Would there be any interest in an ILX dead pool league in 2005?

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Ten picks a team, score 100 minus the age they die at, deaths have to be reported by Associated Press? I haven't dead pooled for about two years, but I was an ace back in the day.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 26 December 2004 11:49 (twenty years ago)

Only if Jim Carrey dances around to GNR songs.

― Steely Zan (AaronHz), Sunday, 26 December 2004 11:56 (twenty years ago)

i'm in.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 26 December 2004 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Definitely!

― Patrick Allan (adr), Sunday, 26 December 2004 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Me too

― C J (C J), Sunday, 26 December 2004 14:14 (twenty years ago)

I'm in also

See: Dead Pool 2004: Predictions? and Dead Pool 2003: Predictions?

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 26 December 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago)

I'll do it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 26 December 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago)

OK then, we'll use this thread for team entries. I want teams of ten celebrities (do make sure they're under 100, or else you'll score negative points when they die (the "Queen Mother ruling")), possibly give your team a pithy name as well... any questions do feel free to ask. Oh, and no picking of animals. That isn't funny.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 26 December 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago)

I'm in.

deaths have to be reported by Associated Press?
This is a good rule, but now I won't be able to pick as many pro wrestlers.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 26 December 2004 22:56 (twenty years ago)

You'd be surprised. If it's the guy who I'm banking on for nearly 55 points when his cancer completely takes over his 400 lb frame that you're talking about, I'm guessing that he'll make it.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 26 December 2004 23:20 (twenty years ago)

A guy like Scott Hall is the quintessential wrestling dead pool pick (but AP wouldn't report that) ... I have no idea who you're talking about though, Dom ... I'll have to do some research.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 26 December 2004 23:26 (twenty years ago)

Oh, wait, I know who you're talking about. You really think that would be reported by AP? I'd be very surprised. His time as a star at the national level was nearly 15 years ago, and I doubt many non-wrestling fans would remember him.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 26 December 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago)

Actually, the AP rule may be kinda restricting... we'll have to come to some kind of "celebrity" ruling at some point. Wikipedia reports it?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 26 December 2004 23:34 (twenty years ago)

me please

― anthony, Monday, 27 December 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago)

OK, teams in by the start of the new year please. We can either post them in here, or you can mail them to me if you're worried about people stealing your stiffs. My team's good to go, I may post it soon.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 27 December 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Oh, count me in. I'm a morbid old sod. I think they should be emailed otherwise people will just nick everyone else's ideas.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 27 December 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago)

Is Pete Doherty too easy?

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 27 December 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago)

Nothing's a given in Dead Pools. Those of us who suffered from Harry Secombe's refusal to actually allow one of those strokes to kill him for five years will testify to this. Anyway, yeah, mail them to me at that there e-mail addy to the right of my name.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 27 December 2004 22:36 (twenty years ago)

So what is the rule re: scoring? It must be reported by AP/Reuters/CNN?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 27 December 2004 23:30 (twenty years ago)

Basically, just don't pick your milkman.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 27 December 2004 23:35 (twenty years ago)

Unless he's the pope.

― Pleasant Pains, Monday, 27 December 2004 23:54 (twenty years ago)

Your search - "pope drinking milk" - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:
- Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
- Try different keywords.
- Try more general keywords.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 27 December 2004 23:58 (twenty years ago)

picking Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would be especially dumb.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 01:01 (twenty years ago)

whether or not they are posted here initially, at some point lists should be posted. if this thread serves any non-morbid purpose, perhaps it is to remember the living (nostalgia for the present?).

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 01:06 (twenty years ago)

I'm probably going to post the lists here on the 1st of January.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 11:05 (twenty years ago)

OK, I've emailed you mine. I take it I can change it if any of them kick it in the next couple of days?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago)

(do make sure they're under 100, or else you'll score negative points when they die (the "Queen Mother ruling")

Oops, I just noticed this. I'll have to send you a revision, Dom. Is it okay if they're 99 now but turn 100 during 2005, or do they have to die before they hit 100?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Okay, I've chosen my list.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago)

It's 100 minus the age they die at.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:50 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I thought it was just whoever got the most out of ten won. I will have to significantly revise now. Sorry 'bout that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Hi, I'm dumb, you said that in your first post.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago)

This 100 minus their age will lead to everyone picking Pete Doherty just in case, won't it (I didn't, but I maybe wish I had)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:03 (twenty years ago)

who's pete doherty?

i'm picking him in any case.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:05 (twenty years ago)

Dude from the Libertines.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:07 (twenty years ago)

oh right! ok he's in

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:17 (twenty years ago)

I'll give you one tip that I came up with on my research:

Delta Goodrem won't have the test results back to see if her Hodgkins has cleared until March. That's 86 points if she goes...

