Dead Pool '08

Damn the bags under your eyes, I was going to start this thread tomorrow!

Dick Clark
Fidel Castro
Ariel Sharon
Hosni Mubarak
B.B. King
Britney Spears
Ronnie Biggs
Elizabeth Edwards :-((((
Suzanne Pleshette
Leontyne Price

I still insist that the deadline is tonight. This getting the month of January "free" still irks me.

I'll take full advantage of it.

Bo Diddley
Carol Channing

woah ... Carol Channing is 1/4 black?

I don't like getting the whole month of January free. But let's give people a week to make their picks, at which point I'll put 'em all in my spreadsheet and any changes after that will be void.

Meant to add an "either" at the end of that first sentence.

So, deadline January 7.

I thought Bo Diddley had already died. There'll be adjustments on my list.

Britney Spears
Amy Winehouse
Robbie Williams
Arthur C Clarke
ZsaZsa Gabor
Estelle Getty
Vera Lynn
Norman Wisdom
Bo Diddley
Kirk Douglas

Anna Wing
Liz Dawn
Heather Mills
Nicholas Parsons
Maggie Thatcher
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jackie Stallone
Olivia de Havilland
Rupert Murdoch
Barbara Bush

Muhammed Ali
Ian Brady
Larry Hagman
Doris Day
Charlton Heston
Ian Huntley
Margaret Thatcher
Ariel Sharon
Elizabeth Taylor
Russell Watson

(sorry, my internet was broken yesterday)

i was gonna say estelle getty too...

estelle getty
estelle parsons
kenneth anger
mort sahl
tuli kupferberg
i.m. pei
army archerd
william f. buckley
pierre boulez
hal holbrook

I don't suppose anyone had Kevin Greening on their list last year, did they?

MaN, estelle getty was on my list for five years. I'm convinced that she ain't never gonna die.

this will be a black year for white Americans:

Ray Bradbury
Jean Shepard
Kitty Wells
R. Lee Ermey
Tom Bosley
Marion Ross
W. Mark Felt
Walter Mondale
Henry Kissinger
Andrew Wyeth

Chuck Berry
George H. W. Bush
Queen Elizabeth II
Osama Bin Laden
Fidel Castro
Whitey Ford
Angela Lansbury
Hugh Hefner
Mel Brooks
Leslie Nielsen

So when's shakey going to post his list?

Bob Barker
Henry Kissinger
Pete Doherty
Margaret Thatcher
Fidel Castro
Richard Petty
Hugh Hefner
Prince Philip (QEII's hubby)
Robert Duvall
Barbara Bush (elder)

Dirk Benedict
Dick Button
Earl Butz
Dick Cheney
Dick Clark
Andy Dick
Dick Gregory
Dick Hyman
Dick Martin
Dick Van Patten

I've never done this, and I always find it a little too morbid, but why not:

Garry Kasparov
Bill Cosby
Tina Turner
Phyllis Diller
Jonathon Taylor Thomas
Jackée Harry
John Searle
Pauline Oliveros
Jeanne-Claude (as in, Christo and)
Betty White

yeah okay, I'm a rookie too, but here goes:

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Pope Benedict XVI
Jimmy Carter
Günter Grass
Courtney Love
Pervez Musharraf
Sumner Redstone
William Safire
J.D. Salinger
Sly Stone

Robert Mugabe
Joan Rivers
Ken Dodd
Pete Doherty
Michael Parkinson
David Attenborough
Gary Coleman
Michael Jackson (suicide)
Bush (assassination)
John Howard (malaise)

(my first too)

Lennie Bennett
Louis Farrakhan
Gene Gene the Dancing Machine
Lex Luger
"Chemical" Ali Hassan al-Majid
Bobby Murcer
Suzanne Pleshette
King Sihanouk of Cambodia
Ariel Sharon
Russell Watson

SUBSTITUTION:

Lennie Bennett
Louis Farrakhan
Lex Luger
"Chemical" Ali Hassan al-Majid
Bobby Murcer
Suzanne Pleshette
King Sihanouk of Cambodia
Ariel Sharon
Sir Cyril Smith
Russell Watson

Britney Spears

Larry King
Owen Wilson
Barack Obama
Jimmy Page
Liz Taylor
Jimmy Scott
Pervez Musharraf
Manoel de Oliveira
Jimmy Hill
Jean Luc Godard =(

why not switch Jimmy Page for Alain Resnais =(

jimmy hill! so true. (bobby robson aint never dying is he?)

