Dead Pool 2012

Here we go.

Rules are generally the same as in previous years.

Post in this thread a list of 15 celebrities or other notable people. If you'd rather e-mail me, that's fine, but please post in the thread that you've done so, just so I can keep track.

I'm not going to be a total stickler about notability requirements, but please try to be reasonable. If someone doesn't have a Wikipedia page at the very least, I'll probably ask you to choose someone else. Also: humans only.

One new rule for 2012: If a Wikipedia search on one of your picks directs to a disambiguation page or to someone else with the same name, please indicate which one you mean by appending the person's profession in parentheses, e.g. "(actress)" or "(football player)."

As usual, points are awarded based on the formula (100 - [age at death]). So picking Willow Smith (at 11) would get you a lot more points than picking Kirk Douglas (at 95), were both to die.

Please post your lists to this thread by January 9. No lists will be accepted after that date. If someone dies before Jan. 9, only the people who have already submitted lists will be able to collect points. You may also revise your list at any time before Jan. 9; after that, you'll be locked in.

Lastly, I will be posting everybody's final picks to this Google spreadsheet and also updating the leaderboard there as the year goes on.

(Feel free, of course, to bump this thread and alert me if I've missed an update. Deaths of British/Australian celebs in particular sometimes pass me by.)

Good luck!

Lindsay Lohan
Andy Dick
Jerry Sandusky
William "The Refrigerator" Perry
Michael Douglas
Sly Stone
Christopher Lee
Shirley Temple Black
Ariel Sharon
Edward Furlong
Kim Novak
Kim Jong-un
Jan-Michael Vincent
Etta James
Bryant Gumbel

Good list!

wow, shirley temple's still alive.

i don't think i had ever made a correct death pool pick before amy winehouse last year (hugo chavez's cancer, CLOSE BUT NOT QUITE), if i do a list this year it will somehow reflect the ethical consequences of that.

Sinead O'Connor
Mgt Thatcher
Robin Gibb
Pete Doherty
Lindsay Lohan
Kerry Katona
Courtney Love
Terry Pratchett
Larry Hagman
Jenna Jameson
Stevo Jackass
Charlie Sheen
Robin Van Persie
Johnathan Rhys-Meyers
Ronnie Corbett

RVP killed by the sudden eruption of a year's worth of accumulated injuries?

Hugh Hefner
Lindsay Lohan
Andy Dick
Margaret Thatcher
Jimmy Carter
Hu Jintao
Michael Douglas
Joe Paterno
Aretha Franklin
Robin Gibb
Pete Doherty
Fidel Castro
Bashar al-Assad
Hamid Karzai
Terry Pratchett

Paul Gascoigne
Robbie Williams
Muhammed Ali
Margaret Thatcher
Larry Hagman
Robin Gibb
Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi
Liz Dawn
Bill Tarmey
Charlie Sheen
Ian Brady
Ian Huntley
Doris Day
George Michael
Glen Campbell

Lindsey Lohan
Fidel Castro
Gary Busey
Ai Wei Wei
Chuck Berry
Bob Dole
Muhammad Ali
Jerry Lee Lewis
Lauren Bacall
Steve-O
Barbara Bush
Phyllis Diller
Nancy Reagan
Justice John Paul Stevens
John Larroquette

There are several people i dearly hope i'm wrong about on here

Whoa! I hope John Larroquette is a wild card. : (

Jerry Sandusky
Joe Paterno
Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi
Michael Douglas
Dick Cheney
Isaiah Rider
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Bobby Chacon
Muhammad Ali
Roger Ebert
Jenna Jameson
Lenny Dykstra
Chasey Lain
Lindsay Lohan
Steven Adler

yep, Larroquette is my RANDOM PICK

shit ailsa, gascoigne is a good one

merdey- pretty much, yeah

Artie Lange
Fred Phelps
Robin Gibb
Ernest Borgnine
George McGovern
Ali Khamenei
Leonard Cohen
Mario Batali
Glen Campbell
Rivers Cuomo
Joe Francis
Jerry Lewis
Liv Ullmann
Adam Yauch
Justin Bieber