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:43 (twenty years ago)

Six teams in already. As a special treat, my team name is to be unveiled for the first time:

Viktor Yushchenko: Because I'm Worth It.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:51 (twenty years ago)

I can't email you the list because I'm not logged in. I'll post it here on New Year's Day.

Think I'll go for quantity instead of quality this year. Works for me in fantasy football, at least.

― Pleasant/Plains, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:09 (twenty years ago)

I submitted a diversified portfolio of relatively safe standard and a few high-risk, high-reward ventures.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:14 (twenty years ago)

So, how does this work? Do we have to choose a certain number of candidates or as many as we want? I have three on my list. Where do I post it, and when?

I'm new to this malarkey.

― Rumpty Pum pum pum, Thursday, 30 December 2004 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Oooh, and I won't be online after tomorrow until Tuesday...

― Rumpty Pum pum pum, Thursday, 30 December 2004 14:57 (twenty years ago)

That's OK rum. 10 picks a team.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Okay, I think there's only 1 in my team.... I'll submit my list presently.

― Rumpy Pumpkin, Thursday, 30 December 2004 15:40 (twenty years ago)

This thread will also be used for anouncements of deaths of any celebrities we've picked, deaths of minor celebrities not important enough to get their own thread, and, you know, general schadenfreude.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago)

OK, here is my team, "The Maude Flanders Experience." Don't steal my corpses!

Pope John Paul II
Shirley Temple Black
Boris Yeltsin
Augusto Pinochet
Luciano Pavarotti
Charles Nelson Reilly
Michael Schumacher
Ariel Sharon
Walter Cronkite
Antonin Scalia

― wetmink (wetmink), Saturday, 1 January 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

OK, let's start anouncing those teams... latecomers will be welcome, but any teams obviously stolen from current picks will be tutted at greatly.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 1 January 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

Team: Viktor Yushchenko: Because I’m Worth It
Manager: Dom Passantino

Biggs, Ronnie
Eszterhas, Joe
Ferraro, Geraldine
Hawkins, Ronnie
Pinter, Harold
Preston, Billy
Rehnquist, William
Rukeyser, Louis
Stram, Hank
Tenta, John

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 1 January 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

Team: The Ian Curtis Wishlist
Manager: Barry Bruner

Joanie Laurer
Scott Hall
Gerald Ford
Lady Bird Johnson
Chief Justice William Rehnquist
Mitch Miller
Pope John Paul II
Prince Rainier of Monaco
Al Lewis
Vaclav Havel

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 1 January 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

Team: The Lupes
Manager: Charlie Rose

1. Hal Linden
2. Roger Moore
3. Sherman Helmsley
4. Bob Dylan
5. Teri Garr
6. Alice Cooper
7. Hilary Duff
8. Robert Altman
9. Angela Lansbury
10. George Michael

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 1 January 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

Manager: CJ

1. Pope John Paul II
2. Anna Nicole Smith
3. Kirk Douglas
4. Stephen Hawking
5. Prince Edward
6. Elton John
7. Osama bin Laden
8. Liza Minelli
9. Stephen Fry
10. Johnny Carson

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 1 January 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

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Richard Pryor has Multiple Sclerosis.

Michael J Fox seems pretty healthy, and his Parkinsons doesn't seem to have got that much worse since he was diagnosed in 1991. He still seems to be keeping up the voice work on cartoons.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 10 January 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

no Patrick Moore or Jimmy Saville?

I had Jimmy Saville in my original list. I can't remember why I thought he wouldn't die. Same with Thatcher. She'll go on forever (I hope to be proved wrong at any time though).

latecomers will be welcome, but any teams obviously stolen from current picks will be tutted at greatly.

