The Celebrity Death Pool 2006

The Game Room
201
  1. Muhammad Ali
  2. Pope Shenouda III
  3. Norodom Sihanouk
  4. Liz Taylor
  5. Lou Rawls
  6. Kirk Douglas
  7. Saddam Hussein
  8. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
  9. Annette Funicello
  10. Jack Klugman
  11. Bowie Kuhn
  12. Gordon Lightfoot
  13. Ramzan Kadyrov
202

1 Imelda Marcos
2 Fidel Castro
3 Muhammed Ali
4 Gerald Ford
5 Jack Palance
6 Kurt Vonnegut
7 Margaret Thatcher
8 Boris Yeltsin
9 Ed Koch
10 Dick Clark
11 John Glenn (I’m gonna feel extra guilty if this happens…)
12 Don Knotts
13 Ariel Sharon

alternate:
Mickey Rooney

203
  1. Gerald Ford
  2. Billy Graham
  3. Tammy Faye Bakker-Messner
  4. Estelle Getty
  5. Annette Funicello
  6. Dana Reeve
  7. Billy Joel
  8. Don Ho
  9. Danny Bonaduce
  10. Tara Reid
  11. Natasha Lyonne
  12. Brad Renfro
  13. Lou Rawls

Alternates:

Ron Santo
Dick Button

204

Art Linkletter
Tom Snyder
Gerald Ford
Muhammed Ali
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Dick Clark
Harry Morgan
Elizabeth Taylor
Charlton Heston
Joey Bishop
Lady Bird Johnson
Al Lewis
Fidel Castro

205

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[li]Muhammad Ali[/li][li]Fidel Castro[/li][li]Steven Cojocaru (“Entertainment Tonight”)[/li][li]Tippi Hedren[/li][li]Don Ho[/li][li]Courtney Love[/li][li]Tammy Faye Bakker Messner[/li][li]Prince Phillip[/li][li]Harold Pinter[/li][li]Liz Taylor[/li][li]Margaret Thatcher[/li][li]Claus von Bulow[/li][li]Esther Williams[/li][/ol]

206

I’m truly ashamed of the amount of time and thought I put into this list. I’m especially ashamed because after all that research I doubt I have any unique picks. Oh, well. At least I convinced my friends and family that I’m more twisted than they had previously suspected.

Lou Rawls
Ronnie Biggs
Don Ho
Mindy McCready
Tammy Faye Bakker Messner
Dana Reeve
Charlton Heston
Mary-Kate Olsen
Billy Graham
Jack Kevorkian
Stephen Hawking
Holly Johnson
Annette Funicello

alternates:

Young Buck
Dick Clark
Gerald R. Ford

Thanks, a35362!

207
  1. Augusto Pinochet
  2. Jesse Helms
  3. Wojciech Jaruzelski (Poland’s last commie leader)
  4. Margaret Thatcher
  5. Jim Bunning (US Senator/former Phillies pitcher)
  6. Don Cherry (Hockey Night in Canada)
  7. Lou Rawls
  8. Elizabeth Taylor
  9. Muhammed Ali
  10. Gary Glitter
  11. Keith Emerson (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
  12. Rick Wakeman (Yes)
  13. Angelina Jolie
208

Cripes, yes I did.

209

I’m sticking with most of my picks from last year (I know, they didn’t die then, why do I think they’re going to die now??)

Muhammed Ali
Tammy Faye Baker Messner
Fidel Castro
Dick Clark
Kirk Douglas
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Billy Graham
Lil’ Kim
Prince Phillip
Augusto Pinochet
Lou Rawls
John Paul Stevens
Jane Wyman

210

OK, I didn’t get many points this year, so I’d better try again this year. My picks:

  1. Margaret Thatcher
  2. 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson)
  3. Gerald Ford
  4. Stephen Hawking
  5. Elizabeth Taylor
  6. Fidel Castro
  7. Nick Nolte
  8. Tammy Faye Baker
  9. John Goodman
  10. Annette Funicello
  11. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  12. Ozzy Osbourne
  13. Brad Renfro

Alternate - Doris Day

211

I’ll have a go this year, keeping it quaintly anglocentric for 10:

