The Celebrity Death Pool 2009

Farrah Fawcett is back in the hospital again.

CNN is reporting Ed McMahon has died. No link yet.

TV host Ed McMahon is dead at age 86

Seven people had him, all now popping their 2009 cherries.

Only 7 of us? I figured that there would be a lot more than that.

Low scorer - not worth nominating. If you had thirteen 86-year olds and they all popped off, you wouldn’t be close to winning.

Yep, my first dead celebrity. I think I had him last year, too, I thought I was keeping him alive. Well, he fought the good fight. RIP Ed.

On a more uplifting note, Steve Jobs has been seen back at workfollowing a liver transplant two months ago.

Like Walter Cronkite and Henry Kissinger, I thought he was already dead.

right, but if it was due to the pancreatic cancer spreading to the liver as has been speculated, then it’s a gamble at best…

I’m just waiting for his Obit headline:

“Jobs Out of Work - Permanently!”

“One Less Jobs in the Workforce”

“Another Jobs Loss Report”

etc… :smiley:

“More News: Less Jobs.”

I heard that an obit writer got fired for reporting that Ray Kroc was McDead.

yeah, as has been mentioned many times before, we’re going to hell :smiley:

Dr. Jerri Nielsen, 57, subject of a dramatic South Polar rescue in 1999.

Farrah Fawcett.

[del]w00t! w00t! w00t! 38 points for me![/del]My condolences to Ryan and the family…

My stand by list for next year grows ever smaller…

Huh, my first points in a couple of years. I guess my reaction is probably kind of typical: it feels kind of good to finally get off the schneid here in the pool; still, even though I have no emotional connection to Fawcett, this is still a fellow human being… a fellow traveler on this earth, now no longer with us, and dying young to boot.

So, while I will take the points, don’t expect any crass celebrations or tasteless jokes from me about ‘losing my virginity’ to Farrah Fawcett.

Besides, Larry ‘Bud’ Melman popped my cherry ages ago.

I told somebody here at work about the Death Pool. They were incredulous that there are people like us.

My first points this year.

This isn’t my only Dead Pool, but it is usually the most entertaining…