Amy Winehouse
Britney Spears
Lindsay Lohan
Bob Barker
Dick Clark
Andy Griffith
Abe Vigoda
Kirk Douglas
Jerry Lewis
Fidel Castro
Conrad Bain
Carl Reiner
Estelle Getty
Alternate:
Andy Rooney
This year’s list:
Muhammed Ali
Robert Byrd
Fidel Castro
Dick Clark
Kirk Douglas
Roger Ebert
Elizabeth Edwards
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Billy Graham
Ralph Hall
Paul Harvey
Ariel Sharon
Owen Wilson
Alternates:
Bob Barker
Ernest Borgnine
List in:
1 - John Astin
2 - Ralph Bakshi
3 - David Bowie
4 - Robert Carlyle Byrd, Senator
5 - Phyllis Coates (Lois Lane 50s)
6 - William B. Davis (cigarette man from the X-files)
7 – Bill Keane
8 - Madeleine LeBeau (Casablanca)
9 – Noel Neill (Lois Lane 50s)
10 – Joy Page (Casablanca)
11 – Joyce Randolph (Played Trixie on “The Honeymooners”)
12 – Keith Richards
13 – Pernell Roberts (Bonanza)
Only one change from last year, cause I’m lazy.
Yet another substitution: scratch Amy Winehouse; add Mary Tyler Moore.
Roger Ebert
Pervez Musharraf
Geraldine Ferraro
Michael J. Fox
Rudy Boesch
Louis Farrakhan
Tony Snow
Suzanne Pleshette
Farah Fawcett
Mary Tyler Moore
Muhammed Ali
Elizabeth Edwards
Pete Domenici
Alternates:
Fred Phelps
Kim Jong-Il
Michael Moore
The rules do mention copying:
If you want to copy, go ahead - but what’s the point? You can win half the prize money 
Copying someone else’s list sounds about as enjoyable as transcribing a crossword someone else has filled in into a new grid.
As for your suggestion, while it has merit, the current position in 2007 is that RQ is in first, ahead of someone who largely copied his list, followed by me. I am not sure RQ would want to give me a sneak preview of his list.
Donald Rumsfeld
Dick Cheney
Andy Griffith
Raul Castro
Fidel Castro
Ed McMahon
Tommy LaSorda
Jerry Lewis
Pervez Musharraf
Ariel Sharon
Barack Obama
Nancy Reagan
Abe Vigoda
Alternates:
Queen Elizabeth II
Donny Most
I’m still fuming that I missed Phil Brown by 40 days the last time I entered. He was a unique pick, too.
This year’s list:
James MacArthur
Norman Alden
Pernell Roberts
Brian Bedford
Monica Evans
Carole Shelley
George Lindsey
Michael Anderson
Milo O’Shea
Jules Bass
Arthur Rankin Jr.
George S. Irving
Leslie H. Martinson
amarone my friend, I hate to do this, but I’ve made a change to my list - specifically my number two pick. (While it’s true that no one has ever stopped running things in Pakistan voluntarily, that doesn’t mean he or she has to die to leave office.)
Sean Factotum
Nawaz Sharif
Elizabeth Edwards
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
Ronnie Biggs
Lindsay Lohan
Farrah Fawcett
James Gammon
Bobby Brown
Amy Winehouse
Roger Ebert
Suzanne Pleshette
Ronald Isley
Harold Pinter
Alternate:
Kylie Minogue
OK, here’s my list. Hopefully I do a heck of a lot better than I did for 2007:
Fidel Castro - Cuban President
Cher - Actress, Singer
Farrah Fawcett - Actress
Maury Povich - Talk Show Host
Terry Pratchett - Author
Stuart Scott - ESPN Sportscaster
Ariel Sharon - Former Israeli Prime Minister
Britney Spears - Singer
Stephen Stills - Singer, Songwriter
Alex Trebek - Game Show Host
Russell Watson - Singer
Leslie West - Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter
Amy Winehouse - Singer, Songwriter
Alternates:
Yoko Ono - Artist, Singer
Sergio Aragones - Cartoonist
Bob Barker - Game Show Host
Arthur C Clarke - Writer
Hey folks, this close to the deadline, how about y’all make it easier by reposting plain lists?
Mickey Rooney
Queen Elizabeth II
Britney Spears
Earvin “Magic” Johnson
Hi, I’m Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC
B.B. King
Batista (professional wrestler)
Jimmy Carter
Laird Hamilton
Jeff Gordon
Takeru Kobayashi
Lindsay Lohan
Dr. Robert Jarvik
Nobody’s listening.