I forgot George Steinbrenner. Ain't no way he'll make it to '09.

can we have a clarification on the rules again - i think you get points for the # of years below 100 of the dededent, right? not the total # of dead people on your list (which is how rotten.com tallies its results). in other words, putting 99 year old Manoel de Oliveira on yer list is hardly worth it.

Well this isn't morbid at all.

jaymc, what's the ruling on people who aren't on the rotten.com deadpool site? Dom has three names that aren't listed there.

Estelle Getty
Barack Obama
Estelle Getty
Arthur C. Clarke
Keith Richards
Margaret Thatcher
Ariel Sharon
Lee Kuan Yew
Robert Smith
Pete Doherty

Dick Cheney
Dick Morris
Britney Spears
Nancy Reagan
Paris Hilton
Lara Flynn Boyle
Hayley Barbour
Margot Kidder
O.J. Simpson
Kirstie Alley

Its a little disturbing to see more than one Obama mention.

Bob Hawke
Britney Spears
Margaret Thatcher
Nicholas Parsons
Rolf Harris
Pete Seeger
Arthur Morris
Connie Francis
Amrosi
Imam Samudra

(also first time. Yes there is an element of wish-projection with some of the choices, esp the first four and last two.)

jaymc, what's the ruling on people who aren't on the rotten.com deadpool site? Dom has three names that aren't listed there.

I'd really prefer it if they were on Rotten.com, but since Pleasant Plains started this thread and didn't mention it, I'm not sure I can do anything about it. Although if Dom or anyone else (I haven't created deadpool08.xls yet, so I don't know if others have picked questionably famous people, too) could be persuaded to change their picks, that'd be cool.

Is there a rule about picking people with known terminal illnesses? (not that I had anyone in mind, I just wondered).

The rule for terminal illnesses is "that's a good pick."

Fred Nerk has a few that aren't on the Rotten.com list either. I went ahead and registered my list here and made some changes:

Elizabeth Edwards
Bo Diddley
Ronnie Biggs
Fidel Castro
BB King
Suzanne Pleshette
Leontyne Price
Ariel Sharon
Britney Spears
Elizabeth Taylor

k so my updated list then:

Robert Mugabe
Joan Rivers
Ken Dodd
Pete Doherty
Britney Spears
David Attenborough
Gary Coleman
Michael Jackson (suicide)
Bush (assassination)
John Howard (malaise)

You used to be able to ask rotten.com to add people if you wanted, I guess you still can if you want British people who don't register highly enough on American radar to warrant a mention. We still doing the 100 minus age at death points scoring though?

Yes we are. Forgot to mention that.

I've done mine here:

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/38/01/68799.html

here's mine. rotten didn't have tuli kupferberg so i subbed in pierre cardin.

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/39/02/68800.html

John Howard (malaise)

Hahaha :)

should we all be posting our links to make it easier for you, jaymc?
here's mine
http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/30/04/68556.html

Here's my profile:

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/42/05/68803.html

And the list in plain writing, just in case:

1. Dave Brubeck
2. Fidel Castro
3. Jack Chick
4. Ravi Shankar
5. Michael Jackson
6. Jerry Lewis
7. Robert Mugabe
8. Ariel Sharon
9. Doris Day
10. Charlie Watts

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/03/13/68811.html

Predict when Amy Winehouse will die and win an iPod Touch!

http://www.whenwillamywinehousedie.com/

I'd really prefer it if they were on Rotten.com, but since Pleasant Plains started this thread and didn't mention it, I'm not sure I can do anything about it.

