Dead Pool 2012

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You never know with depressives.

tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 08:23 (twelve years ago) link

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

sarahel, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 08:29 (twelve years ago) link

did a little person tick you off today or

GREENS (the putting kind) (donna rouge), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 08:47 (twelve years ago) link

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

sarahel, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 08:48 (twelve years ago) link

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

Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 09:09 (twelve years ago) link

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....

Lee626, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 09:41 (twelve years ago) link

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

Fred Nerk, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 09:54 (twelve years ago) link

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

only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 10:07 (twelve years ago) link

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

I am Newgod (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 11:16 (twelve years ago) link

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

sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 11:49 (twelve years ago) link

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:

Mark G, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 12:06 (twelve years ago) link

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

Oh, I missed out Waynetta Rooney.

Mark G, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 12:08 (twelve years ago) link

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

Three Word Username, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 13:09 (twelve years ago) link

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

sunn :o))) (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 14:05 (twelve years ago) link

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.

I am Newgod (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link

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 (twelve years ago) link

Peter O' Toole

Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link

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

congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link

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

gnome rocognise gnome (remy bean), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link

stay the fuck away from missy!

walking liquidity crisis (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link

David S. Ware

Is he/has he been ill recently?

Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link

yeah, i think he needed a kidney transplant

sarahel, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link

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)

Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link

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

Three Word Username, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link

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?

DeLonge and Winding Refn (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link

hang on, has lohan been nominated eight times?

judith, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link

science

DeLonge and Winding Refn (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link

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

fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link

i just mean britney/amy/lindsay

judith, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link

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)

stop me before i eat again (j.lu), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link

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

nostormo, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 23:18 (twelve years ago) link

strongly considered nick di paolo.

Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link

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

kraudive, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago) link

I picked her first!

ailsa, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 01:01 (twelve years ago) link

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

kraudive, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 01:08 (twelve years ago) link

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.

ailsa, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link

bernie will outlive all of us

walking liquidity crisis (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 01:52 (twelve years ago) link

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

beachville, Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago) link

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

I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:21 (twelve years ago) link

otm except that keith richards will outlive both of us

carpy deems (darraghmac), Thursday, 5 January 2012 01:52 (twelve years ago) link

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

Trayce, Thursday, 5 January 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago) link

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

Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 5 January 2012 03:32 (twelve years ago) link

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

cher's missing (unregistered), Thursday, 5 January 2012 03:45 (twelve years ago) link

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

Clay, Thursday, 5 January 2012 03:50 (twelve years ago) link

pretty easy to cheat at that tho

tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Thursday, 5 January 2012 04:19 (twelve years ago) link

yeah if it weren't for that though!

Clay, Thursday, 5 January 2012 04:23 (twelve years ago) link

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

beachville, Thursday, 5 January 2012 10:08 (twelve years ago) link

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

ailsa, Thursday, 5 January 2012 11:20 (twelve years ago) link

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

beachville, Thursday, 5 January 2012 11:48 (twelve years ago) link

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

I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 5 January 2012 13:32 (twelve years ago) link

Playing the dwarf lottery paid off this year.

abanana, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:04 (eleven years ago) link

abanana: 319 points

well damn

the horse world of the bludgrass (unregistered), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link

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

the horse world of the bludgrass (unregistered), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link

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.)

jaymc, Friday, 11 January 2013 05:52 (eleven years ago) link

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

jaymc, Friday, 11 January 2013 05:53 (eleven years ago) link

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

Chief Duff (Eazy), Friday, 11 January 2013 05:55 (eleven years ago) link

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

Lee626, Friday, 11 January 2013 08:27 (eleven years ago) link

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

Mark G, Friday, 11 January 2013 09:18 (eleven years ago) link

Dammit, just missed the podium.

Jeff, Friday, 11 January 2013 13:16 (eleven years ago) link

lol, i am officially the worst at this

What am I, in France? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 January 2013 17:02 (eleven years ago) link

I actually feel sort of shitty for doing so well!

Yo! MTV La Tengo (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 12 January 2013 04:13 (eleven years ago) link


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