2008 Death Pool Candidates

John Daly and Robert Downey Jr. are always worth taking a flyer on.

 

Hefner?

 

Dick Clark will be on everyone's list.

I'll take Courtney Love to block, Wink.


Edit: Old Winston Conrad (Otherwise known as Wink Martindale) turns 74 this year.

Does this qualify him?

 

Did somebody stomp on the side of his face with track cleats?

 

- Queen Elizabeth II (she's 81)
- Osama Bin Laden (you know Bush will want to end his presidency in a big way)
- Jesse Timondequas (was in the news recently as being NJ's most infamous death row inmate to be spared with the repeal of the law. The general prison population will have a field day with him)
- Earl Lauer Butz (98) Noted For: U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under Nixon and Ford (1971-76). Resigned after a racist remark he made during a private conversation was made public. Pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion and served 30 days in prison (1981).
- Robert McNamara (91) Secretary of Defense for Kennedy and Johnson
- George Schultz (87) Secretary of Labor and Secretary of the Treasury under Secretary of State under Reagan
- Marvin Miller (90)
- all the people Walter mentioned in his initial post


A few I'll be evil for saying, with age in parenthesis:
- Betty Garrett (88) - she was in All in the Family
- Abe Vigoda (86)
- James Noble (85)
- John Forsythe (89, will turn 90 in January)
- Russell ("The Professor") Johnson (83)
- Frank Cady (from Green Acres) (92)
- Al Molinaro (88)
- Baseball Hall of Famers Bob Feller and Bobby Doerr are both 89, Stan Musial is 87,


The Web site http://www.whosaliveandwhosdead.com/ is a great resource for this. Just look through the lists and see if there's any very old celebs you've forgotten about.

 

Thanks to Chef's sig ... I call dibs on Lohan.

 

Britney would seem to be the best value choice on the board.

Two not to pick:

Ringo Starr. Destined to be the last Beatle standing. Until Sir McCartney is gone, Mr. Starkey is safe.

Keith Richards. Indestructible.

 

Not a pro-wrestling fan, but just pick one of the stars and you've got a good chance of being right.

 

Looks like a cross between Sammy Hagar and Mini-Pimp.

 

Precisely.

How he hasn't keeled over yet is a modern medical miracle.

 

Hell, how could he die? He's pickled. Right there next to the pigs feet and eggs at Wal-Mart.

 

Totally agree. I won my dead pool this year by a wide margin - 4 out of 10 on my list died, and all four were already ill when I listed them.