The Celebrity Death Pool 2004

The Game Room
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Crap, I’m going to be difficult.

Change #8 to:

  1. Roy Horn (lion food)
122

Kirk Douglas is still kicking along, and according to IMDB, has two film credits for 2003. One of them was It Runs In The Family with his son Michael, ex wife and grandson. According to www.DeadOrAlive.org, Burt Lancaster died in 1994 at the age of 80.

Whitney Houston has had a turbulent time recently. Not only is she rumored to be a crack addict, but just a few days ago her husband was charged with battery after he apparently hit her.

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Siegfried Fishbacher
Prince Philip
Louie Anderson
Carol Channing
Pope John Paul II
Jimmy Carter
Meat Loaf
Chuck Berry
Rudy Giuliani
Tug McGraw
Yoko Ono
Diana Ross
Frank Gifford

124

Here goes. I didn’t have much luck last year with my list (tho’ the people on it were quite lucky).

  1. Jerry Lee Lewis (aka “The Killer”)
  2. Ronald Reagan
  3. John Goodman
  4. Liza Minelli
  5. Noam Chomsky
  6. Li’l Kim
  7. Prince Philip of England
  8. Larry King
  9. Dick Van Dyke
  10. Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Beat poet)
  11. Gerald Ford
  12. Jeff Corwin (Crikey!)
  13. Pope John Paul II
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01 - Ronald Reagan
02 - Nancy Reagan
03 - Sid Cesar
04 - Dom DeLuise
05 - Tara Reid
06 - Granda Pa Al Lewis
07 - Ted Kennedy
08 - Walter Cronkite
09 - Art Linkletter
10 - Keith Richards
11 - Ronny Wood
12 - Colin Farrell
13 - Bea Arthur

126

Well, we may not have to worry about this, since it appears at the moment that he’s been captured alive.

Hmm… his chances of dying unexpectedly in custody are probably pretty slim… I may be revising my list.

127

Yeah, remember that if Saddam is executed, he doesn’t count. He’d have to commit suicide, or get killed in some other way. If he’s going to commit suicide, I’d expect that he’ll already have taken some sort of slow-acting poison that’ll kill him witihn the next few days. Otherwise, he’s probably a long shot now.

128

Right, so Saddam, if executed, doesn’t count even if I bet on him before he was sentenced?

If so, I change to Vladimir Putin.

129

So pray that Mohammed al-Ruby busts a cap onto Saddam.

Or change your pick before New Years :slight_smile:

130

Okay, I’m changing my own list:

I’m taking Saddam Hussein off

and putting Steve Irwin (the “Crocodile Hunter”) on.

131

OK, I’m removing Saddam and substituting Mickey Rooney.

132

Well, since Saddam now seems to have a better chance of surviving 2004 than I do, I’m taking him off the list and replacing him with my first substitute.

Revised list:

  1. Bea Arthur
  2. Kirk Douglas
  3. Roger Moore
  4. Cicely Tyson
  5. Harry Dean Stanton
  6. Jean Stapleton
  7. Conrad Bain (“Mr. Drummond” from Diffrent Strokes)
  8. Russell Johnson (“The Professor” from Gilligan’s Island)
  9. Howard Hesseman
  10. Gavin MacLeod
  11. Jim Nabors
  12. Darryl Strawberry
  13. Ronald Reagan
133

I am removing Saddam and replacing with Andy Rooney.

134

I’m a virgin at this game, but here goes…

  1. Ronald Reagan
  2. Sharon Osbourne
  3. Mike Wallace
  4. Jerry Lewis
  5. Betty Ford
  6. Gerald Ford
  7. Boris Yeltzin
  8. David Crosby
  9. Larry King
  10. Richard Pryor
  11. John Goodman
  12. John Lee Malvo
  13. Helmut Kohl
135

Just remember, Frumious Bandersnatch, that Malvo has to die in some way other than state-sanctioned execution in order to be worth any points. Granted, he’s probably got a decent chance of committing suicide or getting whacked.

136

“Wouldn’t you like to see that?” category

  1. Saddam Hussein
  2. Osama bin Laden
  3. Kim Jong-Il

Test Match Special
4. Freddie Trueman
5. Trevor Bailey
6. Geoffrey Boycott

Too Fast to Live, Too Crazy to Die
7. Ozzy Osbourne (cheers, dwc1970!)
8. Glen Campbell
9. Nick Nolte

Political Graveyard
10. Gerald Ford
11. Ted Heath

The Gimme Putt
12. Pope John Paul II

The Random Celebrity
13. Billy Bob Thornton

137

Oh, darn, hadn’t seen Rule #7. Change my 1. (Saddam Hussein) to Jean-Claude Duvalier.

138

Heh. Thank God they caught the bastard before the deadline, or a lot of us would have a useless name sitting on our lists for the whole year. How evil can you get??

#5: Saddam Hussein–please replace with Al Lewis (actor and politician, and from recent interviews still a hell of a guy. But lookin’ frail).

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  1. Aileen Getty (artist – AIDS activist)
  2. Billy Graham
  3. Darryl Strawberry
  4. David Hockney (artist)
  5. Elizabeth Taylor
  6. Hunter S. Thompson (writer)
  7. Ladybird Johnson
  8. Larry Clark (photographer - director)
  9. Patsy Ramsey (mom of Jon Benet)
  10. Pope John Paul II
  11. Prince Rainier
  12. Ronald Reagan
  13. Zsa Zsa Gabor
140

Okey dokey, here we go:

  1. Queen Elizabeth II
  2. Ernest Borgnine
  3. Ron Jeremy
  4. Rip Torn
  5. Olivia DeHaviland
  6. Luise Rainer
  7. Margot Kidder
  8. Senator Edward Kennedy
  9. Helen Thomas
  10. Muhammad Ali
  11. Keith Richards
  12. Luciano Pavarotti
  13. Kurt Vonnegut