The Celebrity Death Pool 2007

The Game Room
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Interesting. Muder-suicide pact or firey car crash?

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Source: Washington Post - 15 December 2006

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It appears that my suggestion will soon be a moot point. :slight_smile:

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I think he goes by Michael now, not Marvin. But I could be wrong. This guy’s got more aliases than Pierce Brosnans character in Remmington Steele.

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As always, a joint entry for SpoilerVirgin and psychobunny:

  1. Ruben Studdard
  2. Courtney Love
  3. Gary Coleman
  4. Elizabeth Taylor
  5. Tammy Faye Messner
  6. Fidel Castro
  7. Dick Clark
  8. Liza Minelli
  9. John McLaughlin
  10. Gina Lollabridgida
  11. Roy Horn
  12. Soup Sales
  13. Annette Funicello

Alternates: Dana Carvey, Bea Arthur, Allyn Ann McLerie

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Correction: Number 12 should be Soupy Sales.

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Welp, looks like I’ll be running the same list…AGAIN…with only one change:

Lilian Jackson Braun–b. 1912 (The author who…)
Gerald Ford–b. 1913 ('Cause you have to have at least one ex-Prez on the list)
Kirk Douglas–b. 1916 (He ain’t Spartacus no more)
Olivia de Haviland–b. 1916 (Welcome to the list!)
Arthur C. Clarke–b. 1917 (I’ll be sad when he becomes a Starchild)
Billy Graham–b. 1918 (He’s already picking his final resting place)
John Glenn–b. 1921 (Astro-senator)
Jesse Helms–b. 1921 (Please die and remove your embarassing self from my state)
Lee Iaccocca–b. 1924 (My favorite unique pick)
Dick Van Dyke–b. 1925 (On my list for the “Keep Alive” properties)
Jerry Lewis–b. 1926 (Froinlaven!)
Peter Falk–b. 1927 (He’ll just have one more question)
Stephen Hawking–b. 1942 (I lost a beloved teacher to Lou Gherig’s this year. He’s lasted longer than she did)

Same Old Alternates:
Anne Rice–b. 1941 (Poster girl for Losing Your Sh!t)
Keith Richards–b. 1943 (The Energizer Bunny of rockers)
John Goodman–b. 1952 (A young’un compared to the rest)

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I could be wrong, but I thought Hawking doesn’t actually have ALS/Gherig’s. That’s what he was diagnosed with in the 1960s, when he first started showing symptoms, but I thought that now his progression, plus the fact that he’s outlasted all reasonable projections, has ruled out ALS, and that if they ever figure out what he does have, it will be Hawkings’ Disease. (I could be wrong, though.)

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Here are mine:

  1. Nicole Richie

  2. Danny Bonaduce

  3. George HW Bush

  4. Arnold Schwarznegger

  5. Steve Largent

  6. Mike Tyson

  7. Colin Farrell

  8. Colin Quinn

  9. Dolly Parton

  10. Paul McCartney

  11. Jeremy Irons

  12. Ron Jeremy

  13. John Carpenter

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I was gonna say, What are you in the marketing department at Campbell’s?

171

It’s an industry toim.

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Time to submit the 2007 Death Pool list. Whereas last year’s (low scoring) list was the collaboration of myself and El Perro Fumando, before she had gotten her own membership, this one is all my own, and let her post hers. Bragging rights within the home are at stake.

  1. Nancy Reagan (b 7/6/21) - Former First Lady and Drug Warrior
  2. Sen. Tim Johnson (b 12/28/46) - Hanging by a thread (as are the Democrats chances of retaining Senate control)
  3. Nicole Richie (b 9/21/81) - Coked out, overexposed celebrity whore.
  4. Lindsay Lohan (b 7/2/86) - see Nicole Richie.
  5. Elizabeth Taylor (b 2/27/32) - Perfumer and Queen of Ancient Egypt.
  6. Tammy Faye Bakker Messner (b 3/7/42) - Televangelista and walking advertisement against wearing too much makeup.
  7. Liza Minelli (b 3/12/46) - What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play!
  8. Ariel Sharon (b 2/27/28) - Former Israeli Prime Minister, current spud.
  9. Muhammad Ali (b 1/17/42) - Saul: Goddammit. If a man wants to call himself Muhammed Ali, I say Muhammed Ali.
    Clarence: Mama call him Clay - I call him Clay. Cassius Clay.
  10. Earl Simmons (aka DMX) (b12/18/70) - I’m hoping for another banner year in petty rap turf wars. Or a drug purchase gone sour.
  11. Tom Jones (b 6/7/40) - Faded Vegas singer, not the Henry Fielding character.
  12. Arnold Palmer (b 9/10/29) - Legendary golfer.
  13. Fidel Castro (b 8/13/26) - Cuban dictator.

