This year I’ll just name people I want to die. If I score any points I’ll be delirious. Unfortunately I’ve taken a vow to never again utter or even type the name of the person I want dead most of all, so besides him I’ve got:
Kellyanne Conway
Rudy Giuliani
Ben Carson
Chris Christie
Betsy DeVos
Mike Pence
Rick Snyder
Jeff Sessions
Scott Pruitt
Rick Perry
Tom Price
Reince Priebus
Ted Cruz
Alternates
Michael Savage
Rush Limbaugh
Sean Hannity
Good luck!
Shania Twain
Billy Ray Cyrus
Donald Trump
Cher
Montel Williams
Clint Eastwood
Martin Sheen
Paul Gascoigne
Amitabh Bachchan
Paula Abdul
Sting the singer
Michael Jordan
Jane Fonda
Alternates
Bill Clinton
Tony Blair
Angela Merkel
Johnny Manziel
Gregg Allman
George Zimmerman
Casey Anthony
Ethan Couch
Donald Trump
Justin Bieber
Bob Barker
Dennis Rodman
Glen Campbell
Mel Brooks
Christopher Lloyd
Billy Gardell
Alternate: Gabriel Iglesias
Yes–I hope you win, BobLibDem!
Ed Asner
Charlie Sheen didn’t make it into your plain list.
If anyone is considering doing a bandwagon list this year, the following are the top fifteen picks so far. Thirteen for the list, and two more for alternates.
George H. W. Bush 16
Jimmy Carter 16
Donald Trump 15
Valerie Harper 10
Gord Downie 9
Abu Bakr al Baghdadi 8
Charlie Sheen 8
Glen Campbell 8
Mary Tyler Moore 8
Betty White 7
Shannon Doherty 7
Stephen Hawking 7
Tom Brokaw 7
Tommy Chong 7
Keith Richards 6
Carrie Fisher
Why one name?
Refreshing my list after a record-setting three deaths this year:
Glen Campbell
Dana Carvey
Kassie DePaiva
Michael Douglas
Richard Dreyfuss
Judith Krantz
Gina Lollobrigida
Gerald McRaney
Liza Minnelli
Frankie Muniz
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
John Paul Stevens
Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson is the Beach Boy.
Alternates:
George H.W. Bush
George W. Bush
Shirley Knight
Now there’s a party game.
Another change, based on today’s news:
Drop Courtney Love, and add Carrie Fisher
Since my clever system of evaluating likely candidates has never gotten me higher than 32nd place at any time in any year I’ve ever played, I’ve decided to just be lazy and pick celebrities who are known to have had heart problems.
Toni Braxton
Dick Cheney
Bill Clinton
Carrie Fisher
Kelsey Grammer
David Letterman
Rosie O’Donnell
Regis Philbin
Burt Reynolds
Charlie Rose
Alex Trebek
Barbara Walters
Shaun White
Alternates
Billy Graham
Larry King
Stan Kroenke
You have just given Dick Cheney immortality!
:dubious:
Since I missed the deadline by about 2 minutes last year, I thought I should get my list in early this year.
“Superfly” Jimmy Snuka
Shannen Doherty
Carrie Fisher
Gord Downie
Val Kilmer
Burt Reynolds
Dwight Gooden
Lil Wayne
Bryan Murray - Ottawa Senators GM
Sinead O’Connor
Alternates
Bart Starr
Scott Putesky (Daisy Berkowitz)
(clean list)
“Superfly” Jimmy Snuka
Shannen Doherty
Carrie Fisher
Gord Downie
Val Kilmer
Burt Reynolds
Dwight Gooden
Lil Wayne
Bryan Murray
Sinead O’Connor
Alternates
Bart Starr
Scott Putesky (Daisy Berkowitz)
Whoops, I didn’t see the part where I was supposed to have a list of 13.
Please add the following to my main list:
Bart Starr
Scott Putesky (Daisy Berkowitz)
George Michael
My new alternate list:
Clive James
William “Refrigerator” Perry
Lamar Odom
Thank you!
I don’t think you’ve quite figured out the rules of this game.
Donald Trump
Tiger Woods
Justin Beiber
Paul McCartney
Bob Newhart
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ian Mckellin
Dan Rather
Mick Jagger
Robert Redford
Carol King
Cher
Harrison Ford
Olivia de Havilland-100
Kirk Douglas-100
Shannen Doherty
Abdelaziz Bouteflika-Algerian President
Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said-Sultan of Oman
Ali Khamenei- Supreme Leader of Iran
Robert Mugabe-president of Zimbabwe
Charles Manson
George Herbert Walker Bush
Queen Elizabeth of UK
Kare Willoch-former pm of Norway
Javier Perez de Cuellar-former UN secretary general age 96
Hosni Mubarak-former president of Egypt