2015 lists

 

 Malibu Julz

Lindsay Lohan

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Stephen Hawking

Jan Michael Vincent

Fidel Castro

Jake La Motta

Rose Marie

Valerie Harper

George H.W. Bush

Muhammad Ali

Alternate:  Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger – aka  Pope Benedict XVI

Kevin

George HW Bush

Fidel Castro

Hugh Hefner

Carl Reiner

Mel Brooks

Kirk Douglas

Nancy Reagan

Don Rickles

BB King

Glenn Campbell (he who doesn't give out Halloween candy.  I grew up next to his house)

                                                                 Sage

Billy Graham

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Justin Bieber

GW Bush Sr

Kirk Douglas

Olivia De Havilland

Lindsey Lohan

B B King

Amanda Bynes

Charlie Sheen

 

Chris Michas ( aka Mr Von Schtupp)

Pope Benedictus

Jahi McGrath

Billy Graham 

Olivia de Havilland

Nancy Reagan 

Mickey Rooney

Doc Severinsen 

Robert Dole

Randy Travis 

Alex Trebek

editors note:   Chris only has 9 names, as mickey rooney is already dead.  What kind of sick person jokes about these things.  Also, he is letting it ride by just using last year's list

Erin M (aka Ms Von Michas, Mother Herb)

Bret Michaels

Thich Nhat Hahn

Desmond tutu

kirk Douglas

Beverly Cleary

Zsa Zsa

George Bush (sr)

Maureen O'Haha

Bob Elliot

Rose Marie

Roy -Majikwah

Irwin Corey
Billy Graham
George HW Bush
Olivia de Havilland
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Buddy Ryan
David Rockefeller
Herman Woulk
Prince Phillip
Carol Channing
Alt: George Kennedy
 

Rev_Ed’s List:

George H W Bush

Kirk Douglas

Billy Graham

Doris Day

Olivia de Havilland

Nancy Reagan

Fidel Castro

Pope Benedict

Bob Barker

Prince Philip

Alternate:  

Sam Simon 

2015 lists coming soon!

Hey all,

Apologies.  I haven't got the new lists up yet.  Just been crazy busy.  In fairness, and to validate my laziness... we are still accepting submissions.  Get your friends, neighbors, and nearly dead acquaintences to join.

All you have to do to send either Roy or myself your list.  My email is IamCorrect  at  Gmail  dot   c0m
Cool?  I plan to have the lists updated tomorrow (Saturday) night.  Also, we will be announcing this year's winner.  Early returns indicate it is me.  Again.  As usual.

The rules, as always, pick ten celebrities you think may die in the next year.

* as a bonus piece of contrition, I will explain how I win every single year.  Hint, it isn't the 'Julz clause'

the great Casey Casem has finally reached the sky

Bad news, the great Casey Casem has passed.  The good news?  It puts me, once again, back on top.  Now, here is some fun.  Here is a pretty famous audio clip of Casem bitching at his producer.  It's nothing too scandalous, his concern is valid.  But, he drops an F bomb, which is pretty awesome.



That clip got used by a found sound sample group called 'Negativland'.  They used the clip, and then called the song 'U2'.  Well, that caused a lawsuit that drug on for many many years.  This poor band, who got eviscerated by lawyers for Casem and U2, made lemonade out of lemons.  They wrote a great book about the whole experience.  Then, with quite a suicidal pair of balls, they included the contentious recording.  You can find the book, and the recording, below.

It is a fascinating story of 'fair use' and 'found sound'.  This band set legal precedents in this battle.  If you love the history of rock, or Casey Casem, or U2, or SST records, or free goddamn speech... read the book.  I have a copy, but I haven't picked it up in 20 years.  I would offer you my copy, but these poor guys really need the money

         

2013 Winner Announced

There was a long and heated 5 way tie throughout almost the entire year.  In that case, the youngest corpse guess wins.  That would have been Deron M with Hugo Chavez.

Very late in the year, though, we lost Harold Camping on Dec 15, 2013.  He was one of those end times preachers, and a couple years ago had millions thinking he had calculated perfectly the date of end times.  Now, you titter when you see this on the news, but keep in mind what happens to the people who believed it.  When this story came up, there were people who sold or gave away EVERYTHING.

