ILX Deadpool 2007

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Okay, who's up for this?

I think Rotten is the best place for us to keep track of your picks, so in order to be eligible for this, you must register there and select from their database and then post a link to your picks in this thread (RSS feed not needed).

(Please post an actual link and don't just copy and paste. It will make it easier for me to keep track down the road.)

However, we WILL be doing our usual point system, i.e. 100 minus age-at-death. For instance, James Brown died at 73, so if you had him, you get 27 points. Gerald Ford = 7 points. Etc.

Keep in mind: Rotten allows you to change your picks up until Jan. 30. Since you can't pick someone who's already died this year (like Tillie Olsen, RIP) and expect to score, I'm totally fine with this allowance. After Jan. 30, everything will be locked in.

Now go research some old or ailing celebrities.

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

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/39/27/59682.html

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:25 (eighteen years ago)

Ron Santo

wai 2 braek hart :-(

― mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/26/14/59669.html

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/36/24/59679.html

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:46 (eighteen years ago)

Noel Edmonds' career to collapse in tiny molecular sparkles in 2007. I looked up hubris in the OED and there was NE bearding me.

― Pat Robertson Mescalin (noodle vague), Thursday, 4 January 2007 02:02 (eighteen years ago)

How long has Ronnie Biggs been on his death bed now? I make it... eight years?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 4 January 2007 02:16 (eighteen years ago)

I don't want to live in a world where a Great Train Robber hasn't sold his story to The Sun for at least 6 figures.

― Pat Robertson Mescalin (noodle vague), Thursday, 4 January 2007 02:19 (eighteen years ago)

"HOW I BEAT DRIVER TO DEATH, BUT AT LEAST HE WASN'T A QUEEN" WARBLES BIGGS

― Pat Robertson Mescalin (noodle vague), Thursday, 4 January 2007 02:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/00/35/59690.html

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 4 January 2007 02:25 (eighteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/01/36/59691.html

Captain Beefheart
Fidel Castro
Arthur C. Clarke
Roger Ebert
Tom Laughlin
Charles Manson
Imelda Marcos
Ricardo Montalban
Richard Widmark
Robert Anton Wilson ( :( :( :( )

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 4 January 2007 02:34 (eighteen years ago)

Conservative. Also, Fidel's dead, isn't he?

― Pat Robertson Mescalin (noodle vague), Thursday, 4 January 2007 02:35 (eighteen years ago)

i didn't know esquivel's been dead almost five years!!!

― mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://zombie.rotten.com/cgi-bin/profile.cgi

Dick Cheney
Steve Ditko
Aretha Franklin
Merle Haggard
Bob Packwood
Jose Padilla
Lauren Bacall
Cecil Taylor
Elizabeth II
Viktor Yuschenko

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:45 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, I really loaded that up with musicians I love. Nice work, dipshit!

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:50 (eighteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/41/29/59684.html

Bob Barker
Fidel Castro
Deepak Chopra
Pete Doherty
Flavor Flav
Ted Haggard
Jesse Helms
Tim Johnson
Kurt Vonnegut
Betty White

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/14/08/59704.html

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 4 January 2007 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/13/07/59703.html

Ingmar Bergman
Pete Doherty
ZsaZsa Gabor
Estelle Getty
Eartha Kitt
Frankie Laine
Vera Lynn
JD Salinger
Robbie Williams
Norman Wisdom

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Thursday, 4 January 2007 04:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/12/06/59702.html

Dick Cheney
Pete Doherty
Boy George (more of a placeholder)
Ted Kennedy
Stan Lee
Michael Moore (my weak bet, I'm waiting for them to add Shaun Ryder)
Nancy Reagan
John Paul Stevens
Brian Wilson
Cal Worthington

― naus de lekkerste..! (Robert T), Thursday, 4 January 2007 04:22 (eighteen years ago)

Captain Beefheart - nooo! How old is he now?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 4 January 2007 04:45 (eighteen years ago)

He's 66. I don't think he's going to go this year, but what do I know -- I only got 7 points in '06.

