The 2012 Off Topic Celebrity Dead Pool

[Wezil]

2012 Leader Board (as of 1-Jan-13)

1. 1459 ColdWizard (Sodalicium Immortalis)
2. 1122 Guynemer (Guild of Calamitous Intent)
3. 1045 Wezil (Canadian Cadaver Dogs)
4. 851 SlowwHand (Dallas Dead Dwarf Tossers)
5. 764 OzzyKP (Charon’s Canoe)
5. 764 MRT144
7. 692 Hauldren Collider (Kaptain Kool-aid)
8. 685 Robert Plomp (Life Kills)
9. 668 OneFootInTheGrave
10. 596 DaShi (DaShi Pissers)
11. 538 Krill (Why Invent The Wheel Twice)
12. 409 Bugs ****ing Bunny
13. 402 Plato (Plato’s Legio Mortis)
14. 386 -Jrabbit (Vicious Rabbits)
15. 380 stonesfan (We're all skeletons underneath)
16. 210 Tuberski (That 70’s Show)
17. 195 Ming (Mingapulco Graveyard)
18. 182 embalmer42 (Embalmer Express)
19. 050 Elok (The One That’s All Women)
19. 050 Dinner (Done Like Dinner)
19. 050 Uncle Sparky (Sparky’s Creamytorium)
19. 050 Barnabas



Dead Celebs in 2012

January 20 - Etta James (73) - Wezil, -Jrabbit, ColdWizard, MRT144, Bugs ****ing Bunny, stonesfan, Guynemer
January 22 - Joe Paterno (85) - Guynemer, SlowwHand
February 16 - Gary Carter (57) - ColdWizard
April 18 - Dick Clark (82) - SlowwHand, ColdWizard, Guynemer, DaShi
May 20 - Abdelbaset al-Megrahi (60) - Krill, OzzyKP, DaShi, OFITG, Wezil
May 20 - Robin Gibb (62) - OFITG, ColdWizard, Wezil, Bugs ****ing Bunny
June 2 - Richard Dawson (79) - PLATO
June 4 - Abu Yahya al-Libi (49) - OzzyKP
June 5 - Ray Bradbury (91) - Robert Plomp, MRT144, SlowwHand
June 26 - Nora Ephron (71) - Tuberski
June 30 - Yitzhak Shamir (96) - OzzyKP, Robert Plomp, DaShi, Hauldren Collider, Krill, Guynemer, SlowwHand
July 3 - Andy Griffith (86) - PLATO
July 8 - Ernest Borgnine (95) - SlowwHand, Hauldren Collider, stonesfan, ColdWizard, OFITG, Guynemer
August 20 - Dom Mintoff (96) - Robert Plomp
August 25 - Neil Armstrong (82) - embalmer42
September 25 - Andy Williams (84) - ColdWizard, Wezil
October 21 - George McGovern (90) - -Jrabbit, Hauldren Collider
October 22 - Russell Means (72) - ColdWizard
November 8 - Lee MacPhail (95) - Guynemer
November 23 - Larry Hagman (81) - Ming
December 5 - Oscar Niemeyer (104) - OzzyKP, Robert Plomp, MRT144
December 9 - Sir Patrick Moore (89) - Krill, Wezil
December 17 - Daniel Inouye (88) - Hauldren Collider
December 24 - Jack Klugman (90) - MRT144


All Time Leader Board (5 seasons)

1. 3897 -Jrabbit (Vicious Rabbits) (20)
2. 3726 Wezil (Canadian Cadaver Dogs) (18)
3. 3136 SlowwHand (Dallas Dead Dwarf Tossers) (17)
4. 2491 Guynemer (Guild of Calamitous Intent) (13)
5. 2029 ColdWizard (Sodalicium Immortalis) (10)
6. 1901 OzzyKP (Charon's Canoe) (10)
7. 1654 Robert Plomp (9)
8. 1467 Krill (7)
9. 1308 stonesfan (We're all skeletons underneath) (7)
10. 1304 OneFootInTheGrave (6)
11. 1133 MRT144 (6)
12. 1083 DaShi (DaShi Pissers) (6)
13. 1004 Omni Rex Draconis (5)
14. 990 solomwi (Hearse Chasers) (5)
15. 969 Tuberski (Death's Litterbox) (5)
16. 943 germanos (Into the Great Void) (4)
17. 913 Hauldren Collider (Kaptain Kool-aid) (5)
18. 704 embalmer42 (Embalmer Express) (3)
19. 675 Asmodean (3)
20. 613 Winston (Something Rotten) (3)
21. 592 The Emperor Fabulous (Next Dead Thing) (3)
22. 584 Ming (Never Say Die) (2)
23. 562 LordShiva (3)
24. 411 drunkasaskunk (2)
25. 409 Bugs ****ing Bunny (2)
26. 408 flash9286 (2)
27. 402 PLATO (Plato’s Legio Mortis) (2)
28. 393 David Floyd (2)
29. 386 LotC (2)
30. 384 Straybow (Straybow's Random Shots) (2)
31. 376 snoopy369 (2)
32. 171 Drogue (1)
33. 170 Ricketyclik (1)


Past Grim Reaper Award Winners

2008 - -Jrabbit (5 hits, 991 points)
2009 - SlowwHand (6 hits, 1241 points)
2010 - -Jrabbit (4 hits, 718 points)
2011 - -Jrabbit (6 hits, 1217 points)


Most points awarded: Michael Jackson - 273 points (Wezil)

Fewest points awarded: Yitzhak Shamir - 155 points (SlowwHand)

Oldest Celeb death: Oscar Niemeyer - 104 (OzzyKP, Robert Plomp, MRT144)

Youngest Celeb death: Amy Winehouse - 27 (embalmer42, germanos)

Earliest death: Miep Gies - January 11 (-Jrabbit)

Latest death: Harold Pinter & Jack Klugman - December 24 (Ming, snoopy369, Omni Rex Draconis, LordShiva & MRT144)

Most Hits - Single Celeb - Kim Jong-Il - 10 players

Longest Dry Spell: 102 days (July 22/08 - October 31/08 - ended by -Jrabbit)

Most Players: 22 (2012)

Most Celebs picked: 228 (2012)

1st Celeb death - January 19, 2008 - Suzanne Pleshette (70)
50th Celeb death - May 2, 2011 - Osama Bin Laden (54)
100th Celeb death -



Game Rules (applicable to game play)

11. Celebrity deaths are to be reported by the players in the Dead Pool thread (one report will suffice for all). I don’t have the time or inclination to keep track of everybody’s list. If someone on your list dies it is your duty to claim your points. NOTE: A link to an obit of some kind is required (see Rule 23b). This link must be in English.