Margaret Thatcher
Richard E Grant
Paul Gascoigne
Roger Moore
Sean Connery
Timothy Dalton
Bobby Charlton
Jerry Sadowitz
Lindsey Lohan
Pete Docherty
Fidel Castro
Bashar Al-Assad
Clive James
Prince Philip
Courtney Love

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Bashar al-Assad
Muhammad Ali
Fidel Castro
Dick Cheney
Bob Dylan
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Kim Jong-Un
Rush Limbaugh
Lindsy Lohan
Courtney Love
Whitney Houston
George Michael
Joe Paterno
Terry Pratchet

Robert Mugabe
Kim Jong-Un
Vicente Zambada
Russell Brand
Robert Iler
Tao Lin
Michel Houllebecq
David Mamet
Tom Hardy
Bizarre
Tom Cruise
Christopher Poole
Earl Sweatshirt
Dick Cheney
Suge Knight

Oh, wait, with everyone else doing Kim Jong-Un, I'm going with Kim Jong-Nam.

I always look forward to your picks, Eazy!

It seems to be a blessing of long life on those I pick. (Last year everyone but Andy Rooney prospered.)

not a single Benedict XVI yet? do I underestimate his longevity for some reason?

Andy Williams
Tariq Aziz
John Edrich
Etta James
"Superstar" Billy Graham
Geoffrey Hughes
Robin Gibb
Dennis "Fergie" Frederiksen
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
Gary Carter
Hugo Chávez
Michael Dokes
Jeff Palmer (former gay porn actor)
Eric Lynch (dwarf)
Aditya Dev

ooh, I forgot Geoffrey Hughes. Had him last year as well...

(dwarf)

Earl Sweatshirt?

And not Tyler?

Didn't want to bogart all of Odd Future.

just seems like earl is the least likely to catch an early death of that squad.

Kamala
Bobby Heenan
Scott Hall
Perry Saturn
Barry Windham
Matt Hardy
Chyna
Rikishi
Lex Luger
Viscera
Henry Godwinn
Sean Waltman
Virgil
Alex Ferguson
Margaret Thatcher

oh shit wait can i replace Bobby Heenan, a man I never want to die, with Paul Merson

Still too squeamish to enter, still morbidly fascinated by the lists from those who do. Poor Lindsay Lohan.

Frankie Muniz
Lindsey Lohan
Ashton Kutcher
Russell Brand
Andy Dick
Steve-O
Sinead O'Connor
Joe Paterno
Jerry Sandusky
Margaret Thatcher

5 more bro

oh 15... damn....

Charlie Sheen
Fidel Castro
Billy Graham
Artie Lange
Terry Pratchett

Earl Sweatshirt? And not Tyler?

The proper OFWGKTA answer is: more points.

if it turns out earl was murdered a year ago and has been lying in a ditch, does he still count towards 2012 points?

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.

Margaret Thatcher
Abe Vigoda
Clarence Thomas
HRH Queen Elizabeth
Donald Knuth
Terry Pratchett
Paula Deen
Roger Ebert
Kim Jong-un
Ben Gibbard
Dick Clark
Thomas Pynchon
Liza Minelli
Bono
Marc Maron

Bonus animal dead pool: National Zoo panda-in-residence Mei Xiang

have Marc Maron's podcasts taken an interesting turn?

You never know with depressives.

etta james
lindsay lohan
margaret thatcher
mel gibson
fidel castro
joe paterno
katy perry
suri cruise
michael j fox
warwick davis
peter dinklage
kenny baker
michael j anderson
verne troyer
tony cox

did a little person tick you off today or

i thought it was funny that someone upthread posted someone (dwarf), so i decided to pick a bunch of dwarves

I had no idea Lindsay Lohan is a dwarf! I guess the camera can make you look bigger.

One new rule for 2012: If a Wikipedia search on one of your picks directs to a disambiguation page or to someone else with the same name, please indicate which one you mean by appending the person's profession in parentheses, e.g. "(actress)" or "(football player)"

Also, a 100 point bonus if your pick was both an actress and a football player....

