Alright, I dropped the ball this year but since nobody picked it up...

Post your picks! Tell your friends! Those of you queers on Facebook/Myspace/Twatface send out the word to your TW friends!

I think a week is enough time, don't you? Unless there are several objections let's make the deadline January 7th.

And let's settle the issue of terminally ill picks. I still think that if the person is publicly known to have any sort of terminal illness at the time of selecting them their point value should be cut in half. Or we should dock one point from the total for each terminally ill pick that doesn't die by the end of the year. Thoughts?

Let's rock this shit.

"OK, I quit. You win. Last post. The end. Goodbye." - Stu, 1 October 2007

George Bush (Senior)
Margaret Thatcher
Clint Eastwood

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

1. Senator Robert Byrd
2. Ernest Borgnine
3. Jimmy Carter
4. Zsa Zsa Gabor
5. Kirk Douglas
6. Jack Klugman
7. Fidel Castro
8. Peter Falk
9. Randy Savage
10. Vanessa Hudgens

1. Amy Winehouse
2. Roger Daltrey
3. Robert Blake
4. Joan Rivers
5. Donna Douglas
6. Rip Taylor
7. Jimmy Carter
8. Elmore Leonard
9. Artie Lange
10. Scott Weiland

"OK, I quit. You win. Last post. The end. Goodbye." - Stu, 1 October 2007

Brian Blessed
Muhammad Ali
Christopher Plummer
Gene Wilder
Kevin McCarthy
Lindsay Buckingham
Kenny Rogers
Bob Barker
Dick Clark
William Shatner

I vote that terminally ill picks get their points cut in half.

"What's Tonga?" - Christopher Meloni

Eminem
Leonard Cohen
Woody Allen
Tim Allen
Debbie Harry
Jimmy Wales (creator of Wikipedia)
Stan Lee
Both members of Outkast
Maureen Tucker

YOUR TROUSERS HAVE SET FIRE TO THE ZEBRA.

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And let's settle the issue of terminally ill picks. I still think that if the person is publicly known to have any sort of terminal illness at the time of selecting them their point value should be cut in half. Or we should dock one point from the total for each terminally ill pick that doesn't die by the end of the year. Thoughts?

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Anyone picking Zelda Rubinstein remember that!

1. Ian Paisly
2. Maradona
3. Helmut Kohl
4. Wojciech Jaruzelski
5. Margaret Thatcher
6. Paul Gascoigne
7. Matti Nykänen
8. Andi McCoy
9. Kim Jong Il
10. David Soul

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Your idea about deducting the points of terminals who don't end up dying from the contestant's point total is one I thought of this past year when reading the 2009 pool. Let's do it!

I'm picking ten people who look like they need to die soon:

In a League of Her Own
Lindsay Lohan
Pamela Anderson

All Hail the Chief
Old George Bush
Jimmy Carter

To Boldy Go
William Shatner
Leonard Nimoy

Oh, Rob!
Dick Van Dyke
Mary Tyler Moore

Does it Matter Which One?
an Olsen twin
a Pointer sister





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Kid, you've paid your dues...dues and dues. ~J. Tweedy

I posted my list before reading anyone elses picks; seems many of us agree that Jimmy Carter looks like shit. I chose him on his age spots, but I wonder if monitoring elections keeps one spry.

No one's touching Cheney, I see......*chortle*

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Kid, you've paid your dues...dues and dues. ~J. Tweedy

www.teenagewildlife.com

Dead

1. Paul Gascoigne
2. Amy Winehouse
3. Margaret Thatcher
4. Christiano Ronaldo
5. Meat Loaf
6. Barack Obama
7. Seve Ballesteros
8. Katie Price
9. Kerry Katona
10. Tiger Woods

Let's settle this debate really quick. Whatever the result of the poll is by Jan 8th is the answer.

In case it isn't self-evident, the one point reduction on b would be for each terminally ill pick. Just clarifying because, well, you've seen the idiots this site can attract.

"OK, I quit. You win. Last post. The end. Goodbye." - Stu, 1 October 2007

What I would do is say that if your terminally ill pick does not die, then you must subtract the difference between 100 and the person's age from your point total. For example, if Swayze had hung on into 2010, then everyone who had him in their 2009 pool would have 43 points subtracted from the points they'd accrued on their successful picks.

