As a dead pool owner, waiting for the saps to die is the most frustrating part. And I try my hardest.
Zico, in the spirit of fellowship between Deathpool managers, I have submitted my original list to your site. Due to the difference in the rules, I had to add three more names (Andy Dick , Pope John Paul II, and Ronald Reagan) to the list I posted here.
A tough break for Milossarian as the deaths of Lee Petty and Lou Lazzaro use up his two race car drivers deaths per year average without scoring him any points.
Other celebrities who died this month:
Charles Elliott, nature columnist, 7 points
Penelope Fitzgerald, author, 17 points
Robert Gage, ad designer, 22 points
Edward Gorey, illustrator, 25 points
Bernhard Heiden, composer, 11 points
Arnold Johnson, actor, 22 points
Larry Linville, actor, 40 points
Alice Sheets Marriott, hotelier, 8 points
Ismael Meer, anti-apartheid activist, 18 points
David Merrick, theatre producer, 12 points
Raul Rettig, human rights activist, 10 points
Vincent Romeo, businessman, 57 points
Marvin Stone, editor, 24 points
Bill Woods, musician, 25 points
With no “hits”, the standings remain unchanged:
smug - 66 points
Odieman - 48 points
Jjoe - 23 points
StrTrker777 - 23 points
Once again, I post the standings and within twenty four hours, I have to update it because some celebrity had to go and die.
John Cardinal O’Connor, dead at 80, RIP
smug - 66 points
Odieman - 48 points
Jjoe - 23 points
StrTrker777 - 23 points
manhattan - 20 points
Okay. Just checking here. I’m not doing so well yet. Still waiting for Charlie Manson to go…
Lemme try again:
Bryant Gumbel
Ike Turner
Robert Redford
Victoria Principal
Frank Gifford
Martha Stewart is stillalive? People! Start stabbing pins into your voodoo dolls a little more vigorously!
PS - Spoke to the Queen Mum the other day. She’s feeling great and going extreme kayaking with Bob Hope this weekend 
In other news Stone Temple Pilots have announced a big tour this summer. You know what that means. Plenty of opportunities for Scott Weiland to , uhh pad my score. Tacky I know.
Keith
Wait a minute . . . I can’t be the first to point out that way back there, one of manhattan’s choices was Mayor Giulani? What did manhattan know about Rudy’s colon that we didn’t know?
Joke all you want now. We’ll see who’s laughing on August 4th.
Oops, Rudy’s prostate, not colon. My husband set me straight. I am, like, SO not thinking! BTW, how does Steve Reeves’s passing affect the scoring?
Just dicovered this thread - how did I miss it before?
Now that I’m intrigued, I thought I’d bump it up out of obscurity.
John Gielgud, RIP. 4 points.
Shirley Ujest and smug post kind words and their celebrities are dying. Need I belabor the obvious?
smug - 66 points
Odieman - 48 points
Jjoe - 23 points
StrTrker777 - 23 points
manhattan - 20 points
Shirley Ujest - 4 points
I, of course, have still not scored a single point. But I have noticed a pattern. Check out the following who died this month:
Gino Bartali, bicyclist, 15 points
Steve Belko, basketball coach, 16 points
Harry Newman, football player, 10 points
Adam Petty, racer, 81 points
Hamp Pool, football player and coach, 15 points
Maurice Richard, hockey player, 22 points
Malik Sealy, basketball player, 70 points
Barbara Silverman, equestrienne, 58 points
Erik Turner, football player, 69 points
All athletes! And all this time I’ve been picking rock stars and models! Now I know what you’re thinking. There’s hundreds of professional athletes out there, Nemo, how are you going to pick ten who are going to make the big score.
That’s when I noticed this other death:
Vincentas Cardinal Sladkevicius, 21 points
Along with Ignatius Kung and John O’Connor, this makes three Cardinals who’ve died since January.
So by combining these two facts, I’ve made my plan. Next year, all my picks will be members of the Arizona or St. Louis Cardinals. Anyone who has any statistics on positions with historically low life expectancies, drop me an email.
Walter Matthau’s passing puts me on the board with 21 points.
Did anyone else pick him?
what a morbid thread …
I love it
Okay, sorry for skipping a couple of updates. I was on hiatus.
Since I last posted, there’s been the following:
The Queen Mother has passed her hundredth birthday and effectively “zeroed out” for competition purposes.
Cardinal Paul Zoungrana died. This is starting to get spooky.
Walter Matthau died at 79. Sir Alec Guinness died at 86.
At the two thirds mark, our standings are:
smug - 66
Odieman - 48
Jjoe - 23
StrTrkr777 - 23
kawliga - 21
manhattan - 20
Shirley Ujest - 18
Little Nemo - 0
At this rate, I’ll be able to make the same ten picks for 2001.
You picked the wrong one! Half of 'em died, and you picked one of the wrong half. If Richard DOES die this year I’m personally gonna be devastated on behalf of Kyle… bad enough Adam died. Too close to my age and interest group for comfort.
Nobody picked Carl Rowan, Pierre Trudeau, or Paula Yates, so once again, we all got shut out by Death. What’s more, I read this week that Scott Weiland has sobered up. Well, maybe Anna Nicole Smith will blow all her recent court settlement on vodka and cocaine.
As we enter the final quarter, our standings remain unchanged:
smug - 66
Odieman - 48
Jjoe - 23
StrTrkr777 - 23
kawliga - 21
manhattan - 20
Shirley Ujest - 18
Sure everyone’s talking about Steve Allen, Julie London, and Gwen Verdon, but what about poor Gus Hall? I think he was finally on the verge of a breakthrough and could have been elected President this time. Now we’ll never know…
One other apparent casualty this month. It seems WebObits, the site I’ve been using to find out who’s died each month, is no longer there. I’m guessing it’s dead, but of course now I have no way of checking this.
Assuming this site and I are still around, I’ll be starting a thread for Celebrity Deathpool 2001 next month. Start boning up on those actuarial tables.
Meanwhile, the usual suspects:
smug - 66
Odieman - 48
Jjoe - 23
StrTrkr777 - 23
kawliga - 21
manhattan - 20
Shirley Ujest - 18
Three months without a dead celebrity. I guess those pacts with Satan work after all.
I’ve started a new thread for Celebrity Deathpool 2001.
As we wind down into the final weeks, our stats are unchanged.
smug - 66 points
Odieman - 48 points
Jjoe - 23 points
StrTrker777 - 23 points
kawliga - 21 points
manhattan - 20 points
Shirley Ujest - 18 points
Will smug hold onto his lead and emerge victorius? Will Peter Boyle’s last minute death put Odieman back on top? Will a highly suspicious looking Milton Berle - Bob Hope -
Harry Morgan - Abe Vigoda - Buddy Ebsen - Ricardo Montalban suicide pact bring Shirley Ujest up from behind? Will Kate Moss be eaten by wild badgers and give Little Nemo an unexpected victory?