Celebrity Death Pool 2007
 

Since there's already been a list by the lovely Sundae Girl for 2007, I guess we better start a dedicated thread.

Quite right too - blame Christmas over-indulgence on me not having the sense to think of it myself!

Fidel Castro
Margaret Thatcher
Nicole Ritchie
Patrick Moore
Norman Wisdom
Mickey Rooney
Frank Carson
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Gaddafi
Islom Karimov

The celebs let me down last year, so I've featured politicians more heavily this year. I feel I can at least count on Castro (and how often do you get to say that?)

Here we go, threw a couple of wild cards in there for good measure.

Margaret Thatcher
Dick Cheney
George H Bush
Ronnie Biggs
Kirk Douglas
Holly Johnson
Pete Doherty
Nelson Mandela
Fidel Castro
Kirk Kerkorian

sticking my neck out (literally)....


Prince Phillip

Oooooh. Everybody's favourite fascist grandad.

Saddam Hussein! Or is that a gimme?

Death penalty deaths don't count. Milton Friedman died last year so I think I won, but we'll have to figure it out.

Let me see who I choose this year...

Abe Vigoda
Michael J. Fox
Billy Graham
Charlton Heston
Muhammad Ali
Mickey Rooney
Peter Falk
Peter O'Toole
Fidel Castro
Andy Griffith

Saddam Hussein is dead today, but he didn't count.

John Madden
Leonard Nimoy
Terrel Owens
Steven Hawking
Muhammed Ali

I'm gonna go with Betty Ford on this one. The spouse usually dies within a year or two of the other, expecially after a long marriage.

I'd put money on Nancy Reagan as well.


Paris Hilton is on my wish list though.

Jerry Springer will be killed by a crazed fan.

Lindsay Lohan will be fatally injured in a car wreck on her way to an AA meeting.

You heard it here first, folks.

1 Mary Kate Olson
2 Charles Barkley
3 Charlton Heston
4 Mel Gibson
5 Ian McKellen
6 Rush Limbaugh
7 Engelbert Humperdink
8 Spike Lee
9 George H W Bush
10 Fidel Castro

Spexx, is that list a prediction or just wishful thinking?

I wouldn't mind Chucky Heston and Rush biting the big one, but the others don't move me one way or the other. It seems that who dies is pretty arbitrary, so I went fairly random, with some emphasis on poor lifestyle choices and poor health. You never know....

(to Easter Hymn) "Saddam Hus-sein is dead to-da-ay, Fa la la la la, la la la la la..."

No-one had Anna Nicole Smith, then?

Michael Jackson's the ringer on mine. He was last year too. Perhaps it's just wishful thinking? :eek:

Yeah, ANS would have been the payout of all payouts.

Wow, Anna Nicole would have been worth 61 points!

No-one got Pavarotti either.

I couldn't find the dead thread, so I thought I'd resuccitate this one.

71, pancreatic cancer. It was a good life, though, by all accounts

He was a rockstar in opera. I'd be surprised if I live to 71

01. Chris Benoit
02. Ian Richardson
03. Roscoe Lee Browne
04. Kitty Carlisle Hart
05. Jack Valenti
06. Charles Nelson Reilly
07. Joel Siegel
08. Tammy Faye Bakker Mesner
09. Ingmar Bergman
10. Merv Griffin

Sorry chief, you've got to make your pics by Jan 1 on the year. Naming people who have already died this year doesn't count.

So...

You're saying...

I didn't win?

Dagnabbit.

I guess I'll try again next year.

Osama Bin Laden
Fidel Castro
Jimmy Carter
Robert Byrd
John Warner
Larry King
Check the date today, and remember who predicted it first, except Castro, who's a shoe in.

That's what we all thought about Ariel Sharon. :right:

Did anyone pick Evel Knievel?
 

He died yesterday.

I never even gave him a thought!

Surprised me too -- didn't know he was sick.

Speaking of Evel, when I mentioned in front of my kids, they were all "Who's Evel Knievel?" So I had to whisk them off to YouTube to educate them. Now my little boy is really pumped about Evel Knievel and keeps talking about him, with a wild look in his eye. Maybe I screwed up a little there. Bad father.

Pain fades, bones heal, chicks dig scars ... and the USA has the best doctor-to-daredevil ratio in the world!
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I'm not playing, but I was looking through a slideshow of celebrity dead for this year.

I found out that Marcel Marceau died in September.

I hadn't heard anything.

*groan*

when i was a kid, i had an evel kanevel ripcord motorcycle. it was awesome. i thought he was long dead.

when do we pick for 08?

dude, i had the same motorcycle.

That's too cool. I had a couple SSP racers, but never the Evel Knieval.

Evel Knievel

Ripcord huh? I thought they only had the stand with the crank, didn't know they had a rip cord version. I had a Smash Up Derby car with one of those plastic rip cords.

i know they had both kinds. i had the rip cord and my cousin had the crank kind. he hated me for it.

in retrospect he might have hated me because i wouldn't let him use mine and he would grind his knuckles to hamburger turning that crank on the cement.

Nobody paid attention!

Charles Nelson Reilly (January 13, 1931 – May 25, 2007)

24 points

Tamara "Tammy" Faye Messner (March 7, 1942 – July 20, 2007)

35 points

Ingmar Bergman (pronounced [ˈɪŋmar ˈbærjman] (help·info)) (July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007)
11 points

Mervyn Edward "Merv" Griffin, Jr. (July 6, 1925 – August 12, 2007)

18 points

Crimson Ghost - 88 points total

Everybody else combined - 0 points total

I had the one with the crank too! man I loved that thing.

Wow, I can't believe I got 0. Also 88 points is very impressive. Excellent score Crimson Ghost. We should all agree to kick in $5 or $10 this year to the winner. And let's have a cutoff date for getting the picks in.

ZING!!!