The upshot would be that your terminal picks had better kick it or else you would assuredly lose out on the fantastic prize.

Among your options, though, cutting the point total in half was the more punitive, so I chose it. Taking a solitary point away for each terminal pick would not likely impact one's total enough to dissuade from playing the odds.

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Kid, you've paid your dues...dues and dues. ~J. Tweedy

Good idea. But maybe have it halved as well.

I really like the rules for this dead pool but it would take more effort to accurately tabulate than I have the patience for. I mean, shit, I generally just post the thread and my picks and forget this ever happened.

"OK, I quit. You win. Last post. The end. Goodbye." - Stu, 1 October 2007

Why bet on Taylor if he's already dead? Mwarf.

When Bowie meets Satie

I looked at my picks from last year and they're pretty damn solid. I think I'm going to stick with them (with only a few edits):

Pat Cooper
Artie Lange
Ann B Davis
Robert Blake
Rip Taylor
John Goodman
Jimmy Carter
Bob Dole
Amy Winehouse
Nancy Reagan

"OK, I quit. You win. Last post. The end. Goodbye." - Stu, 1 October 2007

p2c! Lovely to see you and great picks. I love the categorization, and you've got a good mix of long shots for points and more predictable options. I went with all likely to die, but some more obscure so it's less likely someone else will have them.

On the "what to do with terminally ill" picks debate, I like the idea of cutting the points in half if the person dies AND subtracting the number of points one would have gotten if the person doesn't die. That way people are actively dissuaded from picking the terminally ill.

Let the games continue...

"What's Tonga?" - Christopher Meloni

WW! We had the same thought about Shatner, I noticed. I feel that my best shot for points is Lohan, who looks skeletal. I was surprised that nobody else had her listed.

I don't think Ghostlove should get full points for Byrd. First, he's only a US senator, and if Sysiyo came in here with a list of Finnish pols, I'd be pretty disgusted. Presidents and Prime Ministers only, please?

Also, everyone knows Byrd is one foot in the grave. They wheel him in for the crucial votes and reward him with an IV. Ridiculous!

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Kid, you've paid your dues...dues and dues. ~J. Tweedy

I'm going to save my picks right until the last minute in case any of them die before the Jan 7th deadline.


mel x

To his credit and why he could be seen as a celebrity, is that he is the longest serving congressman in U.S. history. He also is a reformed former racist, having filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So put that in your pipe and smoke it, ya New England intellectual type

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And let's settle the issue of terminally ill picks. I still think that if the person is publicly known to have any sort of terminal illness at the time of selecting them their point value should be cut in half. Or we should dock one point from the total for each terminally ill pick that doesn't die by the end of the year. Thoughts?

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What if they are already over 100 and they live? Do you get points for that? Do you lose points if they die?

Better get the rules straight from the start this time around flunkyboy instead of making them up as you go along.

You joined up to die - and we'll send you where you can. - Foreign Legion Maxim

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What if they are already over 100 and they live? Do you get points for that? Do you lose points if they die?

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1) I didn't create the idea of a dead pool and "100 - (age)" is a pretty common way of doing it.

2) As a "Super Genius" you should know that it's pretty rare for people - especially famous people - to live past 100.

3) Anyone who picks someone older than 100 is an asshole, pansy, cuntface who really would deserve the negative points.

As a side note, I find it "interesting" when anyone who claims to posses the mental wonderfulness that you do uses emoticons. Especially the tonguey one. I can't think of one here which is possibly more demeaning to the author's mental capacity. Unless it is used ironically - and you've shown that you have no ability for that kind of "silliness." Except for the larger, meta sense that seems to be lost on you as well.

"OK, I quit. You win. Last post. The end. Goodbye." - Stu, 1 October 2007

I almost picked Lohan but I have a feeling that she'll be around long enough to self destruct for the next generation. I see her as becoming a strange hybrid of Zsa Zsa Gabor and Courtney Love, appearing on some post-apocolyptic version of Match Game. We'll have to explain to our grandchildren that, no, she actually once showed a lot of promise in the remake of The Parent Trap. Then they'll ask "which one?"

