The Celebrity Death Pool 2003

Woohoo, I’m finally on the board! I mean um…so sad to hear about Johnny Cash.

With the passing of both Johnny Cash (worth 29 points) and John Ritter (worth 46 points)…

Cisco moves into the lead with 115 points.

Interrobang!? moves up to #3 (behind Protesilaus) with 103 points.

PatrickM
Rico
and
SandyHook are tied with 73 points each.

And welcoming to the scoreboard:

graceland - 46 points

capybara
Casey1505
CasperQ
cazzle
Cholo
Gr8Kat
GWVet
JavaMaven1
Kat
owlstretchingtime
Shah Jehan
and
Spiff - 29 points each

Congratulations to our scorers!

graceland – what psychic flasth did you have that you picked John Ritter of all people?

I was wondering the same thing!

bursts into tears

My list is supposed to keep people alive!

Anyone with Robert Palmer or George Plimpton ?

Or Gordon Jump?

From Reuters:
Actor Gordon Jump, who portrayed a radio station manager on the comedy television series ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ and who also portrayed the lonely Maytag repairman in television commercials, died September 22, 2003 in Los Angeles. Jump, shown in this undated publicity photograph as the repairman, died at his home south of Los Angeles, succumbing to the lung disease pulmonary fibrosis, stepson Chris McKeever told Reuters. (Maytag Corp. via Reuters)

Nope, nobody picked Gordon Jump, George Plimpton, Robert Palmer, Donald O’Connor, or Elia Kazan.

As of October 1st, our scoreboard reads:

Cisco - 115 points

Protesilaus - 105 points

Interrobang!? - 103 points

rogzilla - 86 points

PatrickM
Rico
and
SandyHook - 73 points

WSLer - 71 points

brianjedi
tolyri
and
widdershins - 63 points

Evil One - 62 points

rexnervous - 61 points

h.sapiens - 58 points

Little Nemo - 49 points

a35362 - 48 points

graceland - 46 points

ArchitectChore
bibliophage
cadolphin
cheddarsnax
Dr_Paprika
Etherman
gonzoron
The Great Zamboni
hawthorne
honkytonkwillie
Jadis
Lsura
Mahaloth
Malkavia
Mr. Wrong
S Puppy
Some Guy
Stinkum
Sublight
Treviathan
Wicked Blue
and
wikkidpis - 44 points

Deep Fried
Mr._Garrison
and
S. Mussberger - 42 points

capybara
Casey1505
CasperQ
cazzle
Cholo
Gr8Kat
GWVet
Java Maven1
Kat
owlstretchingtime
Shah Jehan
and
Spiff - 29 points

Sapphyre Rose - 26 points

lieu - 23 points

Santos L Halper - 22 points

Rabid Child and
Rodd Hill - 20 points

Skammer and
Tuckerfan - 19 points

labtrash and
scout1222 - 17 points

Bibliocat - 14 points

HelloKitty and
t-keela - 13 points

Kinsey and
mobo85 - 5 points

Bryan Ekers (also QNQ for Bob Hope)
gobear
Saitou
Shirley Ujest
and
vivalostwages - 4 points

Squirebob - QNQ for Bob Hope

WSLer and Evil One are still tied for QNQ, with four dead celebrities each.

Three months to go!

Die, celebrities, die!

Do it NOW and avoid the year-end rush!

Well, they have been dropping like flies these past few weeks. Just not the right ones.

What’s QNQ stand for?

twicks, taking notes in anticipation in entering for 2004

Quality, Not Quantity.

Actually it’s Quantity, Not Quality. To discourage people from just loaded up with a bunch of minor celebrities who’ve passed their 100th birthday, the “one hundred minus age at death” rule was created. Anyone could predict some 107 year old blues musician is on borrowed time, but it takes real foresight to guess which 25 year old rock star is going to OD in any given twelve month period. But some people prefer to go for a high body count rather than focus on the points, so for them we have the QNQ prize.

The Pope is “Very ill”. looks like he might play a part in this yet.

I knew I should have picked Jack Elam
http://entertainment.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=138166

Nobody picked Jack Elam.

Nobody picked Fred Berry - TV’s “Rerun.”

Oh, I changed my nic.

Formerly rogzilla.

If everyone on my list dropped dead before the deadline, I still could not beat a 115 score by Cisco.

So, that said, rather than be depressed at all my research and carry-over’s from the years, I have decided to offer my four measley points up for sale to help be a multi-gigawatt clusterfock of a tie breaker for those stuck at 44 points.

I’m hopeless, beyond redeption in this year’s horse race.

There is still a chance to save your dignity and self esteem with cold hard greenbacks. Think of me as ** St. Shirley, Patron Saint of the Dead Pool ™**

Starting bid is at $1.00

Date of bidding to end: December 31, 2003: 11:59pm.