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 04:48 (eighteen years ago)

I can't get that fucking site to register my name, so here's mine.

1. Fidel Castro
2. Estelle Getty
3. Kirk Douglas
4. Eval Kneival
5. Lady Bird Johnson
6. Ariel Sharon
7. Robert Dole
8. Zsa Zsa Gabor
9. Tommy Lasorda
X. Margaret Thatcher

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 4 January 2007 05:32 (eighteen years ago)

I'm scared of even going onto Rotten lest I see some man's third-degree burnt penis popping out of his bum or something. I fucking hate that site.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 4 January 2007 07:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/21/15/59711.html

1. Maya Angelou
2. Chuck Berry
3. Fidel Castro
4. Jack Chick
5. Bob Dole
6. Queen Elizabeth II
7. Louis Farrakhan
8. Nelson Mandela
9. Ariel Sharon
10. J. R. Simplot

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 4 January 2007 09:13 (eighteen years ago)

Who won last years?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 4 January 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

jaymc

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 4 January 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

And it's surely MERELY A COINCIDENCE that he ran the pool.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 4 January 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

celebrityhitlist.xls

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 5 January 2007 01:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/28/29/60094.html

Ronnie Biggs
Fidel Castro
Kirk Douglas
Louis Farrakhan
Billy Graham
Tim Johnson
Jack Kevorkian
Luciano Pavarotti
Ariel Sharon
Margaret Thatcher

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/34/35/60100.html

― John Justen says Toonces was one of the most talented cats on televison (johnjus, Thursday, 11 January 2007 00:04 (eighteen years ago)

Elvis Telecom - 26 (R.A. Wilson)
Rock Hardy - 26 (R.A. Wilson)

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 12 January 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/27/40/60187.html

Kurt Angle
Sandy Koufax
Mel Brooks
Ken Norton
I.M. Pei
Margaret Thatcher
Ariel Sharon
Rusty Schweickart
Neil Sedaka
Carroll Spinney

― treefell (treefell), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Does R.A.W. count since people can change their ballots until the end of jan?

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

You can't pick Wilson now, knowing that he's already dead (Rotten won't let you) -- but anyone who's picked him so far gets the points.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

I'm pissed off about Wilson tbh, because me not picking him is nothing other than shoddy research.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't post to this thread until today because it was possible to pick Wilson yesterday at Rotten for several hours after his death was announced on his blog.* Did anybody else think of that and add him?

*Also because it would have been a little ghoulish, though I think if anyone would see the entertainment value of playing a deadpool league, it would be RAW.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

Is there a thread about his death? I admit I have no idea who he is.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

Never mind, found it. Seems like a good dude.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

I know a guy on a different board who put in Miep Gies on his list. No room for sentimentality in the deadpool!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

She's not available at Rotten! Oh well, she'd only be worth two points anyway.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Nothing pissed me off more last year than John Tenta not being available to pick on Rotten. I WOULD HAVE WON IF HE HAD.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

You can suggest names to Rotten if they're not on there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

Rotten's rules:

XI. INSIDER TRADING

Making choices based on insider knowledge is LEGAL in this game. If you know something, use it to your advantage. Celebrities with known terminal illnesses, fatwas hanging over their heads, Mafia contracts, etc. are allowed.

Does that include picking someone who's died before they update the site?

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Art Buchwald?

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

Right.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Does that include picking someone who's died before they update the site?

You're on the honor system for that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

What is this honor you speak of?

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, okay, I took him back off.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/06/20/60495.html

1 Brooke Astor
2 Fidel Castro
3 Dick Cheney
4 Lawrence Ferlinghetti
5 Billy Graham
6 Albert Hofmann
7 Osama bin Laden
8 Charles Lane
9 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
10 Studs Terkel

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

I should mention, Maria, that the way we're playing, you get more points for the younger they are. The formula is 100 minus the age, so if Hoffman or Lane finally kick it this year, you don't get any points.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

Skipping 35 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Thx for catching error on Falwell.