No, Paris will go before Lohan. People who come from that sort of cesspool-ish background are survivors. It's the spoiled cunts like Paris who drop quickly. Once life stops bending over backwards for them they lose any "fight" that they think they have. All it will take for Paris to finally snap is for her to hit that inevitable wall, looks-wise. Then she'll look like a Muppet, have a cavernous, chapped vagina, won't be able to control her bowels due to years of anal sex, wonder why nobody wants to ask her about the voice of the old man that she did for All Dogs Go To Heaven VI several years ago, and realize that, no, she never was anywhere as interesting as people acted like she was back when they wanted to fuck her. Then it's all sleeping pills and Smirnov for Paris! Haha!! Take that, you bitch!!

"OK, I quit. You win. Last post. The end. Goodbye." - Stu, 1 October 2007

Lou Reed
Buck Henry
Carlos Alomar
Takeshi
Peter Frampton
Gary Numan
Robert Fripp
Larry King
Lady Gaga
Brian Eno

Iman's picks:
Bob Denver
Ben Vereen
Emeril Lagasse
Helen Reddy
Bob Barker
One of John & Kate's kids
The kid who played Beaver
Danny Bonaduce
Oprah Winfrey
Flavor Flave

BowieNet: a place for friends.

Tell Iman that Bob Denver is already dead and she won't get points for him.

Y ou can'not spee k for me Lancealot!

I pik the Cundaleeza Rice, Bishup Dezi TUtu, Bill Cozbie, qUintzy Jones, Janus Dickson, BOB Barker, Dikc Clarck, Pheelus Deeler, Flowerence Henderson and Dabny Coldman. to die for this year and to wish long live to for this year.

you like mebetter than anchie!.

To the best of my recollection I picked no corpses last year and could just cut and paste the 2009 list! But I'll try a fresh new batch of wannabe deads. Hey wait a minute, I did pick "Any Real Housewife" and that dude who was engaged to one got beat to death at the strip club... maybe that counts?


1. Gregg Allman

2. Young actresses and socialites seem all the dying rage lately. Perhaps deceased is the new anorexic. So I'll go with ... Bijou Phillips

3. and one uberproana model ... Stella Tennant

4. Woody Allen

5. Mia Farrow

6. Soon-Yi Previn

7. Dalai Lama

8. Dolly Parton

9. Wilford Brimley

10. Dick Cheney



let them eat opiate

Joe Biden's mom just died! I almost said that one!



let them eat opiate

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2010/01/hoboken-police-confirm-artie-lange-suicide-attempt.html

Just so you know, I love Artie but I can almost taste the 50-some points that this would get me.

"OK, I quit. You win. Last post. The end. Goodbye." - Stu, 1 October 2007

Re: that Artie Lange link:

"...there’s 18 websites that predict my early death."

Does that include Teenage Wildlife?

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Does that include Teenage Wildlife?

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Probably not. I think he's referring to the thousands of Howard Stern Show fansites. His pending death is pretty much a common joke/concern amongst his coworkers and fans.

"OK, I quit. You win. Last post. The end. Goodbye." - Stu, 1 October 2007

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Probably not

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Cunt was on my list last year, probably stabbed himself repeatedly in the first week of January just to piss me off.

C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre

Ernest Bognine
Kirk Douglas
Louise Bourgeois
Juliette Greco
Brigitte Bardot
Charles Aznavour
Mick Jagger
Johnny Depp
Keanu Reeves
Elijah Wood

When Bowie meets Satie

Shit, I totally missed the boat here! Does anyone have a massive objection to a late entry?

Everyone seems to think Borgnine and Douglas have one foot in the grave and one on a banana peel. I don't feel lame for recycling some of last year's picks, but I'll give Ernesto one more wank-tastic year.

Kirk Douglas
Angela Lansbury
Elizabeth Taylor
Paula Abdul
Bobby Flay
Fred Phelps
Corey Haim
Marilyn Manson
Chuck Berry
Seth Galifianakis (Zach's "twin brother")

you're so natural
religiously unkind

Jay Reatard's untimely (non-ugly) death was karmic retribution for my picking Leonard Cohen in this thing. I apologize to anyone who was a fan.

YOUR TROUSERS HAVE SET FIRE TO THE ZEBRA.