John Laws
Phillip Ruddock
Margaret Thatcher
Neil Harvey
John Kennedy (AFL coach)
Donald Rumsfeld
Etta James
Olivia de Havilland
Justin Beiber
Frank Tyson
Ronnie Wood
Engelbert Humperdinck
Jerry Lewis
Charlie Sheen
Bernie Ecclestone

Margaret Thatcher
Stephen Hawking
Fidel Castro
Terry Pratchett
Mark E. Smith
Iggy Pop
Prince Philip
Buzz Aldrin
Nelson Mandela
Keith Richards
David Attenborough
George Bush Snr
Bruce Forsyth
Patrick Moore
Sidney Poitier

^^^I think every name on this list made me go, 'you sure they are still alive?', so I think you'll do p well.

charlie sheen
etta james
stephen hawking
fidel castro
artie lange
pete doherty
mel gibson
margaret thatcher
dick cheney
sean parker
robin gibb
david prowse
morrissey
klas ingesson
barbara bush

Hello. My random pick list of people that I do not hope to die but then again, amaze myself (has anyone actually made a hormov where a dead pool list is involved? Actually don't answer if it's somthing obv like "Dead Pool" or else owt)..

One of Bananarama (oh ok, keren then)
Philip Glenister
Simon Cowell
Jack Black
Phil the Greek
Phil Oakey
Shirley Temple
Genesis P Oridge
Mo Tucker
Justin Bieber
Les McKeowen of the Rollers
Ronnie Corbett
Bruce Forsyth
Brian Blessed
Gary Glitter

That's it yes? I think all are alive as at:

Also, a 100 point bonus if your pick was both an actress and a football player....

Oh, I missed out Waynetta Rooney.

Benedict XVI
Robin Gibb
Michael Douglas
Paul F. Tompkins
Pete Doherty
Elton John
Helmut Kohl
Robert Pattinson
Courtney Love
Mischa Barton
Wilford Brimley
Scott Asheton
Montserrat Caballe
David S. Ware
Kimi Raikkonen

Mario Balotelli
Hugo Chávez
Lindsay Lohan
Pete Doherty
Bashar al-Assad
Margaret Thatcher
David Cameron
George Osborne
Prince Harry
McG
Dmitry Medvedev
Taylor Momsen
Ron Paul
Russell Brand
Tom Wolfe

balotelli is too buzzworthy to die at the moment. wait till he is struggling to make it off the bench at real madrid and run out of 'crazy' 'things' to do at least.

Paul Gascoigne
Bashar al-Assad
Muhammed Ali
Margaret Thatcher
Larry Hagman
Robin Gibb
Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi
Liz Dawn
Dick Cheney
F. Castro
Benedict XVI
Doris Day
Aretha Franklin
Glen Campbell

Peter O' Toole

harry belefonte
chuck berry
seymour cassel
fidel castro
exene cervenka
fats domino
peter fonda
aretha franklin
robin gibb
gene hackman
etta james
mick mars
william 'refrigerator' perry
thomas pynchon
ravi shankar

mickey rooney
margaret thatcher
maurice sendak
hugo chavez
silvio berlusconi
chuck berry
george h.w. bush
terry pratchett
jimmy carter
missy elliot
jerry lewis
olivia de havilland
hosni mubarak
kirk douglas
fidel the castro

stay the fuck away from missy!

David S. Ware

Is he/has he been ill recently?

yeah, i think he needed a kidney transplant

Wow, didn't know that. Just looked it up, and apparently he got a kidney and came through ok: http://njmonthly.com/articles/lifestyle/a-gift-of-life-and-music.html

(sorry, didn't mean to mess up your dead pool; was just surprised to see his name on the list, as I didn't know he'd been sick)

He's been a couple years post-transplant -- makes him (sadly) a cancer risk.

