The Celebrity Death Pool 2008

The Game Room
621

I guess someone needs to put it here to make it official. Jeff Healey dead at age 41. There is a thread going on in CS but you are not officially dead until you get posted in the Death Pool.

622

So until your post he was just mostly dead?

623

There should be a post that JUST shows the scores, with announcements of the newly departed to remain here.

In related news, my 13 remain disgustingly alive, although I have high hopes Fidel and the Grim Reaper will have a sit-down together soon.

624

I prefer undead. Like Keith Richards.

Janet Kagan has died of COPD at age 63. She was a Hugo award winning science fiction author.

625

Gary Gygax has failed a critical save.

626

Source: http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,23327813-10388,00.html

Swayze is 55.

627

wow.

eta
:frowning: :frowning:

628

Buddy Dial, who averaged 20.8 yards per catch (the National Football League’s second-highest all-time mark) during his career as a wide receiver, has died at the age of 71. Dial starred for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1959 to '63 before finishing his NFL tenure during a '64-'66 stint with the Dallas Cowboys.

629

The original story was posted online by the National Enquirer; I have seen no other independent reports of this. To be taken with a very large grain of salt.

630

This is true. However, the story is now on CNN. While CNN may be quoting the same source, we only need to wait a few more weeks to confirm the story or not.

631

Oh, I just saw this. I really like her collection of Mirabile stories.

632

So, is anybody gleefully rubbing their hands and waiting for Swayze’s press conference?
I mean, er, does anyone have him this year?

:wink:

633

No.

634

If he hold out another 9 months some of us will get some points next year.

Patrick, we’re (temporarily) rooting for you!

635

Two deaths to report:

Francis Pym, who went from being Thatcher’s Foreign Secretary to a leading critic of her policy within the Conservative Party, is dead at 86

Norman Smith, who worked in the music industry as an engineer, producer, and (under the name “Hurricane Smith”) had several hits as a performer in the UK and US, died at 85

636

And Thatcher herself has been hospitalized for “tests.”

I think I have her…

637

She’s already been discharged, and walked out under her own power. Damn that socialized medicine!

638

Senator Howard Metzenbaum dead at the low score of 10 points. I mean 90 years old.

639

Mikey Dread, influential Jamacian reggae toaster, dead of a brain tumor at age 54.

Mikey played with The Clash and influenced their musical direction.

R.I.P. Mikey

640

Harumph. On my Old Geezer List, ten points is a high score.