Celebrity Death Pool 2006!

Here's the rules. Everyone picks 10 celebrities who they think will kick the bucket, meet thier maker, push up daisies, buy the farm, and what not. If someone on your list dies, their age is subtracted from 100, and this is the number of points you get.

My picks this year are:

1. Billy Graham
2. Saddam Hussein
3. Mickey Rooney
4. Kirk Douglas
5. Muhammad Ali
6. Charleton Heston
7. Margaret Thatcher
8. Milton Friedman
9. Dick Cheney
10. BB King

Okay, I'm in. Although I've not had a single one right in previous years! Assume it's okay to duplicate people as we're not playing for money?

1. Dame Margaret Thatcher
2. Dame Vivienne Westwood
3. Sir Henry Cooper
4. Sir Patrick Moore
5. Peter O'Toole
6. Mohammed Ali
7. Sir John Mortimer
8. Stephen King
9. Christopher Biggins
10. Robert Downey Jr

1. Ed Asner
2. Larry Flynt
3. Dick Clark
4. Billy Graham
5. Kevin Bacon
6. Ian McKellen
7. Alice Cooper
8. Wilford Brimley
9. Charlton Heston
10. Danny Bonaduce

George H Bush
Gerald Ford
Fidel Castro
Jerry Lewis
Bea Arthur
Charlton Heston
Dick Cheney
Mary Kate Olsen
Gary Coleman
Scott Weiland

1) Sharon (are you calling me a cheat?) (M)
2) W (M)
3) Cheney (N)
4) Blair (S)
5) Putin (M)
6) Clinton, W (M)
7) Clinton, H (M,S)
8) Byrd (not many points but what the heck) (N)
9) Abramoff (M but looks like S)
10) Friedman T. (N)
M=murder
S=suicide
N=natural causes-choke on words, ham sandwich etc...

I do, however, protest this as a tasteless thread.

1. Michael Jackson
2. The Queen of England
3. The Queens Husband
4. Mick Jagger
5. Olivia Newton John
6. Ariel Sharon
7. 50 cent
8. Saddam Hussein
9. Paul McCartney
10. Lionel Richie

Is this a wish list? If so I'll participate.

busterb wrote:

Is this a wish list? If so I'll participate.

Just keep your hands off Mick and Paul. Now if they had said Keith Richards, I'd have asked how they could tell that he wasn't already dead.

Griff wrote:

1) Sharon (are you calling me a cheat?) (M)
2) W (M)
3) Cheney (N)
4) Blair (S)
5) Putin (M)
6) Clinton, W (M)
7) Clinton, H (M,S)
8) Byrd (not many points but what the heck) (N)
9) Abramoff (M but looks like S)
10) Friedman T. (N)
M=murder
S=suicide
N=natural causes-choke on words, ham sandwich etc...

Now THAT IS a wish list! Not that I would actually in real life be such a terrible person that I would wish for anyone to die. As a matter of fact, I pray for all of the above people, and many more, as well, that the spirit of Jesus enters their hearts and allows them to see the error of their ways and they find the path to true salvation. You, too, LJ. :juggle:

Hey, when you live with 400,000 fundie whackos right next door to you, you learn to tell little white lies in order to avoid being smote by Focus on the Family!

K, Bob Dobson aside, here's my picks for the undertaker:

The Queen (of England)
Dick Cheney (that boy don't look good - his ticker is either giving out or Laura is salting his martini's with arsenic)
Geraldo Rivera (he just annoys me)
Jimmy Carter (the good always die young)
Billy Graham (felled by a stray bolt of lightening while out on the golf course)
Homer Simpson (dies in domestic violence incident when Maggie pulls a knife on him)
The Easter Bunny (replaced by a USDA approved spring chick)
Willie Nelson (in shoot-out with Revenuers)
Michael Jackson (just because he SHOULD)
God (of a broken heart)

So, what do I win? ;)

Wow, you guys are good this year. Peter O'Toole, Fidel Castro, Bea Arthur, Queen of England, and Abe Vigoda are good calls....oops, didn't see Abe in there. Nevermind.

Hey, I'd say betting on Sharon after he's had a massive stroke is a bit of a cheat. Those wish Sharon should pick someone else to be fair.

