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On Tuesday afternoons here at the office I usually have a few hours set aside where I babysit our system (a.k.a extremity twiddling time). I used to tally the weekly Top 6@6 Polls from Cafe’ Society – but now that those threads were halted, I figured it would be fun to drop your pool data onto a spread sheet, alphabetize/concatenate it, and calculate some odds. If you want me to e-mail the file to you as a cross reference; just say so.
Some interesting 2005 Death Pool Facts[list=A]
[li]There were 197 Dopers who played[/li][li]826 Different ‘Celebrity’ Names were chosen[/li][li]The total number of selections was 2,557 (4 Dopers only selected 12 names).[/list][/li]
About the Celebrities ‘Chosen’
517 Selections Were Unique to One Poster (Received One Vote):
Dan Ackroyd
Don Adams
Marvin Lee (Meatloaf) Aday
Mark Addy
Ben Affleck
Clay Aiken
Lou Albano
Alan Alda
Karras Alex
Jason Alexander
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim
Ibrahim al-Jafari
Woody Allen
Kirstie Alley
Ali Hassan (Chemical Ali) al-Majid
Moqtada al-Sadr
Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani
Ghazi al-Yawer
Ayman al-Zawahiri
John Amos
Louie Anderson
Ursula Andress
Maya Angelou
Hopkins Anthony
Franklin Aretha
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Diego Armando
James Arness
Brooke Astor
Jeffery (Ja Rule) Atkins
Oksana Baiul
Ralph Bakshi
Paul Banke
Christine Baranski
Drew Barrymore
Barbara Bel Geddes
Andy Bell
Tony Bennett
Lloyd Bentsen
Elizabeth Berkley
Silvio Berlusconi
Chuck Berry
Max Biaggi
Prince Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud
Robert Blake
John Bloom
Brian Boitano
Tom Bosley
Umberto Bossi
Lucien Bouchard
David Bowie
Camilla Parker Bowles
Peter Boyle
Ed Bradley
Ian Brady
Sara Brady
Richard Branson
Lilian Jackson Braun
Brian Brian
Bobby Brown
David Darnell (Young Buck) Brown
Sylvia Browne
Brunson Brunson
Kobe Bryant
Warren Buffett
Vincent Bugliosi
Eric Burdon
Gary Burghoff
Carol Burnett
Stanley Kirk (MC Hammer) Burrell
Kurt Busch
Joey Buttafucco
Michael Caine
John Cale
Jim Callaghan
June Callwood
Glen Cambell
Jose Canseco
Pierre Cardin
Mariah Carey
King Juan Carlos I Of Spain
David Carradine
Nick Carter
Roslyn Carter
Shawn (Jay-Z) Carter
Dana Carvey
Dick Cavett
Jack Chalker
Robert Chambers
Bobby Charlton
Hugo Chavez
Don Cherry
Jack Chick
Tommy Chong
Jean Chretien
Charlotte Church
Louise Veronica (Madonna) Ciccone
Van Cliburn
George Clooney
Johnnie Cochran
Gary Cole
Joan Collins
Chuck Colson
Betty Comden
Sean Connery
General Lonsana Conte
Jackie Cooper
Irwin Corey
Kenny Dalgleish
Roger Daltry
William Daniels
Tony Danza
David David Newell
David David Rockefeller
John Davidson
Al Davis
William B Davis
Richard Dawson
Dino De Laurentiis
John Dean
Bill Deedes
Bruce Dern
Rick Derringer
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jimmy (Little Jimmy) Dickens
Bo Diddley
Mike Ditka
Bobby Doerr
Placido Domingo
Vincent D’Onofrio
Art Donovan
Ashanti Douglas
Hugh Downs
Frank Drake
Shane Drury
Kitty Dukakis
Olympia Dukakis
Brett Easton Ellis
Harlan Ellison
Melissa Etheridge
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Morgan Faichild
Mike Farrell
Perry Farrell
Kevin Federline
Corey Feldman
Maynard Ferguson
Cecil Fielder
Albert Finney
