Dead Pool 2010

New decade, new dead pool.

Rules are the same as last year. Post in this thread a list of 15 celebrities or other notable people. I'm not going to be a total stickler about notability requirements, but please try to be reasonable. If someone doesn't have a Wikipedia page at the very least, I'll probably ask you to choose someone else.

Also: humans only.

As usual, points are awarded based on the formula (100 - [age at death]). So picking Abigail Breslin (at 13) would get you a lot more points than picking Roberta McCain (at 97), were both to die.

Please post your lists to this thread by January 8. No lists will be accepted after that date. If someone dies before Jan. 8, only the people who have already submitted lists will be able to collect points. You may also revise your list at any time before Jan. 8; after that, you'll be locked in.

Lastly, I will be posting everybody's final picks to this Google spreadsheet and also updating the leaderboard there as the year goes on.

Good luck!

Bob Barker
Miley Cyrus
George HW Bush
Keith Richards
Don King
Cloris Leachman
Charles Manson
Mary-Kate Olsen
Leonard Cohen
Sally Struthers
Owen Wilson
Michael J. Fox
Ernest Borgnine
Robert Byrd
Britney Spears

scott weiland
joyce carol oates
bob newhart
macauley culkin
lemmy (of motorhead)
harold bloom
dick cheney
bil keane
william "refrigerator" perry
anne rice
holger czukay
liza minnelli
tuesday weld
thomas pynchon
nancy sinatra

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Brian Lenihan
Roddy Piper
Peter Falk
Rue McClanahan
Pete Seeger
Simon MacCorkindale
Billy Graham
Doris Lessing
Ernie Harwell
Arlen Specter
Bernie Madoff
Lisa Ray
Nick Jonas
Twiggy

1. katy perry
2. zooey deschanel

^

This sounds like a potential murder-suicide.

Abigail Breslin RIP

jake "the snake" roberts
ruth bader ginsberg
stephen hawking
kari ann peniche
zelda rubenstein
wilford brimley
zsa zsa gabor
laurent fignon
john wooden
billy graham
artie lange
peter tork
betty ford
miep gies
bob dole

Let's just name every celeb who's old or on drugs.

Honestly, I'm surprised Beetlejuice has made it this far.

http://www.adiumxtras.com/images/pictures/beetlejuice_sound_set_3_3165_2026_thumb_2336.jpg

Miep Gies!

Miep Gies is 99 so you'll either get 1 or 0 points for her.

i had john wooden on my list last year, he's turning 100 if he makes it to october!

Jerry Lewis
Fidel Castro
Chemical Ali
Ronnie Biggs
Ariel Sharon
Suzanne Somers
Zelda Rubinstein
Andrew Lloyd Webber
the Dalai Lama
Seve Ballesteros
Barack Obama
John McCain
Courtney Love
John Lurie
Trig Palin

fidel castro
lisa kudrow
ned beatty
judge reinhold
billy corgan
judd apatow
george h.w. bush
lindsay lohan
elizabeth taylor
shane macgowan
rush limbaugh
elizabeth edwards
quentin tarantino
chuck berry
carol channing

j.d. salinger
cristina monet
peter falk
mell lazarus
pete doherty
annette funicello
ted stevens
dick cavett
rush limbaugh
stephen sondheim
lauren bacall
eric rohmer
brian lenihan
elizabeth edwards
danny aiello

Philip Roth
Ariel Sharon
Woody Allen
Keith Richards
Gena Rowlands
Larry King
Eric Rhomer
Clint Eastwood
Eminem
Lou Reed
Fidel Castro
Ron Jeremy
Steve Jobs
Macaulay Culkin
Susan Boyle
Michael Caine

mmm...it's 16..so ignore Michael Caine

Jean-Luc Godard
Steven Tyler
James Gandolfini
Zach Galifianakis
Charlie Sheen
Paris Hilton
Courtney Love
Lil Wayne
Tiger Woods
Jimmy Carter
Queen Elizabeth II
Fidel Castro
Elizabeth Taylor
Peter O'Toole
Roman Polanski

Fidel Castro
Ariel Sharon
Robin Williams
Betty White
Keith Richards
James Earl Jones
Dick Clark
Bob Barker
Barack Obama
Sean Connery
Omar Sharif
Haley Joel Osment
Charlie Sheen
Tiger Woods
Leonardo Dicaprio

xpost on woods!