If it's such a gimme ... only award half the points if he dies within the month of January, full points thereafter.

Radar wrote:

Hey, I'd say betting on Sharon after he's had a massive stroke is a bit of a cheat. Those wish Sharon should pick someone else to be fair.

Since his doctors are the ones trying to kill him I'll pick another...

Tom DeLay (S)

I'll make an anti-wishlist to counter the political ones. I really hope none of these people die but I bet a few will:

1.) Michael J. Fox
2.) Christopher Reeve
3.) Billy Crystal
4.) Leslie Nielsen
5.) Patrick McGoohan
6.) Patrick Stewart
7.) Ian McKellan
8.) Peter Falk
9.) Andy Griffith
10.) Clint Eastwood

And to go with my anti-wishlist, an anti-death choice: I bet Dick Clark will survive the whole year, against all odds.

Clodfobble wrote:

I'll make an anti-wishlist to counter the political ones. I really hope none of these people die but I bet a few will:
...
2.) Christopher Reeve
...
And to go with my anti-wishlist, an anti-death choice: I bet Dick Clark will survive the whole year, against all odds.

Sorry to break the bad news to you, but your anti-wish has already come true.

Griff wrote:

Since his doctors are the ones trying to kill him I'll pick another...

Tom DeLay (S)

I hope it pays off for you. ;)

Well, it seems Lou Rawls is dead. No one picked him yet....

Lou Rawls
The Queen (of England)
Geraldo Rivera (he just annoys me)
Jimmy Carter (the good always die young)
Billy Graham (felled by a stray bolt of lightening while out on the golf course)
Homer Simpson (dies in domestic violence incident when Maggie pulls a knife on him)
The Easter Bunny (replaced by a USDA approved spring chick)
Willie Nelson (in shoot-out with Revenuers)
Michael Jackson (just because he SHOULD)
God (of a broken heart)

So, what do I win? :lol:

Man I just talked about Lou Rawls the other day. I saw him on someone else's list.

Here's my bonus pick no points. God will off Pat Robertson this year.

He hasn't taken Oral Roberts yet, according to the Dead People Server, so I don't know.

I think Jimmy Swaggert should have an earlier seat on the bus, though.

There's lots of room on the bus, seat assignment could be left to the Angel of Death.

Thank you for the dead people resource!

BigV wrote:

Sorry to break the bad news to you, but your anti-wish has already come true.

Crap! I remember that now. Denial is a powerful thing, I suppose.

Late to the Party but here it is.......

Courtney Love
Red Buttons
Ernest Borgnine
Jack Klugman
Don Knotts
Fidel Castro
Harry Morgan
Phyllis Diller
Joan Fontaine
Zsa Zsa Gabor

Oooh Don Knotts, Jack Klugman, and Ernest Borgnine!! Nice. I thought Pyllis Diller and Zsa Zsa died years ago. Good picks. I was surprised to find out that Joan Fontaine was born in Tokyo, Japan.

A bit morbid are we, Radar?

Charlton Heston (rifle suicide)
Lance Armstrong (general cancer)
Liz Taylor (cirrhosis)
George Bush (it won't happen, but it's just for my pleasure)
Muhammad Ali (sorry)
Superman (kryptonite)
Hugo Chavez (president of Venezuela kill by CIA)
Pope Benoit XIII (die in his bed)
Usama Bin Laden (we'll learn in 2006 he's already dead)
Is there still another son alive in Kennedy's family ?

Radar wrote:

Oooh Don Knotts, Jack Klugman, and Ernest Borgnine!! Nice. I thought Pyllis Diller and Zsa Zsa died years ago. Good picks. I was surprised to find out that Joan Fontaine was born in Tokyo, Japan.

Thanks. I researched this on Wikipedia. I thought half those people were gone already. Most of them were born before 1920. It's amazing how many of them have faded from memory.

The youngest of the group, Courtney was in drug rehab last year, arrested for rowdiness, and is the original Hollaback Girl. She's cruisin for a brusin.

Well, none of you geniuses gets the 15 points for Shelley Winters, RIP.

