The most macabre thread in cyberspace. Cool!
Donald Rumsfeld
Danny Bonaduce
Shigeru Miyamoto
Kirk Cameron
Fidel Castro
Ed McMahon
Tommy LaSorda
Jerry Lewis
Pervez Musharraf
Ariel Sharon
Lady Bird Johnson
Nancy Reagan
Mr. T.
Alternates:
Joe Scarborough
“Rowdy” Roddy Piper
Phil Donahue
Well, Fidel Castro, Tammy Messner, and Ariel Sharon are win, place, and show so far. Tied for fourth place are Billy Graham and Kirk Douglas. Mohammed Ali is in fifth, having moved up a little, and Elizabeth Taylor is right on his heels. Margaret Thatcher and Farrah Fawcett and seventh and eighth, Dick Clark is ninth, and nancy Reagan is 10th, with Lindsay Lohan and Lady Bird Johnson in a tie for 11th place.
I probably won’t post my choices until Sunday morning, but I can see only one change I will make from the popular list, as it stands then. I want to have Fred Phelps on my list, just to derive a little satisfaction if he finally goes to meet his Master.(And I ain’t referring to God!)
OK, I’m back in, despite the fact that I suck at this game 
Fidel Castro (leader of Cuba)
Tammy Faye Messner (evangelist, ex-wife of Jim Bakker)
Ted Kennedy (senator)
Dick Cheney (vice president)
Sandra Day O’Connor (former supreme court justice)
“Lady Bird” Johnson (former first lady. Yeah, there’s going to be a lot of dead political figures this year. Of course, I’ve said this for the last two years now.)
Elizabeth Taylor (actress)
Jack Kevorkian (assisted suicide activist)
Mohammed Ali (boxer)
Ariel Sharon (Israeli prime minister)
Tim Johnson (senator who suffered stroke-like ailment)
Osama bin Laden (terrorist bastard)
Hugh Hefner (Playboy founder)
Sorry, I forgot my alternate pick:
Mel Brooks (actor/director/producer)
A ruling please…
Suppose I choose a dictator, like Saddam, BEFORE he is sentenced to death. Maybe even before he is charged with a crime. And then later, he is charged, sentenced and executed in short order.
This could conceivably happen to any number of dictators, and has happened a number of times historically – Romania, Afghanistan, Tsarist Russia, Chile, are a few places that come to mind. Some kind of revolution/coup/“regime change” that is capped off by a show trial or summary judgement by the new regime, and quickie execution.
It is my feeling that these should be worth some points, but of course I submit myself to the wisdom of the judges.
Let’s see if I can break my duck
Deathlist 2007
01 Robert Jordan (Author)
02 Dick Cheney (U.S. VP)
03 Margaret Thatcher (ex-PM)
04 Dame Vera Lynn (WW2 singer)
05 Mikhail Gorbachev (ex-Premier of Soviet Union)
06 Fidel Castro (President of Cuba)
07 Raul Castro (Fidel’s brother)
08 Ariel Sharon (ex-PM of Israel)
09 Michael J Fox (Actor)
10 Jenni Murray (Radio / TV presenter)
11 Meg Rosoff (Author)
12 Prince Philip (Husband of QE2)
13 Terry Jones (TV presenter and Python star)
Alternates:
14 Queen Elizabeth II (Monarch)
15 Jimmy Carter (Ex-President),
16 Gary Gygax (co-inventor of D&D)
Hoping to make some unique (yet viable) picks this year:
The Old
The Infirm
4. Lamar Lundy, 71 (former Rams, lotsa serious health problems)
5. Bobby Murcer, 61 (former Yankee and Giant, undergoing brain tumor surgery)
6. Debbie Mathers-Briggs, 50 (Eminem’s mom, stage 4 breast cancer)
The Incarcerated
7. Vojislav Šešelj, 52 (former Serbian politician, in bad health due to hunger strike in prison)
8. Ayman Abd El Aziz Nour, 42 (Egyptian political prisoner in poor health)
9. Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, 54 (recently impeached governer of Bayelsa State in Nigeria, cardiac problems & diabetes)
10. Dr. Aref Dalila, 64 (Syrian political/academic prisoner, heart disease & diabetes, refuses treatment)
11. Omar Abdel-Rahman aka the Blind Sheik, 68 (convicted terrorist in a Colorado prison, recently found a tumor on his liver and is coughing up blood)
The Jackpots
12. Brandon Cole “Bam” Margera, 28 (Jackass & CKY alumni)
13. John Jackson aka Fabolous, 29 (obligatory rap artist pick, shot (non-fatal) in October this year)
Alternates:
Max Von Sydow, 77 (exorcist, brewmeister, purgatory guide)
Carol Burnett, 73 (comedian, actress, animated cleaning lady)
Holly Johnson, 46 (former FGTH lead singer, HIV-positive since '91)
George Wendt, 58 (SCTV alumni, actor… just saw him in Masters of Horror and he’s bigger than ever)
Michael Flatley, 48 (dancer, showoff, hospitalized in November for a serious illness)
Hmmm, an interesting list Horseflesh. Obviously well researched.
