Well, not bad for my first year out. I got the first death of the year as a newbie and almost finished in top ten! 'Course, the final scores aren’t in yet…
I agree with others regarding the “rules”, they’re best kept vague. We wouldn’t want friends and family to think we were a bunch of weirdos with “rules” about betting on the deaths of celebrities.
Nobody picked Carroll Campbell.
Jean Parker, who made her film debut as the Duchess Maria in 1932’s Rasputin and the Empress before appearing the following year as Beth in Little Women, has died at the age of 90.
My first thought when I heard about Pryor’s death was, Crap - I was going to put him on my deathlist for 2006. Am I going to hell?
My first thought was, oh, Oh, OH! He’s on my list!!
Want to share a handbasket, marymargaret?
Mine was, I thought he was dead!? I would have had him on my list! :smack: :o
Then I saw McCarthy and thought the same thing.:smack::smack:
I’m a bad bad boy.
Lok
If so, save me a seat. My first thought was, “I could have really used his points next year, because this one is a wash.”
Richard, you died too young. About three weeks too young.
I ended up dumping Rosa Parks in favor of Richard Pryor, solely for the points. I guess I get a spot in the handbasket marked “Express”…
I’m so depressed. I paid my fee last year and my first post was my list.
My great big wonderful worth zero points list.
So for 2006 do I stay with the idea of younger wild people or take some sure things like the pope would have been last year. Hmmmmmm?
I’ve given up on the young druggies. None of them died for me this year. I’m definitely going for the old or sick in 2006. Drugs don’t really seem to be as bad as I once thought. I’m probably going to keep Courtney Love and one other drug person, she just has to kick the bucket early.
This year my only scores were the Pope and Richard Pryor.
There are still sixteen days left. MORE than enough time.
/clings to hope that he’s on the last minute one-a-day plan.
It’s a crap-shoot no matter what.
I got Rhenquist and Prince Rainier this year, and I’m carrying over a few names from this list for next year.
Just pick your names and hope the best. (Or worst.)
Then every time you get an email titled “Reply to Post: SDMB Celebrity Death Pool 2006” you think, “I wonder who died. And I hope it’s someone I had on my list!”
Or you’ll hear about someone dying and think, “Hmm. Did I have him on my list? I sure hope so.”
Sick, yes, but it’s soooo much fun! :eek:
No one had him, but ex-NFL lineman Darrell Russell died today in a car crash. He was 29.
As someone who has done a Dead Pool for at least 14 years ( if not more, but not in a group like you bunch of wacks until the SDMBDP until it started) I have to say , there are years where I couldn’t pick a stiff if I were blindfolded in the back room of a small town’s funeral home after a car full of hillbillies crashes into a car full of rednecks.
One year, the only person in our original Dead Pool ( of 4 people, my husband and his sister and her husband) got a dead person (this was before the Dead People Server and Googly Goodness. Y’know, back before we had the world at our finger tips.) and it was December with no one dead yet. We were lamenting getting zero points for the year, when we found out Chris Farley had died. Talk about a last minute 50 yard feild goal! ( It wasn’t me that picked him, sadly enough.)
Then there was the year that it was Raining Old White Guys. I think I got 60% of my list, but scored possible 12 points that year, because they were all Old Farts.
Its feast or famine.
But it is important to keep your list going all year and bring your friends into your sick little world to have them call you with “Hey, what about John Denver…” " No good, he died in a plane crash …" " Is Yul Brenner still alive?" " Died in the early 80’s. Lung Cancer."…It’s a socially bonding moment for those with sick sense of humor. Just cull your herd in December. That is the hard part. Giving the Gift of LIfe to 13 people.
If you are obsessive about it, like me.
Not a celebrity, but one of my best friends lost her brother to heroine this year.
I don’t want to influence anyone’s strategy or anything, but drugs killed or played a big part in the deaths of…
Lenny Bruce
Jim Morrison
Janis Joplin
Jackson Pollack
Marilyn Monroe
Curt Kobain
Jimmy Hendrix
Chris Farley
John Belushi
To name but a few.
I prefer the young picks, there is more of a splash. This year, I am thinking of limiting my picks to only those who will garner me 20 points or more.
As a connoisseur in the vein of Shirley Ujest, I begin my list on January 1st, and nurture it as the year goes. Any inklings or news tidbits are recorded, and in December the real work of narrowing it down to 13 begins. I had to look at my list from this year to remember who I picked, All I remembered was my big point winner Matthew McGrory. The older picks just don’t fill me with that same sick satisfaction that comes with picking a younger one.
I got five out of twelve this year. A couple were even unique picks. But my total is only up in the sixties somewhere because all of them were quite old.