Celebrity Death Pool 2010
 

OK, here's my list for 2010, with five returners from 2009:

Prince Phillip
Margaret Thatcher
Dick Cheney
Michael Foot
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
Elizabeth Taylor
Liz Dawn
David Hasselhoff
Nelson Mandela
Severiano Ballesteros

I have condemned the following to certain death this year by removing them from my list (I had Jackson in 2008 and removed him....) :lol:

Boy George
Fidel Castro
Woody Allen
Amy Winehouse

Letting it ride again, since all of mine are valiantly clinging to life, as far as I know.

I think I'm going to have to let my 2008 list ride since I went 0 for 10.

1. Roger Moore
2. Brittany Spears
3. Dick Clark
4. Paris Hilton
5. Donald Trump
6. Barak Obama
7. Bill Clinton
8. Clint Eastwood
9. Keith Richards
10. Will Ferrell

OK, my list repeated from last year except Karl Mauldin replaced by Jimmy Carter, and Kenny McCormick replaced, under protest by Al Franken.
1.Barbra Streisand
2. Al Franken
3. Matt Lauer
4. J.D. Salinger
5. Ernest Hollings
6. George Beverly Shea
7. Dolores Hope
8. Gloria Stuart
9. Jimmy Carter
10. Risë Stevens

Here's my wish list . . .

Nancy Pelosi
Harry Reid
George Bush
Dick Cheney
Chris Dodd
Rush Limbaugh
Michelle Malkin
Keith Olbermann
Ann Coulter
Chris Matthews

1. Fidel Castro
2. Jerry Lewis
3. Elizabeth Taylor
4. Muhammad Ali
5. Bob Barker
6. Ernest Borgnine
7. Sidney Poitier
8. Lindsey Lohan
9. Peter Faulk
10. Dick Clark

No fair using my list twice man....sorta. You beat me with my list this year. I will need a bit to come up with the money as funds are a bit tight.

So the second list is your real one, classic?


oh and wait... last year radar had two lists and classic took the spare BUT castro featured in both, so I reckon that makes the second list null and void as you can't play for two teams..... you should both hit the tip jar with whatever you can afford whenever...

yes Monnie - the first was/is a wish list.

1 Mary Kate Olson
2 Joe Namath
3 Dick Cheney
4 Eve Plumb
5 George Foreman
6 Leslie Nielsen
7 Jean Stapleton
8 Barak Obama
9 Abe Vigoda
10 Fidel Castro

I don't think you're allowed to dislike Nancy Pelosi and Rush Limbaugh at the same time. It sets up a kind of disharmonic resonance that could cause a rip in the space time continuum. We're getting too close to 2012 to be risking that kind of shit.

lol - yeh that it does.

1) Tara Reid
2) Elizabeth Taylor
3) Ann B Davis
4) Garrett Morris
5) Ed Ames
6) Ernest Borgnine
7) Dick Cheney
8) Olivia de Havilland
9) Nick Nolte
10) Mike Tyson

I'm confused. Is this a wish list or a prediction list?

either or. Wishing on your list is a bit morbid but it is allowable.

This is a list of 10 people you think may pass in 2010. IF they do you get points based upon a VERY complicated scoring system (he he he)

I threw in a wish list because, well just because.

My wish list is short, or long depending on how you look at it.

All of the sitting Congress. With Reid and Pelosi at the front of the line. The rest can follow over the cliff like sheep.

It's not really a wish list, so post a list of people who might die in 2010 or shut the fuck up.

No.

Oh yeah, and shut the fuck up.

um. no.

Oh, and...

(wait for it)

shut the fuck up!

What, you can't find an article to quote so you have no ideas? :lol:

Wait I'll find one for you...

I found one!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_pool

That does me no good, you didn't cut and paste most of it! ;)

Ok. Let me try.

Don't forget the charts and graphs, in color please.

ok, so here's my attempt

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924)
Blake Fielder-Civil (born August 1978) (until recently Amy Winehouse's hubby)
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (born 13 October 1925)
Tony Curtis (born June 3, 1925)
Hugh Hefner (born April 9, 1926)
Doris May Lessing (born 22 October 1919)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (born 28 October 1956)
Michael Schumacher (born 3 January 1969)
Helmut Kohl (born 3 April 1930)
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born December 3, 1948)

William Shatner
Lindsey Lohan
Tiger Woods
Artie Lang
Courtney Love
Jimmy Carter
Hugh Hefner
Holly Madison
Doug Stanhope
Barack Obama (no worries though, he'll come back to life 3 days later.)

I can't see Artie Lange surviving past summer.

LOL # LO123

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:lol:

I believe the scoring system we've always used is subtract their age from 100 and that's the number of points you get.

Here's my list this year.

1. Abe Vigoda
2. George Steinbrenner
3. Billy Graham
4. Nancy Reagan
5. Kim Jong Il
6. Mickey Rooney
7. Kirk Douglas
8. Peter O'Toole
9. Fidel Castro
10. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi


My secondary list, which doesn't count for the game, but which is still very strong is...

1. Andy Griffith
2. Jerry Lewis
3. Elizabeth Taylor
4. Muhammad Ali
5. Bob Barker
6. Ernest Borgnine
7. Sidney Poitier
8. Severiano "Seve" Ballesteros Sota
9. Peter Falk
10. Dick Clark


I'm not taking any bets against my secondary list this year.

