Yup, once again it’s time for the sickest thread on the board.
The rules:
1 - You pick thirteen famous people who you think will die in the upcoming year.
2 - Each pick you make who dies in the year 2002 gives you 100 points minus their age at death. If you pick someone who dies over the age of a hundred, you score zero points for them. If, by chance, one of your picks dies before January 1, you can replace him or her with a new pick but you won’t score any points.
3 - All picks must be posted by the start of the new year. Or at least in the immediate vicinity thereof.
4 - Celebrity status will be determined loosely. In case of
disagreement, a majority vote of the posters will be binding.
5 - Persons currently under sentence of capitol punishment will only be valid for scoring points if they die by means other than official execution.
6 - Any poster who kills or otherwise contributes to the death of any celebrity mentioned in this thread will be disqualified.
7 - You can’t pick fictional people. You can’t pick animals. You can’t pick multiple choices. You can’t pick people who are already dead. You can’t pick anyone under the age of 16. You can’t pick anyone who has posted on this board.
8 - Anyone I pick will not die. I swear. In fact, I’m not going to pick Osama bin Laden just becuase I hate the SOB and I don’t want to be responsible for his escape from justice.
Mohammad Ali
Marlon Brando
Walter Cronkite
Kirk Douglas
Betty Ford
Gerald Ford
Billy Graham
Katherine Hepburn
Pope John Paul II
Dudley Moore
Richard Pryor
Ronald Reagan
Paul Tsongas
hey there, I don’t know about the death pool that you play, but one of the rules of the death pool that I play (kinda sick that there is more than one) is that you can’t pick the Queen Mother or The Pope.
Mostly out of repspect, but partially because both of them seem to have an unnatural ability to stay alive.
And I WAS going to put George Harrison on my list, doh!
Little Nemo- Paul Tsongas is dead. He died back in '97.
This is going to be a good year. All kinds of people are ready to go. So many, in fact, that limiting the list to thirteen is a bitch.
OK, here we go…
Annette Funicello
Anthony Hopkins
Robert Stack
Bob Barker
Richard Pryor
Eddie Albert
Whitney Houston
Rodney Dangerfield
Dudley Moore
Darryl Strawberry
Dimitrious Underwood
Paul Prudhome
Johnny Cash
We seemed to give up on this last year, how did that work?
Wouldn’t #5 disqualify Osama? Or is a stray missile not an “official execution”?
And #5 doesn’t disqualify Osama, would #6 disqualify our military dopers?
Past their due-date . . .
4. Harry Morgan
5. Julia Child
6. James Doohan
7. Johnny Carson
Ill humours . . .
8. Dudley Moore
9. Michael J. Fox
Rode hard and put away . . .
10. Keith Richards
11. Johnny Cash
Drugged off . . .
12. Robert Downey Jr.
13. Whitney Houston
Just 13, eh? I would fit Mariah Carey in there as a long-shot for the “Die Like Diana” award, but I have some big-payoff possibilities already in place, like Downey and Houston. Can’t go overboard, you know, not if you play to win.
And if it is decided that ObL cannot be on this list because of rule # 5 , then I’d like to remove him and add Hume Cronyn. (Although ObL is not technically “under sentence of capitol punishment”.) I’ll default to Little Nemo’s judgement call since this is his gig.