ILX Deadpool 2006

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Go to Rotten Dead Pool, sign up and make your 10 picks during the month of Jan.

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.

Once you are settled on your list, go to your profile page and paste "My URL" in this thread.

I'll add these to my rss reader and paste updates in this thread everytime it tells me that someone's list has changed.

― Jeff-Beetle (Jeff), Sunday, 1 January 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

I think I have a pretty good start, here.

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/16/00/48708.html

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 1 January 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/19/03/48711.html

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 1 January 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

My fault, but could you paste your rss link as well? I can't seem to extract it from the profile pages.

― Jeff-Beetle (Jeff), Sunday, 1 January 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/16/00/48708x9346e86b.rss

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 1 January 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you.

For everyone that posts, paste the link to your rss feed as well.

― Jeff-Beetle (Jeff), Sunday, 1 January 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Kiss my rss

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/19/03/48711x001bfb6f.rss

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 1 January 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/44/28/48736.html

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/44/28/48736xdbc231c9.rss

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 2 January 2006 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

Get some money on Kerry Katona for a 2006 suicide attempt.

― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Monday, 2 January 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/46/30/48738.html

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/46/30/48738x7b523226.rss

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Monday, 2 January 2006 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

My list:

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/00/31/48739.html
http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/00/31/48739x93dcd69c.rss

Danny Bonaduce got bumped off (my list).

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Monday, 2 January 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

I always want to do these, but i'm afraid to because I know i'll feel guilty if I'm right... like it's my fault.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Monday, 2 January 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

I've already made a change. I'm going to tinker with this constantly in the first month.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Monday, 2 January 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

does it count if you put a bunch of people you know on the list and kill many of them?

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 2 January 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

RULES
I. THOU SHALT NOT KILL

Murdering a member of your list (otherwise known as market manipulation) is not allowed. Players may not cause or otherwise participate in the death of any celebrities. If you cause death to a celebrity on your list, you will be suspended for one (1) year of play. If you cause death to a celebrity on another person's list with the intent to manipulate scores, you will also be suspended for one year. If you attempt to use weapons of mass destruction to kill large numbers of people, some of whom are likely to be celebrities, you will be suspended for one year.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Monday, 2 January 2006 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

oh :(

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 2 January 2006 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yeeeeeeeah, I'm in:

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/06/37/48745.html

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/06/37/48745x3fca13c3.rss

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 2 January 2006 06:24 (nineteen years ago)

And me...

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/25/09/48717.html

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/25/09/48717x680562c9.rss

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 2 January 2006 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

I can't find the scoring rules. Is it just one point for each dead person?

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 2 January 2006 07:12 (nineteen years ago)

And me:

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/21/11/48760.html

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/21/11/48760x544632ef.rss

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 2 January 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

Was Paul Gascoigne the one you said on the other thread that you'd thought of earlier then couldn't remember? He was one of the people I'd made a mental note of, then discounted again.

By discounted, I mean forgot, obviously.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 2 January 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'm fairly sure he was. Or at least I convinced myself last night that he was.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 2 January 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/22/12/48761.html
http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/22/12/48761x0ba8c2c8.rss

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Monday, 2 January 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

Here's my picks:

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/24/14/48763.html
http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/24/14/48763x0d197d3f.rss

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 January 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

Some notable British old/sick/frail celebrities not available :-(

Here we go:

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/35/25/48774.html
http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/35/25/48774x8a76d384.rss

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 2 January 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, no Jimmy Savile, amongst others. I like how Pete Doherty has become this year's Pope John Paul II, in some way.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 2 January 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

How likely is that, though? I haven't heard much about him this year, but I didn't get the impression from the post-Libertines news that he was quite Shane McGowan stage, more like "you're going to look 60 when you're 30".

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 2 January 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I've requested they add Alfredo Di Stefano to the database, because the fact that the third greatest footballer ever isn't on there is a moderate disgrace. He'll probably have croaked by the time he gets added though.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 2 January 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Queen Elizabeth has at least another 10 years in her, people. She's in rude health and her mother lived to 101, remember?