Jimmy Saville (DJ, presenter)
Pete Doherty (singer, smackhead)
Eddie Large (comedian)
Patrick Moore (astronomer, xylophonist)
Stephen Hawking (cosmologist)
Clive Dunn (Dad’s Army, Granddad)
Arthur C Clarke (writer)
Margaret Thatcher (PM, bat)
Ronnie Biggs (train robber)
Claire Rayner (agony aunt)

With three Iraqis (the three defendants I’d actually heard of before the trial):

Saddam Hussein (evildoer)
Barzan al-Tikriti (intelligence head)
Taha Yassin Ramadan (vice president)

And a subs bench of footballers:

Alfredo di Stefano (Real Madrid)
Diego Maradona (Argentina)
Paul Gascoigne (England)

212

With respect to Saddam and his cronies, won’t they be excluded and thus invalid by having been sentenced to death?

213

according to the OP:

So if Saddam has a heart attack - he’s valid

214

Have they been sentenced? Isn’t the trial still going on?

215

And isn’t it sad that this is probably be the only validation that this man receives ever again.

Good luck everyone. I hope all of you won’t mind being far behind me in points this time next year!
Oh please don’t let me look foolish. Oh please don’t let me look foolish.

216
  1. Lou Rawls
  2. Natasha Lyonne
  3. Scott Weiland
  4. Larry Clark
  5. Brad Renfro
  6. Tammy Messner
  7. Gary Busey
  8. Damon Dash
  9. Pete Doherty
  10. Mindy McCready
  11. Barack Obama
  12. Steven Cojocaru
  13. Dick Clark
    Alternates
  14. David LaChapelle
  15. Liza Minnelli
    I am hoping that drugs kill in 2006.
217

OK, I’m in!

  1. Eminem, recording artist.
  2. Willie Nelson, singer/songwriter.
  3. Oral Roberts, God’s own embarrassment.
  4. Lou Rawls, heart and soul.
  5. Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, caricature.
  6. Pete Seeger, voice of the people.
  7. Robert Hunter, musician and poet,
  8. Elizabeth Taylor, beauty and philanthropist.
  9. Dean Ellis, American artist.
  10. Michael Jackson, what’s-it.
  11. Ariel Sharon, Israeli leader.
  12. Guy Clark, musician and poet.
  13. Howard Stern, free speaker.

Alternates:

Gerald Ford, former President.
David Weber, science fiction author.

218
  1. Gerald Ford
  2. Billy Graham
  3. Tammy Fay Messner
  4. Katie Holmes
  5. The Pope
  6. John Madden
  7. David Letterman
  8. Nancy Reagan
  9. Barbara Bush
  10. Bob Dole
  11. Fred Phelps
  12. Donald Sutherland
  13. John Goodman

Alts:

  1. Ozzy Osborne
  2. Keith Richards
  3. Dick Clark
219
  1. John Goodman
  2. Bob Saget
  3. Kobe Bryant
  4. Jerry Lewis
  5. Dustin Hoffman
  6. Tom Lehrer
  7. Gene Hackman
  8. Nathan Lane
  9. Christine Baranski
  10. Warren Beatty
  11. Bobby Fischer
  12. Sir Mix-A-Lot (Anthony Ray)
  13. Mary Ann Mobley

Same as last year. I like most of these people anyhow.

220

Mostly last years with one timely addition, and took off 50 cent since he got rich.

  1. Gerald Ford: second last living Republican ex-president
  2. ** George Bush **peres : last living Republican ex-president
  3. Joey Bishop: last living Brat Packer
  4. Lady Bird Johnson: former First Lady
  5. Glenn Ford: brilliant performance as Adm. Ray Spruance in Midway
  6. ** Ron Santo**: my favorite baseball player when I was a kid, multiple health problems
  7. ** Mary-Kate Olsen**: youth, anorexia and alleged coke use make her just too hard to pass up; she looks worse than Keith Richards
  8. Ronnie Biggs: Great Train Robber
  9. Kitty Carlisle Hart: famous for being famous
  10. Zsa Zsa Gabor: famous for being famous (& slugging a cop)
  11. Don Ho
  12. Quite literally munchkinMickey Carroll
  13. Former Los Angeles Ram football player & St Louis Ram broadcaster Jack Snow. Jack is hospitalized in critical condition with a staph infection. Jack may not make it through Saturday so. . .

Alternate
14. Dick Clark: world’s oldest dead teenager