Okay, when I did a regular list I only get one, or at most two, deaths. So like I said I’m going to post the top twelve vote getters as of post #368, when I last totaled, plus one long shot(and with that one, we’d all win!)
Patrick Swayze
Fidel Castro
Ted Kennedy
Amy Winehouse
Michael Jackson
Nancy Reagan
Ariel Sharon
Billy Graham
Farrah Fawcett
Elizabeth Taylor
Kim Jong-il
Kirk Douglas
Fred Phelps
Patrick Swayze
Peter Falk
Elizabeth Edwards
Amy Winehouse
Pete Doherty
Billy Graham
Wendy Richard
Farrah Fawcett
Ted Kennedy
Redmond O’Neal
Jodie Sweetin
Rod Blagojevich
Ariel Sharon
Alternate:
Fidel Castro
Michael Travesser
Jeff Bent
Amanah Travesser
Ami Travesser
Anaiah Travesser
Mesha Travesser
Liberty Travesser
Adora Travesser
Christiana Travesser
Timothy Benjamin
Gabriel Travesser
Allasso Travesser
Moriah Travesser
Interesting list, when compared against thetop vote getters for 2008:
Only one of them has died in the last year. Collectively, we suck at this game.
Twenty bucks and I’ll replace someone on my list with him. Those lucky few who write books about surviving the big C, or were misdiagnosed in the first place. :rolleyes:
J.D Salinger
Fidel Castro
Jimmy Carter
Clint Eastwood
Queen Elizabeth II
Rush Limbaugh
Ted Kennedy
Christopher Lloyd
Hugh Hefner
Larry Flynt
Ariel Sharon
Vladamir Putin
Roger Ebert
Jerry Pournelle
Seve Ballesteros
Patrick Swayze
Seth Rogan
Ed McMahon
Ted Kennedy
Ed Harris
Jon Voight
Dick Vitale
Jerry Ferrara
Dominic Chianese
Bernardo Bertolucci
Linda Hunt
Okey-dokey, plain list below:
Muhammed Ali
Amy Winehouse
Pete Doherty
Margaret Thatcher
HRH Prince Phillip
Prof Stephen Hawking
Kirk Douglas
Patrick Moore
John Hurt
Robert Mugabe
Peter Falk
George Bush Senior
The Pope
I missed the past couple of years but I am playing this year!
Patrick Swayze
Osama bin Laden
Brittney Spears
Fidel Castro
Barrak Obama
George Bush Sr.
Bill Cosby
Amy Winehouse
Mary Higgins Clark
Hugh Hefner
OJ Simpson
Ozzie Osbourne
Barbara Walters
I certainly hope we’re wrong about Patrick. As an alternate, I choose Magic Johnson, though with four hours to go I feel pretty safe! Happy New Year everyone!!
Andy Dick
Mindy McCready
Bob Barker
Michael Jackson
Amy Winehouse
Gary Coleman
Mickey Rooney
Andy Rooney
Bob Newhart
David Gahan
Nancy Reagan
Jeff Conaway
Walter Kronkite
Alt: Ted Kennedy
OK, here goes. I have jettisoned most of my 2008 list and am starting fresh.
Patrick Swayze. He’s looking pretty good lately, actually, but I don’t want to be like the one person who doesn’t score points for this one.
Amy Winehouse. I actually think she’s indestructible, but if I’m wrong, mega-points!
Jade Goody. Bandwagon pick.
Elizabeth Edwards. Cancer ward.
Wendy Richards. Ibid.
Farrah Fawcett. Will this be her year? Or will those experimental German cancer treatments do the trick?
Susan Atkins. My “I hope you rot” pick.
Seve Ballesteros. Recuperating at home, but you never know.
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi. OK, one more “I hope you rot” pick.
Ted Kennedy. Hanging in there, but for how much longer?
John Nash. Low points, but he has to go sometime, right?
Morgan Tsvangirai. Will he successfully share power with Mugabe? Or will he score big points for me?
Steve Jobs. Nobody believes that you ditched MacWorld because you were “too busy,” dude.
Clean list:
Patrick Swayze
Amy Winehouse
Jade Goody
Elizabeth Edwards
Wendy Richards
Farrah Fawcett
Susan Atkins
Seve Ballesteros
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi
Ted Kennedy
John Nash
Morgan Tsvangirai
Steve Jobs
ETA:
Alternates:
Keith Richards
Osama bin Laden
Ed McMahon
Mickey Rooney
O.J. Simpson
Mickey Rourke
Eddie Van Halen
George Michael
Sandra Day O’Connor
Julie Andrews
Nick Nolte
Gary Busey
Rosalyn Carter
John Cleese
Tina Turner
Alternates:
Elton John
Paul McCartney
Cher
My friend, you are either going to win in way that will go down in history, or you are finally going to pass the crown onto someone else.
Either way, WOW that’s a hell of a list.
He will be. Remember, Sports Illustrated is a CNN site. It matters not anyway, as I don’t think there’s any way this would go into effect until next year.
As for the Canada thing, yeah a former minister of whatever might not be an earthshaking passing, but then again one of Wisconsin’s former governors died this year and he’s really no big deal outside of the cheesehead state. We could have 2, 6, 12 or whatever sites that would qualify.
I should post my picks, but I have no idea who they are yet. I haven’t had a chance to put anything together. I think I will have a list by midnight.
Personally, I think it’s a decoy list. I think he’ll be posting his real list (as usual) just prior to the deadline.
All I can say is, poor Patrick Swayze.
Fidel Castro
Muhammad Ali
Ariel Sharon
Ron Santo
Ted Kennedy
Ronnie Biggs
Seve Ballesteros
Steve Jobs
Mickey Carroll
Patrick Swayze
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Amy Winehouse
Lawrence Phillips
Vasily Aleksanyan
Paul John Gascoigne
Orlando Thomas
Thomas Buckley
Patrick Deuel
Patrick Swayze
Severiano Ballesteros
Andy Dick
Suge Knight
Ted Kennedy
Michael Jackson
Richard Collier
Mindy McCready
Fidel Castro
Wilford Brimley
Jack Kevorkian
*Richard Collier #76
I got shut out in 2008. Some of these are sure to live to see 2010, but I seriously doubt that I’ll get shut out again this year…
Lou Albano
Ron Jeremy
Susan Atkins
Suge Knight
Bobby Robson
Paul Prudhomme
William Perry
Omar Abdel-Rahman
Mike Tyson
Edward Kennedy
Patrick Swayze
Steve Jobs
James Cotton
Judging by the number of votes he has here, he will outlive us all.