Shit, and Sheen. OK just a second

Sorry for the inconvenience. Keeping Tiger but you can have Shen

Fidel Castro
Ariel Sharon
Robin Williams
Betty White
Keith Richards
James Earl Jones
Dick Clark
Bob Barker
Barack Obama
Sean Connery
Omar Sharif
Haley Joel Osment
Robert Pattinson
Tiger Woods
Leonardo Dicaprio

urban meyer
glenn beck
nic cage
shia labeouf
pacman jones
rick ross
Muhammad Ali
rosie o'donnell
george steinbrenner
Osama Bin Laden
Dick Cheney
al davis
rush limbaugh
janet reno
bobby bowden

Merle Haggard
Artie Lange
Pete Doherty
Charlie Sheen
Mike Tyson
Eddie Van Halen
B.B. King
Louis Farrakhan
Jack Kervorkian
Bob Newhart
Carl Reiner
Edward Furlong
Dan Aykroyd
Chevy Chase
Norman Lear

Ross Perot
James Woods
Steven Tyler
Bobby Brown
Sid Caesar
Jake Lamotta
Lou Dobbs
Cedric Antonio Kyles (aka "the Entertainer")
Fred Thompson
David Hasselhoff
Eddie Van Halen
Kate Moss
Angela Lansbury
Kirk Douglas
Kim Jong-il

james garner
ariel sharon
nelson mandela
dennis hopper
margaret thatcher
fidel castro
osama bin laden
yitzchak shamir
peter tork
fats domino
angela lansbury
michael j. fox
david crosby
stephen hawking
ed koch

velko is really swinging for the fences

bob dylan
courtney love
dick cheney
flavor flav
gabriel garcía márquez
j.d. salinger
karl rove
lindsay lohan
mahmoud ahmadinejad
osama bin laden
paul allen
rush limbaugh
salmon rushdie
sumner redstone
whitney houston

Joaquín Guzmán Loera
Osiel Cárdenas Guillén
Héctor Beltrán Leyva
Edgardo Leyva Escandón
Vicente Carrillo Fuentes
Juan José Esparragoza Moreno
Nazario Moreno González(a.k.a. El Más Loco)
Lanny Barby
Alizée
Suge Knight

Hang on, Osiel Cardenas Guillen is in a U.S. supermax - if I can, nix him and replace with

Miguel Angel Treviño Morales(a.k.a: Z-40, 40, Zeta 40, David Estrada-Corado, Comandante Forty, El Catorce[4])

you get 15 picks

just sent my picks by ilxmail

Robert Byrd
Steven Tyler
Clint Eastwood
Gene Hackman
Mike Wallace
Dick Clark
Kirk Douglas
Willie Nelson
Nancy Reagan
Fidel Castro
Abe Vigoda
OJ Simpson
Angus Young
Brian Wilson
Brad Pitt

are people just assuming barack is going to be assassinated? because dude seems in great health.

Damnit, I never read other people's picks on this thread first, and I thought Steven Tyler was pretty original. But no.

Man, Robert Byrd was a wasted vote. Eight whole points.

If Robert Byrd lives through this year, we should award him 100 honorary points, even though he's not playing.

It's weird that you picked Pitt, Kenan. My original list had Jolie on it, as a wildcard.

Not too weird. I just watched "Inglourous Basterds" a few days ago. That's what picking wildcards is all about, right? Just whatever pops into your head?

Mike Wallace was also like that with me, but then I realized it's not a bad pick.

Poor old guy.

Joaquín Guzmán Loera
Héctor Beltrán Leyva
Edgardo Leyva Escandón
Vicente Carrillo Fuentes
Miguel Angel Treviño Morales
Juan José Esparragoza Moreno
Nazario Moreno González(a.k.a. El Más Loco)
Arturo Chávez
Sasha Grey
Lanny Barby
Artie Lang
Danny Bonaduce
Alizée
Rick Ross
Suge Knight
Frank Lucas

now you've got 16

Oh hell

Joaquín Guzmán Loera
Héctor Beltrán Leyva
Edgardo Leyva Escandón
Vicente Carrillo Fuentes
Miguel Angel Treviño Morales
Juan José Esparragoza Moreno
Nazario Moreno González (a.k.a. El Más Loco)
Arturo Chávez
Sasha Grey
Lanny Barby
Artie Lang
Danny Bonaduce
Alizée
Rick Ross
Suge Knight

http://www.tmz.com/2010/01/03/artie-lange-hospitalized-howard-stern-show/

Love the classic TMZ webcam-looking photo, with him seeming to be unscrewing the top from a bottle of Jack. Wouldn't surprise me if TMZ doctors file photos to make them look more "you-were-there, with-a webcam".

That is one self-destructive dude, though.

Artie Lange
Jenna Jameson
Chasey Lain
Vincent Gallo
Eddie Van Halen
Ricardo Mayorga
Tom Sizemore
Kim Jong-Il
Jeff Garlin
Jani Lane
Jeff Conaway
Dennis Rodman
Robert Byrd
Peter Falk
Steve Jobs

Kerry Katona
Katie Price
David Hasselhoff
Angela Lansbury
Margaret Thatcher
Leslie Phillips
Ronnie Biggs
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
Pete Doherty
Amy Winehouse
Courtney Love
Ariel Sharon
Steve Jobs
Stephen Hawking
John Hartson

So you did. You're on the board; WmC moves into 4th place.

wheeeee

Ailsa gets 18 for Alex Higgins.