But I hate to inform you that two of those picks aren’t unique! 
You may ply me with chocolate if you want to know which ones they are! 
Oh, I’ll cover you in chocolate alright…
And by the light of the full moon, at the height of the witching hour, I’ll…ah…oops! Wrong thread. :eek:
goes back to reread thread
:grumble: I already knocked 8 people off my list the first time through…
Well, it turns out I’ve already broken my duck with Pinochet (9) and Ford (7) for a grand total of 16 points in 2006!
Horseflesh, if you want all unique picks you have to dump Bobby Murcer and Omar the Blind Sheik
“Break my duck”?? That’s a new one.
On second thought, I don’t wanna know.
Boyo Jim - your query was answered in the 2006 thread. Execution is not a scoreable death. It makes no difference what the status of the executed individual was at the start of the Pool.
I’ve been meaning to do this for a couple of years, but I keep forgetting. Here’s my picks:
Ok, here are my picks.
Alternate: Chuck Lowry
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[li]Sir Arthur C. Clarke[/li][li]Barbara Feldon[/li][li]John Forsythe [/li][li]Jürgen Habermas[/li][li]Eartha Kitt[/li][li]Jean Marsh[/li][li]Sir Patrick Moore[/li][li]Diana Muldaur[/li][li]Javier Pérez de Cuéllar[/li][li]Yitzhak Shamir[/li][li]Sir Cyril Smith[/li][li]Jean Stapleton[/li][li]Kurt Waldheim[/li][/list]
Alternates:
Maximilian Schell
Claude Lévi-Strauss
After watching this pass by for a few years, I guess I’ll take a stab at it…
Alternates- Ariel Sharon, Bob Barker
Yeah, that’ll kill you. Steve Martin is another sure bet…
Yeah, yeah, I forgot you could use the thread search option.
Hokay, off with Sheik-boy and Murcer (he came through the surgery okay anyway), shuffle Max up onto the board, drop in Tariq Aziz, and give pretty-boy Richard Hammond first alternate status. And so…
The Old
The Infirm
5. Lamar Lundy, 71 (former Rams, lotsa serious health problems)
6. Debbie Mathers-Briggs, 50 (Eminem’s mom, stage 4 breast cancer)
7. Tariq Aziz aka Tareq Aziz aka Mikhail Yuhanna, 70 (former Saddam Hussein crony, estimated with a month to live)
The Incarcerated
8. Vojislav Šešelj, 52 (former Serbian politician, in bad health due to hunger strike in prison)
9. Ayman Abd El Aziz Nour, 42 (Egyptian political prisoner in poor health)
10. Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, 54 (recently impeached governer of Bayelsa State in Nigeria, cardiac problems & diabetes)
11. Dr. Aref Dalila, 64 (Syrian political/academic prisoner, heart disease & diabetes, refuses treatment)
The Jackpots
12. Brandon Cole “Bam” Margera, 28 (Jackass & CKY alumni)
13. John Jackson aka Fabolous, 29 (obligatory rap artist pick, shot (non-fatal) in October this year)
Alternates:
Richard Hammond, 36 (Top Gear host, loves really fast cars, nearly died in September)
Carol Burnett, 73 (comedian, actress, animated cleaning lady)
Holly Johnson, 46 (former FGTH lead singer, HIV-positive since '91)
George Wendt, 58 (SCTV alumni, actor… just saw him in Masters of Horror and he’s bigger than ever)
Michael Flatley, 48 (dancer, showoff, hospitalized in November for a serious illness)
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