Woah, Jay Reatard's dead?

Mxy, don't be so sure it wasn't an ugly death. He probably "died in his sleep" because he passed out on a Goonies-esque organ he was wittling out of elk ribs.

you're so natural
religiously unkind

That's beautiful, man.

All his better songs are ripe for puns now. It's like he planned it.

YOUR TROUSERS HAVE SET FIRE TO THE ZEBRA.

Teddy Pendergrass is now dead as well.

2010: like 2009, but with even more dead people.

American-Mexican singer Lhasa died on New Year's Day. 37, breast cancer. Shit.

When Bowie meets Satie

What a retard.

When Bowie meets Satie

Howard Zinn died. I think some of you might care.



"What's Tonga?" - Christopher Meloni

Shitty. He is one of the first to open the eyes to people about the true consequences of the coming of Columbus.

Let Aragorn tell you a little about it.

Empire Strikes Again and Again

Plus, here is a conversation between Woody Harrelson and Mr. Zinn just a couple of years ago.

Woody and Howard

J D Salinger and the Zelda Rubinstein: Break on through to the other side. Break on through to the other side, etc. etc.

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Kid, you've paid your dues...dues and dues. ~J. Tweedy

1. Fats Domino
2. Leonard Nimoy
3. Margaret Thatcher
4. Britney Spears
5. Silvio Berlusconi (with a bit of luck)
6. Radovan Karadžić
7. Glenn Close
8. Mariah Carey
9. Ringo Starr
10. Dakota Fanning (god, that would bring points)

As every year, neither Keith Richards nor Jopie Heesters will die. Which is kind of funny, like a really long joke without a punchline.


Among all these wolves...

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As every year, neither Keith Richards nor Jopie Heesters will die.

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I gave up on listing actor Jopie Heesters because Monkeyboy threatened to withdraw a point for every year Jopie is older than 100, an he turned 106 last December. Jopi, not MB.

I say voting for Heesters or Keef should give extra points in the case of their unlikely death, as they have proved that they live on where others would easily have passed away.

TW GOD OF FOOTBALL

A Lost Boy Forever: Corey Haim Dies at 38

Hark, methinks I hear a sound? Corey Feldman's tears bouncing off his License to Drive collector vanity plate??

No... It's my deblumes o' death jingling into the kitty.

you're so natural
religiously unkind

Well done, JarethsGirl. Well done.

"What's Tonga?" - Christopher Meloni

Thanks, WW. That means a lot.

you're so natural
religiously unkind

First Michael Jackson, now Corey Haim. How many other friends of Corey Feldman have to die before we realise that someone out here has an insidious plot to kill all of Feldman's close acquaintances? Will we wait till after Corey's exiled himself to Mars??

I really need Lindsey to come through for me now. Go Lindsey: Drink, smoke, inject, upchuck that mochacinno you had for lunch, you fat thing!

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Kid, you've paid your dues...dues and dues. ~J. Tweedy

... awesome.



let them eat opiate

No one picked Malcolm McLaren?

Please. This is probably his first relevant career move in decades.

It's a shame he's not around to claim that he created death from cancer.

I knew you would say that, ziggfried...
I have a confession to make. I was a big fan of McLaren's Buffalo Gals, But you'll have to understand that I was only 12 at the time.

It's SAILER, idiot!

Ronnie James Dio is dead. The ex-Rainbow and Black Sabbath singer died of cancer at the of 67.

He was a great shouter and his debut solo album is a mighty fine hard rock record.

TW GOD OF FOOTBALL

Gary Coleman has died of a brain hemmorhage at the age of 42.

"What's Tonga?" - Christopher Meloni

Willis is the only kid from that show left.

And even he's lucky to be alive. He came precariously close to getting a baseball bat up the ass.

I guess it's now up to Willis to let us know what he was really talking about.

It would be kinda weird if Willis died too, and Mr Drummond managed to outlive all the kids from that show. I mean, who would've figured?

Dennis Hopper dead at 74.

Rue McClanahan Dies at 76.

"What's Tonga?" - Christopher Meloni

Wow, the cast from The Golden Girls seem to be dropping off roughly a year after each other (Estelle Getty - July 2008, Bea Arthur - April 2009, Rue McClanahan - June 2010). This does not bode well for Betty White this time next year.

