Celebrity Death Pool 2014

And no, after my Secret Santa experience I have no intention of acting as administrator. Just thought that as it's half-past January, someone should kick it off...

Stephen Hawking
Ian Brady
Terry Pratchett
Terence Stamp
Prince Philip
Rev Ian Paisley
Tony Benn
Casey Kasem
Ian McKellan
Wilko Johnson

There. Done.
More Brit-centric than ever before, but these are the people I read about and know. Well, not personally, otherwise I'd put my parents' cat on there.
Except she's already excluded for being a cat.
And not being a public figure.

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 DeSean Jackson
10 Chris Christie

1 John Frusciante
2 Bobby Brown
3 Scott Weiland
4 Shane MacGowan
5 Nikki Sixx
6 Vince Neil
7 Bob Dylan
8 Steven Adler
9 Marky Ramone
10 Marion Barry

No fair having dead people on your list Spexx ;)

Jean Stapleton (born Jeanne Murray; January 19, 1923 – May 31, 2013

1 Christopher Plummer
2 Billy Graham
3 Eli Wallach
4 Olivia De Haviland
5 Valarie Harper
6 Jake LaMotta
7 Patrick Macnee
8 Abe Vigoda
9 Kirk Douglas
10 Zsa Zsa Gabor

1 Des O'Connor
2 Denis Norden
3 Nicholas Parsons
4 Mickey Rooney
5 Richard Attenborough
6 The Queen (GB)
7 Elaine Stritch
8 Angela Lansbury
9 Keith Richards
10 Glynis Johns
I've never done this before as I can't think of ten famous people, let alone ten that are about to drop off the perch. I've asked Mr Limey to contribute on my behalf.


Sent by thought transference

1. John Madden
2. Betty White
3. Miley Cyrus
4. Tom Brokaw
5. Bill Cosby
6. Axl Rose
7. Muhammed Ali
8. Lindsay Lohan
9. Bob Newhart
10. Fidel Castro

limey;889900 wrote:

I've never done this before as I can't think of ten famous people, let alone ten that are about to drop off the perch. I've asked Mr Limey to contribute on my behalf.

You do realise that Mr Limey gets the points, not you, right?
Which may lead to a situation as in QI, where the audience wins. Still, who am I to bring up rules and regulations with a Mod!?

Oh and tell him next year to include at least one wild card; the younger the person the more points you get.

NB. You have heard of the Queen though?

Yeah. Careful. Limes is a prefect now!

My Mum was a Prefect, and then Head Girl.
My Dad was a mod.

I was a prefect.


Don't laugh.

1. Billy Graham
2. Fidel Castro
3. Betty White
4. Jerry Lewis
5. Whitney Houston
6. Dick Van Dyke
7. Barbara Walters
8. Kareem Abdul Jabbar
9. Warren Buffet
10. Tommy Chong

1) Ashley Olson
2) Ashley Tisdale
3) Ashley Simpson
4) Ashley Purdy
5) Ashley Judd
6) Ashleigh Banfield
7) Ashleigh Ball
8) Ashley Parker Angel
9) Ashley Roberts
10) Ashley Force Hood

Monster!
Griff is making fun of a much treasured Cellar thread!

He's not breaking any official rules, but he needs a telling off.
Just telling him he won't win with that selection probably won't be enough.

Oh, I will win and with style.

Griff;889944 wrote:

1) Ashley Olson
2) Ashley Tisdale
3) Ashley Simpson
4) Ashley Purdy
5) Ashley Judd
6) Ashleigh Banfield
7) Ashleigh Ball
8) Ashley Parker Angel
9) Ashley Roberts
10) Ashley Force Hood

Oooooeee. Coming in right out of left field!

Here is my list but I've decided to make my list for this year and the future combined.

1. EVERYONE

is Ashley Force Hood a sexual violation?

DanaC;889950 wrote:

Oooooeee. Coming in right out of left field!

My list was progressing normally until the third Ashley showed up.

What's with the already dead people on lists? :blush:

Whitney Houston? :3_eyes:

Oh yeah, I guess Whitney Houston is dead. Oops. Okay, replace her with Dr. Drew in my list.

