The Celebrity Death Pool 2007

The Game Room
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You need 13, not 10, plus optional alternates.

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Okay, you wanna hear reasons?

  1. John Goodman – His weight is giving him serious health problems.

  2. Shane McGowan – It’s gotta catch up with him eventually.

  3. Queen Elizabeth – C’mon, she’s outlived her mother and her younger sister.

  4. Terry Gilliam – I have an awful premonition that the animator will suffer a fatal heart attack, the way he goes on. I’m surprised (not disappointed, of course) that Man of La Mancha didn’t kill him.

  5. Gerald Ford – Barely hanging on.

  6. Ben Roethlisberger – All his good luck is on the field; always seems to have bad luck off of it. (Wear your damn helmet, Ben!)

  7. Lindsay Lohan – If she doesn’t get help, and soon…

  8. John Travolta – Pilot. Nuff said.

  9. Michael Jackson – I don’t hope for his suicide, but it wouldn’t surprise me a bit.

  10. Ruben Studdard – This was based on his weight, but I just now found out he’s lost 80 pounds.

  11. Clay Aiken – Allergic to everything and terrified of water.

  12. J.K. Rowling – Just because fate would have her choke on a chicken bone before she submits the last chapter of HP7.

  13. Danny Bonaduce – See Lindsay Lohan.

Alternates:

Anna Nicole Smith – OD? Suicide? Falling down a flight of stairs? Something’s bound to happen.

J.D. Salinger – Just because he’s old.

Keith Richards – See Shane McGowan.

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1 Oral Roberts
2 Billy Graham
3 Ted Kennedy
4 Fidel Castro
5 Britney Spears
6 Steven Seagal
7 Abe Vigoda
8 Carol Channing
9. Christopher Plummer
10. Dick Clark
11. Kevin Federline
12. Jimmy Carter
13. Jane Fonda

Alt: Muhammad Ali, Sally Struthers

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I have never done this before, so wish me luck!

  1. Shane MacGowan
  2. Gerald Ford
  3. Olympia Dukakis
  4. Peter O’Toole
  5. Ariel Sharon
  6. Clint Eastwood
  7. Sparky Anderson
  8. Ernie Banks
  9. Kirk Douglas
  10. Margaret Thatcher
  11. Ruth Bader Ginsberg
  12. Eunice Shriver
  13. Annette Funicello

I hope I don’t jinx anybody! :smiley:

125

I considered her, but I thought the British dopers would flame me.

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My bad. Thanks for the correction!

my corrected picks:

  1. Kirk Douglas
  2. Jerry Ford
  3. Bob Feller (Baseball HOFer)
  4. Stan Musial (Baseball HOFer)
  5. Yogi Berra (noted sage)
  6. Andy Rooney (CBS crank)
  7. Mike Wallace (CBS)
  8. Daniel Schorr (ex CBS, now NPR)
  9. Liz Taylor
  10. Paris Hilton
  11. Walter Cronkite (I have it in for CBS, apparently)
  12. Joe Garagiola
  13. Bob Cousy (Basketball HOFer)

Alternates:

  1. OJ Simpson
  2. Larry King
127

Why should they? They’re free to pick our politcal figureheads

128

Got a big fat goose egg so far this year. Since the odds of my winning are low, I decided to go with a theme for next year - all political figures. Here they are:

  1. Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr (former President of the United States)

  2. George Herbert Walker Bush (former President of the United States)

  3. Fidel Castro (President of Cuba)

  4. Ariel Sharon (former Prime Minister of Israel)

  5. Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith (Queen Elizabeth II)

  6. Kim Jong-Il (Dear Leader of the People’s Democartic Republic of Korea)

  7. Joseph Alois Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)

  8. Imelda Romualdez Marcos (former First Lady of the Philippines)

  9. Kurt Josef Waldheim (former Secretary-General of the UN)

  10. Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud (King of Saudi Arabia)

  11. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Tatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (former Primer Minister of the United Kingdom)

  12. Lee Kuan Yew (former Prime Minister of Singapore)

  13. Colonel Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi [Qadhafi/Qaddafi/Kaddafi - however you want to spell it] (de facto leader of Libya)

Curses to Augusto Pinochet for being unable to hold on for a few weeks.

129

So far, four of my 2006 picks have been correct. Let’s see how these folks fare:

  1. John Goodman, actor
  2. Fidel Castro, Cuban dictator
  3. Dabbs Greer, actor
  4. Kirk Douglas, actor
  5. Ariel Sharon, former PM of Israel
  6. Gerald Ford, former US president
  7. Suzanne Pleshette, actress
  8. “Rowdy” Roddy Piper (aka Roderick Toombs), actor-wrestler
  9. Jack Kevorkian, ex-doctor
  10. Ray Harryhausen, animator
  11. Jerry Lewis, actor-comedian-telethon host
  12. Evel Kneivel, former daredevil
  13. Tammy Faye Baker Messner, former televangelist

Alternates:
Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady
Kurt Vonnegut, writer
Fyvush Finkel, actor

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Did the state revoke his license?

