Penny passed in 2019.
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William Holly Johnson
Michael C Hall
Michael J Fox
Doc Severinsen
Mel Brooks
Max Gail
Earvin “Magic” Johnson Jr.
Tom Brokaw
Tracee Talavera
Cloris Leachman
Jimmy Carter
Yoko Ono
Carol Arthur
Alternates:
John Davidson
Kenny Rogers
Betty White
In early. I know me, and I don’t want to forget.
Death Pool - 2020
NAME Birthdate Known for
Sam Lloyd 12 November 1963 Actor
Alex Trebek 22 July 1940 Jeopardy
Kim Jong-chul 25 September 1981 Half-brother of Kim Jong-un
Grigory Rodchenkov 24 October 1958 Former head of the Russian doping labs
Ric Flair 25 February 1949 Woooo!!!!!!!!!
Jimmy Carter 1 October 1924 Ex-President
Michael Schumacher 3 January 1969 Formula-1 Driver Terrible skier
Donald J Trump 14 June 1946 >Insert snarky comment here<
Dick Cheney 30 January 1941 Darth Vader
Prince Phillip 10 June 1921 He married well
Pope Emeritus Benedict 16 April 1927 Snazzy Red Shoes
David Attenborough 8 May 1926 *Not* Boaty McBoatface
Jonathan Rhys Meyers 24 July 1977 Actor
Alt
Val Kilmer 31 December 1959 The best Batman *EVER*
Casey Anthony 19 March 1985 Found Not Guilty
Clean List:
Sam Lloyd
Alex Trebek
Kim Jong-chul
Grigory Rodchenkov
Ric Flair
Jimmy Carter
Michael Schumacher
Donald J Trump
Dick Cheney
Prince Phillip
Pope Emeritus Benedict
David Attenborough
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Alt
Val Kilmer
Casey Anthony
Thank you Baker and phungi for running the Death Pools again! All but one holdovers from last year.
Queen Elizabeth II
Donald Trump
Kirk Douglas
Jimmy Carter
Shannen Doherty
Olivia Newton-John
John Travolta
Alex Trebek
Harrison Ford
Bob Barker
Bill O’Reilly
Mick Jagger
Nichelle Nichols
Alternates:
Ringo Starr
Tom Brokaw
George Takei
My thanks to both the Deathmistress and Deathshroom as well. This is one of those things we both really look forward to each year.
Do most people hang on to the names who failed to die last year (all of them in my case), or like to shake it up? Either way, here’s this year’s zero point list.
Val Valentino
Michael Gambon
Bobby Charlton
Bill Turnbull
Alex Trebek
Randy Orton
Eddie Van Halen
Eric Idle
Sam Lloyd
Timothy West
Glenn Hoddle
Olivia Newton-John
Vince Cable
Alternates:
John Motson
Uri Geller
Maggie Smith
This year I am just listing those people that I want to die (of painless natural causes, of course. I’m neither a sadist nor an advocate of homicide). For this one occasion I shall make an exception to my refusal to spell out Dolt45’s surname.
My list of species (in the fine tradition of the Roadrunner cartoon) and individuals to be removed humanely and painlessly from the earth:
1 tangerinus anus horriblis Donald Trump
2 crookus maximus William Barr
3 corpsus exploitus Rudy Guiliani
4 assus kissus Mike Pompeo
5 homo supressus Mike Pence
6 nepotisus maximus Ivanka Trump
7 charitus scammicus Eric Trump
8 spookus bigotus Stephen Miller
9 tortoise obstructus Mitch McConnell
10 obsequious cringus Lindsey Graham
11 rattus sneakus Devin Nunes
12 egotus maximus Jared Kushner
13 victimus perpetua Melania Trump
Alternates
A nuttus nuttus Sean Hannity
B shriekus shriekus Kelly Ann Conway
C dirtyharrius envious George Zimmerman
Clean List
Donald Trump
William Barr
Rudy Guiliani
Mike Pompeo
Mike Pence
Ivanka Trump
Eric Trump
Stephen Miller
Mitch McConnell
Lindsey Graham
Devin Nunes
Jared Kushner
Melania Trump
Alternates
Sean Hannity
Kelly Ann Conway
George Zimmerman
I’ve been here for 20 years and never played. So 2020 seems a good year to jump in.
