The Celebrity Death Pool 2006

The Game Room
101

<takes deep breath>

  1. Kirk Douglas
  2. Elizabeth Taylor
  3. Jerry Lewis
  4. Kurt Vonnegut
  5. Ray Bradbury
  6. Stephen Hawking
  7. Harry Belafonte
  8. Margaret Thatcher
  9. Dick Cheney
  10. Steve Jobs
  11. Gerald Ford
  12. Mike Ditka
  13. Keith Richards
102

I think Dan Rather stands an even chance of being killed by a crazed stalker–Here’s the frequency, Kenneth.

103

The Google ads on this thread have been hilarious!

Local Crime Scene Clean Up

Elizabeth Taylor Perfume

Cremation Society of MN

And, of course, mementos honoring the Bush family. To think that one got there because of Annie X-mas’ list is just too funny.

104

Thank you Captain. If I win the DP06, people will be needing some Bush momentos.

105

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Just saw that (#3) Senator Eugene McCarthy died today.

Replace him with ** Dr. Jack Kervorkian (Pathologist)** on my list.

Other alternates to be used as needed:
1. Judge Joseph Wapner (TV Personality)
2. Celeste Holm (Actress)
3. Hank Jones (Jazz Pianist)

106

Gonna be lots of late revisions, now that Richard Pryor has passed away :frowning: Farewell to a comic genius.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051210/en_nm/pryor_dc_2

107

I think you may have to use one of your alternates before year’s end.

108

Pope Bendedict XVI
Nancy Reagan
Gerald Ford
Charlton Heston
Steve-O
Paul Newman
Suge Knight
Queen Elizabeth II
Sandra Day O’Connor
Jerry Lee Lewis
Fidel Castro
Magic Johnson
Larry King

109

Ok, here I go - I checked all actors/actresses through IMDB to make sure they are still alive, so I’m hoping all are correct and still alive.

  1. Dick Van Patten (actor, Eight is Enough)
  2. Karen Grassle (actress, Little House on the Prairie tv series)
  3. Queen Elizabeth II (current queen of England)
  4. George Herbert Walker Bush (former president)
  5. Barbara Bush (former first lady)
  6. Margaret Thatcher (former prime minister of England)
  7. Dick Van Dyke (actor)
  8. Pope Benedict XVI (current pope)
  9. Kate Moss (model)
  10. Julie Andrews (actress)
  11. Christopher Plummer (actor)
  12. Sean Connery (actor)
  13. Tom Brokaw (former new anchor, NBC news)

Alternates:

  1. Alex Trebek (host, Jeopardy!)
  2. James Earl Jones (actor)
  3. Topol (actor)
110

Please replace Richard Pryor with Fidel Castro.

And here are three Alternates (so I don’t have to revise again…)

A. Fred Phelps
B. Sun Myung Moon
C. Pope Benedict XVI

111

Updated list, due to the passing of Richard Pryor:

  1. Keith Richards - Musician
  2. Elizabeth Taylor - Actress
  3. Nancy Reagan - Former First Lady
  4. Phyllis Diller - Comedienne
  5. Queen Elizabeth II - Um, Queen
  6. Sophia Loren - Actress
  7. Ted Turner - Mogul/Jerk
  8. Margaret Thatcher - Former PM
  9. Augusto Pinochet - Chilean Dictator
  10. Bea Arthur - Actress
  11. John Neville - Actor
  12. Kirk Douglas - Actor
  13. Mel Brooks - Director

Alternate, should another one pass before 1/1/6:

Boy George - Professional Freak

112

Well, with Richard Pryor freeing up another spot on my 2005 list, I have space for three new people on my 2006 list. The other 10 are a year older and thus even more likely to pass in 2006 than they were in 2005!

  1. Jack Palance

  2. Lady Bird Johnson

  3. Gerald Ford

  4. Billy Graham

  5. (removed 2005 pick) Joey Bishop

  6. Art Linkletter

  7. Boris Yeltsin

  8. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  9. Jerry Lewis

  10. Abe Vigoda

  11. Herman Wouk

  12. Sherwood Schwartz

  13. Oral Roberts

113

Move Peter Falk up to my 2006 list and add Keith Richards as my new Alternate #2 pick.

114

Now that Richard Pryor has already passed, please replace my #3 alternate with **Billy Graham,/b].

115

Since Richard Pryor has been replaced on my list with Olivia de Havilland, my new #3 alternate is Willard Scott.

116

I will resubmit the list. (Especially since Pryor dies this weekend.) I knew it was still too early to post.

117
  1. Elizabeth Taylor
  2. Nancy Reagan
  3. Mickey Rooney
  4. Gerald Ford
  5. Gary Glitter
  6. Kirk Douglas
  7. Courtney Love
  8. Walter Cronkite
  9. Lady Bird Johnson
  10. Mel Brooks
  11. Abe Vigoda
  12. John Goodman
  13. Muhammad Ali

Alternate 1. Suge Knight
Alternate 2. Tammy Sytch (formerly Sunny in the WWF/E)

118
  1. Ronnie Biggs
  2. Abe Vigoda
  3. Tammy Faye Bakker
  4. Gerald Ford
  5. 50 cent
  6. Stephen Hawking
  7. Elizabeth Taylor
  8. Steve O
  9. Hosni Mubarak
  10. Estelle Getty
  11. Kirk Douglas
  12. Mike Danton
  13. Augusto Pinochet

Alternates

Bulent Ecevit
Keith Richards

119

Remove Richard Pryor (how sad, he was a great comedian!), replace with Stephen Hawking.

And I suppose I should add alternates just in case:
Alternate #1 Elizabeth Taylor
Alternate #2 Estelle Getty

120

Could you please replace Richard Pryor with my #1 alternate, Syd Barrett? Thanks.