Tony Bennett, crooner
Mamie Van Doren, B-movie actress
Roberta Flack, singer
Jane Fonda, actress
Ruth Buzzi, actress
Lily Tomlin, actress
Liza Minnelli, singer and actress
Bob Vila, TV carpenter
Linda Ronstadt, singer
Bruce Willis, actor
Dale Markham, minor NFL player, in the “Farm Family” series on Rifftrax
Andy Taylor, guitarist for Duran Duran
Madison Cawthorne, trainwreck
Alternates
Charles III, king
Mitch McConnell, turtle
Vladimir Putin, evil
Clean List
Tony Bennett
Mamie Van Doren
Roberta Flack
Jane Fonda
Ruth Buzzi
Lily Tomlin
Liza Minnelli
Bob Vila
Linda Ronstadt
Bruce Willis
Dale Markham
Andy Taylor
Madison Cawthorne
Alternates
Charles III
Mitch McConnell
Vladimir Putin
December always reminds me to stop by to enter my death pool list. Except for the first two, I’m back to the politicians with ties to Arizona theme. The first two are just relatively young train wrecks.
Josh Duggar
Antonio Brown
Kari Lake
Paul Gosar
Joe Arpaio
Jan Brewer
Jon Kyl
Bruce Babbitt
Fife Symington
Dan Quayle
Russell Pearce
Ann Kirkpatrick
Harry Mitchell
Alternates:
Ron Barber
Wendy Rogers
Janet Napolitano
Ed Begley Jr.
Anita Bryant
Len Cariou
Joseph DeAngelo
Alan Greenspan
Ted Kaczynski
Ted Nugent
Yoko Ono
Pat Sajak
Laura Schlessinger
John Stossel
Bob Uecker
George Will
alternates:
Mitch McConnell
Harrison Ford
Rudy Giuliani
Alani “La La” Anthony (born 25 June 1979)
Simon Barney (born 9 May 1964?)
Shannen Doherty (born 12 April, 1971)
Steve Gleason (born 19 March 1977)
Jonnie Irwin (born 18 November 1973)
Ron Jeremy (born 12 March 1953)
Ghislaine Maxwell (born 25 December 1961)
Miranda McKeon (born 22 January 2002)
Jerry Messing (born 3 April 1986)
Linda Nolan (born 23 February 1959)
Pele (Edson Arantes do Nascimento) (born 23 October 1940)
Bershan Shaw (born 22 December 1973)
Donald Trump (born 14 June 1946)
clean list:
La La Anthony
Simon Barney
Shannen Doherty
Steve Gleason
Jonnie Irwin
Ron Jeremy
Ghislaine Maxwell
Miranda McKeon
Jerry Messing
Linda Nolan
Pele
Bershan Shaw
Donald Trump
Alternates:
Magic Johnson
Harrison Ford
Bob Newhart
Alan Arkin
Carol Burnett
Neil Diamond
Bob Dylan
Ron Jeremy
Lindsay Lohan
Liza Minelli
Bob Newhart
Jack Nicholson
Linda Ronstadt
William Shatner
Loretta Swit
Bruce Willis
Fuck it. Cut/Paste last years. Who cares anymore. Just one change.
Billy Bob Thornton
Johnny Knoxville
Vicktor Bout
Charlie Sheen
Steve-O
Travis Pastrana
Bam Margera
Andy Bell
Josh Todd
Bombshell McGee
Danny Bonaduce
Michael Schumacher
Lizzo
This is like 5 years running. Again, You People Owe Me!
Same as last year, minus the win I got. I just moved up one from my alternatives list in their place.
Quentin Blake
Ruth Buzzi
Billy Connolly
Shannen Doherty
Barry Humphries
James Earl Jones
David McCallum
Liza Minnelli
Randy Newman
William Shatner
Maggie Smith
Roger Whittaker
John Williams
Andy Taylor
Shannen Doherty
Donald Trump
Petula Clark
Diana Ross
Dionne Warwick
Tony Danza
Keith Richards
Alan Alda
Pete Rose
Bill Cosby
Ray Romano
Billy Joel
That of course is about transliteration from an entirely different alphabet where the sounds its letters represent don’t always match up nicely with the sounds represented by Roman letters, so it can be Qaddaffi or Ghadafi or who knows what. Same deal with Hanukah.
In another forum, for obvious current events reasons, we were recently discussing transliterations from Russian and Ukrainian. As a math geek, I had to mention the all-time champ from that part of that world, the 19th-century Russian mathematician and statistician Chebyshev. His Wikipedia article has a section that’s just about the many ways to transliterate his name. (I’ve gone with the simplest one here.)
I forgot to add Robert Caro and Mark Lewisohn, two authors who have long-awaited works supposedly coming out in the near future. So I’m revising my list, adding them and subtracting two others