Dead Pool 2012

Oh, wait, with everyone else doing Kim Jong-Un, I'm going with Kim Jong-Nam.

I always look forward to your picks, Eazy!

It seems to be a blessing of long life on those I pick. (Last year everyone but Andy Rooney prospered.)

not a single Benedict XVI yet? do I underestimate his longevity for some reason?

Andy Williams
Tariq Aziz
John Edrich
Etta James
"Superstar" Billy Graham
Geoffrey Hughes
Robin Gibb
Dennis "Fergie" Frederiksen
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
Gary Carter
Hugo Chávez
Michael Dokes
Jeff Palmer (former gay porn actor)
Eric Lynch (dwarf)
Aditya Dev

ooh, I forgot Geoffrey Hughes. Had him last year as well...

(dwarf)

Earl Sweatshirt?

And not Tyler?

Didn't want to bogart all of Odd Future.

just seems like earl is the least likely to catch an early death of that squad.

Kamala
Bobby Heenan
Scott Hall
Perry Saturn
Barry Windham
Matt Hardy
Chyna
Rikishi
Lex Luger
Viscera
Henry Godwinn
Sean Waltman
Virgil
Alex Ferguson
Margaret Thatcher

oh shit wait can i replace Bobby Heenan, a man I never want to die, with Paul Merson

Still too squeamish to enter, still morbidly fascinated by the lists from those who do. Poor Lindsay Lohan.

Frankie Muniz
Lindsey Lohan
Ashton Kutcher
Russell Brand
Andy Dick
Steve-O
Sinead O'Connor
Joe Paterno
Jerry Sandusky
Margaret Thatcher

5 more bro

oh 15... damn....

Charlie Sheen
Fidel Castro
Billy Graham
Artie Lange
Terry Pratchett

Earl Sweatshirt? And not Tyler?

The proper OFWGKTA answer is: more points.

if it turns out earl was murdered a year ago and has been lying in a ditch, does he still count towards 2012 points?

How deadly is Hep C? I'm seeing a lot of Billy Graham here. And while I would love to see him shut the shit up, he seems the type that will be dying his beard for much bloody longer.

Margaret Thatcher
Abe Vigoda
Clarence Thomas
HRH Queen Elizabeth
Donald Knuth
Terry Pratchett
Paula Deen
Roger Ebert
Kim Jong-un
Ben Gibbard
Dick Clark
Thomas Pynchon
Liza Minelli
Bono
Marc Maron

Bonus animal dead pool: National Zoo panda-in-residence Mei Xiang

have Marc Maron's podcasts taken an interesting turn?

You never know with depressives.

etta james
lindsay lohan
margaret thatcher
mel gibson
fidel castro
joe paterno
katy perry
suri cruise
michael j fox
warwick davis
peter dinklage
kenny baker
michael j anderson
verne troyer
tony cox

did a little person tick you off today or

i thought it was funny that someone upthread posted someone (dwarf), so i decided to pick a bunch of dwarves

I had no idea Lindsay Lohan is a dwarf! I guess the camera can make you look bigger.

One new rule for 2012: If a Wikipedia search on one of your picks directs to a disambiguation page or to someone else with the same name, please indicate which one you mean by appending the person's profession in parentheses, e.g. "(actress)" or "(football player)"

Also, a 100 point bonus if your pick was both an actress and a football player....

