Deathwatch 2006 - the game thread

[Dragon Phoenix]

The rules, blatantly copied/adjusted from the SDMB:

1. You pick 20 celebrities whom you predict will die within the calendar year 2006. If any of your celebrities dies, you score 100 points minus their age at death. Whoever has the most points at the end of the year wins.

2. All picks must be done before 1/1/06.

3. Valid picks must not be:

a. already dead
b. a fictional character
c. non-human
d. under age 18 at death

4. You can pick people who are age 100 or more but you won't score points for them. See the "Quantity Not Quality" award, below.

5. If there is uncertainty about the celebrity's age at death, I will go with the higher age (lower score).

6. Your picks must specify a name: listings like "anybody from the cast of friends" as a pick will be ignored.

7. Persons under sentence of death will be valid for scoring points only if they die by means other than official execution.

8. Feel free to post your choices here, or alternatively send me your list to my email address if you do not want to tip off others. I will prepare my own list before looking at any of the emails.

Please try to spell celebrities' names correctly, or help me by identifying them in more detail.

Some celebrities have common names or similar names. It is helpful to specify whether you're picking Barbara Bush, the former First Lady or Barbara Bush, her granddaughter, to use examples from the past.


Additional awards:

The "Quantity Not Quality" Award: to be awarded to the poster or posters who pick the greatest number of celebrities who died, regardless of their actual point value.

The "Inside Track with the Grim Reaper" Award: to be awarded to the poster or posters who pick a celebrity that no one else picked.

The "Opening Kickoff" Award: to be awarded to the poster or posters who pick the first listed celebrity to die in 2006.

The "Final Hours" Award: to be awarded to the poster or posters who pick the last listed celebrity to die in 2006.


50 cent (Fritzler, JaguarGL)
Abe Vigoda (!Chucklez!, MeMe)
Abigail van Buren (Jaguarscum)
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (Commodore Hagman)
Adam Savage, Mythbusters (Impossible root)
Alan Greenspan (!Chucklez!)
Albert Hofmann (!Chucklez!)
Alex Higgins (Aga)
Alfredo di Stefano (DP)

Al Lewis (CES) 5 points

Al Lopez (MatthewV)
Alonzo Mourning (Thesp)
Al Pacino (Commodore Amazing)
Alvaro Uribe Velez (Commodore Hagman)
Anatoly Dobrynin (JaguarGL)
Andy Griffith (CP, Ronaldofthewhite)
Anthony Herrera (JaguarGL)
Anthony M. Kennedy (MatthewV)
Ariel Sharon (!Chucklez!, Jaguarscum, Ronaldofthewhite, Talitha)
Arthur C Clarke (Jaguarscum, OST)
Art Linkletter (CES)
Ashton Kutcher (Fritzler)
Ashley Olsen (Fritzler)
Augusto Pinochet (CES, Jaguarscum)
Axl Rose (Talitha)
Ayaan Hirshi Ali (Mgm, Thoth)
Ayman al-Zawahiri (Thoth)
Bam Margera (Impossible root)Barbara Billingsley (Quailman)
Barbara Bush the elder (DP)
BB King (MeMe, Ronaldofthewhite)
Betty Ford (Jaguarscum)
Bill Cosby (Fritzler, Ronaldofthewhite)
Billy Graham (!Chucklez!, CP, MeMe, Thesp)
Bob Barker (Commodore Hagman, Courk, Raj)
Bob Dole (!Chucklez!)
Bob Eubanks (Courk)
Boris Yeltsin (CES, CP, DP, KennyKiller, MatthewV, MeMe, OST, Ronaldofthewhite, Thesp, Thoth)
Brad Pitt (Impossible root)
Brigitte Bardot (Commodore Amazing)
Brooke Astor (CES, !Chucklez!)
Buzz Aldrin (MatthewV)
Casey Kasem (Commodore Hagman)
Carl Reiner (Courk)
Charley Shean (Raj)
Charlton Heston (!Chucklez!, KennyKiller, MeMe, OST, Raj, Talitha, Thoth)
Cheech Marin (Thesp)
Cher (Raj, Talitha)
Christopher Plummer (Fritzler)
Chuck Berry (MeMe)
Claude Levi-Strauss (CES)
Clint Eastwood (Fritzler, Impossible root, Ronaldofthewhite Talitha)
Connor O'berst (Fritzler)
Courtney Love (Aga, Impossible Root, Talitha, ZuFaul)
Crispin Glover (Commodore Amazing)
Dalai Lama (ZuFaul)

Dana Reeve (Raj) 44 = 56 points

Dan Rather (Commodore Hagman)
Dave Chapelle (Impossible root)
David Bowie (DP, JaguarGL)
David Crosby (JaguarGL, MeMe)
David Grohl (Fritzler)
David Hasselhoff (Raj)
David Paradine Frost (Mgm)
David Rockefeller (Jaguarscum)
Dean Martin (Fritzler)
Denton Cooley (Quailman)
Dick Cheney (Commodore Amazing, Courk, DP, Frizler, Impossible root, Raj, Ronaldofthewhite, Thesp)
Dick Clark (!Chucklez!, Commodore Hagman, Courk, CP, Impossible root, Jaguarscum, MeMe, Raj, Ronaldofthewhite, Thesp)
Dick Martin (Courk)
Diego Maradona (Aga)
Dolly Parton (OST)
Don Ho (MatthewV)
Don King (Commodore Hagman)

