Hay prodigious TWfers! Time to start a new Dead Pool!

Begin to compile, and let's do 12 this year.

Our CS rules (perhaps no death shall pass ambiguously this year):

1. Post 'em and leave 'em by end of day, your time zone, 1/10/2012.

2. Celeb must die between posting deadline and 11:59:59, 12/31/2012, according to the time zone the celeb dies in.

3. Score = 100 - celeb's age.
So yes, if you choose a celeb over 100 and he dies you'll wind up in the hole! That would be like a grave! Then you have to dig your way out!

4. If you pick a celeb with a terminal illness who dies, your point value for that celeb's death will be decreased by 1/2. And you will be called gay. Whether you like it or not. If you state you are not gay, then 2 more points will be deducted from your score.

"Drug-related" is not a terminal illness.

5. Moderator's Choice: Any death caused by machinery will earn 7 bonus points. Machinery is broadly defined and may include ice-skate blades, trains, commercial blenders, swordfish probosci and conveyor belts, but not guns. Deaths occuring due to guns are scored regularly.

6. Deaths caused by posters do not count. Don't try it.

7. Most of all TWfer boys and girls, have fun playing! It's a game!



let them eat opiate

Read my lips! (oh wait, you can't, they're sewn shut!)

George Bush (the elder)

What *not* to eat!

Guy Fieri

Fair and Balanced? No, cremated.

Rupert Murdoch

Joining her career...

Lindsay Lohan

100% Dead

Matthew Sweet

I know it's gonna happen, someday

Morissey

Last train to Clarksville

Mickey Dolenz

More than a pair of tits

Dolly Parton

The end of the world as he knows it

Michael Stipe

Taking the big one for The Gipper

Peggy Noonan

Pardon my french

Gérard Depardieu

Pathetic little fat man, no one's bloody laughing

Rush Limbaugh















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

Since I don't own a TV set anymore, I have no idea who the next Amy Winehouse will be. So I stick to most of the last years choices, old people and world's worst actor who should have died 30 years ago.

1. Fats Domino
2. Leonard Nimoy
3. Margaret Thatcher
4. Lindsay Lohan
5. Radovan Karadžić
6. Mariah Carey
7. Ringo Starr
8. Jean Paul Belmondo
9. Hugh Hefner
10. Steven Tyler
11. Muhammad Ali
12. Hayden Christensen


Among all these wolves...

I think this is profoundly disrespectful, predicting who will die. Nonetheless, let me predict Jerry Lewis, Keith Richards, and the fat guy from Cheers.

My method will year will be looking at th0mas' list and naming the first person who comes to mind.

1. The fat guy from Modern Family (Dom DeLuise's son?)
2. William Shatner
3. Alan Moore
4. Mary Kate Olsen
5. Sacha Baron Cohen
6. J-Lo
7. Richard Hawley
8. Famke Janssen
9. Pamela Anderson
10. Mary Tyler Moore
11. Mike Tyson
12. David Prowse

http://bizarrewebcomic.com

1. Zsa Zsa Gabor
2. Kirk Douglas
3. Billy Graham
4. Snooki (please please please)
5. Olivia deHavilland
6. Dick Van Dyke
7. Fats Domino
8. Ray Bradbury
9. Lemmy Kilmister
10. Peter O'Toole
11. Madonna

And I really hope not but I'm throwing it in anyway...

12. David Bowie

1. Cathy Rigby

2. Leonard Cohen

3. Dick Cheney

4. Jerry Stiller

5. Bam Margera

6. Mary Tyler Moore

7. Regis Philbin

8. Q E II

9. Stephen Hawking

10. Whitney Houston

11. Deepok Chopra

12. Jon Voight






let them eat opiate

1. John Hurt
2. Carol Channing
3. Jared Swilley
4. Phil Spector
5. Mikhail Gorbachev
6. Stan Lee
7. MCA (Adam Yauch)
8. Steve-O
9. Imelda Marcos
10. Jean-Luc Godard
11. Franco Harris
12. Roger Ebert

The textbook definition of Damn-He-Nice

Pastor Phelps
Cheney
Maggie
Mugabe
Khamenei
Berlusconi
Than Shwe
Abdullah II
Lord Howe
Tebbit
Kissinger

and Kessinger publishing.