Yes, you people who nicked Diego Maradona off me, he's talking about you.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 10 January 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Oh... go off and explain why people were sad when Liam Miller left Parkhead.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 10 January 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Those of you without Diego Maradona, look away now.

http://images.thisislondon.co.uk/v2/sport/football2/maradonaR140105_300x450.jpg

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

That is HELLA disturbing.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

CJ with the early lead.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 23 January 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Heh, I was just about to revive this, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 January 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Is that REALLY him???

― Jimmy Mod always makes friends with women before bedding them down (ModJ), Sunday, 23 January 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

21 points to CJ!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Updated pool:

Al Fayed, Mohamed
Ali, Muhammed
Altman, Robert
Ammash, Huda Salih Mahdi
Andrews, Julie (x2)
Attenborough, David
Attenborough, Richard
Biggs, Ronnie (x2)
Bin Laden, Osama
Brown, James
Carson, Johnny
Castro, Fidel (x3)
Cheney, Dick
Clark, Dick
Cooper, Alice
Corbett, Ronnie
Cosby, Bill
Cronkite, Walter
Douglas, Kirk (x2)
Duff, Hillary
Dylan, Bob
Eszterhas, Joe
Evans, Chris
Ferraro, Geraldine
Foot, Michael
Ford, Gerald (x2)
Fox, Michael J
Fry, Stephen
Garfunkel, Art
Garr, Teri
Getty, Estelle
Godard, Jean Luc
Graham, Billy
Hall, Scott
Havel, Vaclav
Hawking, Professor Stephen
Hawkins, Ronnie
Helmsley, Sherman
Houston, Whitney (x2)
Hussein, Saddam (x2)
John, Elton
Johnson, Holly
Johnson, Lady Bird (x2)
Kerr, Deborah
Klugman, Jack
Knotts, Don
Lansbury, Angela (x2)
Laurer, Joanie
Lewis, Al
Linden, Hal
Love, Courtney (x3)
Lydon, John
Mandela, Nelson
Maradona, Diego (x3)
McGowan, Shane
McNamara, Robert
Michael, George
Miller, Mitch
Minnelli, Liza
Moore, Patrick
Moore, Roger
Murdoch, Rupert
Nelson Reilly, Charles
Norden, Dennis
Palance, Jack
Parks, Rosa
Paul, Les
Pavarotti, Luciano
Pei, IM
Pinochet, Augusto (x2)
Pinter, Harold
Pope John Paul II (x11)
Preston, Billy (x2)
Prince Edward
Prince Rainier of Monaco
Pryor, Richard (x3)
Rehnquist, William (x3)
Reynolds, Burt
Rooney, Andy (x2)
Rukeyser, Louis
Scalia, Antonin
Schumacher, Michael
Selleck, Tom
Sharon, Ariel
Sheen, Martin
Smith, Anna Nicole
Stram, Hank
Taylor, Elizabeth
Taylor, Roger
Temple Black, Shirley
Tenta, John
Thatcher, Margaret (x2)
Thompson, Hunter S
Van Dyke, Dick
Vereen, Ben
Weiland, Scott
Yeltsin, Boris

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

So, no-one had Arthur Miller? Or Seth off Emmerdale? Or Michael Jackson (not that he's dead or anything, but, hey...)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

Arthur Miller was in my team for the past two years, but I dropped him this year in favour of Harold Pinter. More fool me.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

i am sorry to take the lead i think.

R.I.P. hunter s.

― t0dd swiss, Monday, 21 February 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

Yep, sentimentality has no place in dead pooling.

Todd 31
CJ 21

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 21 February 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Sorry:

Todd 33
CJ 21

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 21 February 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I believe everybody picked the Pope, so the standings won't change.

I'm surprised that nobody picked Prince Ranier other than me.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Not everyone picked the Pope, believe it or not. A few 16 points to be dealt out now though...

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 3 April 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

1. Todd Swiss 48 (Thompson + Pope)
2. CJ 37 (Carson + Pope)
3. Barry Bruner 35 (Rainier + Pope)

4. (tie) (Pope)
wetmink 16
Ailsa 16
jaymc 16
Pleasant Plains 16
Jeff-PTTL 16
Matt DC 16
rumpy pumpkin 16
aldo_cowpat 16

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

1. Barry Bruner- 54 (Pope John Paul II, William Rehnquist, Prince Rainier)
2. Todd Swiss- 47 (Pope, Hunter S Thompson)
3. Dom Passantino- 38 (Hank Stram and Rehnquist)
4. CJ- 35 (Pope and Johnny Carson)
=4. jaymc- 35 (Rehnquist and Pope)
6. Aisla 15 (Pope)
=6.Wetmink- 15 (Pope)
=6.Pleasant Plains- 15 (Pope)
=6.Jeff PTTL- 15 (Pope)
=6.Matt DC- 15 (Pope)
=6.Rumpy Pumpkin- 15 (Pope)
=6.aldo_cowpat- 15 (Pope)

It's tight at the top. Anything could change...