12. All deaths are to be reported by 7th January 2013 (to allow for any delay in media reporting). This will be the official closing day for awarding points.

13. I'll update the thread every time someone scores points, and up-date the scoreboard in the thread opening post.

14. At the end of the year the poster with the most points will be declared the winner. Duh.

15. When an eligible celebrity on your list dies points will be awarded according to the following formula:

Points = (171 - Rank) + (100 – age) + Bonus

16. Rank points - The higher a player Ranks their pick the more points that pick will be worth. Be careful to order your list from most likely to least likely to perish sometime in 2010 if you want to make the most of their loss.

17. In addition, bonus points will be awarded when a death meets the following criteria:
a) Unique Pick Award: +25 points if you were the only player to pick that celebrity.
b) Unlucky 13 Award: +10 points for a celebrity who dies on the 13th of any month.
c) Unnatural Causes Award: +20 points for murder, suicide or accident.
d) Party Pooper Award: +25 points for any celebrity rude enough to die on their birthday or Christmas Day.
e) First Blood Award: +25 points for the first celebrity to die in 2012.
f) You Can’t Cheat Death Award: +25 points for the last celebrity to die in 2012.
g) The Daily Double: +50 points awarded to any player who has two celebrities on their roster die on the same day.
h) The Hat Trick: +75 points awarded to any player who has three celebrities on their roster die over the course of one week (any 7-day span).
i) The Grand Slam: +100 points awarded to any player who has four celebrities on their roster die in the same month (any 30-day span).
j) The Empty Casket Award: +50 points awarded at the end of the year to the player who had the longest "dry spell" between deaths.
k) The Killing Spree Award: +50 points awarded at the end of the year to the player who has the most celebrities on their list die in a row. (That is, they score multiple points without anyone else scoring between them).
l) The Leap Into the Grave Award: +25 points for any celebrity that dies on February 29th.

18. The official date/time of any celebrity death is measured in the time zone that the celebrity is in when they die.

19. In the event of a dead heat on points at the closing of the 2012 Dead Pool, the winner will be selected according to the following criteria, applied in this order:
a) The player with most correctly chosen deceased celebrities.
b) The player with the youngest average age of correct predictions.

20. If a celebrity who has passed on has more than one reported age the final decision will rest with the Panel Judges. Past precedent indicates the “oldest” birth date (fewer points) will be used when an accurate date cannot be determined.

21. a) You may not go out and “help yourself” win. Basically, you cannot kill someone on your list to give yourself more points. (any list actually). The penalty for violating this rule, in addition to any criminal charges brought upon you by the appropriate authorities, is a lifetime ban from the Off Topic Dead Pool.
b) You may not kill any of the other players (see paragraph a) above)

23. DEFINITIONS:
a) "Celebrity" means someone who, upon their death, gets a written obituary in a major, mainstream media news website. A good rule of thumb is “Celebrity = Name Recognition.” The Judges Panel should be able to look at the name and say “Oh, I know who that is,” without any prompting from the player. The Judges Panel should at least be able to find many references to the individual with a cursory online search.
b) "Obituary" simply means an article that mentions the fact that the person has died. It doesn't have to be the conventional biographical write-up.
c) "Alive" means drawing breath, not decomposing, that kind of thing.
d) “Dead” means dead. No irreversible coma, no vegetables. To qualify as dead, there must be an actual corpse. The death of a career doesn't count.

24. PRIZE: The player with the most points at the end of the year will gain nothing more than the glory and distinction of being the best at reading the tea leaves and determining where Death was most likely to strike in 2012.

[Wezil]

2012 Dead Pool

Players (22)

Barnabas – 1st season
Bugs ****ing Bunny – 1st season
ColdWizard (Sodalicium Immortalis) – 2nd season
DaShi (DaShi Pissers) – 2nd season
Dinner (Done Like Dinner)– 1st season
Elok (The One That’s All Women) – 1st season
embalmer42 (Embalmer Express) - 5th season
Guynemer (Guild of Calamitous Intent) – 5th season
Hauldren Collider (Kaptain Kool-aid) – 2nd season
-Jrabbit (Vicious Rabbits) – 5th season
Krill (Why Invent The Wheel Twice) – 3rd season
MRT144 – 2nd season
Ming (Mingapulco Graveyard) – 5th season
OneFootInTheGrave – 3rd season
OzzyKP (Charon’s Canoe) - 5th season
Plato (Plato’s Legio Mortis) – 1st season
Robert Plomp (Life Kills) – 2nd season
SlowwHand (Dallas Dead Dwarf Tossers) – 5th season
stonesfan (We're all skeletons underneath) – 2nd season
Tuberski (That 70’s Show) – 4th season
Uncle Sparky (Sparky’s Creamytorium) – 1st season
Wezil (Canadian Cadaver Dogs) – 5th season



Celebrities (228)

