Celebrity Death Pool 2013
 

If they don't kick the bucket in the next week, I'm starting off with

1) Zsa-Zsa Gabor
2) Nelson Mandela (*sniff*)
3) Maggie Thatcher
4) Prince Phillip
5) Liz Dawn

.....

tbc


(I guess I could use a few Americans on there, be a little more dual-citizen....)


Rules same as last year -famous enough to be reported nationally in your country, points are 111-age at death. Lists posted in 2012 can be changed until Jan 1st 2013.

Let's add: all 10 spots to be filled by Jan 13 or left unfilled, all latecomers must post all 10 within a couple of days of joining and cannot have ones who already snuffed it at the time of posting. If all vote against this, that's fine, just a peace-keeping suggestiion ;) And no insider-trading. If you off the celeb yourself, that's ok, though, as long as you can smuggle the points into jail with you.

6) George Bush Snr

7) Ronnie Biggs
8) Kirk Douglas

1) Lindsay Lohan
2)Mick Jagger
3)Abe Vigoda
4)Bonnie Franklin
5)Betty White
6)Dennis Rodman
7)Courtney Love
8)Phil Specter
9)Fidel Castro
10) Mary Tyler Moore

I'm really struggling with the last two... so many good options....

well, obviously Courtney Love and Lindsay Lohan.

Carol Burnett
Bobbie Brown
Fidel Castro
Bashar al Assad
Liza Minelli
a Kennedy (pick one, any one)
Alan Greenspan

1.) George Bush Sr.
2.) Mickey O'Rourke
3.) Fidel Castro
4.) Lindsey Lohan
5.) Nate Ruess
6.) Kirstie Allie
7.) Joan Rivers
8.) Jim Lehrer
9.) Abe Vigoda
10.) George Bush Jr.

Kirstie Allie??????

I figure the repeated liposuctions and binge-eating have got to catch up with her eventually. Her heart will just explode. Plus she turns 62 in a couple weeks, she ain't no spring chicken.

I didn't know about the liposuctions....I suspected she had a gastric bypass although she denies it.

Well, I don't know about the liposuctions either, I'm just assuming. You can't yo-yo to the violent and rapid degree she has without some level of assistance.

I pick
Rory

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

Margaret Thatcher
Terence Stamp
Tony Benn
Prince Philip
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Ronnie Biggs
Rev Ian Paisley
Stephen Hawking
Carol Burnett
Nelson Mandela

Changed it up a bit this year.
Bound to forget that and start calculating points when I turn on the news at some point next year, only to find it's someone I dropped.

9) Mohammed Ali
10) Fidel Castro


All the young time bombs have gotten considerably boring and straight recently (Love, Spears, even maybe Lohan) I think there will be a coupl eof younger celeb deaths, but I think they'll take almost everyone by surprise.

Hmm.... Hillary Clinton?

Same play as last year. I called the car crash, but it was ineffective. Shane made it another year, truly unbelievable.

1. Miley Cyrus
2. Lindsey Lohan
3. Mary Kate Olsen
4. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
5. Dick Van Dyke
6. Ed Asner
7. Shane MacGowan
8. Steve Poltz
9. Rick Springfield
10. Axl Rose

Billboard 2012 top artists #s 21-23, 27, 30, and every member of One Direction

Not a wishlist or anything, but as a first-timer I figured I'd corner a demographic.

1. Lil Wayne
2. Chris Brown
3. Madonna
4. Usher
5. Roger Waters
6. Niall Horan
7. Zayn Malik
8. Liam Payne
9. Harry Styles
10. Louis Tomlinson

A couple changes from last year:

1) Tara Reid
2) Phil Donahue
3) Ann B Davis
4) Rush Limbaugh
5) Ed Ames
6) Andy Dick
7) Dick Cheney
8) Olivia de Havilland
9) Teri Garr
10) Muhammad Ali

1. Hugo Chavez
2. Nelson Mandela

more to follow shortly.

Get 'em in before midnight...we don't need another Paterno Debacle. :lol:

I'm messing around with a spreadsheet. Tril, you need one more, and you need to specify a Kennedy.

Foot needs 8 more.

Glatt...is Hillary a guess?

1 Mary Kate Olson
2 Joe Namath
3 Dick Cheney
4 Eve Plumb
5 George H. W. Bush
6 Ron White
7 Jean Stapleton
8 Bob Woodward
9 Hugo Chavez
10 Chris Christie

Hm. Never done this before. Do we have to name people no one else has named?

1. George H.W. Bush
2. Prince Phillip
3. Lindsay Lohan
4. Pierre Cardin
5. Margaret Thatcher
6. Herman Wouk
7. Kirk Douglas
8. Michael Douglas
9. Thomas Starzl
10. Chuck Yeager

No. You can play anyone alive.