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Monday, 2 January 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

I wanted di Stefano and Bruce Forsyth, neither of which they had.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 2 January 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/40/30/48779.html

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/40/30/48779x49924e64.rss

"soylent communications"...tee hee

― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Monday, 2 January 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Vera Lynn's another missing one, I might change mine if she turns up.

I was in two minds about QE2, her mother lasted until 101 but her dad and sister didn't get anywhere near to that. I didn't put her in the end.

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Monday, 2 January 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Can I play, can I play?

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/41/31/48780.html
http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/41/31/48780xb452771c.rss

― emil.y (emil.y), Monday, 2 January 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

If someone you want to pick is missing, there's a suggestion link.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 2 January 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

I thought both Lévi-Strauss and Captain Beefheart were already dead!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 January 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Nope, both hanging on in there.

I was tempted to put Drew Daniel on my list, as he popped up in a couple of guises when I was browsing musicians, but then I figured it'd be mean.

― emil.y (emil.y), Monday, 2 January 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/03/40/48789.html

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Monday, 2 January 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, I thought the this game had the same rules as last year's ILE pool, where your score was 100 minus the age of the dead person. But the Rotten site says you only get one point per death. Which rules do we follow? If it's the Rotten rules, many of us would probably want to change their lists.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 January 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

For what it's worth, I liked the way we did it in 2005 better.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 2 January 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

I wish people would just enter their answers here because I'm totally uninterested in following links to the site.

THATCHER. AGANE.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 2 January 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

A'ight then.

1 Muhammad Ali
2 Fidel Castro
3 Philip José Farmer
4 Gerald Ford
5 Billy Graham
6 Lady Bird Johnson
7 Jack Kevorkian
8 B. B. King
9 Paul Prudhomme
10 Ariel Sharon

I like last year's scoring system better too.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Monday, 2 January 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/06/02/48792xb02e45d0.rss

1. Dick Clark
2. Katelyn Kristine Faber
3. W. Mark Felt
4. Annette Funicello
5. Jesse Helms
6. Claude Lévi-Strauss
7. Norman Mailer
8. Estelle Getty
9. Coretta Scott King
10. Ladybird Johnson

― c(''c) (Leee), Monday, 2 January 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

I can do the scoring the same way, this is just to keep track of it better.

― Jeff-Beetle (Jeff), Monday, 2 January 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/12/08/48798.html

― The Rumpie, Monday, 2 January 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, no Dennis Norden this year.

― The Rumpie, Monday, 2 January 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

1. Margaret Thatcher
2. Augusto Pinochet
3. Gerald Ford
4. Estelle Getty
5. Gene Wilder
6. Mel Brooks
7. Jerry Lee Lewis
8. Natasha Lyonne
9. Chuck Berry
X. Gore Vidal

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 2 January 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/14/10/48800.html
http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/14/10/48800x8143bcf7.rss

Ronnie Biggs
James Brown
Kirk Douglas
Billy Graham
Don Ho
Billy Preston
Lou Rawls
Margaret Thatcher
Lady Bird Johnson
Wendy Wasserstein

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 2 January 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

Just in case someone out there wants to know my pix and is scared to go to rotten.com, here they are.

Elliott Carter
Dick Cheney
Jack Chick
Dick Clark
Ray Harryhausen
Gerald Ford
Bil Keane
Yoko Ono
Margaret Thatcher
Robert Anton Wilson

If we go by the 100-age scoring system, I'll obviously need a veritable massacre.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm tempted to change a couple if we are going for the 100 minus age thing, since I just went for old people. May be worth gambling on a younger but likely candidate (if I can think of one).