Thanks. I will take a pause after post 242 to see if I can get any that are easier to handle. There are 132 entries to that point and the most frequent nominees are, in order:
Fidel Castro
Ariel Sharon
Farrah Fawcett
Britney Spears
Elizabeth Taylor
Amy Winehouse
Billy Graham
Kirk Douglas
Muhammad Ali
Dick Cheney
Elizabeth Edwards
amarone thanks for the update and for bein’ our host (hostess?) with the most (mostest?) this comin’ year for this most gruesome yet fun thread.
Also, in case I haven’t said so, thanks to a bunchanumbers for all her hard work and dedication.
I could not do this. I would have already reached out and slapped a bunch of folks for not following directions.
Thanks again!
Thank you Sean, for reminding the MMPers - I almost forgot. Here is my Death Pool 2008 final list.
Claude Levi-Strauss
Esther Williams
Hal David
Nanette Fabray
Edwin Newman
Phyllis Diller
Robert McNamara
Sargent Shriver
Robert Mondavi
William F Buckley
Hugh Downs
Tom Bosley
Annette Funicello
Lou Jacobi
alternates
Julie Newmar
Marty Allen
Mitch Miller
Hear, hear. (Here, here? Hair, hair?) and ditto about not being able to do this myself.
Wow !!! Gotta get my list in pronto !!!
Ervin ‘Magic’ Johnson
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lewis
Jayne Meadows
Art Linkletter
Ann B. Davis
William Shatner
Barbara Billingsley
Larry Storch
Professor Irwin Corey
Charlie Daniels
Les Paul
Barbara Bain
and an alternate in case one of those folks passes away in the next 8 hours …
Chevy Chase
Trying it again, my Drugs Are Bad, MKay???
Farrah Fawcett
Amy Winehouse
Blake Fielder-Civil
Brittany Spears
Lindsay Lohan
Whitney Houston
Courtney Love
Andy Dick
Jeff Conway
Boy George
Keith Richards
Eddie Van Halen
Mary Kate Olsen
Alternates
George Michael
Natasha Lyonne
Jessica Sierra
It would seem I’m better at this than I thought. I had a fresh list of 13 brand new names that I was going to submit. Then I ran each of them through Wikipedia, an found that nine of them already died this year. Ah well…
So, here’s four new ones and nine reissues (as always, all original ideas – no picking through the thread for tips):
- Elizabeth Taylor - Actress
- Salvatore “Fat Sal” Scala - accused Gambino crime family captain
- Robin Roberts - Good Morning America host
- Rosanne Cash - Singer
- Aretha Franklin - Singer
- Muhammad Ali - Boxer
- Louis Farrakhan - Nation of Islam Leader
- Jerry Lewis - Comedian
- Jerry Lee Lewis - Musician
- Fidel Castro - Cuban Dictator
- Al Davis - Oakland Raiders Owner
- John Madden - NFL Commentator
- Reverend Donald Wildmon - Raging Douchebag
And in easy C&P format as well:
Elizabeth Taylor
Salvatore Scala
Robin Roberts
Rosanne Cash
Aretha Franklin
Muhammad Ali
Louis Farrakhan
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis
Fidel Castro
Al Davis
John Madden
Reverend Donald Wildmon
Aaaand, just in case we have a clock-beater, we’ll call Charlton Heston to be an alternate.
Last year I went with an Old Fogey strategy, average age in the upper 80s. They’re all doing fine and well, thank you very much.* Best I managed was Art Buchwald, who was #20 on the list I had compiled.
What to do, what to do? Dig a deeper hole! The thirteen listed below now have an average age of 92:
Mitch Miller
Karl Malden
Studs Terkel
Jack LaLanne
Norman Lloyd
Richard Widmark
Harry Morgan
Les Paul
Olivia de Haviland
Van Johnson
Daniel Schorr
Walter Cronkite
Kirk Douglas
Alternates:
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Lena Horne
Phyllis Diller
Alas, June Foray (voice of Rocket J. Squirrel, Esq.) falls to #17 on my current list. Hang in there, little buddy!
- If anyone has heard of the demise of Studs Terkel, Harry Morgan, Daniel Schorr, Walter Cronkite, Kirk Douglas, Phyllis Diller, June Foray, Oral Roberts, Mike Wallace, Billy Graham, Andy Rooney, Mickey Rooney, or Hugh Downs,+ please let me know!
- Wanna bet the last seven, who didn’t make the cut this year, all bite the big one in Ought Eight?