Bobby Fischer
Carrie Fisher
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Theo Fleury
Calista Flockhart
Lara Flynn Boyle
Carl Fogerty
Jared Fogle
Joan Fontaine
Michael Foot
Andy (Viking) Fordham
John Forsythe
Larry Fortensky
Bill France Jr
Dick Francis
Ace Frehley
Milton Friedman
Tito Fuentes
Terry Funk
Alphonso Gagliano
John Galbraith
John Garang
Peter Garrett
Uri Geller
Gil Gerard
Joe Gibbs
Frank Gifford
Newt Gingrich
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
John Glenn
Crispin Glover
Tracey Gold
Dwight Gooden
Robby Gordon
Frank Gorshin
Louis Gosset Jr
Harold Gould
Kelsey Grammer
Farley Granger
Günter Grass
Kathryn Grayson
Hubert Green
Tom Green
Joel Grey
Merv Griffin
Kenneth Griffith
Bob Guccione
Carl XIV Gustaf
Steve Guttenberg
Jürgen Habermas
Rob Halford
Tom Hanks
Barret (Dr Demento) Hansen
Emmylou Harris
Youree Dell (Miss Cleo) Harris
Deborah Harry
Ray Harryhausen
David Hasselhoff
Cornell (Nelly) Haynes Jr
Edward (Ted) Heath
Ted Heath
Anne Heche
Tippi Hedren
Leona Helmsley
Lou Henson
Don Herbert
Howard Hesseman
Paul (Bono) Hewson
Sir Edmund Hillary
Dustin Hoffman
Lou Holtz
Karla Homolka
James Hong
Dennis Hopper
Lena Horne
Bobby Hull
E Howard Hunt
Ian Huntley
Hussein Hussein
Lee Iacocca
Eric Idle
Don Imus
John Inman
George S Irving
Jennifer (J Lo) J. Lo
Jane Jacobs
Jesse James
Kevin James
Ken Jennings
Peter Jennings
Ron Jeremy
Steve Jobs
Billy Joel
Holly Johnson
Jimmie Johnson
Phillip Johnson
Ollie Johnston
Ben (Cooter) Jones
Hank Jones
Jerry Jones
Mickey Jones
Wynona Judd
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Frank Kameny
Stacey Keach
Garrison Keillor
R(obert) Kelly
Don Kent
Deborah Kerr
Graham Kerr
Theresa Kerry
Margot Kidder
Evel Knievel
Wayne Knight
Harry Knowels
Beyonce Knowles
Ed Koch
C. Everett Koop
Ron Kovic
Kris Kristofferson
Emeril Lagasse
Frankie Laine
Jake LaMotta
Dave (Squiggy) Lander
Diane Lane
Nathan Lane
Artie Lange
John Larroquette
Martin Lawrence
Kenneth Lay
Denis Leary
Christopher Lee
Leapy Lee
Madeline L’Engle
Ed (Brutus The Barber Beefcake) Leslie
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Emmanuel Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis
G. Gordon Liddy
Jennifer (J Lo) Lopez
Sophia Loren
Tina Louise
Jim Lovell
Jeff Lynne
Yo-Yo Ma
Gavin MacLeod
Bill Maher
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
John Mahoney
Rick Majerus
Winnie Mandela
Bernard Manning
Wellington Mara
Jerry Maren
Bam Margera
McPartland Marian
Rose Marie
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
George Martin
Steve Martin
Peter Max
Ralphie May
Peter Mayhew
Anne McCaffrey
Shirley McClain
Elizabeth McGovern
George McGovern
Shane McGowan
Ali McGraw
Matthew McGrory
Mark McGwire
Ian McKellen
Vince McMahon Jr
Jayne Meadows
Sukarnoputri Megawati
Allan Melvin
Sir John Mills
Mary Ann Mobley
Art Modell
Walter (Fritz) Mondale
Sir Patrick Moore
Robert Morgenthau
Pat Morita
Tommy Morrison
Van Morrison
Bill Moyers
Yon Hyong Muk
Ben Mulroney
Frankie Muniz
Rupert Murdoch
Jan Murray
Stan (The Man) Musial
Jim Nabors
Joe Namath
Patricia Neil
Noel Neill
Leslie Neilson
Bryon Nelson
Prince Rogers (Formerly Known As) Nelson
Edwin Newman
Bert Newton
Jack Nicholson
Ivan Noble
Nick Nolte
Manuel Noriega
Larry David Norman
Oliver North
Sandra Day O’Connor
Shaquille O’Neal
