2017 deadpool

dunno, it's my first death list

I think jaymc has retired from running these, but quoting him from previous years:

]Rules are generally the same as in previous years.

Post in this thread a list of 15 celebrities or other notable people. If you'd rather e-mail me, that's fine, but please post in the thread that you've done so, just so I can keep track.

I'm not going to be a total stickler about notability requirements, but please try to be reasonable. If someone doesn't have a Wikipedia page at the very least, I'll probably ask you to choose someone else. Also: humans only.

One new rule for 2012: If a Wikipedia search on one of your picks directs to a disambiguation page or to someone else with the same name, please indicate which one you mean by appending the person's profession in parentheses, e.g. "(actress)" or "(football player)."

As usual, points are awarded based on the formula (100 - [age at death]). So picking Willow Smith (at 11) would get you a lot more points than picking Kirk Douglas (at 95), were both to die.

Please post your lists to this thread by January 9. No lists will be accepted after that date. If someone dies before Jan. 9, only the people who have already submitted lists will be able to collect points. You may also revise your list at any time before Jan. 9; after that, you'll be locked in.

in the past it was pick like 10 names and you get (100 - age) points for each one that dies

does Treeship have a wikipedia page

Can a mod delete me from this? If I actually die I don't want someone to copy that post and write "whoa" under it. They would just be scolded by someone else, and then fred b would post something like "oh so that is out of line but it was ok for darraghmac to call me the c word?" It would just spiral from there and I want to get ahead of this, as my dying wish.

-Mel Brooks
-Carl Reiner
-Another member or two of Mad Magazine's Usual Gang of Idiots

ok, this is my full list

-Joni Mitchell
-Bob Dylan
-Artie Lange
-Thomas Pynchon
-Debbie Harry
-Neil Young
-Justin Bieber
-Lindsay Lohan
-Robert Christgau
-Brian Wilson

aw tris <3

rupert murdoch

not a wishlist guys cmon now

damn it

I'm not sure why but sure, I could go with that.

the fact that you don't get it just means you don't have any asshole friends on FB

my first 6:

Angus Young
Tony Rice
Herbie Hancock
Macaulay Culkin
Tony Danza
Betty White

Let me think about the rest

I don't have the heart to even nominate Joni, though I suspect you guys are right about that one. That is going to suck

7. Mark E Smith

Are we doing 10 or 15 names?

Here's 10, at least.

Mary Tyler Moore
Glen Campbell
Jill Gascoine
Valerie Harper
Shelley Duvall
Gord Downie
Errol Christie
Leah Bracknell
Joost van der Westhuizen
David Blaine

Robbie Williams
Dan Castellaneta
Vladimir Putin
Kanye West
Sean Bean
David Jason
Sean Connery
Roseanne Barr
Stephen King
Jonah Hill

Little Richard
Dick Van Dyke
Chuck Berry
Jimmy Carter

Indiana Jones
Batman
Professor Brian Cox
The Avengers
Dawn French
Rowan Atkinson
All surviving members of Led Zeppelin
Alan Shearer
Lee Mack
David Avocado Wolfe

Soulseek

Leah Bracknell
Joost van der Westhuizen
Gord Downie
Shannon Doherty
Joni Mitchell
Valerie Harper
Clive James
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Ismael Zambada García
Nobby Stiles

Regis Philbman

Philbin

don't even joke about Soulseek for goodness sake, that would be in bad taste.

wins, I'll bet you a tenner Roger Moore eats it' before Connery.

Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton

Adam West

Leah Bracknell
Len Goodman
Bruce Forsyth
Glenn Campbell
Joost van der Westhuizen
Tim Healy
Gord Downie
Charlie Sheen
Shannen Doherty
Valerie Harper

Stevie Wonder

My list have often prove to be insurance, as my choices have often proved to have long and active lives as a result.

So, let's pick the dead pool list..

