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Enron scandal centerpiece Ken Lay has died in Aspen Colorado according to CBS4 in Denver. The current hypothesis is that a massive heart attack nabbed him. CBS4 indicates that an autopsy will be performed later today in Grand Junction Colorado. Recall that Lay and fellow Enron bigwig Jeffery Skelling were convicted of fraud May 25 of this year. Lay was due to be sentenced this coming October. Exit stage left.

Much as Mr. Lay we found another story of someone who left the planet just shy of the finish line, albeit, Jose Garmendia was actually competing and not cheating.

Reaching wildly this morn we’ve found a way to work in the death of Robbie ‘Rocket’ Watts of the Cosmic Psychos. We like this one for two reasons - first any band named “Cosmic Psychos” just tickles us pink and second (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) we discovered that Robbie Watts joined the Psychos in 1990 for a Butch Vig-produced album ‘Blokes You Can Trust.’

‘Nuff said.

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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Thomas Arthur has served his last Dodger Dog. Arthur borrowed the foot-long hot dog idea from Coney Island and transplanted it out West to feed the L.A. Dodger faithful. After receiving a few snide remarks that his 10 inch long hot dogs were not really a “foot-long” Arthur coined the term Dodger Dog. Arthur served up Dodger Dogs from about 1962 right up until he sold his company in 1991. His view? A simple menu of Dogs, peanuts, soda and beer. And so we understand that amoungst major league ballparks Dodger statium was No. 1 with nearly 1.7 million hot dogs consumed. Wrigley Field and Denver’s Coors Field trailed with about 1.5 million (according to the latest figures compiled by the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council).

Oh…and lest we forget…Happy Birthday Dad.

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Okay, we don’t want to go political on you—particularly those who think it’s okay that woman are for children, boys are for fun, and beheadings make for great reality TV—we think the world is a teensy weensy better place this weekend. Go team.

But there are those that will be missed:

Eddie Malone, dead at 85 years from lung disease, played serious baseball. Maybe you haven’t heard of him, but if you are serious about baseball, you’ll know about the Hillerick & Bradsby’s Louisville Sugger M 110. “M” stands for “Malone,” and “110” stands for Malone being the 110th player to design his own bat. Think it was good? Well, it was the bat used by Mickey Mantle. ‘Nuff said. We ODDfellows aspire to “Louisville Slugger ODD 1.”

Then we have Margaret Heinz Karcher who has died of liver cancer at age 91. Margaret was the wife of the founder of Carl Jr. restaurants. When you’re complaining about your lot in life, and how someone should do something to help you, think about the Karchers who borrowed $311, using their Plymouth as collateral, to buy an L.A. hotdog stand. Now there are over 1000 Carl Jr. restaurants.

If you watched the original American Bandstand, you saw the work of director Edward Yates, now dead at 87. Strong work Ed; Keep on rockin’.

Finally, we are ODDfully saddened by word of the death of Sam Arnold. Sam founded the legendary The Fort Restaurant outside of Denver. He fed buffalo and gun powder-laced concoctions to presidents, prime ministers, the rich, famous, and the multitudes who loved his passion for good eats and the American West. Waugh! Sam, Waugh!

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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