The Celebrity Death Pool 2009

It depends. Is his nose over 18 years old?

Nope, sorry, his nose is already dead. According to some court documents a few years back, his penis is still active, though.

Ted Uhlaender, who played for several teams during a Major League Baseball career that began in 1965 and ended in '72, has died at the age of 68. Uhlaender had been battling bone marrow cancer as his daughter Katie competed as a skeleton sled racer on the World Cup circuit. Katie had just won a silver medal in a competition in Utah when she learned her father had passed away.

Louis Bellson, big band and jazz drummer, dies of complications from Parkinson’s at age 84.

Brad Van Pelt, the Michigan State great who played linebacker for the New York Giants for most of his fourteen NFL seasons, has died at the age of 57.

Mike Whitmarsh, who teamed with Mike Dodd to win the silver medal for beach volleyball in the 1996 Olympics, has apparently committed suicide at the age of 46 by inhaling carbon monoxide. Whitmarsh ranks as the ninth-leading all-time money-winner on the Association of Volleyball Professionals tour.

Patrick Swayze appears to be on the way out

Well, Vern Gagne, one of my picks, is not dead. But he appears to have killed someone else.

Does that score anything?

Regards,
Shodan

I think you ought to get half points if your pick kills someone else.
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If only I could get one pick to kill another! Jackpot!

Another of my picks was Cheney. Do I get quarter credit if he shoots someone else?

Regards,
Shodan

Yeah, and you know what we could call that rule?
The Rachm Qoch Massively Multiple Points Rule, in honor of how many bonus points he’d get when his whole list offs itself in an orgy of murder/suicides. :wink:

Come now, one must have some principles.
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You should get some credit for every American soldier who dies in Iraq in 2009, and more still for every Iraqi civilian killed by American soldiers. Cheney has a piece of all those deaths.

The only principal in the Dead Pool seems to be You Can’t Kill Anyone On Your List.
This does not mean that someone else could go off on a murderous spree and kill, as an exampl, everyone on my list, thus granting me Eternal GLORY.That lasts until maybe the third day into 2010.)

The consequences ( and paper work) would be problematic for the murder spree-er.

So, please, don’t go on any murder sprees just to make me a WINNAR for a few glorious moments. [size=1]My lawyer told me to say that.

Boyo Jim, political snipes are not appropriate for this forum. Please keep it on topic.

Actually, I was praising the choice of Cheney, as someone who is like a “super food” of death pools. But I will stop.

You’re just mad because you didn’t think of it.

Regards,
Shodan

Kelly Groucutt, ELO bassist, 62.

Pro Golfer Fred Couples’ estranged wife died last week of breast cancer

Thais Baker

She fits the category of famous only for being married to someone famous.

It is pretty remarkable that he contended for the PGA Tournament this past weekend, all things considered.

Two men are out golfing, and are out around the 14th green. Just as the first man is about to chip onto the green, a funeral procession starts driving slowly along a road adjacent to the hole; the man stops his chip mid-swing, takes off his hat, and goes down to one knee, waiting for the entire funeral procession to pass before he gets back up and takes his shot.

The second man, surprised by the first man’s act, says “that is the most considerate thing I’ve ever seen, paying respect to some woman’s funeral procession for five minutes, in the middle of your shot!”

The first man replies, “well, I was married to her for 35 years.”