The Celebrity Death Pool 2005

The Game Room
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  1. Pope John Paul II
  2. Bob Barker
  3. Richard Pryor
  4. Johnny Carson
  5. Keith Richards
  6. Bob Dylan
  7. Walter Cronkite
  8. Andy Rooney
  9. Dick Clark
  10. Barbara Streisand
  11. Grace Slick
  12. Fidel Castro
  13. Michael Jackson

Alternates (in order):

  1. Jimmy Carter
  2. Stephen Hawking
  3. Nancy Reagan

I replaced Jimmy Carter with Dick Clark, due to the recent news of his stroke. I also had not listed my alternates before, so I am including them now (one of whom is Jimmy Carter).

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Ok, looks like I am going with most my picks from last year (and the year before). Honestly I don’t ask for much from my celebrities but hopefully they will see their way to giving a little back this year.

  1. Abe Vigoda (actor) – Not dead yet. Born February 24, 1921. Fish on Barney Miller

  2. Paul Newman (philanthropist/actor/race car driver) – Alive. Born January 26, 1925.

  3. Keith Richards (Rolling Stone) – Alive. Born December 18, 1943.

  4. Osama Bin Laden (terrorist/human stalagmite)

  5. Rip Torn (actor) – Alive. Born February 6th 1931

  6. Roger Moore (Bond actor) – Alive. Born October 14th, 1927

  7. Eli Wallach (actor) – Alive. Born December 7, 1915. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. (My fave film ever)

  8. John Kenneth Galbraith (economist) – Alive. Born October 15, 1908.

  9. Pierre Cardin Alive. Born July 6, 1922.

  10. Wilson “Bob” Tucker (writer) – Alive. Born November 23, 1914.

  11. John Travolta (actor/lear jet flying fancy-boy)

  12. Les Paul (guitar legend) – Alive. Born June 9, 1915.

  13. Luciano Pavarotti (opera star/young wife) – Alive. Born October 12, 1935.
    My cite for these is the Dead Peoples Server .

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My picks:

  1. Pope JP II
  2. Liz Taylor
  3. Maggie Thatcher
  4. Charlton Heston
  5. Prince Phillip
  6. Patrick Moore (UK Astronomer - I sincerely hope not tho)
  7. Ayad Allawi (interim Iraqi PM - I wonder how)
  8. George Best (Irish footballer famous for booze and women)
  9. Sir John Mills (Brit actor - again I hope not)
  10. Peter Falk (columbo)
  11. Jack Klugman (Quincy)
  12. Micky Rooney
  13. Ariel Sharon (Israeli PM)
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Here is my list for the 2005 edition:

[ol]
[li]Tammy Faye Bakker Messner[/li][li]Fidel Castro[/li][li]Ayad Allawi[/li][li]Mahmoud Abbas[/li][li]Hamid Karzai[/li][li]Mary-Kate Olsen[/li][li]Margaret Thatcher[/li][li]Courtney Love[/li][li]James Doohan[/li][li]Dick Clark[/li][li]Larry Hagman[/li][li]Pope John Paul II (of course…)[/li][li]Ricardo Montalban[/li][/ol]

Now they lay them down to sleep,
I pray the Lord their souls they keep (until 1 Jan 2005, at any rate…)
If some should die before they wake,
These alternates for my list I take:

Mickey Spillane
BB King
Viktor Yushchenko
Richard Prior

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Holy shit Abe Vigoda is only 4 years older than Paul Newman!

166

I’m amending my list. Please replace #11, Gordie Howe, with Arthur C. Clarke.

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This is my first time playing. I feel sort of evil, but here goes:

  1. Matthew Perry
  2. Pope JPII
  3. Macauley Culkin
  4. Pamela Anderson
  5. Keith Richards
  6. Harrison Ford
  7. Sophia Loren
  8. David Bowie
  9. Bob Barker
  10. Charlton Heston
  11. Oksana Baiul
  12. Raquel Welch
  13. Nick Carter

Alternates, in order:
14. Leonard Nimoy
15. Dick Clark
16. Lance Armstrong

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  1. Rosa Parks
  2. Andy Rooney
  3. Bill Keene (The Family Circus creator)
  4. Louis Gosset Jr
  5. Dick Clark
  6. Fidel Castro
  7. Don Knotts
  8. Andy Griffith
  9. Muhammad Ali
  10. Kirk Douglas
  11. Bruno Sammartino (Old school wrestler)
  12. Martin Landau
  13. Peter Falk

A thank ya verra much.

