I think people are being coy. Last year one poster waited and copied almost the entire list of one of the most “lucky” posters. I’m still a virgin this year, but I plan on waiting until 12/31.
It is my birthday. Maybe this time I’ll have better results.
Thanks.
It’s that mooost wonderful tiiime of the yeeear…
Fidel Castro
Adam Pacman Jones
Dick van Dyke
Dick Clark
Sid Caesar
Daniel Schorr
Walter Cronkite
John Glenn
Benazir Bhutto
Pervez Musharraf
Ed Koch
Ariel Sharon
Fred Phelps
alternates:
Angela Lansbury
Billy Graham
I’ve known for months that Pacman was going to be on my list this year. I was holding out for a unique pick but WVmom beat me to it 
Ebert should be there; Ferraro replaces Chavez.
However, another substitution. As much as I’d like to see that old bastard kick the bucket, George Soros is replaced by Pete Domenici.
New list:
Roger Ebert
Pervez Musharraf
Geraldine Ferraro
Michael J. Fox
Joni Mitchell
Louis Farrakhan
Tony Snow
Suzanne Pleshette
Farah Fawcett
Amy Winehouse
Muhammed Ali
Elizabeth Edwards
Pete Domenici
Alternates:
Fred Phelps
Kim Jong-Il
Michael Moore
Britney Spears
Elizabeth Taylor
Liza Minelli
Mary-Kate Olsen
Gough Whitlam
Keith Richards
James Garner
Nick Nolte
Margaret Thatcher
Ronnie Corbett
Alternates:
Stephen Hawking
Harry Belafonte
Don Rickles
You only have ten names. You need 13.
A thousand apologies - slight malinterpretation of the rules.
Our list, no alternates at this time:
Britney Spears
Elizabeth Taylor
Liza Minelli
Mary-Kate Olsen
Gough Whitlam
Keith Richards
James Garner
Nick Nolte
Margaret Thatcher
Ronnie Corbett
Stephen Hawking
Harry Belafonte
Don Rickles
Russell Watson
Elizabeth Edwards
Eleanor Mondale
Shuntaro Torigoe
Grant Achatz
Tony Snow
Philip Chevron
Kris Carr
Matt Cappotelli
Lynn Kohlman
Bobby Murcer
Jack Kevorkian
Donald Hall
[alternates]
Ariel Sharon
Fidel Castro
Keith Richards
I swear on a stack of death certificates, and on my honor as a very morbid and disturbed individual, that I have not looked at any other player’s list, other than amarone’s first post.
I managed to finish in the top 10 (at least of Christmas) for 2007 with three picks, let’s see if I do any better this year. None of my picks from last year are on this year’s list, save for Ariel and Fidel as alternates.
I thought the word should be alternatives, not alternates. But I looked it up, and typically, it’s considered acceptable, though of course it’s Americans bastardising the English language once again.
I’m not the official scorer for 2007, but I have you at 12th.
Rachm Qoch 283
Zog_10 254
amarone 231
qwest 214
CowPatty 175
Andrew 21 167
tarragon918 136
clipper 127
NurseCarmen 127
Blalron 125
Captain Lance Murdoch 121
Sublight 118
And if someone can tell me how to stop VB from stripping out the blanks between the name and score, I would be grateful. I had all the scores aligned in a column.
Darn. I noticed right after I posted that NurseCarmen had flown past me on Evel Kneivel’s rocket casket, I guess two more must have as well.
Still, it’s better than I’ve ever done before, and the first time I scored with celebs who weren’t picked by 50 other people as well.
I think the only thing you can do is wrap the whole thing with code tags (the # on the “tool bar”).
Test:
**BJMoose** 1201
**PosterWithIdioticallyLongUsername** 43
**Amarone** 7
Bit of a pain in the patoot. You can’t use tabs, but the defalt font is monospaced, so at least the right margin won’t be ragged.
Looks like I still have a unique pick or two, so I’ll hold off publishing my list. (Almost forgot one year and had to recreate a list from memory at the last minute!)
Typical prescriptivist bullshit. We could just as easily call “boot” a bastardization of “trunk”; there isn’t an ounce of logic to support either position, though.
I am waiting - I’ll post mine over the weekend when I’ve had time to review my choices one last time
A bunch of repeats from last year’s list, but I did have 3 stiffs that had to be replaced. I ditched a couple of others because the point value is too low and/or they’re on too many lists.
Lou Albano
Ron Jeremy
Gary Busey
Suge Knight
Bobby Robson
Paul Prudhomme
William Perry
Omar Abdel-Rahman
Mike Tyson
James Watt
J.R. Richard
George Wendt
James Cotton
Well, there’s quite a lot of difference between having two separate words meaning the same thing (especially for something that is a relatively recent invention), and using an existing word incorrectly until it’s so common it becomes accepted. Of course, that’s the nature of language, but the Americans seem to stubbornly take pride in it.
Anyway, I am hijacking. My apologies.
Jimmy Carter
Ariel Sharon
Fidel Castro
Kirk Douglas
Liza Minnelli
George H. W. Bush
Betty Ford
Lauren Bacall
Angela Lansbury
Paul Newman
Sidney Poitier
Nelson Mandela
Peter Falk
Alternate:
Robert Duvall
Okay…
Also, thank you for quoting me in your OP. Anyway, my list, in alphabetical order:
Ralph Baer
Tony Bennett*
Yogi Berra
Osama bin Laden
Shirley Temple Black
Jimmy Carter
Sean Connery
Roger Ebert
June Foray
Barry Manilow*
Bill Melendez
Robert Mugabe
Carroll Spinney
*These picks sponsored in part by Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D.F.A.
Arthur C. Clarke
Stephen Hawking
Muhammad Ali
Queen Elizabeth
Fidel Castro
Pat Robertson
Michael J. Fox
Jerry Lewis
Jack Kevorkian
Andy Griffith
Fred Phelps
Christopher Lloyd
Tom Lehrer
And on time, this year!
Alternate: Pope Benedict XVI
George HW Bush
Dick Cheney
Danica Patrick
George Steinbrenner
Roger Ebert
Glen Campbell
Englebert Humperdinck
Walter Mondale
John Paul Stevens
Willie Mays
Joe Namath
Max Baer, Jr
Pernell Roberts