Celebrity Profession Birth Date

Abbas, Mahmoud Politician 26-Mar-35
Aday, Michael "Meatloaf" Music 27-Sep-47
al-Assad, Bashar Tyrant 11-Sep-65
al-Libi, Abu Yahya Terrorist 1963 died 4-Jun-12
al-Zawahiri, Ayman Terrorist 19-Jun-51
Al Megrahi, Abdelbaset Terrorist 1-Apr-52 died 20-May-12
Albright, Madeleine Politics 15-May-37
Alba, Jessica Actress 28-Apr-81
Alda, Alan Actor 28-Jan-36
Adler, Steven Music 22-Jan-65
Allen, Woody Director 1-Dec-35
Ali, Muhammad Sports 17-Jan-42
Andretti, Mario Sports 28-Feb-40
Andrews, Patty Music 16-Feb-18
Aniston, Jennifer Actress 11-Feb-69
Apple, Fiona Music 13-Sep-77
Arantes do Nascimento, Edson Sports 23-Oct-40
Armstrong, Neil Astronaut 5-Aug-30 died 25-Aug-12
Ash, Leslie Actress 19-Feb-60
Aspel, Michael TV Host 1-Dec-33
Aziz, Tariq Criminal 28-Apr-36
Bacall, Lauren Actor 16-Dec-24
Baker, Tom Actor 20-Jan-34
Barger, Sonny Criminal 8-Oct-38
Barker, Bob TV Host 12-Dec-23
Bell, Andy Music 25-Apr-64
Bennett, Tony Music 3-Aug-26
Berg, Rabbi Philip Religion 20-Aug-29
Berra, Lawrence "Yogi" Sports 12-May-25
Berry, Chuck Music 18-Oct-26
Bhumibol, King Politics 5-Dec-27
Biggs, Ronnie Criminal 8-Aug-29
Borgnine, Ernest Actor 24-Jan-17 died 8-Jul-12
Boone, Pat Music 1-Jun-34
Bradbury, Ray Author 22-Aug-20 died 5-Jun-12
Brady, Ian Criminal 2-Jan-38
Buffet, Warren Business 30-Aug-30
Burlusconi, Silvio Politics 29-Sep-36
Bush, George H. Politics 12-Jun-24
Byrd, Harry Jr. Politics 20-Dec-14
Caan, James Actor 26-Mar-40
Caesar, Sid Actor 8-Sep-22
Cardin, Pierre Fashion 7-Jul-22
Carington, Peter Politics 6-Jun-19
Carter, Gary Sports 8-Apr-54 died 16-Feb-12
Carter, Jimmy Politics 1-Oct-24
Castro, Fidel Politics 13-Aug-26
Chavez, Hugo Politics 28-Jul-54
Cheney, Dick Politics 30-Jan-41
Chirac, Jacques Politics 29-Nov-32
Chretien, Jean Politician 11-Jan-34
Ciccone, Madonna Music 16-Aug-58
Clark, Dick TV Host 30-Nov-29 died 18-Apr-12
Connery, Sean Actor 25-Aug-30
Cosby, Bill Actor 12-Jul-37
Cox, Courtney Actress 15-Jun-64
Curry, Tim Actor 19-Apr-46
Da Silva, Lula Politics 27-Oct-45
Dahl, Arlene Actress 11-Aug-25
Davis, Reuben Sports 7-May-65
Dawn, Liz Actress 8-Nov-39
Dawson, Richard Actor 20-Nov-32 died 2-Jun-12
De Havilland, Olivia Actress 1-Jul-16
Dickens, Little Jimmy Music 19-Dec-20
Ditka, Mike Sports 18-Oct-39
Dole, Bob Politics 22-Jul-23
Domino, Antoine "Fats" Music 26-Feb-28
Douglas, Kirk Actor 9-Dec-16
Douglas, Michael Actor 25-Sep-44
Duggar, Michelle Baby Mom 13-Sep-66
Duvalier, Jean-Claude Tyrant 3-Jul-51
Ebert, Roger Media 18-Jun-42
Ephron, Nora Author 19-May-41 died 26-Jun-12
Failthfull, Marianne Music 29-Dec-46
Farrakhan, Louis Religion 11-May-33
Ford, Whitey Sports 21-Oct-28
Fox, Megan Actress 16-May-86
Fox, Michael J. Actor 6-Sep-61
Franklin, Aretha Music 25-Mar-42
Frederiksen, Fergie Music 15-May-51
Freeman, Morgan Actor 1-Jun-37
Gabor, Zsa Zsa Actress 6-Feb-17
Galliano, John Fashion 28-Nov-60
Gambon, Michael Actor 19-Oct-40
Garner, James Actor 7-Apr-28
Gellar, Sarah Michelle Actress 14-Apr-77
Giap. Vo Nguyin Military 25-Aug-11
Gibb, Robin Music 22-Dec-49 died 20-May-12
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader Justice 15-Mar-33
Glover, Stephen "Steve-O" Goof 13-Jun-74
Goodall, Jane Ape Lady 3-Apr-34
Goodman, John Actor 20-Jun-52
Gorbachev, Mikhail Politics 2-Mar-31
Grafton, Sue Author 24-Apr-40
Graham, Billy Religion 7-Nov-18
Graham, Billy Wrestler 7-Jun-43
Greenspan, Alan Economics 6-Mar-26
Griffith, Andy Actor 1-Jun-26 died 3-Jul-12
Hagman, Larry Actor 21-Sep-31 died 23-Nov-12
Hall, Monty TV Host 25-Aug-21
Hannah, Darryl Actress 3-Dec-60
Harding, Tonya Criminal 12-Nov-70
Hawking, Stephen Scientist 8-Jan-42
Hefner, Hugh Publishing 9-Apr-26
Hesseman, Howard Actor 27-Feb-40
Hewson, Paul "Bono" Music 10-May-60
Hinch, Derryn Media 9-Feb-44
Hunter, Tommy Music 10-Mar-37
Hurt, John Actor 22-Jan-40
Inouye, Daniel Politics 7-Sep-24 died 17-Dec-12
James, Etta Music 25-Jan-38 died 20-Jan-12