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

When did God die, again?

― Abbott, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

My team just isn't happening for me this year.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

When did God die, again?

1966, but he was over 100, so no points for picking him.

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

New standings.

Johnny Fever: 27 (Jerry Falwell)
Elvis Telecom: 26 (R.A. Wilson)
Rock Hardy: 26 (R.A. Wilson)
Cressida Breem: 17 (Frankie Laine)
Jeff: 16 (Kurt Vonnegut)
Pleasant Plains: 6 (Lady Bird Johnson)

― jaymc, Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Update:

Dom Passantino: 35 (Tammy Faye Bakker)
Cressida Breem: 28 (Frankie Laine, Ingmar Bergman)
Johnny Fever: 27 (Jerry Falwell)
Elvis Telecom: 26 (R.A. Wilson)
Rock Hardy: 26 (R.A. Wilson)
Jeff: 16 (Kurt Vonnegut)
Pleasant Plains: 6 (Lady Bird Johnson)

― jaymc, Monday, 30 July 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago)

Every time I see this I tihnk it's about the Marvel superdude

― Will M., Monday, 30 July 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago)

There's a superhero named Deadpool?

― jaymc, Monday, 30 July 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago)

Dom Passantino: 35 (Tammy Faye Bakker)
Cressida Breem: 28 (Frankie Laine, Ingmar Bergman)
Johnny Fever: 27 (Jerry Falwell)
Elvis Telecom: 26 (R.A. Wilson)
Rock Hardy: 26 (R.A. Wilson)
timmy tannin: 22 (Lee Hazlewood)
Jeff: 16 (Kurt Vonnegut)
Pleasant Plains: 6 (Lady Bird Johnson)

― jaymc, Monday, 6 August 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago)

After seeing The Bourne Ultimatum, I think I'm going to put Albert Finney on my list next year. He looked like he was ready to pop.

― Rock Hardy, Monday, 6 August 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago)

From Lee Hazlewood thread:

i did have him in the deadpool tho :\

gershy = timmy tannin? Pls confirm!

― jaymc, Monday, 6 August 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago)

Man, picking Lady Bird Johnson was like putting in Mike Alstott in a RB slot.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 6 August 2007 23:21 (seventeen years ago)

gershy = timmy tannin? Pls confirm!

among many other aliases

― gabbneb, Monday, 6 August 2007 23:26 (seventeen years ago)

(i.e. guess who)

― gabbneb, Monday, 6 August 2007 23:27 (seventeen years ago)

NUDE SPOCK!

― John Justen, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 00:41 (seventeen years ago)

There's a superhero named Deadpool?

yes, he has the superpower to accurately pick deadpools

― the sir weeze, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 00:48 (seventeen years ago)

Dom Passantino - Superhero.

― John Justen, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 00:49 (seventeen years ago)

lol @ gabbneb (sorry to disappoint, mannix)
yes, jaymc!!

― gershy, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 02:05 (seventeen years ago)

I believe I had Max Roach last year. Nobody took him this year, looks like.

― Oilyrags, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago)

Deadpool.xls says you're right.

― jaymc, Thursday, 16 August 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Dom Passantino: 35 (Tammy Faye Bakker)
jaymc: 29 (Luciano Pavarotti)
Madchen: 29 (Luciano Pavarotti)
Cressida Breem: 28 (Frankie Laine, Ingmar Bergman)
Johnny Fever: 27 (Jerry Falwell)
Elvis Telecom: 26 (R.A. Wilson)
Rock Hardy: 26 (R.A. Wilson)
timmy tannin: 22 (Lee Hazlewood)
Jeff: 16 (Kurt Vonnegut)
Pleasant Plains: 6 (Lady Bird Johnson)

― jaymc, Thursday, 6 September 2007 13:15 (seventeen years ago)

BACK IN THE HUNT, BABY.