Anyway - the winner is me (Kevin, or Lono) once again.  I had two bodies - Roger Ebert, and Harold Camping.  This is why I call myself  'Master of Death Emeritus'.  I win.  A lot.

I am the winner, and the winner is me.  This can not be stated enough.

Does that make me a better person than you?  Yes.  Yes it does.
I am also putting in a new modification.  I will go through the old list and strike through the dead celebs, like this.   Rober Ebert.  This will make your research easier down the road.  Note, when you see a strike through, it doesn't necessarily mean they died during that calendar year.

Happy Hunting you sick fucks!

2014 Dead Pool lists

* update 1.1.2014 - 8 pm > four new lists just added.  I am still accepting them.

Happy New Year, you sick bastards!  Here are the lists I have so far.  It is not too late to turn one in.  There is no money here to fight over, so who cares?  Of course, that is easy for me to say, since I usually win.  Sometime today I will post the winner for 2013.

The rules are posted somewhere, but it's pretty straightforward.  Generally speaking, the winner is the person who guessed the most correct dead celebrities.  The top teams and guessers generally have 2 or 3 of their 10 who turn up dead.  That is all it takes.  If there is a tie breaker, it generally goes to whomever's picks were the youngest.  Obviously, it is more impressive to guess someone who is 27 that is going to die versus someone who was 90.

Now, there is this business of an 'alternate'.  What that is for is if you sent me your list on Christmas, and one of your picks died between Christmas and New Years, you still get 10 names in.  This is the only time an alternate pick is rewarded.  Let's look at a real life example.  This last year (2013) Roy had Maggie Thatcher as his alternate.  She died during 2013, but he gets no credit for it.

Now, if you are a really sick bastard, there are websites that will update you every time a celeb dies.  This is one I use.  It shoots me an email every time someone of note passes.  It's great.  They have no spam, and it's totally free.

It should  be noted that Abe Vigoda is still alive.  Abe Vigoda is the father of celebrity death pools, since he has been incorrectly assumed and reported dead for a good 20 years.

** update as for April 2014 > the bodies are piling up.  Most notably, a LOT of you had Mickey Rooney

Julie N

1.    Lindsay Lohan

2.    Zsa Zsa Gabor

3.    Stephen Hawking

4.    Ariel Sharon

5.    Jan Michael Vincent

6.    Fidel Castro

7.    Rose Marie

8.    Jake La Motta

9.    Shirley Temple Black

1.  Valerie Harper

Alternate:  Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger aka Pope Benedict XVI

Roy N

1.    George W H Bush

2.    Prince Phillip

3.    Zsa Zsa Gabor

4.    Stephen Hawking

5.    Nancy Reagan

6.    Billy Graham

7.    Lawrence Walsh

8.    Fidel Castro

9.    Bob Dole

1  Helmut Schmidt

Alternate: Eli Wallach

Kevin L

1.      Casey Casem

2.      Sid Cesar

3.      Mickey Rooney

4.      Zsa Zsa Gabor *

5.      Lindsay Lohan

6.      George Bush Sr

7.      Fidel Castro

8.      Don Pardo

9.      Nancy Reagan

10.   James Garner

Alternate    Billy Graham

Deron M

1.    Fidel Castro

2.    Billy Graham

3.    Fidel Castro

4.    Jake LaMotta

5.    Amanda Bynes

6.    Kirk Douglas

7.    Mickey Rooney

8.    Jimmy Carter

9.    Hugh Hefner

1  Michael Schumacher

aalternate

1  Joseph Ratzinger

Chris M

1.    Il Papa Benedictus XVI

2.    Alex Trebek 

3.    Billy Graham 

4.    Olivia de Havilland

5.    Nancy Reagan 

6.    Mickey Rooney

7.    Doc Severinsen 

8.    Robert Dole

9.    Randy Travis 

1  Jahi McMath

* editors note - Chris has no alternate

Erin M’s list

1.    Beverly Clearly

2.    Nancy Reagan

3.    IM Pei

4.    Maureen O’Hara

5.    Tom Lehrer

6.    Fats Domino

7.    Carl Reiner

8.    Mel Brooks

9.    Zsa Zsa *

10.  Kirk Douglas

Alt – Don Pardo

* I am not adding 'Gabor'.  I am pretty confident that there is not a melange of Zsa Zsas out there.

