In no particular order:
alternates:
i. Ursula K. LeGuin
ii. Ray Romano
iii. Bob Barker
Tammy Faye Bakker Messner,
Gerald R. Ford, Former American President
Art Buchwald, American humorist
Billy Graham, American churchman
‘Lady Bird’ Johnson, Former First Lady
Kirk Douglas, American Actor
Charlton Heston, American Actor, President of the National Rifle Association.
Margaret Thatcher, Former British Prime Minister
Elizabeth Taylor, Anglo-American Actress
Ronnie Biggs, British thief
Harold Pinter, British author, Nobel Prize winner
Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria
Fidel Castro, Cuban Dictator
Alternate:
Muhammad Ali, American boxer
He died in 2005.
Alternates
Barbara Billingsley
Trini Lopez
Joan Fontaine
Sorry, weird brain spasm, i meant Pat Jennings. He looked pretty old at George Best’s funeral.
Let’s try again.
What’s with listing alternates?
And I picked Hawking already, dammit. You can see the time check on my Word file.
This year I’m going once again for an almost Killer K list:
Conservatives who thought the Iraq war a good idea:
Actors:
3) Jack Klugman – Soon to make the odd couple a couple again.
4) Kirk Douglas – Tough guy not so tough now.
Porn Kings: (not with a K on the name, but I think they will kick the bucket next year)
5) Bob Guccione – Penthouse
6) Hugh Heffner - Playboy
7) Larry Flint- Hustler
World Rulers:
8) **King Harald V ** of Norway – Bad health
9) **Hamid Karzai ** Afghan President – In constant danger by the Taliban
10) Kim Jong Il of North Korea – He’s so ronery! (You Tube video)
11) Fidel Castro – Dictator finally goes away. (well, his name does sound like a “k” no?)
The rest:
12) Evel Knievel – Former daredevil, now pushing an oxygen tank.
13) Jack Kevorkian – I think it will be a shame for the American government when he dies in jail.
Alternates:
Kalashnikov, Mikhail – Inventor of the AK-47.
**Edgar Ray Killen ** killer for the Ku Klux Klan, needs killin…
**Jeane Kirkpatrick ** – Neocon, did not see a south American dictator she did not like.
Bil Keane – Actually, it is his comic strip “The Family Circus” that needs to die!
If someone on your list dies on 31 Dec 2006 at 11pm and you don’t get online to update your list for next year you are out of luck. If you list alternates then your first alternate steps up to the plate. I had Jerry Orbach drop dead three days before it would count.
I’ve always been really uncomfortable about these threads but I am trying to get over myself and what better way than to jump on in:
alt 1. Gerald Ford, US president, 7 pts (6 after July 14)
alt 2. Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress, 11 pts (10 after February 6)
In the death pool now. I feel so dirty…
I dunno. The original “over 18” rule was instituted because somebody picked a celebrity’s child who had a terminal illness. I may have been sick enough to start this whole thing but betting on a five year old’s death went too far for me. But I figured by 18, a celebrity’s old enough to be a fair target.
alt 1: Yogi Berra
alt 2: Larry Bird
I’m in this year…
alt: Gerald Ford
Osama bin Laden
I clicked on the link. I watched the video clip. :eek: I have absolutely no freakin’ clue what that was all about. :dubious:
Spies Like Us
Spies Don’t Like Us
4. Nour Al-Maliki - the President of Iraq
5. Fidel Castro - the President of Cuba
6. Ariel Sharon - the former Prime Minister of Israel, currently in a coma (I know, I know, it’s serious)
7. Jihad Azour - Lebanese Minister of Finance, pro-Hariri
8. Charles Rizk - Lebanese Minister of Justice, also pro-Hariri
9. Gerald Ford - former U.S. President
Not Actually Spies At All
10. Whitney Houston - OD or car crash while intoxicated
11. Harrison Ford - plane crash
Clark and Dagger
12. Ramsey Clark - Saddam’s attorney, and getting kind of old (wild guess: “apparent heart attack”)
13. Dick Clark - is finally going to drop the ball
Super-Paranoid Alternate: Sen Barack Obama, in a plane crash, just like former Senator Wellstone and former Governor Carnahan.
Neither do I. But the credits song is very catchy.
My picks:
Okay, let’s see how my first year of this goes. In alphabetical order, for easy reference:
alternates: Olivia de Havilland, Hugo Chavez, Dick Clark