Yes

Hillary Clinton
George HW Bush
Fidel Castro
Hugo Chavez
Lindsay Lohan
Prince Philip
Kathleen Turner
Patrick Dempsey
Tom Brokaw (the news anchor, however you spell it)
Michael Moore

Ok - the Kennedy that dated Taylor Swift. He'll die in a mysterious 'accident'

and...oh, shoot...let's say that ugly disgusting green-tinged boy Kate Moss goes out with. What's his name? Pete Doherty.

That's racist! ;)

Sundae, if you kill off Tony Benn I will be very annoyed!

The wonderful Tony Benn: an extended extra from a Michael Moore documentary

They just don't make 'em like that any more.

they've blocked it here in the US!

No way!?

I'll find another clip

Try this:



Not an interview but a speech/lecture he gave. About money and power. He's committed christian and an old socialist. Born in 1925, he's the real deal.

The TV just showed a stock photo of Hugh Hefner and I thought he had died. But he only got married. I'm wishing I'd picked him. The guy can't be long for this world.

I'll take whoever I had last year.. if thats allowed.

Oh, crap. I updated my list, and there was a posting error. now I have to remember who I thought was going to die instead of those that didn't.

1. Roger Moore
2. Brittany Spears
3. Sean Connery
4. Fidel Castro (surely this is the year he goes. Unless he's already dead and they occasionally show a CGI version smoking a cigar on TV)
5. Can i have either of the Olsen Twins without specifying one? I'll take 75% of the usual score to compensate.
6. Dan Rather
7. Larry King
8. Clint Eastwood
9. Keith Richards (still think he is already dead. Zombie Stones, not Rolling, at this point. Although I guess that if one survived into the MTV era, that shows a hardiness of constitution that will carry them quite into their 90s.)
10. Will Ferrell

I was going to add Dave Brubeck, but apparently his Time Out was 12.5.12

I found your list. Sure you can have last year's list but you won't get many points since most of them are already dead.

Fidel Castro
Jerry Lewis
Elizabeth Taylor (died in 2011!)
Muhammad Ali
Bob Barker
Ernest Borgnine (dead)
Sidney Poitier
Lindsey Lohan
Peter Faulk (Falk. Died in 2011!)
Dick Clark (dead)


No, pick an Olsen. ;)

Foot needs 8 more. Unless he's on strike due to the Great Paterno Fiasco of 2012.

1. Zsa Zsa Gabor
2. George H. W. Bush
3. Clint Eastwood
4. Morgan Freeman
5. Morley Safer
6. Tony Bennett
7. Doris Day
8. Bob Barker
9. Don Rickles
10. Katt Williams

1. Roger Moore
2. Brittany Spears
3. Sean Connery
4. Fidel Castro (surely this is the year he goes. Unless he's already dead and they occasionally show a CGI version smoking a cigar on TV)
5. Hugo Chavez, not an Olson twin, but as likely to die.
6. Dan Rather
7. Larry King
8. Clint Eastwood
9. Keith Richards (still think he is already dead. Zombie Stones, not Rolling, at this point. Although I guess that if one survived into the MTV era, that shows a hardiness of constitution that will carry them quite into their 90s.)
10. Will Ferrell

Brittany Spears over Lindsay Lohan?

I've been letting Brittany ride for a couple years now. She'll eventually do something terminally stupid. Yeah, I know Lindsay can too, but I guess I dislike Brittany more.

adding Larry King

I hadn't heard he died.

Don't be so sure. He's got a lot to live for!

As a non-participant* in this contest, I offer the following intuition about what is fair.
Doubling up a guess like this gives double the chance of a correct guess so to be fair it should only produce half the points.
Allowing the precedent could allow someone to make 20 guesses at half-points, and logically just a single guess at ten times the normal points.
Do you really want to go there?



*It would annoy me if I did poorly and freak me out if I did really well.

Funny pants.

They're hand me downs and it's Saturday.

1) Pope Palpatine

Anyone have Mindy MCcready?

who? and no.

extremely messed up country singer (perhaps bipolar with other issues--just speculating) made it big with....i can't remember. i don't do much country.

oh cuntry music don't touch it with a bargepole. Nirv, you can use "search this thread" to find if anyone had a certain celeb

Search? :eek: Can't I just post and hope others will post? ;)

depends how irritating you want to be.

http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=24383

Sooooooo I can't post a question about a dead celeb but anon can make a one name list after the closing date without nary a comment? Hoo-kayyyyyy gotcha :rolleyes:

oh fuck do whatever you like

What. You're high hat?

not sure what that means, but I'm going to guess and answer.......oh gawd no, I like less meaning and lots of noise:lol:

Oh thank you

you don't have the corner on bitchy just because you have had more practice ...;)

Cut it out, you two. Don't make me come over there and sing Kumbaya at you all.

It's true that I haven't kept up with music for the last 15 years or so. But "less meaning and lots of noise" always seemed to go with lots of black eyeliner and Doc Marten's or biker boots. I'm having trouble picturing you this way.