As we get to the point where someone is sober long enough to tally up the points from 2005's Dead Pool, it's time to make your new picks. More details about the rules and whatnot are here. I think that betting should be closed by February 1st.

So Teenage Wildlife, with an open heart and an empty stomach, I say unto you in the words of my uncle: Allez Cuisine!

"I was borned in england." - b_mardle

1. Julius Murphy
2. Marvin Bieghler
3. Pedro Sosa
4. Glenn Benner
5. Gary Glitter
6. Clarence Ray Allen
7. Rev. Gerárd Jean-Juste
8. John Spirko
9. Perrie Simpson
10. Arthur Rutherford

He'll have you wrestling midgets in border towns for ten percent of the net.

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Gary Glitter

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Good one.

"I was borned in england." - b_mardle

Well he paid off the firing squad.

1. Pope Benedict
2. Stephen Hawking
3. Warwick Davis
4. Michael J. Anderson
5. Verne Troyer
6. Jose Canseco
7. Ian McKellen
8. David Copperfield
9. Muhammad Ali
10. Dick Cheney

To be equal you have to add or subtract and I have never liked math.

Your list should have included more famous midgets.

Everybody understands Mickey Mouse. Few understand Herman Hesse. Hardly anyone understands Albert Einstein. And nobody understands Emperor Norton.

Billy Barty's already dead, and there aren't any other ones I can think of off the top of my head.

To be equal you have to add or subtract and I have never liked math.

Kenny Baker?

This is a somewhat updated version of last year's list, since I predicted Johnny Carson's death 20 days in advance. I also don't think Pope B XVI is going anywhere so:

1) Dick Clark
2) George H.W. Bush
3) Gerald Ford
4) Keith Richards
5) Whitney Houston
6) Regis Philbin
7) Mohammad Ali
8) Yogi Berra
9) Saddam Hussein
10) Michael Jackson


Don't understand me, just love me

Weeeeell, for starters, there's Gary Coleman and Emmanuel Lewis...

Everybody understands Mickey Mouse. Few understand Herman Hesse. Hardly anyone understands Albert Einstein. And nobody understands Emperor Norton.

They're not midgets, in my mind. They're short, but aside from that... just not midgetty, you know?

Although both would be good picks to die. Perhaps I should revise.

To be equal you have to add or subtract and I have never liked math.

Knock Knock Knockin' On Heaven's Door
BB King
Jerry Lewis
Doc Severnson
Stan Lee
Carol Channing (who I will be very sad about losing)

They've Got To Go Sometime
Peter Mayhew (the guy who played Chewbacca)
Courtney Love
John Goodman

The freak accident/drug overdose in summer
John Travolta

And the wild card
Ashlee Simpson


I've finally given up on Elizabeth Tailor. So she'll be gone on February 2nd, probably.

"I was borned in england." - b_mardle

why they ain't midgetty? is it cause they black? is that some kind of racist remark? are you sayin a black man can't be a midget? why a black man can't be a midget? is it cause white people gotta have somethin all to themselves?

no, it's probably cause their dicks are still bigger than yours, so you think they can't be midgets!

Everybody understands Mickey Mouse. Few understand Herman Hesse. Hardly anyone understands Albert Einstein. And nobody understands Emperor Norton.

I haven't seen any of their dicks. I have seen their fingers, and they don't look all weird like real midget fingers do. So I presume they don't die off as quickly as the weird-finger kind of midgets do.

But yes, my dick is very small. This does not matter to me because my throat is very deep.

To be equal you have to add or subtract and I have never liked math.

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10. Dick Cheney

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Fun Fact about Your VP: I swap out internal organs more frequently than negroes change cell phones. So I'm going to live forever. I'll have the CIA look into collecting a donation from you, citizen guiltpuppy, depending upon the effects of ejaculate consumption on the body's major systems.

Here is my list:

1) Harry Reid
2) John Murtha
3) Howard Dean
4) Tedward Kennedy
5) Walter B. Jones
6) Chuck Hagel
7) Joseph Wilson & Valerie Plame
8) Lincoln Chafee
9) Dianne Feinstein
10) Barack Obama

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1. Jacques Chirac
2. D Letterman
3. M Jackson
4. Elvis
5. Hulk Hogan
6. S Hussein (seems obvious)
7. E John
8. T Curtis
9. K Douglas
10. W Allen

There's this feeling that we're going to be living until the end of time
This is ME

OMG that made me laugh and spit out my coca-cola...

"I suppose if I were a lot older--like 40 or 50--I'd be a wonderful sugar daddy to some little queen down in Kensington. I'd have a houseboy named Richard to order around."DB, 1976

Sadly enough I had George Best right last year. I would have favoured my prediction of Ian Paisley.

Their death waits in 2006:

1) Ronnie Biggs
2) Charlton Heston
3) Alfredo di Stefano
4) Pete Doherty
5) Maggie Thatcher
6) Augusto Pinochet
7) Abu Mussab Al Sarkawi
8) Ian Paisley
9) Jose Mourinho
10) Nelson Mandela

And I want to believe that a light's shining through somehow

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Carol Channing (who I will be very sad about losing)

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One of my favourite ladies too, why what is wrong with her?

I think both Elizabeth Taylor and Liza Minnelli may go this year.

I couldn't think of another 8.


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Sharp list, bi -- Hulk & Letterman look like some smart picks. I have my doubts about Hussein, though -- my gut feeling is that the whole thing will be drawn out til 2008, as the Pugs'll want a fresh corpse to hold up for the election.

To be equal you have to add or subtract and I have never liked math.

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I think both Elizabeth Taylor and Liza Minnelli may go this year.

I couldn't think of another 8.

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How about Barbara Streisand? Donna Summer? Bruce Valanche? Queen Elizabeth?

"I was borned in england." - b_mardle

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How about Barbara Streisand? Donna Summer? Bruce Valanche? Queen Elizabeth?

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I rather suspect that is wisful thinking on your behalf

I have no idea who is ill or close to death on the world stage, except of course Liz Taylor who is rather poorly and Liza Minnelli has tempted fate once too many times.

Who knows?

BTW is Carol Channing ill? I was wondering why you chose her.


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BTW is Carol Channing ill? I was wondering why you chose her.

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The same reason why I will choose you in a couple of years: she's really, really old.

"I was borned in england." - b_mardle

Being old doesn't make Carol Channing close to death, many women live well into their 90s.

Me? I'm never gonna get old


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Oh, I hate you so much.

"I was borned in england." - b_mardle

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Oh, I hate you so much.

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It's not good to hate so much, ages one you know.



I think old Fred Phelps might die this year


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is it too late yet to claim ariel sharon?

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is it too late yet to claim ariel sharon?

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Seeing as how he's still technically alive, I guess it isn't.

Or we could all start with how ever many points he would give us, since we could all pick him. Then again, we may as well all start at zero.

"I was borned in england." - b_mardle

I think he is dead, the media tells us lies.


London Bye Ta-Ta...

1. Muhammed Ali
2. Gary Glitter
3. Charlton Heston
4. Larry King
5. Ariel Sharon
6. Dan Quayle
7. Tito Jackson
8. Courtney Love
9. Dolly Parton
10. Liza Minelli

Some of these, however, might just be wishful thinking.

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