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No comments, just the list:
William F. Buckley
Pamela Anderson
George Steinbrenner
Amy Winehouse
Bob Guccione
Gordie Howe
Bill Parcells
Stephen Hawking
Wilford Brimley
John Paul Stephens
Alternate: Liza Minelli
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List of 13, not 10 (11 if you count your alt)
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List of 13, not 10 (11 if you count your alt)
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Sorry.
Add Liza to the list, along with:
Queen Elizabeth II
Hosni Mubarak
New Alternate:
Nancy Reagan
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Damnit, that’s what I get for waking up and posting tired. Scratch Marvin (really, what the hell was I thinking?) and scratch Wallach. Go with Bob Barker.
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I was scratching my head when I read it. “I thought I saw his grave” Yep. Not too far from you (if your location field is right) Alington National Cemetary.
Alt: John Dailey
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Damnit, that’s what I get for waking up and posting tired. Scratch Marvin (really, what the hell was I thinking?) and scratch Wallach. Go with Bob Barker.
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OK. Maybe Lee is just living up to your user name.
My Very First Celebrity Death Pool List:
Sydney Pollack
Lindsay Lohan
Fidel Castro
Walter Kronkite
Billy Graham
Tim Conway
Andy Griffith
Owen Wilson
Farrah Fawcett
Kirk Douglas
Wayne Newton
Bob Newhart
Elizabeth Taylor
Alternates:
Dick Cheney
Keith Richards
I stayed out of the thread to avoid influence up to this point, but I scanned it before I posted. I think I did OK for my first try. I guess we’ll see! 
Another substitution: scratch Joni Mitchell; add Rudy Boesch.
Roger Ebert
Pervez Musharraf
Geraldine Ferraro
Michael J. Fox
Rudy Boesch
Louis Farrakhan
Tony Snow
Suzanne Pleshette
Farah Fawcett
Amy Winehouse
Muhammed Ali
Elizabeth Edwards
Pete Domenici
Alternates:
Fred Phelps
Kim Jong-Il
Michael Moore
0 for 13 in 2007
Here’s 2008’s list:
Britney Spears
Osama Bin Laden
Billy Graham
Bob Barker
Fidel Castro
Roger Ebert
Lindsay Lohan
Robert Downey, Jr.
Scott Peterson
Tommy Ramone
Andy Williams
Roger Clemens
Michael Vick
Alternates:
Woody Allen
Bilawal Bhutto
Dustin Diamond
NOTE ON SCOTT PETERSON: My entry assumes that he dies via “extra-judicial” means, and not via state-sanctioned execution.
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0 for 13 in 2007
Here’s 2008’s list:
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You are the 100th entrant. We have 601 different celebrities to date.
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You are the 100th entrant. We have 601 different celebrities to date.
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Who are the most popular so far? I’m seeing lots of Farrah Fawcetts, lots of Amy Winehouses, lots of Fidel Castros.
Zombie Fidel Castro: duh
Muhammad Ali: down goes Ali
Ariel Sharon: see #1
Ron Santo: my favorite baseball player growing up, multiple health problems
Mary Kate Olsen: youth, anorexia & alleged coke use make her just too hard to pass up she looks worse than Keith Richards [who BTW will outlive us all]
Ronnie Biggs: Great Train robber
Zsa Zsa Gabor: famous for being famous (& slugging a cop)
Margaret Thatcher
Mickey Carroll: famous Munchkin
Pete Doherty: English punkie junkie
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Amy Winehouse
Georgia Frontiere: owner of the St Louis Rams; reportedly on her deathbed. Don’t know if the Rams 0-8 start had anything to do with it. If she or any others on the list jump the gun so to speak:
Elizabeth Edwards, won’t that be a soap opera.
Fidel Castro
Muhammad Ali
Ariel Sharon
Ron Santo
Mary Kate Olsen
Ronnie Biggs
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Margaret Thatcher
Mickey Carroll
Pete Doherty
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Amy Winehouse
Georgia Frontiere
Elizabeth Edwards
Hey twin twickster, Happy Birthday tomorrow!
I’ve been keeping track, but I screwed up along the way somewhere because I only counted 99 entries. But what I have must be close. The top numbers, as I have seen them are, drumroll please…
Fidel Castro
Elizabeth Taylor
Farrah Fawcett
Ariel Sharon
Britney Spears
Amy Winehouse
Billy Graham
Kirk Douglas
Dick Cheney
Muhammed Ali
By my (one list off remember) count Castro has 51 “votes”. Taylor and Fawcett, put together, have that many. Rounding out the top 10, Ali has 15.
The next ten celebrities after that go down to Roger Ebert, with 10. He’s the last with at least 10, everyone below that has less.
Approximately 69% of the celebrities on the list are unique picks.
I’m posting tomorrow morning, with my own list. My only score for 2007 was Benazir Bhutto, and unless someone else hurries up and dies she will also have been the last for 2007.
PS I had never heard of this Amy Winehouse person before she started showing up for the Deathpool.