Jaymc is the unofficial moderator of this thread of threads

Predict when Amy Winehouse will die and win an iPod Touch!

http://www.whenwillamywinehousedie.com/

amy winehouse will never die.

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/05/15/68813.html

1. Captain Beefheart
2. Boris Berezovsky
3. Fidel Castro
4. Ray Harryhausen
5. Koko
6. Maurice Sendak
7. Ariel Sharon
8. Stephen Stills
9. Elizabeth Taylor
10. Varg Vikernes

Mine are a bit haphazardly chosen, but I never get any right anyway.

PP, that wasn't a diss or anything. My initial reaction when you started the thread was "Oh, maybe we can do this without relying on Rotten.com." The main thing I liked about Rotten was that it had people's final lists, but I forgot about that was also a good way to determine level of fame.

Level of US fame.

Also, did you know that you can pick Drew Daniel? It might be a bad idea to encourage ilx0rs to choose him, though.

no dis taken. I was just saying that just because I started the thread, you should still be the cryptkeeper.

I don't have a problem with any of Dom's non-Rotten picks -- maybe if they aren't listed at rotten.com, the rule could be to cite their wikipedia page to establish birthdate and level of fame.

Last-second change: drop Leontyne Price, add Suharto

Full list:
Elizabeth Edwards
Bo Diddley
Ronnie Biggs
Fidel Castro
BB King
Suzanne Pleshette
Suharto
Ariel Sharon
Britney Spears
Elizabeth Taylor

Some of these are more like wish lists.

Does rotten.com have Jimmy Hill? If not, I do not wish to participate in this foolishness.

How is "Walter Mondale" more famous than Jimmy Hill? (Answer: he isn't)

Hunh. I was thinking anyone with a Wiki page that lists a birth date would be fair game. I didn't realize it was some other "thing". I do not want to set anything up with rotten.com, I just like being in the jaymc.xls "deadpool_08" worksheet.

momus = "Scottish music critic, famous for 15 people"

Same here. I didn't register on rotten last year either.

Britney Spears
Mel Brooks
Harvey Korman
Harry Reasoner
George McGovern
Kirk Douglas
A coupla douchey ex-Nixon/Reagan staffers
Fidel Castro

How is "Walter Mondale" more famous than Jimmy Hill? (Answer: he isn't)

pls to refer to the respective populations of the US and UK

mine is in at:

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/29/39/68837.html

Fidel Castro
Kirk Douglas
Andy Dick
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Artie Lange
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis
Garrett Morris
Nelson Mandela
Ariel Sharon

Mine: http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/01/23/68903.html

i still cant do this. i feel like ill be cursed. <--- superstitious

What if you win?

i might die 1/1/2009

Your husband won last year, and he's still alive. OR IS HE?

It's kind of a touchy subject, jaymc.

Btw, today is the last day to pick your pool.

Pick your pool? I mean, pick your list for the pool.

Right side-pocket.

http://z.about.com/d/gocalifornia/1/0/L/K/hcnt-inpool.jpg

how can you look at that and NOT WANT A POOL

It just makes me want to play Vice City again.

I would so be trying to fly a helicopter to the bottom of that pool to ride through the underworld.

Then I would jump out and find myself standing next to a Pizza Hut.

leaving me to clean up the mess you made, i suppose

we're ruining jaymc's thread

Well, I did start it.

"ruining"

It's kind of a touchy subject, jaymc.

I know I shouldn't have laughed at that.

Forgot to post my own list:

Charlton Heston
Sydney Pollack
Elizabeth Edwards
Fidel Castro
Suharto
Juan Antonio Samaranch
Ariel Sharon
Britney Spears
Billy Graham
Margaret Thatcher

Hey, imagine if Britney were assassinated in December by someone who put $10,000 on her to die this year.

Bruce McCullough was the one who gave Elizabeth Edwards all that cancer.