― jaymc, Thursday, 6 September 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago)

Improving health for Tim Johnson and Roddy Piper, worsening health for Ronnie Biggs... it's swings and roundabouts with my team currently.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 6 September 2007 15:15 (seventeen years ago)

So when do we get the points for Castro?

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 6 September 2007 18:50 (seventeen years ago)

I don't know, I was just thinking about that last night. Actually, I was giggling at the thought of Cuba never actually announcing his death and wondering how long it would be before the possibility of him being alive became way too absurd to believe.

― jaymc, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:04 (seventeen years ago)

Usual Dead Pool rules state that someone isn't "dead" until Reuters or AP put out an obit.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:06 (seventeen years ago)

What if it's embargoed?

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago)

Can we change it to Reuters, AP, or Perez Hilton?

― jaymc, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago)

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/8199/70890338zr1.jpg

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago)

I feel horrible about this in hindsight, but deadpool's a deadpool.
http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/2661/56690920do5.jpg

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago)

What are those from?

― jaymc, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago)

THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS HAHAHA, DIDN'T SEE THAT ONE COMING!

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

New leader:

Pleasant Plains: 37 (Lady Bird Johnson, Evel Knievel)
Dom Passantino: 35 (Tammy Faye Bakker)
TheYellowKid: 31 (Evel Knievel)
jaymc: 29 (Luciano Pavarotti)
Madchen: 29 (Luciano Pavarotti)
Cressida Breem: 28 (Frankie Laine, Ingmar Bergman)
Johnny Fever: 27 (Jerry Falwell)
Elvis Telecom: 26 (R.A. Wilson)
Rock Hardy: 26 (R.A. Wilson)
timmy tannin: 22 (Lee Hazlewood)
Jeff: 16 (Kurt Vonnegut)

― jaymc, Monday, 3 December 2007 23:29 (seventeen years ago)

Nice!

― roxymuzak, Monday, 3 December 2007 23:37 (seventeen years ago)

no one picked ILX?

― gr8080, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 01:38 (seventeen years ago)

I actually kinda got excited when I heard about Eval. Me and Kanye were pouring whiskey on the curb for ya, old man.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 02:56 (seventeen years ago)

I'm also sorry to say that i actually looked this thread up on google cache this weekend.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 02:56 (seventeen years ago)

only 28 days to go, i need help!

― gershy, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 03:00 (seventeen years ago)

shakey not ranked? wtf?

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 11:06 (seventeen years ago)

Come on, Kervorkian had "a year to live" last May. What's the hold-up?

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 11:09 (seventeen years ago)

should we do a deadpool for people who will stop posting to ILX in 2008?

― gr8080, Thursday, 6 December 2007 02:48 (seventeen years ago)

Only if we can call it the wishful thinking poll.

― John Justen, Thursday, 6 December 2007 02:51 (seventeen years ago)

The wishing someone would die is not v. kind!

― Abbott, Thursday, 6 December 2007 03:44 (seventeen years ago)

???

― John Justen, Thursday, 6 December 2007 04:03 (seventeen years ago)

*shrugs*

― Abbott, Thursday, 6 December 2007 04:10 (seventeen years ago)

he didn't say die he said stop posting

― Ste, Thursday, 6 December 2007 11:10 (seventeen years ago)

Most dead ILXors did stop posting after they passed on, though.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 6 December 2007 11:10 (seventeen years ago)

Except Geir

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 6 December 2007 11:11 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Yep, barring a big 11th-hour death (Fluffy Bear wins it when someone assassinates the girls in Pruss1an Blu3?), I think Pleasant Plains wins this year.

― jaymc, Monday, 31 December 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago)

VICTORY IN DEATH!

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 31 December 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago)

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