The Celebrity Death Pool 2006

The Game Room
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I did a little rearranging, but for the most part, this list is a continuation of the “They’ve all gotta go sometime” strategy (or stragedy if you’re Bugs Bunny)

Gerald Ford (b. 1913)
Lillian Jackson Braun (b. 1916)
Kirk Douglas (b. 1916)
Billy Graham (b. 1918)
Mickey Spillane (b. 1918)
Jesse Helms (b. 1921)
John Glenn (b. 1921)
Lee Iacocca (b. 1924)
Dick Van Dyke (b. 1925)
Jerry Lewis (b. 1926)
Peter Falk (b. 1927)
Stephen Hawking (b. 1942)

ALTERNATES
Anne Rice (b. 1941)
Keith Richards (b. 1943)
John Goodman (b. 1952)

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My entries:

Ed McMahon
Wally Schirra
Buzz Aldrin
Mike Wallace
Morley Safer
Paris Hilton
Queen Elizabeth II
Helen Thomas
Tom Brokaw
Tom Snyder
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Jimmy Carter
Hugo Chavez

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SpazCat, you picked twelve. Who’s gonna be #13?

Thanks, amarone.

FriarTed, I’m assuming you’re posting a list later…?

Kilvert’s Pagan, you’re welcome! :slight_smile:

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Lauren Bacall
John Updike
Lena Horne
Princess Stephanie of Monaco
Kate Moss
Sandy Kofax
James Earl Jones
Mickey Hargitay
Francois Truffaut
R. Kelly
Eddie Van Halen
Studs Terkel
Nelson Mandela

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I’m using new math.

No, really, I can’t count.

NEW LIST
Gerald Ford (b. 1913)
Lillian Jackson Braun (b. 1916)
Kirk Douglas (b. 1916)
Arthur C. Clarke (b. 1917)
Billy Graham (b. 1918)
Mickey Spillane (b. 1918)
Jesse Helms (b. 1921)
John Glenn (b. 1921)
Lee Iacocca (b. 1924)
Dick Van Dyke (b. 1925)
Jerry Lewis (b. 1926)
Peter Falk (b. 1927)
Stephen Hawking (b. 1942)

Anne Rice (b. 1941)
Keith Richards (b. 1943)
John Goodman (b. 1952)

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Here we go:

  • Billy Graham
  • Jerry Lewis
  • Nancy Reagan
  • Agusto Pinochet
  • Kirk Douglas
  • Annette Funicello
  • Teri Garr
  • Richard Pryor
  • Art Linkletter
  • IM Pei
  • Stan Musial
  • Harmon Killebrew
  • Maria Tallchief
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  1. Patrick Cranshaw (character actor – Old School, Bubble Boy)

  2. Mike Tyson (ex- boxer, train wreck)

  3. Ronnie Biggs (train robber)

  4. Russell Johnson (The Professor)

  5. Peter Tork (Hey, Hey, It’s the Monkees!)

  6. Dennis Hopper (Heineken? Fk that st! Pabst Blue Ribbon!)

  7. Paul Francis Gadd, a.k.a. Gary Glitter (nutcase)

  8. Frank Oz (director of films is he)

  9. Jamie Weisman, M.D. (author)

  10. Calvert DeForest (Larry “Bud” Melman)

  11. George Jones (C/W singer)

  12. Margaret Thatcher (Dennis’s widow)

  13. Robert Novak (conservative pundit)
    Alternate picks, to be used if anyone on my main list has the audacity to die before the new year arrives:

  14. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (author)

  15. William Arthur Philip Louis Mountbatten-Windsor (PoW spawn)

  16. Kate Moss (blow user)

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  1. Patrick Cranshaw (character actor – Old School, Bubble Boy)

  2. Mike Tyson (ex- boxer, train wreck)

  3. Ronnie Biggs (train robber)

  4. Russell Johnson (The Professor)

  5. Peter Tork (Hey, Hey, It’s the Monkees!)

  6. Dennis Hopper (Heineken? Fk that st! Pabst Blue Ribbon!)

  7. Paul Francis Gadd, a.k.a. Gary Glitter (nutcase)

  8. Frank Oz (director of films is he)

  9. Jamie Weisman, M.D. (author)

  10. Calvert DeForest (Larry “Bud” Melman)

  11. George Jones (C/W singer)

  12. Margaret Thatcher (Dennis’s widow)

  13. Robert Novak (conservative pundit)
    Alternate picks, to be used if anyone on my main list has the audacity to die before the new year arrives:

  14. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (author)

  15. William Arthur Philip Louis Mountbatten-Windsor (PoW spawn)

  16. Kate Moss (blow user)

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Oops.

That was my first double post in a long time, if not my first one ever.

Anyway, the two lists are identical.

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This is my first time participating in the Celebrity Deathpool! Huzzah!

Before I post my list, I have a question: What do we do if there is ambiguity about whether or not the person is actually dead? For example, there have been news reports of late about the fact that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi may or may not be dead.

