Dead Pool 2012

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?