My first go-round with the Pool! Here’s my picks:
Jack Palance
Elizabeth Taylor
Paul McCartney
Rip Torn
Gary Busey
Nick Nolte
Jerry Lewis
Danny Bonaduce
Lauren Hutton
Jerry Falwell
Lillian Asplund (a gimmee, I know.)
Estelle Getty (of “Golden Girls” fame)
Whitney Houston
Alternates in order:
Tammy Faye Baker Messner
Angela Lansbury
Mary Tyler Moore
Here it is… the safest place to be for '06!
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<li>Mary Travers, from Peter Paul & Mary
<li>Barbara Bush the Elder
<li>Pete Seeger
<li>50 Cent
<li>Phred Phelps (Satan will ascend and transport him bodily to Hell)
<li>Billy Graham
<li>Stephen Hawking
<li>Ray Bradbury
<li>Peter Falk
<li>Prince Philip
<li>Emperor Akihito of Japan
<li>Angela Lansbury
<li>Jimmy Carter
</ol>
Bonus picks, in order, should any of the above be or become ineligible:
<ol>
<li>Doris Day
<li>Bea Arthur
<li>Tammy Faye Bakker Whatever
</ol>
First time I get to do this:
Mine was almost a complete “K” list:
**Don Knotts ** (Actor)
Kurt Waldheim (Former nazi, Former UN guy)
Kirk Douglas (Actor. Tough guy not so tough anymore)
Karl Malden (Actor)
Henry Kissinger (diplomat, statesman, dictator supporter)
"Evel" Knievel (Former daredevil, this will be his last jump)
Jack Klugman (Actor, the odd couple can not be a couple unless they get together)
The Gimmies:
Gerald Ford (Former president)
Zsa Zsa Gabor (Actress, sorry dahling)
The rest:
Boris Yeltsin (Former statesman)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Former gulag prisoner, writer)
Nelson Mandela (Former prisioner, statesman)
Eli Wallach (Actor, the ugly one)
Alternates:
Fidel Castro (Statesman)
Walter Cronkite (Reporter)
Ernest Gallo (Wine king)
Olivia De Havilland (Actress)
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[li]Stephen Hawking[/li][li]Vic Chesnutt[/li][li]Frank Gardner[/li][li]Chuck Graham[/li][li]John Hockenberry[/li][li]Sharry Konopski[/li][li]Charles Krauthammer[/li][li]Deng Pufang[/li][li]Wolfgang Schäuble[/li][li]Randy Snow[/li][li]Magic Johnson[/li][/ul]
I borrowed muchly from Wikipedia’s list of paraplegic people.
Here’s mine:
John Goodman
Michael J. Fox
Dick Cheney
Estelle Getty
Muhammed Ali
Dana Reeve
George H. W. Bush
Queen Elizabeth
Gerald Ford
Lindsay Lohan
Robert Blake
Howard Stern
Joan Collins
Moses Hardy isn’t worth any points at all as he is 112 years old and will be 113 in January. Lillian Asplund is only worth a single point if she dies early in January and after that, nothing. I understand that maybe you’re going for the quantity over quality award, but I’m disturbed by the selection of these people. Surely this is the same kind of bad taste that lead to the creation of rule 3f (“political prisoners, 'cause we’re macabre but not THAT macabre.”). A WWI vet and a titanic survivor stretch the definition of celebrity IMO.
Antigen’s Death List 2006:
Dick Clark
Kirk Douglas
Ed McMahon
Abe Vigoda
David Letterman
Jason Priestley
Charleton Heston
Jiri Fisher (Detroit Red Wings)
Clint Eastwood
Fidel Castro
Gordie Howe
Kylie Minogue
Curtis James Jackson (aka 50 cent, rapper)
Alternates, in order:
Dan Rather
Cindi Lauper
Hello everyone! I’ve been a long time lurker. I registered just for this thread!
Yay! My very first Death Pool!
I submit:
Queen Elizabeth II (British Monarch)
Donald Rumsfeld (American Defense Secretary)
Fidel Castro (aging communist)
James Hetfield (frontman/rhythm guitarist for Metallica)
Nancy Cartwright (voice of Bart Simpson)
Snoop Dogg (born Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., rapper)
Sir James Paul McCartney (aging Beatle)
Roger Michael Cardinal Mahoney (Archbishop of Los Angeles)
Lindsay Lohan (Actress)
Robert Shapiro (defense attorney)
Ann Coulter (journalist)
Christopher Lee (actor)
Courtney Love (musician)
Alternates:
Henry Winkler
Kelsey Grammer
Bob Barker
1.) Jerry Falwell (please, please, please let this man die this year)
2.) Richard Pryor
3.) Anne Rice
4.) Xaviera Hollander
5.) Muhammed Ali
6.) Pervez Musharraf
7.) Susan Powter
8.) Wilford Brimley
9.) Dan Fogelberg
10.) David Crosby
11.) Rachel Wallmeyer
12.) Richard Roundtree
13.) Arthur Frommer
Alternates:
1.) Syd Barrett
2.) Adam West
3.) James Brown
I’m Dreaming of a Bush Death Pool:
1.George W. Bush
2. Barbara Bush (the elder)
3. George H.W. Bush
4. Laura Bush
5. Barbara Bush (the younger)
6. Jenna Bush
7. Jeb Bush
8. Columba Bush
9. Jebby Bush
10. Lauren Bush
11. George P. Bush
12. Neil Bush
13. Marvin Bush
Ok, I’ll play again:
Alternates, in order:
Now this is person who takes their politics seriously.
Note rule #7. Persons under sentence of death will be valid for scoring points only if they die by means other than official execution (not that either of these fine upstanding citizens are likely to be executed in 2006).
alterego, you get two more picks.
Electronic Chaos’s picks are okay with me.
Dolores Reborn and yellowval: do you mean John Madden the football guy or John Madden the film director?
Change 13 to Noelle Bush (all those drugs have to kick in sometime) and keep Marvin as an alternate pick (in case the drugs kick in in December)
My first death pool. This is creepily enjoyable.
Alternates, in this order:
Jeremy Irons
Al Pacino
50 Cent