Death Pool 2008
Greetings beachcombers. Greetings 2008. So long stinkyear!
Your amicable Innkeeper is host to the 2008 Death Pool here at the Gull Reef Club. You’re invited to play. Sorry I’m a bit late to start, but I am a southerner-by-choice and claim the right to take my time.
The rules are simple. Submit to me, either as a comment to this post or by email to thegullreefclubATgmail.com, 10 names of celebrities/well-known people that you think will die in 2008. The people on your list cannot currently be hospitalized, nor can they be on death row. If the person on your list can’t easily be found by a wikipedia, google, or encarta search, then that person is not famous enough to be valid.
The deadline to submit your list to me is Thursday January 10th, 2008, 9pm eastern Monday, January 14, 2008, 10pm eastern. Once I have all the entries, I will put them together in one post for everyone to read. I will post updates throughout the year as they become necessary.
The winner gets the adoration of me, the official title of Angel of Death for 2008, and maybe something else to be determined. Full disclosure: I am also playing. It’s sort of hard to rig this sort of thing.
Merry morbidity!
Addendum to rules: You can’t pick someone has already died in 2008.
Do you extra points for younger people?
1) Britteny Spears
Jesse Helms
2) Michael Jackson
3) Pervez Musharraf
4) Fidel Castro
5) Elizabeth Taylor
6) Loretta Lynn
7) Robert Byrd
9) Charlton Heston
10) Margaret Thatcher
I’m going to be lazy and use the same people from last year (the ones that didn’t die). After all, they’re all a year closer to the grave, right?
Amy Winehouse
Kirk Douglas
The Duke of Edinburgh
Clint Eastwood
Nelson Mandela
President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan
Sir David Attenborough
Lord Richard Attenborough
Dominic Chianese
Eli Wallach
Here are mine for this year:
1. Olivia de Havilland
2. Dom DeLuise
3. Art Linkletter
4. Dick Martin
5. Ricardo Montalbán
6. Harry Morgan
7. Stan Musial
8. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
9. Suharto
10. Esther Williams
I don’t give points this year for young people but I’ll try to figure out how to do that for next year. It could add a nice element to the game.
If you haven’t gotten your picks in yet, I found this site to be quite helpful: whosaliveandwhosdead.
These are Eeyore’s picks:
1. Fidel Castro
2. Nelson Mandela
3. Queen Elizabeth
4. Kirk Douglas
5. Ariel Sharon
6. Dick Clark
7. John Wooden
8. Abe Vigoda
9. Studs Terkel
10. Mickey Rooney
I kept a few survivors from last year, but made a couple of substitutions:
1. Ray Bradbury
2. Walter Cronkite
3. Betty Ford
4. Claude Levi-Strauss
5. Robert McNamara
6. Karl Malden
7. Pervez Musharraf
8. Helmut Schmidt
9. Paul Scofield
10. Margaret Thatcher
So many good ones were already taken, but here are my pics…
1. Frankie Valli
2. Chuck Berry
3. Tony Bennett
4. Barbara Feldon
5. Al Molinaro
6. Bea Arthur
7. Arthur C. Clarke
8. Keith Richards
9. Courtney Love
10.Monty Hall
I knew I could count on you to play, Gina! Good picks, but I hope you’re wrong. I don’t think we could stand losing Monty Hall and Tony Bennett in the same year. We’d have a cheeze void.
Sorry, I gotta go with the odds! I have been contemplating my picks for some time now, but I figured I better get them posted before any more were taken. Seriously, did you really think Al Delvecchio would still be alive and kicking? I surprised myself with that one…
I’ll play.
1. Charlton Heston
2. Fidel Castro
3. Arthur C. Clarke
4. Ariel Sharon
5. Pervez Musharraf
6. Zsa Zsa Gabor
7. Claude Levi-Strauss
8. Andy Griffith
9. Jerry Lewis
10. Amy Winehouse
I’ll be sad if Ray Bradbury dies.
Thanks for playing Cyan. I contemplated putting Winehouse on my list too, but now I’m thinking either her husband or Britney Spears are more likely to go this year over Winehouse, as the ‘young’ death. Winehouse needs more time to ferment and will go in her like 40s Elvis and Billie Holiday.
1. Bob Hope
2. Maurice (Rocket) Richard
3. Charles Schulz
4. Tom Landry
5. Jim Varney
6. Doug Henning
7. Sir Alec Guinness
8. Victor Borge
9. Dana Plato
10. Stanley Kubrick
Hilarious, BA.
So I totally win. No one on my list is going to come back to life.
I would have added Fred Thompson to BA’s list but I’ll try to be apolitical.
1. Sid Ceasar
2. Charlton Heston
3. Ariel Sharon
4. Fidel Castro
5. Keith Richards
6. Louis Farrakhan
7. Kirk Douglas
8. Jerry Lewis
9. Dick Clark
10. Pervez Musharraf
OK, here’s the list for this year:
Albert Hoffman
Art Linkletter
Betty Ford
BB King
Billy Graham
Britney Spears
Margaret Thatcher
Nancy Reagan
Robert Byrd
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Last year I had two correct– Ladybird Johnson and Luciano Pavarotti. I was incorrect on these people, all of whom are on my list again this year: Billy Graham, Nancy Reagan, Albert Hoffman, Margaret Thatcher, and Betty Ford. I’ve decided that Nelson Mandela gets another year, as does Queen Elizabeth II. Paris Hilton has been replaced by Britney Spears as this year’s pick for crazy-celebrity-most-likely-to-off-themself.
Good luck all (well, except for the people I picked)!
Mike