The Celebrity Death Pool 2006

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I just think all you listing Keith Richards will not get a perfect score. He’s going to outlive the cockroaches

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Here goes…

  1. Dick Clark
  2. Dick Cheney
  3. Annette Funicello
  4. Dana Reeve
  5. Larry Storch
  6. Tammy Faye Bakker Messner
  7. Don Ho
  8. Mary Tyler Moore
  9. Rupert Everett
  10. Stephen Hawking
  11. Margaret Thatcher
  12. Lou Rawls
  13. Madeleine L’Engle
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  1. Courtney Love
  2. Bob Dole
  3. Dennis Rodman
  4. Emeril Lagasse
  5. Pam Anderson
  6. Stephen King
  7. Jay Leno
  8. George Carlin
  9. Ralph Wilson
  10. Larry Flint
  11. Jeff Gordon
  12. John Travolta
  13. Macaulay Culkin

Woo Hoo, I’ll try again with the young and dangerous. I’m looking for big points not easy scores. Who knows maybe I’ll wind up with zero points again!

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OK, this is my first Celebrity Death Pool tourny, so here goes:

  1. Fidel Castro (He’s old)
  2. Hugh Downs (Ditto)
  3. Dick Clark (See above)
  4. Lindsey Lohan (Took a sharp turn down cocaine blvd, most seem to think.)
  5. Courtney Love (Do you really need a reason?)
  6. B.B. King (Old AND diabetic)
  7. 50 Cent (He’s already been shot, like, 1,000 times. Odds are, he’ll be shot again.)
  8. Stephen Hawking (Old-ish, but also has a very bad disease)
  9. Hank Aaron (Old)
  10. Billy Graham (Same as most, old)
  11. Hugh Hefner (Again, and old fogey)
  12. John Goodman (not that old, but big and looks like he might have heart trouble.)
  13. Jack Black (He likes the drugs)
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My picks for '06

1 - Muhammad Ali
2 - Ginger Lynn Allen
3 - Ronnie Biggs
4 - Gerald Ford
5 - Billy Graham
6 - Don Ho
7 - Larry King
8 - Art Linkletter
9 - Tammy Faye Bakker Messner
10 - Eleanor Mondale
11 - Lou Rawls
12 - Elizabeth Taylor
13 - Margaret Thatcher

Alternates if for any reason they’re necessary:
1 - Augusto Pinochet
2 - Henry Kissinger
3 - George McGovern

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I have been agonizing over my picks for the past two days and trying to come up with a few that no one else has.

Unfortunately, it looks like a few of you are on the same Perverse Wave Length as me …

[Mr. Incredible]

I still got time.
[/Mr. Incredible]

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Yeah, no one says “young and dangerous” like Bob Dole. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Here goes:

1- Dick Cheney
2- Mikhail Gorbachev
3- George HW Bush (the legitimately elected one)
4- Rush Limbaugh
5- Dale Earnhardt Jr
6- William Shatner (you’re dead, Jim)
7- George Kell, Detroit Tiger Hall of Famer
8- Mike Tyson
9- Max Baer, Jr
10- Art Buchwald
11- Oliver North
12- Lou Ferrigno
13- Barbara Billingsley

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Ah, I see. I was under the impression that if someone was not sentenced to death yet you would still get the points if they were executed.

If that’s the case, scratch my Iraqis and subs bench:

I’ll have

  1. Ian Huntley
  2. Michael J. Fox
  3. Muhammed Ali
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I’m going to keep Saddam, because with the number of attempts on his life, and the rescue attempts both, I don’t think he’ll live long enought to be executed.

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Last Call! Last Call for bets! Place your bets! Last Call!

(Remember in the SDMP Death Pool, like the Oscars, it is an honor just to be nominated!)

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Gah, I’ve spent 4 hours this morning trying to fine tune my list and I am still Not Happy.

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[ol]
[li]Efram Zimbalist Jr. [/li][li]Haji Mohammad Soeharto [/li][li]Max Wright[/li][li]Sir Arthur C. Clarke[/li][li]Jürgen Habermas[/li][li]Jean Stapleton[/li][li]Sir Patrick Moore[/li][li]Alexander Haig[/li][li]Kim Novak[/li][li]Javier Pérez de Cuéllar[/li][li]Maximilian Schell[/li][li]Lord Peter Carrington[/li][li]Norodom Sihanouk[/li]
Alternates
[li]Milton Friedman [/li][li]Kurt Waldheim[/li][/ol]

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Sometimes you’ve just got to post. I was going to wait till today, gave up and did it the other evening – and have been finding notes to myself all over the house with possible names. I’m just gonna stay with my list. (I’ll tell you, though – if Jane Fonda kicks this year I’m gonna be pissed.

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Tammy Faye Messner
Local girl makes “good.” Looks like a panda bear. A scary panda bear.

Lou Rawls
The first musician I can remember disliking. Of course, I liked the Bay City Rollers back then.

Belinda Emmett
Australian TV star married to another TV star. Proponent of alternative medicine. Her inclusion on this list tells you what I think of alt meds.

