The Celebrity Death Pool 2010

Only if you’re David Carradine.

Please, Carradine was just a Michael Hutchence wannabe.

With mad kung-fu skills.

that was his stunt double

I was inspired to that question by the thread Lesson learned the hard way, wear a life vest.

One idiot pushes a guy off a boat not realizing he can’t swim, then jumps in to save him. But then he’s in trouble. A third idiot jumps in. And then a fourth.

All four drown. They are now celebrities of a type – dead ones whose last acts were amazingly stupid.

Noted neopagan author Isaac Bonewits has passed into the Summerlands at the age of 60.

Richie Hayward, drummer for Little Feat, is no longer keeping perfect time.

A unique pick for you.

36 points to you and Shirley Ujest, who climbs to 5th place.

I’d say that falls under:

especially since, for someone to actually pick such a person in Death Pool, they’d have to be in the hospital in a coma or something.

Technically not. Like if you knew the four idiots who drowned, and you knew they didn’t swim and went out on small boats a lot and got drunk, you might pick them. But it would be like hotting a lottery – very long odds. The only reason they gained fame (of a kind) is that all four died at once.

Last year somebody picked all members of some cult. He expected them all to commit suicide, I think, because their leader was put in prison. They didn’t, but it was a very similar idea to what I’m asking about. And I think some or all of their names got in the papers in stories related to the criminal trial.

Yes, but … how would somebody pick 4 random schmoes who no one had ever heard of, just in case they managed to kill themselves in such a spectacularly stupid way that they ended up on CNN … where people would now have heard of them.

No idea, hence my last sentence in post 1480.

But if you have a lot of confidence in the incredible stupidity of someone…

That was The Master, Rachm Qoch.

Being far too lazy to search, may I ask if he entered this year?

Yes, but I think he got tired of the lack of challenge - his list is pedestrian, and he languishes on zero points.

Isn’t it just a list of cult members who may commit suicide?

No, that was last year.

He obviously has some temporal difficulty with his time machine this year.
No, wait, he…damned confusing, I guess he is stuck where ever it broke down.

Zsa Zsa Gabor. Takes a licking and keeps on ticking. Won’t someone please
drive a stake through her heart?

wasn’t there a rumor going around about how she received a transfusions of Keith Richards’ blood?