The Dead Pool

[captain_slinky]

At the request of a few friends so far, I have decided to start up The Dead Pool this year. Invite your friends!

What is a Dead Pool, you may ask? It's easy! All you have to do is come up with a list of no less than 5 but no more than 10 Celebrities and/or Personalities that you think are going to die over the course of 2004. You get points based on how far away from 100 Years Old they were when they died! So for instance, if Prop Comic supreme Scott "Carrot Top" Thompson (who is 37 years old this year) were to finally meet up with the merciful sting of a snipers bullet this year, he would be worth 63 points! But if older-than-dirt funny man Jonathan Winters were to suddenly kick the bucket at age 79, he would only be worth a measely 21 points. Whoever ends the year with the most points will win a valuable prize of some sort!

Don't limit yourself to just Hollywood celebrities... NASCAR racers, Athletes, Deposed Foreign Dictators, Famous Terrorists... as long as the death would be reported in a National newspaper, they can be on your list! So while "Osama Bin Laden" *is* a valid entry, "My Uncle Fred" is NOT a valid entry.

Also, all entries must be actual physical persons. Cartoon Characters, intellectual properties, abstract concepts and/or ideas are not valid. "Kenny From South Park", "Michael Jackson's Career", "Freedom Of Speech" and "Original Thought" are examples of invalid entries. Just real people, really dying. Got it?

Just post your list in a reply and I'll keep track of it for you! You have till January 21st to get your entries in, unless you ask me really nice to let you play after that. Also, I will be posting my OWN Dead Pool List in the comments area as well so you will all know if I'm a cheater.

Good luck!

Comments

My Dead Pool List

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

(1) Saddam Hussain (Dewposed Dictator)
(2) Robert Downey Jr. (Actor)
(3) Hugh Heffner (Publisher)
(4) Tonny Bennett (Singer)
(5) Ronald Regan (Former US President)
(6) Pauley Shore (Commedian)
(7) Garry Coleman (Sit-Com Actor)
(8) Charleton Heston (Actor/Gun Activist)
(9) Rush Limbaugh (Talk Radio Host)
(10) Hillary Duff (Actress)

Notice how I decided to take the long-shot of Hillary Duff? Shure there's not much hope for that one to pan out, but if it does it's worth 83 points! WOOT!

[dotgirl.livejournal.com]

Ok, here's mine. Do I also need to email it?

(1) Queen Elizabeth II (78 this year)
(2) Ronald Reagan (93 this year)
(3) Michael Jackson (46 this year)
(4) Robert De Niro (61 this year)
(5) Pope John Paul II (age 84 this year)
(6) Jim Carrey (age 42 this year) (hope springs eternal)
(7) Keith Richards (age 61 this year)
(8) Yasser Arafat (age 75 this year)
(9) Pamela Anderson (age 37 this year)
(10) Suzanne Somers (age 58 this year)

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

No need to mail it this year... I'm keeping track from my LJ account!

Alternate suggestion:

[shivasinai.livejournal.com]

LiveJournal deadpool. Go through the pro-ana, pro-mia, bipolar, depression, and similarly unstable communities to pick out the ten LJers you most expect to die.

Re: Alternate suggestion:

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but how would you confirm the deaths?

[hallerlake.livejournal.com]

Ronald Reagan
Charlton Heston
Pope John Paul
Osama Bin Laden
Roy Horn (of Siegfried and Roy fame)
Woody Allen
John Travolta
Pervez Musharraf (president of Pakistan)
Fifty Cent
Wayne Newton (note, if Fifty Cent and Wayne Newton take each other out, I want extra credit)

[dotgirl.livejournal.com]

oooh, i forgot about Roy ...

Brian says you get extra credit if you guess the way a person dies, so I want to state that I think Michael Jackson will wind up killing himself. Probably after some videotape of him and Macaulau Culkin surfaces.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I was actually thinking of addsing a "Bonus Points" rule for if you wanted to specify HOW said person was going to die. But then I feared entries like "Sean Astin will mysteriaously die at the merciful hands of an unknown but dedicated stalker who just wanted to be friends with Sewan, but Sean would never return the unknown stalkers affection. Sean was just stupid. Didn't he KNOW that they were destined to be together?".

[spazzychic.livejournal.com]

The Pope (John Paul II)
Yogi Berra
Michael Jackson
Ozzy Ozborne
Saddam Hussein

Bob Hope, but he's 100 years old, so worth 0 points, so he's just on here as a "Well, DUH" Not part of my entry.

[spazzychic.livejournal.com]

Oh wait. You need 10. Let me toss out 5 more.

Sean Connery
George W Bush (maybe? MAYBE?)
Zsa Zsa Gabor
James Earl Jones
Wild Card: Jack Black

[freydis.livejournal.com]

Micheal Jackson
George Jones
Tony Curtis
Chloe Sevigny
Pervez Musharraf
Joan Collins
Wayne Newton
Jason Priestley

Oh, I'm sure only one of the above will die (do political leaders count) but whatever.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Political leaders DEFINATELY count! As long as the death would make it on to the evening news and/or Access Hollywood, it's a person who can be on your Dead List! However, who the heck are Chloe Sevigny and Pervez Musharraf?

Here we go...

[bghsmith.livejournal.com]

Nicole Richie (In a nasty drunken car wreak I'd bet.)

Micheal Jackson (suicide)

Kirk Douglas (gimme)

Ronald Reagan ('nother gimme)

Russel Crowe (crushed by his own ego)

P. Diddy (Now that he had 'cleaned up'. They always die after cleaning up.)

Isn't there still one Kennedy alive? (Not Ted, another one) She'll die too.

Re: Here we go...

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Excellent.... but I doubt that MJ will commit suicide this year. If he wanted the "easy way out", he could have just slipped over in to France while he was in the UK and lived the rest of his life with an entire HAREM of little boys!