The Celebrity Death Pool 2011

Sneaky bastards! :stuck_out_tongue:

It’s been a wonderful month.

Death abounds!

Yeah, it seems like donning that crown is tantamount to a death sentence!

like :wink:

This is a combo of creepiest/funniest post I’ve read all week. I bow to you Critical Mass! :smiley:

For you comic fans out there, Gene Colan passed away

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/gene-colan-dead-at-84-110623.html

Tomb of Dracula was always one of my favorite series - for me HIS was the definitive Dracula. I had never heard of the character before I picked up the comic when I was around 6 or 7. I just fell in love with the art.

First comment (at the time I read it) made my “favorite comment of the week”:

yeah, that’s going in my sigline file

Peter Falk, dead at 83.

a bit more reputable than wikipedia (but not by much)

I think I had him last year. Dammit.

…Just one more thing - when is Steve Jobs going to kick it?

I’ve had Peter Falk every year until this year. At least since 2003.

Yeesh.

Three people had him.

So it’s your fault…good to know.

Yahoo confirms it, on the Mail intro screen*, You know, the page after you click mail, before you get to the actual inbox.

  • On behalf of people with ADHD, I would like to express my hatred for this page / tactic. I click one story, it gives me three more links. I click those links, get nine more links. Before you know it, I’m off posting to the SDMB about Peter Falk’s demise and I’ve all forgotten about checking my…
    Oh. Excuse me, I have something else to do right now. :slight_smile:

Just came by this :

**

Russian Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, 49,*** died at her own funeral.*** She woke up in her own casket, and the shock killed her. **

At least multiple sources are reporting it. I guess it’s truth stranger than fiction at this point.

Good thing this was:

(1) not a celebrity death
(2) first death was end of year
(3) Hi Opal
(4) 2nd death was at the beginning of a new year

or else we have to have a ruling! those deaths that straddle two years can really mess up a ghoulish pool.

Again, I’ll believe it when CNN or NPR reports it. :slight_smile:

Jerry Lewis has fallen ill, cancels some comedy shows.

:eek: oh noes!