Paul Gascoigne
Bashar al-Assad
Muhammed Ali
Margaret Thatcher
Larry Hagman
Robin Gibb
Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi
Liz Dawn
Dick Cheney
F. Castro
Benedict XVI
Doris Day
Aretha Franklin
Glen Campbell

― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 14:21 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Peter O' Toole

― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved)

fashionably late?

hang on, has lohan been nominated eight times?

science

Margaret Thatcher
Norman Tebbit
Fidel Castro
Robert Mugabe
Howard Henry Baker
Sir Michael Edwardes
Phylis Schlafly
Gary Glitter
Omar Abdel-Rahman
Adam Yahiye Gadahn
Eduardo Ravelo
Gene Hackman
John Noakes
George Michael
Jimmy Swaggart

i just mean britney/amy/lindsay

1. Marion Barry
2. Prince Philip
3. Harper Lee
4. Sly Stone
5. Debbie Reynolds
6. Lauryn Hill
7. George Michael
8. Nick Di Paolo
9. Robin Gibb
10. Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX of Thailand)
11. Muhammad Ali
12. Diana Serra Cary
13. James D. Watson
14. Bernie Madoff
15. Ralph Hall (Texas politician)

ariel pink
bashar al assad
gabriel garcía márquez
roger ebert
hugh hefner
jean-luc godard
woody allen
bob dylan
brigitte bardot
nelson mandela
hosni mubarak
Lauren Bacall
shirley maclaine
doris lessing
lou reed

strongly considered nick di paolo.

Jimmy the etc - Liz Dawn ISN'T DEAD? Good choice.

I picked her first!

Ailsa, sorry. whatever you say- though with Liz Dawn, hmm, I kinda remembered she died weeks after Vera died. Strange.

Nah, is ok, just noticed jimmy's list was quite similar to mine :)

I wasn't expecting her to last long when she left, but she's still hanging on in there - she came back briefly last year when Jack was written out.

bernie will outlive all of us

Jon Brookes (Charlatans UK)
Artie Lange
Jeremy London
Courtney Love
Christina Ricci
Marie Fredriksson
John Hartson
Chris Brown
Brooke Mueller
Nick Oliveri
Scott Weiland
Rick Ross
Draco Rosa
Lita Ford
Jef Whitehead

Margaret Thatcher
Geert Wilders
Rupert Murdoch
Fidel Castro
Nelson Mandela
Robin Gibb
Lady Gaga
Muhammad Ali
Pope Benedict XVI
Keith Richards
Judi Dench
Ali Abdullah Saleh
Dustin Diamond
Jack Nicholson
John Terry

otm except that keith richards will outlive both of us

Keep wanting to do this but every time I start a list, a sense of horrible guilt overcomes me.

Kenneth Anger
Scotty Moore
Anita Ekberg
Joan Fontaine
Phyllis Diller
Maurice Herzog
James Garner
Jake LaMotta
Lyndon LaRouche
Carroll Shelby
Ray Bradbury
Jack T. Chick
Scott Carpenter
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Rona Barrett

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

I kind of want to make one of these for game of thrones season 2 characters

pretty easy to cheat at that tho

yeah if it weren't for that though!

jaymc, could you please revise my list? I would like to substitute Kanye West for Marie Fredriksson. Thanks!

Gah, I forgot Geoffrey Hughes, despite picking him the last couple of times. And also Etta James, despite reading the news. Ah well.

Well, you have until the 9th to make corrections.

The prosecution in Egypt just demanded the death penalty for Mubarak...

so is it cheating if i put him in? aw screw it that isnt any fun.

Yeah, I haven't even started inputting lists yet (that'll wait until the weekend), so feel free to make any corrections.

I'd like to put in for Mubarak and will get back to you abt the others later

Just to prove my originality, 15 thus far unmentioned picks:

Jean Shrimpton
Imelda Marcos
George Martin
Warren Buffett
Robert Crumb
Astrid Kirchherr
Jimmy Webb
Jody Stephens
Burt Bacharach
Jack Welch
Grace Slick
G. Gordon Liddy
Sandy Koufax
Wendy Carlos
Mike Love

And one last prediction: Pete Townshend will live to be 100.

That's him screwed then!

crumb will outlive us all

I actually thought Jack Welch was already dead, but I was confusing him with Don Geiss.

Jason Mewes
Michael J Fox
Tom Sizemore
Glenn Beck
Doug Stanhope
Trick Daddy
Gary Carter
Joe Paterno
George RR Martin
Larry King
Nick Cannon
Harry Dean Stanton
Allen Iverson
Brett Ratner
OJ Simpson

SWITCH OUT
if i could, i would like to replace "peter fonda" with "dan treacy"
but if i can't it's ok

Yes you can.

