The Celebrity Death Pool 2004

The Game Room
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gobear, no insinuation intended, it looks like an honest mistake to me. Your post is quoted in it’s entirety below, I’ve only added bolding to highlight where the confusion came in. What I was concerned about is people disputing your points if one of your list did die, because you had accidently chosen 15 candidates instead of 13.

Note that 6 and 5 are repeated - 6. Glenn Ford, 5. Ronald Reagan, 6. Harvey Korman, 5. Saddam Hussein.

I apologise if I came across wrong. I did not believe for a second that this was intentional.

202

On my list would you please replace Dick Clark with New Zealand author Janet Frame and Ed McMahon with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.

Thank you.

203

Please drop Greg Louganis and add Janet Frame.

Thank you.

Kathy

204

Please drop Quentin Tarantino and Tom Green and replace them with Yassir Arafat (ill health) and Pervez Musharraf (two assassination attempts already – that guy is so marked).

Also since it looks like Roy Horn is going to recover (dammit :smiley: ), please replace him with Marlon Brando (I’ve just got a feeling that this’ll be his year.)

My list should now read as follows:

  1. Ronald Reagan
  2. Pope John Paul II
  3. Fidel Castro
  4. Lady Bird Johnson
  5. Michael Jackson
  6. George W. Bush
  7. Suge Knight
  8. Dick Cheney
  9. Ted Kennedy
  10. Marlon Brando
  11. Yassir Arafat
  12. Jerry Lewis
  13. Pervez Musharraf

Hmmm. That eliminates most of my long-shots, altho Suge Knight, Dubya, and Jacko are still kinda out there.

205

Ah, I see. My apologies, Cazzle.

206

OK, Final list, 13 names

1. Al Lewis (Grandpa Munster)
2. Luise Rainier (1937 Academy Award winner)
**3.**Scott Weiland (junkie)
**4.**Pope JP II (kinda obligatory at this point)
5. Tony Randall (old)
6. Shirley Temple (old)
7. Glenn Ford (old)
8. Ronald Reagan (old and terminally ill)
9. Mickey Rooney (old)
10. John Goodman (obese and middle-aged)
11. Olivia d’Havilland (Good God, she was Melanie in “Gone With the Wind”!)
12. Larry Kramer (HIV+ writer and activist)
13. Rosa Parks (really old)

Barring any unexpected deaths between now and Wednesday, this is my absolutely final, cross my heart, list.

207

I hope I’m getting these in under the wire.

  1. Bill Cosby
  2. Sean Penn
  3. Ronald Reagan
  4. Pope John Paul
  5. Horatio Sanz
  6. Courtney Love
  7. Michael J. Fox
  8. Vince Neil
  9. Anthony Hopkins
  10. Colin Powell
  11. Goldie Hawn
  12. Jack Wagner
  13. Julius Erving (Dr. J)
208

Here are my picks for 2004:

  1. Ruben Studdard (American Idol)
  2. Stan Lee (comic book creator)
  3. Irina Slutskaya (Russian figure skater)
  4. Pope John Paul II
  5. Sandra Dee
  6. John Goodman
  7. Dick Button (commentator/former figure skater)
  8. Carol Channing
  9. Randy “Macho Man” Savage
  10. Ian McKellen
  11. Dick Clark
  12. Mel Brooks
  13. Shirley Temple
209

Well, no one on my list last year died, I’m not very good at this.

  1. Richard Pryor
  2. Ronald Regan
  3. Saddam Hussein
  4. Michael Jackson (he was on my list last year, too)
  5. Ozzy Osbourne
  6. Muhammed Ali
  7. Andy Rooney
  8. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  9. B. B. King
  10. Bob Denver
  11. David Crosby
  12. Dan Ackroyd
  13. Dick van Dyke
210

I’d like to select Kirk Douglas as an alternate pick.

Just in case one of my main picks croaks before Thursday.

211

Here are my picks for the 2004 Deathpool

Pervez Musharraf
Patti Labelle
Peter Jackson
Dick Clark
Lilli Thomlin
George Clooney
Ariel Sharon
Eddie Murphy
Barbra Striesand
Jane Fonda
David Letterman
Liza Minelli
Jimmy Carter

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  1. Stevie Wonder
  2. Dick Cheney
  3. Jan Michael Vincent
  4. Lauren Bacall
  5. Dorothy deBorba (Echo from the Little Rascals)
  6. Wilford Brimley
  7. Peter Boyle
  8. Walter Cronkite
  9. Nick Nolte
  10. William Green (Cleveland Browns RB)
  11. Mickey Rooney
  12. Casey Kasem
  13. Trent Reznor
213

My picks:

  1. James Garner
  2. Gary Rossington from Lynyrd Skynyrd
  3. Andy Griffith
  4. Barbara Billingsley
  5. Rip Taylor
  6. Loretta Lynn
  7. James Brown
  8. Carol Burnett
  9. Jerry Lewis
  10. Mary Tyler Moore
  11. Dick Van Dyke
  12. Jesse Jackson
  13. Barbara Bush (wife of George the Elder)
214

Bob Monkhouse has died. BIH Boy has him as a pick.