1) Zsa-Zsa Gabor
2) Stuart Hall
3) Justin Bieber
4) Prince Phillip
5) Liz Dawn
6) George Bush Snr
7) Rick Snyder
8) Kirk Douglas
9) Mohammed Ali
10) Fidel Castro


3 vacancies to fill this year

Nirvana;889898 wrote:

No fair having dead people on your list Spexx ;)

Jean Stapleton (born Jeanne Murray; January 19, 1923 – May 31, 2013

D'oh!:smack:

Revised:
1 Mary Kate Olson
2 Joe Namath
3 Dick Cheney
4 Eve Plumb
5 George H. W. Bush
6 Ron White
7 Bryant Gumbel
8 Bob Woodward
9 DeSean Jackson
10 Chris Christie

Heres my shot.

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[*][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Arnold Scharzeneger[/FONT][/SIZE]
[*][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Axel Rose[/SIZE][/FONT]
[*][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Adam Ant[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[*][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]LeBron James[/SIZE][/FONT]
[*][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Robert Downey Jr.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[*][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Britney Spears[/SIZE][/FONT]
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how come Griff's list is all strippers?

he forgot Ashly de la Zouch ;)

Who won last year? I said i left my spreadsheet at the old job. If'n somebody plans to score it, I'll play. otherwise it's just a thread up there with word ass and word disass. Which is to say: annoying.

I'll score it

unless someone else wants to

*cough* I'll be happy to...


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assuming you've only selected people still alive, is it a combination or a permutation?
put another way, do they have to kark it (UK) or buy the farm (USA) in the order you specify?

It's hard enough getting these fuckers to allow my nominees. Let's not make it impossible.


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Molasar wrote:

assuming you've only selected people still alive, is it a combination or a permutation?
put another way, do they have to kark it (UK) or buy the farm (USA) in the order you specify?

Anyone on your list dies, you get points. Points are 110 minus [age at death.] So one young death gets you more points than several geezers in their 90s. Most points at the end of the year wins.

thanks clodfobble a really concise and comprehensive explanation.

funny thing is that in UK we just had the Clint Eastwood/Liam Neeson movie "Dead Pool" a week or two back.
might have to have a crack at this myself :devil:

To the best of my recollection, I have never accurately predicted a single celebrity death in this thread. So if you're making your list, I would stay away from everyone I picked.

Clodfobble;890245 wrote:

... So if you're making your list, I would stay away from everyone I picked.

Hahahahaha!!
you mean like you did?

Beest;890214 wrote:

[*][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Griff Rhys Jones[/SIZE][/FONT]

Haters gotta hate. ;)

footfootfoot;890219 wrote:

how come Griff's list is all strippers?

I would suggest that Ashley Purdy is not on your to be seen naked list... he may not be on anyone's naked list actually.

Molasar, I think rules are spelled out in as much entirety as they get in last year's thread, but most of the ones beyond points and how famous the corpses have to be relate to ways of preventing 36" from cheating

.....but I'd be willing to entertain the notion of a bonus for people who get 3 or more hits occurring in the order listed.... ;)

... or indeed "buy 3 get 1 free" ?

DanaC;889917 wrote:

I was a prefect.


Don't laugh.

Awww come on, Dana, nobdoy's prefect.


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Griff;890254 wrote:

Haters gotta hate. ;)


I would suggest that Ashley Purdy is not on your to be seen naked list... he may not be on anyone's naked list actually.

GRJ was a completely random out of the air pick ( subliminal suggestion maybe) of a humerous man I would rather see more work from and hope he lives on for many years, Ricky Gervais on the other hand...

My list this year:
Eli Wallach
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Sam Simon
Clive James
Billy Graham
Valerie Harper
Joost van der Westhulzen
GHW Bush
Fidel Castro
Abe Vigoda


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footfootfoot;890346 wrote:

My list this year:

Joost van der Westhulzen

I didn't recognize this name, so I googled it and came up with this article from last November:

He is sitting in an upstairs room at the University of Edinburgh’s Peffermill Playing Fields, 42 years old and in a wheelchair, 89 caps, 38 tries and one World Cup and none of it matters any more to Joost van der Westhuizen as he talks about the importance of family and what really matters in life. There are two things that we as humans take for granted. One is health and the other is time and the great Springbok scrum-half is not blessed with either

Diagnosed with motor neurone disease in May 2011, Van der Westhuizen was given a 20 per cent chance of surviving five years while at the same time being told he might not make it to Christmas. But here he is in Scotland, strapped into his wheelchair for fear of falling forwards, speaking with great difficulty, unable to use his arms and admitting that what he has is a death sentence, but smiling all the while and saying that he’s going to fight it. He’ll fight it with everything he’s got

and you wonder why people accuse you of cheating? I don't know that this is against the rules...per se... but it seems a bit of a foregone conclusion.