Sage

Stan Lee
B B King
Kirk Douglas
Michael Douglas
Billy Graham
Terry Pratchett
Barbara Bush
George Bush Sr
Lindsey Lohan

Zsa Zsa

Jamie

1. James Avery

That's it... That's all I got.

2. Lance Armstrong... One of the weirdest stories ever. Still waiting for the movie...

3. Yes I would take a pill if it would make me a better teacher. 

4. Who broke up Wing? (editors note.  Allen Klein)

additional editors note.  i have reason to believe Jamie's lists consists only of the name 'James Avery'.  However, since it is a bit short, I am leaving the entirety of his email reply to me (out of context, of course) in.  So... what the hell?  Maybe Lance Armstrong will die, and he will win it all.  It could certainly happen, I mean... think about it.  He is hated and villified, he is dead broke, and he has destroyed his body with roids and cancer.   

2013 list is here!

***  udpate 1.5.2013

We have a few new entries.  Yes, we allow entries after the deadline.  They only get 8 names, and really who the hell cares?  Approx half our list is totally new folks to our Dead Pool challenge.  So, welcome aboard, you sick fuckers!

the rules?  Well, there are many.  Really, a lot.  However, it is mostly this simple.  Whomever has the most people on their list die in 2013 wins.  If there is a tie, that is where the rules come in play, and I thaw the lawyers.  Pray not for the lawyers, friends.  They are in a billing stasis not unlike what Jabba did with Han Solo.  Once they are loosened on the world, the pain comes forth like Austin Powers' urine stream after being frozen for 40 years.

and in the event that can't be worked out, it is simple.  The failsafe is that I win.

Derron M

Hugo Chavez

James Garner

Nancy Reagan

Artie Lange

Pope Benedict XVI

Muhammed Ali

Kirk Douglas

Billy Graham

_____________________________________________________________________

Patrick S

Grace Slick
Bob Dole
Fats Domino
Oprah Winfrey
Ozzy Osbourne
Johnny Winters
Leslie West
Donald Sutherland
_________________________________________________________________

E-Murph/ Erin M/ Lilly von Schtupp

1) Jerry Lewis

2) Don Rickles 

3) Bob Elliott 

4) Lauren Bacall

5) Maureen O'Hara

6) Zsa Zsa Gabor

7) Beverly Cleary

8) Carl Reiner

9) Henry Heimlich

10) Esther Williams

Alt Doris Day
_________________________________________________________


Chris Michas aka Mr von Scthupp

* normally, I would simply list names.  However, this ranty gem of an email must be published in its glorious entirety

Nancy Reagan
Mickey Rooney
Carol Channing
David Rockefeller
Kirk Douglas
Abe Vigoda
Vera Lynn
George Herbert Walker Bush
Olivia de Havilland
Sid Caesar

Alternate;
Hillary Clinton
A note on my alternate, I don't think she is actually sick or injured right now despite what is being reported.  I think its a political ploy and it would not hurt my feelings any if she croaked in the next few hours.

Chris

Another note to any government agency that is likely reading our emails.  This email contains no threats intended or implied toward any celebrities or political figures and is merely speculation.
_______________________________________________________

Kevin/ Lono/ Master of Death Emeritus

1.    Kat Williams
2.    Lindsay Lohan
3.    George Bush (sr)
4.    Zsa Zsa Gabor
5.    Fidel Castro
6.    Don Pardo
7.    Nancy Reagan
8.    Roger Ebert
9.    Harold Camping
10.  BB King

____________________________________________________________________

Jamie Guerin aka the Arizona Monkey Boy (really, that is his email)

1.  Honey Boo Boo
2.  Snooki's baby
3.  Angus Jones
4.  Lance Armstrong
5.  Bob Dole
6.  Glenn Campbell
7.  Bart Starr
8.  Roger Ebert
9.  The voice of Elmo guy (* editors note: Kevin Clash)
10.  Lindsay Lohan will have at least 2 abortions. (* ed note - do you mean on top of the 3 she had this weekend?)

