Hee Hee.
Thanks all for bringing the error to my attention. I have posted my selections to the proper year. (I also managed to post my correction to the wrong thread first). I gotta take a refresher course in comprehension.
None of us had either of them, but this is as good a place to remember them in:
Former Rep. Cooper Evans (R-IA) died on the 22nd, at the age of 81.
Longtime Orioles player/coach Elrod Hendricks died on the 21st, of a heart attack. He was 64.
my first foray into the world opf death prognistication:
Ariel Sharon
Ray Rhodes (football coach)
Albert Hofmann
Claude Levi-Strauss
Abe Vigoda
Kirk Douglas
Micky Rooney
Lady Bird Johnson
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Gerald Ford
Ernest Borgnine
Shelly Winters
John Madden
Alt: Henry Kissinger
Alt: Sadaam Husein
Is there a latest entry award?
Psst – phungi – you need to post this in the '06 thread.
Bud Blake, creator of the Tiger comic strip, has died at the age of 87. Blake had worked as executive art director of an advertising agency before quitting to devote himself to cartooning.
As 2005 draws to a close, let’s take a moment to congratulate the real winners- the fans!
The real winners are the people on my list. They shall all live a long and happy life.
Ok I can’t guarantee happy but you ain’t dying if I pick you.
Rona Jaffe died yesterday in London while on vacation.
I can’t find the link right now…
Will the listing of this years winners along with their winning corpses (corpsii?)
Please don’t make me slog through all of this again?
As promised, if I ended 2005 with a zero score, I would post a Top 10 List of The
Advantages of Having a Zero Score for the Previous Year’s Death Pool:
(A lot of this is predicated on the fact that you keep your 2005 list for 2006)
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It’s easy to pick the 2006 list. Just roll over what you had for 2005 !
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Totally 100% guilt free about “causing” any celebrity death by the “jinx” of their being on your list.
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And in relation to #9, you can feel lucky, blessed, maybe even annointed that your having those celebrities on your list actually bestowed on them an almost certain year of good health.
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No need to go searching for morbid stories or wondering to yourself “Hmm I wonder if the laboratory assistant to Nicole Kidman’s gynecologist has got Lou Gehrig’s Disease (aka ALS)” ?
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No morbid “bandwagon” jumping when you see the SDMB membership thinks a celebrity is ready to go. (Lou Rawls anyone?)
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By about April, you realize you’ve got a snowball in Hell’s chance of ever coming out a winner at the end of the year. Saves wear and tear on your nervous system, causes no ulcers and makes it much easier to sleep at night.
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Not paying strict attention to celebrity deaths, or your SDMB Dead Pool score, allows you more time to live a real life.
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It’s easy to repress the desire to “snuff” a celebrity just to get a good score.
(Which as we know is strictly against the rules). -
You’ve got a zero score. In a way, you’ve achieved perfection.
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Just think - ALL the celebrities on your list are now one year closer to their deaths!!! BWA-HA-HA !!!
Happy 2006 Everbody !!!
I hope Larry Storch didn’t die at 11:55 pm, negating this whole damned list.
Wolf, you forgot one more advantage.
- It’s easy to figure out what your maximum possible score would be. Just subtract 13 from last year’s maximum possible score.
Character actor Patrick Cranshaw (Old School, Bubble Boy) died on Wednesday, Dec. 28 at age 86.
I had him on my **2006 ** Death Pool List. :smack:
It’s a good thing I listed some alternates in addition to my 13 picks for 2006!
Richard DeAngelis died on December 28. According to the handy-dandy spreadsheet (thanks whoever that was!) no one had him.
I’ve lost the linkie for the spreadsheet for 2005.
Link, please.
I’d like that too.
It’s here, somewhere in 23 pages of posts. In this very thread.
Oh, very well. Give me a couple hours and I’ll quote the original post (see, I downloaded the thing then and it’s been sitting on my desktop ever since. Aren’t you sorry you didn’t download it then, too? )
Of course, you realize, that the original link won’t have the updates since – oh, wait, if you link to it now and download it now, it might be up-to-date. Or something.
I’ll be back once I find it. My head hurts.
Took less time to find than I thought it would. (Secret Trick™: I went to the file on my desktop, clicked on properties and found the creation date. Hah!)
And the download link says it was last updated Nov 26.
All righty…
Since last I posted an update, the only celebrity anybody picked was Richard Pryor. All of these posters gain 35 points each and share the Final Hours Award:
ataraxy22
Carm6773
cazzle
Club 33
CowPatty
DeVena
drewbert
dwc1970
Earthman
Etherman
gatopescado
GWVet
hammos1
imthjckaz
JavaMaven1
Jeep’s Phoenix
katie1341
Kuizelemartz
labtrash
LilyoftheValley
Long Time First Time
Lsura
melondeca
MissTake
Mr. Blue Sky
Mona Lott
psycat90
Scruloose
Sean Factotum
Sevo
TeaElle
trublmakr
VunderBob
WIGGUM and
yellowval
I’m going to update the scoreboard and bring this year’s game to its Thrilling Conclusion this afternoon. Stay tuned…