Friday, March 2, 2007

TWID - Purim Edition

This Week in Death brings you: Notes from around the pool! We dive in for the 200 meter crawl event and we take you from the shallow to the deep end, and catch you up on all the news you need to know to be an educated death pool competitor.

Points this week were awarded for the successful deaths of Lamar Lundy and Bruce Bennett. To them, we bid adieu. On to the Health Notices...

Hef renewed for 82nd season
Hugh Hefner has no plans to fade away. Not when there's a new generation to woo and new women to love. All on display to viewers of the cable show that's become a hit. "The Girls Next Door" is about to start its third season on E!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/02/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/main2531455.shtml

Brr...it's cold in here. There must be Mr. Noodle in the atmosphere
The late inventor of instant noodles was symbolically blasted off into space at a funeral ceremony attended by thousands in Osaka, western Japan. The event was a tribute to Momofuku Ando's creation of Space Ram, a noodle soup that works at zero gravity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6406001.stm

And now: Death! In points-less form...

Nice guy with heart of lion and the intelligence of a wily fox laid to rest; animal kingdom mourns loss
Clem Labine, a relief pitcher who threw two of baseball's most significant shutouts in his role as a part-time starter and pitched for two Dodgers World Series teams in the 1950s, died Friday. He was 80.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2785685

Here's hoping the name of the historian who documents his history is Kennedy
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the historian whose more than 20 books shaped discussions for two generations about America's past, and who himself was a provocative, unabashedly liberal partisan, most notably in serving in the Kennedy White House, died last night in Manhattan. He was 89.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/washington/28cnd-schlesinger.html?ex=1330318800&en=60d7735383fe4902&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Still slotted as the Running Back of choice to rush for 1,000 yards in 2007
Denver Broncos reserve tailback Damien Nash collapsed and died Saturday night after an appearance in a charity basketball game in St. Louis.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2778713

Coffin is 1-1/2 inches by 3/4 inch
Walker Edmiston, an actor who was the voice of many cartoon and puppet characters, including Ernie the Keebler elf in TV commercials, has died. He was 81.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/28/deaths.edmiston.ap/index.html

Death and Taxes... TWIT to Follow. We Remain...

The Commissioner's Council

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