Hm. I don't think anyone on my list last year checked out, so maybe it's protective to be on certain lists ... like mine and Clod's.

Prince Phillip
Lindsay Lohan
Stephen Hawking
Olivia de Havilland
Valerie Harper
PD James
George Bush Sr.
Ed Asner
B B King
Sid Caesar

My list as well. I don't think I ever had a death.

lumberjim;890354 wrote:

and you wonder why people accuse you of cheating? I don't know that this is against the rules...per se... but it seems a bit of a foregone conclusion.

In 2009, Harper was diagnosed with lung cancer.[33] She announced on March 6, 2013 that tests from a January hospital stay revealed she has leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, a rare condition in which cancer cells spread into the meninges, the membranes surrounding the brain. She said her doctors had given her as little as three months' life expectancy.[34] Although the disease is incurable, her doctors said they were treating her with chemotherapy in an effort to slow its progress.[35]

We don't actually have a rule for that do we? F3 did his research... probably a full list of terminals. It's not like adding names after the fact...

Only thing I saw a as radar saying, "no one on death row"

I guess I'm just bitter because I did zero research. Carry on.

OK, I started work on scoring 2013 in order of appearance in thread (list sorted by score)

Dwellar Hits Score
monster 3 67
Sundae 3 67
Nirvana 1 42
Trilby, Clodfobble, Griff 0

next to be scored if anyone wants to take over: gvidas.

points for players so far:
Mandela 16
Thatcher 24
Biggs 27
Franklin 42



quote from Trilby when asked to pick a 10th player

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

:lol:

I think that was my first year with any hits at all! usually I have to take them off my list, then they die. Like MJ. Barsteward.

man shoulda done my research and bunged Ian Brady in there....

Jim you're a cock. You've got Ali and Castro on you list! Bitter bastidge.


Hey farto.

Are they terminal? Ali has been the same zombie for 20 years it seems. Both low scorers too. You were much more strategic.

Have a blessed day

Absolutely strategic! Winning isn't everything but it can buy happiness


"Once you start using slippery slope arguments, the next thing you know you're employing straw men and red herrings. It's a slippery slope." Jim Helm

There's winning and then there's winning.

Give foot a break. At least he didn't say The Professor and Ruben Kincaid.

Here's my list from last year...got to go check if anyone was a hit:

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

eta: nope, all still kicking. So it's my 2014 list.

p.s. thanks for scoring last year, monster!

I didn't get very far :/ maybe we should all be self scoring

I'm procrastinating right now. I have two really urgent things to do and apparently I have pissed away 5 hours already :(

I said 'give foot a break' I didn't say let him run hog wild scoring himself. :lol:

lumberjim;890442 wrote:

Have a blessed day

As-salamu alaykum



"Once you start using slippery slope arguments, the next thing you know you're employing straw men and red herrings. It's a slippery slope." Jim Helm

infinite monkey;890454 wrote:

I said 'give foot a break' I didn't say let him run hog wild scoring himself. :lol:

"Give Leroy another chance! Give Leroy another chance!"


"Once you start using slippery slope arguments, the next thing you know you're employing straw men and red herrings. It's a slippery slope." Jim Helm

Undertoad;890447 wrote:

There's winning and then there's whining.

"Once you start using slippery slope arguments, the next thing you know you're employing straw men and red herrings. It's a slippery slope." Jim Helm

infinite monkey;890454 wrote:

I said 'give foot a break' I didn't say let him run hog wild scoring himself. :lol:

How will he run if you 'break ' foot?

If I've told him once, I've told him three times: if you break your footfootfoot don't come runningrunningrunning to me. But does he listen? Noooooooooo...

Break my foot once, shame on you. Break my foot twice shame on me. Break my foot three times I won't be fooled again.

futfutfut

Did anyone pick Bieber? He's on the Fast and Furious track...arrested for DUI and speeding.

Monster did

:D

How did Bieber get his Big Wheel to go so fast?

Mine is the not dying list. I want in, I'm still working on my picks. Need to hunt down last year's list and check it against alive or dead.

lumberjim;890534 wrote:

Monster did

monster;890535 wrote:

:D

Well played. That boy is on a highway to hell.

footfootfoot;890528 wrote:

Break my foot once, shame on you. Break my foot twice shame on me. Break my foot three times I won't be fooled again.

