The Celebrity Death Pool 2006

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Wow! I’ll give you any points I earn, in tribute.

62

and my Bushes deadly.

Thanks Pagen. That’s the best offer I’ve had all week.

63

I’m in!

1)Little Richard

2)J.D. Salinger

3)Walter Cronkite

4)Ed Koch

5)Henry Kissinger

6)Norman Mailer

7)Manuel Noriega

8)Archbishop Desmond Tutu

9)Reverend Sun Myung Moon

10)Pete Seeger

11)Phil Spector

12)Marcel Marceau

13)Sirhan Sirhan

Alternates:

1)Maggie Thatcher

2)Mikhail Gorbachev

64

Elton or Elizabeth?

65

My picks:

  1. Carol Channing (actress)
  2. Caroll Spinney (puppeteer)
  3. Estelle Getty (actress)
  4. Fritz Weaver (actor)
  5. Gordon B. Hinckley (cleric)
  6. Helmut Schmidt (politician)
  7. Jerry Nelson (puppeteer)
  8. John Turner (politician)
  9. Lloyd Robertson (anchor)
  10. Max von Sydow (actor)
  11. Ronnie Biggs (robber)
  12. Stanislaw Lem (author)
  13. William Peter Blatty (author)

Alternates:
14. Steven Hill (actor)
15. Peter Graves (actor)

66

No, Freddy Mercury.

Oh, wait a minute…

67

With no particular order or reasoning, my picks for '06:

1 Stephen Hawking
2 Mike Wallace (60 Minutes correspondent)
3 Larry King
4 Karl Rove
5 Pat Robertson
6 Nicole Richie
7 Paul Harvey
8 Don Imus
9 George Lopez
10 Donald Sutherland
11 Kate Moss
12 Wilford Brimley
13 Elizabeth Taylor

68

So many choices, so few slots…here goes:

My picks (in alphabetical order by last name)

  1. Bob Barker
  2. George Carlin
  3. Fidel Castro
  4. Dick Clark
  5. Walter Cronkite
  6. Bob Dylan
  7. Eminem
  8. Gerald Ford
  9. Stephen Hawking
  10. Michael Jackson
  11. Bill Keane
  12. Keith Richards
  13. Abe Vigoda

Alternates:

  1. Barbara Bush
  2. Fred Durst
  3. Richard Pryor

List subject to change

69

My first Celebrity Death Pool.

  1. Jerry Falwell
  2. Pat Robertson
  3. Fred Phelps
  4. Oral Roberts
  5. Billy Graham
  6. Jack Chick
  7. Gorden B. Hinckley
  8. Dali Lama
  9. Mickey Rooney
  10. Bea Arthur
  11. Dick Clark
  12. Muhammad Ali
  13. Robert Blake

Alternates

Jerry Lewis
Andy Griffith
B. B. King

70

I’m not sure that I’m ready to make my picks yet - although admittedly waiting and sorting through picks probably wouldn’t make any difference for me. Only points I’ve scored in the last three years are for Pope John Paul II this year!

Anyway, here goes:

  1. Courtney Love (ya know, her lifestyle has -got- to catch up with her sometime soon!!)
  2. Elizabeth Taylor - she is -not- in good shape
  3. Zsa Zsa Gabor - see above … and she’s had health problems already this year
  4. Prince Philip (ya know, I had Prince Rainier on my list -two- years ago … I’m gonna stick with Philip this year)
  5. Former President Gerald Ford, who is over 90.
  6. Keith Richards (yeah, his lifestyle is going to catch up with him too … )
  7. Jerry Lewis - sadly, he has not looked well for some time now
  8. Tammy Faye whatever her name is now, who is admittedly already ill.
  9. James Arness - yeah, Matt Dillon - he’s up there and doesn’t look good. :frowning:
  10. Luciano Pavarotti, hold over from 2005.
  11. Osama Bin Laden, also hold over from 2005
  12. Joan Kennedy
  13. Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Alternate: Former President Jimmy Carter

