- Elizabeth Taylor
- Adam West
- Jean Stapleton
- Keith Richards
- Dick Van Dyke
- Ronald Reagan
- Patrick Macnee
- Christopher Lee
- Jackie Chan
- Nanette Fabray
- Sid Ceasar
- Carl Reiner
- Rose Marie
- Ann Morgan Guilbert
- Ike Turner
- Aretha Franklin
- Dionne Warwick
- Burt Ward
- Al Lewis
- Yvonne DeCarlo
Too bad nobody picked the Nepalese royal family.
Talk about lost opportunities.
Eric Clapton ( cos he’s ace and this way if he dies i still win in the tiniest way )( i hope he counts, he better count, if that Lopez girl can!)
Calista Flockart
Spike Milligan
Mcauly Caulkin
Courtney Love
Bill gates ( if he dont count then Michael Jackson )
Janet Jackson ( i think Mikey and Janet are one in the same )
Bill Clinton
Samuel L Jackson
Jet Li
Steven Spielberg
Tony Hawks
Muhammad Ali
Not only would the 151 point lead I’d have gotten for picking Aaliyah and Korey Stringer have put me in a lock to win, but I’d also have been able to charge everyone a dollar not to get put on my list for next year.
Anyway, as we enter the final third:
Drain Bead (32) - Morton Downey Jr.
Lamar Mundane (28) - Al McGuire
Mullinator (28) - Al McGuire
bibliophage (24) - Carroll O’Connor
slackergirl (24) - Jack Lemmon
Wicked Blue (24) - Carroll O’Connor
jr8 (21) - Harry Secombe
smug (19) - Hank Ketcham
JavaMaven1 (17) - John Lee Hooker
Padeye (17) - John Lee Hooker
picmr (17) - John Lee Hooker
Shirley Ujest (14) - Imogene Coco, Anne Morrow Lindberg
Rachelle (12) - Perry Como
Stephe96 (12) - Perry Como
Zyada (12) - Perry Como
tevya (8) - Eudora Welty
Montfort (6) - Anne Morrow Lindberg
If I’ve missed anyone or made any errors, let me know.
I picked the wrong race-car driver, and the wrong black bluesman.
But this is the only competition that I can feel good in some small way for sucking at. Those on my list really appreciate it, I’m sure.
I have two race car drivers on my list, neither of whom has obliged me yet.
You know, when I heard on the radio that she died, I immediately thought of this thread. My first reaction was “Wow! I actually picked a winner.” This thought lasted about .0002 seconds. I then felt really guilty.
Nothing new since the last post. But bibilophage is only a cruise missile away from taking the lead. Iampunha, Ivar, and last year’s runner-up Odieman were the others who picked Osama bin Laden.
George Harrison has taken that long and winding road, and we’re all that much closer to a Beatles reunion…
There’s a disturbance in the Force. This is the first year in a very long time when no-one from SNL has shuffled of this mortal coil.
I have to admit, this is the worst death pool I’ve ever been apart of-- not one of my guys has keeled.
Outside of this board, I’ve lost, or will lose, about sixty bucks in this thing. I haven’t done this bad in ages.
So I want revenge. I want a redeeming round.
When is the new round going to start?
JEZZZ, jr!! The guy isn’t even cold yet!!! 
- June 21, 2001. Score one forJavamaven1!
George Harrison has died. It’s all my fault; if only I had picked him, he’d still be alive.
But I was surprised upon checking my master list to see that I was not alone. No one had picked Mr Harrison this year.
So as we wind towards the end (and I get ready to start next year’s pool) the stats hold steady:
Drain Bead (32) - Morton Downey Jr.
Lamar Mundane (28) - Al McGuire
Mullinator (28) - Al McGuire
bibliophage (24) - Carroll O’Connor
slackergirl (24) - Jack Lemmon
Wicked Blue (24) - Carroll O’Connor
jr8 (21) - Harry Secombe
smug (19) - Hank Ketcham
JavaMaven1 (17) - John Lee Hooker
Padeye (17) - John Lee Hooker
picmr (17) - John Lee Hooker
Shirley Ujest (14) - Imogene Coco, Anne Morrow Lindberg
Rachelle (12) - Perry Como
Stephe96 (12) - Perry Como
Zyada (12) - Perry Como
tevya (8) - Eudora Welty
Montfort (6) - Anne Morrow Lindberg
The year is almost over!!! Oh my FUCKING god, I feel like we started this last week . . . mortality looms . . .
I think there should be some kind of award for those who pick the most dead people - like me - but only rack up a few points.
I think I did the same last year, too. But am too lazy to check.
And 2001 still ain’t over. We could lose Bob Hope any day now. (I’m predicting around the 28th of December for him…)
Sorry Shirley - even if Bob goes, he’s worth nothing. His family admitted recently that he put his age back two years when entering showbiz - meaning Mr Hope is 100 years old.
Leonard Nimoy
The Pope (do I need to specify which pope?) John Paul II
Ike Turner
Queen Elizabeth Whichever
Osama bin Laden (I don’t think he’s under a death sentence, per se)
Dave Thomas (The burger guy)
Dick Cheney
Strom Thurmond
Jessie Helms (I’m on a roll!)
Paul Soglin (ex-mayor of Madison, WI, 5-heart attack veteran)
Jerry Stiller
The artist formerly known as Puff Daddy
Mullah Omar
Oops, if the queen is over 100, I want to bump her for Magic Johnson on my is, if the judges will kindly allow?
Have I spoken before of my admiration for those willing to put up with people like me?
Sorry, sorry…I just wanted to be the first to make the inevitable comment.
It was recently pointed out to me that we have much to thank the late Mr. Harrison for: apart from all that music, he gets credit for saving (financially) “Monty Python’s Life of Brian”. That alone makes him a great man in my book…