Yeah, they're all well over the hill and what have you, but I reckon there should be bonus points if I get some kinda accumulator going.
< superfluous, sarcastic smilie, for old time's sake.


Rather than words comes the thought of high windows

1 Paul Gascoigne
2 Henry Kissinger
3 Ron Wood
4 Helmut Kohl
5 Casey Kasem
6 Ian Paisley
7 Woody Allen
8 Linda Ronstadt
9 John Travolta
10 Gladys Knight
11 Carole King
12 Geoff Hurst

TW GOD OF FOOTBALL

Mel Brooks
Roman Polanski
Keith Richards
Gene Wilder
Joni Mitchell
Margaret Thatcher
Lindsay Lohan
Fidel Castro
Wilfred Brimley
Maggie Smith
Clint Eastwood
Willie Nelson

I am no longer an active member of Teenage Wildlife

Lindsey Buckingham
Kenny Rogers
Caleb Followill from Kings of Leon
David Lee Roth
Christopher Plummer
Muhammad Ali
Jack Russell from Great White
Dick Clark
Daniel Baldwin
Steven Adler from Guns n Roses

"What's Tonga?" - Christopher Meloni

Oh shit, I missed the "12" part.

Tom Sizemore
Brian Blessed

"What's Tonga?" - Christopher Meloni

Paul Mccartney
Ringo Star
David Blaine
Cheryl Cole
Margaret Thatcher
Mark E Smith
Katy Perry
Noel Edmunds
Russell Brand
Mariah Carey
arnold schwarzenegger
George Osbourne


he bought me a soda and he tried to molest me in the parking lot

Prizzy, my only issue with your list is that no one would mourn any of those passings. The best thing about this game is the chance that you'll hear about the passing of a beloved cultural icon on the radio and immediately yell out "YES! 47 points!!!" to the embarrassment of one and all.

ohro, if Leonard Cohen dies, I am holding you responsible.

The textbook definition of Damn-He-Nice

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I reckon there should be bonus points if I get some kinda accumulator going.

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Dead Pool Grand Champeen: whoever has the most points

Dead Pool Grand Poobah: whoever predicts the greatest number of corpses

The fine print: Late entries accepted with one fewer choice per month (eg. if you list in February you get 11 picks, March = 10 picks. And so on. Terminally ill choices no longer accepted cause they're prolly sicker now.)



let them eat opiate

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Marquis: Prizzy, my only issue with your list is that no one would mourn any of those passings.

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Right, but I've expressed my distaste for these types of competitions before. I thought I was joking then, but perhaps I wasn't. Perhaps the whole point of this competition is to figure out where you stand religiously. I mean, given the slime on my list, I'd quite happily burn my nominees at the stake, Inquisition-style, if given the chance.

Or perhaps my choices were selected because I think we're due a spate of dictator deaths. Or a combination of the two. You decide!

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Ohro: Dead Pool Grand Poobah: whoever predicts the greatest number of corpses

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Bah. I reckon if any two of my list peg it on the same day I should win outright.

Rather than words comes the thought of high windows

If you could somehow get Kissinger and Thatcher to participate in a Barry Lyndon-style duel, that would be best.

The textbook definition of Damn-He-Nice

As I've been drinking I'm not going to bother Googling your picks prior to this question, but were your Katy Perry and Russell Brand votes chosen before or after their divorce? Either way is just as humorous to me.

