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MEMORIAL CELEBRITY DEATH WATCH?
(This page reads from the bottom up)

OCTOBER 15, 2009

THEY SAID IT COULDN'T BE DONE! SCREW 'EM!! WE DID IT.

Yup, we updated the page (finally). That includes the mailbag kiddies. Now, onto some news....

You may have noticed that the bulletin board, the twittering, and the email bulletins have been timely and lively. That's because the other Guy, Matt, has been keeping after these things in diligent Death Watch fashion. You've likely also noticed that the page updates, along with the pithy, humorous obits have been, shall we say, sluggish. That's because this Guy, Steve, is a busy busy dingleberry. Furthermore, it is clear that all work and no O.B.E. makes the Death Watchers some real complainers. Luckily, they've had half a fix along the way. Point being this: props-up to the other Guy for carrying the water while I toil on less earthly matters ("less" in so far as nothing seems more earthly than friggin' croaking).

Now, let me get to the point here. I've been telling the other Guy, Matt, how I'm thinking this (2009) should be the last year of the O.B.E. We've taken tons 'o crap about the meaning of celebrity, we've made every "blue," "stiff," "rotting," and "worm food" joke conceivable to mankind, and at least one of us has nowhere near the time he once did to run this thing (that'd be me).

So, as I site here typing this and thinking of a January without 30-50 hours of pouring over lists, a twelve pack of Hacker-Pschorr (each night), and a marked increase in blood pressure, a certain sadness falls over me (especially because of the "without the twelve pack of Hacker-Pschorr" part). Of course, this has happened before. The fatigue, the disillusionment, the sheer lack of desire to create a list of hundreds (if not thousands) of celebrities so that people can scream why a name should or shouldn't be on that list.

What to do. What to do. What to do.....

Perhaps a Hacker-Pschorr will help.

More to follow.


FEBRUARY 3, 2009

If you haven't joined the forum yet, you're simply NUTS! "Why?," you ask. EASY! We've just introduced (or reintroduced for you old timers) the song parody and the limerick events. Will there be prizes? Not sure yet. But when you make the Guys laugh, good things happen.

So, put the friggin' beer down, go here

FORUM!!!!

make up funny stuff (oh, you can pick the beer up while you do that....it helps), and make us laugh.


JANUARY 11, 2009

It's January 10th, ya know what that means.....

1) The 2008 winners of the Old Blues Memorial Celebrity Death Watch are:

-First Place - Goatsucker - $250
-Second Place - Putnam's Tomahawk Chop - $70
-Third Place - Sales of a Deathman - $30

Congratulations! You'll each be hearing from us soon.

2) The 2009 Old Blues Memorial Celebrity Death Watch is posted for your viewing pleasure . Please carefully check your lists to make certain they are correct. Let us know of any problems (see item 9 first!).

3) We’ve changed up some backgrounds on the page, mostly because we were getting bored of the ones in place. We hope ya like ‘em. We’ve also added some new content in the Origins page to bring it up to date. We drank beer too.

4) Hiccup

5) Please make note that our email has changed to flymetothetomb@gmail.com. All pages have been updated to reflect this fact (we hope). The old email will still work but this new one allows for greater ease of collaboration between The Guys. If you have us in your email client address book, please make the change.

6) Many of you have expressed a desire to communicate with other Watchers. We listened. A new link off the main page called “The Forum” will bring you to the O.B.E. Forum. Just sign up and you can post and respond to each other and to us to your hearts desire. Woo hoo. We think this will nicely supplement the Mail Bag and we’ve already set up some topic rooms for y’all.

7) We ditched the “LINKS” page. We never updated it and it was just taking up space.

8) Glug, Glug, Glug.

9) Plenty of picks got shot down this year. Just like last year, we will not discuss, argue, listen to, or respond to complaints, requests, or anything relating to these “***Not Celebrity***” entries. You took the risk, live with it.

10) You’ll see we’re already thinking about altering the 2010 as we hate having to butcher lists and we hate even more having to look up a bunch of names on the internet when, if they were CELEBRITIES, we’d in all likelihood no 95% of them. Click on Jesus-Frank on the main page for further detail.