Alt:
a. Bob Barker (12/12/23) - Retiring Price is Right host. Come on down, Bob.
b. Gerald Ford (b 7/14/13) - Ex-president.

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My first entry! I helped Only Mostly Dead last year with his list, but now that I have my own account, let the in-house rivalry begin!

  1. Ariel Sharon (b. 2/27/1928)
  2. Gary Player (b. 11/1/1935)
  3. Marion Barry (b. 3/6/1936)
  4. Hugh Hefner (b. 4/9/1926)
  5. Louis Farrakhan (b. 5/11/1933)
  6. Terrell “T.O.” Owens (b. 12/7/1973)
  7. Haley Joel Osment (b. 4/10/1988)
  8. Joe Paterno (b. 12/21/1926)
  9. Fidel Castro (b. 8/13/1926)
  10. Tammy Faye Bakker-Messner (b. 3/7/1942)
  11. Lindsay Lohan (b. 7/2/1986)
  12. Sen. Tim Johnson (D – S.D.) (b. 12/28/1946)
  13. Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. (a.k.a. Snoop Dogg) (b. 10/20/1971)

Alternates
14. Margaret Thatcher (b. 10/13/1925)
15. Gene Wilder (b. 6/11/1933)
16. Bob Dylan (b. 5/24/1941)

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Last year I tried to go for all solo picks and went 1 for 13. This year, let’s jump on some bandwagons.

  1. Gerald Ford (former president; July 14, 1913)
  2. Fidel Castro (Cuban dictator; August 13, 1926)
  3. Ariel Sharon (former Israeli PM; Feb 27, 1928)
  4. Farah Fawcett (Actress; Feb. 2, 1947)
  5. Zsa Zsa Gabor (Professional celebrity; Feb 6, 1917?)
  6. Earl Butz (Former Secy of Agriculture; July 3, 1909)
  7. Jean Paul Belmondo (French actor; April 9, 1933)
  8. Luise Rainer (actress; January 12, 1910)
  9. Roger Ebert (film critic; June 18, 1942)
  10. Charlton Heston (actor; Oct. 4, 1923)
  11. Jack Kevorkian (‘Dr. Death’; May 29, 1928)
  12. Art Buchwald (columnist; Oct. 20, 1925)
  13. Ronnie Biggs (train robber; Aug 8, 1929)

Alternates:

  1. Gian Carlo Menotti (composer; July 7, 1911)
  2. Kirk Douglas (actor; Dec. 9, 1916)
  3. Don Ho (singer; Aug 13, 1930)
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I’m going for quantity this year after my miserable 2006 showing (two picks, worth a total of 21 points). So let’s see how this works:

  1. Farah Fawcett
  2. Lady Bird Johnson
  3. Kirk Douglas
  4. Suzanne Pleshette
  5. Billly Graham
  6. Fran Drescher
  7. Muhammad Ali
  8. Charlton Heston
  9. Fidel Castro
  10. Stephen Hawking
  11. Mickey Rooney
  12. Elizabeth Taylor
  13. Jesse Helms

Alternates:
Claude Levi-Strauss
Ernest Gallo
Gerald Ford

Four of my picks are repeats from this year, and one of my alternates was on the 2006 list.

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Haven’t done this before, but one just occurred to me the other day so perhaps this is the time to join in:

  1. Sharon Osborne
  2. Cher
  3. Nancy Reagan
  4. Kirsten Dunst
  5. Hillary Clinton
  6. Ashlee Simpson
  7. Olympia Dukakis
  8. Rosie O’Donnell
  9. J.K. Rowling
  10. Melissa Etheridge
  11. Barbara Walters
  12. Linda Ellerbee
  13. Ann Coulter

A1. Dick Cheney
A2. George W. Bush
A3. Donald Rumsfeld

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I know that the rules state that list submissions must be in by midnight 12/31, CDT in the US.

But what about deaths, if exact time can be established? If it’s already 1/1 somewhere, but still 12/31 in the Central US time zone, when would a choice count or not?

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I think it would be bad form to resubmit your list mere seconds before New Year’s just to take advantage of a late death.

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No, it’s not.

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that doesn’t really answer the question.
I’m going to go ahead and guess that no matter what time it is where a fellow dies, if it’s before midnight 12/31 CDT, it’s considered a 2006 death.