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Old 01-04-2006, 01:28 AM   #1
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Celebrity Death Pool 2006!

Here's the rules. Everyone picks 10 celebrities who they think will kick the bucket, meet thier maker, push up daisies, buy the farm, and what not. If someone on your list dies, their age is subtracted from 100, and this is the number of points you get.

My picks this year are:

1. Billy Graham
2. Saddam Hussein
3. Mickey Rooney
4. Kirk Douglas
5. Muhammad Ali
6. Charleton Heston
7. Margaret Thatcher
8. Milton Friedman
9. Dick Cheney
10. BB King
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Old 01-04-2006, 07:12 AM   #2
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Okay, I'm in. Although I've not had a single one right in previous years! Assume it's okay to duplicate people as we're not playing for money?

1. Dame Margaret Thatcher
2. Dame Vivienne Westwood
3. Sir Henry Cooper
4. Sir Patrick Moore
5. Peter O'Toole
6. Mohammed Ali
7. Sir John Mortimer
8. Stephen King
9. Christopher Biggins
10. Robert Downey Jr
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Old 01-04-2006, 01:33 PM   #3
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1. Ed Asner
2. Larry Flynt
3. Dick Clark
4. Billy Graham
5. Kevin Bacon
6. Ian McKellen
7. Alice Cooper
8. Wilford Brimley
9. Charlton Heston
10. Danny Bonaduce
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Old 01-04-2006, 04:31 PM   #4
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George H Bush
Gerald Ford
Fidel Castro
Jerry Lewis
Bea Arthur
Charlton Heston
Dick Cheney
Mary Kate Olsen
Gary Coleman
Scott Weiland
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Old 01-04-2006, 06:04 PM   #5
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1968 will look like small potatoes

1) Sharon (are you calling me a cheat?) (M)
2) W (M)
3) Cheney (N)
4) Blair (S)
5) Putin (M)
6) Clinton, W (M)
7) Clinton, H (M,S)
8) Byrd (not many points but what the heck) (N)
9) Abramoff (M but looks like S)
10) Friedman T. (N)
M=murder
S=suicide
N=natural causes-choke on words, ham sandwich etc...

I do, however, protest this as a tasteless thread.
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Old 01-04-2006, 08:32 PM   #6
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1. Michael Jackson
2. The Queen of England
3. The Queens Husband
4. Mick Jagger
5. Olivia Newton John
6. Ariel Sharon
7. 50 cent
8. Saddam Hussein
9. Paul McCartney
10. Lionel Richie
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Old 01-04-2006, 08:46 PM   #7
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Is this a wish list? If so I'll participate.
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Old 01-04-2006, 09:30 PM   #8
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Is this a wish list? If so I'll participate.
Just keep your hands off Mick and Paul. Now if they had said Keith Richards, I'd have asked how they could tell that he wasn't already dead.
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Old 01-04-2006, 10:26 PM   #9
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1) Sharon (are you calling me a cheat?) (M)
2) W (M)
3) Cheney (N)
4) Blair (S)
5) Putin (M)
6) Clinton, W (M)
7) Clinton, H (M,S)
8) Byrd (not many points but what the heck) (N)
9) Abramoff (M but looks like S)
10) Friedman T. (N)
M=murder
S=suicide
N=natural causes-choke on words, ham sandwich etc...
Now THAT IS a wish list! Not that I would actually in real life be such a terrible person that I would wish for anyone to die. As a matter of fact, I pray for all of the above people, and many more, as well, that the spirit of Jesus enters their hearts and allows them to see the error of their ways and they find the path to true salvation. You, too, LJ.

Hey, when you live with 400,000 fundie whackos right next door to you, you learn to tell little white lies in order to avoid being smote by Focus on the Family!

K, Bob Dobson aside, here's my picks for the undertaker:

The Queen (of England)
Dick Cheney (that boy don't look good - his ticker is either giving out or Laura is salting his martini's with arsenic)
Geraldo Rivera (he just annoys me)
Jimmy Carter (the good always die young)
Billy Graham (felled by a stray bolt of lightening while out on the golf course)
Homer Simpson (dies in domestic violence incident when Maggie pulls a knife on him)
The Easter Bunny (replaced by a USDA approved spring chick)
Willie Nelson (in shoot-out with Revenuers)
Michael Jackson (just because he SHOULD)
God (of a broken heart)

So, what do I win?
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Old 01-05-2006, 08:56 AM   #10
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Wow, you guys are good this year. Peter O'Toole, Fidel Castro, Bea Arthur, Queen of England, and Abe Vigoda are good calls....oops, didn't see Abe in there. Nevermind.

Hey, I'd say betting on Sharon after he's had a massive stroke is a bit of a cheat. Those wish Sharon should pick someone else to be fair.
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Old 01-05-2006, 11:37 AM   #11
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If it's such a gimme ... only award half the points if he dies within the month of January, full points thereafter.
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Old 01-05-2006, 07:09 PM   #12
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Hey, I'd say betting on Sharon after he's had a massive stroke is a bit of a cheat. Those wish Sharon should pick someone else to be fair.
Since his doctors are the ones trying to kill him I'll pick another...

Tom DeLay (S)
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Old 01-05-2006, 09:28 PM   #13
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I'll make an anti-wishlist to counter the political ones. I really hope none of these people die but I bet a few will:

1.) Michael J. Fox
2.) Christopher Reeve
3.) Billy Crystal
4.) Leslie Nielsen
5.) Patrick McGoohan
6.) Patrick Stewart
7.) Ian McKellan
8.) Peter Falk
9.) Andy Griffith
10.) Clint Eastwood

And to go with my anti-wishlist, an anti-death choice: I bet Dick Clark will survive the whole year, against all odds.
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Old 01-05-2006, 10:36 PM   #14
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I'll make an anti-wishlist to counter the political ones. I really hope none of these people die but I bet a few will:
...
2.) Christopher Reeve
...
And to go with my anti-wishlist, an anti-death choice: I bet Dick Clark will survive the whole year, against all odds.
Sorry to break the bad news to you, but your anti-wish has already come true.
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Old 01-05-2006, 11:07 PM   #15
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Since his doctors are the ones trying to kill him I'll pick another...

Tom DeLay (S)
I hope it pays off for you.
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