Mary Davies (Nurse Carmen) Orfield
Annette O’Toole
Frank Oz
Joy Page
Chris (King Kong Bundy) Pallies
Geoffrey Palmer
Bill Parcells
Lawrence Kris (KRS-One) Parker
Dolly Parton
Joe Paterno
Tatjan Patitz
Floyd Patterson
Les Paul
Rhea Perlman
Matthew Perry
Joe Pesci
Tom Petty
Phil Brown
Phil Spector
Emo Philips
Lafitt Pincay Jr
Brad Pitt
Jeremy Piven
Ron(co) Popeil
John Popper
Jeff Probst
Paul Prudhomme
Colin Quinn
Joyce Randolph
Sally Jessy Raphael
Dizzee Rascal
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
Castro Raul
Thurl Ravenscroft
Anthony (Sir Mix-A-Lot) Ray
Usher Raymond
Sumner Redstone
Lou Reed
Della Reese
Charles Nelson Reilly
Anne Rice
Nicole Ritchie
Jake (The Snake) Roberts
Pernell Roberts
Louis Robichaud
Anne Robinson
Chris Robinson
Bobby Robson
Chris Rock
Dennis Rodman
Pete Rose
David Lee Roth
Mickey Rourke
Louis Rukeyser
Donald Rumsfeld
Salman Rushdie
Kurt Russell
Fr Barry Ryan
Winona Ryder
Horatio Saanz
Morley Safer
Bob Saget
Eva Marie Saint
Yves Saint-Laurent Saint-Laurent
Adam Sandler
Randy (Macho Man) Savage
Phyllis Schlafly
Bo Schmbechler
Daniel Schorr
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Barbara Ann Scott
Gene Scott
Allan (Bud) Selig
General John Shalikashvili
Ariel Sharon
Rev Al Sharpton
Rowsch Shaways
Sidney Sheldon
Robert Sargent Shriver Jr
Robert Silverburg
Gene Simmons
Richard Simmons
O J Simpson
Irina Slutskaya
Dean Smith
Tommy Smothers
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Suzanne Somers
Aaron Spelling
Wendie Jo Sperber
Mickey Spillane
Brent Spiner
Sylvester Stallone
Harry Dean Stanton
Scott Stapp
Frances Sternhagen
Martha Stewart
Ben Stiller
Jerry Stiller
Steve Stills
Michael Stipe
James Stockdale
Hank Stramm
Barbara Streisand
Andrew Sullivan
Ethan Suplee
Inga Swenson
Loretta Swit
Johnny Tapia
Lawrence Taylor
Raymond Joseph Teller
Billy Bob Thornton
Vern Troyer
Wilson (Bob) Tucker
Ike Turner
Ted Turner
Cicely Tyson
Bob Uecker
John Updike
Steve Vai
Wilmer Valderama
Charles Van Doren
Jerry Van Dyke
Eddie Van Halen
Robert (Vanilla Ice) Van Winkle
Luther Vandross
Ken Venturi
Fay Vincent
Bobby Vinton
Claus Von Bulow
Claude Vorilhon
Lyle Waggoner
Christopher Walken
Mike Wallace
John Waters
Raquel Welch
George Wendt
Jason White
James Whitmore
Anson Williams
Don Williams
Esther Williams
Ricky Williams
Bruce Willis
Ralph Wilson
Henry Winkler
Tom Wolfe
John Wooden
Tiger Woods
Jane Wyatt
Zakk Wylde
Phanom (Tony Ja) Yeerum
Burt Young
Franco Zeffirelli
Brian Zembic
Jiang Zemin
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Efrem Zimbalist Jr
Rob Zombie
Celebrities Selected By Ten Or More (Out Of 197) Dopers:[ol]
[li]George H W Bush 10[/li][li]Macaulay Culkin 10[/li][li]Whitney Houston 10[/li][li]Anna Nichole Smith 10[/li][li]Boris Yeltsin 10[/li][li]Nelson Mandela 11[/li][li]Wilford Brimley 12[/li][li]Annette Funicello 12[/li][li]Liza Minelli 12[/li][li]Prince Phillip Mountbatten (Duke of Edinburgh) 12[/li][li]Scott Peterson 12[/li][li]Mickey Rooney 12[/li][li]Billy Graham 14[/li][li]B.B. (Riley Blues Boy) King 14[/li][li]Abe Vigoda 14[/li][li]Tammy Faye Bakker-Messner 15[/li][li]Jimmy (James) Earl Carter 15[/li][li]John Goodman 15[/li][li]Viktor Yushchenko 15[/li][li]Bob Barker 16[/li][li]Stephen Hawking 16[/li][li]Keith Richards 17[/li][li]Queen Elizabeth Windsor II (Queen of