Fidel Castro
Kim Jong Il
Queen Elizabeth II
Ariel Sharon
Barack Obama
Gene Hackman
Roy Scheider
Abe Vigoda
B.B. King
Artie Lang

ooh, and here I thought Obama was so original. We're a bunch of sick fucks.

I'll let you in since I took an extra day myself. And I like you.

BUT AFTER MIDNIGHT WE'RE DONE HERE.

I like how everyone was far too polite to give themselves an easy 100-up start by nominating Jamie Lynn's unborn baby.

lol

ah, I didn't know about the new deadline. I wanted to pick before I read the thread, so as to be... fair, or something, I guess? Anyway, YAY, baby's first dead pool!

now, rank your guesses in order of how sad you will be if they actually do die, one being saddest.

1. Barack Obama
2. Abe Vigoda
3. Artie Lang
4. Gene Hackman
5. Roy Scheider
6. Queen Elizabeth II
7. B.B. King
8. Fidel Castro
9. Ariel Sharon
10. Kim Jong Il

youd be sadder about QEII than BBKing? Thats downright traitorous.

Man, fuck all the people on my list.

youd be sadder about QEII than BBKing? Thats downright traitorous.

well... maybe. It gets worse, though -- I didn't think he was still alive. I was surprised! That's why he made the list, actually. I imagined that somehow his last recording was with Bono, 20 years ago.

huge blues fan over here

Phil Spector
Alan Bennett
Reg Varney
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Robert Robinson
Eartha Kitt
Miriam Karlin
Frederick Forsyth
Bruce Forsyth
Fidel Castro

jamie lynn's baby
jessica alba's baby
abigail breslin
jonathan lipnicki
that fauxhawked kid that brad and angelina adopted
that kid that madonna stole from africa
that kid from everybody hates chris
j. lo's baby
dakota fanning
abe vigoda

RIP

lol RIP reading comprehension, heaven needed a marketable skill

Rock Hardy 30 (Suzanne Pleshette)
Dom Passantino 30 (Suzanne Pleshette)

I got excited the other day when I saw Liz Dawn's face on the news. Sadly it turned out to be the death of her character in Coronation Street... dammit!!

I am a sick bastard.

I expected Suharto points first, but c'est la morte.

n/a sadly you did not include lilly allen's baby; she suffered a miscarriage. sorry to be so rude, it must be devestating for her and that bloke from chem bros. :-(

everyone ever

("Is It Thunderdome Yet?" A Rolling Looming Apocalypse Thread)

Juan Antonio Samaranch

totally read this as Juan Antonio Sammich

i had pleshette on my list last year, but i thought she had the big "C" beat because she was out in public a few times fairly recently. never underestimate cancer's ability to kill old people.

I'm finally creating the .xls and just noticed that emil.y had picked Koko, the sign-language gorilla. I like it, but obviously, this presents some problems w/r/t our points system. Does anyone have problems with changing the formula for Koko to 54 minus her age, instead of 100 minus her age? 54 is the age at death of the oldest gorilla that ever lived.

In that case, can I start picking former Kentucky Derby winners?

average gorilla life-span is 25-30 years, for humans we're tacking on 25% (lifespan ~80) - so subtract from 37-38?

Maybe just an even 50?

I'm not 100% cool with nonhuman picks, but if it's allowed, definitely 54 instead of 100. I didn't think about the lifespan thing until just now.

xpost -- milo OTM. We're not counting points back from Jeanne Calment's age (or even my grandmother's).

average gorilla life-span is 25-30 years

That's in the wild, not in captivity.

Also, global human lifespan is 67 years, not 80 -- although with celebrities it's obviously higher.

(Which is to say, there's not really any good scientific way to do this.)

Are we really talking about adding animals to the Dead Pool? What if I nominate Dorothy the Goldfish or the cat from "Sabrina"? We're going to have to do calculations for all those too.

I am opposed to animals in the dead pool. The usual rules I play to are that only humans are allowed, and to classify as "famous" the person's death has to be reported on by one news agency.

Man, what if there was a famous turtle? Their life expectancy is like 150 years.

