The Celebrity Death Pool 2009

The Game Room
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He has 10, but 42fish has 11.

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And they said I was mad for choosing centenarians! BWAH-HA-HA-HA!!

183

And The Blue-Sighted Shadow has 12.

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I read once that the age at which you have less than 50% odds of surviving to your next birthday is 100. If that is true, you should expect to score with at least 7 of your nominees. In comparison, 8 of Rachm Qoch’s list have bitten the dust so far this year. So five celebrities are living (or not) in fear over the next 13 days.

185

Replacing the deceased W. Mark Felt with Buzz Aldrin.

186

Time to repost then. W. Mark Felt is gone.

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Angela Lansbury
Ted Kennedy
Bob Barker
Elizabeth Taylor
Mary Tyler Moore
Dick Clark
Joanne Woodward
Amy Winehouse
Tim Conway
Walter Cronkite
Tina Louise
Roger Ebert
Chi Cheng

Alternates
Patrick Swayze
OJ Simpson

188

I will momentarily.

189

Paul Willson
Billy Graham
Harry Morgan
Jiang Zemin
Jack Lalane
Paul Wight
Eli Wallach
Peter Falk
Kirk Douglas
Les Paul
C. Everett Koop
Glen Benton
Michelle Trachtenberg

I have replaced Mark Felt with Kirk Douglas.

190

Like the dung beetles of the world, I just like to do things differently! :smiley:

191

Between formatting incorrectly and already losing an entry I’ll go again.

New improved Death Pool entry:

Dick Clark
Nancy Reagan
Steve Ballesteros
John McCain
Dick Cheney
Jack LaLane
Barbara Bush
Patrick Swayze
Ted Kennedy
Dick Vitale
Kim Jon-il
Roger Ebert
Alan Colmes

Alternate:
Jerry Lewis

192

Thanks, amarone. May I replace Aldrin as an alternate with Bilawal Bhutto Zardar?

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Sure - I don’t actually keep a record of alternates. It is easier just to search back through the thread if someone on a list dies.

194

My 2009 list is the same as my 2008 list except for one change.

Mikhail Gorbachev
Hank Aaron
Willie Mays
Thomas Pynchon
Raul Castro
Steve Jobs
John Updike
Peter Orlovsky
Sophia Loren
Woody Allen
E.O. Wilson
Sean Connery
Elizabeth Taylor

195

My witty comments shall be left to the reader’s imagination:

Patrick Swayze
Dan Brown
Michael Jackson
Farrah Fawcett
Amy Winehouse
Teri Garr
Barbara Bush
Nancy Reagan
Richard Dawson
Bob Barker
Nicolas Sarkozy
Ariel Sharon
Fidel Castro

Alternates:
Eli Wallach
Judi Dench

To avoid any confusion, Dan Brown is the Defensive Coordinator at Fresno State, not the author of The DaVinci Code and Barbara Bush is the older one without a twin sister.

196

Here is my all-political list. I somehow forgot to submit my picks for 2008 so this list is a re-hash of 2007 with a couple of replacements:

  1. Ratu Josefa Iloilovatu Uluivuda (President of Fiji)

  2. George Herbert Walker Bush (former President of the United States)

  3. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (President of Cuba)

  4. Ariel Sharon (former Prime Minister of Israel)

  5. Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, etc

  6. Kim Jong-Il (Dear Leader of the People’s Democartic Republic of Korea)

  7. Joseph Alois Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)

  8. Imelda Romualdez Marcos (former First Lady of the Philippines)

  9. Robert Gabriel Mugabe (President of Zimbabwe)

  10. King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques (King of Saudi Arabia)

  11. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Tatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (former Primer Minister of the United Kingdom)

  12. Lee Kuan Yew (former Prime Minister of Singapore)

  13. Colonel Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi [Qadhafi/Qaddafi/Kaddafi - however you want to spell it] (de facto leader of Libya)

PLAIN LIST:

Josefa Iloilo
George H.W. Bush
Fidel Castro
Ariel Sharon
Queen Elizabeth II
Kim Jong-il
Pope Benedict XVI
Imelda Marcos
Robert Mugabe
King Abdullah
Margaret Thatcher
Lee Kuan Yew
Muammar al-Gaddafi

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My picks to croak:

Ronnie Biggs
Fidel Castro
Karl Malden
Kirk Douglas
Fats Domino
JD Salinger
Jake LaMotta
Jack Klugman
Elizabeth Taylor
Clive Dunn
Yitzhak Shamir
Ariel Sharon
Billy Graham

Alternates:
Amy Winehouse
Patrick Swayze

198

I am revising my list.

Clint Eastwood
Ariel Sharon
Fidel Castro
Roger Ebert
Chemical Ali
Dick Clark
Elizabeth Taylor
Lionel Barrymore
Steve Jobs
Peter O’Toole
Michael Jackson
Elizabeth Edwards
Barack Obama

Alternates:

Barbara Bush
Mary Stewart
Ray Bradbury

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Michael Jackson
O J Simpson
Woody Allen
Jerry Seinfeld
Ted Kennedy
George H W Bush
Barbara Bush (the mother, not the daughter)
Peter Falk
Parick Swayze
Whitney Houston
Bobbie Brown
Brittany Spears
Billy Ray Cyrus

Alternates:
Keith Richards
Mick Jagger

200

ANNIE!!!

You’ve diversified your list!
I’m SHOCKED!