OK, be gentle with me, its my first time
subject to change before 12/31/01
What I do is collect all the picks and alphabetize them; then post the list. Hasn’t crashed the board so far.
Ha! My picks are so safe that they should exhume Paul Tsongas to see if my post brought him back to life.
I’m going to go for more points per death, rather than the popular less points for obvious deaths.
I didn’t look up all the last names. Just typing the group name into google has already soiled my googling record enough. So, here we go:
NSYNC’s members:
If any of these people are under 16 or (hopefully) already dead, my substitutes are the members of 98 degrees, in alphabetical order by middle name, whatever that may be.
Ben
Okay, I’m in. After much wrangling:
Katharine Hepburn (b. 1907)
Fay Wray (b. 1907)
Elia Kazan (b. 1909)
Ronald Reagan (b. 1911) (actually I think Nancy’s going to follow him soon after, but she’s not on my list)
Olivia de Havilland (b. 1916)
Kirk Douglas (b. 1916)
John Paul Stevens (b. 1920)
Stanley Donen (b. 1924)
Johnny Carson (b. 1925)
Harlan Ellison (b. 1934)
Dudley Moore (b. 1935)
Richard Pryor (b. 1940)
Muhammad Ali (b. 1942)
Strom Thurmond: too obvious; not enough points
Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Jack Palance: all getting up there, but they’re tough and in good health (far as I know); I’m betting they’ll make it another year. I even considered Jack Nicholson as a wild card…nah. Marlon Brando? Mmmmaybe, but we’ll give him a pass this year. I had James Garner and Fidel Castro, but had to cut somewhere.
Dick Cheney is surrounded by Secret Service guys and gets the best possible medical care. I’m taking a chance here.
Michael J. Fox is gonna hang in there.
This is gruesome. I’m thinking how excited I’m going to be if one of mine, uh, makes it. Sheesh.
All done without spoiling my google record (whatever that is_
I’m a bit rusty here.
6. McLean
7. Carter
8. Littrel
Howie and Kevin I can’t remember.
My picks:
Chevy Chase is my alternate if ObL dies/gets killed before 1/1/2002.
Glad to see you’re enthusiastic, iampunha, but thirteen’s the limit. Maybe you could donate a few of your picks to Bosda; he came up short.
People have asked what they get for winning this contest. Some people have suggested monetary prizes. Those people are welcome to send their money to the winner if they so wish.
However, I do agree that those of us who won’t be winning the big prize need something to comfort us during our cold and lonely nights. So, in keeping with other suggestions, I’ve added some extra awards. They may not be “Best Picture” but “Best Sound Effects in a Foreign Language Animated Feature” is better than nothing. So this year, we’ll be giving out the following additonal awards:
The “Quantity not Quality” Award - for the person who picks the most dead celebrities regardless of their actual point value.
The “Inside Track with the Grim Reaper” Award - for anyone who picks a dead celebrity that no other player picked.
The “Opening Kickoff” Award - for whoever picks the first celebrity to die in 2002.
The “Final Hours” Award - for whoever picks the last celebrity to die in 2002.
And four very special awards to be chosen by an open vote on this thread. Anyone can nominate another player and everyone can vote on who will receive these awards.
The “Make a Wish” Award - for whoever’s picks most reflect the apparent hope that those celebrities die.
The “Dead or Canadian” Award - for whoever’s picks surprise the most people by the fact they’re still alive in the first place.
The “World Famous in Poland” Award - for whoever’s picks are the most obscure.
The “That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick” Award - for whoever’s picks are in the poorest taste.
My (revised) picks:
1 - 6. The entire cast of Friends. I find everyone of them too damn annoying, and hope at least one dies. This is tied in with rule #6 above. I wouldn’t mind offing them myself.
7 - 8.George Bush and George W. Bush.
9. Ronald Reagen (a given)
10. Sarah Brady–James Brady’s wife, who has lung cancer.
11. Ted Kennedy
12.Whitney Houston
13.Bobbie Brown
I’m pretty sure Mr. Belvedere has already kicked
So has anyone here ever nominated the same person several years running, and the person just would not die?
Just askin’.
To clarify: Are the awards for first and last dead celebrity of the year given to people who happened to pick the F&L celebrities to die, or to the F&L celebrities to appear on somebody’s list of nominees?
Yes, “Mr. Belvedere” (Christopher Hewett) died Aug. 3rd of this year.
Ok, a cow-orker and I came up with these…
1.Mariah Carey (Kinda surprised at how many others picked her. What’ll it be? OD, Suicide, or car wreck?)
Gary Coleman. (In a shoot out at the mall? Or his bad kidneys?)
Whitney Houston. (Too much Blow, Gonna Go!)
Nikki Taylor. (I am not even sure who this is, cow-orkers bet.)
Bob Hope. (The guy is Realll old, he’s gotta go soon, Not a big point guy, but hey.)
Robert Downey Jr. (See Whitney Houston.)
Keith Richards. (Eventualy his body will figure out that he’s dead and lie down finally.)
Robbie Knevil (With a job like his, odds are good.)
Jan Michael Vincent. (Yep he is still resperating, but for how long? most people think he’s already dead…)
Kenny Baker (r2d2) ((Real Old))
Louis Gossett Jr. (Real old and looks like he’s dead already from recent pictures…)
Bob Denver (He looks like crap lately too.)
Tina Louise (Continuing with the Gilligan theme. A recent Pic of her looked really bad too.)
Now let’s see how we do…
Oh, here is a good resource if you’re not sure if your picks are still alive…
While looking through these posts, I got the most ghastly feeling about Stephen King (and there’s a redundancy for you). I’m taking out Lisa Kudrow (the least annoying of the Friends, and that’s not saying much) and putting in Stephen King.
Mostly random guesses:
Ok. Here are my guesses, in no particular order.
As for the ‘gimme’, I do have to throw in Strom Thurmond. Being from South Carolina and all…
Sure, sure, mark my cousin for death before I get the chance to tell him we’re cousins so he can put me in the will. 
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•Liz Taylor
•Jeff Gordon (it’s my NASCAR pick)
•Drew Carey (I can’t see him changing his life too much after his surgery)
•James Garner (of Rockford Files fame…he’s getting up there)
•Ronald Reagan (He’s not doing too well, I hear)
•Tom Green (in some strange accident)
•Andy Dick (just because he’s weird)
•Jenny McCarthy (I see either a car wreck, or a suicide in her future)
•Ossie Davis (another great actor who’s getting older)
•Robin Williams
•Adam Duritz (lead singer of the group Counting Crows)
•William Shatner
•Stephen Hawking (scientist extraordinare, crippled with Lou Gehrig’s Disease)[/ul]
Nuts!
Victor Wong is already gone.