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dead letter office #10

it's a busy week here in t.s.o.a. land. thankfully, wednesday is DLO day. here's a relic from 10 years ago that speaks to the anything-to-avoid-work mentality of college. "hey, let's predict who will die in the coming year!" not many entries were submitted, but here's one from a person who, from what we hear, is recently engaged. note that many of these people are still alive and were likely the product of some gray-area morality whereby the picker may have secretly hoped that their choices come true to fulfill some sort of control fantasy while building an "i'm not wishing for anyone to actually die" facade around their soul.

Death Picks 1994

1. Rose Kennedy
2. Catherine Scorsese
3. Jack Palance
4. Bob Hope (we Hope)
5. George Burns – gets kicked in head by skinheads
6. Keith Richards – falls down flight of stairs
7. Frank Sinatra – gunned down in front of popular restaurant
8. J.D. Salinger
9. Marlon Brando
10. Milton Berle
11. Jimmy Stewart
12. Charlton Heston
13. Ronald Reagan
14. Carol Channing
15. Johnny Cash
16. Barbara Billingsley – gunned down in front of popular restaurant
17. Buddy Hackett
18. Cab Calloway
19. Jerry Lee Lewis
20. Leona Helmsley

Surprise Picks

1. Crispin Glover – drug overdose
2. Michael Jackson – cause of death never determined
3. Macauley Culkin
4. Perry Farrell

Signed November 21, 1993