Celebrity Death Pool 2013

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by classicman

I'll take whoever I had last year.. if thats allowed.

I found your list. Sure you can have last year's list but you won't get many points since most of them are already dead.

Fidel Castro
Jerry Lewis
Elizabeth Taylor (died in 2011!)
Muhammad Ali
Bob Barker
Ernest Borgnine (dead)
Sidney Poitier
Lindsey Lohan
Peter Faulk (Falk. Died in 2011!)
Dick Clark (dead)

Originally Posted by wolf

1. Roger Moore
2. Brittany Spears
3. Sean Connery
4. Fidel Castro (surely this is the year he goes. Unless he's already dead and they occasionally show a CGI version smoking a cigar on TV)
5. Can i have either of the Olsen Twins without specifying one? I'll take 75% of the usual score to compensate.
6. Dan Rather
7. Larry King
8. Clint Eastwood
9. Keith Richards (still think he is already dead. Zombie Stones, not Rolling, at this point. Although I guess that if one survived into the MTV era, that shows a hardiness of constitution that will carry them quite into their 90s.)
10. Will Ferrell

No, pick an Olsen.

Foot needs 8 more. Unless he's on strike due to the Great Paterno Fiasco of 2012.

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by glatt

The TV just showed a stock photo of Hugh Hefner and I thought he had died. But he only got married. I'm wishing I'd picked him. The guy can't be long for this world.

Don't be so sure. He's got a lot to live for!

Originally Posted by wolf

5. Can i have either of the Olsen Twins without specifying one? I'll take 75% of the usual score to compensate.

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

No, pick an Olsen.

As a non-participant* in this contest, I offer the following intuition about what is fair.
Doubling up a guess like this gives double the chance of a correct guess so to be fair it should only produce half the points.
Allowing the precedent could allow someone to make 20 guesses at half-points, and logically just a single guess at ten times the normal points.
Do you really want to go there?



*It would annoy me if I did poorly and freak me out if I did really well.