The 2011 Off Topic Celebrity Dead Pool

[SlowwHand]

That is totally ridiculous that no one checked on her for all of that time. Unacceptable.

RIP.

[DaShi]

Here's a strange and elusive one:

Yvette Vickers (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Attack of the Giant Leeches, 1959 playmate) was found in April in a mummified state that suggested she may have been dead for a year. Link.

If you had picked her, it wouldn't count.

Duh, that's why I didn't pick her.

[Solomwi]

I think -Jrabbit is the only one to pick him, which pisses me off royal, because I remember thinking when it was announced he had esophageal cancer back last year, "I gotta put him on my list."

Why don't I write this **** down somewhere?

It was announced in the last week of the year. I had already turned my list in when I saw it. Seems like the possibility (for future years) of getting one New Year's Eve replacement was discussed in the signup thread as a result.

[Perfection]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-163400-test-that-tells-you-how-long-youll-live-2284639.html

I just ordered 2000 of those things. TIME FOR PERFS TO WIN THE NEXT ROUND

[SlowwHand]

You must be joking. Let me tell you what will happen on this, Perfection.
Let's say that, by whatever means, you believe that your moment of death will be 11:33 p.m. on June 17th 2011. I would bet you that it's in fact accurate. At 11:32 p.m. on June 17th 2011, your heart is going to be pounding like a jack hammer. You'll either have a heart attack or a stroke or not paying attention as you cross the street and a bus hits you. Prophecy fulfilled.

[Perfection]

No cuz telomeres are actual science things.

[SlowwHand]

You're not.

[Perfection]

I GOT A PHYSICS MINOR

[-Jrabbit]

Another one bites the dust... Randy Savage died in a car crash this morning.

RIP to the Macho Man

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...74J5OV20110520

[MRT144]

Where the **** is Lil Weezy

[SlowwHand]

Saying now that he died of a heart attack while driving.

[-Jrabbit]

That makes a lot more sense than just jumping the median at 9am.

[Al B. Sure!]

Gil Scott-Heron passed.

Gil Scott-Heron died Friday afternoon in New York, his book publisher reported. He was 62. The influential poet and musician is often credited with being one of the progenitors of hip-hop, and is best known for the spoken-word piece "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised."

[stonesfan]

Jeff Conaway -star of Taxi and the movie Grease has passed away from a drug overdose. He was 60 years old.

[SlowwHand]

Not from a drug overdose directly, but RIP.