Here’s my list, though I expect to alter it and flesh out a couple more before it’s said and done. Last year I held my list until the end not wanting to commit too early, but of course I forgot to submit it before the deadline. Not letting that happen this year. Here’s my sports heavy list.
Well, so far 2005 has been a wash-out for me. Lucky for my picks, I guess. Here are my picks for this year:
Bea Arthur
Kirk Douglas
Andy Rooney
Gerald Ford
Curtis Jackson, aka Fifty Cent
Chizuo Matsumoto, aka Shoko Asahara (Yes, I understand the death penalty rule)
Conrad Bain (“Mr. Drummond” from Diffrent Strokes)
Russell Johnson (“The Professor” from Gilligan’s Island)
Kiichi Miyazawa (former Japanese PM)
Gavin MacLeod
Nikolai Karachentsov (Russian actor)
Louie Anderson (the comedian who hosted Family Feud)
Mickey Rooney
If any of the above should die before Dec. 31, my alternates are as follows:
1st alternate: Ahmad Chalabi
2nd alternate: Mike Wallace (60 minutes)
3rd alternate: Harry Dean Stanton
I forgot all about this last year. Not again! Here’s my list:
1 Tammy Faye Bakker Messner
2 Gerald Ford
3 Bob Newhart
4 Scott Weiland
5 Fiddy Cent (Curtis James Jackson)
6 Debbie Reynolds
7 Muhammad Ali
8 Eunice Kennedy-Shriver
9 Dick Cheney
10 Fidel Castro
11 Billy Graham
12 BB King
13 Steven Cojocaru
I’ve updated my list…again. Dick Cheney has been bumped down to Alternate Status and I’ve replaced him with former Houston Oiler head coach, Bum Phillips.
My list:
Oral Roberts
Jerry Lee Lewis
Margaret Thatcher
Walter Cronkite
Tammy Faye Baker Messner
Charlton Heston
Oail Andrew “Bum” Phillips, former head coach of the Houston Oilers
Peter Falk
Holly Johnson, singer Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Nelson Mandela
Elizabeth Taylor
Gary Glitter
Pete Doherty, singer Babyshambles
Alternate 1: Courtney Love
Alternate 2: Keith Richards
Alternate 3: Dick Cheney
All right, I still need to update my list after the passing of Richard Pryor.
Old list with change in bold:
BILL KEANE. Family Circus cartoonist. I mean, I love the FC but this guy has GOT to go soon.
Same with:
Don Knotts. Talk about lasting for a long time. 3. Kirk Douglas
Louis Gossett Jr. Again, another person I pick every year and always seems to hang in there. I saw him a movie a couple years ago and mannn, he looked pretty old. Can’t see him living much longer.
Betty White. (although I hope not)
Gerald Ford. Still hanging in there. He’s like the “Bob Hope” of presidents.
Jerry Lewis. Although his Telethon will never die.
speaking of which 8. Jerry LEE Lewis.
Elizabeth Taylor
Jack Klugman
Mickey Rooney
B.B King
Ashanti Gotta have a random youngin’ singer in there!
I’ve lurked since January, so I missed this year’s one by this much. Figured I’d register to take part this time around, even if I may not end up ponying up the cash to see it through to the end. Here goes, in no partiular order:
Nelson Mandela: former President of South Africa
Dick Cheney: surliest Vice-President of USA ever
Steve Irwin: Aussie crocodile food
Luciano Pavarotti: tub of lard with a fantastic voice
Charlton Heston: Moses, gun-nut
Keith Richards: Rolling Stones zombie guitarist
Holly Johnson: Frankie Goes To Hollywood singer
Peter Falk: Columbo
Pete Doherty: drug addict, Kate Moss’ S.O. and singer for Babyshambles
Tammy Faye Bakker Messner: God-botherer
Stephen Hawking: wheelchair-bound genius
Fred Phelps: hatemonger
Muhammad Ali: ailing former boxing champ
Alternates, should any of the above not be able to perform their duties, in order of inclusion:
Larry Hagman: Actor, oil magnate, Jeannie’s master
Magic Johnson: HIV-infected basketball player
Ruben Studdard: American Idol Winner and heart-attack waiting to happen