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

: o

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 39 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

OK, revised list:

Jimmy Carter
Fidel Castro
Pete Doherty
Paul Gascoigne
Angela Lansbury
Diego Maradona
Michael Caine
Rupert Murdoch
Margaret Thatcher
Ariel Sharon

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

We have got to start getting these in before 12/31. Otherwise, I'm going to add the guy who played Blue to my list.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

See for the ILX 100 minus age version of this, those of us (i.e. me) who picked Sharon BEFORE his latest stroke should get some sort of bonus points.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 5 January 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, if he dies, obviously, I'm not wishing the poor man any ill or anything.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 5 January 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

However, I have dumped Nelson Mandela in favour of Pete Doherty.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 5 January 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

This is exactly why I was going to ask whether the change was considered good form or not.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 5 January 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Interesting. I would be in favour of adding a rule that says you get extra points if you had the person in your list before they got sick. It does mean there's some point to getting a list in early in January, rather than just waiting till the end of the month and seeing who's looking peaky.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 5 January 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

"See for the ILX 100 minus age version of this, those of us (i.e. me) who picked Sharon BEFORE his latest stroke should get some sort of bonus points"

For me, you can count Zsa Zsa Gabor as my choice instead of him for the ILX scoring if you want. I don't mind cheating against rotten.com users as much as I do against you lot (it's not technically cheating I know, but it does feel a bit like it)

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Thursday, 5 January 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like the idea of bonus points, but I would be open to considering the contest closed as of yesterday and thus eliminating all of the Sharon bandwagon-jumpers (myself included).

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 5 January 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, rotten.com brought this on themselves by having a stupid system, so I don't care if everyone takes points off them, but dammit, I thought of Sharon myself before he fell properly ill (I know he'd had a minor stroke last year, but no-one else seemed to think that made him a candidate) and I want that REWARDED!

Yes, I am taking this too seriously :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 5 January 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, I need to change my Hoffman for ILE. Can I now have my list as:

1 Captain Beefheart 15-Jan-1941
2 Fidel Castro 13-Aug-1926
3 George Clinton 22-Jul-1940
4 David Crosby 14-Aug-1941
5 J. P. Donleavy 23-Apr-1926
6 Jack Kevorkian 26-May-1928
7 Harper Lee 28-Apr-1926
8 Claude Lévi-Strauss 28-Nov-1908
9 J. D. Salinger 01-Jan-1919
10 Margaret Thatcher 13-Oct-1925

Please? No Sharon cheating for me.

I can't change my list on the actual Dead Pool as I'm playing against other people and we agreed not to.

― emil.y (emil.y), Thursday, 5 January 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

My list for on here:

1 Joseph Barbera
2 Ingmar Bergman
3 Pete Doherty
4 Estelle Getty
5 Olivia de Havilland
6 Frankie Laine
7 J. D. Salinger
8 Zsa Zsa Gabor
9 Margaret Thatcher
10 Norman Wisdom

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Thursday, 5 January 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

If we are having separate lists for the two systems, then it was Dion (the pop singer) that I swapped out for Sharon.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 6 January 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

Jaymc 28 (Rawls)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 January 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Also, can Jeff make some sort of executive decision w/r/t Sharon?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 January 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, nobody had Barry Cowsill (that I recall) but what if they did? The death was just announced, but apparently he'd been missing since Katrina. I'd be inclined to call it good, personally.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 6 January 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Um, I don't know, I forgot to follow this.

slack I am. I haven't even finished my list.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps Sharon could hang on for another 359 days just to be on the safe side?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Ailsa has the right idea.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Shall we stage a Schiavo-style "keep him alive" campaign?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

In other "cheating the rotten.com system" news, when I heard that Shelley Winters had died, I went and had a look and discovered that they hadn't noticed she was dead yet, and she was still available for picking. So I did, at the expense of Pete Doherty. Except that now she's listed as dead, I didn't get a point. And I still appear to be able to take her back out again if I want.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 14 January 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, "However, you cannot add somebody who is already dead to your list and expect to score". Loopholes, bah.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 14 January 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

I have dropped Elliott Carter and added Jerry Lee Lewis.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 15 January 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Also, for those of you puling about your picks not being available: I suggested Max Roach through the 'suggest a name' link, and not only is he there now, but 19 people have him picked. So, you can get who you want if you just ask.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 15 January 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, if anyone should live forever then surely Max Roach?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 15 January 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Did anybody have Shelley Winters besides Dave?