Mark E Smith
Jeremy Corbin
John Lydon
Meat Loaf
Robert Smith
Macca
Beth Orton
Naga Munchetty
Tom Waits
Tom Verlaine

15? Oh, OK..

Frank Beard
Penn
Teller
Mo Tucker
Since

Cheers, MG

Sice, not Since, whoever he might be..

my 11-15

Colin Meads
Tommy Chong
Michael J. Anderson (actor)
Selena Gomez
Junrey Balawing

Mark G, do you have some sort of inside tip on Naga Munchetty, or is it just a random punt?

Sheesh, no more super young people like Selena Gomez please. Too bleak

Nick Nolte

Lil Wayne

Sheesh yourself treesh, there's the scoring system to consider

lol at someone calling for decorum in a dead pool thread

Sir Clive Sinclair

I was gonna pick one of the Royal babies but those things live to be a thousand

I have a strong apocalyptic feeling about 2017, so if there's a dead pool next year I'm gonna take a risk and fill my ballot with celebrity babies. sorry, Prince Alexander Duke of Södermanland, but if the world ends next year, you're going with it, and I may as well get some posthumous fake internet points out of the deal.

― memories of a cruller (unregistered), Sunday, December 18, 2016 9:48 AM (two weeks ago)

tbh I might do this just to outrage Treeship

I didnt know about the scoring. Not going to participate in this for superstitious reasons xp

Fair enough!

calzino I'll take that bet btw (even tho Moore is older)

ok the bet is on.

my 8-15

Dean Windass
Aretha Franklin
Jimmy Greaves
Prince Henry of Wales*
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge*
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge*
Princess Charlotte of Wales*
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge*
* all vapourised in the same terrorist attack

Depardieu is looking rough as fuck, but I could see him hanging on much longer. He seems like one them types that will defy his unhealthiness - because why die when you have loads of money and are very comfortable in your skin.

(added 11-15)

Jan-Michael Vincent
Frank Borman
George H. W. Bush
Herman Wouk
Lyndon LaRouche
A.J. Foyt
Glen Campbell
Steve Ditko
Imelda Marcos
Larry Storch
John Franzese
Peter Robbins (Charlie Brown voice actor)
Kenneth Anger
Mark Russell
Charles Manson

richard nixon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Nixon

prince philip
vanessa redgrave
justin bieber
vivienne westwood
bob hawke
barbara walters
bert newton
patti newton
bruce forsyth
robert mugabe
stephen fry
jenny shipley
david copperfield
john howard
rupert murdoch
grumpy cat (for tie break)

nah i meant the ex president richard nixon?

Anthony Michael Hall
Johnny Manziel
Hugh Hefner
Clint Eastwood
Kirk Douglas (0 points!)
Keith Richards
Charlie Sheen
Vince Vaughn in a weird canoeing accident
Steve Lukather
Corbin Bernsen
Marilyn Manson
Rob Reiner
Billy Corgan
Dennis Miller
Carol Channing

Ali Khamenei

Wrong one.

? I'm referring to the current Supreme Leader.

Bob Barker
Betty White

shdve listed Donald Sterling

xps from five days ago to ailsa

Yep, I meant Prince George

always take wrestlers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Snuka

Will put this onto a spreadsheet tomorrow once everyone's in

Totally haven't done this yet because lazy, but a few points in for those who had Mary Tyler Moore. Will get on to recording these properly soon.

It might be helpful if anyone bumps the thread if any of their picks kick it.

oh can I still get in

I thought Spall was looking shockingly gaunt in that David Irving movie, but it turns out he has been on a very successful diet and is healthier than he has ever been.

Go on, frogbs, as long as your list doesn't include anyone dead :-)

That goes for anyone still on ten if you want to go up to fifteen, you can have until the end of January.

