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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Death / Celeb The Grim Reaper Isn't Done Yet...

Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 7:01 AM

First Andy Rooney. Then Bil Keane. Everyone knows these things come in threes. WHICH ELDERLY, ANNOYING FAMOUS PERSON WILL BE NEXT???

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I figured it was Heavy D.

Posted by NateMan on November 10, 2011 at 7:10 AM

Pat Boone!?! Anita Bryant!?! Bob Dole!?!

Posted by Vince on November 10, 2011 at 7:10 AM

I said Pat Sajak yesterday, and I'm sticking to that.

Posted by MacCrocodile on November 10, 2011 at 7:11 AM

I hope it's Joe Paterno. Though his death should be slow.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on November 10, 2011 at 7:12 AM

Zsa Zsa Gabor. Long overdue.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on November 10, 2011 at 7:19 AM

Dan Savage

Posted by the stranger is elderly and annoying on November 10, 2011 at 7:19 AM

@4 - I take it back about Pat Sajak. You win.

Posted by MacCrocodile on November 10, 2011 at 7:22 AM

Paul Constant? No, he isn't famous.

Posted by Rotten666 on November 10, 2011 at 7:24 AM

I was gonna say Paul Harvey but it turns out he's been dead for two years. Who knew? So I'll choose the next most odious human being, Barbara Bush.

Posted by brian on November 10, 2011 at 7:33 AM

Pat Robertson

Posted by Joe Szilagyi

on November 10, 2011 at 7:35 AM

George HW Bush

Posted by Chicago Fan on November 10, 2011 at 7:39 AM

If we're talking plain famous deaths (as we should, since the "threes" rule has no further distinction), there have already been four (Heavy D and Joe Frasier being the others). But if we're talking about annoying people, I won't shed any tears for Cathy Guisewite, who is now 61 according to wikipedia.

It would be sad to lose Bill Geist, however. I'm sure some people find him annoying.

Posted by Matt from Denver on November 10, 2011 at 7:44 AM

Did you girls see the picture of Danny in the LeMonde article?

Death is knocking.......

Posted by when syphilis gets to the brain the end comes fast.... on November 10, 2011 at 7:44 AM

Wilford Brimley.

Posted by Ezmerelda on November 10, 2011 at 7:51 AM

It was Joe Frazier, guys. Bill Keane was the third death in the trio.

Posted by kcrobinson

on November 10, 2011 at 7:52 AM

..andy williams and that bee gee dude entered the race a few days ago

Posted by reverend dr dj riz on November 10, 2011 at 7:59 AM

No, the Grim Reaper is in fact done. Yay, no more death!

Posted by seandr on November 10, 2011 at 8:00 AM

All I'm gonna say is Joan Rivers had better watch her ass.

Posted by Foggen on November 10, 2011 at 8:47 AM

@18 - Joan Rivers died almost twenty years ago. You can thank Jim Henson Studios for her ongoing career.

Posted by MacCrocodile on November 10, 2011 at 8:55 AM

it already was three, steve jobs

Posted by sto on November 10, 2011 at 9:01 AM

http://www.lemonde.fr/m/article/2011/10/…

Posted by you're old now Dan on November 10, 2011 at 9:11 AM

Joe Paterno

Posted by Mahtli69 on November 10, 2011 at 9:14 AM

@18 I came here to say the same thing! We must be on to something.

Posted by Callie

on November 10, 2011 at 9:19 AM

Andy Rooney was an absolutely wonderful reporter and humorist who already had a career before your parents were born. Take it back.

Posted by Fnarf

on November 10, 2011 at 9:20 AM

@24 Take what back? "Elderly and annoying?" Have you even watched an episode of 60 Minutes in the last five years?

Man, it's been a crazy year for death pools.

Posted by Hernandez

on November 10, 2011 at 9:26 AM

Ron Paul?

Posted by Gus on November 10, 2011 at 9:46 AM

Mickey Rooney or Lauren Bacall

Posted by jeffy on November 10, 2011 at 9:47 AM

ZSA ZSA!

Posted by Houston Collins on November 10, 2011 at 10:24 AM

The three were: Muammar Gaddafi, Steve Jobs, and Bil Keane.

Posted by Note To Self on November 10, 2011 at 10:48 AM

Steve Jobs was only 56; Gaddafi, 69. Bil Keane was 89, and Andy Rooney was 117, I mean 92. I think another oldster is going down...

@Fnarf: Joking? Or: evidence?

Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on November 10, 2011 at 11:05 AM

@10--Pat Robertson needs to die in a natural disaster of some sort.

If that happened, I might seriously reconsider believing in god.

Posted by bleedingheartlibertarian on November 10, 2011 at 11:29 AM

We actually have two triplets at work:

Joe Frazier, Heavy D, and ______

and

Andy Rooney, Bill Keane, and ______

I'm voting Magic Johnson for the former and Ken Schram on the later.

Posted by Timrrr on November 10, 2011 at 11:45 AM

@32: Magic? Really? No, awful . . .

Posted by God, please let someone overcome HIV--I'm serious . . . on November 10, 2011 at 9:00 PM