Sage

I can't think of anyone GOOD. ok. So here is my (unresearched) list:

Leann Rhimes
Aretha Franklin
Dick Cheney
HW Bush
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Nelson Mandela
Kirk Douglas
Muhammad Ali
Billy Graham
Kim Kardashian
___________________________________________________________

Malibu Julz

Lindsay Lohan
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Stephen Hawking
Ariel Sharon
Jan Michael Vincent
Fidel Castro
Rose Marie
Jake La Motta
Shirley Temple Black
Annette Funicello

Alternate:  Aretha Franklin
______________________________________________________________
Roy (aka Majikwah)

1.  George W H Bush

2.  Nelson Mandella

3. Zsa Zsa Gabor

4. Stephen Hawking

5. Nancy Reagan

6. Billy Graham

7. Lawrence Walsh

8. Fidel Castro

9. Patrick Macnee

10. Helmut Schmidt

Alt. Margaret Thatcher

Dead Pool 2012

sumissions:

Kevin >

1. Etta james
2. Lindsay lohan
3. Prince Frederick von Ahole
4. Loretta lynn
5. Harold camping
6. Lemmy
7. BB King
8. Zsa Zsa Gabor
9. Roger Ebert
10. Dick clark
11. Fidel castro

Chris M >

1) Harold Camping
2) Kitty Wells
3) Ernest Borgnine
4) David Rockefeller
5) Prince Phillip
6) Abe Vigoda
7) Vera Lynn
8) George H. W. Bush
9) Olivia De Havilland
10) Oscar Niemeyer

Alt Robin Gibb

Erin >

1) Etta James
2) Penny Marshall
3) Zsa Zsa Gabor
4) Andy Dick
5) Deloris Hope
6) Ray Bradbury
7) Dave Brubeck
8) Beverly Cleary
9) Maureen O'Hara
10) Don Pardo

Roy >

1. Zsa Zsa Gabor
 2. Stephen Hawking
 3. Jake La Motta
 4. Robert Evans
 5. Etta james
 6. Nancy Reagan
 7. Billy Graham
 8. Penny Marshall
 9. Chuck Berry
10. Herbert Lom

Alternate:  Kirk Douglas

dead pool submissions 2008

Good morning to 2008. Here are the first lists, this will be updated over the course of the week, probably. All hail our dark master, President Lord Cheney.






Kevin’s list

Roger Ebert
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Artie Lang
BB King
Fidel Castro
Charlton Heston
Mohammed Ali
Nancy Reagan
Billy Graham
Albert Hoffman



Erin's list

Albert Hoffman
Jane Russell
Estel Ghetty
Kirk Douglas
Don Rickles
Sid Caeser
Bettie Paige
Harry Morgan
Tony Curtis
Fidel Castro

Alternate
Harvey Korman

Kevin DuBrow

Kevin DuBrow died yesterday. He was the singer for Quiet Riot. This band had a huge impact on the 80s, HUGE. This band single handedly changed my life. When I was in grade school, I remember that song coming out 'come on feel the noise'. I loved it. It changed my entire perspective on music. I was not remotely a metal dude until that song. It opened the doors of power chords and hessian hair. I was in! After that, Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax all followed. Metal Church, Dio, Iron Maiden... check!


To me, that all grew out of hearing that song. It literally changed who I was as a person. You know me as many avatars: Kevin, Lono, Master of Death emeritus, and rock guy. Rock guy owes a lot to Kevin DuBrow. That album was the first 'metal' album to go platinum. It opened the door for real bands.


See, Kevin DuBrow was mostly a douchebag. He got crazy greedy after the success of 'Metal Health' and was never heard from again. The band broke up, you know, several times. They kept recording and making albums, it's just that no one could tolerate DuBrow (you hear me, Roth?). Dude sadly ended up totally broke and living with his mother the last ten years.


Another significant historical rock mention should be made here. Quiet Riot's guitarist was a kid named Randy Rhoads. He left the band to go work for the singer that Sabbath fired. Together, they invented rock and roll with 'Crazy Train', 'Flying High Again', and 'Goodbye to Romance'. Sadly, Randy died years ago when he was a kid (27, of course).

