Parenthetically, yes.
I’ll shut up now.
The problem with waiting until the last day to submit is that inevitably your own SUPER DUPER RARE PICK Like, the best evar!!!111!! will crop up here and there in other peoples lists and therefore make it look like you just waited until the last moment and combed over other’s hard work.
To this I say, not true. This thing is a bizarre obsession, TYVM.
Colin Baker
Pierre Boulez
Dave Brubeck
Jimmy Carter
Fidel Castro
Ted Kennedy
Kim Jong-Il
Henry Kissinger
Michael Jackson
Fred Phelps
Prince Philip
Margaret Thatcher
Amy Winehouse
Alternate: Dick Cheney
Queen Elizabeth II
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Barack Obama
Gough Whitlam, former Australian PM
Patrick Swayze
Angela Lansbury
Hazel Hawke, former wife of Bob Hawke, former Australian PM
Dame Joan Sutherland
Fidel Castro
Baroness Thatcher
Michael Jackson
OJ Simpson
Kylie Minogue
Looks like the rules let them in.
It doesn’t absolve the picks as lame. Capital L. There just are so many picks out there that I would hope that Rahm Qoch’s yearly domination hasn’t sent us into desperation picks. We’re better than that, aren’t we?
We’re playing a game in which we get points when people die, and you ask that?
Myself, if I was newsworthy and dying, I’d be honored to be someone’s pick. It’s not as if we want them to die(well, with one or two exceptions)
Last year was my first try at this, so naturally I got none of them right. Many of the names below are from that list.
Mel Brooks
Christopher Lee
Elizabeth Taylor
George H W Bush
Joanne Woodward
Pele
Ronnie Corbett
Peter Sallis
Gary Glitter
Macaulay Culkin
Terry Pratchett
Bobby McFerrin
Tim Conway
Jackie Stewart
I’m going to go ahead and post 'cause tomorrow is looking to be busy here at work, and I don’t want to forget.
)no alternates at this time
Clean version
Vasily Aleksanyan
Fidel Castro
Rev. Billy Graham
Ted Kennedy
Nancy Reagan
Patrick Swayze
Annette Funicello
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Elizabeth Edwards
Dom Deluise
Ronnie Biggs
Jon Anderson
Hank Cochran
That is the spirit of the season!
IIRC several of Rahm Qoch’s last year picks did look like they were selected from the journal of “Will bite the dust in a few days, 2008 edition” And I get the grief for picking a few from the 2009 list…
In these days diversifying is crucial like it is investing in the stock market. (Yet another deadly occupation nowadays) 
And how are those picks any worse than going through a list of Medal of Honor winners and guessing which ones will die during 2009? Or than picking the president-elect?
I’m just not getting this distinction you’re trying to establish.
Patrick Swayze
Hugh Hefner
OJ Simpson
Kim Jong Il
Pervez Musharaff
Hamid Karzai
Nancy Reagan
Betty White
Bob Barker
Willaim Shatner
Art Linkletter
Barbera Bush
Lindsey Lohan
Because the people you are mentioning are famous for something other than just being sick. It seems to me the distinction is between famous people that just happen to be dying and dying people that just happen to be dying.
Thanks for putting this together again this year amarone
Patrick Swayze
Ted Kennedy
Seve Ballesteros
Robert Novak
Jade Goody
Vasily Aleksanyan
Steve Jobs
Samak Sundaravej
Sara Douglass
Sir Dai Llewellyn
Genaro Hernandez
Kim Jong Il
Bobby Robson
Alternates
Paul Kraus
Michael Jackson
Yay, it’s time to play Angel of Death! I missed it last year and everybody lived, but waiting this late will prevent other posters from poaching from my brilliant picks. like I did for about 80% of mine
The humans-only rule prevents me from getting 81 points for Socks Clinton :mad: but here are the rest, with birthdates if they haven’t been already mentioned upthread:
Known to be Sick:
Elizabeth Edwards (born 7/3/49), wronged would-be First Lady
Corazon Aquino (1/25/33), ex-president of the Phillipines
Peter Falk (9/16/27), angel with Alzheimer’s
This year’s Big Star Trek Death:
William Shatner Himself, whose heart will be broken by a) not being in ST 11 and b) supporting his increasing girth over the years. Bonus pathos points if it happens near movie premiere.