News of their divorce reminded me how much I wanted them to die, or at least how much I couldn't care less if they died. I thought perhaps they might kill each other in some 'war of the roses' style fiasco. You never know...

he bought me a soda and he tried to molest me in the parking lot

Margaret Thatcher
Barack Obama
George Bush Sr
Chuck Berry

Sonny Rollins
Pete Doherty
Kirk Douglas
Ernest Borgnine

René de Obaldia
Juliette Greco
Charles Aznavour
Jean Rochefort

We can be "homos"
For ever and ever

SCORE!

52 POINTS!

YESSSSS!

it's gonna be an ohro year!



let them eat opiate

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Me: I think we're due a spate of dictator deaths

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Ohro: it's gonna be an ohro year!

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See. How is it that Paisley (EJ's pick) is let off with a minor heart attack, but an apparently well-liked singer is chopped down at 48?

And don't tell me that Paisley doesn't require a cauldron's worth of prescription drugs to get out of bed in the morning!

Rather than words comes the thought of high windows

Are you implying that there should be an element of fairness in who dips in the dead pool? Who are you, and what did you do with Auntie P?



let them eat opiate

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it's gonna be an ohro year!

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Or it could be the year of dying female singers. I am prepared and have three on my list.

TW GOD OF FOOTBALL

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SCORE!

52 POINTS!

YESSSSS!

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Your immediate reaction accompanied by a clenched fist punching the air when you heard aboute Whitney's death, I assume.

TW GOD OF FOOTBALL

She did leave a comment on my Facebook to that extent within an hour.

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

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12. David Bowie

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Wrong Davy Jones, Jill.

http://bizarrewebcomic.com

Does Bowie get his name back now?

Is it in poor taste to suggest that we all deserve 57 points for Andrew Breitbart?

The textbook definition of Damn-He-Nice

Don't get me wrong, I'm not in the least bit happy that Whitney died, I'm just happy I got the points! Having never really scored big at Dead Pool before, it is a strange emotional sensation. There are not too many people in my nonTW life that I could share my strange victory with. Another reason to love TWfers!

At least I'm not Nancy Grace.





let them eat opiate

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Does Bowie get his name back now?

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I miss the "like" button

It's SAILER, idiot!

Dick Clark. Surely that will be negative points.



let them eat opiate

One would think it would be negative points, but it turns out that he was only 82. 18 points, bitches! My strategy of picking old farts may add up to catch OhRo.

"What's Tonga?" - Christopher Meloni

Never heard of him. Should deduct points.

TW GOD OF FOOTBALL

I am gay.

The textbook definition of Damn-He-Nice

Seriously, Marquis. Congrats on your 26.5 points, but fucking tragic.

"What's Tonga?" - Christopher Meloni

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I am gay.

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We already knew


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

Goober died.





let them eat opiate

I still find betting on terminally ill persons to easy.

TW GOD OF FOOTBALL

Oh, Dogz, ever the card! I'll wager you haven't shed a tear today for Maurice Sendak, as Outside Over There is an obvious antecedent for the dreck that is Labyrinth - right?

The textbook definition of Damn-He-Nice

Right Marquis!

I shed my tears in private, outpouring of public grief is for North Koreans and means fuck all!!!

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

Any have Gore Vidal? Or Maeve Binchy?



Everyday I write the book

[solemn] Horshak died.[/solemn]



let them eat opiate

First Epstein, now Horshack... Goddamn, is Mr Kotter going to outlive all the Sweathogs?

Scott McKenzie is not wearing the flowers in his hair any longer but checking their roots from underneath.

Anyone got him?

TW GOD OF FOOTBALL

Top Gun director Tony Scott is dead at 68. He jumped 365 feet to his death? Bummer. Early reports claim that he had been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour.

Although I haven't been impressed by much of anything Tony Scott has directed for a while, he's got some good, underrated films on his filmography - Beverly Hills Cop II, The Last Boy Scout, and True Romance. Crimson Tide was an OK flick, if memory serves. And Scott directed Bowie in The Hunger.

...oop, and Phyllis Diller is dead too.

Do I get any points for Snooki? She had a baby and that's sort of losing your life...