His life was not spared.
Wow I had no idea it was that many!
There are 870 total picks, 653 of which are unique. There are 40 celebrities with at least ten picks.
Robin Gibb 72
Etta James 70
Lindsay Lohan 51
Joe Paterno 47
Zsa Zsa Gabor 39
Fidel Castro 38
Dick Cheney 31
Michael Douglas 31
Penny Marshall 29
Billy Graham-e 27
Hugo Chavez 25
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi 24
Margaret Thatcher 24
Raven Alexis 24
Aretha Franklin 24
Muhammad Ali 23
Charlie Sheen 22
Gary Carter 22
Ariel Sharon 21
Prince Philip 19
Dick Clark 18
Jerry Lewis 18
Nancy Reagan 18
Bashar Assad 17
Ethan Zohn 17
Roger Ebert 16
George H. W. Bush 15
Marcia Strassman 14
Terry Pratchett 14
Kirk Douglas 13
Fred Phelps 12
Jimmy Carter 12
Stephen Hawking 12
Courtney Love 11
Jerry Sandusky 11
Nelson Mandela 11
Pope Benedict XVI 11
Robert Mugabe 11
Ruth Bader Ginsberg 11
Pete Doherty 10
With 172 players, at 13 choices each, the above choice are over 40% of all choices.
Thanks Baker for gathering this data!
Only in a death pool would this count as bad news.
You are welcome! Five of my own choices are in that list, but I have a few that are unique, and some way further down on the number of selections.
The one I hope to be able to be first to announce as dead is Fred Phelps. I live in Topeka, and the rock Fred lives under is also in Topeka. Heck, the Westboro Baptist Church picketed my own church on Christmas Day! So since Phred is a local I may hear about it before the wire services pick it up.
:::golf clap:::::
Horse Hockey!!
I picked her based on the Cancer News. Curses!!
I thought it was a unique pick but Premislaus also picked her. Damn the luck
I still got Chad Brown though.
Tony Blankley, conservative talking head, dead at 63. It appears the dead pool has drawn a blankley on him. Tony Blankley Dead: Newt Gingrich's Former Press Secretary Dies At 63 | HuffPost Latest News
Stephen Hawking too ill to attend conference celebrating his 70th birthday.
That’s Zsa Zsa manoeuvre has been going on for decades and many generations.
New Jersey Assembly Minority Leader Alex DeCroce collapsed and died at age 75 in the statehouse after a late night legislative session.
Interesting to find that Digg offers this today:
http://digg.com/newsbar/Entertainment/top_10_celebrities_who_might_die_in_2012
ETA: It should read as "“Top 10 Celebs that might die in 2012.”
For those who don’t want to click, here are that author’s choices for his DP list:
[quote=Jeffery Racheff]
[ul][li]Keith Richards []Lindsay Lohan []Abe Vigoda []Robin Gibb []Fidel Castro []Stephen Hawking []Charlie Sheen []Randy Quaid []Courtney Love [*]Dick Cheney[/ul][/li][/quote]
It’s funny how from the perspective of a group that has this down to a science, this guy’s list looks humorously amateurish. He makes the classic beginner’s mistake of “too famous, not sick enough.” Of course, if he had actually published a list like one of ours, he would have been fielding angry letters from his readers about his appalling lack of tact.
President of Guinea-Bissau Malam Bacai Sanhá.
Somehow he went under my radar even though he was apparently quite ill in late December, and his army staged a coup just before the new year. Seems like he would have been a solid pick for 36 points.
Oh, Sugar!!! Oh Fiddlesticks!
If I had stuck to my first list he would had been in mine as he was one of my alternates.
There is no need for that kind of language. We are civilized.
Speak for yourself.
Fuck me, I wish I had him!
As the priest said to the altar boy, “If we were civilized, we wouldn’t be doing this!”
At the Xbiz Awards last night Raven Alexis won Best Supporting Acting Performance of the Year: Female, for her performance in Top Guns
I honestly hope she’s well enough to enjoy this award.
BTW, I was speaking about being in charge of this game today, at my job. A coworker asked “don’t you think you’re going to Hell for this? What if it was your relative?”
I creeped her out when I said I wouldn’t mind, even if it was ME!