A couple of dicks:
Dick Cheney
Andy Dick (12/21/65)
…And Speaking of the Drug-Addled…
Jeff Conaway (10/5/50), professional rehab patient
Paul “Gazza” Gascoigne (5/27/67), soccer player
The Ancients:
Walter Cronkite (11/4/16), anchorman among anchormen
Nancy Reagan
Abe Vigoda (2/24/21), who surprises people by a) not being dead and b) not Italian (son of Russian immigrants)
Endangered Species:
Bernard Madoff (4/29/38), who’s just made tons of enemies, one of whom stole a statue off his property the other day. Maybe his life is next.
Asif Ali Zardari (7/26/55), 14th President of Pakistan and widower of Benazir Bhutto; his nation seems to be full of people who want to reunite them.
Alternate: The one, the only, the immortal Elizabeth Taylor, whose ailments have been chronicled in the papers since the Eisenhower Administration.
Plain Vanilla Version:
Elizabeth Edwards
Corazon Aquino
Peter Falk
William Shatner
Dick Cheney
Andy Dick
Jeff Conaway
Paul “Gazza” Gascoigne
Walter Cronkite
Nancy Reagan
Abe Vigoda
Bernard Madoff
Asif Ali Zardari
Elizabeth Taylor
Patrick Swayze actor
Wendy Richard actress
Vasily Aleksanyan enemy of Putin
Roger Ebert film critic
Chi Cheng deftones bassist
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrah Lockerbie bomber
Robert Novak asshole
Steve Jobs Applehead man
Joe Andruzzi Former NFL
Orlando Thomas Former NFL
[Steve Smith](Steve Smith (running back) - Wikipedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Smith_(running_back)>) Former NFL
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim Iraqi politician
James Blake Miller Marlboro marine, sad footnote.
Alt Farrah Fawcett Angel.
Alt Seve Ballesteros Spanish golfer
Patrick Swayze
Wendy Richard
Farrah Fawcett
Roger Ebert
Chi Cheng
Abdel Basset Ali la-Megrahi
Robert Novak
Steve Jobs
Joe Andruzzi
Orlando Thomas
Steve Smith
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim
James Blake Miller
Alt
Leonid Stadnyk
Seve Ballesteros
Here I am once again posting my list on the last day of the year. Although I scored zero points for 2008, (and for others who had similar scores), it’s really easy to compile a 2009 list - just copy 2008.
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
Chevy Chase
Ariel Sharon
Billy Graham
Elizabeth Taylor
Farrah Fawcett
Fidel Castro
Kirk Douglas
Nancy Reagan
Patrick Swayze
Ray Bradbury
Stephen Hawking
Ted Kennedy
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Bob Barker
Alternates:
John Goodman
Walter Cronkite
The quick list:
Tara Jones
Tom Buckley
Elizabeth van Sickle
Patrick Swayze
Allister Boyd
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi
Alex Macomber
Pete Doherty
Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim
Steve Phillips
Steve Jobs
Seve Ballesteros
Colin Howe
Amy Winehouse
Ariel Sharon
Robert Mugabe
Kim Jong Il
The detailed list:
Patrick Swayze (Actor)
Steve Jobs (Apple)
Seve Ballesteros (Golfer)
Colin Howe
The Times & The Sunday Times: breaking news & today's latest headlines
A1. Ariel Sharon
A2. Robert Mugabe
A3. Kim Jong Il (Chief Korean nutter).
Tara, Tom, Allister, and Alex should be checked for false starts (no reports of death as of typing).
My picks, sliding in at the last minute:
Dom Deluise
Steve Jobs
Michael Jackson
Dick Cheney
Coolio
Patrick Swayze
Kelsey Grammar
Dick Clark
Mary Kate Olsen
Lindsay Lohan
Fidel Castro
Terry Pratchett
Amy Winehouse
Quartz, you’ve got fourteen on your list. Who’s going to get bumped off and thereby rendered doomed?