Dead Pool 2011

Let's do this.

Rules are generally the same as in previous years.

Post in this thread a list of 15 celebrities or other notable people. If you'd rather e-mail me, that's fine, but please post in the thread that you've done so, just so I can keep track.

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 Willow Smith (at 10) would get you a lot more points than picking Jack LaLanne (at 96), were both to die.

One new rule for 2011: You must be able to post on this thread to participate. I bow to Dom's peculiar skill at this morbid parlor game, but upon reflection, I think it's only fair to keep the contest to currently active ILXors.

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!

I bow to Dom's peculiar skill at this morbid parlor game, but upon reflection, I think it's only fair to keep the contest to currently active ILXors.

I like the sound of this.

Seve Ballesteros
Michael Douglas
Penny Marshall
Elizabeth Taylor
Christopher Hitchens
Chopper Read
Jeff Palmer
Gerry Rafferty
Aretha Franklin
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
Kim Jong Il
Hamid Karzai
Dick Cheney
Eleanor Mondale
Harmon Killebrew

I was laughing at the 2010 thread--I think it's a great idea that I'm too superstitious and/or squeamish to participate in. I was even taken aback earlier today when I heard a psychic on the radio predict that Obabma's children would be kidnapped this year.

didn't know limbaugh was psychic tbh

Elizabeth Taylor
Bob Newhart
Larry Hagman
Andy Rooney
Christopher Hitchens
Michael Douglas
Jimmy Carter
Harmon Killebrew
Betty White
Charlie Sheen
Barbara Bush
Dick Cheney
Bill Daily
Frank Lautenberg
Daniel Inouye

This is stupid without Dom

new board description obv

Dick Cheney
Christopher Hitchens
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
Gerry Rafferty
Ariel Sharon
Harlan Ellison
Michael Douglas
Dean Smith
Aretha Franklin
Eleanor Mondale
Julian Assange
Muhammad Ali
Annette Funicello
Lindsay Lohan
Kim Jong Il

Randy Quaid
Randy Moss
Randy Travis
Andy Griffith
Andy Rooney
Andy Dick
Mandy Moore
Mandy Patinkin
Mandy Minella
Sandy Koufax
Sandy Duncan
Candy Dulfer
Candy Crowley
Cindy McCain
Cindy Sheeham

Sheehan, that is.

I was even taken aback earlier today when I heard a psychic on the radio predict that Obabma's children would be kidnapped this year.

Psychic's been watching The West Wing, I reckon.

Dick Cheney
Christopher Hitchens
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
Gerry Rafferty
Ariel Sharon
BB King
Michael Douglas
Dean Smith
Aretha Franklin
Eleanor Mondale
Mickey Rooney
Muhammad Ali
Annette Funicello
andy rooney
Kim Jong Il

By the way, I've psychically divined that it's President Obama, and that no such person as President Obabma exists.

try telling that to the Obabma children!

Lindsay Lohan
Aretha Franklin
Ke$ha
Mick Karn
Martin Kemp
Michael J Fox
Sandy Duncan
Elizabeth Taylor
Ariel Pink
Eleanor Mondale
Marie Fredriksson
Arlen Spector
Steve Jobs
Lance Armstrong
Mike Tyson

Margaret Thatcher
Jimmy Savile
Stephen Hawking
Fidel Castro
Kim Jong-il
Terry Pratchett
Prince Philip
Steve Jobs
Buzz Aldrin
Nelson Mandela
Keith Richards
David Attenborough
George Bush Snr
Bruce Forsyth
Patrick Moore

Can I pick Maggie Daley? She doesn't have a wikipedia page.

Mostly based on last year's list who all survived rather well.

Larry Hagman
Michael Douglas
Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi
Aretha Franklin
Muhammad Ali
Ian Brady
Ian Huntley
Elizabeth Taylor
Ronnie Biggs
Gerry Rafferty
Geoffrey Hughes
Danny Baker
Liz Dawn
Paul Gascoigne
Charlie Sheen

haha does dom just win this thing every year

u should at least let him submit a non competing emeritus ballot

he posted his picks on fb a few days ago and it was like meticulously researched and kinda terrifying

can I take Muhammad Ali out of my list and add in Chuck Berry instead please?

I saw that story too, but the fact that he got up off the stretcher once he heard the crowd roaring and came back onstage convinces me that Chuck's never gonna die.

That said, where's Little Richard been lately?

harry belefonte
seymour cassell
fidel castro
exene cervenka
edwyn collins
peter fonda
aretha franklin
hugh hefner
christopher hitchens
lydia lunch
william 'refrigerator' perry
thomas pynchon
nancy reagan
lou reed
kurt russell

Charlie Louvin
Aretha Franklin
Andy Whitfield
Dennis Frederiksen
Ed Thompson (politician)
Dennis Frederiksen
Harmon Killebrew
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
D.K. Holm
Keisuke Kuwata
Guy David Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of Roxburghe
Derryn Hinch
Brian Haw
Dave Rose (basketball coach)
Twiggy

can somebody post doms fb dead pool here so i can read it i wanna drop in conversation obscure australian soapstars who have advanced pancreatic cancer in 2011 it is one of my new years resolutions i made a long list

Christopher Hitchens
Steve Jobs
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Michael Douglas
Randy Quaid
Dennis "Fergie" Frederiksen
Sidney Poitier
Pope Benedict XVI
Mick Karn
Urban Meyer III
Aretha Franklin
Chuck Berry
Annette Funicello
Levi Johnston
Elie Wiesel

emailed you, jaymc

annette funicello
peter falk
aretha franklin
gerry rafferty
larry hagman
john mclaughlin (the tv one)
stephen hawking
carl yastrzemski
christopher hitchens
muhammad ali
dennis frederiksen
sultan bin abdul aziz al saud
kim jong-il
bob dole
michael douglas

Justin Bieber
Kurtis Blow
Harry Dean Stanton
Jan-Michael Vincent
David Cassidy
Lindsay Lohan
Julian Assange
Lawrence Taylor
Jean-Claude Killy
Denny McLain
Christopher Hitchens
Fidel Castro
Dick Gregory
Joe Frazier
Tuesday Weld

Stan Lee
Nancy Reagan
Margaret Thatcher
Mickey Rourke
Harry Dean Stanton
Fidel Castro
George H.W. Bush
Julie Andrews
Keith Richards
Little Richard
Tony Bennett
Roger Ebert
Frank Buckles Aretha Franklin
Sir Richard Attenborough
Christopher Hitchens

dom's (non-competing) list, w/his permission:

Kinda annoyed that Avi Cohen couldn't hold on another few days, but them's the breaks I suppose. Anyway, I'm posting this here now so I stop fiddling with it [via masturbation gags]. Think there's some weaknesses there, but I reckon it's a team that's going places.

Stefano Borgonovo - Perennial pick over the past few years, but Carlo Ancelotti did an interview a few months back where he was all "yeah, he's actually dying now". Gotta be weird for the people who have to put together his highlight career video packages, as they're basically all the passes that lead to the goals in Roberto Baggio highlight vids.

Michael Dokes - If you map the history of the Rocky movies onto real boxing, Michael Dokes is the first heavyweight champion whose reign vanishes. Anyway, he then went and mugged someone at gunpoint or something and now he's got about three months to live via liver cancer. Owned much?

Harlan Ellison - It was either him or Dick Dale for this spot, and idk, I kinda fancy the health chances of a teatotal surf rock legend other than this rapey motherfucker.
Aretha Franklin (captain) - Her surviving 2011 would only bring heartbreak for meeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Zsa Zsa Gabor - If she makes it through 2011 I'll give you the money myself.Remember when she turned up in that episode of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air? Yeah, that wasn't funny.
“Superstar” Billy Graham - His body is apparently trying to force his liver through his stomach wall, which I didn't know was medically possible. Gonna miss him turning up to "discuss wrestling" on American TV politics shows though.
Michelle Harte - Yeah, OK, morally this is kinda iffy.

Christopher Hitchens - This is the one that's gonna hurt, but you kinda feel it's "what he would have wanted".
Bob Holness - Can I have an RIP please Bob?

Mick Karn - Pretty much as close to a 2010 lock as you're going to get. He was the bassist in Japan, who I think were the band that did "Fridays I'm In Love"
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - Dunno. Something to do with Arabs I believe.
Brian Lenihan - Actually still pulling in a full work shift despite his terminal illness, very much in the same way that the late Patrick Swayze did. Although whereas Swayze brought us some of the most beloved films of the 80s, Brian Lenihan managed to cost Ireland its sovereignty. I believe his corpse becomes France's personal property.
Princess Lilian of Sweden - People who are "really into" European royals are some of the most fucked up cats imaginable.
Nat Lofthouse - Bolton Wanderers' second favourite son, who will presumably die in outrage at how poorly Bolton Wanderers #1 son was treated by those Indian chicken guys.
Rajo Devi Lohan - World's oldest mother. Should lead to some fantastic Daily Mail "thinkpieces" when she goes.
Tom Lubbock - Chief art critic for the Independent who recently found residenc6y a challenging installation of malignant cells in his frontal lobes.
Yitzhak Shahmir - Between this one and Sharon, I just feel like Israel is taking the piss with its former leaders' longevities.
Audrey Totter - Was in The Postman Rings Twice. Me neither.
Eric Tovey - aka 1980s midget pro wrestler Lord Littlebrook. Lost both his legs to diabetes, which when you're 3'11 in the first place just feels like sarcasm.
Diana Wynne Jones - Wrote that Takeshi's Howling Castle book that was turned into a movie a few years back.

Gerry Rafferty (musician)
Christopher Hitchens (writer)
Johnny Weir (athlete)
Rose Marie (actor)
Ace Frehley (musician)
John Hagee (televangelist)
Sam Huff (athlete)
Mort Walker (cartoonist)
Danny Bonaduce (actor)
Bret Michaels (musician)
Roxanne Shanté (musician)
Tom Monaghan (entrepreneur)
Keith Emerson (musician)
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (politician)
David Kaufman (actor)

post on lenihan needs copied to the irish politics thread

lol dom passantino is like the creepiest person in the world ever omg waht

^^ lol - this thread is the only reason i know there's a wikipedia page for celebrities with brain tumors -- it included Mark Ruffalo!!! -- i think his was really minor though

omg straight giggles at dom

I won't vote, but, as I suspected, I've become morbidly fascinated with this thread. At least one of you will be glad to hear that Chuck Berry collapsed on stage last night:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2011/01/chuck-berry-falls-ill-during-chicago-show-1/1

Yeah, that's why I picked him...

I saw that story too, but the fact that he got up off the stretcher once he heard the crowd roaring and came back onstage convinces me that Chuck's never gonna die.

That said, where's Little Richard been lately?

― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, January 2, 2011 12:39 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Zsa Zsa Gabor - If she makes it through 2011 I'll give you the money myself.

looks like he's right. gangrene and leg amputation imminent.

i was totally gonna pick zsa zsa just randomly before I even know any of that stuff and now i feel like i'd be cheating if i did so. or at least cribbing from dom which is basically as close to cheating in this game as you can get.

Yeah, me too.

Pete Postlethwaite has died.

Can I pick Maggie Daley? She doesn't have a wikipedia page.

I think this is OK.

can I take Muhammad Ali out of my list and add in Chuck Berry instead please?

Got it.

Charlie Louvin
Aretha Franklin
Andy Whitfield
Dennis Frederiksen
Ed Thompson (politician)
Dennis Frederiksen
Harmon Killebrew
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
D.K. Holm
Keisuke Kuwata
Guy David Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of Roxburghe
Derryn Hinch
Brian Haw
Dave Rose (basketball coach)
Twiggy

― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Sunday, January 2, 2011 2:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You've got Dennis Frederiksen twice. Wanna pick another?

Kinda want to change a bunch of my own, but they'd mostly be repeats of what others have made and would only cancel out scores. As the 2007 champ, I'll play the odds a bit more loosely.

I think karma's on my side anyway since I took Joni Mitchell off my list.

I've had Zsa Zsa on mine for the last couple years so I don't feel like I'm a bandwagon jumper. Chuck Berry on the other hand....

Fidel Castro
Gene Hackman
Bob Barker
Billy Graham
Nancy Reagan
Ernest Borgnine
Fats Domino
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Bob Dole
Kim Jong Il
Aretha Franklin
Larry Hagman
Kirk Douglas
Michael Douglas
Chuck Berry

She was on my tentative list, but I went with Aretha instead. Worked out well.

... i feel bad about myself. :'(

IIRC Winehouse ties Jade Goody for the greatest number of points conferred for a single death.

(That was worded confusingly: I just mean that she and Goody were both 27 when they died, and no other Dead Pool picks have been younger than that during the jaymc regime.)

Andy Whitfield. I'm moving up.

Never forget.

And with this, unregistered takes the lead.

You moved the wrong jeff up.

Good God, you're right. Thanks for catching it. Now fixed.

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/09/17/eleanor-mondale-dies-at-51/?hpt=hp_t2

think unregistered is still in the lead tho

Yup, got it.

Steve Jobs RIP 1955-2011 [Started by max in October 2011, last updated 1 minute ago by Clay on I Love Everything] 33 new answers

tactful!

he hadn't even finished logging out yet

Did I have him on my list?

44 points for sarahel (now in 3rd place), krakow, kate78, and Matt Armstrong.

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud has died.

Sources vary on his age, but it looks like official Saudi sources are reporting 1928, so I'll award 18 points to donna rouge. (Sources that dispute this date generally think he was older.)

Why aren't my people dying!!!!

I mean Abdelbaset al-Megrahi has got to kick it any day now.

I've been waiting years for him. He won't die, ever.

noone have the col gaddy?

Nope.

I'm kind of ashamed of how much regret i have over picking jani lane and jeff conaway last year and leaving them off this year.

Updated for J. Savile. (Welcome to the leaderboard, Mark G.)

Ed Thompson RIP

+34 points for me, plz

Ooh, that could prove significant.