John Laws
Phillip Ruddock
Margaret Thatcher
Neil Harvey
John Kennedy (AFL coach)
Donald Rumsfeld
Etta James
Olivia de Havilland
Justin Beiber
Frank Tyson
Ronnie Wood
Engelbert Humperdinck
Jerry Lewis
Charlie Sheen
Bernie Ecclestone

Margaret Thatcher
Stephen Hawking
Fidel Castro
Terry Pratchett
Mark E. Smith
Iggy Pop
Prince Philip
Buzz Aldrin
Nelson Mandela
Keith Richards
David Attenborough
George Bush Snr
Bruce Forsyth
Patrick Moore
Sidney Poitier

^^^I think every name on this list made me go, 'you sure they are still alive?', so I think you'll do p well.

charlie sheen
etta james
stephen hawking
fidel castro
artie lange
pete doherty
mel gibson
margaret thatcher
dick cheney
sean parker
robin gibb
david prowse
morrissey
klas ingesson
barbara bush

Hello. My random pick list of people that I do not hope to die but then again, amaze myself (has anyone actually made a hormov where a dead pool list is involved? Actually don't answer if it's somthing obv like "Dead Pool" or else owt)..

One of Bananarama (oh ok, keren then)
Philip Glenister
Simon Cowell
Jack Black
Phil the Greek
Phil Oakey
Shirley Temple
Genesis P Oridge
Mo Tucker
Justin Bieber
Les McKeowen of the Rollers
Ronnie Corbett
Bruce Forsyth
Brian Blessed
Gary Glitter

That's it yes? I think all are alive as at:

Also, a 100 point bonus if your pick was both an actress and a football player....

Oh, I missed out Waynetta Rooney.

Benedict XVI
Robin Gibb
Michael Douglas
Paul F. Tompkins
Pete Doherty
Elton John
Helmut Kohl
Robert Pattinson
Courtney Love
Mischa Barton
Wilford Brimley
Scott Asheton
Montserrat Caballe
David S. Ware
Kimi Raikkonen

Mario Balotelli
Hugo Chávez
Lindsay Lohan
Pete Doherty
Bashar al-Assad
Margaret Thatcher
David Cameron
George Osborne
Prince Harry
McG
Dmitry Medvedev
Taylor Momsen
Ron Paul
Russell Brand
Tom Wolfe

balotelli is too buzzworthy to die at the moment. wait till he is struggling to make it off the bench at real madrid and run out of 'crazy' 'things' to do at least.

Paul Gascoigne
Bashar al-Assad
Muhammed Ali
Margaret Thatcher
Larry Hagman
Robin Gibb
Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi
Liz Dawn
Dick Cheney
F. Castro
Benedict XVI
Doris Day
Aretha Franklin
Glen Campbell

Peter O' Toole

harry belefonte
chuck berry
seymour cassel
fidel castro
exene cervenka
fats domino
peter fonda
aretha franklin
robin gibb
gene hackman
etta james
mick mars
william 'refrigerator' perry
thomas pynchon
ravi shankar

mickey rooney
margaret thatcher
maurice sendak
hugo chavez
silvio berlusconi
chuck berry
george h.w. bush
terry pratchett
jimmy carter
missy elliot
jerry lewis
olivia de havilland
hosni mubarak
kirk douglas
fidel the castro

stay the fuck away from missy!

David S. Ware

Is he/has he been ill recently?

yeah, i think he needed a kidney transplant

Wow, didn't know that. Just looked it up, and apparently he got a kidney and came through ok: http://njmonthly.com/articles/lifestyle/a-gift-of-life-and-music.html

(sorry, didn't mean to mess up your dead pool; was just surprised to see his name on the list, as I didn't know he'd been sick)

He's been a couple years post-transplant -- makes him (sadly) a cancer risk.

Paul Gascoigne
Bashar al-Assad
Muhammed Ali
Margaret Thatcher
Larry Hagman
Robin Gibb
Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi
Liz Dawn
Dick Cheney
F. Castro
Benedict XVI
Doris Day
Aretha Franklin
Glen Campbell

― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 14:21 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Peter O' Toole

― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved)

fashionably late?

hang on, has lohan been nominated eight times?

science

Margaret Thatcher
Norman Tebbit
Fidel Castro
Robert Mugabe
Howard Henry Baker
Sir Michael Edwardes
Phylis Schlafly
Gary Glitter
Omar Abdel-Rahman
Adam Yahiye Gadahn
Eduardo Ravelo
Gene Hackman
John Noakes
George Michael
Jimmy Swaggart

much to our chagrin.

