None of my all-political picks for 2009 have kicked the bucket. Why mess with a good thing?
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[li]Ratu Josefa Iloilovatu Uluivuda (President of Fiji)[/li][li]George Herbert Walker Bush (former President of the United States)[/li][li]Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (President of Cuba)[/li][li]Ariel Sharon (former Prime Minister of Israel)[/li][li]Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, etc[/li][li]Kim Jong-Il (Dear Leader of the People’s Democartic Republic of Korea)[/li][li]Joseph Alois Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)[/li][li]Imelda Romualdez Marcos (former First Lady of the Philippines)[/li][li]Robert Gabriel Mugabe (President of Zimbabwe)[/li][li]King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques (King of Saudi Arabia)[/li][li]Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Tatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (former Primer Minister of the United Kingdom)[/li][li]Lee Kuan Yew (former Prime Minister of Singapore)[/li][li]Colonel Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi [Qadhafi/Qaddafi/Kaddafi - however you want to spell it] (de facto leader of Libya)[/li][/ol]
Josefa Iloilo
George H.W. Bush
Fidel Castro
Ariel Sharon
Queen Elizabeth II
Kim Jong-il
Pope Benedict XVI
Imelda Marcos
Robert Mugabe
King Abdullah
Margaret Thatcher
Lee Kuan Yew
Muammar al-Gaddafi
Ariel Sharon
Bob Barker
Courtney Love
David Hasselhoff
Elizabeth Taylor
Ernest Borgnine
Fidel Castro
Hugh Hefner
Red Farmer
Jerry Lee Lewis
Michael Schumacher
Kirk Douglas
Margaret Thatcher
Alternates:
Mickey Rooney
Tony Curtis
Steven Tyler
This is my first year playing the game. Most of my picks are on somebody else list, with the exception of maybe Red Farmer who is a former Nascar Driver.
FWIW, AFAIK, the profile link says Randi only has 2 posts. I’m guessing that it was probably a statement and a clarification of that statement, in one single post.
Not that you need my opinion, but I think there should be weight on the number of posts a celeb has in regards to the rule in question here.
I don’t think that just 2 posts should disqualify someone.
Related, I once made the comment that I had nevere posted to The Pit, even though I actually had 3 posts there. [Given my volume, I later stated this stat, and suggested my point of “never” posting to the pit was more or less still intact.]
The results are in the original thread for that year. I will post early in the new year. I may be a little jet-lagged as I have some end of year business to see to in South Dakota, Italy, New Zealand and Australia.
As it gets down to the wire, I’m thinking about dumping Castro. He’s an old guy anyway, and may already be a Lenin-like skin on a Disney amatron. Anybody want to share their ideas about the Man the CIA Couldn’t Kill?
I’m confident that none of my picks need worry about increasing their life insurance benefits. Never a point yet, and I’m okay with that.
Linda Ellerby
Julia Sweeney
Robert Mandan
Mary Tyler Moore
Ed Asner
George Kell
Betty Garrett
Helen Reddy
Tyne Daly
June Lockhart
Charlotte Rae
Don Pardo
Adam West
OK, Here it is, with no cheating by peeking at the lists above. (People ought to check my work, I seem to list people twice, list dead people and so on.)
Dennis Hopper
Bif Naked
Margaret Thatcher
Elizabeth Taylor
Ronnie Biggs
Dick Cheney
Fidel Castro
Edie Falco
Ariel Sharon
Dick Clark
Mohammed Ali
Amy Winehouse
Gene Wilder
