The Celebrity Death Pool 2004

The Game Room
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Another question. What is the definition of “Celebrity”? It obviously doesn’t have to be someone well liked, what with Kim Jong Il, Saddam Hussein, and so on.
You see, there’s a guy living in my home town, who’s been on national news more than once, featured on the show 20/20, and a guest on several talkshows. I’ve heard rumors he is ill(kind of hope they are true), and he’s getting up there in years.

Nobody else has picked him though, and if he dies it would be a quick 23 or 24 points for me.

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My definition would be someone generally well known - the list is full of people I’ve never heard of (sportspeople) but lots of other people do know who they are and their profiles are significantly high enough that news sources would carry their obituaries if they were to die.

WordNetdefines celebrity as “a widely known person”. I guess you need to decide if the man you’re talking about fits that bill.

FTR, I don’t believe I’ve ever seen anyone challenge another person’s selection over whether or not they qualify as a celebrity.

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To some people, I might be giving it away, but when he showed up in San Francisco several years ago, on the other side of a street from a church, he was on ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN.

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Are his initials F.P?

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Yup! :smiley:

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And your point is? :smiley:

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As of November 4 (sorry for the delay), the scoreboard reads as follows:

STILL with a comfortable lead at 95 points is Captain Lance Murdoch.

Tied for second with 75 points each are
Diogenes the Cynic and
Mikie.

In third place with 73 points is SpazCat.

Spiff has 65 points.

notfrommensa has 58 points.

Sternvogel has 55 points.

cadolphin
earthpuppy and
Mudshark are tied with 54 points each.

Rico has 50 points.

Stephe96 has 49 points.

Angel Heart and
zoog are tied with 48 points each.

Munch has 47 points.

Ebola Gay has 44 points.

Caricci and
Mullinator are tied with 41 points each.

Santos L Halper has 40 points.

smam has 38 points.

BiblioCat has 34 points.

Shirley Ujest has 33 points.

eman77 has 31 points.

Uvula Donor has 30 points.

Diceman
Etherman
Harlow
JerH
Krebnar the Magnificent
Mona Lott and
SandyHook are tied with 27 points each.

Lathe of Heaven
Max Torque and
tolyri are tied with 25 points each.

DeVena
gobear and
skammer are tied with 23 points each.

NoGoodNamesLeft has 22 points.

amarone
Cicada2003 and
lel are tied with 19 points each.

Desert Geezer
drm
Mac Guffin
Saitou and
twickster are tied with 18 points each.

mishaa
Nurse Carmen and
Wicked Blue are tied with 16 points each.

Single Serving Friend has 13 points.

Mr. Babbington has 12 points.

5 time champ has 11 points.

Ataraxy and
JavaMaven1 are tied with 9 points each.

And finally:
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Annie-Xmas
ataraxy22
BIH Boy
BJMoose
Brad Pittiful
cbawlmer
CowPatty
Dr_Xadium
Earthman
Evil One
Flymaster
Frumious Bandersnatch
The Great Zamboni
Gyrate
Hal Briston
Horseflesh
Hugh Jass
Idle Thoughts
Infectious Lass
Irreverent Tone
Kat
katie1341
kka
Little Nemo
Lok
Lsura
Mad Matt
Mehitabel
Miabella
Ms Macphisto
Omniscient
plnnr
Royal Nonesuch
Squonk
Stinkum
Sublight
sunfish
swannguy
thumbupmybum
vivalostwages
WIGGUM
williamweigand
wolf_meister
zamboniracer are tied with 7 points each.

For those who’ve been asking: I’ll open up the 2005 game on December 1st and accept submissions through (midnight, Chicago time) December 31st.

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Whats the record for points scored in this thing?

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Well…I’m not sure.

Cisco won last year’s game with 115 points. Before that, the game was run by Little Nemo. The 2002 game fouled because the players’ submissions were lost in a board crash. I can’t find any post with the final scores for the 2001 game, and someone called smug won the 2000 game with 66 points.

So I guess your answer is 115 points. As far as we know.

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Howard Keel, star of such film musicals as Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Annie Get Your Gun, has died at the age of 85.

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But nobody picked him.

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Yassir Arafat, finally?

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CNN is reporting that the Palestinians are denying his death. Again.

Unless he is dead and they’re just waiting for him to be buried before they make the announcement.

Robin

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BBC News is reporting that he has only “hours to live”, so either Yahoo has the scoop or is a little premature.

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The Yahoo story is a mirror of Reuter’s, and it appears on The Drudge Report as

Arafat Dead
Not Dead

Each one being a story. The “Arafat Dead” is on top, and newer.

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So who picked Yasser “That’s My Baby” Arafat?

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Dead or alive, let’s agree to spell his name right.

Yasser Arafat.

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Diceman
Dr_Xadium
drm
Earthman
Flymaster
fruitbat
gonzoron
Little Nemo
Mehitabel
Menocchio
Nurse Carmen
Shirley Ujest
Single Serving Friend
vunderbob

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When he is offically dead, not mostly dead, I will celebrate the pointage.

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Or they haven’t gotten around to putting a stake through his heart yet.