I hit one last night. Bummed about the death, but gimmee the points.

I went long, hoping for a massive year of young celebrity death, but unfortunately it's mostly been awesome old people this year.

Bump for my dang points.

Easy, easy. Got it. (David S. Ware, I assume? Weirdly both of the dudes you scored points on were 62 y/o.)

Welp, guess I know how long I got left, then.

Bumping for my 29 Bill Tarmey points :(

Who are these people? (Got it.)

Updated for Larry Hagman.

Bumping for my Maurice Herzog points.

Now updated for Herzog, Ravi Shankar, and Patrick Moore.

As the year draws to a close, I'll go through and see if there's anyone else I've missed. If you happen to know that I've missed one of your picks, feel free to mention it here.

Elvis Telecom -- if we'd been scoring by the raw number of correct predix, you'd be tied for 3rd. With the age points factored in, you're 20th.

So I won?

r.i.p. it up and start again, jaymc

Not doing one this year?

Of course jaymc will.

All my last year picks survived.

they'll be paying you next

http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/front-page-obituaries-more-than-doubled-in-2012-heres-why

Only an asteroid hitting the earth can help me now.

I was otm.

So I won?

Yes! Or at least: I think so.

Somehow the annual Dead Pool accounting slipped my mind over the last few days. I'll make the results final this weekend.

And here's the new thread for 2013:

Dead Pool 2013

Playing the dwarf lottery paid off this year.

abanana: 319 points

well damn

and uh RIP Aditya Dev, I had no idea you existed

I've double-checked to make sure that no one else died and that the numbers add up. Nothing has changed.

Congratulations, abanana, on your win!

For posterity, here's the final leaderboard:

1. abanana (319 points) (8 picks)
2. unregistered (263) (7)
3. Stevie D(eux) (157) (4)
4. Jeff (148) (4)
5. ailsa (126) (4)
6. Simon H. (106) (4)
7. Jimmy the Mod (97) (3)
8. jaymc (82) (3)
9. Three Word Username (76) (2)
10. n/a (73) (3)
11. Clay (67) (2)
12. sonderangerbot (65) (2)
13. johnny crunch (58) (2)
14. darraghmac (57) (2)
15. Matt Armstrong (55) (2)
16. milo z (53) (2)
17. sarahel (42) (2)
18. j.lu (38) (1)
(tie) Le Bateau Ivre (38) (1)
20. Elvis Telecom (32) (4)
21. buzza (27) (1)
(tie) Fred Nerk (27) (1)
(tie) naus (27) (1)
24. silby (18) (1)
25. remy bean (17) (1)
26. Viceroy (15) (1)
27. govern yourself accordingly (15) (1)
28. krakow (11) (1)
29. forksclovetofu (5) (1)

(Nine contestants with zero points.)

Other items of note:

*The 1st- and 2nd-place finishers of 2011 switched places in 2012.
*Dom Passantino (2010) still holds the record for total points (327) and picks (9), though abanana's 39.9 points-per-pick (PPP) average > Dom's 36.3.
*Stevie D. and Three Word Username also had PPP averages of at least 38. Well done.
*Elvis Telecom's PPP average of 8.0 was the lowest of any contestant with at least 2 correct picks.
*I was the highest finisher NOT to pick Robin Gibb, the most-picked dead person. (14 of y'all got points for him.)

(Oops, Viceroy and g.y.a. should be tied for 26th.)

None of my picks died--did I shoot the moon?

None of my picks died either, though I came really close with Burt Bacharach (he didn't die, but Hal David did).

None of mine died, it's like a breath of life to everyone I nom. Avoided nomming Thatch for this very reason.

Dammit, just missed the podium.

lol, i am officially the worst at this

I actually feel sort of shitty for doing so well!