Shelley Winters, the forceful, outspoken star who graduated from blond bombshell parts to dramas, winning Academy Awards as supporting actress in "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "A Patch of Blue," has died. She was 85.

• Brigette Bardot 71
• Stella Stevens 68
• Sophia Loren 71
• Gina Lollobrigida 78
• Deborah Kerr 94
• Lena Horne 88
• Kay Starr 83
• Patti Page 78
• Annette Funicello 63
• Barbara Eden 71
• Angie Dickenson 74
• Doris Day 81
• Joan Collins 72
• Julie Christie 64
• Leslie Caron 74
• Carroll Baker 74
• Ann-Margret 64
• Debra Padget 72
• Julie Andrews 70
• Ursula Andress 69
• Rita Moreno 74
• Jean Simmons 76
• Julie Newmar 72
• Kim Novak 72
• Jane Powell 76
• Debbie Reynolds 73
• Shirley Temple 77
• Jane Russell 84
• Kathryn Grayson 83
• Esther Williams 82
• Elke Sommer 65
• Gale Storm 83
• Jill St. John 65
• Liz Taylor 73
• Mamie Van Doren 74
:eek:

Looks like Rock Steady is the first to score points in this pool for Don Knotts, (great actor, RIP).

Rock Steady 19
All Others 0

That's a sad one. Sharon is still hanging on, I'm glad I moved my chips. Clodfobble has the Olsen Twin that's a big score coming.

I have an Olsen twin? :confused:

Oops that was Spexvet!

It's hard to root for a young girl to kick the bucket, but I force myself to do it every day, just so I can win this pool. :headshake

I nominate Gwennie! to be the official scorekeeper, since she apparently is taking notice of who the hell is buying the farm.

Gwennie only posted due to a strange attack of modesty on Rock Steady's part.

Rock Steady wrote:

Late to the Party but here it is.......

Courtney Love
[COLOR="Red"][SIZE="4"]Red Buttons[/SIZE][/COLOR]
Ernest Borgnine
Jack Klugman
Don Knotts
Fidel Castro
Harry Morgan
Phyllis Diller
Joan Fontaine
Zsa Zsa Gabor

Rock Steady Scores!!!!!! Again! And is the only one to have scored at all..

Thanks, Spexxvet. I love some of these people (eg Red Buttons), but one can last only so long. Looks like my research is paying off.

Red Buttons (February 5, 1919 – July 13, 2006) was the stage name of American comedian and actor Aaron Chwatt. He won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Airman Joe Kelly in Sayonara (1957), a rare dramatic role.



Rock Steady ... 19 +13 = 32
All Others ... 0

Rock Steady wrote:

...actor Aaron Chwatt...

[COLOR="Red"][SIZE="4"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]CHWATT?????[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

A comedian with a name like that, and he changed it?????? What a moron - that guy deserves to die. :cool:

Clodfobble wrote:

I have an Olsen twin? :confused:

You gotta check those diapers more closely...

I heard that Bob Hope will posthumously play in an upcoming celebrity golf tournament.

Jack Warden has passed. One of my favorite character actors of all time, the archetypical gruff coach/boss/neighbor type guy. Best known by most for his turn as the Rams' trainer in Heaven Can Wait with Warren Beatty and the delicious Julie Christie and for his turn in All the President's Men.

RIP, Jack. Thanks for all the great movie moments.

Farewell, President Ford.

6 points for me.

[edit] make that 7 points, he was 93

My list for 2007
I know it's early, but I promise not to count anyone who dies before midnight December 2006 (GMT)

Fidel Castro
Margaret Thatcher
Nicole Ritchie
Patrick Moore
Norman Wisdom
Mickey Rooney
Frank Carson
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Gaddafi
Islom Karimov

I figure I can't do much worse than last year (esp as Castro is a shoo-in)

2007: Saddam Hussein :rolleyes:

Rock Steady wrote:

Jack Klugman

I thought he'd already died a year or so ago, and even could've sworn I remember having a conversation about it, how he was Quincy and all. Oh well, must have dreamed or imagined it.

whowon?

wolf;202770 wrote:

If it's such a gimme ... only award half the points if he dies within the month of January, full points thereafter.

hmmmmm

...and yet Sharon is hanging on.....