Celebrity Death Pool 2011
 

Pick 10. Points per hit = 111-age at death. Celebrity = death reported (not just an obit) in National newspaper/TV news in your country.

I'mm'a start with

1) Michael Douglas
2) David Hasselhoff
3) Margaret Thatcher
4) Prince Phillip

I'm working on the rest -Loch Aberbie bomber had 3 months to live? coughbullshitcough

1) Tara Reid
2) Elizabeth Taylor
3) Ann B Davis
4) Laraine Newman
5) Ed Ames
6) Ernest Borgnine
7) Dick Cheney
8) Olivia de Havilland
9) Teri Garr
10) Muhammad Ali

5) Liz Taylor
6) Liz Dawn
7) Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
8) Dick Cheney
9) Nelson Mandela
10) work in progress


The following are still alive and have been dropped from my 2010 list, thus condemning them to certain death. Sorry, guys


Severiano Ballesteros

10) Ronnie Biggs

My picks apparently assure the continuing good health of all the participants.

I have replaced the political figures with some more likely choices

1. Roger Moore
2. Brittany Spears
3. Dick Clark
4. Paris Hilton
5. Donald Trump
6. Charlie Watts
7. Larry King
8. Clint Eastwood
9. Keith Richards
10. Will Ferrell

I might be the most naive person in the world, but I hear so many stories about people given X amount of time to live, who live far longer. Often ascribed to the prayers of the local community - which spooks me, as it means God's plan is not ineffable, and also that those who die young just didn't get together enough petitions to bother Him.

Anyway, naif as I am, my list is pretty static.
This is the reason I buy Lucky Dip lottery tickets - I'd hate to play the same numbers regularly, and then miss it one week - and find they'd WON!
So I can't really abandon my staples - they'd cark in 2011 just to spite me. The main exception is Clive Dunn, as he is apparently going to live forever.

Ronnie Biggs
Fidel Castro
Margaret Thatcher
Patrick Moore
Mickey Rooney
Kim Jong-Il
Nancy Reagan
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Kirk Douglas
Betty Ford

So far I've only got
1. Julian Assange (by plane crash, I bet)

This will be my first entry into this thing

1. Charles Manson
2. Brian Wilson
3. Kirk Douglas
4. Dick Van Dyke
5. Bernie Madoff
6. Jimmy Carter
7. Bret Michaels
8. Steven Adler
9. Harry Belafonte
10. Michael Collins

What are the odds on a Douglas twofer?

1 Mary Kate Olson
2 Joe Namath
3 Dick Cheney
4 Eve Plumb
5 Harrison Ford
6 Edwin Meese
7 Jean Stapleton
8 Bob Woodward
9 Abe Vigoda
10 Rick Wakeman

1. James Bolam
2. Sylvestor McCoy (putting this here so that if anything does happen to Syl, I will be consoled by the points his demise would gain for me ).
3. Colin Baker (similar reason ;p)
4. Dick Cheney
5. Michael Douglas
6. Rita Tushingham
7. Terry Wogan
8. Bruce Forsythe
9. Christopher Walken
10. Boy George

Yeah, I muted Walken -he's not looking too good is he? That'd be some good points....

Again the Brits have all put Maggie there. How much of that is us looking at the evidence, and how much just wishful thinking? :P

She's been in hospital a lot recently.....

I have a soft spot for Maggie, mostly because she was the first female PM and she was strong. She may have been wrong, but she did a shitload of good for the image of women in politics, right or wrong. Some bad too... but I think she forced the UK if not the world to take female politicians seriously.

If I am drunk enough that's a point I will generally concede.