Stuart Cable, former drummer with Stereophonics, has been found dead at the age of 40.

TW GOD OF FOOTBALL

It's not much, but better than last year: Louise Bourgeois dies at 98

Baby, I've been
Breaking gas in your room again
Breathe in!

Senator Byrd Died. Big news around the world, I know. Longest serving U.S. senator in history.

God dammit, I was sure I had George Steinbrenner but I guess I ended up cutting him from my list. I'm pissed.

"What's Tonga?" - Christopher Meloni

Not a good death year so far.


Among all these wolves...

Is Solomon Burke listed by anyone?

TW GOD OF FOOTBALL

With Barbara Billingsley and Tom Bosley dying within days of each other, maybe it's time to create a "Old-Sitcom-Parents-Dead-Pool" subsection.

Ariana Foster (a.k.a Ari Up, lead singer of The Slits), has died at the age of 48. The news was posted on John Lydon's website (Ari is Lydon's stepdaughter). Doesn't seem to be any more info forthcoming, other than that she died "after a serious illness."

The Slits are a band I just got into and it is amazing how young she was when she started (14) and how good they were. What is freaky is I just out of the blue looked up her bio from a few pages the night before she died and I had no idea she was sick. A real original, she is.

Bob Guccione died. I feel obliged to give Caligula a viewing in tribute to the man.

Maggie recovered. Fate does not even grant me those few points she had left :-/


Among all these wolves...

Leslie Nielsen's dead.

Jesus, it's going to be depressing watching Airplane! when you realise that almost all of the major players are now dead - Stephen Stucker, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Peter Graves, and now Leslie Nielsen. Oh well, at least Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are still kicking around.

Actually, considering that Peter Graves, Barbara Billingsley and Leslie Nielsen all kicked the bucket this year, 2010 is not a good year for Airplane! alumni.

What a pisser of a thing to happen in the 30th anniversary year of The Empire Strikes Back - Irvin Kershner, who directed that movie, has died, aged 87. 2010 is also the 20th anniversary of RoboCop 2, also directed by Kershner (but not quite as fondly remembered ).

And even worse: George Lucas is still alive.


Among all these wolves...

I think the real George Lucas died sometime in the mid-80s and a wobble-necked shill has taken his place since then.

Bobby Farrell, front man of the 1970s disco group Boney M, has died at the age of 61.



clicky here

On December 30, 2010 it was announced that Bobby Farrell had passed away at the age of 61.
The singer was found dead in a hotel room in St.Petersburg, Russia, where he had been performing.

In a bizarre coincidence, Rasputin himself, the namesake of one of boney M's biggest hits, died in St. Petersburg on December 29, 1916.

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Bobby Farrell
R.I.P.

JarethsGirl: 62 points (Corey Haim)
Diamond Frog: 2 points (Louise Bourgeois)

Baby, I've been
Breaking gas in your room again
Breathe in!

I just noticed that Michael Been died in 2010:

"Michael Been died on August 19, 2010 after suffering a heart attack backstage at the Pukkelpop music festival in Hasselt, Belgium, where he was working as sound engineer for his son's band." (Wikipedia)

Maybe some of you will rmember his band The Call which belonged to the better part of 80s music. The album "Reconciled" (1986) was their biggest success with the song "I Still Believe" being a minor hit. Peter Gabriel (with whom they toured), Jim Kerr (Simple Minds) and Robbie Robertson (The Band) guested on that album.

TW GOD OF FOOTBALL

Is that the same "I Still Believe" that's in the movie Lost Boys?

"What's Tonga?" - Christopher Meloni

Wiki says:

"I Still Believe" was re-recorded by singer/multi-instrumentalist and long-time Tina Turner sideman Tim Cappello for the 1987 movie The Lost Boys."

I have never heard it.

TW GOD OF FOOTBALL

Hmpf... not only do my candidates *not* die, also the one's I predicted to survive fail on the last days... so much for Jopie Heesters staying alive 2011...


Among all these wolves...

Th0mas, I think you're in the wrong thread? This is 2010.

It's SAILER, idiot!

Nothing works anymore! Treachery! I demand that this evil year ends immediatly!


Among all these wolves...