The Celebrity Death Pool 2007

The Game Room
341

Just a reminder on Rule 7 in the OP, Juliefoolie:
7. Persons under sentence of death will be valid for scoring points only if they die by means other than official execution.

342

Canada doesn’t execute criminals so his death would be by other causes. Nevermind that appeals could take another 20 years.

343

9 hours, and I can’t make up my mind. I’ve got three lists, and I’m not sure which way to take things. Decisions, decisions…

344

Celebrities everywhere are quaking in their boots for fear of being on Rachm Qoch’s death pool list. :eek:

345

Okay, finally fashioned my list all up and I think it’s a pretty good one.

  1. Bill Keane (had him on my list twice already and he’s still holding out)
  2. Andy Griffith
  3. Mickey Rooney
  4. Andy Rooney
  5. Kirk Douglas
  6. Dick Clark
  7. Ed McMahon
  8. Carl “Doc” Severinsen
  9. Ed Ames
  10. Sid Caesar
  11. Gene Wilder
  12. Betty Ford
  13. Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson
346

I was 2 for 13 in my debut last year. (and one alternate, darn it) Not sure what it says about me, but glancing over my list I seem to have it in for “men of God,” politician/dictators, and boxers.

Good luck to all playing, hope the Grim Reaper is very good to you this year!

  1. Fidel Castro
  2. Louis Farrakhan
  3. Jim Baker- televangelist
  4. Ariel Sharon
  5. Mike Tyson
  6. Mohammed Ali
  7. Ted Kennedy
  8. Billy Graham
  9. Al Sharpton
  10. Jesse Jackson
  11. Jerry Falwell
  12. Oral Roberts
  13. Pat Robertson
    Mark Felt ( Deep Throat)
    John Wooden
    Dick Francis
347

Nine hours to get those submissions in, folks. And Happy New Year to our friends in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, India…

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  1. Jimmy Carter
  2. Dick Cheney
  3. Dick Clark
  4. Olivia de Havilland
  5. Kirk Douglas
  6. Christopher Lee
  7. Courtney Love
  8. Paul Newman
  9. Nancy Reagan
  10. Keith Richards
  11. Mickey Rooney
  12. William Shatner
  13. Elizabeth Taylor

Alternate: Anna Nicole Smith

349

I felt bad about some people I’d considered for my picks and I kept them off my list. On the other hand, I despised one so much that I refused to countenance having him despite hearing from a reliable source that he’s in poor health.

350

Oh, and as always a great big SDMB

Welcome!

to those of you joining us this year.

351

I’m following Baker’s lead in giving a big shout out to a35362 for all the hard work she puts in heading up this creepy, yet fun annual thread.
WOOHOO a35362!!!

352

Oh, pshaw.

You guys are swell.

353

Oh, and eight hours to go.

354

The Muckety-Mucks:

  1. Fidel Castro
  2. Pervez Musharraf (PM of Pakistan)
  3. Ariel Sharon
  4. George Steinbrenner

The Publicly Sick:
5) Tammy Faye Bakker Messner
6) Farrah Fawcett
7) Omar Abdel-Rahman (the blind sheik)
8) Roger Ebert

The Ancients:
9) Walter Cronkite
10) Julie Wilson (Famed cabaret singer and my unique pick)

The Geez, They’re Still Alive?!
11) Elizabeth Taylor
12) Whitney Houston
13) Charlton Heston

**Alternate: **
Norodom Sihanouk

Tough to narrow it down this year, so I decided to play for points again; people over 85, like John Forsythe and Margaret Thatcher, were mostly out. If Elizabeth Taylor doesn’t meet her husbands in the afterlife this year, I’m taking her off the list, since she obviously is the Keith Richards of actresses.

355

(bolding mine) You do realize, having said that, you’re tempting fate and Rachm Qoch. There are still people who haven’t posted their lists. I’m not even going to check to see if any of mine are unique until tomorrow.

356

:smack: Arrrgh! You’re right! Well, I would guess he’s keeping a list anyway, nobody escapes the notice of the Qoch.

:smack:

Anyway, I’m going out soon (to the Big Apple Circus–champagne at midnight!) and won’t be home until 2007.

357

So many to choose from, I had a hard time narrowing it down to just thirteen:

[ol]
[li]Osama Bin Laden[/li][li]Laura Bush[/li][li]Fidel Castro[/li][li]Chevy Chase[/li][li]Dick Cheney[/li][li]Arthur C. Clarke[/li][li]Roger Ebert[/li][li]Charleton Heston[/li][li]Paris Hilton[/li][li]Lindsay Lohan[/li][li]Kylie Minogue[/li][li]Luciano Pavarotti[/li][li]Britney Spears[/li][/ol]

Alternates:

[ol]
[li]Don Ho[/li][li]Stan Lee[/li][li]Dick Van Patten[/li][/ol]

358

It sure looks like a lot of people on these lists are people we hope die soon rather than expect to die soon.

Keep hope alive!

359

Squeezing in under the wire here!

  1. Lee Iacocca
  2. Kirk Douglas
  3. Darryl Strawberry
  4. Dwight Gooden
  5. Liza Minelli
  6. Neal Bush
  7. George Michael
  8. Little Richard
  9. Jane Fonda
  10. Eli Wallach
  11. Michael Collins (Astronaut)
  12. Farrah Fawcett
  13. Estelle Getty

Alternates-
Gavin MacLeod
Muhammad Ali
Michael J. Fox

360

My picks:

  1. John Madden: he’s the living undead of the NFL.
  2. Tom Cruise: c’mon, let’s all prove Xenu wrong! It could be a horrible MI:IV accident or something.
  3. Dan Rather
  4. Tom Brokaw. I have nothing against the previous two gentlemen, it’s just that they’re getting old.
  5. Bill Clinton: I think he’s going to die before Jimmy Carter, because Jimmy Carter is invincible.
  6. Walter Mondale.
  7. Roger Mudd. See point #4
  8. Jared the Subway Guy. I saw a Robot Chicken episode today, to which my girlfriend got me faithfully hooked.
  9. Gary Busey.
  10. Kris Kristofferson.
  11. Waylon Jennings: Again, see point #4. These would be two losses I’d feel bad about.
  12. Muftada-al-Sadr: Yeah, that guy might just have it coming to him.
  13. (First Name) al Zarqaqi: Yeah, I think this guy might have it coming to him too.

I would say bin Laden for #13, but personally, I think he’s holed up in a cave and wouldn’t expose himself like that. He’s probably dead already. . .

Tripler
Them’s my picks.