One turtle died last year that was found by Charles Darwin!

Frank Black
Ian McKellen
Penn Jillette
Dick Clark
George Bush Sr.
Steve Albini
Clay Aiken
David Bowie
Sidney Lumet
Margaret Thatcher

I could really go either way on this. I don't think I would want to open up the Dead Pool to animals in the future, but this sort of seemed like an anomalous case, and Koko is on Rotten.com, so I thought maybe it would be OK.

Maybe emil.y should pick someone else, though.

Sorry Simon, deadline has passed for this year.

---

And now, some statistics.

26 = number of participants in Dead Pool '08
179 = number of total candidates chosen

Only participant whose list featured no candidates picked by anyone else: Casuistry

All candidates picked multiple times:

11
Fidel Castro

10
Ariel Sharon

8
Britney Spears

7
Margaret Thatcher

5
Kirk Douglas

4
BB King
Elizabeth Taylor

3
Barack Obama
Bo Diddley
Elizabeth Edwards
Estelle Getty
Jerry Lewis
Pete Doherty

2
Arthur C. Clarke
Artie Lange
Barbara Bush
Charlton Heston
Dick Cheney
Dick Clark
Doris Day
Henry Kissinger
Hugh Hefner
Mel Brooks
Michael Jackson
Muhammad Ali
Nicholas Parsons
Pervez Musharraf
Prince Philip
Queen Elizabeth II
Robert Mugabe
Ronnie Biggs
Russell Watson
Suharto
Suzanne Pleshette
Zsa Zsa Gabor

oh well. my choices are known if not recognized!

Only participant whose list featured no candidates picked by anyone else: Casuistry

God fucking hell, isn't that the way.

And yet it's not like they're all obscure picks. It's a more interesting list than most people's.

Obviously I was thinking JTT would be his generation's Heath Ledger.

More like you picked Tom instead of Huck.

picked the wrong chess player as well.

No Winehouse?

She was picked, but only by one person (limón).

Sorry, I only just noticed the debate about my pick. I figured that since it was on Rotten it would be okay (and I'd get a few sneaky bonus points), but would people prefer me to pick a human? And can that human be Heath Ledger?

Haha. No.

Well, I don't really have any ideas, so can I go for Saul Kripke? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Kripke

He's certainly famous in philosophy circles, is younger than I thought and apparently not dead. I'll be miffed if Koko goes, though.

Rock Hardy 44 (Suzanne Pleshette, Suharto)
Dom Passantino 30 (Suzanne Pleshette)
jaymc 14 (Suharto)

-- Dom Passantino, Sunday, 20 January 2008 10:14 (1 week ago) Link

It was very nice of Suharto to pop a gasket so early in the month so I could get him on the list.

Dammit, I chose the wrong first lady.

Margaret Truman was Harry's daughter.

I was referring to Ladybird Johnson last year, obviously....

She was 94 when she died. Not a great deadpool pick.

She put me over the top last year.

!!
Never mind then.

Oooh yeah, there was a documentary last night about Liz Dawn's emphysema.... come on Liz!!!!

A whole documentary about one person's illness? That had to be super exciting.

haw, i'm on the board with a whopping 2 points

Butz, Former Agriculture Secretary, Dies

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Earl L. Butz, an outspoken U.S. agriculture secretary forced from office in 1976 for making a racist joke and once a dean at Purdue University, died Saturday. He was 98.

Ha, I saw that he died, but I didn't even think to check if anyone had him.

A whole documentary about one person's illness? That had to be super exciting.

She's one of the longest-serving stars in one of the most popular TV shows over here. Also, ITV are quite fond of making cheap telly.

Rock Hardy 44 (Suzanne Pleshette, Suharto)
Dom Passantino 30 (Suzanne Pleshette)
Kenan 25 (Roy Scheider)
jaymc 14 (Suharto)

R.I.P. Roy.

Hooray me.