Johnson, Russell Actor 10-Nov-24
Jolie, Angelina Actress 4-Jun-75
Jonsson, Ulrika Media 16-Aug-67
Kardashian, Kim Socialite 21-Oct-80
Kardashian, Kourtney TV 18-Apr-79
Kardashian, Khloe TV 27-Jun-84
Karzai, Hamid Puppet 24-Dec-57
Khamenei, Ayatollah Religion 17-Jul-39
King Harald V Royalty 21-Feb-37
King, B.B. Music 16-Sep-25
King, Larry TV 19-Nov-33
Kirchner, Cristina Politics 19-Feb-53
Kissinger, Henry Criminal 27-May-23
Klein, Ralph Politics 1-Nov-42
Klugman, Jack Actor 27-Apr-22 died 24-Dec-12
Kohl, Helmut Politics 3-Apr-30
Kyle, Jack Sports 10-Jan-26
Lang, Artie Comedy 11-Oct-67
Levi-Montalcini, Rita Medicine 22-Apr-09
Lewis, Jerry Actor 16-Mar-26
LaMotta, Jake Sports 10-Jul-21
LaRouche, Lyndon Politics 8-Sep-22
Lavigne, Avril Music 27-Sep-84
Lightfoot, Gordon Music 17-Nov-38
Lohan, Lindsay Criminal 7-Feb-86
Love, Courtney Tramp 9-Jul-64
Lugo, Fernando Politics 30-May-51
Lynn, Vera Music 20-Mar-17
MacPhail, Lee Business 25-Oct-17 died 8-Nov-12
MacGowan, Shane Music 25-Dec-57
Mandela, Nelson Politician 18-Jul-18
Manning, Bradley Snitch 17-Dec-87
Manson, Charles Criminal 12-Nov-34
Martin, Tony Music 25-Dec-12
McGovern, George Politics 19-Jul-22 died 21-Oct-12
Means, Russell Politics 10-Nov-39 died 22-Oct-12
Meyers, Jonathan Rhys Actor 27-Jul-77
Mintoff, Dom Politics 6-Aug-16 died 20-Aug-12
Misch, Rochus Nazi 29-Jul-17
Mladic, Ratko Criminal 12-Mar-43
Molinaro, Al Actor 24-Jun-19
Mondale, Walter Politics 5-Jan-28
Moore, Patrick Scientist 3-Apr-23 died 9-Dec-12
Mubarak, Hosni Politics 4-May-28
Mugabe, Robert Politics 21-Feb-24
Murdoch, Rupert Media 11-Mar-31
Musial, Stan Sports 21-Nov-20
Nabors, Jim Actor 12-Jun-30
Nakasone, Yasuhiro Politcs 27-May-18
Newmar, Julie Actress 16-Aug-33
Niemeyer, Oscar Architect 15-Dec-07 died 5-Dec-12
Niven, Larry Author 30-Apr-38
Nolte, Nick Actor 8-Feb-41
Norris, Chuck Actor 10-Mar-40
Ono, Yoko Hack 18-Feb-33
Osbourne, John "Ozzy" Music 12-Mar-48
Parker, Sarah Jessica Actress 25-Mar-65
Paterno, Joe Sports 21-Dec-26 died 22-Jan-12
Pei, Ieoh Ming Architect 26-Apr-17
Perry, William Sports 16-Dec-62
Poitier, Sidney Actor 20-Feb-27
Pope Benedict Religion 16-Apr-27
Prince Philip Royalty 10-Jun-21
Queen Elizabeth II Royalty 21-Apr-26
Rainer, Luise Actress 12-Jan-10
Read, Mark "Chopper" Criminal 17-Nov-54
Reagan, Nancy First Lady 6-Jul-21
Redford, Robert Actor 18-Aug-36
Reid, Tara Actress 8-Nov-75
Reno, Janet Politics 21-Jul-38
Rice, Ann Author 4-Oct-41
Richards, Keith Music 18-Dec-43
Roberts, Jake "Snake" Wrestler 30-May-55
Rose, William "Axl" Music 6-Feb-62
Ross, Katharine Actress 29-Jan-40
Rooney, Mickey Actor 23-Sep-20
Rousseff, Dilma Politics 14-Dec-47
Russell, Bill Sports 12-Feb-34
Sachs, Andrew Actor 7-Apr-30
Sandusky, Jerry Criminal 26-Jan-44
Schmidt, Helmut Politics 23-Dec-18
Seeger, Pete Music 3-May-19
Sharon, Ariel Politician 27-Feb-28
Shamir, Yitzhak Politician 15-Oct-15 died 30-Jun-12
Shaw, Run Run Media 31-Oct-07
Sheen, Charlie Burnout 3-Sep-65
Sheen, Martin Actor 3-Aug-40
Simon, Neil Playwright 4-Jul-27
Stevens, John Paul Justice 20-Apr-20
Stewart, Patrick Actor 13-Jul-40
Stiller, Jerry Actor 8-Jun-27
Taylor, Mick Music 17-Jan-49
Thatcher, Margaret Politician 13-Oct-25
Thomas, Helen Media 4-Aug-20
Tittle, Y.A. Sports 24-Oct-26
Turner, Tina Music 26-Nov-39
Twain, Shania Music 28-Aug-65
Tyler, Liv Actress 1-Jul-77
Van Dyke, Dick Actor 13-Dec-25
Vigoda, Abe Actor 24-Feb-21
Wallach, Eli Actor 12-Jul-15
Watson, Russell Music 23-Nov-66
Watts, Charlie Music 6-Feb-41
Weiland, Scott Music 27-Oct-67
White, Betty Actress 17-Jan-22
Wilder, Gene Actor 11-Jun-33
Wilders, Geert Politics 6-Sep-63
Williams, Andy Music 3-Dec-27 died 25-Sep-12
Wing, Anna Actress 30-Oct-14
Winter, Johnny Music 23-Feb-44
Wolfe, Tom Author 2-Mar-30
Woodhead, Chris Education 20-Oct-46
Woolery, Chuck TV Host 16-Mar-41
Wouk, Herman Author 27-May-15
Yoshida, Masao Scientist 1955
Zeffirelli, Franco Director 12-Feb-23
Zimbalist, Efrem Jr. Actor 30-Nov-18

