI>Yanni<br \/>\n<LI>Buzz Aldrin<br \/>\n<LI>Farah Fawcett<br \/>\n<LI>Pia Zadora<br \/>\n<LI>John Edward<\/UL><\/p>\n<p>Me:<UL><br \/>\n<LI>Strom Thurmond<br \/>\n<LI>Yasir Arafat<br \/>\n<LI>Clint Eastwood<br \/>\n<LI>Scott Peterson<br \/>\n<LI>Bill Gates<br \/>\n<LI>Eminem<br \/>\n<LI>Lisa Bonet<br \/>\n<LI>Sean Penn<br \/>\n<LI>Jeane Kirkpatrick<br \/>\n<LI>Queen Elizabeth II<\/UL><\/p>\n<p>Stakes are $30 a person, which is doubled for &#8216;misadventure&#8217;, generally agreed to be some sudden, external event, but must be agreed to by all participants or<br \/>\nelse standard payout applies.  And, as always, participants may not hasten the demise of any pool entrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more morbid things my friends and I do from time to time is have a death pool, where you select a bunch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}