I didn't realize Joe Paterno had lung cancer until just now. I assumed everyone was nominating him because they thought he was on suicide watch.

I hope Dan Treacy (or anyone else, really) doesn't die :(

Glen Campbell
Hugo Chavez
Lee Evans (athlete)
Alberto Fujimori
Steve Gleason
Tamara Grigsby
Etta James
Jerry Lewis
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
Hosni Mubarak
Robert Mugabe
Joe Paterno
Reg Presley
Margaret Thatcher
Joost van der Westhuizen

Shit, I had no idea Iversen was such a mess

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Abdullah the Butcher
Louie Anderson
Art Bell
Kamala
Artie Lange
Cloris Leachman
Howard Lederer
Diego Maradona
Jim Norton
Joe Paterno
William "The Refrigerator" Perry
Nancy Reagan
Pete Rose
Skrillex

Christo
Artie Lange
Hosni Mubarak
Michael Douglas
Claes Oldenberg
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
Etta James
Robin Gibb
Dick Cheney
Terry Prachett
Ralphie May
Whitney Houston
Mick Jagger
Fidel Castro
Haley Joel Osment

Goddamn it, I had meant to add Ralphie May after noticing him last year.

I'll accept any changes until midnight my time (CST).

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.

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

OK, maybe not:
http://gawker.com/5884176/how-a-birthday-party-at-the-north-korean-embassy-started-the-kim-jong+un-death-rumor

Okay I feel bad now. Whitney Houston rip.

fuck!

i need a source there.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBIT_WHITNEY_HOUSTON?SITE=ILROR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

That link isnt loading. I have a journo friend whos just commented on it on fb tho, so something's up?

yeah, it's blowing up on twitter/facebook/interwebs. really sad.

Stevie D. and Clay are now #1 and #2.

Christ, I had no idea she was that young.

Me neither, she must have only been about 22 when "how will I know" came out, I had no idea, she's alwats seemed like an older lady to me :/

Oh shit

Okay I feel bad now. Whitney Houston rip.

i am kicking myself for not having her on my list.

So glad to learn she is not the singer of "Let's Hear It for the Boy".

Um, DENIECE WILLIAMS IIRC >:-(

That's what I'm saying. Deniece is still alive and kicking afaik.

Gary Carter dead.

Damn.

jim stynes RIP :(

http://todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/15/11205520-singer-robin-gibb-of-bee-gees-fame-in-coma?lite#.T4pkZo5ZSeQ.twitter

Updated for Dick Clark (18 points for silby).

Oh man.

Robin Gibbs out of coma; Abdelbaset al-Megrahi on death's door, possibly for real this time; Raven Alexis didn't have cancer lol

And Simon H. -- who picked MCA -- debuts in 7th place.

With Maurice Sendak's death, Remy appears on the leaderboard as well.

http://gothamist.com/2012/05/08/maurice_sendak_where_the_wild_thing.php

aw

RIP Carroll Shelby, 1923-2012

oops already mentioned on rolling RIP thread

Only an asteroid hitting the earth can help me now.

oops already mentioned on rolling RIP thread

No, thanks for posting here, too. I wouldn't have seen it otherwise, and now Elvis Telecom has 11 points.

Raven Alexis didn't have cancer lol

I'd be impressed if Raven faked her illness and recovery for no other reason than to troll dead pool betters.

Am waiting for the fall to kill off my old people and the holiday season to drive my depressives to suicide. I am still in it to win it.

Updated for al-Megrahi.

Finally, dude died.

14 of us just got a point bump. :(

Yup, just now updated for Gibb, too. You're in the top 5, Simon.

Hosni Mubarak needs to make up his mind if he is dead or not.

An Ariel Sharon for this year's pool pickers.

some folk due points for Geoffrey Hughes (not me, though I had him last year).

Added, thx.

Ernest Borgnine also died.

