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.

Trilby;845705 wrote:

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

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.

infinite monkey;845811 wrote:

Glatt...is Hillary a guess?

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.

Trilby;845964 wrote:

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.

[YOUTUBE]A-2h0o3uZ-8[/YOUTUBE]

they've blocked it here in the US!

No way!?

I'll find another clip

Try this:

[YOUTUBE]Aqq3a0c_ROk[/YOUTUBE]

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

classicman;846422 wrote:

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

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)

wolf;846728 wrote:

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. [COLOR="Red"]Can i have either of the Olsen Twins without specifying one? I'll take 75% of the usual score to compensate.[/COLOR]
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

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.

glatt;846018 wrote:

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.

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

wolf;846728 wrote:

5. Can i have either of the Olsen Twins without specifying one? I'll take 75% of the usual score to compensate.

infinite monkey;847112 wrote:

No, pick an Olsen. ;)

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.

Griff;847542 wrote:

I hadn't heard he died.

Funny pants.

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

1) Pope Palpatine

Anyone have Mindy MCcready?

who? and no.

monster;853267 wrote:

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

monster;853303 wrote:

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

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:

monster;853332 wrote:

oh fuck do whatever you like

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.

monster;853340 wrote:

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:

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.

you are? that's the funniest thing. :lol: ......oh dear, i must be old.....

Ok, can't be bothered with the eyeliner very often these days, but when i do...... the jacket and leather mini are relegated to a closet in the basement though as keepsakes. The only person who wore more black eyeliner than me was beest!

♫ Getting to know you. Getting to know all about you. ♫
How do you feel about show tunes?

I think that we don't really get to know each other in this virtual space.

with names like beest snd monster you thought we were the epitome of 2.4 children? You know my hair is purple red and blue, right?

Yabbut I know a soccer mom with a stripe in her hair and business men with tattoos, so the purple hair didn't mean anything to me 'til now.

BTW, your typing is improving.

I was a soccer mom. now I'm a swim/polo/hockey mom. You won't meet a more conservative crowd than hockey parents :lol:

Hmmmm. How do we characterize our fellow dwellars in musical terms?

That should be a thread.

I definitely see Monster with doc martens...

Beest had the Docs. Now I'm chattering in the thread and clagging it up I will respond furtherin post whore thread if necessary.


We have no scores on ther doors so far, right? and already into February!

My spreadsheet has 13 participants. Foot only has 3 people on his list.

Anonymous does not get a vote.

Which base are we working in when we allow 10 names?

monster;853460 wrote:

Which base are we working in when we allow 10 names?

:lol:

I don't get it? :confused:

You know. Math.

Counting in binary, base ten, duodecimal, etc...

10 could really mean 500 if you are counting in the correct base.

I still don't get it. I mean I get base ten...but I'm not really sure how it applies here.

However, I am not committed and I am incompentent...so there's that. :lol:

And y'know, self aware to boot :p

When you count in base ten, a 1 in the second column from the right means ten -like the same number of fingers and toes most people are born with. But when you count in base twenty, it means twenty, i.e. twice that many. when you count in base sixteen, it means the number of limbs the Beatles had. etc

DanaC;853469 wrote:

And y'know, self aware to boot :p

*snickers* My psychiatrist actually told me that...well, he said I was insightful.

monster;853470 wrote:

When you count in base ten, a 1 in the second column from the right means ten -like the same number of fingers and toes most people are born with. But when you count in base twenty, it means twenty, i.e. twice that many. when you count in base sixteen, it means the number of limbs the Beatles had. etc

OK, I still don't get how it applies here. :p:

monster was just preempting a cheater who might submit 50 names and claim that it was 10 names and he was only counting in base 50.

infinite monkey;853471 wrote:

*snickers* My psychiatrist actually told me that...well, he said I was insightful.

:

or was that inciteful?


:p

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. D'oh! :facepalm:

Remember, as Ensign Charles Parker so famously said: Cheaters Never Prosper!

(a dollar to the first to find the reference) ;)

DanaC;853474 wrote:

or was that inciteful?


:p

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Mebbe.

I'll have to compete with only 3 names this year. I'm too out of the loop and over whelmed by things to come up with more names.

infinite monkey;853475 wrote:

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. D'oh! :facepalm:

Remember, as Ensign Charles Parker so famously said: Cheaters Never Prosper!

(a dollar to the first to find the reference) ;)

If it's not McHale's Navy, I'm out.

Damn. I coulda used a dollar, too.

You got it!

I think McHale's Navy was also the first time I saw the joke on how one shouldn't 'assume.'

McHale's Navy. ahhh yes.

Bonnie Franklin http://on.today.com/15Wxi61

*cough*valerieharper*cough*

glatt, spexx and foot all have Chavez.

I don't know the point alogorithm.

How many points each?

And no, foot, Ms Harper is not going on your list. ;)

infinite monkey;855706 wrote:

And no, foot, Ms Harper is not going on your list. ;)

;) I know, I said I'd stick with my three, and I will.

infinite monkey;855705 wrote:

glatt, spexx and foot all have Chavez.

I don't know the point alogorithm.

How many points each?