215

I guess I’m predicting a sort of blood-letting in the Middle east this year.

  1. Osama Bin Laden
  2. Ayman al Zawahiri (al Quaida)
  3. Izzat al Duri (Iraqi)
  4. Mullah Omar
  5. Ahmed Yassin (Hamas)
  6. Ron Santo
  7. Janet Frame
  8. Abigail Van Buren
  9. Jerry Lewis
  10. Claude Ryan (Canadian politician)
  11. Marlon Brando
  12. Richard Pryor
  13. Pope John Paul II

Alternates.

  1. Ronald Reagan
  2. Ayatollah Montezeri
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  1. John Paul II (will soon find out if he made the right career choice)
  2. Ronald Wilson Reagan (Bonzo Goes to Forest Lawn)
  3. Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.
  4. Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (token Royal with the best [worst] odds)
  5. John Kenneth Galbraith (even though the points suck)
  6. Gordon Lightfoot (a favorite last year; virtually overlooked this year; the Grim Reaper notices these things)
  7. Studs Terkel
  8. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
  9. Lou Rawls
  10. Ed McMahon
  11. Bill O’Reilly (a cerebrovascular accident waiting to happen; in the interest of being fair and balanced I also pick:)
  12. Molly Ivins (how come few women make these lists?)
    And just for the fun of it:
  13. Norm Abrams (power tool accident, of course)

spare tire: Jerry Lewis

Of course, with my luck Ford and Reagan will pull a Jefferson/Adams late tomorrow night and leave me one brick shy of a full load. . .

217

My only problem with the Dead Pool is picking just 13.

It is so hard to decide.

Last year, I decided to leave off Penny Singleton of Blondie fame because, frankly, she was becoming the Queen Mum in my mind.

And what does she do…up and dies on me.
Bah.

If I knew anything about doing lists like Cazzle has done, I’d offer to run it for 2005 and have more options and features ( porn, chicken and pie)

Oh well.

218

Grr, it looks like my last attempt to post got eaten, please disregard this one if the other one shows up somehow)

  1. Ronald Reagan (Obvious)
  2. Momar Ghaddafi (Head of Libya, but not right in the head)
  3. Yasser Arafat (Marked by so many)
  4. John Inman (Mr. Humphries of “Are you Being Served”)
  5. James Doohan (“Scotty” in Star Trek)
  6. Nelson Mandela (Phillip K. Dick saw this in a vision, you know)
  7. Jeff Hardy (Ex WWE performer, possibly high on more than just life)
  8. Scott Steiner (WWE Wrestler, got to be on the Juice)
  9. Eli Wallace (the Good the Bad and the Ugly, Master Ninja 1 & 2, I thought he was dead, found out he lived, that means he’s doomed)
  10. Tom Baker (4th Doctor Who, goner if the pattern holds (weeps for Tom))
  11. Morgan Freeman (Wildcard)
  12. Clint Eastwood (Chuck Bronson is lonely up there in Action Hero Heaven)
  13. Roger Moore (Ex 007 - SMERSH will finally get revenge)

I of course am counting on my infallible powers of fallibility to keep all these people alive and well for another year.

219

Well, I haven’t done so well with my '03 picks (although I’m still holding out hope my celebrities will pull a last minute rally :)) so I’m dumping most of them for '04:

  1. Pope John Paul 2
  2. Ronald Reagan
  3. Nancy Reagan
  4. Gary Busey
  5. George Steinbrenner
  6. Pete Seeger
  7. Aaron Spelling
  8. Jack Paar
  9. Arthur C. Clarke
  10. Osama Bin Laden
  11. Rodney Dangerfield
  12. Fidel Castro
  13. Charleton Heston
    Eric
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  1. Ronald Reagan
  2. Gerald Ford and
  3. George H. W. Bush bad year for Republican former presidents
  4. Quincy Jones
  5. Johnny Carson
  6. Fay Wray-starred in King Kong back ’33 surprised she is still living
  7. Lady Bird Johnson
  8. Kirk Douglas
  9. Saddam Hussein
  10. Glenn Ford
  11. Rosa Parks
  12. Carrie Fisher
  13. Ron Santo- my favorite ballplayer growing up