(I might have to do a mid-year sweep to see if I missed anyone. Only knew about Higgins because there's a thread on him.)

He was only 61, can I have 39 points please?

Oh, sorry! Misread the thread. Now updated.

I have to be honest, when I saw that a British snooker player had died, I was afraid Dom was going to pull ahead.

I'll take the 18 since until a few weeks ago I thought he was dead already. I believe that is fair. Especially since my list, IIRC, has half of the Togolese national football team in it.

I'm very surprised Dom didn't have him, tbh.

Joaquín Guzmán Loera
Osiel Cárdenas Guillén
Héctor Beltrán Leyva
Edgardo Leyva Escandón
Vicente Carrillo Fuentes
Juan José Esparragoza Moreno
Nazario Moreno González(a.k.a. El Más Loco)
Lanny Barby
Alizée
Suge Knight

― The Hood Won't Jump (Eazy), Sunday, 3 January 2010 06:43 (6 months ago) Bookmark

All those Mexican drug lords and you didn't pick Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel? Unlucky!

Damn, didn't read about Nacho until today.

Donna rouge moves up the leaderboard with his pick of Ted Stevens. Though probably not how he thought he'd go!

i completely forgot i even picked him! has he actually been confirmed dead?

Yep:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/10/national/main6760221.shtml

If we weren't awarding points based on age, you'd be tied for 5th. As it happens, though, your three successful picks had an average age of 89.

dead pool n00b, here

Dom regrettably back in 1st place with his pick of Little Feat's Richie Hayward.

one day soon i am going to google my half obscure wrestler list to see if anyone knocked it without any of us caring.

I try to go through the whole list of names every now and then to see if I've missed any, but I haven't checked in a while.

I think this year's been a relatively quiet one for wrestler deaths, but I see now that Lance Cade, who I think I've heard of, died today. Only two wrestlers on my list, and we all know that Jake the Snake's gonna live till he's 500.

if an ilxor murder one of his picks - is it cheating or on the contrary - he gets extra points?

I'll have to think about that.

Meanwhile, with the death of Laurent Fignon, Dom extends his lead and jeff slips past me into 2nd place.

RIP Edwin Newman... I finally get some points.

Got it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Gonzales

:DDDDDDD no longer on 0 points :DDDDDDD

Jorge. :(

(I'm just mad I didn't pick him. How is Triple H's heart still holding out anyway.)

a hoy hoy, I love that you not only are on the board now but that you're in 7th place.

surprised i did not pick him

fingers crossed for Vader

RIP Tony Curtis

Congrats, you're in 4th place now.

Updated for Simon MacCorkindale.

(unregistered moves up to 6th place.)

Another that I'm very sorry to have scored with today, the great great Leslie Nielson.

have bugger all to do at work; may do my bi monthly google of dead wrestlers. also rip nielson

Just wanted to let you guys know that even though I'm on vacation, I updated the spreadsheet for Elizabeth Edwards. RIP.

Updated for the death of Blake Edwards. (Elvis Telecom gets 12 pts.)

I swear that I'm not bumping off people for a come-from-behind victory!

(Cpt. Beefheart was on my list)

only way i'm gonna win this thing is if both Miley Cyrus and the Olsen twin i picked kick off.

Another 'success' that makes me rue even playing this game. Rest in noise Captain Beefheart.

Yep, got the both of you, E.T. and krakow.

god fucking damn it guys i am so mad that your mild urgings maybe made the lord take our captain over the edge.

also that i still have 0 points.

I sat this year out, but am currently working on my 2011 list.

Ive got my list for 2012 - "Everybody".

I may be a sleeper but I think I'm going to rack up some heavy points in the fourth quarter.

when do we start the 2011?

I'll start a new thread on Friday or Saturday.

I need to not axe people from my short list-I clipped Beefheart this year and Jacko last year.

All of my Mexican cartel kingpins remain alive.

this is like backwards antasy football but except for good guy playing shitty its just random dudes dying

All of my Mexican cartel kingpins remain alive.

Not true! I just combed through everyone's lists for the last time, and it turns out Nazario Moreno Gonzalez died a few weeks ago. That not only puts you on the board, but in the top 10, since the dude was 40.

Winner this year, to no one's surprise: Dom Passantino.

You can see the final results here.

Stay tuned for the 2011 thread. (I'll try to post it late tonight or early tomorrow.)

i was robbed

Top 10 placing!

Hurra!

Jani Lane
Jeff Conaway
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, January 3, 2010 8:32 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

gotta learn to stick to my guns!