Keith Richards
Ian Anderson
Elton John
Christopher Plummer
Elliott Gould
Catherine Deneuve
Jimmy Carter
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Lee Smith
Joe Torre
Henri Richard
Michael Hayden
Donald J. Trump
Alternates: Paul Martin (Canadian PM), Errol Morris
I’m going to wait till later in the month before I post mine, but it comes down to Do I remove some of the long-standers on my regular list who would only net me a few points and replace them with some unlikely-but-not-that-unlikely wildcards. I will wrestle with that decision for a week or so before finally posting.
Hey, Baker, can you remove Chuck Norris from my list and substitute Linda Lavin instead? Thanks!
No problem.
Karl Rove
Dick Cheney
Tony Bennett
Kirk Douglas
Sumner Redstone
Bob Barker
Sean Connery
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Betty White
Judi Dench
Maggie Smith
Christopher Plummer
Rupert Murdoch
Thanks to our Illustrious Death Mistress Baker:
Tucker Carlson - commentator on Fox News
Rep. Doug Collins - Georgia Congressman
KellyAnne Conway - Presidential Advisor
Sen. Lindsey Graham - SC Senator
Sean Hannity - commentator on Fox News
Sen. James Inhofe - Oklahoma Senator
Rep. Jim Jordan - Ohio Congressman
Jared Kushner - Presidential Advisor
Sen. Mitch McConnell - Kentucky Senator
Rep. Mark Meadows - NC Congressman
Steven Mnuchin - Secretary of the Treasury
Rick Perry - Secretary of Energy
Donald Trump - U.S. President
Plain List:
Tucker Carlson
Doug Collins
KellyAnne Conway
Lindsey Graham
Sean Hannity
James Inhofe
Jim Jordan
Jared Kushner
Mitch McConnell
Mark Meadows
Steven Mnuchin
Rick Perry
Donald Trump
dick van dyke (not that i want him to )
Here we go!
Pat Sajak
Alex Trebek
Bill Cosby
Donald Trump
Willie Nelson
Betty White
Donald Sutherland
Jerry Lee Lewis
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Harvey Weinstein
David Crosby
Michael J. Fox
Elton John
Artie Lange
Jack Nicholson
Jane Fonda
Dude. Read the OP, and follow the rules.
Here are the people I will confer immortality on this year:
Buzz Aldrin
Jimmy Carter
Michael Collins
Sean Connery
Bob Dole
Mikhail Gorbachev
Angela Lansbury
Regis Philbin
Prince Philip
Pat Sajak
William Shatner
Alex Trebek
Vanna White
alternates:
Sandra Day O’Connor
Pete Wilson
[Casey Kasem voice] Making his debut on this year’s chart at number 13 is Turkish president Recep Erdogan. Dropping off this year’s countdown is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who, by virtue of dying in 2019, earned Ponch8 his first ever points in his three years of participating in the SDMB Celebrity Death Pool. Now, on with the countdown.[/Casey Kasem voice]
Lukasz Gottwald
Donald Trump
Bashar Assad
Justin Bieber
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Pat Robertson
Kim Kardashian
Hassan Nasrallah
Steve Bannon
Wayne LaPierre
Louis Farrakhan
Roger Waters
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Alternates:
James Taylor
Bob Seger
Little Richard
Hopefully all 13 people on my main list bite the dust in 2020 (or sooner!)
Dick Butkus
Elvis Costello
R. Kelly
Alex Trebek
Alan Alda
50 Cent
Louie Anderson
DMX
Billy Connolly
Lil Wayne
Tommy Chong
Snoop Dogg
Kim Jong Un
Alternates:
Gary Busey
Nelly
Ned Beatty