England) 17[/li][li]Kirk Douglas 18[/li][li]Nancy Reagan 19[/li][li]Osama Bin Laden 20[/li][li]Johnny Carson 20[/li][li]Charlton Heston 20[/li][li]Ladybird (Claudia Alta Taylor) Johnson 20[/li][li]Jerry Jerry Lewis 21[/li][li]Muhammed Ali 23[/li][li]Walter Cronkite 23[/li][li]Dick Cheney 24[/li][li]Mary-Kate Olsen 25[/li][li]Rosa Parks 25[/li][li]Michael Jackson 26[/li][li]Margaret Thatcher 33[/li][li]Dick Clark 34[/li][li]Richard Pryor 35[/li][li]James (Scotty) Doohan 37[/li][li]Fidel Castro 44[/li][li]Courtney Love 47[/li][li]Elizabeth Taylor 55[/li][li]Gerald R Ford 59[/li][li]William H Rehnquist 70[/li]Pope John Paul II (Karol Josef) Wojtyła 132[/ol]
JohnbckWLD, somewhere on the third page I stopped trying to do what you seem to have done here, but it looks as if our numbers would have been much the same.
One thing I noticed was that a number of Dopers made the selection “The Pope”
I was assuming this was JPII, but it’s conceivable, although unlikely, one could get points twice for such a choice. John Paul II could kick off in 2005. Then, as inded did happen with JP’s predecessor, there could be a very short reign. So a person who claimed “The Pope” could say “Hey, gimme points for both deaths!”
I must not understand your formula…how could one end up with less than 13 points? Unless you’re not counting the poster him or herself (so all the unique picks count for nothing). . .
It will be interesting to see if there are trends between these lists and the overall winner.
Sel # Celebrity Votes
#09 Chris Baranski 01
#10 Warren Beatty 02
#03 Kobe Bryant 01
#11 Bobby Fischer 01
#01 John Goodman 15
#07 Gene Hackman 02
#05 Dustin Hoffman 01
#04 Jerry Lewis 21
#08 Nathan Lane 01
#06 Tom Lehrer 02
#13 Mary Ann Mobley 01
#12 Sir Mix-A-Lot 01
#02 Bob Saget 01
Did anybody pick a celebrity who’s already dead? I run a small death pool for a few friends IRL and every year at least one person picks somebody who’s already dead.
That’s embarrassing. To be fair, this is my first death pool. Not that I ever thought I had a chance of being in the top 5 of anything, but thanks all the same.
Surely “The Pope” means “The guy who was Pope as of midnight, Dec 31 2004”. If anyone tries to claim they were nominating the guy who was Pope as of September 23rd 2005 (for instance) I’ll have to raise an eyebrow at them :dubious:
Ah ha! In the rules (excerpt below) it actually says that nominations for The Pope will be assumed to mean Pope John Paul II, so that kinda takes care of the wiggle room.
People really should try to point out who their celebs are when they pick them. Even if it’s someone who’s well-known. The “Pope” and “Barbara Bush” selections are pretty infamous here, but there were also picks for people like John Madden and Jason Alexander. These names are shared by more than one celebrity. John Madden the football guy or John Madden the director of Shakespeare in Love? Jason Alexander who was George Costanza or Jason Alexander who was Mr. Spears? Some people specified which one, but others did not. Someone picked two famous Robert Smiths (but he said who was who). Though no one picked them, names like Mike Scott (Waterboy, Astro) and Amanda Peet (actress, physicist) are not unique names either. There are many others, so it helps to be specific.