Forgot to add at the bottom of the leaderboard:

gershy 2 (Earl Butz)

Rock Hardy 44 (Suzanne Pleshette, Suharto)
Dom Passantino 30 (Suzanne Pleshette)
Kenan 25 (Roy Scheider)
jaymc 14 (Suharto)
limon 10 (Arthur C. Clarke)
robertwolf8080 10 (Arthur C. Clarke)
gershy 2 (Earl Butz)

bump for my 16 charlton heston points...

And getbent should get points for William F. Buckley.

Make that 17 Heston points.

(And good call on Buckley.)

Rock Hardy 44 (Suzanne Pleshette, Suharto)
jaymc 31 (Suharto, Charlton Heston)
Dom Passantino 30 (Suzanne Pleshette)
Kenan 25 (Roy Scheider)
get bent 18 (William F. Buckley)
ailsa 17 (Charlton Heston)
limon 10 (Arthur C. Clarke)
robertwolf8080 10 (Arthur C. Clarke)
gershy 2 (Earl Butz)

2 legit 2 quit

JTT still hanging on, somehow.

And now with Sydney Pollack, I'm in the lead (58 points). Full scoreboard tomorrow, when I can access the .xls.

i got Dick Martin too, 14 for him plus 2 for Earl Butz, I'm coming on strong!!

Oh flying penis, you did not fly hard enough.

go gersh go

Robert Mugabe
Joan Rivers
Ken Dodd
Pete Doherty
Britney Spears
David Attenborough
Gary Coleman
Michael Jackson (suicide)
Bush (assassination)
John Howard (malaise)

Shit.

I'm particularly annoyed about those last two not coming through.

jaymc 58 (Suharto, Charlton Heston, Sydney Pollack)
Rock Hardy 44 (Suzanne Pleshette, Suharto)
Dom Passantino 30 (Suzanne Pleshette)
Kenan 25 (Roy Scheider)
get bent 18 (William F. Buckley)
ailsa 17 (Charlton Heston)
gershy 16 (Earl Butz, Dick Martin)
limon 10 (Arthur C. Clarke)
robertwolf8080 10 (Arthur C. Clarke)

10 contestants on the board. Not bad. (It took us until September -- i.e., Pavarotti -- last year before 10 contestants had points.)

Also, I'm going to start bolding the updates on the leaderboard:

jaymc 58 (Suharto, Charlton Heston, Sydney Pollack)
Rock Hardy 44 (Suzanne Pleshette, Suharto)
Dom Passantino 30 (Suzanne Pleshette)
Kenan 25 (Roy Scheider)
kingfish 19 (Harvey Korman)
get bent 18 (William F. Buckley)
ailsa 17 (Charlton Heston)
gershy 16 (Earl Butz, Dick Martin)
limon 10 (Arthur C. Clarke)
robertwolf8080 10 (Arthur C. Clarke)

GO GO GO LIZ TAYOR

Droppin' like flies, they is.

Rock Hardy 65 (Suzanne Pleshette, Suharto, Bo Diddley)
jaymc 58 (Suharto, Charlton Heston, Sydney Pollack)
limon 31 (Arthur C. Clarke, Bo Diddley)
Dom Passantino 30 (Suzanne Pleshette)
Kenan 25 (Roy Scheider)
todd swiss 21 (Bo Diddley)
kingfish 19 (Harvey Korman)
get bent 18 (William F. Buckley)
ailsa 17 (Charlton Heston)
gershy 16 (Earl Butz, Dick Martin)
robertwolf8080 10 (Arthur C. Clarke)

Man, down to fourth?

Can't believe that after winning last year, I'm still stuck at zero.

Do I at least get some points for Lex Luger becoming fully wheelchair bound this year?

RIP Bo.
;_;

Can't believe that after winning last year, I'm still stuck at zero.

You were stuck at zero at this point last year, too. Lady Bird Johnson didn't kick it until early July.

You a scary person.

With the powers of the Internet at my disposal.

Interesting fact, though: the Dead Pool 2008 scoreboard now has more points than the 2007 scoreboard had for the entirety of last year.