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Not sure; I can’t find specific info on that. However, I’m almost positive he isn’t keeping up with the required CE credits to keep renewing his license. He’s pretty much retired even if not technically banned from practice.

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Oops, I forgot alternates-

a. Stephen Hawking
b. James Garner
c. Leona Helmsley

133

I finally have my preliminary list of 30 celebrities. Time to go crunch some people!

134

No score yet for 2006, maybe these will work for 2007:

  1. Margaret Thatcher
  2. 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson)
  3. Gerald Ford
  4. Elizabeth Taylor
  5. Fidel Castro
  6. Ariel Sharon
  7. Tammy Faye Baker Messner
  8. Evel Knievel
  9. Annette Funicello
  10. Zsa Zsa Gabor
  11. John Forsythe
  12. Farrah Fawcett
  13. Luciano Pavarotti

Alternates:

  1. John Goodman
  2. Nancy Reagan
  3. Mohammad Ali
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All right, no real sure things in my list, but a colorful blend of wildcards in my opinion:

  1. Jake “The Snake” Roberts, old + wrestler = ticking time bomb.
  2. John Paul Stevens, oldest memeber of the Supreme Court.
  3. Gary Busey, nuts and old drug habits… will be sorely missed though.
  4. George Steinbrenner, as a Red Sox fan I’m not rooting for his death, but sorta expecting it.
  5. Ozzy Osbourne, the man already spend something like 30 lives.
  6. Mike Tyson, I wanted to pick Maurice Clarrett, but jail will keep him safe now.
  7. Pete Doherty, many Americans haven’t heard of him, but in England he’s a train wreck.
  8. Ja Rule, mandatory rapper included.
  9. Fidel Castro, c’mon already (okay I picked one sure thing).
  10. John Madden, hefty boy is getting old… Boom!
  11. Ted Nugent, i.e. hunting accident.
    12.** John Travolta**, just because he flies everywhere, and a plane crash is such a celebrity way to go.
  12. Mohammed Ali, at least ESPN will rebroadcast all of his matches, and that will be fun.

Alternate 1. David “Tank” abbott
Alternate 2. Charleton Heston
Alternate 3. Stephen Hawking

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Aaauuuuguhhh!!!

Actor Peter Boyle has died. He robbed me of 29 points.

I’d like to replace him, on my list, with Ray Bradbury (formerly one of my alternates). My list thus stands:

Ariel Sharon
Fidel Castro
Charlton Heston
Dick Clark
Nancy Reagan
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Peter O’Toole
Ray Bradbury
Dick Van Dyke
Angela Lansbury
Julie Andrews
John le Carré
Christopher Tolkein

Alternates:
James Ivory (of Merchant & Ivory)
Stephen Hawking

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  1. Dick Cheney many heart attacks
  2. John Travolta
  3. Molly Ivins not writing much now
  4. Jack Kavorkian hope the Oakland co. prosecutors are pleased with them selves
  5. Gerald Ford extremely old
  6. Mike Wallace also
  7. Kate Moss skeleton with drugs not a good combo
  8. Dick Clark the music ends
  9. keith Richards overdue
  10. Oral Roberts connection to god gets closer
    11 Ozzie Ozbourne paying the price
  11. Boris Yeltsin its time
  12. Andy Rooney crabbing ends
    Alt. Steven Hawking
    Liz Taylor miracle of medicine
    Danny Bonaduce does bad things to his body and mind
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Don’t be shy about starting your 2009 list now bb2k, Maurice is only a guest for 3 years!

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My first foray into this madness. (I swear, I made my list before I knew about the cool new award.)

  1. Gary Coleman (b. 1968) - famous diabetic security guard
  2. Andy Dick (b. 1965) - famous dick
  3. Janice Dickinson (b. 1955) - “first supermodel” and oldest person on my list (I think. EVH?)
  4. Robert Downey, Jr. (b. 1965) - famous actor, famous junkie
  5. Michael J. Fox (b. 1961) - the only person I didn’t want to include
  6. Tawny Kitaen (b. 1961) - famous handful
  7. Artie Lange (b. 1967) - “Artie you fat f*$%!” Howard Stern cohort
  8. Courtney Love (b. 1964) - famous junkie
  9. Ralphie May (b.1972) - One-time morbidly obese comic
  10. Heather Mills (McCartney) (b. 1968) - do I have to have a reason?
  11. Terrell “T.O.” Owens (b. 1973) - famous trouble maker
  12. Nicole Richie (b. 1981) - famous for being famous, daughter
  13. Anna Nicole Smith (b. 1967) - famous whack-job

Alternates
Danny Bonaduce (b. 1959) - famous self-described fuck-up
Eddie Van Halen (b. 1955) - famous guitarist
Darryl Strawberry (b. 1962) - old school famous trouble maker
Todd Bridges (b. 1965) - Willis

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Your “first foray into the madness,” huh? Yeah, that’s what everyone says for their 666th post, DfrntBreign! :stuck_out_tongue:
And there is someone I wanted to substitute, but I can’t remember who it was…