Yahoo! Fantasy Death Pool
Saturday 19 January 2008
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It was recommended by Swain that we all participate in a Death Pool/Death List for 2008. Apparently in New Orleans this morbid game is common place and local television networks spend much of the new year discussing their lists of hopeful deaths on the evening news — perhaps in an attempt to divert the reality that a category five will be wiping out the city in a FEMA-packed sequel set for release some time in August. For those of us who are gentiles or live outside the path of Hurricane Cloverfield the point of a Death Pool is relatively easy - a group of players pick out celebrities who they think will die within the year and who ever picks the most correct at the conclusion of the year is declared the winner. |
| The details of the rules are much the same as Monopoly, no one actually knows the real rules so its just the rules of the house - so in our house these are the Death Pool Rules: 1) The pool will run from 1/21/08 until 1/1/09. Deaths occurring on the last day will count. 2) You pick 50 people that you think will die in the above time frame. These people must be celebrities and/or other wise well known. Generally if they have a Wikipedia entry with a picture they are “famous” for purposes of this game. 3) You will submit your picks by this thursday over email. 4) All players will have the opportunity to strike an ineligible name for failing to be famous or not fitting one of the following restrictions: a) It does not count if you actually kill the person. b) We are taking the liberal, pro choice approach to fetuses. I.E., you cannot pick jamie spears’ unborn seed b/c it is not a person. (See Roe v. Wade). c) The person can not be on death row d) No personal acquaintances (personal knowledge would make things unfair)POINT SYSTEM: Age at death is 0-29 is worth 3 points; Age at death is 0-59 is worth 2 points, Age at death is 60+ is worth 1 point |
UPDATE: Here are the draft results for the 2008 Death Pool
| Swain’s List Amy Winehouse B.B. King Barbara Bush Betty Ford Billy Graham Bo Diddley Bo Jackson Bob Barker Bobby “the brain” Heenan Britney Spears Charlie Watts Charlton Heston Claude Levi-Strauss Dick Cheney Dick Clark Don Vito Estelle Getty Fats Domino Fidel Castro George Bush Sr. Iggy Pop JD Salinger Jeffrey Skilling Jesse Helms Jodie Sweetin John Paul Stevens Keith Richards Kirk Douglas Lawrence Taylor Leif Garrett Liz Taylor Mean Joe Green Michael J Fox Mick Mars Muhammad Ali Osama Bin Laden Pete Dohrety Queen Elizabeth II Refrigerator Perry Rev. Al Sharpton Ric Flair Robert Guillaume Rowdy Roddy Piper Scott Weiland Stan Musial Ted Stevens Tommy Lasorda Tony Siragusa Wilford Brimley Zsa Zsa Gabor |
Butt’s List Alan Greenspan Ariel Sharon Betty Ford Bob Barker Bob Dole Bob Dylan Britney Spears Casey Kasem Charlton Heston Chuck Berry Courtney Love David Bowie Dick Clark Ed McMahon Elizabeth Taylor Fidel Castro Gene Wilder George H W Bush Henry Kissinger J. D. Salinger Jerry Lewis Jesse Helms Jimmy Carter John Wooden Keith Richards Kirk Douglas Lindsay Lohan Margaret Thatcher Mark Mangino Martin Landau Mel Brooks Michael Jackson Micky Rooney Muhammad Ali Nancy Reagan Nelson Mandela OJ Simpson Osama Bin Laden Paris Hilton Pervez Musharraf Ralphie May Rowdy Roddy Piper Rupert Murdoch Sandra Day O’Connor Sparky Anderson Stephen Hawking Walter Cronkite Wilford Brimley Yogi Berra Zsa Zsa Gabor |
JP’s List Abdul, Paula Acuna , Jason Ali, Muhammad Antonioni, Michelangelo Bin Laden, Osoma Butz, Earl Carter, Jimmy Castro, Fidel Cronkite, Walter Douglas, Kirk Dukes, Elijah Ebert, Roger Farrakhan, Louis Feller, Bob Fox, Micheal J Gabor, Zja Zja Graham Jr, Billy Griffith, Andy Heston, Charlton Hilton, Paris Hilton, Perez Iacocca, Lee Jackson, Curtis Jones, PacMan Kennedy, George King, BB Lansbury, Angela Lasorda, Tommy Lee, Stan Levi-Strauss, Claude Lewis, Jerry Linkletter, Art Mandall, Howie Manson, Chalres Modell, Art Nash, John Olsen, Kate Otto, Jim Regan, Nancy Richards, Keith Richie, Nicole Sharon, Ariel Sizemore, Tom Spears, Britney Taylor, Elizabeth Throat, Deep (Mark Felt) Verhoven, Paul Weiland, Scott Wilder, Gene Yastrzemski, Carl |
Jenness‘ List Abe Vigoda Andy Rooney Angela Lansbury Annette Funicello Art Linkletter Barbara Billingsley Bea Arthur Betty White Billy Graham Bob Feller Carol Channing Dear Abby Della Reese Don Pardo Doris Day Ed Asner Eddy Arnold Estelle Getty Fidel Castro Fyvush Finkel George Carlin Hugh Downs Jerry Lee Lewis Jerry Lewis Jesse Helms Jimmie Dean John Forsythe John Wooden Jonathon Winters Karl Malden Kirk Douglas Larry Hagman Lena Horne Martin Landau Maureen O’Hara Mickey Rooney Mike Wallace Nancy Reagan Nelson Mandela Phyllis Diller Ralph Kiner Ray Bradbury Ray Price Ricardo Montalban Roger Moore Soupy Sales Stan Lee Stan Musial Walter Cronkite Zsa Zsa Gabor |
Shouldn’t it be from 1/21/08 to 1/1/09? Just a thought…
Noted. And corrected. (Rules were Swains first so I blame him 10%)
blame me 100%
Also, should chemical ali be considered death row?
Well Chemical Ali ‘was’ sentenced to be executed by hanging. Now his wiki says “Chemical Ali’s execution is at the moment suspended indefinitely” - what say you?
I’m glad Jazz Faggots Don’t Like Us Anymore
Who would have thought Heath Ledger should have been on that list… tear…
why doesn’t blythe get her own death pool
Come on Mary-Kate Olsen!
Posted by Jeff @ 23 Jan 2008 3:34
Did you hear Heath Ledger died?
He’s the worst.
I think Frank Jenness did Brandon’s list.
And Kann obviously cheated.
Hurst put TO on his death pool. What an asshole…
Interesting, but usual =)