11) Donations were down by about 20 percent this year. Once we have a chance to review finances we’ll see what we need to do for the 2010 OBE. Obviously, we won’t alter the committed prize for the 2009 OBE as we already, well, committed. Of course, we’ll still gladly accept donations as we do all year.

For those of you who have made donations, our sincere thanks. We really appreciate that you guys like what we do and are willing to show it!

12) And now, without further blabbering, we proudly give you……

THE 2009 OLD BLUES MEMORIAL CELEBRITY DEATH WATCH…….

(take it away Ringo. Uh Ringo…RINGO!!!!! Crap we may need to do an update. Get more beer.)


JANUARY 7, 2009

Well, we think we've wrapped up 2008 and updated the page (except the mail-bag). We found eight, YES EIGHT, deaths that were not caught during the year. Gee, we wonder why..... Anyway, we hope to have the mail-bag done tomorrow and announce the final 2008 results after 1/10/08. Shortly after that, the 2009 should be up and running.


JANUARY 4, 2009

Crappy, oops, we mean Happy New Year.

Here's where things stand:

1) Beer Break.

2) We hope to have the 2008 game updated by Wednesday or Thursday (including the mailbag). This will include a look at the lists to see if we missed anything. From there we'll wait until 1/10/09 (in case any late deaths are announced) and then finalize 2008. What you can do to help is look at your list, make sure we listed all the deaths you got and scored each one properly. Then verify that what's on the list is what's on the score. If there are discrepancies, let us know.

3) We're working through the 2009 entries currently. Most of you got it. Some of you pushed a little (or really thought you had a celeb. but didn't). We're trying to be reasonable without wavering. Some of you, however, just plain don't get it. Sheesh. We got lists that had numerous people who we clearly stated, at the start of last year's pool, wouldn't count this year. We friggin' had the names posted all year long with a big fat NO next to them. Still they appear. Really now, why would ya do that?

For you sports fans, keep in mind that a great record alone does not a celebrity make. We want REALLY big names or folks who are known for sports AND other things (thing Joe Nameth). Get over your friggin' best RBI, most touchdown, tallest dunker, crap already, would ya tough guys?

For you internationalists, keep in mind that that the Guys are gosh darn beer swilling, arrogant Americans for goodness sakes. Don't give us a bunch of leaders from second rate countries. Especially when we've been working so hard to become a second rate country ourselves. Sheesh. Also, don't go telling us Cricket players and Mumbley peg tossers should count as well known sports figures. JUST DON'T.

We will continue to push this pool to the BIG NAMES. The CELEBRITIES. Notice how no one EVER questions the Celebrity status of William Shatner. Think about that! We sure will. Everyone who wants to play over the next however many years this nonsense lasts needs to get used to the idea of MAJOR Celebrity. Next year we will not be as forgiving as this year (and this year we're not as forgiving as last).

4) We expect to have the 2009 lists database together by the end of next weekend. However, it may be several more days before it all gets posted as we're also hoping to do some web page changes before we post.

5) Uh, we're still accepting donations too.....

6) Beer break.

7) We will list, as we did last year, every name entered and whether they 1) counted this year, 2) will/won't count next year. This should help (we hope).

8) Hopefully this whole frustrating ball of pooh we call the 2009 Old Blue Eyes Memorial Celebrity Death Watch should be available for your viewing pleasure on or before 1/15/09.

9) Beer Break.

10) We bitch, we moan, we whine, we scratch ourselves inappropriately (sometimes alot) and we hate lists with names like Douglas Asam Fieger and Caren Marsh-Doll. However, we love this stupid pool and you, the Death Watchers. (Man, that beer must be kicking in). Expect the best, accept the worst!

11) Oh, one more thing as we grab another beer, we're still accepting donations. Our therapists say we should drink less beer because we tend to repeat ourselves when we drink. Hmm, note to selves, "Find new therapists. Yes, find new therapists."


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