Celebrity Death Pool 2017

This may be credible, but will wait for confirmation. There was a news report a week ago suggesting there was knowledge of his location, but, for now, the 18 players who picked Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi will have to wait

This just in, Julia “Jupe” Perez dead at 64 points, unique pick and onto the board in 2017 for yours truly.

BTW, Wiki has a great resource.



Rank	Name	Score	Picks
1	RTFirefly	187	3
2	Quartz      	176	3(1)
3	carnivorousp	161	3(1)
4	basset hound	158	4(1)
5	Registered@Last	137	3(2)
6	bowler girl	136	4
7	Andrew 21	125	4
8	jeezums        	113	3
9	Rocket Surgery!	105	3
10	motu        	86	2
11	GigoBuster	82	2
11	notfrommensa	82	2
13	Clams*	        66	1
13	Team Dirt	66	2
15	phungi	        64	1(1)
16	Biotop        	61	3(3)
17	FavreCo        	58	2
17	Jeep's Phoenix	58	2
19	42fish        	55	1
19	Captain Klutz	55	1
19	Hockey Monkey	55	1
19	Hoopy Frood	55	1
19	lel        	55	1
19	minionkat	55	1
19	Tangent        	55	1
26	Superdude	49	3
27	RobotDevilDog	47	2
28	RivkahChaya	43	2
28	Tit Whistle	43	2
30	TexCat*        	39	1(1)
31	cardboardbox	37	1(1)
31	Idle Thoughts	37	2
33	QueenAnneLace	36	2(1)
34	bowler guy	31	1
34	DeaderThanDead	31	1
34	Dung Beetle	31	1
37	Old Wench	29	2(2)
38	Dr. Girlfriend*	27	1
38	Labtrash	27	1
38	Loach        	27	1
38	Martonio	27	1
42	amarinth	23	1
42	Borborygmi	23	1
42	DigitalC	23	1
42	freckafree	23	1
42	Jack Batty	23	1
42	kopek        	23	1
42	Lancia        	23	1
42	Mahaloth*	23	1
42	Yllaria        	23	1
51	ataraxy22	21	2(1)
51	cazwhatever	21	1
51	PaulParkhead	21	1
54	Avarie537	20	1
54	Bayaker*	20	1
54	Clothahump	20	1
54	computergeek	20	1
54	Dolores Reborn	20	1
54	kayT        	20	1
54	Maus Magill	20	1
54	Mona Lott	20	1
54	panache45*	20	1
54	Paul in Qatar	20	1
54	septimus	20	1
54	Spiff        	20	1
54	swampbear	20	1
54	Two Many Cats	20	1
68	Randy Seltzer*	18	1(1)
69	GuanoLad	14	2(1)
70	InvisibleChimp*	13	1(1)
71	RollOutTheBrl	12	1
72	RandMcnally	10	1
72	rucciface	10	1
72	Taco the cat	10	1


Sam Panopoulos, Candadian restaurateur and inventor of the Hawaiian Pizza.

Vic Edelbrock Jr.,son of the founder of the company renowned for it’s automotive aftermarket parts, passes at 80.

I’ll probably miss him more for that than Batman. Don’t get me wrong, I loved Batman. But Mayor West just appealed to me more.

Me, too. He’ll always be my mayor.

Am watching the movie “Barbarella” now and looking up someone in it, found out she just died. RIP Anita Pallenberg, who had a relationship with The Rolling Stones Brian Jones and then Keith Richards with whom she had 3 children.

Saudi arms dealer and Iran-Contra figure Adnan Khashoggi died on June 6 at age 81. His name isn’t on our excellent Death Shroom’s scoresheet, so 19 unclaimed points apparently.

“Barbarella” has to be one of the campiest films ever. :stuck_out_tongue:

Some trivia. I just noticed that daddy Bush turned 7 a couple days ago. John Adams set the age record for ex-presidents, which stood for 175 years until Reagan passed him up. A few years later, Ford outlasted him by about a month. If Bush the elder, now in 3rd, has not paid out by Black Friday, he will take the longevity cup. Jimmy Carter trails him by a bit more than 3 months.

He just 7? Does he have Benjamin Button disease? Is he part canine?

Points. I believe he is on a list or two here.

Everyone is born into this game at the age of 82, and slowly ticks down towards zero.

Here is the Rolling Stone take, plus a studio video of the making of Sympathy For The Devil. Reportedly the lyrics are a take off of Jagger’s interpretation of Michael Buljakov’s The Master and Margarita.

Bat-signal will be seen in Los Angeles on Thursday night.

You too can be a big hero
once you learn to count backwards to zero…

But most people never make it to zero, which is what makes our game interesting. :slight_smile:

It is kinda weird that every President up through Nixon had a shorter lifespan than Adams did, and every President from Ford on has lived longer than Adams did, at least so far. (Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush 41 have cleared the bar, with Clinton, Bush 43, Obama, and Trump still undetermined.)

Adams took over the Presidential longevity crown from his immediate predecessor, George Washington, on August 22, 1803 (if I’ve counted the days correctly). So he was the longevity champ for a tad over 198 years.

In lesser known deaths:
A.R Gurney, playwright died at 86. He was a multiple Pulitzer finalist with almost 50 plays, musicals, and 3 novels. AP

Patricia Knatchbull died at 93. She was known as Countess Mountbatten of Burma. A longtime member of Britain’s titled elite.

NY Times

In German, und English, I know how to count down,
Und I’m learning Chinese, says Werner von Braun.

I loved that song. Not my favorite, but up there.

Several months ago, I found out by accident that Dr. Wernher von Braun is buried in the same cemetery that my father is buried in, Ivy Hill Cemetery in Alexandria, VA.

I mentioned this to two of my officemates (one is about 40, the other early 20s), and they both said, “Who’s Dr. Wernher von Braun?” I explained who he was, and mentioned that he was the subject of a song by Tom Lehrer. “Who’s Tom Lehrer?” was their response.

Ouch.

who, indeed