The Celebrity Death Pool 2005

Well, Arafat got me one vacancy, but I’ll shake up the rest a bit:

Keeping the Obligatories:

  1. Pope John Paul II
  2. Michael Jackson
  3. Jimmy Carter
  4. Kirk Douglas

And my own faves:
5. Russell “The Professor” Johnson
6. Steve-O (Stephen Gilchrist Glover)
7. Ray Harryhausen
8. Christopher Lee

Adding the new “not looking well” club:
9. Elizabeth Taylor
10. James Doohan
11. William Renquist

Ashamed to be adding such a nice-seeming lady, but:
12. Anne McCaffrey (author)

And the “I can’t belive I missed ODB” hiphop slot:
13. Suge Knight

My first year. Any update on who is winning 2004?

Without much thought and some random picks:

  1. Axl Rose
  2. Whitney Houston
  3. Steve Jobs
  4. Elizabeth Taylor
  5. Gerald Ford (good bet, not many points)
  6. James Earl Jones
  7. Willie Mays
  8. Henry Kissinger
  9. Colin Farrell (live fast, die young etc)
  10. Peter O’Toole
  11. Ed Koch
  12. Willard Scott
  13. James Brown
  1. Courtney Love
  2. Scott Weiland
  3. Cecil Fielder
  4. Dr. Dre (Andre Young)
  5. Alexander Haig
  6. Jerry Lewis
  7. Billy Graham
  8. Pope John Paul II
  9. Muhammad Ali
  10. Dick Cheney
  11. JD Salinger
  12. Jack Kevorkian
  13. Marion ‘Suge’ Knight

alternate picks, just in case:

  1. Kirk Douglas
  2. Richard Pryor
  3. Elizabeth Taylor

This year let’s try this:

  1. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  2. Larry Hagman
  3. Elizabeth Taylor
  4. Richard Pryor
  5. James “Scotty” Doohan
  6. Gerald Ford
  7. Olympia Dukakis
  8. Farley Granger (actor)
  9. Kenneth Griffith (actor)
  10. Michael Jackson
  11. Lady Bird Johnson
  12. B. B. King
  13. Ben “Cooter” Jones

VunderBob: Unless I missed a third marriage somewhere (and it’s not like I pay a whit of attention to her life), that’s Tammy Faye Bakker Messner.

Would you believe: Tammie Faye Bakker Messner?

You’d think she’d’ve learned how to spell by now . . .

My submission:

1.) Jerry Lewis
2.) Pope John Paul II
3.) Scott Weiland (Velvet Revolver)
4.) Ja Rule
5.) Whitney Houston
6.) Dick Cheney
7.) Mary Kate Olsen
8.) James Doohan
9.) Paul Newman
10.) Tom Green
11.) Wynona Judd
12.) Tiger Woods
13.) Roger Moore

YAY!

My Favorite time of year!

Spending the holidays with family, avoiding the conflict by going to my secret inner happy place and work on my DEAD POOL list. Its more like a coping mechanism, really.

And if you think I am submitting my list before the 31st, you are nuts. Nobody is stealing my dead people points. You bastids.

BTW, Hawking and Keith Richard and the Pope are all immortals.
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Some of us just have Death Appeal, VunderBob - virgin!
Drive by comment? Moi? :smiley:

Carry on, you lovely morbid people.

Sorry, Vunderbob I meant to call you a necro-slut. :smiley:

Her current hubby is Roe Messner. I must have subconsciously merged the two names.

Yea, that’s the ticket…

Gamekeeper, w/could you please correct my submission of Tammy Faye to her correct last name?

Flattery will get you everywhere, Shirley
:smiley:

Whee! Another first timer joining in!

My picks:

  1. Johnny Carson
  2. Kirk Douglas
  3. James Doohan
  4. Annette Funicello
  5. Carol Channing
  6. Pope JP II
  7. Brooke Astor
  8. Richard Pryor
  9. MaryKate Olsen
  10. 50 Cent
  11. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  12. Dick Cheney
  13. Billy Graham

I just read through the entire 2004 thread. Funny how everyone had the pope as their slam-dunk. Well there is still 29 days to go.

It’s my first time. Be gentle.

1.) 50 Cent
2.) Pope John Paul II
3.) George W. Bush
4.) Keith Richards
5.) Richard Pryor
6.) Bernie Mac
7.) William Rehnquist
8.) Elizabeth Edwards
9.) Tracey Gold
10.) Johnny Carson
11.) Mariah Carey
12.) Andy Dick
13.) Tara Reid

Should I need alternates (not likely—have you seen my list?):
1.) Anna-Nicole Smith
2.) Magic Johnson
3.) Kirk Douglas

That made me laugh! Especially the “Burton Burton”. Thanks! :smiley:

Here’s my list. I will probably change it before December 31st. Looks like I’ve gone the easy route and chosen mostly old or sick people. So far this year I only have 20 points, for Marlon Brando.

  1. Paris Hilton, heiress
  2. Elizabeth Taylor, actress
  3. Richard Dawson, actor/game show host
  4. Mary Kate Olson, actress/entrepreneur
  5. Bob Newhart, actor/comedian
  6. Bea Arthur, actress
  7. Estelle Getty, actress
  8. Peter O’Toole, actor
  9. Gerald Ford, ex-President of the U.S.
  10. Walter Cronkite, journalist
  11. Charlton Heston, actor
  12. Ollie Johnston, one of Walt Disney’s original Nine animators
  13. Michael J. Fox, actor
  1. Arthur C. Clarke
  2. Sid Caesar
  3. Sir Patrick Moore
  4. Claude Lévi-Strauss
  5. Dino de Laurentiis
  6. Efrem Zimbalist jr.
  7. Kurt Waldheim
  8. Arthur Miller
  9. Kirk Douglas
  10. Jürgen Habermas
  11. Eli Wallach
  12. Pelé (Edson Arantes Do Nascimento)
  13. Augusto Pinochet

with apologies for being high maintenance, please substitute
(13) George Carlin for my original (13) Michael J. Fox.

Surely all those cocaine years took their toll…

[ol][li]Pope John Paul II[/li][li]Muhammed Ali[/li][li]Justice William Rehnquist[/li][li]Richard Pryor[/li][li]James “Scotty” Doohan[/li][li]Estelle Getty[/li][li]Rosa Parks[/li][li]Annette Funicello[/li][li]Anna Nicole Smith[/li][li]Jane Wyman[/li][li]Robert Blake[/li][li]Tammy Faye Messner[/li][li]David “Squiggy” Lander[/ol] [/li]
And my alternates:
[ol][li]Mary-Kate Olsen[/li][li]Jack Klugman[/li][/ol]

Hokay, my list of celebrities that I think have a date with eternity:

  1. Wilford Brimley (actor, celebrity spokesman)
  2. Terry ‘Hulk Hogan’ Bollea (professional wrestler, actor)
  3. Pope John Paul II (head of the roman catholic church)
  4. Justice William Rehnquist (chief justice of the supreme court of the US)
  5. Michael J. Fox (actor)
  6. Kirstie Alley (actress)
  7. John Ashcroft (former attorney general of the US)
  8. President George W. Bush (president of the US)
  9. John Goodman (actor)
  10. Ralphie May (comedian)
  11. Scott Peterson (former fertilizer salesman, convicted murderer)
  12. Keith Richards (musician)
  13. Youree ‘Miss Cleo’ Dell Harris (television con artist)

I’m waiting until much later, probably the 31st, to submit. Why would I submit now? I have some good ones, and I want a Grim Reaper award!