Now updated for Borgnine as well.

so does Dom hold the all-time record (327 points in 2010)? it's gonna be hard to beat, but I'll do my best...

Andy Williams, Michael Dokes, Aditya Dev. RIP. Gimme points.

No idea who Dokes or Dev are, but OK. You're now in the lead!

My strategy this year of picking mainly at-risk young-guns isn't working out.

The "Courtney Love" gambit.

courtney will live forever.

much to our chagrin.

I hit one last night. Bummed about the death, but gimmee the points.

I went long, hoping for a massive year of young celebrity death, but unfortunately it's mostly been awesome old people this year.

Bump for my dang points.

Easy, easy. Got it. (David S. Ware, I assume? Weirdly both of the dudes you scored points on were 62 y/o.)

Welp, guess I know how long I got left, then.

Bumping for my 29 Bill Tarmey points :(

Who are these people? (Got it.)

Updated for Larry Hagman.

Bumping for my Maurice Herzog points.

Now updated for Herzog, Ravi Shankar, and Patrick Moore.

As the year draws to a close, I'll go through and see if there's anyone else I've missed. If you happen to know that I've missed one of your picks, feel free to mention it here.

Elvis Telecom -- if we'd been scoring by the raw number of correct predix, you'd be tied for 3rd. With the age points factored in, you're 20th.

So I won?

r.i.p. it up and start again, jaymc

Not doing one this year?

Of course jaymc will.

All my last year picks survived.

they'll be paying you next

http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/front-page-obituaries-more-than-doubled-in-2012-heres-why

Only an asteroid hitting the earth can help me now.

I was otm.

So I won?

Yes! Or at least: I think so.

Somehow the annual Dead Pool accounting slipped my mind over the last few days. I'll make the results final this weekend.

And here's the new thread for 2013:

Dead Pool 2013

Playing the dwarf lottery paid off this year.

abanana: 319 points

well damn

and uh RIP Aditya Dev, I had no idea you existed

I've double-checked to make sure that no one else died and that the numbers add up. Nothing has changed.

Congratulations, abanana, on your win!

For posterity, here's the final leaderboard:

1. abanana (319 points) (8 picks)
2. unregistered (263) (7)
3. Stevie D(eux) (157) (4)
4. Jeff (148) (4)
5. ailsa (126) (4)
6. Simon H. (106) (4)
7. Jimmy the Mod (97) (3)
8. jaymc (82) (3)
9. Three Word Username (76) (2)
10. n/a (73) (3)
11. Clay (67) (2)
12. sonderangerbot (65) (2)
13. johnny crunch (58) (2)
14. darraghmac (57) (2)
15. Matt Armstrong (55) (2)
16. milo z (53) (2)
17. sarahel (42) (2)
18. j.lu (38) (1)
(tie) Le Bateau Ivre (38) (1)
20. Elvis Telecom (32) (4)
21. buzza (27) (1)
(tie) Fred Nerk (27) (1)
(tie) naus (27) (1)
24. silby (18) (1)
25. remy bean (17) (1)
26. Viceroy (15) (1)
27. govern yourself accordingly (15) (1)
28. krakow (11) (1)
29. forksclovetofu (5) (1)

(Nine contestants with zero points.)

Other items of note:

*The 1st- and 2nd-place finishers of 2011 switched places in 2012.
*Dom Passantino (2010) still holds the record for total points (327) and picks (9), though abanana's 39.9 points-per-pick (PPP) average > Dom's 36.3.
*Stevie D. and Three Word Username also had PPP averages of at least 38. Well done.
*Elvis Telecom's PPP average of 8.0 was the lowest of any contestant with at least 2 correct picks.
*I was the highest finisher NOT to pick Robin Gibb, the most-picked dead person. (14 of y'all got points for him.)

(Oops, Viceroy and g.y.a. should be tied for 26th.)

None of my picks died--did I shoot the moon?

None of my picks died either, though I came really close with Burt Bacharach (he didn't die, but Hal David did).

None of mine died, it's like a breath of life to everyone I nom. Avoided nomming Thatch for this very reason.

Dammit, just missed the podium.

lol, i am officially the worst at this

I actually feel sort of shitty for doing so well!