The Celebrity Death Pool 2013

An ironic death like that must be recognized.
Recognition.

It’s not confirmed, and may only be a stoopit rumor, but Eddie Murphy appears to have something in common with Sonny Bono.

It’s a comedy/hoax site. From the fine print:

:smack: d’oh!

I’m hearing rumors that Muhammed Ali is ailing.

He is still alive?
I thought he croaked of Parkinson’s or something long ago.

People, people, people. It should have been front page news.

Cuneiform writing, the invention of papyrus, moveable type and the printing press, etch-a-sketch. Salient moments in earth’s literary history.

André Cassagnes, Etch A Sketch Inventor, Is Dead at 86.

It is sad. I’ve given some of those to my users in lieu of laptops, and they never noticed. “Remember, turn it upside down and shake to reboot.”

Reg Presley, lead singer of The Troggs, dead at 71.

That’s 29 points for me, and maybe others.

ETA: I see that jeezums also scores with this tragic turn of events.

Also Registered at Last!

Last year’s winner already scoring big, huh?

Happy 96th birthday, Zsa Zsa Gabor!

Still going strong, I see.

Just don’t go near any speeding bandwagons, you might get run over!

I am fully convinced that Zsa Zsa and Ariel Sharon will both die on their 100th birthday…

Together. In a three-legged race to the finish.

Well played! :smiley:

Castro says Hugo Chavez isimproving.

He’s probably been dead for a month.

That would be an improvement.

Good point, but I believe such subtlety to be beyond Fidel.

I wonder if Chavez isn’t playing a game like something I saw in a movie once.

It was an old Russian movie, by Sergei Eisenstein, about Ivan the Terrible. At one point he was very ill, but had started to recover. He and just a couple of others wanted to know how people would react to his “death”, as in, would they support his young son or would they make a power grab for themselves.

As the boyars were gathering one guy caught a glimpse of Ivan accidentally and realized he wasn’t near death after all. So he hurriedly grabbed a big cross they were all supposed to swear(or not) their loyalty on, kissed it, and loudly proclaimed his loyalty to the tsar and his son. He thereby gained mucho brownie points with Ivan, which was the whole point I suppose.

Mark Balelo of Storage Wars commits suicide by one part closed garage and one part running car.

The medical examiners were only given 5 minutes after the garage door was opened to figure out what he what he died of.