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  1. Luciano Pavarotti - born October 12 1935
  2. Colleen McCullough - born June 1 1937
  3. Shelley Winters - born August 18 1922
  4. Jerry Lewis - born March 16 1926
  5. Richard Pryor - born December 1 1940
  6. John Goodman - born June 20 1952
  7. Elizabeth Taylor - born February 27 1932
  8. Larry Hagman - born September 21 1931
  9. Margaret Thatcher - born October 13 1925
  10. Nancy Reagan - born July 6 1921
  11. Bert Newton - born July 23 1938
  12. Belinda Emmett - born April 12 1974
  13. Mark Latham - born February 28 1961

Alternate:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver - born July 10 1921

72

Hmm, most of my picks were to be the ones who survived my last list(I had five deaders.) But I see that most of them are not unique. Some of them are married though, I might go with the spouses of the married ones, keep the ones who aren’t married, and find five more new “regular” celebrities.

Decisions, decisions.

73

You’re about 20 years too late here.

74

Okay, here’s my list. I’ll be gone the last week of December (from Christmas Eve on, with no internet access), so if any of my picks kick off that week, add one of my alternates, in order. Thanks.

  1. Gerald Ford (former President)
  2. Dan Fogleberg (80s pop singer)
  3. Tammy Faye Baker Messner
  4. Coretta Scott King
  5. Kirk Douglas
  6. Ryan O’Neal
  7. Jerry Lewis
  8. Bob Barker
  9. Eunice Kennedy Shriver
  10. Joan Kennedy
  11. Jim McKay (famed sportscaster)
  12. Muhammed Ali
  13. Art Donovan (NFL Hall of Famer, 60s Baltimore Colt)

Alternates:

  1. Steven Cojocaru (People Magazine fashion advisor)
  2. Teri Garr
  3. Mary Tyler Moore
  4. Queen Elizabeth
75

Oh, sorry. I mean John Madden the football guy who looks like he’s pickled and only taken out for football season. Either that or he’s made of wax. :wink:

76

It’s been tough narrowing these down, but here it is:

  1. Mary Travers (of Peter, Paul & Mary)
  2. Shelley Winters
  3. Fyvush Finkel
  4. Mindy McCready
  5. Darren McGavin
  6. Jack Warden
  7. Kurt Vonnegut
  8. Tammy Faye Bakker Messner
  9. William Schallert
  10. Al Lewis (Grandpa Munster)
  11. Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake (ex-pro wrestler, real name Ed Leslie)
  12. Jake “The Snake” Roberts (ex-pro wrestler, real name Aurelian Smith, Jr.)
  13. Lady Bird Johnson

In case one of these folks dies before January 1st, substitute these folks in this order:

Alternates:

  1. Christopher Lee
  2. Jimmy Carter
  3. Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Thanks for doing this a35362! I’m proud to add my first-ever entry to the sickest thread on the Dope!

My 13 picks:
Fidel Castro
Lindsay Lohan
Stephen Hawking
Mickey Rooney
Augusto Pinochet
Ernest Borgnine
Claude Levi-Strauss
John Goodman
Elizabeth Taylor
Caspar Weinberger
Pete Best
Walter Cronkite
Les Paul

Alternates (in order):
Jack LaLanne
Mary Tyler Moore
Fats Domino

78

Hopefully the old fart that lives across the street from me.

79

Wikipedia lists her year of birth as 1912, so you’ll only get six points according to the “fewest points possible if disputes arise” rule.

I still haven’t given up on the possibility of a late surge propelling me past the “Pope Only” logjam, so I’ll wait until near the end of the month to post my picks for 2006. It’s interesting (as always) to see everybody’s selections, and I’ve even learned today about some famous people I had never known existed. Another plaudit for a35362’s willingness to do all this work!

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Every book of hers I’ve ever read lists it as 1916, which is also what it is on Fantastic Fiction. Wikipedia’s all right, but I trust it about as far as I can throw it.