You're incredibly tolerant. Don't get fooled again.

I did a few more....

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 so far:
Mandela 16
Thatcher 24
Biggs 27
Franklin 42
Chavez 53
Stapleton 21

And that's all she wrote.

Spexxvet won! But he don't come around here no more.....

Doesn't he? I could have sworn I saw him post in the last couple of weeks.

monster;890699 wrote:

And that's all she wrote.

Spexxvet won! But he don't come around here no more.....

Sure I do. I'm just invisible, apparently ;)

Spexxvet;890721 wrote:

Sure I do. I'm just invisible, apparently ;)

you need to put your glasses back on so we can see you

11. John McCririck

I don't need points for this so I don't care if I'm cheating. I just found The wife swap with Edwina Currie on youtube :( What a tit. How is he not dead yet?

[YOUTUBE]8sx3nBPHZhY[/YOUTUBE]

Naughty. It's not a wish list.

I agree he is a pig though. He was on Celebrity Big Brother and behaved in a similar childish fashion, whilst making out it was all about being a Real Man.

it's not a wish. But with a diet and exercise regime like that, how did he reach that age? (And how has someone not permanently punched his lights out yet?)

I saw him at Windsor racecourse once while on a company piss-up. There were quite a few people berating him from the sidelines. He's about as popular as a fart in a spacesuit.
Personally, I wouldn't punch him as I might get my knuckles dirty.
(Bearing in mind he repeatedly picked his nose and ate the results live on British telly, the farkin' scummer).

Finally found my list. Letting it ride. Well except for Hugo Chavez. And an adjustment. Brittany is rather or of the public eye lately.


1. Roger Moore
2. Miley Cyrus
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. Justin Bieber
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

RIP Shirley Temple

not on anyone's list, though. I was sure she would have been

Can't be arsed checking through, but does anybody have Tony Benn on their lists?

I fear he may be next. He's in hospital now.

Anybody have Sid Caesar?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/12/sid-caesar-dead-dies_n_4775892.html

The TV movie "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" was loosly based on his TV show. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. Nathan Lane is funny as hell! :-)

DanaC;892492 wrote:

Can't be arsed checking through, but does anybody have Tony Benn on their lists?

I fear he may be next. He's in hospital now.

Sundae, very first post.




"Search this thread" is a tab at the top towards the right, easier than typing a whole post :) Even provides a link if you want to quote it or check facts

Sorry, Dani.
I killed him after all. Didn't really mean to.

Bitch!




:p

Limey enters the race with Mickey Rooney for 18 points

http://time.com/51308/mickey-rooney-dead/

Sundae's still in the lead with 23 points, though

I see that Sundae has Casey Casem and I have Eli Wallach

Anybody have Joan Rivers?

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Gravdigr;908413 wrote:

Anybody have Joan Rivers?

[Size=1]tickticktickticktickticktick[/Size]

Someone posted on Twitter: “Please God, take care of Joan Rivers!!!”
I replied: “He tried but they resuscitated her!!!.”

:drummer:

Limey had Dicky Attenborough

Sheldonrs;892540 wrote:

Anybody have Sid Caesar?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/12/sid-caesar-dead-dies_n_4775892.html

The TV movie "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" was loosly based on his TV show. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. Nathan Lane is funny as hell! :-)

orthodoc did

I think these are the scores on the doors as we enter the last third of the year....

Sundae 52 (Tony Benn and Casey Kasem)
Limey 39 ( Mickey and Dicky)
Orthodoc 20 (Sid Caesar)
Nirvana 13 (Eli Wallach)


yell if I missed anyone you killed

Ann B Davis

I killed her.

I think her boyfriend, the butcher, died earlier this year, didn't he?

1. Eli Wallach - Left the building at age 98
2. Zsa Zsa Gabor
3. Sam Simon
4. Clive James
5. Billy Graham
6. Valerie Harper
7. Joost van der Westhulzen
8.GHW Bush
9. Fidel Castro
10. Abe Vigoda

amended scores on the doors

Sundae 52 (Tony Benn and Casey Kasem)
Limey 39 ( Mickey and Dicky)
Infinite Monkey 23 (Ann B Davis)
Orthodoc 20 (Sid Caesar)
Nirvana 13 (Eli Wallach)
Foot3 13 (Eli Wallach)


yell if I missed anyone you killed

Tight race this year! Anything could happen! Woooohooo...oh, I mean, um...sorry. :bolt:

Gravdigr;908536 wrote:

I think her boyfriend, the butcher, died earlier this year, didn't he?

