The Celebrity Death Pool 2009

Does this conclusively prove the life-sustaining powers of the Celebrity Death Pool?

I am going to revoke the rule about not allowing Dopers to be named and would ask you all to put me on your lists.

Would you pay to remain on the list?
We have discovered something here potentially more lucrative than Murder, Incorporated.

What if Rachm Qoch and Captain Lance put you on their list?

That is a very good point.

I’d have settled for it. And I was one of the ones who had her last year!

Would you pay to stay off their list? :slight_smile:

Former heavyweight fighter Greg Page, 50.

Lindy hop legend Frankie Manning, 94. He was still dancing until his health started to deteriorate about a year ago, and I had the great privilege to meet and dance with him a couple of years back.

See!!!

You took her off your list and SHE DIES!!!

She’s been 60ish my entire life thanks to reruns.

This could be…somewhat lucrative.

I propose a test.
Next year, let’s all add the same mod to our list with much publicity. We can vote.
Year after next, we take them off and start taking contributions.

I went to high school with him- he was a really nice guy. :frowning:

Billionaire Richard Pratt has died.

I love the smell of dead billionaires in the morning. Smells like… victory.

Only if I am in their will.

Ernie Barnes, who played on the offensive line for several American Football League teams before becoming renowned as an artist, has died at the age of 70. Barnes’s paintings were featured as the work of J.J. Evans on the situation comedy Good Times. The program’s closing credits rolled against a backdrop of “Sugar Shack”, which was adapted for the cover of Marvin Gaye’s album I Want You.

Vern Gosdin, the singer whose list of hits includes 1989 Country Music Association song of the year Chiseled in Stone, has passed away at the age of 74. (The headline of the linked obituary says he was 70, but his birth date is correctly stated in the article as August 5, 1934.)

Jack Lohrke, a baseball infielder known more for his penchant for cheating death than for his prowess on the diamond, has passed away at the age of 85. While fighting in World War II, Lohrke survived on four occasions when soldiers to both his left and right were killed.

After the war ended, he was bumped from a flight to make room “for some big shot” less than an hour before the plane went down and all lives aboard were lost. When his baseball career resumed, he was at a restaurant during a team road trip when he received word he been promoted from Spokane to San Diego (then a high minor league club). He stayed behind to make travel arrangements as his teammates left. Their bus subsequently went over a cliff in the Cascade Mountains, killing nine of the fifteen players on board.

Vegas Entertainer Danny Gans dead at age 52

Nora O’Brien, Drama executive at NBC Unviersal has died at age 44.

If it is a murder, will Jack McCoy will be prosecuting?

Jack Kemp’s kicked it.