Celebrity Death Pool 2012
 

Time to start lining up your lists.......

Sundae has lots of vacancies on hers, Wolf has found a new vocation -celebs pay to be on her list......

Anyone kicked off my list is guaranteed to die -I take responsibility for Seve Ballesteros, Michael Jackson and Amy Winehouse.....

List 10 celebs who will die in 2012 -must be important enough that their deaths are reported by the national news sources in your country. Score 111-their age at death points for each hit, amputations will be prorated.

I'm starting with:

1. Maggie Thatcher
2. Zsa Zsa Gabor

rest to follow.....

3. Prince Phillip
4. Aretha Franklin
5. Liz Dawn
6. Ronnie Biggs
7. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
8. Nelson Mandela
9. Muhammed Ali
10. Dick Cheney

So this year I have condemed The Hoff and the Dougli

oh and, if any you list now die before 2012 starts, or you just change your mind, you can replace them. After new year, once you name your 10, you're set.

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

And I'll repeat from last year - They're gonna die eventually.

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

Crap - some of or one of mine died ... Liz Taylor and who else?
Gotta think of some replacements.

1. Benedict XVI
2. Ian Brady
3. Fidel Castro
4. Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi
5. Mohammed Ali
6. Aretha Franklin
7. Geoffrey Hughes
8. Patrick Moore
9. Barack Obama
10. Vera Lynn

Liz and Falk.

Thanks Pat. For the life of me, I couldn't remember.

Fuggit ... here be mine.

1. Fidel Castro
2. Jerry Lewis
3. Michael Douglas
4. Muhammad Ali
5. Bob Barker
6. Ernest Borgnine
7. Sidney Poitier
8. Lindsey Lohan
9. Etta James
10. Dick Clark

1. Joe Paterno
2. John Madden
3. Roseann
4. Adele
5. Steven Tyler
6. Mickey Rourke
7. Samuel L Jackson
8. Emma Thompson
9. Dan Rather
10. Wesley Snipes

1 Mary Kate Olson
2 Joe Namath
3 Dick Cheney
4 Eve Plumb
5 Harrison Ford
6 Ron White
7 Jean Stapleton
8 Bob Woodward
9 Abe Vigoda
10 Chris Christie

I'm revising my strategy this year based on info I gleaned from actuarial tables. As you live longer your life expectancy increases. A 64 y.o. person has a shorter life expectancy than a 75 year old person. A newborn has a shorter life expectancy than a 70 year old.

Last year my strategy was to pack the list with 90 year olds in otherwise good health. This year I am aiming lower in age and going for people with dodgy constitutions.

You can expect Zsa Zsa again and Ali, of course. I need to think a bit before my list is official.

Yes, and no.

A 65 year old is expected to live 17 more years. A 75 year old is expected to live 10 more years.

So if you pick a 75 year old, they are more likely to die in the next year than a 65 year old, but they are also more likely to be an older age when they die, because they already are an older age.

Ft3, your strategy is in the wrong thread... it should be over here... :rolleyes:
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Right, I was thinking that a 65 y.o. in poor health is a better contender than an 85 y.o. who is swimming a few miles a day.

Note how many 90 y.o. on my list are still going strong, whereas...

Zsa Zsa Gabor
Mohamed Ali
Betty White
Stephen Hawkings
Queen Elizabeth II
Larry Flynt
Sophia Loren
Richard Dawson
Etta James
LaToya Jackson

Imma use and edit last years. People gotta die SOMETIME.

(What, I only had to replace ONE? I really need a rock star on here. Rock stars die a lot. But I don't want to replace anyone on here.)

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

If you're not sure if somebody be dead, check here:

http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/pages-nf/main

Margaret Thatcher
Christopher Lee
Fidel Castro
Micky Rooney

More to follow.

That would be ... like work. :rolleyes:

Yabbut I'm often amazed to find I have no idea if someone died or not. I had to look up Bob Denver. Bob Denver, ffs. You think I'd know, almost intuitively, that Gilligan is no longer with us. :D

David Bowie
Whitney Houston
Bryan Bartlett "Bart" Starr
Kirk Douglas
Charles "Chuck" Wepner
Steven Adler
Etta James
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
Hugo Chavez
Tawny Kitaen

Margaret Thatcher
Fidel Castro
Micky Rooney
Geoffrey Hughes
Prince Philip
Bill Tarmey
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Ronnie Biggs
Kirk Douglas
Clive Dunn

I suspect Prince P is gone already but they didn't want to spoil our Christmas ...