Some oldies, some new faces, all guaranteed immortality:
Peter Camejo, former running mate of Ralph Nader
Mark White, former Texas Governor
Shelley Morrison, actress (Will & Grace)
Geraldine Ferraro, former vice-presidential candidate
Philip Chevron, guitarist for The Pogues
Joe Torre, Los Angeles Dodgers manager
Teri Garr, Actress
Ken Kercheval, actor (Dallas)
AQ Khan, Pakistani nuclear scientist
Tom Hamilton, Aerosmith bass player
Steve Jobs, Apple CEO
John Daly, PGA golfer
Jack Van Impe, televangelist
Alternates:
Roddy Piper, former professional wrestler
Sharon Osbourne, music manager and promoter
Johnny Pesky, former Red Sox shortstop
Peter Camejo
Mark White
Shelley Morrison
Geraldine Ferraro
Philip Chevron
Joe Torre
Teri Garr
Ken Kercheval
AQ Khan
Tom Hamilton
Steve Jobs
John Daly
Jack Van Impe
Alternates:
Roddy Piper
Sharon Osbourne
Johnny Pesky
Here’s my list. (Note: Mickey Carroll is the one name on the list who’s fame may not be self evident. He’s one of the last surviving Munchkins from the Wizard of Oz)
Stan Musial
Farrah Fawcett
Charles Durning
Dick Clark
Annette Funicello
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Joan Rivers
Don Rickles
David Crosby
Cloris Leachman
Pat Carroll
Mickey Carroll
Dave Brubeck
Alternates
Sally Field
Chuck Berry
Jerry Lewis
Sadly as Benazir Bhutto has died, I will replace her with Mel Brooks. I am also going to replace ‘Ben Aud’ - it turned out to actually be Richie Benaud but I misheard my boyfriend… another swap of Amy Winehouse for Stephen Stills and I’m done 
So, my list looks like:
Helen Gurley Brown (founder of Cosmpolitan magazine)
Stephen Stills (singer)
Dominick Dunne (Vanity Fair contributor)
Jenna Jameson (porn star)
Kirk Douglas (actor)
Margaret Thatcher (former British PM)
Tom Sizemore (actor)
Lauren Bacall (actor)
Elizabeth Taylor (actor)
Bo Diddley (singer)
Joan Didion (author)
Mel Brooks (comedian)
Dick Cheney (VP of USA)
Doris Lessing, October 22, 1919 (88/89)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Former PM of India, December 25, 1923 (84/85) or 1924 (83/84) (reports say he just turned 84, but most places give his birth as Dec 25, 1924)
Fidel Castro, August 13, 1926 (81/82) (I’m going to keep picking him until one of us is dead)
Ariel Sharon, February 27, 1928 (79/80) (him, too.)
Dan Rather, October 31, 1931, (76/77)
Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Christodoulos, (head of Greek Orthodox Church), January 16, 1939 (68/69)
Rudy Giuliani, May 28, 1944 (63/64)
Stephen Stills, January 3, 1945 (62/63)
Farrah Fawcett, February 2, 1947 (60/61)
Gordon Brown, February 20, 1951 (55/56)
Tony Snow, June 1, 1955 (52/53)
Amy Winehouse, September 14, 1983 (24/25)
Marco Andretti, March 13, 1987 (21/22)
Doris Lessing
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Fidel Castro
Ariel Sharon
Dan Rather
Archbishop Christodoulos
Rudy Giuliani
Stephen Stills
Farrah Fawcett
Gordon Brown
Tony Snow
Amy Winehouse
Marco Andretti
Dick Button
Dick Clark
Bill Cosby
Farrah Fawcett
Michael J. Fox
Zsa Zsa Gabor
John Goodman
Stan Lee
Mary-Kate Olsen
Tara Reid
Randy Savage
Britney Spears
Shirley Temple Black
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Sadly as Benazir Bhutto has died, I will replace her with Mel Brooks. I am also going to replace ‘Ben Aud’ - it turned out to actually be Richie Benaud but I misheard my boyfriend… another swap of Amy Winehouse for Stephen Stills and I’m done 
So, my list looks like:
Helen Gurley Brown (founder of Cosmpolitan magazine)
Stephen Stills (singer)
Dominick Dunne (Vanity Fair contributor)
Jenna Jameson (porn star)
Kirk Douglas (actor)
Margaret Thatcher (former British PM)
Tom Sizemore (actor)
Lauren Bacall (actor)
Elizabeth Taylor (actor)
Bo Diddley (singer)
Joan Didion (author)
Mel Brooks (comedian)
Dick Cheney (VP of USA)
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You need to submit your list without commentary. What you have is fine for humans, but the official submissions are machine read.
My noms
Philip Duke of Edinburgh
Mickey Rooney
Jimmy Carter
Betty Ford
Kylie Minogue
Hugh Hefner
Gough Whitlam
Lewis Hamilton
Ernest Borgnine
Norman Wisdom
Heather Mills
Vera Lynn
Suharto
Fidel Castro
Nancy Reagan
Dick Cheney
Charlton Heston
Hamid Karzai
Pervez Musharaff
Liz Taylor
George H W Bush
Billy Graham
Muhammad Ali
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Birch Bayh
Castro- 'cause he’s dead already. Just a zombie now.
Nancy Reagan- Just say yes to walking into the light
Dick Cheney- Evil Overlord will die when Dem is elected president
Hamid Karzai- Workplace Hazards
Pervez Musharaff- haunted to death by the ghost of Bhutto
Liz Taylor- final scent to be called “deathbed”
George H W Bush- out of shame
Billy Graham- We can only hope
Muhammad Ali- Obvious reasons. Won’t make jokes, as he could probably still kick my ass.
Mikhail Kalashnikov- he’s really really old.
Birch Bayh- Defeated for Senate Seat by Quayle. Also old.