Sorry Don Pardo, You're My Next Contestant (Yes, I'm going to hell)

Two weeks after my sister picks up almost $700 in a dead pool when Glenn Ford dies, I entered the pool myself for the first time.

My choice (drawn from a bowl. . . it wasn't my choice) is Don Pardo, the voice of Saturday Night Live since its inception in 1975 (and a number of other projects).

Don is 88 and as near as I can tell, is in good health.

The pool is at $940.


<edited to fix mistake made when moderately inebriated>

 

Re: Sorry Don Pardo, Your My Next Contestant (Yes, I'm going to hell)

"You're"

And, yes, you are going to Hell. Your sister, too.

 

Re: Sorry Don Pardo, Your My Next Contestant (Yes, I'm going to hell)

Awful karma. Awful, awful karma.

 

I have just three things to say to BYH. . .

1. Great signature quote by Homer Simpson. I laughed when I saw it for the first time the other day and I laughed again today.

2. Holy shit, you have almost 20,000 posts. I'm pushing it to get to my miniscule total of 800+

3. I already said that I'm going to hell. (at least I don't have Barbara Bush like my sister does).

 

Boy are you going to have a chill down your spine when you find out Don Pardo has just_an_sid in his death pool...

 

Oh, come ON. If you're not in a dead pool, you're not a journalist.

Sitting steady here with Scott Weiland.

 

We need to organize a SportsJournalists.com death pool.

 

I got spnited!

I'm not just going to hell, I'll be banned from the board

 

I don't think that's what he meant... We've had them in the past...

I had a friend who was in one where if someone died you had to subtract their age from 100 and that was how many points you got... It was a little more interesting than just picking a bunch of people in their 90s...

 

Phil Rizzuto would be a good draft pick.

 

So would Willie Mays...

 

And Gerald Ford, who averages 3-4 hospital visits a year.