Earth to Tuomas: if the fates or fan willpower couldn't keep Elvin Jones alive, it won't work for Max Roach either.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 15 January 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

All right, so we're locked in as of now.

I have 75 points: Rawls (30), Wasserstein (45).

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 February 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

22: Coretta Scott King

― c(''c) (Leee), Thursday, 2 February 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I miscalculated: that should be 73 points (Rawls 28, Wasserstein 45).

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 February 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm more sad that psyched that I got Al Lewis... Al Lewis was great.

18 points for Lewis & Winters....

― Dave will do (dave225.3), Sunday, 5 February 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

CNN Says:
"The actor was widely reported to have been born in 1910, but his son Ted Lewis said Saturday that his father was born in 1923."

― Dave will do (dave225.3), Sunday, 5 February 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Die you healthy bastards die!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 28 April 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

Just picked up 27 points for Louis Rukeyser, despite not having the slightest damn clue who he is. Dead pools really do bridge the cross channel divide.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'll feel really terrible if Dakota Fanning dies. ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

1. jaymc 73 (Rawls 28, Wasserstein 55)
2. Dom Passantino 68 (Preston 41, Rukeyser 27)
3. c(''c) 22 (King 22)

Apologies if I'm forgetting anyone else.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

(I totally had Preston in 2005, btw, but dropped him this year.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

He's been due these past few years. I think I picked a week team this year, but it's good to see I'm still giving you a challenge.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

That should read "Wasserstein 45" (got confused because she died at the age of 55) -- total of 73 is still correct.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

Die you healthy bastards die!

OTM. I was actually reviving to claim my points for Jack Palance, and realised I didn't actually pick him this year, it was *last* year I had him. My lot still struggle on.

Ariel Sharon's still hanging on in there in a bid to avoid controversy.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 11 November 2006 08:11 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

So I think the final tally is ...

1. Jaymc 100 (Rawls 28, Wasserstein 45, Brown 27)
2. Dom Passantino 68 (Preston 41, Rukeyser, 27)
3. dave225 40 (Lewis 18, Winters 15, Ford 7)
4. c(''c) 22 (King 22)
5. Huk-L 19 (Altman 19)
6. Pleasant Plains 16 (Pinochet 9, Ford 7)
7. RoxyMuzak 9 (Van Allen 9)
8 (tie). Ailsa, Austin Still, Rock Hardy 7 (Ford 7)
11. Cressida Breem 5 (Barbera 5)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 January 2007 00:34 (eighteen years ago)

WOah, did one of mine die?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 4 January 2007 00:40 (eighteen years ago)

Crazy that no one had Saddam.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 4 January 2007 00:40 (eighteen years ago)

can we do a 2007 one?

― mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Thursday, 4 January 2007 00:41 (eighteen years ago)

Yep, just started a thread.

Ailsa -- you had Gerald Ford.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 January 2007 00:43 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, goody (not for him, obviously). I had Jack Palance the year before, but dropped him for 2006. Oh well.

I'm half way through my 2007 list already. Expect a rush on Ken Russell from anyone who just saw him on Celebrity Big Brother.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 4 January 2007 00:48 (eighteen years ago)

I like that we managed to keep Ariel Sharon alive to avoid disputes.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 4 January 2007 00:55 (eighteen years ago)

My only correct pick died about 10 days before the end of the year, I nearly had the touch of life :(

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:50 (eighteen years ago)

eight years pass...

1. Margaret Thatcher
2. Augusto Pinochet
3. Gerald Ford
4. Estelle Getty
5. Gene Wilder
6. Mel Brooks
7. Jerry Lee Lewis
8. Natasha Lyonne
9. Chuck Berry
X. Gore Vidal

Not so good at this game.

― pplains, Friday, 1 January 2016 04:43 (nine years ago)

where there's life there's defeat

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 1 January 2016 04:56 (nine years ago)

Did you just make that up? Awesome villain line, if you did.

― El Tomboto, Friday, 1 January 2016 06:03 (nine years ago)

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