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I’ve been lookiing forward to this all year.

1- Pope John Paul II
2- Gerald Ford
3- Andy Rooney
4- Bob Barker
5- Mary Kate Olsen
6- Sid Caesar
7- Dick Clark
8- Courtney Love
9- Nancy Reagan
10- Barbara Billingsley
11- Estelle Getty
12- Prince Phillip
13- Abe Vigoda
Alternates

1- Queen Elizabeth
2- John Goodman
3- Stephen Hawking

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First time participant, long-time lurker:

  1. William F. Buckley, conservative columnist and bon vivant
  2. William Rehnquist, Chief Justice, SCOTUS
  3. Chuck Berry, rock legend
  4. Gordie Howe, hockey god
  5. Warren Buffett, Sage of Omaha
  6. Pat Summerall, football broadcaster
  7. Bob Guccione, porn king
  8. Augusto Pinochet, fascist bastard
  9. Elizabeth Taylor
  10. Fidel Castro, aging commie
  11. Norman Mailer
  12. George Steinbrenner, Yankees owner
  13. Kurt Waldheim
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OK, here we go.

  1. Dick Cheney
  2. Rosa Parks
  3. Dick Clark
  4. Jerry Orbach
  5. Nancy Reagan
  6. Pope JPII
  7. Bob Barker
  8. Liz Taylor
  9. BB King
  10. Paris Hilton
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NotWithoutRage – you get three more picks.

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Dang, LOL this is my first time playing…

  1. Stephen Sondheim
  2. Carol Channing
  3. George Bush, the father
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  1. Nancy Reagan
  2. Rick Derringer
  3. Anna Nicole-Smith
  4. Annette Funicello
  5. Karl Malden
  6. Michael Stipe
  7. Bruce Dern
  8. James Garner
  9. Alex Karras
  10. Rush Limbaugh
  11. Pat Morita
  12. James Hong
  13. Geoffrey Palmer
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  1. David Carradine (Stroke)
  2. Clint Eastwood (Cardiac Arrest)
  3. David Letterman (Cardiac Arrest)
  4. Bill Maher (Cardiac Arrest)
  5. Al Roker (Cardiac Arrest)
  6. Tom Brokaw (Cardiac Arrest)
  7. Ashanti (Plane Crash)
  8. Mary-Kate Olsen (Malnourishment)
  9. Jeremy Piven (Stroke)
  10. Eminem - (Marshal Mathers), (Plane Crash)
  11. Oprah Winfrey (Malnourishment)
  12. Donald Trump (I might even bet on it at his own casino)
  13. Lara Flynn Boyle (Malnourishment)
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Iceland’s List of Those Who Shall Perish(having scoured the papers to see who’s nearly croaking it)

1.James Brown(in hospital for cancer)
2.John Inman(in hospital for hepatitis)
3.Ian Brady(must croak it soon)
4.Shelley Long(friends say she has the body of a 90-yr-old now)
5.Pope John Paul II(traditional)
6.Gerald Ford(just old)
7.Jim Callaghan(ditto)
8.Ian Huntley(already gone on hunger strike once.And he’ll rake in the points)
9.50 Cent(gotta be shot soon)
10.Eminem(ditto)
11.Vladimir Yushenko(already poisoned once.Next time they’ll finish him off)
12.Prince Philip(gotta be speared by an unhappy native soon)
13.Fidel Castro(already rather tottery)

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Shelley Long from Cheers!?!?! My neighborhood has the wrong ninety year olds!

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Shelly Long in September 2004… but she’s been hospitalised since then. Still, I think it would take something of Viktor Yushchenko proportions to give her the body of a 90 year old in three months.

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Wow. Nice pick Iceland Blue. It’s a pity you didn’t wait until 12/31/04 to pop that one in. You might just see her popping up on a few lists.
cough like mine cough

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Since there’s still time to get in on the action:

  1. Pope John Paul II

  2. Tom Lehrer

  3. Richard Pryor

  4. Oliver North

  5. Hulk Hogan

  6. Rosa Parks

  7. Walter Cronkite

  8. Ed Bradley

  9. Dick Clark

  10. Fidel Castro

  11. John Madden

  12. John Wooden

  13. Fifty Cent