The Celebrity Death Pool 2011

I came back to this thread after hearing about Harmon Killebrew, since he’s on my list. I had totally forgotten I had put Osama bin Laden on there, too! :slight_smile:

Wallace McCain, Canadian French Fry tycoon, has died at age of 81 from pancreatic cancer.

Cornell Dpree, blues guitarist, dead at 68.

“‘I’m told I have a 90 per cent chance of recovery and of living another 20 years.’”

yeah, sure that’ll happen. Nope, you’re going on my list next year, bucko! THAT is what’s going to keep you alive the next 20 years, not some “cure” :smiley:

“There is no death sentence in Victoria and if they put me behind bars right now and if I can’t get out within 45 minutes to get to a hospital, then I am going to die, and I just think that’s inherently and manifestly not fair.”

Yes!
I mean, no, but…I mean, hey, I didn’t have Osama.

I read this link, and I don’t get it. Are the names of convicted pedophiles suppressed? Or is it suspected pedophiles?

Hell if I know.
I just dropped from forth because some death pool folks were smart enough to keep Bin Laden, however you spell it.
I need the points, and I believe he is a unique pick.

Bin Laden dead? Bah! Only if you take the word of the President of the United States, the CIA, the Secretaries of State and Defense, the President of Pakistan, and Al Queda.

It’s all hearsay, I tells you.

Dick Cheney gave W credit for the kill, so it must be true.

Olympic Kenyan marathon champ Sammy Wanjiru dies of apparent suicide at age 24. In Nairobi.

[Insert Obama Kenyan joke here.]

Not unique, I believe.

Amarone ain’t gonna buy that.
My No. 4 position is toast. :frowning:

And, 492 days in, I have scored my very first Death Pool points. (I was out of the country and missed the news of Seve’s death until this morning.)

I am simultaneously saddened by the news, glad to have the points, and pissed that Zsa Zsa is still alive. I had a really good joke ready to go had she been the one to pop my cherry. Oh well.

Mary Murphy the sweet girl from The Wild Ones, dead at 80.

All in all, while I keep looking at rapidly aging Hollywood Stars, for high scores it seems looking at young athletes who have problems adjusting in real life might be the way to go.

Mission accomplished!

Hey, a twofer of celebrities I’ve never heard of.

Bob Flanigan of The Four Freshmen dies at 84.. Heard of the group, but not of him.

Rapper M-Bone killed in drive by shooting at age 22!! I almost weep at this pointless death – 88 of them, the number of keys on a piano.

78, not 88. Been a while since math class, huh? :wink:

Somebody short sheeted my piano!

Harmon Killebrew has passed away. Age 74.

NFM and 14 others score some points. Friggin Whee! :mad: