Dead Pool 2010

New decade, new dead pool.

Rules are the same as last year. Post in this thread a list of 15 celebrities or other notable people. I'm not going to be a total stickler about notability requirements, but please try to be reasonable. If someone doesn't have a Wikipedia page at the very least, I'll probably ask you to choose someone else.

Also: humans only.

As usual, points are awarded based on the formula (100 - [age at death]). So picking Abigail Breslin (at 13) would get you a lot more points than picking Roberta McCain (at 97), were both to die.

Please post your lists to this thread by January 8. No lists will be accepted after that date. If someone dies before Jan. 8, only the people who have already submitted lists will be able to collect points. You may also revise your list at any time before Jan. 8; after that, you'll be locked in.

Lastly, I will be posting everybody's final picks to this Google spreadsheet and also updating the leaderboard there as the year goes on.

Good luck!

Bob Barker
Miley Cyrus
George HW Bush
Keith Richards
Don King
Cloris Leachman
Charles Manson
Mary-Kate Olsen
Leonard Cohen
Sally Struthers
Owen Wilson
Michael J. Fox
Ernest Borgnine
Robert Byrd
Britney Spears

scott weiland
joyce carol oates
bob newhart
macauley culkin
lemmy (of motorhead)
harold bloom
dick cheney
bil keane
william "refrigerator" perry
anne rice
holger czukay
liza minnelli
tuesday weld
thomas pynchon
nancy sinatra

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Brian Lenihan
Roddy Piper
Peter Falk
Rue McClanahan
Pete Seeger
Simon MacCorkindale
Billy Graham
Doris Lessing
Ernie Harwell
Arlen Specter
Bernie Madoff
Lisa Ray
Nick Jonas
Twiggy

1. katy perry
2. zooey deschanel

^

This sounds like a potential murder-suicide.

Abigail Breslin RIP

jake "the snake" roberts
ruth bader ginsberg
stephen hawking
kari ann peniche
zelda rubenstein
wilford brimley
zsa zsa gabor
laurent fignon
john wooden
billy graham
artie lange
peter tork
betty ford
miep gies
bob dole

Let's just name every celeb who's old or on drugs.

Honestly, I'm surprised Beetlejuice has made it this far.

http://www.adiumxtras.com/images/pictures/beetlejuice_sound_set_3_3165_2026_thumb_2336.jpg

Miep Gies!

Miep Gies is 99 so you'll either get 1 or 0 points for her.

i had john wooden on my list last year, he's turning 100 if he makes it to october!

Jerry Lewis
Fidel Castro
Chemical Ali
Ronnie Biggs
Ariel Sharon
Suzanne Somers
Zelda Rubinstein
Andrew Lloyd Webber
the Dalai Lama
Seve Ballesteros
Barack Obama
John McCain
Courtney Love
John Lurie
Trig Palin

fidel castro
lisa kudrow
ned beatty
judge reinhold
billy corgan
judd apatow
george h.w. bush
lindsay lohan
elizabeth taylor
shane macgowan
rush limbaugh
elizabeth edwards
quentin tarantino
chuck berry
carol channing

j.d. salinger
cristina monet
peter falk
mell lazarus
pete doherty
annette funicello
ted stevens
dick cavett
rush limbaugh
stephen sondheim
lauren bacall
eric rohmer
brian lenihan
elizabeth edwards
danny aiello

Philip Roth
Ariel Sharon
Woody Allen
Keith Richards
Gena Rowlands
Larry King
Eric Rhomer
Clint Eastwood
Eminem
Lou Reed
Fidel Castro
Ron Jeremy
Steve Jobs
Macaulay Culkin
Susan Boyle
Michael Caine

mmm...it's 16..so ignore Michael Caine

Jean-Luc Godard
Steven Tyler
James Gandolfini
Zach Galifianakis
Charlie Sheen
Paris Hilton
Courtney Love
Lil Wayne
Tiger Woods
Jimmy Carter
Queen Elizabeth II
Fidel Castro
Elizabeth Taylor
Peter O'Toole
Roman Polanski

Fidel Castro
Ariel Sharon
Robin Williams
Betty White
Keith Richards
James Earl Jones
Dick Clark
Bob Barker
Barack Obama
Sean Connery
Omar Sharif
Haley Joel Osment
Charlie Sheen
Tiger Woods
Leonardo Dicaprio

xpost on woods!

Shit, and Sheen. OK just a second

Sorry for the inconvenience. Keeping Tiger but you can have Shen

Fidel Castro
Ariel Sharon
Robin Williams
Betty White
Keith Richards
James Earl Jones
Dick Clark
Bob Barker
Barack Obama
Sean Connery
Omar Sharif
Haley Joel Osment
Robert Pattinson
Tiger Woods
Leonardo Dicaprio

urban meyer
glenn beck
nic cage
shia labeouf
pacman jones
rick ross
Muhammad Ali
rosie o'donnell
george steinbrenner
Osama Bin Laden
Dick Cheney
al davis
rush limbaugh
janet reno
bobby bowden

Merle Haggard
Artie Lange
Pete Doherty
Charlie Sheen
Mike Tyson
Eddie Van Halen
B.B. King
Louis Farrakhan
Jack Kervorkian
Bob Newhart
Carl Reiner
Edward Furlong
Dan Aykroyd
Chevy Chase
Norman Lear

Ross Perot
James Woods
Steven Tyler
Bobby Brown
Sid Caesar
Jake Lamotta
Lou Dobbs
Cedric Antonio Kyles (aka "the Entertainer")
Fred Thompson
David Hasselhoff
Eddie Van Halen
Kate Moss
Angela Lansbury
Kirk Douglas
Kim Jong-il

james garner
ariel sharon
nelson mandela
dennis hopper
margaret thatcher
fidel castro
osama bin laden
yitzchak shamir
peter tork
fats domino
angela lansbury
michael j. fox
david crosby
stephen hawking
ed koch

velko is really swinging for the fences

bob dylan
courtney love
dick cheney
flavor flav
gabriel garcía márquez
j.d. salinger
karl rove
lindsay lohan
mahmoud ahmadinejad
osama bin laden
paul allen
rush limbaugh
salmon rushdie
sumner redstone
whitney houston

Joaquín Guzmán Loera
Osiel Cárdenas Guillén
Héctor Beltrán Leyva
Edgardo Leyva Escandón
Vicente Carrillo Fuentes
Juan José Esparragoza Moreno
Nazario Moreno González(a.k.a. El Más Loco)
Lanny Barby
Alizée
Suge Knight

Hang on, Osiel Cardenas Guillen is in a U.S. supermax - if I can, nix him and replace with

Miguel Angel Treviño Morales(a.k.a: Z-40, 40, Zeta 40, David Estrada-Corado, Comandante Forty, El Catorce[4])

you get 15 picks

just sent my picks by ilxmail

Robert Byrd
Steven Tyler
Clint Eastwood
Gene Hackman
Mike Wallace
Dick Clark
Kirk Douglas
Willie Nelson
Nancy Reagan
Fidel Castro
Abe Vigoda
OJ Simpson
Angus Young
Brian Wilson
Brad Pitt

are people just assuming barack is going to be assassinated? because dude seems in great health.

Damnit, I never read other people's picks on this thread first, and I thought Steven Tyler was pretty original. But no.

Man, Robert Byrd was a wasted vote. Eight whole points.

If Robert Byrd lives through this year, we should award him 100 honorary points, even though he's not playing.

It's weird that you picked Pitt, Kenan. My original list had Jolie on it, as a wildcard.

Not too weird. I just watched "Inglourous Basterds" a few days ago. That's what picking wildcards is all about, right? Just whatever pops into your head?

Mike Wallace was also like that with me, but then I realized it's not a bad pick.

Poor old guy.

Joaquín Guzmán Loera
Héctor Beltrán Leyva
Edgardo Leyva Escandón
Vicente Carrillo Fuentes
Miguel Angel Treviño Morales
Juan José Esparragoza Moreno
Nazario Moreno González(a.k.a. El Más Loco)
Arturo Chávez
Sasha Grey
Lanny Barby
Artie Lang
Danny Bonaduce
Alizée
Rick Ross
Suge Knight
Frank Lucas

now you've got 16

Oh hell

Joaquín Guzmán Loera
Héctor Beltrán Leyva
Edgardo Leyva Escandón
Vicente Carrillo Fuentes
Miguel Angel Treviño Morales
Juan José Esparragoza Moreno
Nazario Moreno González (a.k.a. El Más Loco)
Arturo Chávez
Sasha Grey
Lanny Barby
Artie Lang
Danny Bonaduce
Alizée
Rick Ross
Suge Knight

http://www.tmz.com/2010/01/03/artie-lange-hospitalized-howard-stern-show/

Love the classic TMZ webcam-looking photo, with him seeming to be unscrewing the top from a bottle of Jack. Wouldn't surprise me if TMZ doctors file photos to make them look more "you-were-there, with-a webcam".

That is one self-destructive dude, though.

Artie Lange
Jenna Jameson
Chasey Lain
Vincent Gallo
Eddie Van Halen
Ricardo Mayorga
Tom Sizemore
Kim Jong-Il
Jeff Garlin
Jani Lane
Jeff Conaway
Dennis Rodman
Robert Byrd
Peter Falk
Steve Jobs

Kerry Katona
Katie Price
David Hasselhoff
Angela Lansbury
Margaret Thatcher
Leslie Phillips
Ronnie Biggs
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
Pete Doherty
Amy Winehouse
Courtney Love
Ariel Sharon
Steve Jobs
Stephen Hawking
John Hartson

Paul Gascoigne
Gordon Brown
Lindsay Lohan
Paul McCartney
Lilly Allen
Michael Schumacher
Jackie Charlton
The Queen
Angela Lansbury
Steve Jobs
Margaret Thatcher
Barrack Obama
Ronnie Corbett
Russell Brand
Sir Alex Ferguson

Shouldn't be allowed to pick Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi or anyone else with famed dire illness.

Bob Barker
Keith Richards
dick cheney
BB King
Yogi Berra
Gordie Howe
Billy Graham
Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Betty Ford
zsa zsa gabor
Patrick Swayze
ruth bader ginsberg
Fidel Castro
lauren bacall
Peter OToole

Patrick Swayze

um..

plz break it to him gently.

lol

Pls replace w/ Grizz Chapman (TV's Grizz from 30 Rock) u_u

Tarja Cronberg
Dennis Hopper
James Cagney
Diane Allen
Paul Gascoigne
Ronnie Biggs
Tony Britten
Tony Curtis
Zelda Rubinstein
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Margaret Thatcher
Phyllis Schlafly
Prince Philip
Patrick Moore
John Paul Belmondo

Zelda Rubinstein

fuck! Why didn't I think of the lower life expectancy of midgets when picking mine!

James Cagney died in 1986, oops, replace with Ariel Sharon please....

Robin Guthrie
David Lee Roth
Pamela Anderson
Marianne Faithfull
Adam Ant
Brigitte Bardot
Pierre Boulez
Steve-O
Johnny Knoxville
Val Kilmer
Lady Gaga
Mickey Rourke
Eminem
Lindsey Lohan
Jonah Hill

Charles Manson
Loretta Lynn
Dennis Hopper
Lindsay Lohan
Muhammed Ali
Steven Tyler
Artie Lange
Billy Graham
Roman Polanski
Gore Vidal
Rush Limbaugh
Burt Bacharach
Fidel Castro
Ronnie Biggs
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme

Watch, all of these will make it through the year and all my old folks from last year will kick it.

are debt and wages an issue with Bolton? in a crisis-level way that they are at pompey or west ham?

also bottom half of table is in relegation threat. winning those two games in hand (at least one is a possibility) would put us 10th in the table. it's hardly desperate times just yet.

― moron oil (Gukbe), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 16:28 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

plz say this is a wildcard and he isnt dying

I webmailed mine to jaymc and I can't remember who I picked now :-(

Do you want me to post it for you?

(I'll make the final picks publicly viewable after Friday, but just in case you might want to see it now...)

Fidel Castro
Gene Hackman
Bob Barker
Elizabeth Edwards
Billy Graham
Nancy Reagan
Lena Horne
Ernest Borgnine
Fats Domino
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Axl Rose
Bernie Madoff
Artie Lang
Bob Dole
Larry King

poor Artie :(

Artie Lange
Jimmy Carter
Pete Doherty
Bernie Madoff
Queen Elizabeth II
Courtney Love
Luciano Moggi
John Frusciante
Kim Jong-il
Dave Gahan
Hans Rausing
Stevie Nicks
Sir Brian Urquhart
Kiefer Sutherland
Elizabeth Taylor

Ralph Brand
Hamad Karzai
Paul Gascoigne
Norman Tebbitt
James Prior
Charlie Sheen
Peter Carington
Victor Lownes
Henry Kissinger
Frank Bough
Jimmy Hill
Ronnie Biggs
Doris Day
Muhammad Ali
Teddy Pendergrass

Queen Elizabeth II

I hope not, don't want to miss the extra bank holiday in 2012.

Revised list:

Héctor Beltrán Leyva
Edgardo Leyva Escandón
Vicente Carrillo Fuentes
Miguel Angel Treviño Morales
Juan José Esparragoza Moreno
Nazario Moreno González (a.k.a. El Más Loco)
Arturo Chávez
Sasha Grey
Lanny Barby
Artie Lang
Danny Bonaduce
Rick Ross
Jack Nicholson
Tao Lin
Joe Rogan

jaymc, I just ilxmailed you a revised list. Sorry to make changes!

No prob. Got it.

Steve Jobs
Jake "The Snake" Roberts
Keith Richards
Thomas "Dynamite Kid" Billington
Jorge "Giant" González
John Hartson
Jim Ross
Marion "Suge" Knight
Sergio Sánchez Ortega
Robert "Mo" or "Sir Mo" Horne
Sean "X-Pac" Waltman
Kurt Angle
Liam Brady
Paul Gascoigne
Prince Jackson (son of Michael Jackson)

I am probably not going to have time to come up with something, but since I was going to do an all-wrestling list I'll be your cheerleader, a hoy hoy.

Someone's got to step up now that Dom's no longer with us.

Ha. I was bored and had an hour, thought I'd just play the wikipedia link game. Initial list was like 35 wrestlers long.

Is Dom not submitting a list via email?

REVISED LIST (with less misspellings, and more Gary Coleman)

Gary Coleman
Dennis Hopper
Ariel Sharon
Diane Allen
Paul Gascoigne
Ronnie Biggs
Tony Britton
Tony Curtis
Zelda Rubinstein
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Margaret Thatcher
Phyllis Schlafly
Prince Philip
Patrick Moore
Jean Paul Belmondo

Is Dom not submitting a list via email?

He hasn't contacted me about it, and tbh, I'm not going to ask the guy who's won the last two years if he wants a shot at winning again.

lol he just e-mailed me

final picks due tonight or by end of the day tomorrow?

Hopefully not too late for the party.

* Margaret Thatcher
* Jimmy Savile
* J. D. Salinger
* Stephen Hawking
* Fidel Castro
* Kim Jong-il
* Iggy Pop
* Buzz Aldrin
* Nelson Mandela
* Keith Richards
* David Attenborough
* Captain Beefheart
* Bruce Forsyth
* Patrick Moore
* Leslie Nielsen

End of day tomorrow. Let's say 11:59 PM Pacific time. I haven't even made my own picks yet.

Lindsay Lohan
Ariel Sharon
Michael J Fox
Eddie Van Halen
Fidel Castro
Pete Doherty
Amy Winehouse
Stephen Hawking
Philip Roth
Donald Sutherland
Larry King
Nancy Reagan
Bobby Brown
Gucci Mane
Haley Joel Osment

Just a reminder: you have about 9 hours left to make your picks.

Here are mine:

Gary Coleman
Artie Lange
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
Umaru Yar'Adua
Dennis Hopper
Giorgio Armani
Zelda Rubinstein
Elizabeth Taylor
Dick Clark
Ariel Sharon
Peter Falk
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Margaret Thatcher
Fidel Castro
Ernie Harwell

Serge Akakpo
Jake 'The Snake' Roberts
Paul 'Triple H' Levesque
Haley Joel Osment
Ian Botham
Pete Doherty
Prince Harry
Tom Jones
Keifer Sutherland
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
Tom Cruise
Neil Burgess a.k.a. Barry Scott
Steven Pinker
Michael Schumacher
Tara Reid

take THAT, hedged bets. I briefly considered adding Malia and Sasha Obama but felt guilty before even typing it, so that's not something I want on my conscience.

just wondering, jaymc, did you come up with Ernie Harwell by googling "incurable cancer"? 'cause that's what I did :-/

jake "the snake" roberts
ruth bader ginsberg
leon "vader" white
paul prudhomme
annette funicello
zelda rubinstein
elizabeth taylor
laurent fignon
gary coleman
ernie harwell
billy graham
merlin olsen
artie lange
tila tequila
peter tork

Blake Edwards
Peter Falk
Kenneth Anger
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Chuck Yeager
Jake LaMotta
Lyndon LaRouche
Imelda Marcos
Jack Chick
Rona Barrett
Don "Cpt. Beefheart" Van Vliet
Edwin Newman
Sandy Koufax
Lindsay Lohan
James Garner

I feel nothing but waves of bad karma if I even think about making one of these lists. However, most lists here make very useful pretend Love Boat ship's manifests.

just wondering, jaymc, did you come up with Ernie Harwell by googling "incurable cancer"? 'cause that's what I did :-/

Yeah, it was something like that. I also googled "diagnosed with cancer," "battling cancer," "ailing," "hospitalized," "at death's door," etc.

I think we're past the deadline, right? Here's mine:

1 zelda rubenstein
2 elizabeth edwards
3 grizz chapman
4 artie lange
5 ariel sharon
6 fidel castro
7 ernie harwell
8 elizabeth taylor
9 george steinbrenner
10 annette funicello
11 gary coleman
12 billy graham
13 muhammad ali
14 ronnie biggs
15 BB King

Kinda bummed out that I wasn't the only one to pick Grizz Chapman.

oh man why did only google "celebrities with fatal disease" and then get bored? should have gone w/ cancer! at least my traditional survivor series match will win it for me.

just wiki'd grizz. do you think tina fey will pay for a holiday to new york if i give him my kidney? alternatively he could come here but that is way less glam

Yep, deadline is passed. I'll try to put the spreadsheet together by the end of the weekend.

All right, here's the spreadsheet. It should be accurate, but if you notice an error, please let me know.

There are 37 participants this year, with a total of 334 names picked.

Most picked names:

15
Fidel Castro

10
Ariel Sharon

9
Artie Lange

8
Elizabeth Taylor

7
Lindsay Lohan
Margaret Thatcher
Ronnie Biggs

6
Billy Graham
Keith Richards
Pete Doherty
Zelda Rubinstein

5
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
Courtney Love
Dennis Hopper
Peter Falk
Rush Limbaugh
Stephen Hawking
Steve Jobs

4
Angela Lansbury
Bernie Madoff
Bob Barker
Dick Cheney
Dick Clark
Eddie Van Halen
Elizabeth Edwards
Ernie Harwell
Gary Coleman
Kim Jong Il
Muhammad Ali
Paul Gascoigne
Robert Byrd
Steven Tyler

3
Annette Funicello
Barack Obama
BB King
Bob Newhart
Brian Lenihan
Charlie Sheen
Queen Elizabeth II
Haley Joel Osment
Jake "The Snake" Roberts
James Garner
JD Salinger
Larry King
Michael J. Fox
Nancy Reagan
Nelson Mandela
Osama Bin Laden
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Tiger Woods
Zsa Zsa Gabor

I forgot to enter.

Participants with the most unique list:
Daruton and Eazy (13 unique names each)

Participant with the least unique list:
WmC (0 unique names)

Sorry, Jeff. :/

I'll enter anyway, and keep my own secret score.

Let battle commence! Let Death swoop down upon thee celebrities!

Eric Rhomer RIP.

and he is on my list...

Yes, it begins.

0 points for jeff

oh wait he switched Miep Gies out

RIP MIEP

She was 100 years old. Naturally I'm suspecting foul play.

stiffs.com: Most people remember her for that Anne Frank diary thing. Everyone seems to forget that she was the inspiration for the Road Runner's signature sound.

im pretty surprised that no one picked jay

Gutted I didn't put Rafa.

xp Yeah, I checked just to make sure.

i picked a bunch of celebs that had fake rip threads but missed his : /

He had a fake RIP thread?

(The "RIP" on the thread now was added post-death.)

oh, i guess that thread title was changed ( i know nothing about him, rip anyway)

Pendergrass, if Sasha Grey re-tweeting Questlove is correct.

The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA

A relative says soul singer Teddy Pendergrass has died in suburban Philadelphia at age 59.

The singer's son, Teddy Pendergrass II, says his father died Wednesday at Bryn Mawr Hospital.

Pendergrass' son says his father underwent colon cancer surgery eight months ago and had "a difficult recovery."

The elder Pendergrass was injured in a car accident in 1982. He suffered a spinal cord injury and was paralyzed from the waist down. He spent six months in a hospital but returned to recording the next year with the album "Love Language."

Billy Dods takes the lead

Dennis Hopper, who is reportedly facing his 'final days surrounded by family and friends,' filed for divorce yesterday from his wife of 14 years, Victoria Hopper, the mother of their six-year-old daughter Galen.

Victoria is wife number five, but this marriage has far outlasted the previous four, which included the 8-day marriage to Michelle Phillips. He and Victoria have been together for 18 years. So what happened?

Adding to the confusion, a family friend told Huffington Post that Hopper is mentally incapacitated from the enormous amounts of medication he is on given his state.

A long time friend of the couple said, "It's truly a tragedy, and sadly its all about the money and who inherits what. This is about getting Victoria out of the will, nothing more, nothing less."

Hopper has three grown children, Marin, Henry and Ruthiana, although he reportedly has not spoken with Ruthiana in recent years. Both Marin, her daughter and Henry have lived for years in the same Venice, California compound as Dennis, Victoria and Galen and continue to do so at this juncture.

Hopper has been battling cancer for almost a decade, but has rapidly declined in recent months.

I have little sympathy for that man

Frank Booth: Don't toast to my health, toast to my fuck!

I applaud his life-long desire to be as 'individual' as fuck, now let him die alone.

I take that back, but he DOES irk me.

surprised that i'm the only one who picked chemical ali this year

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9681065

'Poltergeist' Actress Zelda Rubinstein Dies at 76
Zelda Rubinstein, who played psychic in 'Poltergeist,' dies in Los Angeles at 76
LOS ANGELES January 27, 2010 (AP)

Updated.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2010/01/author-jd-salinger-dies-at-age-91/1

Author J.D. Salinger dies at age 91
01:10 PM

Just in: Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger has died at age 91 in New Hampshire. The author's son, in a statement from the author's literary representative, says Salinger died of natural causes at his home, reports AP. He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in the small, remote house in Cornish, N.H.

!!

He was on my list for the last couple years, but I dropped him this year once he got past 90. (Same with Kirk Douglas and Billy Graham.)

Chemical Ali has been executed. (I guess my above post was too subtle.)

Updated w/points for Doug Fieger and Chemical Ali.

http://laist.com/2010/03/11/merlin_olsen_rams_legend_dead_at_69.php

Merlin Olsen, Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle and part of the "Fearsome Foursome" defensive line during the 1960s and 1970s, passed away yesterday at the age of 69 his brother Orrin announced. Olsen was diagnosed with mesothelioma, cancer of the lung lining, last year and had undergone three courses of chemotheraphy.

Got it.

Shoot, I had Samaranch on my list in 2008.

I feel like I haven't updated this in a while -- has anyone died?

a lot of people in poland seem to think quite a few folk (some rather important) have died recently.

Yes, no one predicted them, though.

No one picked Daryl Gates or Malcolm McLaren or Dixie Carter or Alex Chilton or Corey Haim, either.

did anyone put Lech Kaczynski in their list ?

[i posted before i hit cntrl-f]

xpost

Updated for Ernie Harwell.

No-one picked Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland? 93 and 94 years young, respectively, this year.

Not many points for those two.

(Harwell was only 8 points, but given his condition, he was a safer bet than most.)

Oh wait hold the phone, I just saw that Umaru Yar'Adua died.

Updated for Lena Horne.

(Only one who picked her was joygoat, who is now on the board.)

Hooray?

Dom extends his lead with Ronnie James Dio.

Dio and Meowsy McDermott, all up there swapping anecdotes and knocking back Relentless

Gary Coleman RIP.

A little person prompts a big shakeup.

Can't believe I took him off my list this year.

smh @ all you who put Lohan on yr lists

love y'all, but really?

kshxymuzak?

velko, i don't understand your cryptic posts half the time, but i'm glad you post here anyway

love y'all, but really?

― ksh, Friday, May 28, 2010 4:41 PM (47 minutes ago)

I'll probably put her on my list next year unless she finds Jesus -- what's the problem? I'm not wishing her ill... it's just a matter of seeing a celebrity driving off a cliff and thinking "huh...there goes a celebrity, driving off a cliff."

it doesn't seem like she's that bad that she'd merit going on one's list, but then again i don't really follow celebrity stuff very much and it could be worse than i think

balance her not seeming that bad with the fact that it's 75 points or w/e just in case

haha

well, dennis hopper's official

!

You guys, I was on vacation and didn't even hear about Hopper until just now.

List updated. JTS moves past WmC into 4th place.

Rue McClanahan puts unregistered in the top 10.

bye bye byrd

And with that, three new players on the leaderboard: Matt Armstrong, kenan, and sarahel.

(Pleasant Plains gets a few points, too, but doesn't change position.)

i knew i remembered listing george

So you did. You're on the board; WmC moves into 4th place.

wheeeee

Ailsa gets 18 for Alex Higgins.

(I might have to do a mid-year sweep to see if I missed anyone. Only knew about Higgins because there's a thread on him.)

He was only 61, can I have 39 points please?

Oh, sorry! Misread the thread. Now updated.

I have to be honest, when I saw that a British snooker player had died, I was afraid Dom was going to pull ahead.

I'll take the 18 since until a few weeks ago I thought he was dead already. I believe that is fair. Especially since my list, IIRC, has half of the Togolese national football team in it.

I'm very surprised Dom didn't have him, tbh.

Joaquín Guzmán Loera
Osiel Cárdenas Guillén
Héctor Beltrán Leyva
Edgardo Leyva Escandón
Vicente Carrillo Fuentes
Juan José Esparragoza Moreno
Nazario Moreno González(a.k.a. El Más Loco)
Lanny Barby
Alizée
Suge Knight

― The Hood Won't Jump (Eazy), Sunday, 3 January 2010 06:43 (6 months ago) Bookmark

All those Mexican drug lords and you didn't pick Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel? Unlucky!

Damn, didn't read about Nacho until today.

Donna rouge moves up the leaderboard with his pick of Ted Stevens. Though probably not how he thought he'd go!

i completely forgot i even picked him! has he actually been confirmed dead?

Yep:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/10/national/main6760221.shtml

If we weren't awarding points based on age, you'd be tied for 5th. As it happens, though, your three successful picks had an average age of 89.

dead pool n00b, here

Dom regrettably back in 1st place with his pick of Little Feat's Richie Hayward.

one day soon i am going to google my half obscure wrestler list to see if anyone knocked it without any of us caring.

I try to go through the whole list of names every now and then to see if I've missed any, but I haven't checked in a while.

I think this year's been a relatively quiet one for wrestler deaths, but I see now that Lance Cade, who I think I've heard of, died today. Only two wrestlers on my list, and we all know that Jake the Snake's gonna live till he's 500.

if an ilxor murder one of his picks - is it cheating or on the contrary - he gets extra points?

I'll have to think about that.

Meanwhile, with the death of Laurent Fignon, Dom extends his lead and jeff slips past me into 2nd place.

RIP Edwin Newman... I finally get some points.

Got it.

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

:DDDDDDD no longer on 0 points :DDDDDDD

Jorge. :(

(I'm just mad I didn't pick him. How is Triple H's heart still holding out anyway.)

a hoy hoy, I love that you not only are on the board now but that you're in 7th place.

surprised i did not pick him

fingers crossed for Vader

RIP Tony Curtis

Congrats, you're in 4th place now.

Updated for Simon MacCorkindale.

(unregistered moves up to 6th place.)

Another that I'm very sorry to have scored with today, the great great Leslie Nielson.

have bugger all to do at work; may do my bi monthly google of dead wrestlers. also rip nielson

Just wanted to let you guys know that even though I'm on vacation, I updated the spreadsheet for Elizabeth Edwards. RIP.

Updated for the death of Blake Edwards. (Elvis Telecom gets 12 pts.)

I swear that I'm not bumping off people for a come-from-behind victory!

(Cpt. Beefheart was on my list)

only way i'm gonna win this thing is if both Miley Cyrus and the Olsen twin i picked kick off.

Another 'success' that makes me rue even playing this game. Rest in noise Captain Beefheart.

Yep, got the both of you, E.T. and krakow.

god fucking damn it guys i am so mad that your mild urgings maybe made the lord take our captain over the edge.

also that i still have 0 points.

I sat this year out, but am currently working on my 2011 list.

Ive got my list for 2012 - "Everybody".

I may be a sleeper but I think I'm going to rack up some heavy points in the fourth quarter.

when do we start the 2011?

I'll start a new thread on Friday or Saturday.

I need to not axe people from my short list-I clipped Beefheart this year and Jacko last year.

All of my Mexican cartel kingpins remain alive.

this is like backwards antasy football but except for good guy playing shitty its just random dudes dying

All of my Mexican cartel kingpins remain alive.

Not true! I just combed through everyone's lists for the last time, and it turns out Nazario Moreno Gonzalez died a few weeks ago. That not only puts you on the board, but in the top 10, since the dude was 40.

Winner this year, to no one's surprise: Dom Passantino.

You can see the final results here.

Stay tuned for the 2011 thread. (I'll try to post it late tonight or early tomorrow.)

i was robbed

Top 10 placing!

Hurra!

Jani Lane
Jeff Conaway
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, January 3, 2010 8:32 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

gotta learn to stick to my guns!