The Celebrity Death Pool 2007

The Game Room
361

1- Emeril Lagasse (BAM)
2- John Madden, football announcer (BOOM)
3- Danica Patrick, race car driver
4- George Steinbrenner
5- Barbara Bush, former first lady
6- Tiger Woods
7- Pope Benedict
8- Jack Nicholson
9- Arnold Palmer
10- Bill Clinton
11- Queen Elizabeth
12- George Foreman
13- Nancy Reagan

362

Joanie Laurer “Chyna” - former WWE Wrestler
Danny Bonaduce - Former Child Star
Ozzy Osbourne - Musician
Jake “The Snake” Roberts - former WWE Wrestler
Steve-O - Reality TV Personality
Paris Hilton - Hilton Hotel Heiress
Nicole Ritchie - Lionel Ritchie’s daughter/socialite
Courtney Love - Musician
Florence Henderson - Actress
Bob Saget - Actor
Haley Joel Osment - Actor
Theo Fleury - Former NHL Player
Peter Doherty - Musician

Alternate:

Bob Barker

363

Courtney Love is a musician?! And I thought she was just a rich junkie whore. Like Ana Nicole Smith without the boob job.

Every day I learn something new here.

364

Take the cream of the crop from each list ( 3) and then random potshots of one each from each list. Or, better yet, email me your dilemma and I’ll cough help you pick.

My lists were in several notebooks and scribbled on paper bits.

I wanted to submit hours later, but we are going out tonight and there will be no internet access.

365

In a fun twist, your pick has been dead for **4 ** years!

366

If you are tlking about Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, he died last June. Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama’s Dick Cheney, is holed up in Pakistan as well. Or is there a Zarqaqi I am unaware of?

367

I’ve just been informed by Nawth Chucka and Fear Itself that two of my picks have been dead for some time.

I can only respond that I’ve been deployed for some time, and have been out of the “real world” since . . . aw shit, quite a while.

I still stand by my other eleven picks though.

Tripler
Thank you, that is all.

368

You can replace any of your choices until midnight Chicago time.

369

Does that still count for those of us who are already in 2007? :slight_smile:

370

Yes. H-hour is 12:00 midnight in Chicago, IL, USA (Central Daylight Time)

371

Can I have Triplers other two picks? Pleeeeeaaaaaaaaase???

What?

372

I am truly ashamed of the amount of time and thought I gave this list. I’m also ashamed I only got 2 out of 13 for 2006.

Jack Kevorkian
Tammy Faye Messner
Fidel Castro
Annette Funicello
Fred Phelps
Don Ho
Tom Snyder
Anna Nicole Smith
Robert Anton Wilson
Louis Farrakhan
Ariel Sharon
Ronnie Biggs
Mindy McCready

alternates:
Dick Clark
Betty Ford

373

Alas, that’s not gonna work. Each list has it’s own thing goin on. The first Cap’n Lance inspired hellfire-up-your-ass list is rich in style points, but might not win. The second “13-for-13” list includes picks that wouldn’t make sense points-wise (e.g. Ladybird Johnson), and would most certainly not win the horserace, but is the greater challenge. And the third is the winner. Or I would hope, as something tells me '07 will be the most competitive game yet.

374

My final list.

  1. Dick Cheney. One may hope.
  2. Ringo Starr. Two down, two to go.
  3. David Hampton Pryor, Former US Senator from Arkansas.
  4. Fidel Castro. The “everybody else picked him” candidate.
  5. Patricia Neal. Had the hots for her when I was a pup.
  6. Christopher Lee, actor. Van Helsing is gone, can Dracula be far behind?
  7. Ray Bradbury. Hope not.
  8. Dwayne Hickman, actor. Maynard is already gone.
  9. Buzz Aldrin. #2 on the moon.
  10. Neil Armstrong. Again, I hope not.
  11. Ariel Sharon. Gefilte fish in a barrel.
  12. Stephen Hawking. Statistically due. “G-d does not play dice.”
  13. Michael E. DeBakey, heart surgeon. Already had a big one.