My sources say no. Allan Melvin, the lovely Sam the Butcher, died in 2008 at the age of 84.

George Glass, however, lives on.

Yep, that's who I was thinking of. I don't know why I thought he died more recently...

Gravdigr;908413 wrote:

Anybody have Joan Rivers?

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I tried to tell ya...

but Mr footthree failed to leave an open spot this year :(

They keep describing her as a comedian. I didn't realize she was considered a humorist, I thought she was famous for being rich and kinda mean, a proto-Paris Hilton.

Interesting ironical clip from Graham Norton show over here (albeit a couple of years ago)

monster;908963 wrote:

but Mr footthree failed to leave an open spot this year :(

You think I'd have learned!

Cyclefrance;909024 wrote:

Interesting ironical clip from Graham Norton show over here (albeit a couple of years ago)

Damn, that was funny. Joan had Jeremy Clarkson and James May (as well as myself) from 'Top Gear' in stitches at times.

If you'd given your husband a blowjob instead of sex, maybe we could share the sidewalk.

:lol2:

Sundae's Running away with it: Ian Paisley dead at 88. Another 23 points!


Sundae 75 (Tony Benn, Casey Kasem and Ian Paisley)
Limey 39 ( Mickey and Dicky)
Infinite Monkey 23 (Ann B Davis)
Orthodoc 20 (Sid Caesar)
Nirvana 13 (Eli Wallach)
Foot3 13 (Eli Wallach)


as always.... yell if I missed anyone you killed

Did he invent that pattern?

No, but then who did?

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

Huge in both politics and religion in Northern Ireland throughout all The Troubles, First Minister of Northern Ireland...

Undertoad;909684 wrote:

Did he invent that pattern?

No, but then who did?

Well, it goes back a damn sight further than the sixties, I can tell ya that much...

Resembling a twisted teardrop, the kidney-shaped paisley is of Iranian and Indian origin, but its western name derives from the town of Paisley, in West Scotland, a centre for textiles where paisley designs were produced.

from Wikipedia: Paisley

xoxoxoBruce;910125 wrote:

Howard Fishlove, RIP

[YOUTUBE]5CaMUfxVJVQ[/YOUTUBE]

who?

no-one had him on their list anyway

prolly should be in the so long famous person thread

hey footsie ...you got room for Rob Ford on your list? ;)

in retrospect Eric the Midget would have been an excellent choice for the pool

but a midget might not be able to touch the bottom of the pool and might have drownded and we're not allowed to off them ourselves!

....are we?

monster;910171 wrote:

hey footsie ...you got room for Rob Ford on your list? ;)

Well, now that Eli Wallach is used up, yes I suppose I do.
:D

Eli Wallach sounds like something a Yorkshireman would utter

monster;889974 wrote:

1) Zsa-Zsa Gabor
2) Stuart Hall
3) Justin Bieber
4) Prince Phillip
5) Liz Dawn
6) George Bush Snr
7) Rick Snyder
8) Kirk Douglas
9) Mohammed Ali
10) Fidel Castro


3 vacancies to fill this year

he's cutting it a bit fine...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30595206

monster;917493 wrote:

he's cutting it a bit fine...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30595206

I'm hoping he lives long enough to see Jr. indicted and Jeb lose in 2016.

I would count that a kindness.

Especially if the 2 things come true. :-)

Anybody have Luise Rainer?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/30/luise-rainer-dead-dies_n_6395370.html?utm_hp_ref=celebrity&ir=Celebrity

monster;909683 wrote:

Sundae's Running away with it: Ian Paisley dead at 88. Another 23 points!


Sundae 75 (Tony Benn, Casey Kasem and Ian Paisley)
Limey 39 ( Mickey and Dicky)
Infinite Monkey 23 (Ann B Davis)
Orthodoc 20 (Sid Caesar)
Nirvana 13 (Eli Wallach)
Foot3 13 (Eli Wallach)


as always.... yell if I missed anyone you killed

Not sure if anyone on anyone's list popped their clogs after August, but I think they'd be hard pushed to catch Sundae anyway ....I think she won 2014