2024 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool

Dammit out of the top ten.

Oh yeah? Right before I got my first points I was at approximately 60th place, and now that I have some points I am in 78th place. If I “win” any more I’ll be demoted to last year’s list!

Look at it this way. We have thirteen picks, so shouldn’t it be 1-13 that’s important?

Jimmy Carter is no officially pointless.

Except on the West Coast.

He was pointless as of midnight Central Daylight Time.

Now all he wants to do is live another two weeks, so he can do his advance ballot in Georgia. Then he can really rest. I have mentioned before my grandmother was almost 108 in 2012 when she last voted for US president. It was done on an advance ballot, and she didn’t live to the November election to see the results.

Larry Todd, creator of Dr. Atomic and other classic underground comix, is no more. One of his best stories was an adaptation of Lovecraft’s “Shadow out of Time,” renamed “Shadow from the Abyss.”

And luckily, Georgia is one of the states that will count an early ballot, even if the voter dies before election day.

He’s picked his last pick. This one shocked me a bit.

mmm

I guess I only had to complain. That should put me into 7th place and a unique pick.

Well, hell. If that’s all it takes…my list is still disgusting (and disgustingly healthy!)

Complaining about your picks being alive is allowed.

Doing anything about your picks being alive is a felony.

I didn’t give him a stroke, I swear!

One of my minor brushes with fame, I ate in the same room as him. He was visiting a base I was stationed at and was eating with the base commander. I was a few tables away.

Just idly wondering why the family chose to wait six weeks to announce the death of John Amos. He passed on August 21.

Yeah. Wiki just switched his entry from “John Amos is…” to “John Amos was…”.

Damn, damn, damn.

IYKYK.

Ken Page died Sept. 30th at the age of 70.

He was the original Old Deuteronomy in Cats, the Lion in The Wiz and the voice of Oogie Boogie in The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Not to be confused with his son Ozzie Virgil Jr., who played with the Braves and other teams in the 1980s. I used to watch the son on WGN when they played the Cubs, but never knew that his father was also a major leaguer.

Robert Watts, producer of the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies, has died, aged 86.