Estelle Getty
Lou Rawls
Stephen Hawking
Muhammed Ali
Osama Bin Laden
Sid Caeser
Don Ho
Tammy Faye Bakker Messner
Elizabeth Taylor
Mary Travers (Peter Paul & Mary)
Shelley Winters
Margaret Thatcher
Annette Funicello
Alternates:
Robert Anton Wilson
Jerry Lewis
Keith Richards
Well, I *know * that.Blows a Raspberry towards Vunderboob. But, what about after January 1st?
The list is carved in stone at 00:00:00.00000000000000000001 on 1 Jan. It doesn’t change. Having an alternate fill in because you got lucky with a top 13er constitutes changing the list.
Unless you want to run your own pool, and have that be your operational concept…?.. If so, what happens when an alternate croaks before bumping into the 13?
Graham, Billy, 1918, Christian evangelist
**Kilpatrick, James J., ** 1920, political writer
Parker, Eleanor, 6/26/22, actress
Barker, Bob, 12/12/23, game show host
Heston, Charlton, 1924, actor
Hefner, Hugh, 1926, publisher
Ariel Sharon, 2/27/1928, Israeli politician
Marcos, Imelda, 7/2/29, politician
Phelps, Fred, 11/13/29, hatemonger
Paget, Debra, 8/19/33, actress
Hawking, Stephen, 1/8/42, physicist
Bhutto, Benazir, 6/23/53, Pakistani politician
Incidentally, I’ll take Bob Barker as an alternate.
For some reason, I thought he was dead already.
Please replace my previously submitted list with this one:
Special thanks to a35362 for running the pool.
Alternate
Keith Richards
But what happens if you wake up Sunday morning to find Tom Brokaw had a bit too much fun with the cocaine and ODed New Years Eve? Or they find Pete Doherty’s corpse fermenting Layne Staley style? Or Bin Laden’s skeletal remains are finally put on display.
I plan on listing a couple Alts for these sorts of "just in case"s.
Baker, you only listed 12, so you get another pick.
Count me among those surprised to realize Eleanor Parker’s heart still beats.
Tammy Faye Bakker
Ronnie Biggs
Susan Butcher
Belinda Emmett
Maria Friedman
Don Ho
Kylie Minogue
Mike Peters
Ferenc Puskas
Lou Rawls
Dana Reeve
Johnny Sain
Tom Snyder
Alternate:
Harold Pinter
my first foray into the world of death prognostication:
Alt1: Henry Kissinger
Alt2: Sadaam Husein
Probably because the saying goes that people tend to die in groups of three. If anyone did in the end of December, it would be truly amazing.
Just to clarify, you mean the Mike Peters who sang with The Alarm as opposed to the Mother Goose and Grimm cartoonist, correct?
Warren Spahn died a couple of years ago, but it’ll be interesting to see if the death of Sain is followed by two days of rain. Incidentally, I picked Bob Feller, who lost the first game of the Cleveland-Boston World Series to Johnny (scroll to October 6, 1948 for details). My dad (who grew up an Indians fan) has a friend, Jack, who followed the Braves as a boy in New Hampshire. Dad always greets Jack by exclaiming “Masi was OUT!”
Because back when I was running this thing, I couldn’t whittle my preliminary list down to only ten (which is what it was the first year) so I changed the rules and made it thirteen.
Alternates
Elizabeth Taylor (Actress)
Robert Mugabe (Dictator / President of Zimbabwe)
And I assumed the number was picked on the basis of lucky 13…
Oh boy! I get to participate this year. Last year I forgot to send in my list in time. …grumble grumble…
Alternates:
George Jones
Gerald Ford
Ron Santo - Former Cub 3rd baseman who has chosen a drastic weight loss plan.
Muhammed Ali - Shaky boxer
Webster - Tiny actor with big death pool upside
Tommy Morrison - Former boxer I expect to be KO’d by AIDS
Casey Martin - Limping linkster
Al Unser Jr - A race car driver with an alcohol problem
Andres Galarraga - Former 1st baseman with cancer and a prediliction towards weight gain.
Fay Vincent - Former commish of baseball that just strikes me as sickly
Kirby Puckett - True penthouse to doghouse former slugger
Darryl Strawberry - Maybe, just maybe, drug related
Eddy Curry - Current Knick with a shakier heart than Fred Sanford
Jayson Williams - Chaffeur shooting former NBA bigman with little to live for.
Nate Newton - Former NFL lineman with weight and drug issues.
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Mullinator**, do you mean Emmanuel Lewis?
Holy Men:
Heads of State:
3. Fidel Castro
4. Jimmy Carter
5. Gerald Ford
6. Bill Clinton
7. Dick Cheney
8. John Paul Stevens
Game Show Hosts:
9. Merv Griffin
10. Bob Barker
Musicians:
11. Lou Rahls
12. Ashlee Simpson
13. Britney Spears