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  • Color Me Badd Fan
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2009
    • 12519
    #1

    Members of the "What the hell? They're still alive?" club.

    My nominee: JD Salinger.

    If it was 2004, it would have been Max Schmeling. Yeah, the guy who boxed Joe Louis back in the 30s. When he died in 2005, I heard a report about Max Schmeling dying and I had no idea the dude was still around.
    Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”
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    • wuapinmon
      Soul Plumber
      • Dec 2008
      • 30711
      #2
      Are you proposing a CUF Dead Pool?

      Hmmmmmm..........

      My nominee is:

      Nicanor Parra
      "Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
      The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --Solon

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        • YOhio
          Hipster Mode
          • Nov 2008
          • 26165
          #3
          I got more stories than JD got Salinger/ I hold the title/ and you are the challenger.

          Probably one of my favorite Beastie Boy lines.

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            • LA Ute
              Receiver of Memory
              • Nov 2008
              • 19512
              #4
              Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post
              Are you proposing a CUF Dead Pool?

              Hmmmmmm..........

              My nominee is:

              Nicanor Parra
              Must one be a professor of Spanish to know who he is? Or am I a cultural clod?
              “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
              ― W.H. Auden

              "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
              -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

              "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
              --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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                • SoCalCoug
                  Ragnar Lodbrok Descendant
                  • Nov 2008
                  • 5214
                  #5
                  I've got Patrick Swayze in a CUF dead pool.
                  If we disagree on something, it's because you're wrong.

                  "Somebody needs to kill my trial attorney." — Last words of George Harris, executed in Missouri on Sept. 13, 2000.

                  "Nothing is too good to be true, nothing is too good to last, nothing is too wonderful to happen." - Florence Scoville Shinn

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                    • Solon
                      Lost in the flood
                      • Nov 2008
                      • 5747
                      #6
                      Originally posted by Color Me Badd Fan View Post
                      My nominee: JD Salinger.

                      If it was 2004, it would have been Max Schmeling. Yeah, the guy who boxed Joe Louis back in the 30s. When he died in 2005, I heard a report about Max Schmeling dying and I had no idea the dude was still around.
                      I had no idea Salinger was alive either, until I went to the Penn State archives last spring and talked with the special collections curator, who told me that Salinger is a fanatical recluse and is obsessively private. A few years ago, he sued to get some letters he had written back from the University's archives. He won, even though the recipient of the letters had given them to the school.

                      Crazy bastard.
                      "More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
                      -- Iron County Record. 23 August, 1912. (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...23/ed-1/seq-4/)

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                        • Color Me Badd Fan
                          Senior Member
                          • Jan 2009
                          • 12519
                          #7
                          Originally posted by SoCalCoug View Post
                          I've got Patrick Swayze in a CUF dead pool.
                          Can Swayze only be claimed by one player in a dead pool? I'm afraid I don't understand the rules. I have dibs on Amy Winehouse.
                          Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”

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                            • YOhio
                              Hipster Mode
                              • Nov 2008
                              • 26165
                              #8
                              Did you guys know that Arsenio Hall is still alive? I had no idea. I just assumed that he would be sharing his talents with the world if he were still here. Like most true genii, he is probably living the life of a recluse among us mere mortals.

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                                • Mormon Red Death
                                  BYU Delenda Est
                                  • Nov 2008
                                  • 8077
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by Solon View Post
                                  I had no idea Salinger was alive either, until I went to the Penn State archives last spring and talked with the special collections curator, who told me that Salinger is a fanatical recluse and is obsessively private. A few years ago, he sued to get some letters he had written back from the University's archives. He won, even though the recipient of the letters had given them to the school.

                                  Crazy bastard.
                                  I heard he befriended an inner city african american youth and taught him how to write.

                                  You the man now dawg!
                                  "Be a philosopher. A man can compromise to gain a point. It has become apparent that a man can, within limits, follow his inclinations within the arms of the Church if he does so discreetly." - The Walking Drum

                                  "And here’s what life comes down to—not how many years you live, but how many of those years are filled with bullshit that doesn’t amount to anything to satisfy the requirements of some dickhead you’ll never get the pleasure of punching in the face." – Adam Carolla

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