Rule Updates / Score Updates

So when I was first writing out the rules for Courtney's Celebrity Death Pool 2009, I considered making explicit the in-my-head rule about what happens if you find out in 2009 that someone on your list died prior to 2009. Mostly I was thinking about this because I have both Castro and Kim Jong-Il on my list and while I am not really someone who listens to conspiracy theories... you never know. Anyway, the rule that I never actually wrote out is that what counts is the year we find out your celebrity died, not the year he actually died. Now you know.

The reason I bring this up now is because it turns out we have a remarkably late arrival to the known-deaths list: Dr. Aribert Heim, aka Dr. Death, a Nazi war criminal who escaped capture and was believed to be living in South America. It turns out he was actually living in Egypt and died a painful death in 1992, though -- let's be honest -- there's no way it was painful enough.

It turns out our very own Alan saw this one coming, so one point to him. Also one make-believe point to me, who likes writing about these bastards dying way more than writing about, like, Hunter Thompson dying.

New scores:

Alan & Pete: 1 point
Everyone else: Still 0.