[Wezil]

The Full Team Rosters


--> Picks marked with a “*” are unique picks


Barnabas

1. Fidel Castro
2. Hugo Chavez
3. *Pope Benedict
4. Lula Da Silva
5. *Fernando Lugo
6. *Dilma Rousseff
7. *Cristina Kirchner
8. Madeleine Albright
9. *Janet Reno
10. George H. Bush
11. Jimmy Carter
12. *Tony Bennett
13. Ozzy Osbourne
14. *Madonna Ciccone
15. Silvio Berlusconi
16. *Lauren Bacall
17. *Helmut Kohl
18. Mikhail Gorbachev
19. Courtney Love
20. Lindsay Lohan


Bugs ****ing Bunny

1. Zsa Zsa Gabor
2. Nelson Mandela
3. Prince Phillip
4. Ian Brady
5. *Charles Manson
6. Nick Nolte
7. Ariel Sharon
8. Ronnie Biggs
9. Etta James
10. Charlie Watts
11. *Russell Watson
12. Prof Steven Hawking
13. *Jonathan Rhys Meyers
14. Robin Gibb
15. Aretha Franklin
16. Mickey Rooney
17. Kirk Douglas
18. *Stephen Glover “Steve-O”
19. *Jacques Chirac
20. *Ratko Mladic


ColdWizard (Sodalicium Immortalis)

1. Zsa Zsa Gabor
2. Robin Gibb
3. Etta James
4. Andy Williams
5. *Gary Carter
6. Dick Clark
7. *Gene Wilder
8. *Russell Means
9. *Chris Woodhead
10. Ernest Borgnine
11. *Mark "Chopper" Read
12. Kirk Douglas
13. Michael Douglas
14. *Artie Lange
15. *Roger Ebert
16. *Michael Aday ("Meat Loaf")
17. *Ulrika Jonsson
18. *Reuben Davis (American football)
19. *Masao Yoshida (nuclear engineer)
20. *Jean-Claude Duvalier


DaShi (DaShi Pissers)

1. Fidel Castro
2. Margaret Thatcher
3. Zsa Zsa Gabor
4. Kirk Douglas
5. Rev Billy Graham
6. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi
7. B.B. King
8. Ronnie Briggs
9. Yitzhak Shamir
10. Jerry Lewis
11. Queen Liz Part 2
12. Aretha Franklin
13. Robert Mugabe
14. Dick Cheney
15. Dick Clark
16. Ariel Sharon
17. Jimmy Carter
18. Louis Farrakhan
19. Nelson Mandela
20. Ruth Bader Ginsburg


Dinner (Done Like Dinner)

1. Nancy Reagan
2. Nelson Mandela
3. Margaret Thatcher
4. Kirk Douglas
5. Aretha Franklin
6. Bashar al-Assad
7. *Rupert Murdoch
8. Muhammad Ali
9. Yoko Ono
10. *Betty White
11. George H.W. Bush
12. Rev Billy Graham
13. Jerry Lewis
14. Michael J. Fox
15. Lindsay Lohan
16. Charlie Sheen
17. *John Goodman
18. *Paul “Bono” Hewson
19. Zsa Zsa Gabor
20. *Michelle Duggar


Elok (The One That’s All Women)

1. *Kim Kardashian
2. *Kourtney Kardashian
3. *Khloe Kardashian
4. Courtney Love
5. *Jessica Alba
6. *Megan Fox
7. Lindsay Lohan
8. *Avril Lavigne
9. *Shania Twain
10. *Tonya Harding
11. *Liv Tyler
12. *Darryl Hannah
13. *Fiona Apple
14. *Angelina Jolie
15. *Courtney Cox
16. *Jennifer Aniston
17. Madeline Albright
18. *Tara Reid
19. *Sarah Michelle Gellar
20. *Sarah Jessica Parker


Embalmer42 (Embalmer Express) - late submission - not eligible for Unique Pick Award

1. Courtney Love
2. *Edison (Edson) Arantes do Nascimento (Pele)
3. *Anne Rice
4. *Tom Wolfe
5. Nancy Reagan
6. *Neil Simon
7. *Neil Armstrong
8. *Sue Grafton
9. Jerry Lewis
10. Fidel Castro
11. *Tommy Hunter
12. *Jake "The Snake" Roberts
13. *Sonny Barger
14. *Warren Buffett
15. *W. Axl Rose
16. *Jean Chretien
17. *Gordon Lightfoot
18. Queen Elizabeth II
19. George H.W. Bush
20. *Tim Curry


Guynemer (Guild of Calamitous Intent)

1. Zsa Zsa Gabor
2. Michael Douglas
3. Joe Paterno
4. Kirk Douglas
5. Dick Cheney
6. *Luise Rainer
7. *Rita Levi-Montalcini
8. Margaret Thatcher
9. *Harry Byrd, Jr.
10. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
11. *Lee MacPhail
12. Rev Billy Graham
13. B.B. King
14. Dick Clark
15. Etta James
16. Fidel Castro
17. Ernest Borgnine
18. Yitzhak Shamir
19. Chuck Berry
20. Nelson Mandela


Hauldren Collider (Kaptain Kool-aid)

1. Zsa Zsa Gabor
2. Robert Mugabe
3. Fidel Castro
4. Dick Cheney
5. George H. W. Bush
6. Kirk Douglas
7. Ernest Borgnine
8. *Helen Thomas
9. Steven Hawking
10. Yitzhak Shamir
11. Margaret Thatcher
12. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
13. Elizabeth II
14. *Larry King
15. *Daniel Inouye
16. George McGovern
17. *Bob Dole
18. Hosni Mubarak
19. Bashar al-Assad
20. Mikhail Gorbachev


-Jrabbit (Vicious Rabbits)

