I hereby officially replace my numbers with:
Tripler
And another 100 points if he’s in uniform. I call!
1. ** Benny Parsons 7/12/1941 – 1973 champion and current NASCAR commentator on NBC and TNT.
2. Suzanne Pleshette 1/31/1937 --* Soon to be dead actress.*
3. Tommy Makem 11/4/1932 --* Irish folk singer.*
4. Shane MacGowan 12/25/1957 – Irish drunk singer.
5. Tammy Faye Bakker Messner 3/7/1942 – Maybe it’s cancer. Maybe it’s Mabeline. maybe she’s an attention whore and the whole cancer thing is just a big lie.
6. Ariel Sharon 2/27/1928 – Gimme.
7. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz 8/13/1926 – Gimme gimme.
8. Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS 1/8/1942 – Consistently too smart to die gimme.
9. Robert Craig “Evel” Knievel, Jr. 10/17/1938 –- Original daredevil.
10. Minister Louis Farrakhan 5/11/1933 – Anti-semite, marcher, calypso singer.
11. Harold Pinter 10/30/1930 – I’m still stunned he made it through 2006.
12. Darlene Cates 12/13/1947 --* Another carryover that stunned me surviving 2006.*
13. Steve Jobs 2/24/1955 – Applehead man.
Alternates:
Geraldine Ferraro 8/26/1935 --* VP*
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley 4/6/1926 --* Irish arsehole.*
Only 2 changes on my current list, and dropping almost all alternates since one did die and there is only a few hours left.
Once again 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.
Porn Kings: (not with a K on the name, but I think they will kick the bucket next year)
4) Bob Guccione – Penthouse, with throat cancer IIRC.
5) Hugh Heffner - Playboy, old, with many chances for a death many men would wish.
6) Larry Flint- Hustler, hard to pull the weelchair now.
World Rulers:
7) **King Harald V ** of Norway – Bad health
8) **Hamid Karzai ** Afghan President – In constant danger by the Taliban
9) Fidel Castro – Dictator finally goes away. (well, his name does sound like a “k” no?)
The rest:
10) Evel Knievel – Former daredevil, now pushing an oxygen tank.
11) Jack Kevorkian – I think it will be a shame for the American government if he dies in jail.
12) Kalashnikov, Mikhail – Inventor of the AK-47.
And:
Alternate: Kurt Waldheim
This is my first time playing. My list is mostly aging musicians and politicians, because those are the sorts of people I’ve heard of.
Alternate, as if it’s likely to matter at this point:
I hope this year drugs are bad.
Yes, I meant Kirk Douglas. Good catch.
Alternate: Jackson Browne
Revised list:
[ol]
[li]Art Buchwald (October 20, 1925)[/li][li]Fidel Castro (August 13, 1926)[/li][li]Ariel Sharon (February 27, 1928)[/li][li]Jack Kevorkian (May 26, 1928)[/li][li]Don Ho (August 13, 1930)[/li][li]Hilly Kristal (October 12, 1931)[/li][li]Elizabeth Taylor (February 27, 1932)[/li][li]Tom Snyder (May 12, 1936)[/li][li]Omar Abdel-Rahman (May 3, 1938)[/li][li]Benny Parsons (July 12, 1941)[/li][li]Tammy Faye Bakker Messner (March 7, 1942)[/li][li]Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, “Mrs. Anthrax” (1953)[/li][li]Hassan Nasrallah (August 31, 1960)[/li]
Alternates
[li]Phil Rizzuto (September 25, 1916)[/li][li]Walid Jumblatt (August 7, 1949)[/li][li]Vaclav Havel (October 5, 1936)[/li][/ol]
It’s winter; Central Standard Time.
George O’Dowd.
2007 Celebrity Death Pool List
Alternatives
We can but pray.
Tom Hamilton, Aerosmith bass player
AQ Khan, Pakistani nuclear scientist
Bertie Griffey, mother of Ken Griffey Jr.
Johnny Pesky, former Red Sox shortstop
Kanye West, rap music entertainer
Bob Newhart, actor
Terry Jones, member of Monty Python
Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead bass player
Mickey Wright, LPGA Hall of Fame golfer
Sen. Craig Thomas, (R-WY)
Roddy Piper, former professional wrestler
John Daly, PGA golfer
Lena Horne, singer and entertainer
alternates (as if any of my picks will die in the next year, let alone the next 4 hours!)
Marianne Faithful, 60’s singer
Smokey Robinson, R&B singer/songwriter
John Forsythe, actor
Rather than wait on a ruling for the political prisoner thing, here’s a revised one:
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)
8. Jeff Tonn, 30 (former intern at the Austin Chronicle, nobody can identify his debilitating disease)
The Incarcerated
9. Vojislav Šešelj, 52 (former Serbian politician, in bad health due to hunger strike in prison)
10. Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, 54 (recently impeached governer of Bayelsa State in Nigeria, cardiac problems & diabetes)
11. Robert Dieghi, 64 (Italian hostage held by Nigerian seperatists)
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)
He will die again?
Lou Reed
Lindsay Lohan
Paul Simon (singer)
Michael J. Fox
Arlen Specter
Kate Moss
Fred Phelps
Elizabeth II
Edward “Ted” Kennedy
Harvey Fierstein
Joe Lieberman
Leonard Nimoy
Paris Hilton
Alternates:
Carrot Top (Scott Thompson)
Fidel Castro
Mary Kate Olsen
You know, I said all along that I was going to go with the top picks of the other Dopers, as they stood whenever I posted today. But I changed my mind and decided to recycle my old list. It does have several of the top picks, as well as a few that, as I type at least, are unique. Also a couple of long shots. The only change I made was to include Castro, since Ford is the only one from my 2006 list who has died.
If the top 13 would have “won” this year, I’m going to be really unhappy.
Barker, Bob-- game show host
Bhutto, Benazir-- Pakistani politician
Castro, Fidel – Cuban dictator
Graham, Billy-- Christian evangelist
Hawking, Stephen-- physicist
Hefner, Hugh-- publisher
Heston, Charlton-- actor
Kilpatrick, James J.-- political writer
Marcos, Imelda-- politician
Paget, Debra-- actress, retired
Parker, Eleanor-- actress, retired
Phelps, Fred-- professional hatemonger
Sharon, Ariel-- politician
My 2007 list:
Lawrence Taylor
Florence Henderson
John Byner
Tammy Faye Bakker
Harry Shearer
Billy Graham
Alan Greenspan
Kris Kristofferson
Fidel Castro
Mary Kate Olson
Nicole Richie
Peter Graves
Jose Canseco