Your 2010 Celebrity Death Pool Thread

notcasesensitive · 12-22-2009, 12:31 PM

As we head into our seventh big year of Lawtalkers death pools, once again I post the rules for all who wish to enter:

(Same rules as last year. And the year before. And I think the year before that, though I'm not sure when the Hank Chinaski tie-breaker rule was added on.)

*Each player submits 10 celebrity picks to me via PM (do not post them here).

*I will be the final arbitor as to whether someone qualifies as a celebrity. If you have a local celebrity that you wish to pick, or someone who I might not be familiar with, please include an explanation of why the person should qualify as famous for me. The TM anti-Earl Woods rule is in effect this year - no one qualifies as being a celebrity just because they popped out a famous kid. Also death row inmates (unless they were famous prior to committing their special crime -- the OJ/Saddam Hussein exception), Michael Jackson's accuser, etc. do not qualify.

*All picks should be submitted to me by December 31, 2009 at 11:30 p.m. EST.

*Death Pool will begin on January 1, 2010 at 12:01 a.m. EST. Pool will close December 31, 2010 at midnight EST.

*I will post a listing of all picks here once they have been tabulated. If you wish to pick anyone of questionable celebrity status, get your list to me early to make sure I accept all picks.

*Ties in final number of deaths picked will battle it out in the Hank Chinaski tiebreaker, which will measure the difference between the ages of the celebrities picked and 100. Celebrities over 100 will not garner tied players any points in the tiebreaker. The younger the dead celebrity, the more points! So go for it and pick Prince Harry if you care to. Or an Olsen twin.

*In the event of any need for rules clarification, I will post those here. In the event of any dispute as to how the rules should work, I will have the final say. Though I may solicit opinions of pool entrants.

*If you pick someone and they die before the pool period starts, you may resubmit a new entry, but no geezer who drops before the beginning time of the pool will count as a hit for you (though if on your 2009 pool list, they wil count in that pool).

*I can't promise that I will catch every single celebrity death during the year, so I urge each of you to watch for stories confirming the death of your selected celebrities. If I miss a published death, just shoot me an e-mail with a link and I'll post the hit on this board.

*Winner gets no monetary reward. What do you think this is - a greedy associates board? But you do get to boast about it for all of calendar year 2011. Boasting is always fun!

*Person (or people) with the fewest hits during the year will grab the Angel of Mercy title.

*In case you care, here is the rundown of winners of prior Celebrity Death Pools:

2004 - Fugee
2005 - barely_legal
2006 - Mr. Man
2007 - tmdiva
2008 - tmdiva
2009 - ??? - barely_legal holds the lead in December, but there are four players on her (airbrushed) tail

*Have fun and good luck!

your faithful deathpooltrix,
ncs

notcasesensitive · 12-30-2009, 12:56 PM

Just a friendly reminder to get your death pool picks to me in the next two days... So far I have 8 entries.

notcasesensitive · 01-02-2010, 12:32 AM

Here they are, in no particular order:

Hank Chinaski
1. Kirk Douglas
2. Tony Bennett
3. Carol channing
4. Abe Vigoda
5. Betty Ford
6. Chemical Ali
7. Jack Lalane
8. Peter O'Toole
9. Fidel Castro
10. Billy Graham

LessinSF
1. Fidel Castro
2. Yitzhak Shamir
3. Ariel Sharon
4. Billy Graham
5. John Demanjuk
6. Amy Winehouse
7. Chemical Ali
8. Louis Farrakan
9. Nancy Reagan
10. John Wooden

bold_n_brazen
1. Abe Vigoda
2. Kirk Douglas
3. John Wooden
4. Anthony Marshall
5. Dick Clark
6. Harry Morgan
7. Bob Barker
8. Billy Graham
9. Mohammed Ali
10. Judge Joseph Wapner

tmdiva Angel of Death 2007 & 2008
1. Billy Graham
2. Fidel Castro
3. John Wooden
4. Ariel Sharon
5. Zsa Zsa Gabor
6. Nancy Reagan
7. Kim Jong Il
8. Prince Philip
9. Margaret Thatcher
10. Seve Ballesteros