1. Zsa Zsa Gabor
2. Etta James
3. Ali Khamenei
4. *Vo Nguyen Giap
5. Olivia De Havilland
6. *Run Run Shaw
7. Nelson Mandela
8. *John Paul Stevens
9. Ruth Bader Ginsberg
10. *Patty Andrews
11. Aretha Franklin
12. B.B. King
13. Fats Domino
14. Kirk Douglas
15. Fidel Castro
16. George McGovern
17. Herman Wouk
18. William Perry
19. Henry Kissinger
20. Jerry Lewis


Krill (Why Invent The Wheel Twice)

1. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Magrahi
2. Ronnie Biggs
3. *Anna Wing
4. Muhammad Hosni Sayyid Mubarak
5. Zsa Zsa Gabor
6. Fidel Castro
7. *Jack Kyle
8. Margaret Thatcher
9. Elizabeth II
10. Prince Phillip Duke of Edinburgh
11. Robert Mugabe
12. Fats Domino
13. Nelson Mandela
14. Sir Patrick Moore
15. Yitzhak Shamir
16. *Hugh Hefner
17. Jimmy Carter
18. Nancy Reagan
19. Silvio Burlesconi
20. Rev Billy Graham


Ming (Mingapulco Graveyard)

1. Mickey Rooney
2. Charlie Watts
3. *Dick Van Dyke
4. Jerry Lewis
5. *Michael Aspel
6. *Rabbi Philip Berg
7. *Shane MacGowan
8. Chuck Berry
9. Ronnie Biggs
10. Fidel Castro
11. *Lesley Ash
12. *Andy Bell
13. Rev. Billy Graham
14. Stephen Hawking
15. Ozzy Osbourne
16. Jimmy Carter
17. Kirk Douglas
18. Michael J. Fox
19. *Mahmoud Abbas
20. *Larry Hagman


MRT144

1. Zsa Zsa Gabor
2. Tony Martin (Singer)
3. Aretha Franklin
4. Etta James
5. *Vera Lynn
6. Fats Domino
7. B.B. King
8. Oscar Niemeyer
9. *Jack Klugman
10. Mickey Rooney
11. Jake Lamotta
12. Jerry Lewis
13. Rev. Billy Graham
14. Kirk Douglas
15. *James Garner
16. Ray Bradbury
17. Nancy Reagan
18. Charlie Sheen
19. *John Galliano
20. Lindsay Lohan


OneFootInTheGrave

1. Robin Gibb
2. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
3. Zsa Zsa Gabor
4. Robert Mugabe
5. Kirk Douglas
6. *Bhumibol Adulyadej (Thailand King)
7. Bashar al-Assad
8. *Alan Greenspan
9. *Peter Carington
10. *Harald V (Norvegian King)
11. Henry Kissinger
12. Al Megrahi, Abdelbaset
13. *Pope Benedict XVI
14. Margaret Thatcher
15. Ernest Borgnine
16. *Sidney Poitier
17. Fidel Castro
18. *Scott Weiland
19. Mikhail Gorbachev
20. *Marianne Faithful


OzzyKP (Charon’s Canoe) - late submission - not eligible for Unique Pick Award

1. Aretha Franklin
2. Oscar Niemeyer
3. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
4. Fidel Castro
5. Kirk Douglas
6. Yitzhak Shamir
7. Billy Graham (wrestler)
8. Margaret Thatcher
9. John Paul Stevens
10. *Keith Richards
11. Ronnie Biggs
12. Muhammad Ali
13. Zsa Zsa Gabor
14. Ariel Sharon
15. Michael Douglas
16. Eli Wallach
17. Herman Wouk
18. *Tariq Aziz
19. *Ayman al-Zawahiri
20. *Abu Yahya al-Libi


Plato (Plato’s Legio Mortis)

1. Helmut Schmidt
2. *Little Jimmy Dickens
3. *Y.A. Tittle
4. *Abe Vigoda
5. *Yasuhiro Nakasone
6. *Lyndon LaRouche
7. *Russell Johnson
8. Maggie Thatcher
9. *Howard Hesseman
10. *Bill Russell
11. *Richard Dawson
12. Stan Musial
13. Chuck Berry
14. *Andy Griffith
15. Nancy Reagan
16. *Al Molinaro
17. *Walter Mondale
18. Jake LaMotta
19. *Whitey Ford
20. *Jerry Stiller


Robert Plomp (Life Kills)

1. Zsa Zsa Gabor
2. Ariel Sharon
3. Robert Mugabe
4. Helmut Schmidt
5. Ronnie Biggs
6. Oscar Niemeyer
7. Margaret Thatcher
8. Yitzhak Shamir
9. *Dom Mintoff
10. Bashar Al-Assad
11. Nelson Mandela
12. *Rochus Misch
13. Prince Philip
14. Ray Bradbury
15. Hugo Chavez
16. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
17. Tony Martin
18. *Hamid Karzai
19. Rev Billy Graham
20. *Geert Wilders


SlowwHand (Dallas Dead Dwarf Tossers)

1. Zsa Zsa Gabor
2. Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh
3. Ernest Borgnine
4. Nancy Reagan
5. Stephen Hawking
6. Dick Clark
7. *Yogi Berra
8. Joe Paterno
9. Olivia de Havilland
10. George H. W. Bush
11. Rev Billy Graham
12. Kirk Douglas
13. *Sean Connery
14. Eli Wallach
15. *I. M. Pei
16. *Pete Seeger
17. Stan Musial
18. Ray Bradbury
19. *Pierre Cardin
20. Yitzhak Shamir


Stonesfan (We’re all skeletons underneath)

1. Dick Cheney
2. Zsa Zsa Gabor
3. Aretha Franklin
4. Ronnie Biggs
5. Fidel Castro
6. BB King
7. William Perry (football)
8. Ernest Borgnine
9. Michael J Fox
10. *Steven Adler
11. Etta James
12. *Bradley Manning
13. Charlie Sheen
14. *Mick Taylor
15. Lindsay Lohan
16. Kirk Douglas
17. Olivia deHavilland
18. *Jerry Sandusky
19. *Johnny Winter
20. Jerry Lewis