Orly?... interesting......

Stiff upper lip and all that?

Letting it ride. I'll be right eventually.

1. Roger Moore
2. Brittany Spears
3. Dick Clark
4. Paris Hilton
5. Donald Trump
6. Charlie Watts
7. Larry King
8. Clint Eastwood
9. Keith Richards
10. Will Ferrell

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

*disclaimer: not a wish list, just calling it as I see it

I like that list second to mine. I was considering Asner but decided he's not deathly, just grouchy.

I figure one of those three girls is going to pile up a sportscar this year. Mahmoud is begging for a missile strike or a coup. Dick and Ed are just on the clock and finishing with drunk musicians is just a sensible play. I had to check on Shane, unbelievable that he keeps on.

Nice play with Bart Starr. Thinking back, early steroid era football players might be a smart angle.

Yessir, well I was looking him up in the Wikipedia and saw this line:

Good enough.

Prince Philip
Etta JAmes
Zsa Zsa
muhammad Ali
Jerry Lewis
Robin Gibb
saif gaddafi
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
Billy Graham

Just read that Etta's breathing on her own again.

1. Betty White
2. Abe Vigoda
3. Arte Lange
4. Whitey Bulger
5. Mike Wallace
6. Fidel Castro
7. Stan Lee
8. Wilford Brimley
9. John Goodman
10. James Earl Jones

C-man, Sheldon, UT, Footer, 27 points for Etta James

RIP Etta, you are missed.

RIP - Will youtube some of her songs in honor...

Here's one.

Adding:

10. Joe Paterno

uh ... really?

We need Monster here, stat.
No adding celebs after news which suggests their death is imminent, as in news reports that they are already dead, even if they are still dodging the coffin.

I'd accept it on 2 Jan, but 22 Jan is cheaty.
So there.

Is it a bigger cheat, though, than removing the one that didn't die in order to make room?

Sad that jo pa carked it, but totally predictable. How many points do I get?

Sent using magic.

He was 85. So that's 15 + 10 = 25 points ... I think.

First, link to the official rules from the start of the game, not the rules that you make up as you go along.

Second, I left #10 intentionally empty so I could add a promising candidate that might show up. I never removed anyone from my 2012 list, it has always been a list of 9.

third, eat me.

Ooh, I just saw what you did, cheeky gal.

lol

111-85 = 26. For Jim.

Jury's out on f3......

fff ain't gettin squat in my book. He must think we're all mental nuts.

Like I said, it doesn't show anywhere in the rules that you can't add someone in the 11th hour. Just because I can think outside the box and had the foresight to leave a slot open for latecomers doesn't mean that you're not as good as me.

Because I am better than you means that you aren't as good as me.

I'll still win even without that pedo's points.

And if I don't get those points I will add another name to make my list of ten.

with relish :yum:

oh, foot... you didnt just call Joe Pa a pedo, did you?

11th hour?

Do you mean 13th hour?

... or 22nd day? How many hours is that? (mental nut)

I added him before he died.

I wasn't trying to be serious.

To make a logical extension to your point though, then there's nothing to stop someone who hasn't entered yet from making their list by adding individuals as the year goes on and surely that would be against the spirit of the rules if not the letter.

On the other hand, if you add people in July you only have 6 months for them to hurry up and die instead of a full year. Your window is smaller. Not that it matters to me, because this game requires too long of an attention span for me to play. I voted against foot getting the points in the other thread, because I can't condone rewarding someone who has a long attention span and follows the news closely. That sort of person has their own rewards coming, and I feel they should help shoulder the burden for the less fortunate.

That's just it, I don't follow the news closely. I use wikipedia to generate my lists. I have no idea who a lot of those people are.

If Foot did something not specifically prohibited by the rules, and the only way he can be opposed is to fall back on some notion of honor or fairness, it seems like there's not a lot of footing there. I mean the game isn't exactly an honorable one. It's all about betting on people's deaths. I think he was clever and funny to think so quickly about this after the false news reports but before the death.

I have to say I agree. I don't want to, but I do. If I'm really honest, I presumed this was his plan when he only submitted 9 and it didn't bother me. I just didn't expect it to be so nicely handed over on a plate, but them's the breaks..... :lol: I couldn't care less either way, really.