The Celebrity Death Pool 2004

The “Gift of Life” Award?

Susan Sontag, dead at 71

Nobody picked Susan Sontag.

What is UP with 2004?

Jerry Orbach.

No link yet.

Effing link

Or Hank Garland. There seems to be an unusual number of people seeking to disqualify themselves from the 2005 pool.

Nobody picked Jerry Orbach (for 2004) or Hank Garland.

Damn premature expirator. He couldn’t just hang on for three days? Is that too much to ask?

Are the final scores ready? What’s the point though, really? We all know Captain Lance Murdoch ran away with it. :wally

So how much money did I win?

Only enough to cover posting expenses, minus a35362’s listing commission, and a usage fee. This leaves you with $0.02. Use it well!

[sub]I’m cruel[/sub]

Some mighty fine work Captain Lance Murdoch. The rumor is the folks on your 2005 are mighty nervous right about now.

Ladies and gentlemen, your attention, please! Having finally reached my 1,000th post, I hereby announce the winners of the 2004 Celebrity Death Pool!

The winner of the game is

Captain Lance Murdoch, with 95 points!

balloons and confetti

He took the lead February 13th and never looked back. Congratulations, Captain Lance!

The winners of the Opening Kickoff Award (with the death of Tug McGraw) are

Angel Heart
Caricci
mullinator
and
zoog

The winners of the Final Hours Award (with the death of Yasser Arafat) are

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

The winners of the Inside Track with the Grim Reaper Award (for unique picks) are

Captain Lance Murdoch for both Claude Ryan and Ahmed Yassin
Ebola Gay for Rick James
Mr. Babbington for Alistair Cooke
notfrommensa for Bruce Edwards
Spiff for Johnny Ramone
Sternvogel for Uta Hagen and Alan King AND Betty Hill
Uvula Donor for Archibald Cox

And finally, the Quantity, Not Quality Award winners, with four dead celebrities apiece, are:

cadolphin
Captain Lance Murdoch
earthpuppy
Mudshark
Shirley Ujest
Stephe96
and
Uvula Donor

Congratulations, winners!

And now: on with 2005…

Captain Lance Murdoch scored in 3 out of the 4 categories? Who is he, the Grim Reeper?

Cocaine is a hellova drug.

I wouldn’t sit too close to him at any Dopefests.
:wink:

Sternvogel, with three Inside Track awards also did pretty well. That takes a good bit of foresight.