Second time in the pool, and given past track record, these people are perfectly safe from the Grim Reaper this year as well:
Alternates: Kurt Vonnegut (tho’ I hope not), Neil Armstrong, Nancy Reagan.
My first try at the pool
1.Gerald Ford-Former University of Michigan football star
2.Augusto Pinochet-Chile con carnage
3.Dick Pole-Cincinnati Reds pitching coach
4.John Deacon-Bites the dust
5.Dick Trickle-NASCAR driver
6.Michael Richards-KKKramer
7.Rusty Kuntz-Former MLB player
8.Terrell Owens-Drugstore Cowboy
9.Takeru Kobayashi-Hotdog eater
10.George Steinbrenner-Prod of the Yankees
11.Fidel Castro-Die already
12.Doyle Brunson-Folds
13.Norman Greenbaum-Gone up to the spirit in the sky
Alternates
1.Ed Balls-British Politician
2.Amarillo Slim-Antes up
3.Howie Schwab-Stumped
You need a 13th choice, Stinkum
2006 didn’t treat me well, here’s hoping 2007 is better.
1.Tammy Faye Bakker Messner (former evangelist)
2.Gerald Ford (former POTUS)
3.Billy Graham (evangelist)
4.Estelle Getty (actress)
5.Augusto Pinochet (dictator)
6.Fidel Castro (dictator)
7.Elizabeth Taylor (actress)
8.Jack Klugman (actor)
9.Kirk Douglas (actor)
10.Roger Ebert (movie critic)
11.Muhammad Ali (boxer)
12.Ariel Sharon (former Prime Minister of Israel)
13.Abe Vigoda (actor)
Alternates:
1.Larry Hagman (actor)
2.Willard Scott (weatherman)
3.Walter Cronkite (former news anchor)
All of us who were on the Pinochet bandwagon need to pick someone else, 'cuz he just bit the big one. Kirk Douglas is good for me.
Replace Pinochet with Cronkite, please. :smack: Why couldn’t he just hang on for a few more weeks???
I had him on my long list, but I decided to drop him earlier because the bastard was not worthy…
… just 9 measly points. 
<======== celebrating Pinochet is dead.
Do ya’ll suppose this sort of thing creates some negative waves or something? Does all this focused bad feeling kill folks?
If so, I have a little list… 
They never will be missed!
Here we go again…
[1] Ray Anthony, Trumpeter/Band Leader
[2] Sammy Baugh, NFL Quarterback
[3] Theodore Hesburgh, Notre Dame President
[4] Ara Parseghian, Notre Dame Coach
[5] Avery Cardinal Dulles, Catholic Theologian
[6] Bobby Doerr, MLB Boston Red Sox 2B
[7] Marty Pavelich, NHL Detroit Red Wings
[8] Ted Lindsay, NHL Detroit Red Wings II
[9] Jake LaMotta, Boxer
[10] George Shearing, Jazz Pianist
[11] Hank Jones, Jazz Pianist II
[12] Ralph Houk, MLB Yankees/Tigers Manager
[13] Chris Economaki, Indy 500 Commentator
The Obligatory Alternates… just in case
[1st] Alan Young, Mr Ed’s Buddy
[2nd] Martha Tilton, Big Band Singer
[3rd] Hutton Gibson, Mel’s Wacky Dad
Well poo. Pinochet is gone. New list below with 13 this time!
Alternates are
Kurt Vonnegut
Jack Klugman
and a longshot: Keith Richards
Ok, I’ve been working on the list (and getting coworkers involved too). Here’s my 2007 list:
Alternates:
A. Tom Brokaw
B. Sandra Day O’Connor
Should be Pope Benedict XVI - I didn’t look him up and I was sure I had the right numbers. Oops.
I would be very interested in seeing the reasoning behind some of these picks, once 2007 roills in of course. No sense giving away the secret to a lot of these picks.
It’s team building excercises like this that keep our country great.
I don’t think any of these haven’t already been picked, but I did come up with them before reading the rest of the thread:
Alternates (I don’t think Castro will make it till 1/1/07):
A1) Jerry Lewis - former nutty professor
A2) Stephen Hawking - you know, the scientist wheelchair guy
For no good reasons other than I feel like it:
Alternates:
Margaret Thatcher
Dick Cheney
Reasoning? We don’t need no stinkin’ reasoning!
Speaking only for myself, a lot of them are nearly random… what they have in common is that most of them are longshots. This has been really successful for me… I got Hunter S. Thompson last year…and that’s it… :rolleyes:
Bonus points for the description.
My picks
Alternates: