Dead Pool 2012

Naw, I don't want to piggyback like that. I'll add Ralphie next year if he makes it.

Anyone else? You have three hours.

How deadly is Hep C? I'm seeing a lot of Billy Graham here. And while I would love to see him shut the shit up, he seems the type that will be dying his beard for much bloody longer.

I think abanana is the only one who picked "Superstar" Billy Graham (the wrestler). I assumed that Viceroy's pick was for Billy Graham the evangelist. (Viceroy, let me know if that's not the case!)

I know I usually do a list, but I'm skipping this year.

yeah, think i'm bowing out this year as well

George Michael
Glen Campbell
Wilford Brimley
Steve-O
Pete Doherty
Lindsey Lohan
Roger Ebert
Bashar al-Assad
D'Angelo
Robert Mugabe
Don Buchla
Artie Lange
Etta James
Lil Wayne
Marianne Faithfull

First time for this:

Keith Richards
Aretha Franklin
Riley (B.B.) King
Hugh (Wavy Gravy) Romney
Jerry Maren (Munchkin & member of the Lollipop Guild)
Rosalynn Carter
Stephen Hawking
Keith Jackson (sports announcer)
George Herbert Walker Bush
Tony Bennett
Maggie Thatcher
Elizabeth II
Helmut Kohl
Boris Spassky
Rosey Grier (NFL player)

Wavy Gravy's a Romney?! Never knew that.

How deadly is Hep C? I'm seeing a lot of Billy Graham here. And while I would love to see him shut the shit up, he seems the type that will be dying his beard for much bloody longer.

In 2010 his doctor said he had around 2 years to live. So.

ok, I made one last-minute substitution:

Gary Carter
Raven Alexis
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
Anne Feeney
Ethan Zohn
Dennis Frederiksen
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Lee Evans (sprinter)
Robin Gibb
Etta James
Penny Marshall
Bill Janklow
Jim Stynes
Geoffrey Hughes
D.K. Holm Wayne Fleming

Here's a list of the most picked names for 2012. In parens, I've included the +/- change since 2011. (Keep in mind there are 38 participants this year, three more than last year.)

18
Margaret Thatcher (+12)

15
Fidel Castro (+5)

14
Robin Gibb (+14)

11
Etta James (+10)
Lindsay Lohan (+2)

8
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi (+1)
Joe Paterno (+8)
Muhammad Ali (+4)
Terry Pratchett (+7)

7
Artie Lange (+5)
Bashar al-Assad (+7)
Pete Doherty (+4)

6
Dick Cheney (-3)

5
Charlie Sheen (+2)
Courtney Love (+2)
George Michael (+5)
Glen Campbell (+5)
Hosni Mubarak (+4)
Michael Douglas (-8)

Btw, let me know if you see an error on the spreadsheet!

seeing that jaymc's list last year had a bunch of middle east rulers and etta james, i'm going to his list this year for my 2012 news predictions.

can't believe i was the only one to choose cameron and osborne, where are the optimists among us?

D'Angelo

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this better not happen; i've got tickets to see him in february!

Thanks jaymc!

Good luck everyone!

Then again, what if nobody dies?

Everybody dies. One day.

But this is running only for 2012.

if no one picked dies, all competitors are summarily executed.

if that happens, we can all meet up to knock off milk snatcher in december. a christmas present to the world.

If, by December, no-one mentioned has died, then we run a poll to pick a single victim from the lot and we all conspire to off them before the month is out.

someday this list will include ilxors

Once they are all famous enough to have Wikipedia pages?

"they"

A few do: C-Man of old, for instance.

On a board where underrated aerosmith, the tune is space, Owen P, xhuxk, and Ned Raggett regularly post, you use C-Man as an example?

yes.

There's a moral in there, some place.

Ha, OK.

Showing my ignorance here, but who is 'the tune is space'?

neotropic pygmy squirrel

lmao in hindsight my list is almost entirely composed of fat guys/old wrestlers/hack comedians/skrillex

my work here is done!

I hope that someone has arrived at ilx by google image searching neotropic pygmy squirrel.

This is one contest where you don't want to pick your nose!!

That picture of Calz on his wikipedia page is kerazy.

XXP -- yes mine was for the evangelist and pseudo-prophet who somehow manages to avoid the angel of death year after year.

Got it, thx. (I had him on my list for a few years, too.)

Former South Dakota governor Bill Janklow has died, which means that last year's Dead Pool champ, unregistered, gets off to an early start.

Okay, which one of you guys tried to run over Gene Hackman? That's taking things a little too far.

Sinead O'Connor is sadly a contender. I do hope she pulls it together, but I doubt it.

Gov. Janklow was a colossal scumbag. good riddance and thanks for all the points.

for the love of god plz tell me unreg didnt pick etta

aw, that's sad.

Of course he did. But so did 10 other people, who are now on the board with 27 pts.

I'm tied for second. Get used to it.

lol

i think this might be my first successful dead pool pick, in three years of participation!

and i came really close with gene hackman too. i should get some points for that.

Actually, you had Hitchens last year.

i did? weird.