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 4 September 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

wow, great pick on Thompson

― sffd, Sunday, 4 September 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

Did the Pope get a year older or something? Why are we all down a point now?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 4 September 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

Ahem. That's an error.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 4 September 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

I predicted 10,000 deaths in Loisiana. Do I win?

― hello dere, Sunday, 4 September 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I'm in third place now, with 43 points (Rehnquist, Pope, Parks).

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

44, rather (16 + 20 + 8).

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, was that your first thought when you heard she'd died?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

No! I swear! I didn't even remember I had her on my list! Rock Hardy gently reminded me...

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

It occurred to me mid-morning, and I didn't even play this year.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

1. jaymc- 71 (Rehnquist, Pope and Pryor)
2. Barry Bruner- 55 (Pope John Paul II, William Rehnquist, Prince Rainier)
3.Pleasant Plains- 51 (Pope and Pryor)
4. Todd Swiss- 48 (Pope, Hunter S Thompson)
5. Dom Passantino- 38 (Hank Stram and Rehnquist)
6. CJ- 35 (Pope and Johnny Carson)
7. Aisla 16 (Pope)
7.Wetmink- 16 (Pope)
7.Jeff PTTL- 16 (Pope)
7.Matt DC- 16 (Pope)
7.Rumpy Pumpkin- 16 (Pope)
7.aldo_cowpat- 16 (Pope)

John Tenta has 2 to 4 months to live, apparently. That's cutting it a bit close for this contest for my liking.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 10 December 2005 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

But doesn't jaymc get credit for Rosa Parks, as well?

― Ross G. (scatter), Saturday, 10 December 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I should. 79 points, by my reckoning.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 11 December 2005 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

It's so tempting to pick wrestlers, but I think the risk outweighs the potential reward.

Now I'm really stuck because every non-wrestler left on my list is too old to put me back in the lead.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 11 December 2005 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

sean connery

― retarded and gay (bato), Sunday, 11 December 2005 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

Much as this pains me to do this (no offence, mate), you've done Aldo out of 35 points - he had Richard Pryor as well.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 11 December 2005 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

no-one had george best?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 December 2005 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, I picked the wrong Ronnie.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Sunday, 11 December 2005 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Did John win?

― Jeff-Beetle (Jeff), Sunday, 1 January 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck yeah I did.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 1 January 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

2006, anyone?

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 1 January 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in. Do we need a new thread? I'm off to research my team now.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Sunday, 1 January 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

i am in as well, but wont have a team lined up until about the 7th i think

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Sunday, 1 January 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

Me too. I have been making mental notes every time I hear about an ill person on the news...

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 1 January 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

I had a masterstroke last night for somebody really young that I was sure would get me lots of points.

Unsurprisingly, today I cannot remember who it was.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Sunday, 1 January 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in. A couple of people occurred to me recently and I actually wrote their names down.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 1 January 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in too. Maybe I'll actually try this year.

― Jeff-Beetle (Jeff), Sunday, 1 January 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

I've already got my cancer patients written down, but if someone else could take over running this year due to my inability to organize a piss-up in a brewery, that would be a treat.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 1 January 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

One way would be to join the rotten.com deadpool, make your picks, and post your public url here. I'll keep track via rss and post the updates as needed.

Changes to your user profile are allowed for the first 30 days of a game. For the remaining 11 months of the game, you are locked into your choices and no player can join your game. You will score if your pick dies within the first 30 days. However, you cannot add somebody who is already dead to your list and expect to score.

― Jeff-Beetle (Jeff), Sunday, 1 January 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

Their database is missing some of my picks, but this may be the easiest way to keep track.

― Jeff-Beetle (Jeff), Sunday, 1 January 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

I've never done this before. It sounds morbid, horrible and wrong.

I'm in, natch.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 1 January 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

ILX Deadpool 2006

― Jeff-Beetle (Jeff), Sunday, 1 January 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

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