Yeh, I was joking about the complicated part.

Wise decision

Okay, little amended from last year.
Sorry I killed off John Mortimer and Bobby Robson.
It never worked with Thatcher. Maybe third time's the charm, eh?

Ronnie Biggs
Fidel Castro
Margaret Thatcher
Patrick Moore
Norman Wisdom
Mickey Rooney
Clive Dunn
Nancy Reagan
Ariel Sharon
Prince Philip

I debated between Nancy and Betty Ford, but Nancy would get me more points. However I expect a special mention if Betty carks it.

Oh and I promise $50 to the tip jar if we see off Maggie this year. It might not come all at once, but I will honour my promise within 6 months of the joyous event.

Does that count as an incentive to an assassin?

I thought about Betty Ford too and Harry Morgan from Mash, but I didn't go with them.

Radar, at the end of the year: "I TOLD you I was thinking about picking them...see how smart I am? It's in ONE of my 16 lists!" ;)

My list is every celebrity on earth who is still alive! :p

Shawnee, all I'm saying is I considered Betty Ford. She was on my group of people that I had actually typed up. I had a lot to pick from. That's why I came up with 2 lists.

Only 1 list counts for each of us though. It's the only list that matters. If Betty Ford or Harry Morgan died, I won't say "I told you I thought about them." I'll probably say, "Dammit, I picked the wrong names for the long list of possible choices."

Here're some people who might die next year:

Carrie Underwood
Emma Watson
Keira Knightley
Lindsay Lohan
Mandy Moore
Miley Cyrus
Mischa Barton
Ben Affleck
Tom Cruise
Matt Damon
Ricky Martin
Brad Pitt
Keanu Reeves
Orlando Bloom
Viggo Mortensen
Christina Aguilera
Jessica Simpson
Britney Spears
Faith Hill
Jennifer Lopez
Shania Twain
LeAnn Rimes
Shakira
Aaliyah
Mariah Carey
Madonna
Mandy Moore
Alicia Keys
Kylie Minogue
Gwen Stefani
Toni Braxton
Beyonce Knowles
Pink
Ashanti
Michelle Branch
Avril Lavigne


I kill me! :lol:

You Lie! Britney Spears is never gonna die! Just like my Gramma!

Well she MIGHT!

In that case, I submit all entries from IMDB.

I guess the morbidity of this thread is open to even a Madman. Here's my... <cough> unhopefulls.

John Astin
Jean Stapleton
Andy Griffith
Hal Linden
Adam West
David Hasselhoff
Bob Newhart
Kirstie Alley
Michael J. Fox
James Arness


Actually, I hope they are all still alive. They are... 99% sure of it.

You're welcome to play Madman. I hope you're wrong about John Astin, Adam West, Bob Newhart, and Michael J. Fox. I really like them.

Personally, I hope I'm wrong too. I like all of them.

Even "The Hoff"?

Which one do you mean? The Senator, the TV/radio presenter, the basketball player or another?

And one more question: If a celeb, born say 1. August 1950, kicks the bucket on 31. July 2010, do we score 41 or 40 points? - In other words, does the plain year of birth count, or do we take into account the number of years (arithmetically) fully lived? :3_eyes:

That would be 41 points unless we have a tie. Then we'd go by fractions of years.

I'm pretty Dick Clark refers to the radio, television, and movie star and producer famous for American Band Stand, TV Bloopers, and New Year's Rockin' Eve.

Richard Wagstaff Clark
November 30, 1929 (1929-11-30) (age 80)
Mount Vernon, New York

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0163863

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Clark

:lol2:

Radar, who died and made you rule-keeper extraordinaire? Whoever it was, I bet they were on one of my lists!

"The Hoff" gives me hope that Ozzie Osbourne will live forever... in a kinda-sorta reality/fantasy show kinda way.

That's just the way we've always done it. I mean if everyone wants to change it for next year, we could try to all hash that out.

I don't really care: I only started playing last year I think.

My memory tells me there were questions about scoring earlier this year, so "this is the way WE'VE always done it" didn't seem to be an option.

Carry on, my deadward sons.

It's age. On July 31, 2010, the celeb would be 59. 100 minus 59 equals 41 points.

OK, what if a celeb was born in, say, 1920. Then he dies in 2008. Then he is reincarnated as a Jonas Brother, and dies again in 2010. Which age should we use?

reincarnated in 2008, dies in 2010? - You score a whopping 98 points :eek:

Well, isn't that the proper age range for one of those guys?

(in head: darnit, should've thought that one through a bit more.)

42.5

4:20

No Jonas brother is a celeb. I call.

Well, if John Cletus Seymore Poindexter Clive Marvin Hopplestetter the Turd is a celeb, then a Jonass Brother is a celeb.

I don't think I've ever done a wish list, but I will give it a shot. My true wish list has thousands of names, but I'll try to narrow it down to 10 for the year.

1. George W. Bush
2. Dick Cheney
3. Condoleezza Rice
4. Donald Rumsfield
5. John Ashcroft
6. John Roberts
7. Sam Alito
8. Tony Perkins
9. Glenn Beck
10. Rush Limbaugh

These are among the most disgraceful people ever to sully the name of America and the world would be better off without them.