British naval officers used to toast to “a bloody war and a sickly season”. More promotions that way. Maybe this is the Internet equivalent.
Regards,
Shodan
Sound like you need to play with us this year!
In the wake of this slew of embombing puns and graveyard humor, I am hoping that Baker styx with the job and undertakes to host next year’s [del]cess[/del] death pool.
2nd half, 1st half, it’s all the same to me this year. Here it is November and I’m still not on the board. Athletes are too damn healthy apparently.
First year, just pick the sickly ones, even if they’re old. That at least gets you on the board.
Hey, even being old doesn’t always help THAT much. As I’ve said, all my picks were over 95, two have even passed 100 now, and I have three points is all.
Oh wait, only one has passed 100. Ellen Albertini Dow won’t reach the mark for another five days.
But we know you are not picking easy choices.
You are, after all, the Death Mistress.
It would look bad if you were winning.
In a sad bit of trivia Victor Lundin, who played the alien slave Friday in Robinson Crusoe on Mars, died this year too back in June.
I was eight when Robinson Crusoe on Mars was on TV, and all I remember is destroying his ship and rescuing the monkey. Perhaps I became bored before the aliens showed up.
So, you’re saying there’s a chance (to rack up another point). 
Another point would be good, but my original goal was to try and win the “Quantity Not Quality” award. So even if she reaches 100 and then passes, or the other guy Douglas Slocombe does, I’ll have something towards my goal.
I am so going to hell.
I tried that in 2009 with one bandwagon pick (Patrick Swayze) and 12 centenarians. Got three deaths from it: Swayze, anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss and a woman who was oldest person in the world at the end of 2008.
I decided to check up on my 2009 list and found that one of my picks, Hong Kong movie mogul Run Run Shaw, currently is still alive and kicking (at 105).
Since my picks tend to live, maybe I should pick people I’d hate to see die, and to hell with winning anything.
The list I have on another board has a couple of those.
For those of us who seem to invoke some charm to life for their picks, I believe the rule forbidding Dopers should be relaxed. I would sleep better at night knowing that I was on Swampbear’s list. 
Word! Being on my list appears to be a sure guarantee of immortality.
Former NFL player Todd Christiansen plays in the big Pro Bowl In The Sky.
Two members of The Yellow Dogs, a musical group that immigrated from Iran to the USA, killed in a Brooklyn shootout.
Former Raider TE dies of liver complications at 57.
It might help if I mention it was Todd Christensen.