Tuberski (That 70’s Show)

1. *James Caan
2. *John Hurt
3. *Patrick Stewart
4. Yoko Ono
5. *Martin Sheen
6. *Katharine Ross
7. Nick Nolte
8. *Tina Turner
9. *Mike Ditka
10. *Mario Andretti
11. *Chuck Woolery
12. *Chuck Norris
13. *Bill Cosby
14. *Jane Goodall
15. *Nora Ephron
16. *Morgan Freeman
17. *Woody Allen
18. *Robert Redford
19. *Alan Alda
20. *Michael Gambon


Uncle Sparky (Sparky’s Creamytorium)

1. Rev Billy Graham
2. Nelson Mandela
3. Eli Wallach
4. Maggie Thatcher
5. Prince Phillip
6. Robert Mugabe
7. Fidel Castro
8. *Arlene Dahl
9. *Andrew Sachs
10. *Tom Baker
11. *Bob Barker
12. *Pat Boone
13. *Franco Zeffirelli
14. *Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
15. *Monty Hall
16. *Jim Nabors
17. *Julie Newmar
18. *Sid Caesar
19. Zsa Zsa Gabor
20. *Larry Niven


Wezil (Canadian Cadaver Dogs)

1. Etta James
2. Zsa Zsa Gabor
3. Fidel Castro
4. Ian Brady
5. Margaret Thatcher
6. Louis Farrakhan
7. Nelson Mandela
8. Billy Graham (Wrestler)
9. Rev Billy Graham
10. *Derryn Hinch
11. Jerry Lewis
12. *Liz Dawn
13. Robin Gibb
14. Kirk Douglas
15. *Ralph Klein
16. Patrick Moore
17. Abdelbaset Al Megrahi
18. Ronnie Biggs
19. *Dennis ‘Fergie’ Frederiksen
20. Andy Williams (Singer)

[Wezil]

Top Ten 2011 Picks

(Last Year) Celebrity - Times Chosen

1. (4) Zsa Zsa Gabor - 16
2. (4) Kirk Douglas - 14
3. (1) Fidel Castro - 13
4. (2) Margaret Thatcher - 11
5. (7) Rev Billy Graham - 10
6. (-) Nelson Mandela - 9
7. (-) Ronnie Biggs - 8
7. (-) Jerry Lewis - 8
9. (-) Etta James - 7 Died 20-Jan-12
9. (8) Yitzhak Shamir - 7 Died 30-Jun-12
9. (-) Aretha Franklin - 7



Celebs who have died for the cause

2008 (13)

January 19 - Suzanne Pleshette (70)
January 27 – Suharto (86)
January 27 – Gordon Hinkley (97)
February 5 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (94)
March 19 – Arthur C. Clarke (90)
April 5 – Charlton Heston (84)
April 29 – Albert Hoffman (102)
July 11 - Dr. Michael DeBakey (99)
July 22 - Estelle Getty (84)
October 31 – Louis “Studs” Terkel (96)
December 17 – Samuel Baugh (94)
December 18 – William Mark Felt Sr. (95)
December 24 – Harold Pinter (78)


2009 (16)

January 14 – Ricardo Montalban (88)
February 28 – Paul Harvey (90)
March 28 – Maurice Jarre (84)
May 7 – Ian Cundy (64)
June 25 – Farrah Fawcett (62)
June 25 – Michael Jackson (50)
July 1 – Karl Malden (97)
July 31 – Bobby Robson (76)
August 11 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver (88)
August 13 – Les Paul (94)
August 18 – Robert Novak (78)
August 25 – Edward “Ted” Kennedy (77)
September 14 – Patrick Swayze (57)
October 30 – Claude Levi-Strauss (100)
November 15 – Patriarch Pavel of Serbia (95)
December 15 – Oral Roberts (91)


2010 (16)

January 11 - Miep Gies (100)
January 19 - Jennifer Lyon (37)
January 27 - JD Salinger (91)
February 9 - Phil Harris (53)
February 14 - Doug Fieger (57)
February 20 - Alexander Haig (85)
March 10 - Michael Foot (96)
May 4 - Ernie Harwell (92)
May 9 - Lena Horne (92)
June 4 - John Wooden (99)
June 28 - Robert Byrd (92)
July 13 - George Steinbrenner (80)
September 29 - Tony Curtis (85)
October 4 - Sir Norman Wisdom (95)
October 14 - Simon MacCorkindale (58)
October 30 - Harry Mulisch (83)


2011 (22)

January 18 – Sargent Shriver (95)
January 23 - Jack LaLanne (96)
March 4 - Simon van der Meer (85)
March 23 - Elizabeth Taylor (79)
May 2 - Osama Bin Laden (54)
May 17 - Harmon Killebrew (74)
May 27 - Jeff Conaway (60)
June 3 - Jack Kevorkian (83)
June 23 - Peter Falk (83)
July 8 - Betty Ford (93)
July 12 - Sherwood Schwartz (94)
July 23 - Amy Winehouse (27)
September 11 - Andy Whitfield (39)
September 19 - Dolores Hope (102)
October 2 - Vasily Aleksanyan (39)
October 5 - Steve Jobs (56)
November 4 - Andy Rooney (92)
November 19 - Basil D'Oliveira (80)
December 7 - Harry Morgan (96)
December 15 - Christopher Hitchens (62)
December 17 - Kim Jong-Il (69)
December 18 - Donald Neilson (75)

[Wezil]

I declare the 2012 game underway.

[Wezil]

I'd advise everyone to check their teams and celeb info to ensure it is right. Any errors I blame on lack of sleep and excessive drug consumption.

[Ming]

Great Job... THANKS.
Let the games begin

[-Jrabbit]

Looks good, Wezil. Great job!