Sarah Brady
Gun control advocate. To right-wing gun nuts she’s one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

Yves St. Laurent
Chain-smoking, boozehound fashion designer. Appropriately, he’s best kown for creating the smoking jaket.

Lansana ConteLong-time President (dictator) of Guinea. Survived a round of bullet hockey in January. I’m taking another “shot” at it with him this year.

Harold Pinter
Writer who is probably more famous for his political views than any of his books. Big supporter of Fidel Castro and Slobodan Miloševic.

Ronnie Biggs
Robbed a train and has parleyed that into a lifetime of making a spectacle of himself.

Michael Brecker
Jazz Saxophonist. Has won eleven Grammys, but is a respected musician anyway.

Patsy Ramsey
1977 Miss West Virgina. More famous, however, for being the mother of JonBenet

And in the 72 virgins club…

Imad al Diab
Islamic Jihad leader. Israelis once pimped his ride.

Mohamed al Hindi
Senior member of Islamic Jihad. Famous for saying “we will not lay down our weapons.” He forgot to mention the cold, dead hand part of
that saying.

Warren Jeffs
Holy man, prophet, voice of God and the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints. Also a rapist, pedophile, extortionist, polygamist, etc. Pratices what might be called reverse-Islam. He gets his 72 virgins before his martyrdom. This is the way to go. The Islamic Jihad guys might get the shaft from Allah when they go to collect their holy hotties. Jeffs on the other hand, gets all the divine tail he can handle in the here and now.

Alternates

al Zarqawi
Asshat

Mahmoud al
Zahar
Was elected leader of Hamas in secret to protect him from assassination. If I know he’s the “secret” Hamas leader what are the odds the Israelis have figured out the “secret” too?

Pete Doherty
Musician who has been said to take the odd nip at the bottle. Boyfriend of Kate Moss

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Hokey smoke! I almost missed the deadline. Again. Here goes:

  1. Dave Brubeck
  2. Sid Caesar
  3. Phyllis Diller
  4. Gerald Ford
  5. Billy Graham
  6. Harvey Korman
  7. Tammy Faye Bakker Messner
  8. Louis Nye
  9. Don Rickles
  10. Lou Rawls
  11. Mickey Rooney
  12. Gene Wilder
  13. Studs Terkel
    For the record: I’m not really jumping on the Rawls bandwagon, since I named him two years ago (so there). I am with Ms. Messner, since so many have named her and she carries to many points to pass up.
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2006 Dead Pool Picks: Trying for the Quantity Over Quality Award:
1.Gerald Ford ( Carry over from DP2005)
2.Margaret Thatcher. ( 1925)
3.Saddam Hussein (1937) Assassinated or hangs himself.
4.**Fidel Castro **(1926) (He could be the Keith Richards of politics.)
5.**Stephen Hawking **(1942) ( Another Immortal, but worth the shot.)
6.Osama Bin Laden (1957) Worth a shot.
7.Tom Snyder. Former talk show host. Cancer. (WAG as my Opening Kickoff winner. His website is now down.)
8.Michael Brecker. (1949) Musician.
9.Carlo Ponti (1912) Sophia Loren’s husband. Old Age.
10.**Harper Lee **( 1926) To Kill A Mocking Bird. ( WAG & Icon Writer Pick)
11.Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918) Writer. Old Age. Obsure Pick.
12.Ronnie Biggs (this year he is going to go and he is on my list finally!)
13.Lou Rawls. (On the bandwagon!)
Alternates:

Claude Levi-Strauss ( 1908)
Arthur Clarke (1917)
Paris Hilton (perferably strangled by Andy Dick)
Andy Dick (who then flames out in a pile of coke.)
Go forth and die!

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First the carry-overs from 2005 (because I can’t believe they made it):
Mickey Rooney 09/23/1920
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 11/11/1922

Stream of Consciousness WAGS:
Jim Fowler 04/09/1932 (notorious beast wrangler from Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom)
Arte Johnson 01/20/1929
Donovan Philips Leitch 05/10/1946 (quite rightly)
Jon Voight 12/29/1938

"I Thought They Were Dead" category:
Barnard Hughes 07/16/1915
Gary Owens 05/10/1936 (famous announcer on just about every 70’s TV show)

"Live Fast and Die Young" category:
Marshall Bruce Mathers III 10/17/1972
Artie Lange 10/11/1967

"Aging Childhood Infatuation" category:
Barbara Hall Feldon 03/12/1932

"I Hope My List Doesn’t Keep Them Alive" category
Harry Belafonte 03/01/1927
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz 08/13/1926

And Finally,
The Alternates (since they didn’t croak last year):
Sir Edmund Hillary 07/20/1919
Chuck Yeager 02/13/1923

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Just to clarify (for my own list, not referencing anyone else’s picks) “celebrity” doesn’t have to be current, right? I mean, someone famous in the 70s but not active/famous/whatever now counts. Right?

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Mel Brooks
Mark “Deep Throat” Felt
Gerald Ford
Paul Newman
Nick Nolte
Pauline Friedman “Abigail (Dear Abby) Van Buren” Philips
Ralph Waite
Mike Wallace
Jonathan Winters
Caspar Weinberger
Dick “Mr. Whipple” Wilson
Boris Yeltsin
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.