Sparklehorse
1. Kirk Douglas
2. Ariel Sharon
3. Zsa Zsa Gabor
4. Elizabeth Taylor
5. Margaret Thatcher
6. Pete Doherty
7. Amy Winehouse
8. Lindsay Lohan
9. Abe Vigoda
10. Sargent Shriver

barely_legal Angel of Death 2005 & 2009
1. Billy Graham
2. Ronnie Biggs
3. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi (Lockerbie Bomber)
4. Fidel Castro
5. Kirk Douglas
6. Betty Ford
7. Ariel Sharon
8. Ron Springs
9. John Demjanjuk
10. Oscar Neimeyer

Flinty_McFlint
1. Lindsay Lohan
2. Kirk Douglas
3. Fidel Castro
4. Kim Jong-il
5. Pat Robertson
6. Steve Jobs
7. Mindy McCready
8. Dick Clark
9. John "Lavin didn't kill me" Wooden
10. Amy Winehouse

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
1. Margaret Thatcher
2. Kim Jong-Il
3. Fidel Castro
4. Ariel Sharon
5. Seve Ballesteros
6. Billy Graham
7. John Demjanjuk
8. Nancy Reagan
9. John Wooden
10. George Steinbrenner

Miss Maine
1. Fidel Castro
2. Kim Jong-il
3. Bob Barker
4. Mohammed Ali
5. Steve Jobs
6. Elizabeth Edwards
7. Nelson Mandela
8. Nancy Reagan
9. Elizabeth Taylor
10. Queen Elizabeth II

learnedmano
1. Artie Lange
2. Robert Byrd
3. Dolores Hope
4. Fidel Castro
5. Elizabeth Edwards
6. Jack Klugman
7. Ernest Borgnine
8. Phyllis Diller
9. Mike Wallace
10. Lindsay Lohan

Fugee Angel of Death 2004
1. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
(Lockerbie Bomber)
2. Fidel Castro
3. Bernie Madoff
4. Oscar Niemeyer
5. Ariel Sharon
6. John Forsythe
7. Bryant Gumbel
8. Delores Hope
9. Betty Ford
10.Anne Francis

dtb
1. Nancy Reagan
2. Fidel Castro
3. Amy Winehouse
4. Bob Barker
5. Art Linkletter
6. Harry Morgan
7. Kirk Douglas
8. Lindsay Lohan
9. Nelson Mandela
10. Betty Ford

Diane_Keaton
1. Robert Carlyle Byrd
2. Prime Minster of Trinidad and Tobago, Patrick Manning
3. Fidel Castro
4. Former Jamaica Prime Minister, Edward Philip George Seaga
5. Nepal Prime Minister, Girija Prasad Koirala
6. Pakistan President, General Pervez Musharraf
7. Ariel Sharon
8. Hamas Chief, Mahmoud al-Zahar
9. President of Nigeri, Umaru Yar’ Adua
10. Peter O'Toole

Not Bob
1. Elizabeth Taylor
2. Steven Tyler
3. Mary-Kate Olsen
4. Fidel Castro
5. John Wooden
6. Sargent Shriver
7. Dick Clark
8. Betty Ford
9. Hamid Karzai
10. Nancy Reagan

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
1. Keith Richards
2. Kris Kristofferson
3. Pete Seeger
4. Lena Horne
5. Doc Watson
6. Ravi Shankar
7. Iggy Pop
8. BB King
9. Elton John
10. Marianne Faithful

Atticus Grinch
1. Dick Clark
2. Steve Jobs
3. Nancy Reagan
4. Kim Jong Il
5. Jack Lalane
6. Betty Ford
7. Elizabeth Edwards
8. Shirley Temple Black
9. Fidel Castro
10. Billy Graham

Mr. Man Angel of Death 2006
1. Fidel Castro
2. Kirk Douglas
3. Billy Graham
4. Jack Kevorkian
5. Oscar Niemeyer
6. BB King
7. Seve Ballasteros
8. Harry Morgan
9. George Steinbrenner
10. Nelson Mandela

notcasesensitive
1. Betty Ford
2. Elizabeth Edwards
3. Elizabeth Taylor
4. Fidel Castro
5. Ariel Sharon
6. John Wooden
7. Stephen Hawking
8. Zsa Zsa Gabor
9. Sargent Shriver
10. Art Linkletter

Jack Manfred
1. John Wooden
2. Billy Graham
3. Olivia De Havilland
4. Liza Minelli
5. Betty Ford
6. Barbara Billingsley
7. Zsa Zsa Gabor
8. Art Linkletter
9. Harry Morgan
10. Ravi Shankar

19 entries this year. Good luck and let the dying begin!

