Dead Pool 2012

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Naw, I don't want to piggyback like that. I'll add Ralphie next year if he makes it.

beachville, Monday, 9 January 2012 15:00 (twelve years ago) link

Anyone else? You have three hours.

Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 03:02 (twelve years ago) link

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.

I think abanana is the only one who picked "Superstar" Billy Graham (the wrestler). I assumed that Viceroy's pick was for Billy Graham the evangelist. (Viceroy, let me know if that's not the case!)

Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 03:35 (twelve years ago) link

I know I usually do a list, but I'm skipping this year.

Steamtable Willie (WmC), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 03:45 (twelve years ago) link

yeah, think i'm bowing out this year as well

donna rouge, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 04:03 (twelve years ago) link

George Michael
Glen Campbell
Wilford Brimley
Steve-O
Pete Doherty
Lindsey Lohan
Roger Ebert
Bashar al-Assad
D'Angelo
Robert Mugabe
Don Buchla
Artie Lange
Etta James
Lil Wayne
Marianne Faithfull

LIVE MEGA DOPPLER 7000 HD (naus), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 04:32 (twelve years ago) link

First time for this:

Keith Richards
Aretha Franklin
Riley (B.B.) King
Hugh (Wavy Gravy) Romney
Jerry Maren (Munchkin & member of the Lollipop Guild)
Rosalynn Carter
Stephen Hawking
Keith Jackson (sports announcer)
George Herbert Walker Bush
Tony Bennett
Maggie Thatcher
Elizabeth II
Helmut Kohl
Boris Spassky
Rosey Grier (NFL player)

Aimless, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 05:02 (twelve years ago) link

Wavy Gravy's a Romney?! Never knew that.

clemenza, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 05:04 (twelve years ago) link

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.

In 2010 his doctor said he had around 2 years to live. So.

the acquisition and practice of music is unfavourable to the health of (abanana), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 05:38 (twelve years ago) link

ok, I made one last-minute substitution:

Gary Carter
Raven Alexis
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
Anne Feeney
Ethan Zohn
Dennis Frederiksen
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Lee Evans (sprinter)
Robin Gibb
Etta James
Penny Marshall
Bill Janklow
Jim Stynes
Geoffrey Hughes
D.K. Holm Wayne Fleming

cher's missing (unregistered), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 05:53 (twelve years ago) link

Here's a list of the most picked names for 2012. In parens, I've included the +/- change since 2011. (Keep in mind there are 38 participants this year, three more than last year.)

18
Margaret Thatcher (+12)

15
Fidel Castro (+5)

14
Robin Gibb (+14)

11
Etta James (+10)
Lindsay Lohan (+2)

8
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi (+1)
Joe Paterno (+8)
Muhammad Ali (+4)
Terry Pratchett (+7)

7
Artie Lange (+5)
Bashar al-Assad (+7)
Pete Doherty (+4)

6
Dick Cheney (-3)

5
Charlie Sheen (+2)
Courtney Love (+2)
George Michael (+5)
Glen Campbell (+5)
Hosni Mubarak (+4)
Michael Douglas (-8)

Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 06:58 (twelve years ago) link

Btw, let me know if you see an error on the spreadsheet!

Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 07:00 (twelve years ago) link

seeing that jaymc's list last year had a bunch of middle east rulers and etta james, i'm going to his list this year for my 2012 news predictions.

sunn :o))) (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 07:17 (twelve years ago) link

can't believe i was the only one to choose cameron and osborne, where are the optimists among us?

sunn :o))) (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 07:19 (twelve years ago) link

D'Angelo

― LIVE MEGA DOPPLER 7000 HD (naus), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 04:32 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this better not happen; i've got tickets to see him in february!

Aesop Rizzle (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 09:45 (twelve years ago) link

Thanks jaymc!

Good luck everyone!

only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 10:00 (twelve years ago) link

Then again, what if nobody dies?

Mark G, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 10:11 (twelve years ago) link

Everybody dies. One day.

only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 10:18 (twelve years ago) link

But this is running only for 2012.

Mark G, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 10:25 (twelve years ago) link

if no one picked dies, all competitors are summarily executed.

sunn :o))) (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 10:29 (twelve years ago) link

if that happens, we can all meet up to knock off milk snatcher in december. a christmas present to the world.

Aesop Rizzle (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 10:40 (twelve years ago) link

If, by December, no-one mentioned has died, then we run a poll to pick a single victim from the lot and we all conspire to off them before the month is out.

only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 10:54 (twelve years ago) link

someday this list will include ilxors

Thug Luftwaffle (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 13:13 (twelve years ago) link

Once they are all famous enough to have Wikipedia pages?

Jeff, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 13:16 (twelve years ago) link

"they"

Beezow Doo Doo Zopittybop-Bop Bop (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 13:22 (twelve years ago) link

A few do: C-Man of old, for instance.

Mark G, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 13:35 (twelve years ago) link

On a board where underrated aerosmith, the tune is space, Owen P, xhuxk, and Ned Raggett regularly post, you use C-Man as an example?

Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link

yes.

There's a moral in there, some place.

Mark G, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link

Ha, OK.

Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link

Showing my ignorance here, but who is 'the tune is space'?

fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link

neotropic pygmy squirrel

beachville, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link

lmao in hindsight my list is almost entirely composed of fat guys/old wrestlers/hack comedians/skrillex

my work here is done!

scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link

I hope that someone has arrived at ilx by google image searching neotropic pygmy squirrel.

beachville, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link

This is one contest where you don't want to pick your nose!!

Cheap desert locations (Eazy), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link

That picture of Calz on his wikipedia page is kerazy.

Sugary pee is not normal (aldo), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link

XXP -- yes mine was for the evangelist and pseudo-prophet who somehow manages to avoid the angel of death year after year.

Frobisher (Viceroy), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link

Got it, thx. (I had him on my list for a few years, too.)

Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link

Former South Dakota governor Bill Janklow has died, which means that last year's Dead Pool champ, unregistered, gets off to an early start.

Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link

Okay, which one of you guys tried to run over Gene Hackman? That's taking things a little too far.

beachville, Saturday, 14 January 2012 13:10 (twelve years ago) link

Sinead O'Connor is sadly a contender. I do hope she pulls it together, but I doubt it.

nathom, Saturday, 14 January 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link

Gov. Janklow was a colossal scumbag. good riddance and thanks for all the points.

cher's missing (unregistered), Saturday, 14 January 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link

for the love of god plz tell me unreg didnt pick etta

lost ai weiwei (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 20 January 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link

aw, that's sad.

this is funny u bitter dork (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 January 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link

Of course he did. But so did 10 other people, who are now on the board with 27 pts.

Girl I want to take you to a JBR (jaymc), Friday, 20 January 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link

I'm tied for second. Get used to it.

Jeff, Friday, 20 January 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link

lol

Girl I want to take you to a JBR (jaymc), Friday, 20 January 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link

i think this might be my first successful dead pool pick, in three years of participation!

congratulations (n/a), Friday, 20 January 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link

and i came really close with gene hackman too. i should get some points for that.

congratulations (n/a), Friday, 20 January 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link

Actually, you had Hitchens last year.

Girl I want to take you to a JBR (jaymc), Friday, 20 January 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link

i did? weird.

congratulations (n/a), Friday, 20 January 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link


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