Us. Pay us.
:dubious:
Maybe you and swampy should get a room?
Elly May Clampett’s moved to that great Beverly Hills in the sky. Donna Douglas, dead at 82. Bet somebody here picked up those 18 points.
Again?
“Ya’ll come back now, you hear.”:eek:
I thought about making a “critters” joke and then remembered we went through all that last year.
Sheesh. :smack:
I get to blame this one on my wife. I came downstairs and she asked, “was Donna Douglas on your list?” “No, who’s she?” I replied. “She played Ella May Clampett.” “Well, I don’t have her, but I’m sure somebody must.”
And of course, when I googled her name, the story came up right away, and the 2015 in the date didn’t register because…you know how it is at the beginning of the year: you’re still writing checks (if you still write checks) with the wrong year in the date, and all that.
Not sure exactly how my wife got misled, but anyway: sheesh. :smack:
Following up on Baker’s analysis of 2014-15, here’s the top vote-getters from 2008-13. In the Death Thread pools for 2007 and earlier I couldn’t find any nice “here’s a summation of the top vote-getter” posts.
2013
George H.W. Bush 85
Hugo Chavez 73
Lindsay Lohan 67
Fidel Castro 57
Bonnie Franklin 41
Muhammad Ali 32
Bashar al-Assad 30
Zsa Zsa Gabor 30
Margaret Thatcher 28
Nelson Mandela 28
Billy Graham-e 26
Roger Ebert 23
Nancy Reagan 22
4/13
2012
Robin Gibb 71
Etta James 70
Lindsay Lohan 50
Joe Paterno 46
Zsa Zsa Gabor 39
Fidel Castro 38
Dick Cheney 31
Michael Douglas 30
Penny Marshall 29
Billy Graham-e 27
Hugo Chavez 25
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi 24
Margaret Thatcher 24
Raven Alexis 24
Aretha Franklin 23
Muhammad Ali 23
Charlie Sheen 22
Gary Carter 22
Ariel Sharon 21
5/19
2011
Aretha Franklin 76
Michael Douglas 67
Zsa Zsa Gabor 50
Fidel Castro 41
Kim Jong-Il 35
Ariel Sharon 34
Lindsay Lohan 33
Margaret Thatcher 33
Dick Cheney 30
Amy Winehouse 27
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi 24
Christopher Hitchens 23
Nancy Reagan 23
Dick Clark 22
Elizabeth Taylor 21
Roger Ebert 21
Muhammad Ali 18
Ruth Bader Ginsburg 17
George H.W. Bush 15
Jimmy Carter 15
Harmon Killebrew 15
5/20
2010
Fidel Castro 57
Amy Winehouse 51
Kim Jong-Il 41
Zelda Rubinstein 36
Rush Limbaugh 31
Steve Jobs 30
Ruth Bader Ginsburg 29
Roger Ebert 26
Bryant Gumbel 25
Muhammad Ali 25
Elizabeth Taylor 25
Elizabeth Edwards 24
Stephen Hawking 24
David Hasselhoff 23
Ariel Sharon 22
Lindsay Lohan 22
Orlando Thomas 22
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi 21
Dick Clark 20
Nancy Reagan 20
2/20
2009
Patrick Swayze 96
Fidel Castro 76
Ted Kennedy 69
Amy Winehouse 67
Michael Jackson 45
Ariel Sharon 38
Nancy Reagan 35
Rev. Billy Graham 33
Farrah Fawcett 32
Elizabeth Taylor 28
Steve Jobs 26
Kim Jong-il 25
Kirk Douglas 23
Queen Elizabeth II 19
Bob Barker 19
Seve Ballesteros 19
Elizabeth Edwards 18
Roger Ebert 18
Robert Novak 18
Muhammad Ali 17
5/20
2008
Fidel Castro 85
Ariel Sharon 49
Farrah Fawcett 47
Britney Spears 41
Amy Winehouse 35
Elizabeth Taylor 34
Kirk Douglas 30
Billy Graham 28
Muhammad Ali 27
Elizabeth Edwards 21
Suzanne Pleshette 21
Dick Cheney 19
Lindsay Lohan 19
Margaret Thatcher 18
Bob Barker 17
Dick Clark 17
Eunice Kennedy Shriver 17
Stephen Hawking 17
Jack Kevorkian 16
Tony Snow 16
2/20
BTW, the title for ultimate death pool tease goes to Fidel Castro, who from 2008 to 2015 appeared on participants’ lists a total of 438 times and is still alive and kicking.
Runner up is Lindsay Lohan with 275 mentions in the same time period.
Bronze goes to Muhammad Ali with 196 listings.
42fish I looked over your rather impressive list of top vote getters and realized that Etta James in 2012 was the last time I scored any points. Thus proving the fact that I really, really, really suck at CDP.
I couldn’t pick Etta James, but you did?
Oh for shame! Points is points, but Etta James? :dubious:
That pesky “5”, it looks just like a “6”.
Please do. I didn’t find this until about 3 minutes before your deadline.
Craig Strickland found dead
They finally found his body?
Yes. It looks like he dies on the 27th when the boat capsized.
Lt Cdr David Balme of Enigma fame has died.
That was quite interesting. I joined this thread to be ghoulish, not to learn stuff.
Sian Blake, former actress, 43, has been found dead, likely murdered.
Note that she was last seen mid-December, so she may have been dead for some time. :eek:
Gilbert Kaplan, millionaire businessman and self-taught Mahler maestro is now confining himself to a much smaller repertoire.
The aliens apparently abducted Riley Martin last month and are just returning his dead body now. (In other words, no points available since he died just before XMas.)
Robert Stigwood is no longer Stayin’ Alive
I officially have my first name for my 2017 list. No I’m not telling. 