Dead Pool 2011

^this

Oh, I didn't see the quantity.

OK, six mort

(ha that was a misprint, keeping it!)

Valerie Singleton
Tinie Tempah
Goldie
Philip Oakey
Keith Chegwin
Johnny Wilkinson

There. List really ends.

So much of this thread is depressing the hell out of me. Phil Oakey? Stephen Fry? Andy Bell?

When Stephen Fry gets depressed the Queen's Guard get called in on suicide watch... nothings going to happen to Mr. National Treasure.

I've never done this list before, thinking it hmm a bit morbid.

However, my unsubmitted picks have always had long and prosperous lives subsequently...

Taylor Momsen
Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi
Michael Douglas
Christopher Hitchens
Dick Cheney
Isaiah Rider
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Aretha Franklin
Bobby Chacon
Steve Jobs
Roger Ebert
Kim Jong Il
Jenna Jameson
Wayne Brady
Lenny Dykstra

jaymc plz replace my Barbara Walters with Michael Douglas

Charly Garcia
Evo Morales
Michael J Fox
Humberto Suazo
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Pope Benedict XVI
I.C. Rapoport
Moshe Katsav
Emir Kusturica
Reba McEntire
Linus Torvalds
Condoleezza Rice
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

― In the heart of downtown (Solrac), Monday, January 3, 2011 4:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You get two more. I'm sure there are other South Americans that might die this year.

xp OK, Stevie.

Wow, I've never experienced this hypermorbid feeling of, like, hoping people die for some super arbitrary message board "contest"

It's kind of fucked up!

Can we put ilxors in our list? Or is that just too next-level?

NO

Barbara Bush
Bill Walton
Christopher Hitchens
Courtney Love
Dick Cheney
Fidel Castro
Günther Grass
Kim Jong-il
Lil Wayne
Lindsay Lohan
Muhammad Ali
Queen Elizabeth II
Rush Limbaugh
Whitney Houston
Zsa Zsa Gabor

In memory of actual deceased ilxors it would be horribly tasteless and offensive to run a book on which users will die this year, especially if Dom manages to sock-filtrate the pool with whatever macabre research he might be capable of in this regard xp

Peter O'Toole
Franco Zeffirelli
Norman Mailer
Betty White
Nancy Reagan
Aretha Franklin
Dick Cheney
Christopher Hitchens
Rush Limbaugh
Paul McCartney

― I am Woolen Man. The scarf and I are one. (kenan), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 3:53 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Died in 2007.

xp yes I know I was completely and totally not serious.

oh thank christ, sorry then

I mean I was sort of just riffing in the fucked up-ness of this whole thing to begin with but yeah, that would be seriously awful to "celebrate" the death of any ILXor at all

I reserve the right to nominate myself eventually.

Yeah but what if you're rigging the system and planning to hang yourself?

Okay sorry I didn't mean that jesus I am staying away from this thread.

*unties rope*

Dammit!

Get yourself a Wikipedia page, and then we'll talk.

stephen fry has lost a mad amount of weight over the past year and then releases his autobiography? dying of aids imo

Get yourself a Wikipedia page, and then we'll talk.

What if the wikipedia page is created after the fact?

http://grab.by/8cV8

Severiano Ballesteros
Jon Brookes (Charlatans UK)
Dick Cheney
Michael Douglas
Aretha Franklin
Melanie Griffith
Christopher Hitchens
Ken Hom
Kim Jong Il
Artie Lange
Lindsay Lohan
Jeremy London
James Mandich
Eleanor Mondale
Vince Neil

List ends...

― Mark G, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 5:28 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Thora Hird died in 2003.

Damn, was going to check.

OK, Wanda Jackson then.

Got it.

In general, please do try to check -- I only noticed Jennings and Mailer because I had remembered their deaths, but there are plenty of people picked with whom I'm unfamiliar.

Christopher Hitchens
Kim Jong Il
Artie Lange
Bret Michaels
Verne Troyer
Rush Limbaugh
Trick Daddy
Seve Ballesteros
Yogi Berra
Larry Flynt
Ralphie May
Aretha Franklin
Barbara Bush
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Ozzy Osbourne

Oh shit, Ralphie May. I'd forgotten about him. Not a bad idea.

Yo, if anyone else wants in, I'm gonna extend the deadline to midnight CST tomorrow. (Mostly b/c I haven't picked my own list yet.)

Great

jaymc, I got a question re: notability. If someone does not say have a wikipedia or nndb entry themselves, but is the spouse of someone who does, are they notable enough for inclusion in the pool?

it would probably be beyond the pale if I were to remove Levi Johnston and add Gabby Giffords to my list so I won't do it.

what the fuck?

uh, I said wasn't going to do it; I don't think anybody should, but since the deadline's been extended, somebody might.

If someone dies before Jan. 8, only the people who have already submitted lists will be able to collect points.

I had the thought too, immediately squelched it. xp

classitup indeed

never felt so completely justified hitting that sb

jaymc, I got a question re: notability. If someone does not say have a wikipedia or nndb entry themselves, but is the spouse of someone who does, are they notable enough for inclusion in the pool?

Earlier I told Jeff that Maggie Daley -- who's in the same situation -- was OK. Upon reflection, however, I'm going to nix that. I think it's better if the same eligibility rules apply across the board. So no, you can't pick Lura Lynn Ryan.

As far as Giffords, to be perfectly honest I don't see a reason why she wouldn't be allowed. It's on your conscience, though.

itt deadpoolers get sanctimonious

yeah really, does class have any place in a dead pool?

I draw the line at publishing a NYTimes bestseller of violent, inflammatory rhetoric aimed at regarding people on my Dead Pool list.

yah i remember the year i did this and i literally just pulled it out of my ass and also got patrick swayze bc everybody got patrick swayze. it was bittersweet scoring points off merce cunningham.

http://www.fancydress99.co.uk/f-5/wid6852T/Skull-Mask-W-Velvet-Top-Hat-Hair---Halloween-.jpg

jaymc, I was going to pick someone way more longshot than that, but ok.