Just want to clarify that the William Perry on my list is the former NFL football player, aka The Fridge. (There are a couple of minor William Perrys out there.) Hmm, only 5 unique picks for me this year. Gonna be tough to three-peat...

[Wezil]

During submissions I was questioed about the possibility of a celeb born on December 25th dying on their birthday - Could the player claim the party Pooper Award twice?

We have a couple such celebs:

MacGowan, Shane Music 25-Dec-57
Martin, Tony Music 25-Dec-12

I ruled they could claim twice as to not do so would mean any celeb born on the 25th of December is worth fewer potential points (statistically small drawback I will concede) than all others.

This also led me to consider the idea of a celeb born on February 29th (we don't currently have any that I know of) as they would suffer the same sort of penalty. I'm not sure on the solution to this theoretical but I'm leaning toward one of two options:
1) Pay a permium of 4X to any Feb 29th celeb that dies on their birthday on the leap year
2) Consider their birthdate to be the 28th on non-leap years

The 1st option has a Vegas sort of appeal to it (but may skew celeb choices) whereas the 2nd option is easier.

Thoughts on these issues?

[Elok]

Given the one-in-hundreds odds of dying on one's birthday, I don't think it's likely to be a game-changing consideration, but the quadruple bonus sounds fine to me.

Hmm, only 5 unique picks for me this year. Gonna be tough to three-peat...

Whereas I have only three who aren't unique picks, and they're mostly worth tons of points. It's looking good for Elok and his "pick random names off the top of your head at 9:30 on New Year's Eve" strategy...

[Wezil]

Looks good, Wezil. Great job!

Thanks. The template is pretty much set now so it is just a matter of updating the data.

Vetting the teams is the most time consuming part.

Just want to clarify that the William Perry on my list is the former NFL football player, aka The Fridge. (There are a couple of minor William Perrys out there.)

Yeah, I figured he was the one you were after. He was picked a couple times.

Hmm, only 5 unique picks for me this year. Gonna be tough to three-peat...

I think we have a few very competitive teams this year.

During submissions I have a chance to take a quick look at celeb bio's while searching for birth-dates and other stuff and I sometimes spot the reason a particular celeb was chosen (ColdWizard and his Gary Carter pick comes to mind).

New players often make the mistake of picking a celeb because the celeb is old. While it's true everyone has to "go" sometime it could be decades waiting for old age to take its toll. Illness and lifestyle are much better indicators.

In short, yes you may be hard pressed this season.

[Wezil]

Given the one-in-hundreds odds of dying on one's birthday, I don't think it's likely to be a game-changing consideration, but the quadruple bonus sounds fine to me.

Just when we dismiss it as unlikely to happen someone will go ahead and do it. I'd rather have a policy in place to ward off any last minute rule making.

Whereas I have only three who aren't unique picks, and they're mostly worth tons of points. It's looking good for Elok and his "pick random names off the top of your head at 9:30 on New Year's Eve" strategy...

Perfection chose the cast of ER one season. Same sort of thinking.

[Guynemer]

Huzzah, Wezil.

[DaShi]

Looks good, Wezil. Great job!

Just want to clarify that the William Perry on my list is the former NFL football player, aka The Fridge. (There are a couple of minor William Perrys out there.) Hmm, only 5 unique picks for me this year. Gonna be tough to three-peat...

I have zero unique picks.

It helps that I can read all of your minds.

[Barnabas]

Its BERlusconi, not BURlusconi

I should have thought of Thatcher and Larry King :/

[Wezil]

Its BERlusconi, not BURlusconi

Noted and corrected.

[Uncle Sparky]

Could we have a "Mayan's Choice" award this year to commemorate the end of time?

I think that any celebrity that dies on December 21, 2012 should receive double points.
Maybe the Mayans weren't predicting the end of the word, but suggesting the world wouldn't be worth living in without [insert celebrity here].

Any thoughts?

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Links to previous years, if you want to spend some time researching history

2008:
http://apolyton.net/showthread.php/1...rity-Dead-Pool
2009:
http://apolyton.net/showthread.php/1...Dead-Pool-2009
2010: (hard to find for some reason)
http://apolyton.net/showthread.php/1...rity-Dead-Pool
2011:
http://apolyton.net/showthread.php/1...rity-Dead-Pool

one interesting tidbit - Ariel Sharon - he is still alive.

[-Jrabbit]

Some phrases associated with Ariel Sharon (wiki) --

persistent vegetative state
second stroke
cerebral hemorrhage
heart infection
pneumonia
14-hour operation
ventilator
necrotic large intestine
paralysis in lower body
lengthy coma
tracheotomy

This has been going on since his second massive stroke, which was in January 2006. They just won't let him die, so I took him off my list.

[Robert Plomp]

Hurray! Thanks Wezil!
I'm looking forward to another year.

I suddenly realise that I forgot to check my list against Ming's list....

[Hauldren Collider]

Ariel Sharon is dead for all intents and purposes.

[PLATO]

New players often make the mistake of picking a celeb because the celeb is old.

Guilty!

Had to start somewhere though, right?

[Wezil]

Guilty!

Had to start somewhere though, right?

Learn from the masters Grasshopper.

[Wezil]

Plato (Plato’s Legio Mortis)

4. *Abe Vigoda

Abe has been a Dead Pool pick for the past 30 years.

There's a reason no one else picked him.

[Uncle Sparky]

If my #10 pick, Tom Baker regenerates post-mortem, does he still count?

[Wezil]

Zombie picks would be awesome points.

[Robert Plomp]

Nobody outsiders complained so far about this pool that it is tasteless
That takes a bit of the fun away. Can someone please whine at least a tad bit?

[DaShi]

**** this ****! Tasteless bastards all of us!

[-Jrabbit]

I'm oddly comforted.

[Wezil]

Nobody outsiders complained so far about this pool that it is tasteless

We've come a long way. I think seeing what the DP is actually about over the past few years has tempered some attitudes.

It's as tasteful as tasteless can be.