Why the hell didn't I choose Paul Gascoigne.

Nobody picked YSL? I feel creeped out about playing this game myself, but...

I had toyed with picking Gazza last year, but didn't. Thought he was back on track again by the turn of the year, so didn't bother with him this year.

Nobody picked YSL?

Madchen picked him ... last year.

MaN, estelle getty was on my list for five years. I'm convinced that she ain't never gonna die.

-- Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, January 1, 2008 12:41 PM (Tuesday, January 1, 2008 12:41 PM) Bookmark Link

no one's called Teddy Kennedy yet...?

And when we die and float away
Into the night, the Milky Way
You'll hear me call, as we ascend
I'll see you there, then once again
Thank you for being a friend

You guys could've had an extra point if she'd hung around for another three days.

Rock Hardy 65 (Suzanne Pleshette, Suharto, Bo Diddley)
jaymc 58 (Suharto, Charlton Heston, Sydney Pollack)
limon 47 (Arthur C. Clarke, Bo Diddley, Estelle Getty)
get bent 34 (William F. Buckley, Estelle Getty)
Dom Passantino 30 (Suzanne Pleshette)
robertwolf8080 26 (Arthur C. Clarke, Estelle Getty)
Kenan 25 (Roy Scheider)
todd swiss 21 (Bo Diddley)
kingfish 19 (Harvey Korman)
ailsa 17 (Charlton Heston)
gershy 16 (Earl Butz, Dick Martin)

i'm going to wear my golden girls t-shirt today. :-(

Lennie Bennett
Louis Farrakhan
Lex Luger
"Chemical" Ali Hassan al-Majid
Bobby Murcer
Suzanne Pleshette
King Sihanouk of Cambodia
Ariel Sharon
Sir Cyril Smith
Russell Watson

-- Dom Passantino, Friday, 4 January 2008 23:44 (6 months ago) Bookmark Link

Another 38 points for me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Murcer

holy hell how would you pick bobby murcer?

Where's that ILX thread that starts off with "Dom Passantino has a bizarrely high knowledge of American culture"?

I picked the wrong Golden Girl, even.

You guys could've had an extra point if she'd hung around for another three days.

One fewer point, surely?

Oh right. I don't know what I was thinking.

Where's that ILX thread that starts off with "Dom Passantino has a bizarrely high knowledge of American culture"?

More like Dom Passantino is good at googling "celebrities with cancer."

Murcer, who had been suffering from headaches and a lack of energy according to the New York Daily News, was diagnosed with a brain tumor on Christmas Eve, 2006, and underwent surgery on December 28, 2006, at the The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. On January 10, 2007, it was announced that the tumor was malignant.

right

Sorted. Anyone else I miss?

Dom Passantino 68 (Suzanne Pleshette, Bobby Murcer)
Rock Hardy 65 (Suzanne Pleshette, Suharto, Bo Diddley)
jaymc 58 (Suharto, Charlton Heston, Sydney Pollack)
limon 47 (Arthur C. Clarke, Bo Diddley, Estelle Getty)
get bent 34 (William F. Buckley, Estelle Getty)
robertwolf8080 26 (Arthur C. Clarke, Estelle Getty)
Kenan 25 (Roy Scheider)
todd swiss 21 (Bo Diddley)
kingfish 19 (Harvey Korman)
ailsa 17 (Charlton Heston)
gershy 16 (Earl Butz, Dick Martin)

(Just went through the .xls. It looks like everyone else is still alive. For now.)

ok that's chilling

BOOOOOOOOOOOOO

YEAH

Do I get extra points because I accidentally put her down twice

Haha. No.

no one's called Teddy Kennedy yet...?

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:26 PM (Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:26 PM) Bookmark Link

Even he didn't know he was sick back in January.

Really surprised no one had Paul Newman.

His cancer was a big surprise to me. He was on my list of people to include next year if he made it that long.

I think maybe someone picked him last year? I was out of town this weekend, and when I saw the news on CNN, one of my first thoughts was "Someone's getting points for this." Yes, I know.

anybody got ron jeremy? i saw dude on tv & he looks half dead already

More so than usual?