Updated for Andy Rooney as well.

And, with Joe Frazier's death, buzza debuts on the leaderboard.

Where am I ranked now?

You're 6th. (There's a link in the opening post of the thread.)

I

Erm, is it considered cheating if we, you know, move some things along for ourselves?

No, that's initiative.

you're planning a trip to North Korea?

do i have any points yet? went w/ the rong wrestlers

hi

Erm, is it considered cheating if we, you know, move some things along for ourselves?
― Parker Posey as herself dancing to house music in NYC in 1995 (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, November 8, 2011

you're planning a trip to North Korea?
― sarahel, Tuesday, November 8, 2011

OK SO ARE WE DOING 2012? AND CAN ONE OF MY ANSWERS BE 'EVERYONE (VIA END OF THE WORLD)'?

OR YOU COULD JUST PLAY BY THE RULES AND PUT 15 CELEBRITY KIDS ON YOUR BALLOT. PICK THEM AT RANDOM IT DOESN'T MATTER THEY'LL ALL DIE ANYWAYS (VIA END OF THE WORLD) AND YOU'LL DIE TOO WITH LIKE 1300 POINTS.

unregistered otm

th real reason you guys banned dom is because he was the best at this

This is stupid without Dom

― our man flint flo$$y (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, January 2, 2011 12:39 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

new board description obv

― Costco Chapel (Noodle Vague), Sunday, January 2, 2011 12:42 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hope this formats right, but damn, not a single bin laden!

unregistered	262	Charlie Louvin		Harmon Killebrew	Brian Lenihan Jr.		Brian Haw		Andy Whitfield		Ed Thompson		Christopher Hitchens
abanana		250	Gerry Rafferty		Elizabeth Taylor	Seve Ballesteros		Harmon Killebrew	Eleanor Mondale		Christopher Hitchens	Kim Jong Il
	
kkvgz		204	Seve Ballesteros	Jim Mandich		Eleanor Mondale			Christopher Hitchens	Kim Jong Il		
Jimmy the Mod	165	Gerry Rafferty		Eleanor Mondale		Andy Rooney			Christopher Hitchens	Kim Jong Il		
sarahel		164	Mick Karn		Elizabeth Taylor	Eleanor Mondale			Steve Jobs			
pixel farmer	157	Gerry Rafferty		Eleanor Mondale		Christopher Hitchens		Kim Jong Il			
chrisv2010	142	Amy Winehouse		Christopher Hitchens	Kim Jong Il				
donna rouge	141	Gerry Rafferty		Peter Falk		Sultan bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud	Christopher Hitchens	Kim Jong Il		
kate78		130	Mick Karn		Steve Jobs		Christopher Hitchens				
Stevie D	125	Elizabeth Taylor	Amy Winehouse		Kim Jong Il				
johnny crunch	115	Seve Ballesteros	Christopher Hitchens	Kim Jong Il				
Matt Armstrong	113	Steve Jobs		Christopher Hitchens	Kim Jong Il				
Pleasant Plains	93	Elizabeth Taylor	Harmon Killebrew	Andy Rooney			Christopher Hitchens			
krakow		91	Steve Jobs		Jimmy Savile		Kim Jong Il				
jaymc		90	Elizabeth Taylor	Christopher Hitchens	Kim Jong Il				
Jeff		87	Harmon Killebrew	Andy Whitfield					
sofatruck	75	Gerry Rafferty		Christopher Hitchens					
Johnny Fever	75	Gerry Rafferty		Christopher Hitchens					
Merdeyeux	73	Amy Winehouse						
buzza		71	Joe Frazier		Christopher Hitchens					
Clay		69	Christopher Hitchens	Kim Jong Il					
jeff		63	Gerry Rafferty		Harmon Killebrew					
ailsa		58	Gerry Rafferty		Elizabeth Taylor					
Viceroy		38	Christopher Hitchens						
naus		38	Christopher Hitchens						
n/a		38	Christopher Hitchens						
Kenan		38	Christopher Hitchens						
Fred Nerk	34	Terry Jenner						
joygoat		31	Kim Jong Il						
a hoy hoy	31	Kim Jong Il						
Elvis Telecom	23	Leonora Carrington	Peter Falk					
Mark G		16	Jimmy Savile						
Eazy		8	Andy Rooney						

ty kim jong il yr death was a happy occasion

a lot of ppl died last year huh

http://www.ppc.bz/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/pour-one-out.jpg

I actually just did one last check for everyone's picks, and there should be one more row on that leaderboard:

JTS: 9 (Betty Driver)

No other changes, though.

Congrats to unregistered!

Dom was obv quite good at Dead Pool, but I gotta say: 7/15 is mighty impressive. Congrats, too, to abanana, who made it close.

2012

Good game, good game. Well done all!