Dead Pool 2012

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.

Updated for JoePa.

Did Dom P. do a list this year?

I play dead pool on rotten.com for the artistry, fun to look at the long lists of who is alive.

holy shit, joepa?

Yeah, he had cancer.

Predicting some big final scores this year.

(shrugs) I'll probably come in last place, unless some serious lightning strikes fall in my favor. This is what comes when you don't PLAY TO WIN.

Yeah, after taking Amy Winehouse off my final list and then having her die, my approach this year was to mostly go for younger musicians who've seemingly already hit bottom. (Or have been hospitalized for pneumonia due to an "undisclosed viral infection" who've had a partner die from certain other viral infections.) So mostly long shots that might or might not pay off.

Kim Jong-Un (unconfirmed)

damn yo

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/10/kim-jong-un-assassination-rumours-flood-twitter-weibo/

IME big news like this always hits Twitter before the MSM... then again, a lot of Twitter rumors turn out to be total BS.

BTW, WTF is Weibo?

ah, looks like Chinese facebook.

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd316/DarkScythe08/PBF071-Weeaboo.gif

Twitter hoax.

^^ perfect comic for NK politics. I lolled. thx