LessinSF · 01-02-2010, 05:01 AM

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Originally Posted by notcasesensitive

... Miss Maine ... learnedmano ... !

Penske, how many entries do you need?

Miss Maine · 01-02-2010, 06:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Penske, how many entries do you need?

Less, I'm not Penske. I don't post much because, well, Internet connections are slow here in Maine and I usually don't have much to ass.

Happy New Year

Miss Maine

Fugee · 01-02-2010, 01:07 PM

If Fidel Castro doesn't die, 3G, Sparklehorse and BnB are going to be pretty smug at being the only ones to not have picked him.

Right behind him are Ariel Sharon, Billy Graham, Nancy Reagan & John Wooden.

Amy Winehouse and Lindsay Lohan better go to rehab because 4 people picked each of them while Britney must be officially recovered because this year no one picked her.

New Jersey · 01-02-2010, 01:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Miss Maine

Less, I'm not Penske. I don't post much because, well, Internet connections are slow here in Maine and I usually don't have much to ass.

Happy New Year

Miss Maine

Same with me. I am not penske. It's not like Penske is behind every state sock and also I feel like ironwuss has the voice of New Jersey down so need for me to be redundant.

not_penske · 01-02-2010, 03:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Miss Maine

Less, I'm not Penske. I don't post much because, well, Internet connections are slow here in Maine and I usually don't have much to ass.

Happy New Year

Miss Maine

Quote:

Originally Posted by New Jersey

Same with me. I am not penske. It's not like Penske is behind every state sock and also I feel like ironwuss has the voice of New Jersey down so need for me to be redundant.

Lies and Charlatanism! I am Not Penske!

Hi!

LessinSF · 01-03-2010, 12:28 AM

Penske, or um learnedmano, with a potential early lead.

Jack Manfred · 01-04-2010, 02:27 AM

Jack Manfred
1. John Wooden
2. Billy Graham
3. Olivia De Havilland
4. Liza Minelli
5. Betty Ford
6. Barbara Billingsley
7. Zsa Zsa Gabor
8. Art Linkletter
9. Harry Morgan
10. Ravi Shankar

Sorry I'm late, but I've had other priorities this week. I'm essentially reloading my 2009 picks with two castoffs from 2008. I've got a good feeling about 2010.

learnedmano · 01-04-2010, 10:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Penske, or um learnedmano, with a potential early lead.

I, too, am not Penske (or Not Penske). As a fan of Artie's work on the Howard Stern radio show, I will miss him if he leaves us, but getting a head start on the 2010 Angel of Death award will help me get over it.

Fugee · 01-04-2010, 10:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by learnedmano

I, too, am not Penske (or Not Penske). As a fan of Artie's work on the Howard Stern radio show, I will miss him if he leaves us, but getting a head start on the 2010 Angel of Death award will help me get over it.

Maybe not Penske's sock (though I wouldn't doubt it), but someone's sock for sure.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 01-04-2010, 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jack Manfred

Jack Manfred
1. John Wooden
2. Billy Graham
3. Olivia De Havilland
4. Liza Minelli
5. Betty Ford
6. Barbara Billingsley
7. Zsa Zsa Gabor
8. Art Linkletter
9. Harry Morgan
10. Ravi Shankar

Sorry I'm late, but I've had other priorities this week. I'm essentially reloading my 2009 picks with two castoffs from 2008. I've got a good feeling about 2010.

Sorry, but I copyrighted Norah's dad.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 01-04-2010, 10:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fugee

If Fidel Castro doesn't die, 3G, Sparklehorse and BnB are going to be pretty smug at being the only ones to not have picked him.

Right behind him are Ariel Sharon, Billy Graham, Nancy Reagan & John Wooden.

Amy Winehouse and Lindsay Lohan better go to rehab because 4 people picked each of them while Britney must be officially recovered because this year no one picked her.

No smugness involved. I do theme picks, and as far as I know, Fidel doesn't sing.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 01-04-2010, 10:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by New Jersey

Same with me. I am not penske. It's not like Penske is behind every state sock and also I feel like ironwuss has the voice of New Jersey down so need for me to be redundant.

Wait. I thought New Jersey was my sock. Which state is mine?