The Celebrity Death Pool 2005

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OK here are my 13. I’ve gone for a group of bankers (in the betting sense), some longer shots and a couple of WAGS

The Pope
George Best (N Ireland ex-footballer)
Pete Doherty - (British popstar and all round fuck-up)
Margaret Thatcher (very old and frail)
Ian Paisley (as above)
Duke Of Ediburgh (gut feeling)
Bill Deedes (British journalistic legend)
Carl Fogerty (those bikes are NOT safe)
Ted Heath (ex British PM)
BB King
Bobby Charlton (ex English footballer)
Dizzee Rascal (British rap star - those guys have poor life expectancies)
John Prescott (Deputy Prime Minister - old, overweight, fond of pies, likes a fight)

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Another list of those who will find themselves among the living in at the end of 2005. :rolleyes: (I don’t think I’ve scored at all in the previous 2 years I’ve participated.)

Frankie Laine
Maynard Ferguson
BB King

Allan Melvin (Sam the Butcher, Brady Bunch)
Al Molinaro
Brian Dennehey

Robert McNamara
Boris Yeltzin
Lloyd Bentsen

Bill France Jr
Jim McKay (sports broadcaster)
Pat Sumerall (football broadcaster)

John Dean

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[ol][li]Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - 10/20/66 (Most deserved + Most hunted = A lock)[/li][li]John Madden - 4/10/36 (Bus accident or aneurism)[/li][li]Barry Bonds - 07/24/1964 (Plane crash or overdose)[/li][li]Mary Tyler Moore - (12/29/37 Botox OD or in a bizzare bird of prey attack) [/li][li]Bill Moyers - 6/5/34 (Of Boredom or Bitterness)[/li][li]Keith Richards - 12/28/43 (I’m not even sure he’ll make it the 4 days until 2005)[/li][li]Steve Vai - 6/6/60 (Just cuz I wanna see if there’s anything to the 666 thing)[/li][li]Zsa Zsa Gabor- 2/16/17 (On the 10th anniversary of the passing of ‘the good sister’; Eva) [/li][li]Mel Brooks - 6/28/26 (Before fading back into obscurity)[/li][li]Jason Alexander - 9/23/59 (See above)[/li][li]Willie Nelson - 4/30/33[/li][li]Dom DeLuise - Ate/One/33[/li]Larry (Harvey Ziegler) King - 11/19/33 (Will Die Live On CNN)[/ol]

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Well I’ve finally gotten around to picking my list. I’m thinking that I should get paid after this years list in which I got none, nadda.

I hope I spelled all these right:

  1. Mark Addy (actor 1964)
  2. Yogi Berra (baseball player 1925)
  3. Robert Blake (actor 1933)
  4. Bill Cosby (actor 1937)
  5. Mike Ditka (football plater 1939)
  6. Clint Eastwood (actor 1930)
  7. Stephen King (writer 1947)
  8. Jack Klugman (actor 1922)
  9. John Madden (football 1936)
  10. Steve Martin (actor 1945)
  11. Willie Mays (baseball player 1931)
  12. Arnolad Palmer (golfer 1929)
  13. Zakk Wylde (guitarist ?)
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Apparently nobody’s picked her for 2005, but critic Susan Sontag has died at the age of 71.

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Here’s mine:

  1. Ernest Borgnine
  2. Gerald Ford
  3. James Brown (singer)
  4. Jerry Lewis
  5. Stephen Hawking
  6. John Goodman
  7. Dick Clark
  8. Billy Graham
  9. Kirk Douglas
  10. Fidel Castro
  11. Muhammed Ali
  12. Johnny Carson
  13. Ed McMahon

Alternates:
James Doohan
Andy Griffith

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None of my picks ever die, so I’ll just keep my list from last year:

  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
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Wow. That’s a really, really, really good pick. ::salutes::

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You want to know how the limit of thirteen names was scientifically arrived at? Those who go back a few years may recall that I used to run the Celebrity Deathpool threads. When I started them everybody picked ten names. But in the second or third year, I found myself with thirteen names and was having a hard time whittling it down to ten. So I decided “screw this” and arbitrarily changed the rules.

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Excellent story. I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking that thirteen somehow seems like the “right” number for this game regardless.

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Such a scientific approach to picking dead people, Nemo.

I am still agonizing and tonight is Bowling, and my teammates are not as into this as I am, though I have converted two of them to thinking about who is gonna die in the next year.

One told me to only pick midgets.

It is good advice as any.

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He’s supposedly cleaned up since his most recent drug bust, but a lot of years of drug use don’t just get erased if you do eventually quit. Don’t do drugs, kids!

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Loach
Edwino
Notwithoutrage

Your Jerry Orbach pick was just slightly ahead of it’s time.

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Poor Mr. Orbach.
Cancer is a bitch.

  1. Allegra Versace. That girl is just scary skinny.
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I thought I was being creative there with the Versace pick, but I see you already got her, NurseCarmen.

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I think I am still on time, Here goes my first time trying this.

Jesse Helms
Courtney Love
Dick Cheney
Ted Kennedy
Paris Hilton
Keith Richards
Jerry Lewis
Dom DeLuise
Nelson Madela
Rush Limbaugh
Nicole Ritchie
Liz Taylor
Bill Clinton

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/sigh/

I’d like to substitute Liza Minnelli for Mr. Orbach please.

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L&O would have been quite a different show if Dick Wolfe had ever done that.

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Getting in later than most, but here are my 13. (without reading the lists of others)

  1. Billy Joel
  2. George Wendt
  3. Donald Sutherland
  4. Jimmy Carter
  5. The Artist Formerly Known as the Artist Formerly Known as Prince
  6. Arnold Palmer
  7. Doyle Brunson
  8. Jack Black
  9. Cher
  10. Queen Elizabeth II
  11. Clint Eastwood
  12. Macauley Culkin
  13. John Mahoney
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  1. Da Pope (PJ2 to be specific)
  2. Don Knotts
  3. Abe Vigoda
  4. Joey Bishop - the last of the Rat Pack
  5. James Doohan - he just can’t take anymore, cap’n!
  6. Barbara Billingsley
  7. Mickey Rooney
  8. Jesse Helms
  9. Betty Ford
  10. Red Auerbach
  11. Jack Chick
  12. Fidel Castro
  13. Wilford Brimley

Alternate: Rosa Parks