50 minutes…
Hey, Rachm Qoch has four picks in common with my list! I might get a second place this time.
…and what is ALS?
Could you settle for three? New list:
Yo-sam Choi
Orlando Thomas
Randy Pausch
Daniel Lee Siebert
Erick Wujcik
Steve Smith
Doku Umarov
Don Wittman
Abu Ayyub al-Masri
Christodoulos
Tony Snow
Sherrill Headrick
Farrah Fawcett
Alts:
Leroy Sievers
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim
Sydney Pollack
Fidel Castro
Ariel Sharon
Britney Spears
Amy Winehouse
Kirk Douglas
Muhammad Ali
Farrah Fawcett
Courtney Love
Dick Clark
Nancy Reagan
Jack Kevorkian
Margret Thatcher
Robert Redford
ALT
Pervez Musharraf
Sneaky. 
SSG Schwartz
Nobody picked Dave Chappelle. I’m Insulted!
It was a trap! Totally appropriate, considering today’s classic column.
You’re such a tease.
For probably the only time I can say it this year…I’m in first place.
I am currently checking all major news feeds for a bus crash with only 13 passengers.
SSG Schwartz
OK, I admit… I came home from a great New Year’s Eve party to find that I had six picks, including alternates, the same as Rachm Qoch. I posted mine first, so I must have an inside track with the Grim Reaper! Whoo Whoo for me!
But now I see, with revisions, I only have four. I am so sad now…I hope the rest of 2008 is not so disapointing…
Damn. I must admit. The number of “players” has increased this year. There are some obviously well researched and insightful postings.
Well, mine ain’t. Sneaking in, it’s still December 31st in Hawaii and that’s in America, so:
The Muckety-Mucks:
- Fidel Castro
- Pervez Musharraf
- Ariel Sharon (legally still alive)
- George Steinbrenner
The Publicly Sick:
5) Elizabeth Edwards
6) Farrah Fawcett
7) Omar Abdel-Rahman (the blind terrorist sheik)
8) Margaret Thatcher
The Ancients:
9) Walter Cronkite
10) Julie Wilson, cabaret singer
The Geez, They’re Still Alive?!
11) Elizabeth Taylor
12) Whitney Houston
13) Charlton Heston
I did so badly last year that I feel bad giving people like El Viejo an extended lifespan, but most of these folks I bear no ill-will to.
Yanno what is rather disturbing or funny ( depending on how you look at it.) is that I had a dream last night that Some Doper I have no idea who. called me on my cell to advise me I had the first official death of 2008 and it was one of my PVS peoples.
Do you know how freakin’ happy I was in that dream?
Am I mental or what?
Good luck to everyone this year!
I am enjoying my new found DP Cherry.
Yes you are mental. Why else would you be playin’ celebrity death pool. 
that’d be up to amarone - but the rules in the OP clearly state, ad have stated every year, the deadline is midnight GMT-6 which is CST, where Chicago, the home of the Dope, is.
Woo hoo! I have a pick in common with Rachm Qoch!