Frankie Muniz
Bill Cosby
Lindsey Lohan
Chubby Checker
Meat Loaf
Mike Oldfield
Wilmer Valderrama
Fergie
Pastor Jim Bakker
Gary Busey
John Wetton
Mary-Kate Olson
Tila Tequila
Charlie Sheen
Michael J Fox

bruce forsyth
robert caro
brigitte bardot
mel brooks
mario vargas llosa
betty white
donald trump
henry kissinger
raul castro
tom courtenay
george hw bush
rex murphy
the queen
martin mcguinness
pele

Dan Aykroyd
George H.W. Bush
Barbara Bush
Little Richard
Owen Wilson
Donald Trump
Ed Asner
Mel Brooks
Max Von Sydow
Bill Cosby
Chris Brown
Dawn Wells
John Goodman
Lindsay Lohan
Dustin Diamond

I wish I shared everyone on this thread's confidence about Sly Stone.

fuck i should've picked tom wolfe

Already a bunch of people got MMM!

MTM rather.

David Axelrod : the musician not politician.

― mark e, Thursday, January 5, 2017 10:21 AM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Psychic, inside information or a downlow murderer?

A few points to come in for Joost van der Westhuizen - will update when I get a chance.

prince philip

― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 2 January 2017 13:33 (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rumours building

pics or it didn't happen

agreed

don't even joke about Soulseek for goodness sake, that would be in bad taste.

wins, I'll bet you a tenner Roger Moore eats it' before Connery.

― calzino, Sunday, 1 January 2017 16:18 (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fully intend to honour this btw calzino, send me your email address & I'll send you an Amazon voucher or something

I doubly feel a bit awkward about profiting from a death-bet + such a nice poster, even though I made the bet with you in the first place. If you see someone looking completely desperate and on their arse; give it to them and say it is a gift from big Rog of Streatham!

Aw - I will do!

Anyone compile a winner yet?

My score is 207

Mary Tyler Moore = 20
Glen Campbell = 19
Gord Downie = 47
Errol Christie = 47
Joost van der Westhuizen = 55
Colin Meads = 19

hits for other people:
Chuck Berry for 10
Adam West for 12
Bruce Forsyth for 11
Charles Manson for 17
Bruce Forsyth for 11
Ian Brady for 21
Stanisław Skrowaczewski for 5
Antony Mithradas for 0
David Cassidy for 33
David Axelrod (musician) for 15
Hugh Hefner for 9
John Wetton for 33
martin mcguinness for 34

didn't check sarahell's list of pedopriests. i'll figure out who won tomorrow if no one else does.

I forgot I'd offered to do this.

My total is 153

11 - Bruce Forsyth
19 - Glenn Campbell
55 - Joost van der Westhuizen
47 - Gord Downie
21 - Ian Brady

None on my list met with any terrible fate, so that's nice I suppose.

Can a mod delete me from this? If I actually die I don't want someone to copy that post and write "whoa" under it. They would just be scolded by someone else, and then fred b would post something like "oh so that is out of line but it was ok for darraghmac to call me the c word?" It would just spiral from there and I want to get ahead of this, as my dying wish.

lmao

rip treeship. killed by forgetting his password. hello treeship 2, and points to sleepingbag, I guess. also rip sleepingbag.

Sleepingbag isnt dead

He was just put to sleep for 30 days

He will rise like unwanted morning wood

oh damn, i didn't see that he got 51'd. was their any specific incident or was it just months of low level provocations?

He was 51d the one time he was actually articulating and expressing his pov in the weinstein thread I believe

huh. it looks like he tried to be the conservative voice of opposition i was saying we lacked on the controversial opinions thread. not exactly what i had in mind but good effort i guess.

It’s wild how often conservative voices of opposition turn out to be rape apologists

recap / discussion here, LBI was otm:

ADMIN LOG WATCH 2

funny that it happened like the one time he actually bothered to try to explain the initial tossed off dickhead comment

― marcos, Thursday, 21 December 2017 20:09 (one week ago) Permalink

lol