Alternate:
Carol Buckley Executive Director/ co-founder The Elephant Sanctuary
(They lost a “caregiver” last Summer.)

375

  1. Luciano Pavarotti

  2. Eddie Van Halen

  3. Fidel Castro

  4. Dr Jack Kevorkian

  5. Tammy Faye Bakker Messner

  6. Ariel Sharon

  7. Jerry Falwell

  8. Roger Ebert

  9. Eartha Kitt

  10. Michael J Fox

  11. John Goodman

  12. Phil Lesh

  13. Farrah Fawcett

Alternates: Lindsay Lohan, Stephen Hawking, Elizabeth II

376
  1. Fidel Castro
  2. Muhammad Ali
  3. Ariel Sharon
  4. Farrah Fawcett
  5. Bill Walsh
  6. Ramzan Kadyrov
  7. Jack Klugman
  8. Roger Ebert
  9. Evel Knievel
  10. Patrick Moore (astronomy writer)
  11. Abdulkassim Salat Hassan
  12. Norodom Sihanouk
  13. Margaret Thatcher
377

Actual list
[ol]
[li]Muhammed Ali[/li][li]Robert Byrd[/li][li]Fidel Castro[/li][li]Dick Clark[/li][li]Kirk Douglas[/li][li]Zsa Zsa Gabor[/li][li]Billy Graham[/li][li]Ralph Hall[/li][li]Paul Harvey[/li][li]Lady Bird Johnson[/li][li]Tammy Faye Baker Messner[/li][li]Ashley Olsen[/li][li]Ariel Sharon[/li][/ol]

Alternates - on the odd chance that three of those people die in the next few hours:

[ul]
[li]Ernest Borgnine[/li][li]Roger Ebert[/li][li]Jane Wyman[/li][/ul]

378

Can’t leave it later waiting for you-know-who to post. Gotta go have some fun.

Garry Betty (ex-CIO of Earthlink)
Ronnie Biggs
Fidel Castro
Farrah Fawcett
Dan Fogelberg
Jane McGrath (Glenn’s wife)
Magnus Magnusson
Tammy Faye Messner
Benny Parsons
Suzanne Pleshette
Ariel Sharon
Yuri Shtern
Chuck Strahl

Alternate

  1. Jack Kevorkian
  2. Terry Jones
379
  1. Jerry Falwell
  2. Fred Phelps
  3. Jack Kevorkian
  4. Xaviera Hollander
  5. Muhammed Ali
  6. Pervez Musharraf
  7. Susan Powter
  8. Wilford Brimley
  9. Dan Fogelberg
  10. David Crosby
  11. Rachel Wallmeyer
  12. Richard Roundtree
  13. Fidel Castro

Alternates

  1. Adam West
  2. Geri Halliwell
380
  1. Art Buchwald: cheated the Grim Reaper long enough
  2. George Bush peres: Bush fils needs all the sympathy he can get
  3. Joey Bishop: last living Rat Packer
  4. Ariel Sharon: see #1
  5. Ron Santo: my favorite baseball player growing up, multiple health problems
  6. Mary Kate Olsen: youth, anorexia & alleged coke use make her just too hard to pass up she looks worse than Keith Richards [who BTW will outlive us all]
  7. Ronnie Biggs: Great Trail robber
  8. Zsa Zsa Gabor: famous for being famous (& slugging a cop)
  9. Don Ho: famous for having tiny bubbles
  10. Margaret Thatcher: famous for having iron bubbles
  11. Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis: he looked horrible at John Madden’s HoF induction, the Raiders 2-14 record will be noted as the cause of death
  12. Mickey Carroll: famous Munchkin
  13. Fidel Castro: duh

. . . and if Castro or one of the other can’t make another 5 hours: Dick Clark, world’s olderst dead teenager.

Oh, come on Rachm the suspense is killing us.