Here’s my list:

  1. Saddam Hussein (b. 1937), bad person

  2. Robert Downey, Jr., (b. 1965), actor

  3. Gerald Ford (b. 1913), former POTUS

  4. Osama Bin Laden (b. 1957), bad person

  5. Andy Williams (b. 1927), crooner, Branson theater-owner, turtle-neck wearer

  6. George Herbert Walker Bush (b. 1924), former POTUS

  7. Frank McCourt (b. 1930), writer and memoirist

  8. Bil Keane (b. 1922), cartoonist

  9. Joseph Barbera (b. 1911), cartoonist

  10. Darren McGavin (b. 1922), actor

  11. Richard Starkey, aka Ringo Starr (b. 1940), former Beatle

  12. Allen Stewart Königsberg, aka Woody Allen (b. 1935), esoteric film director

  13. Tony Kushner (b. 1956), playwright (Angels in America)

Alternates:

Barbara Bush (b. 1925), former FLOTUS
Thomas Erdelyi, aka Tommy Ramone (b. 1952), rock musician
John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten (b. 1956), rock musician

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  1. Eddie Van Halen
  2. Gerald Ford
  3. Nancy Reagan
  4. Lady Bird Johnson
  5. Fidel Castro
  6. Muhammad Ali
  7. Jimmy Carter
  8. Richard Pryor
  9. Billy Graham
  10. Margaret Thatcher
  11. Jim Nabors
  12. Dick Cheney
  13. Annette Funicello

Alternates:

Elizabeth Taylor
Kirk Douglas
Harry Morgan

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Hmmm…I think we gotta have some major news organization type confirmation.

Show me the body!

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  1. Bob Barker (Old game show host)
  2. Kurt Vonnegut (Author and smoker of unfiltered ciggs)
  3. Dick Clark (Professional Old Guy)
  4. Dick Cheney (I’m not really sure who this is, but he comes up in the news alot I think. :D)
  5. Osama bin Laden (Though I’m not sure we’d hear about this right away)
  6. Stephen Hawking (Quite possibily the world’s smartest man)
  7. Lillian Gertrud Asplund (oldest living Titanic survivor)
  8. Moses Hardy (oldest living WWI vet).
  9. Ray Bradbury (Sci-Fi writer)
  10. Ernest Gallo (Vinier)
  11. Albert Hoffman (Synthesizer of LSD; first to trip on it)
  12. John A. Wheeler (Scientist, and collaborator of Albert Einstein)
  13. Stanley Kunitz (Former Poet Laureate of the US)
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Donald Rumsfeld
Barbara Bush
Jimmy Carter
Ozzy Osborne
Magic Johnson
Cher
Ann Margaret
Jerry Seinfeld
Ted Turner
Gary Coleman
Aretha Franklin
Calvin Klein
Ed Koch

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  1. Gerald Ford - This will happen right before the November elections and give a push to the Republican party on election day.

  2. Billy Graham - Sad to seem him go, but he’s 87 already.

  3. Harry Morgan - I love Col. Potter and will really feel bad about this one.

  4. 江泽民 Unlikely, but it could happen and is worth 20-21 points.

  5. Luciano Pavarotti - He’s fat. End of story.

  6. Paul Wight - Big Man = Big Points.

  7. Eli Wallach - Had him 2 years ago. I figure he’s got to go.

  8. Peter Falk - He smokes like a fish. Whatever that means.

  9. Lady Bird Johnson - She’s still alive?

  10. Les Paul - Time to switch to electric harp, Les.

  11. C. Everett Koop Hey, had you smoked, you would not have made it this far.

  12. Glen Benton I thought you were going to off yourself at age 33?

And finally, my annual pick that I go with every single year for big points.

  1. Michelle Trachtenberg - I don’t want her dead. I just like the idea of getting big points off a random pick
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Albert Finney (actor)
Mick Mars (musician, Motley Crue)
Ringo Starr (musician)
BB King (musician)
Clive Cussler (writer)
Scott Adams (cartoonist)
Peter O’Toole (actor)
Anne Rice (writer)
Christopher Lloyd (actor)
Lily Tomlin (actress)
Betty White (actress)
Joan Baez (musician)
Maria Shriver (first lady California)

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I’ll play - this is my first time, too. And the entries are:

Jimmy Carter
Fidel Castro
Nancy Reagan
Andy Rooney
Bea Arthur
Billy Graham
Keith Richards
George Carlin (tho’ I hope not)
Harry Morgan
Willie Nelson
Richard Petty
Jerry Burns - Former Vikings coach
Bud Grant - Another former Vikings coach

Go me!

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At least I got some points in 2005, for the first time. (I had the Pope along with the rest of you!) And thanks a35362. This is always fun!

  1. Muhammed Ali
  2. Lady Bird Johnson
  3. Annette Funicello
  4. Jerry Lewis
  5. Richard Pryor
  6. Ray Bradbury
  7. Mickey Rooney
  8. John Madden
  9. Wilford Brimley
  10. Willie Nelson
  11. Keith Richards
  12. Stephen Spielberg
  13. Walter Cronkite

Backups:
Michael Jackson
Michael J. Fox
Arnold Palmer

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fun, if not a teeny bit morbid

my first time playing - here’s my list -

  1. Annette Funicello
  2. Mary Tyler Moore
  3. Liza Minelli
  4. Abe Vigoda
  5. Sadaam Hussain
  6. Nancy Reagan
  7. Hugh Downs
  8. Marty Allen
  9. Arnold ‘Red’ Auerbach
  10. Joe Barbera (of “Hanna and”
  11. Arthur C. Clarke
  12. Claude Levi-Strauss
  13. Mitch Miller
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What, you people have something against the Golden Girls? Sheesh!

Okay, here’s my picks:

  1. 50 Cent
  2. Marion “Suge” Knight
  3. John Madden (though I swear he’s already dead)
  4. Tara Reid
  5. LaToya Jackson
  6. Willard Scott
  7. Dick Clark
  8. Donatella Versace
  9. Don King
  10. Andy Dick
  11. Henry Winkler
  12. Kenny Rogers
  13. Dionne Warwick