when I pick my own, I do poorly. When I jump on bandwagons, I do poorly. So what’s the secret, amarone, Captain Lance Murdoch, Shirley Ujest, Registered at Last, Critical Mass, and MsWhatsit?
No big secret - it’s Google. Plus not wasting picks on old folks who will only score a handful of points. To win this game you are going to need 7+ correct picks with an average of 40+ points each.
Oh, and it helps if you have the time and resources to make trips to “visit” your celebrities, scythe in hand.
I was more interested in having a clean list than in “winning” and now it’s down to two months for 13 people to keel over. Or at least get themselves buried.
For some of them, it’s possible they died years ago and their bodies haven’t been discovered yet.
Oh well. Time to finalize next year’s list of immortals.
He’s just kidding, folks! Ha ha ha ha ha! :eek: :dubious:
I’ve been “wasting” my picks for at least two years now on people in their 90s (okay, so I’m not playing to win – but SCORING would be nice), and they STILL won’t die. I’m looking at YOU, Mr. Borgnine!
Also just kidding, Mr. Borgnine. Take all the time you need…
See? I’m macabre but I’m nice about it.
The other thing that helps is to have no life, so you are home on New Years Eve listening to Public Radio (CBC in my case) when they rebroadcast the documentary about the bright light who is dying fairly young of cancer (Paul Quarrington). That and having no shame in jumping on a lucrative band wagon (Zelda). Just be careful about WHICH bandwagon.
But yeah, google helps. Although it’s too bad that the date wasn’t October 1 instead of January 1. I have lost 2 off my 2011 long list this past month.
I am ashamed that my first reaction to Maurice Lucas dying was glee because I knew I had scored Death Pool points. My older stepbrother and a former coworker both knew the man. My stepbrother has posted a bunch of stories about him on Facebook. It is quite touching. I feel so guilty now.
You should only feel guilty if you have more points than I.
Charlie O’Donnell, the announcer on Wheel of Fortune, dies at age 78.
ETA: Better Link
Third Place!
This is the highest I’ve ever been!
I could possibly hyper ventilate from giddiness!
Too young to qualify at only age 11, but Shannon Tavarez who played in Broadway’s the Lion King, has lost her battle with leukemia.
The family asks that in lieu of flowers, that you adopt a Dalmation*.
- Ceramic, if you please.
Pretty much what amarone said. You have to actually care about this ridiculous game enough to pay attention to the news throughout the year and make little notes about celebrities that have been diagnosed with cancer or are having other health ailments of various sorts. And then yes, a lot of Googling. And don’t have too many celebs that are in their 80s and 90s.
And yeah, bandwagon-jumping can pay off (Zelda) or backfire miserably, like when it was announced in the last week of December that Rush Limbaugh had been admitted to the hospital with chest pains. Turns out he was probably just topping off his Oxycodone prescription or something, because the guy is doing just fine now. Hmph.
Another pointless death:
Explain to me again why we can’t profit from the death of children. I just don’t get it.
With less than one month to go before we open the polls for 2011, this is a good point to remind people that we have a separate thread for discussing the rules here.
The origin of the underage rule was explained by Little Nemo in post 31:
If you wish to respond to that, please take it to the other thread.
My mom was always saying that.
James? Is that you?
Boyo.
James Boyo.
Surfing champion Andy Irons, dead at 32.
Sparky Anderson, amazing baseball coach, is circling the drain. : (
3 - 2 with Cincinatti and one with Detroit.