All Hail our Great Master

Meet Oscar. Oscar is our dark master. Oscar is that adorable cat above who knows when you are going to die. Let's say that one more time for emphasis. Oscar knows when you are going to die. Oscar lives in a hospice, and whenever he visits a patiend and cuddles up with them, they die within two hours. Every fucking time. Luck of the draw, eh? No, he has hit this 25 times in a row.


Oscar is better at predicting death than the people who work there, said Dr. Joan Teno of Brown University. ">Oscar is so accurate that after the 13th time, when Oscar visits a patient the staff calls their family immediately. Look how cute he is. Understand, though, that Oscar is murdering elderly Americans. Felinicide! Come on, 25 times in a row he visits someone and they die? It doesnt' take Steven King to put you finger on this one. The cat kills people.

After about six months, the staff noticed Oscar was making his own rounds, just like the doctors and nurses. He’d sniff and observe patients, then sit beside people who would die in a few hours.

Oscar is better at predicting death than the people who work there, said Dr. Joan Teno of Brown University.

She was convinced of Oscar’s talent when he made his 13th correct call.

I think we may need to add a new clause, after the 'Terry Schiavo clause', the 'Malibu Julz clause', the 'Kevin clause'... there is the Oscar clause. I am not even sure what that means, but did you ever notice wherever Jessica Fletcher showed up to people died? Isn't that a concern? How was she never a suspect? Oscar is the feline 'murder she wrote', and I am adopting that cat and sending it to the White House.

2007 > the Submissions

Before we get to this years lists, we should touch on a new rule this year; the Terry Schiavo clause. One's death can not be the cause of one's celebrities, a la 'the world's oldest person', or of course Terry Schiavo. Terry Schiavo was a dumb narcissist who overdosed on weight loss pills. Not newsworthy... except for the dying part. As for the second part of that clause, you might call it the 'Kevin clause of the Terry Schiavo clause'. Anyhow, onto the lists - worst of luck to you all, and break a leg!


Roy's list:



Charles Lane
Roy Neuberger
Ronnie Hawkins
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Dick Clark
Mark (deep throat) Felt
Brooke Astor
Harold Pinter
Haji Mohammed Suharto
John (Ozzy) Osbourne
alternate: Ronnie Biggs


Kevin's List (MOD emeritus®)

Pete Doherty - 27 year old rock star, need I say more?
Lindsay Lohan - hot, young, pantyless dope fiend
Tammy Faye Baker - cancer
BB King
Fidel Castro
Charlton Heston
Kurt Vonnegut
Liz Taylor
Billy Graham
Annette Funicello

alternate:
Dick Clark

Lilly von Schtupp (Erin M)

Maureen O'Hara
Pete Doherty
Dick Clark
Mel Brooks
Betty Page
Casey Casem
les Paul
Jane Russel
Bea Arthur
Mohammed Ali

Rev Eddie Cortez

Mohammed Ali
Bruce Bennet
Kirk Douglas
Billy Graham
Lady Bird Johnson
Claude Levi Strauss
Luciano Pavarotti
Ariel Sharon
Maggie Thatcher
Lil' Bow Wow
(Cousin) Drew Dunsmir

Lady Bird Johnson
Tammy Faye Bakker
Betty Ford
Brook Astor
Maurice Papon (Nazi)
Norodom Sihanok (ex Cambodian leader)
Charlton Heston
Wilford Brimley (oatmeal loyalist)
Nancy Reagan
Ariel Sharon
alternate:

Mariah Carey

Sage's list

Emiliano Del Toro
Ariel Sharon
Fidel Castro
Gerald Ford
Brooke Astor
Billy Graham
Elizabeth Taylor
Manjit Bawa
Dick Clark
Charlton Heston

alternate: Charles Lane


Malibu Julz' list


Jesse Helms
Tammy Faye Baker Messner
Fidel Castro
Stephen Hawking
Billy Graham
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Vaclav Havel
Estelle Getty
Lady Bird Johnson
Jane Wyman

Alternate:

Karl Malden


Mackenzie S' list

Tammy Faye baker Messner
Estelle Getty
Stephen Hawking
Jake the snake Roberts
Albert Hoffman
Brooke Astor
Billy Graham
Fidel Castro
Osama Bin Laden
Ariel Sharon

alternate

Kirk Douglas