No one put him on their '08 list.

i can't believe Salinger hasn't died yet.

None of mine are dead! Even Ken Dodd is still kicking on.

Of all the well loved English actresses I could have picked... Kathy bloody Staff totally went over my head. Not that she would have helped me now. Next time I'm going to have to trawl the cast of "Last of the Summer Wine" and also anyone who has picked up a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Oscars in the last five years.

Update:

Dom Passantino 68 (Suzanne Pleshette, Bobby Murcer)
Rock Hardy 65 (Suzanne Pleshette, Suharto, Bo Diddley)
Fred Nerk 62 (Imam Samudra)
jaymc 58 (Suharto, Charlton Heston, Sydney Pollack)
limon 47 (Arthur C. Clarke, Bo Diddley, Estelle Getty)
get bent 34 (William F. Buckley, Estelle Getty)
robertwolf8080 26 (Arthur C. Clarke, Estelle Getty)
Kenan 25 (Roy Scheider)
todd swiss 21 (Bo Diddley)
kingfish 19 (Harvey Korman)
ailsa 17 (Charlton Heston)
gershy 16 (Earl Butz, Dick Martin)
Grandpont Genie 8 (Reg Varney)
hawth 5 (W. Mark Felt)

Also, I just realized that kingfish picked Harry Reasoner for this year's pool. Harry Reasoner died in 1991.

Update:

Dom Passantino 68 (Suzanne Pleshette, Bobby Murcer)
Rock Hardy 65 (Suzanne Pleshette, Suharto, Bo Diddley)
Fred Nerk 62 (Imam Samudra)
jaymc 58 (Suharto, Charlton Heston, Sydney Pollack)
limon 47 (Arthur C. Clarke, Bo Diddley, Estelle Getty)
get bent 34 (William F. Buckley, Estelle Getty)
Grandpont Genie 27 (Reg Varney, Eartha Kitt)
robertwolf8080 26 (Arthur C. Clarke, Estelle Getty)
Kenan 25 (Roy Scheider)
todd swiss 21 (Bo Diddley)
kingfish 19 (Harvey Korman)
ailsa 17 (Charlton Heston)
gershy 16 (Earl Butz, Dick Martin)
hawth 5 (W. Mark Felt)

Good job, WmC. I was away from the ol' .xls for a few days.

Two days left -- can Dom hold on? He's been in the lead since July, but it's pretty tight at the top. Pete Seeger dies tomorrow, and Fred Nerk wins it.

lol what an awesome thread

how the hell did dom even know who bobby murcer was

u got '09 thread yet?

I'll start it on Wednesday.

Some other guy started one, but I don't recognize its legitimacy.

I have a post-it note full of names for '09 accumulated throughout the year on the side of my computer.

I was going to suggest for next year's pool: maybe we switch up to teams of 15?

Or even 20.

Hmmm, I'm not completely opposed to the idea. What's your motivation -- just so that people win with more than two names?

Yeah. 20 may be an excess, 15 seems to be better... it'd allow for more deaths during the year, plus it'd make the circle of picks wider, so next year it's not every Britisher picking Bobby Robson and every American picking whicheverthefuck US sports figure is being wheeled off his deathbed to pick up a lifetime achievement award this year.

That's an awful statement to make about Ben Roethlisberger.

I have no idea if that's a real person or if it's some Chuck "Chuck" Bubbaferger of the New East Paddington Ashtrays thing.

I played in a different dead pool list, but the only two hits I got were for Bettie Page and Paul Newman. Working on my 2009 list...

Pete Seeger dies tomorrow, and Fred Nerk wins it.

Margaret Thatcher, too, for that matter.

What clock are we going by here? Eastern?

I say American Samoa.

Looks like Dom wins this. (I'll go through later just to make sure no one else has died in the two weeks since I last checked, but I can't think of any. No one had Freddie Hubbard or Harold Pinter, for example.)