[LIST]
[*]111-age at death.
[*]current score-102 for each post about the death of someone nobody has on their list.[/LIST]

monster;855728 wrote:

[LIST]
[*]111-age at death.
[*]current score-102 for each post about the death of someone nobody has on their list.[/LIST]

:mad:

footfootfoot;855736 wrote:

:mad:

:D :lol:

(how many points for excessive smilies?)

glatt, Spexx, and foot3 are winning with 53 points each.

Can I be second to them?

I don't see your list. It's not on my spreadsheet. I'll be happy to add you if you show me where it is.

http://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=845697&postcount=4

[invisible]




thanks

Well how in the heck did I miss you? Sorry!

Good call on Bonnie Franklin. You're in the ballgame with 42 points!

I had the first dead celeb.. should I be bragging about that? :eyebrow::

It draws unnecessary attention to you. Wait until they've got a solid conviction, 'til then lie low.

infinite monkey;855774 wrote:

I don't see your list. It's not on my spreadsheet. I'll be happy to add you if you show me where it is.

Computer says no.

[YOUTUBE]0n_Ty_72Qds[/YOUTUBE]

It sucks living where I live on dial up. I cannot download the updates to view any videos... :(

Thatcher. 24 points

monster, ortho, and Sundae each get 24 points.

monster hope you don't mind I have a spreadsheet going. It's just something I can work on without breaking everything. :o

53 points: foot, spexx, and glatt
42 points: Nirvana
24 point: monster, Sundae, and Ortho

I fucking can't believe I didn't have Thatcher.

[YOUTUBE]9t4-zDem1Sk[/YOUTUBE]

infinite monkey;859778 wrote:

monster, ortho, and Sundae each get 24 points.

monster hope you don't mind I have a spreadsheet going. It's just something I can work on without breaking everything. :o

53 points: foot, spexx, and glatt
42 points: Nirvana
24 point: monster, Sundae, and Ortho

I think we might need to hold a meeting five minutes ago about the pleb wedding spreadsheet I expected you to have done precisely 23.5 minutes before you were born.

did anyone have Annette Funicello ?

no

From Love Actually:

[to a portrait of Margaret Thatcher]
Prime Minister: *You* have this kind of problem? Yeah... of course you did, you saucy minx!

Ocean's Edge;859830 wrote:

did anyone have Annette Funicello ?

We were just good friends...

Ocean's Edge;859830 wrote:

did anyone have Annette Funicello ?

no, but my son's trumpet has an interestingly shaped dent.

♪ ♫If I'd had Annette,
I'da had her in the morning,
I'da had her in the evening,
All over this land♪ ♫

Annette Funicello was seriously hot back in the day. I mean, like, smoking.

Grav, I think the word you are looking for is "nubile"

It's not just coincidental that the Thesarus example of the use of the word is:

nubile
adjective
tempted by Frankie's nubile girlfriend
sexually mature; sexually attractive, desirable,
sexy, luscious; marriageable; informal beddable.

:rolleyes:

informal beddable? is there a FORMAL form?

Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee
Lousy with virginity
Won't go to bed 'til I'm legally wed
I can't; I'm Sandra Dee

Watch it! Hey I'm Doris Day
I was not brought up that way
Won't come across,
Even Rock Hudson lost
His heart to Doris Day

I don't drink (no)
Or swear (no)
I don't rat my hair (eew)
I get ill from one cigarette
(cough, cough, cough)
Keep your filthy paws
Off my silky draws
Would you pull that crap with Annette?

As for you Troy Donahue,
I know what you wanna do
You got your crust
I'm no object of lust
I'm just plain Sandra Dee

Elvis, Elvis, let me be!
Keep that pelvis far from me!
Just keep your cool
Now your starting to drool
Hey Fongool, I'm Sandra Dee!

Never knew what that line meant.
Thank you.

Gravdigr;860107 wrote:

Annette Funicello was seriously hot back in the day. I mean, like, smoking.

She's probably smoking now too. or did they bury her?

Yer thinking of Maggy T

Ocean's Edge;860130 wrote:

informal beddable? is there a FORMAL form?

It's the opposite of casual sex.

shame foot3's not here -he would most likely just have found Ariel Castro on his list.

Sundae and I are raking in the points this month/year. What are the scores on the doors, Ms Monkeh of Infiniti?

monster;875191 wrote:

shame foot3's not here -he would most likely just have found Ariel Castro on his list.

2. Ariel Castro
3. Nelson Mandela
4. Peter O'Toole
5. Posh Spice

I got 74 points

Jean Stapleton 21
Hugo Chavez 53

I'm sorry monster. That spreadsheet was at my job. Can someone else please tally the points? It's not a subject I much want to deal with right now.

oh no don't worry, sorry, thoughtless of me :(

No. not thoughtless. No worries, buddy. I just like that you remembered I was keeping a spreadsheet! :)

I would like to see the totals at year's end. It was/is a hard fought year on many different levels.

number nerdiness should be encouraged and revered at all times

Dwellar Hits Score
Spexx 2 74
foot3 2 69
monster 3 67
Sundae 3 67
Glatt 1 53
wolf 1 53
Nirvana 1 42
orthodoc 1 24
Trilby, Clodfobble, Griff, gvidas, Infi, gravdgr 0



points for players:
Mandela 16
Thatcher 24
Biggs 27
Franklin 42
Chavez 53
Stapleton 21

it was luck.

It was a mixture of luck and skill.

it was a game of two halves...

It was... murder!

monster;890734 wrote:

it was a game of two halves...

He'll be over the moon.