Don Knotts (OST) 19 points

Don Pardo (CP)
Don Zimmer (Commodore Hagman)
Eartha Kitt (OST)
Edmund Hlawka (Commodore Amazing)
Elizabeth Taylor (JaguarGL, KennyKiller, MeMe, Raj, Talitha, Thesp, Thoth)
Elton John (Talitha)
Eminem (Commodore Amazing, Impossible root, MatthewV, ZuFaul)
Ernest Borgnine (Jaguarscum)
Estelle Getty (CES, MeMe, Ronaldofthewhite)
Ferenc Puskás (KennyKiller)
Fidel Castro (CES, Commodore Hagman,Courk, CP, DP, KennyKiller, MatthewV, MeMe, Mgm, OST, Raj, Ronaldofthewhite, Thesp, Thoth)
Francis Ford Coppola (Courk)
Gary Paulsen (MatthewV)
Geert Wilders (DP, Mgm)
Gene Barry (Courk)
Gene Hackman (Talitha)
Gene Wilder (!Chucklez!)
George Bush Sr. (Fritzler, MatthewV, Mgm, ZuFaul)
George W. "Dubya" Bush (Fritzler, MatthewV, Mgm, ZuFaul)
George “The Animal” Steele (JaguarGL)
Gerald R. Ford (!Chucklez!, Jaguarscum, KennyKiller, MatthewV, OST, Quailman, Ronaldofthewhite, Thesp, Thoth)
Gloria Stuart (Quailman)
Gordon Lightfoot (DP)
Graham Souness (Aga)
Hamid Karzai (Aga)
Hank Aaron (!Chucklez!)
Harry Morgan (CP, Quailman)
Helen Thomas (OST)
Helmut Kohl (DP, ZuFaul)
Helmut Schmidt (Jaguarscum)
Henry Kissinger (Thoth)
Holly Johnson (Aga)
Hugh Hefner (Fritzler, Mgm, OST)
Ian Brady, 'Moors Murderer' (Aga)
Ibrahim Jaafari (Thoth)

Ibrahim Rugova (KennyKiller) 39 points

Ingmar Bergman (CP)
Iyad Allawi (Thesp, Thoth)
Ja Rule (Impossible root)
Jack Black (Commodore Amazing)
Jack Nicholson (Commodore Amazing, Talitha)
Jack Palance (Courk, JaguarGL)
Jack Warden (Quailman)
Jalal Talabani (Commodore Hagman)
James Brown (MeMe, Ronaldofthewhite)
Jason Giambi (Thesp)
Jayne Seymour (Thoth)
Jean Stapleton (Courk)
Jerry Lewis (!Chucklez!, Commodore Hagman, CP, MeMe, Ronaldofthewhite)
Jesse Helms (CP)
Jim McKay (Quailman)
Jimmy Carter (Commodore Hagman, Jaguarscum, MatthewV, Ronaldofthewhite, Thesp, Thoth)
Joey Bishop (Fritzler)
Joe Pesci (Fritzler)
Johannes Heesters (KennyKiller)

Johannes Rau (KennyKiller) 25 points

John Astin (Courk)
John Cleese (ZuFaul)
John Glenn (MatthewV, Quailman)
John Goodman (CP)
John Kenneth Galbraith (CES)
John Nash (!Chucklez!)
John Paul Stevens (MatthewV)
John Seigenthaler Sr. (Mgm)
John Spencer, snooker (KennyKiller)
John Travolta (Aga)
Jonah Lomu (Aga)
Jose Canseco (Thesp)
Joseph Barbera (!Chucklez!)
Kanye West (Raj)
Kate Moss (Aga, Commodore Amazing)
Keith Pritchard (Commodore Hagman)
Keith Richards (DP, OST)
Kim Jong Il (Commodore Amazing, ZuFaul)
King Carl XVI Gustaf (Commodore Hagman)
Kirk Douglas (!Chucklez!, CP, Jaguarscum, KennyKiller, MeMe, Quailman)
Kurt Vonnegut (CP, Impossible root)
Lady Bird Johnson (CES, !Chucklez!, CP, Jaguarscum, Quailman)
Larry Hagman (OST)
Larry King (Mgm)
Lars Frederiksen, Rancid (Commodore Hagman)
Lauren Bacall (Mgm, Quailman)
Lee Kwan Yew (DP)
Linda Ronstadt (Talitha)
Lindsey Lohan (Ronaldofthewhite)
Liza Minelli (Talitha)
Louie Anderson (CP)
Louis Rukeyser (CES)

Lou Rawls (Jaguar scum) 28 points

Lou Reed (DP)
Luciano Pavarotti (Talitha)
Madeleine L'Engle (CP)
Magic Johnson, basketball (DP, JaguarGL)
Margaret Thatcher (Aga, CES, DP, KennyKiller, Mgm, Talitha, Thesp)
Marilyn Manson (ZuFaul)
Mark Hendry, WWE (JaguarGL)
Mary-Kate Olsen (Fritzler)
Mary Tyler Moore (JaguarGL)
Maurice Papon (CES, KennyKiller)
Meinhardt Raabe (Quailman)
Mel Brooks (Courk)
Michael Douglas (Impossible root)
Michael Gambon (Commodore Amazing, Mgm)
Michael Jackson (Courk, Raj, Talitha, ZuFaul)
Michael J. Fox (!Chucklez!, JaguarGL, Raj)
Miep Gies (Ronaldofthewhite)
Mikhail Gorbachev (Jaguarscum, Thesp, ZuFaul)
Michael Moore (Raj)
Mickey Rooney (CP, JaguarGL, MeMe)
Mick Fleetwood (JaguarGL)
Mick Jagger (Impossible root,ZuFaul)
Milton Friedman (Commodore Amazing, KennyKiller)
Mister T (JaguarGL)
Mitch Miller (CES)
Mohammad Omar, Taliban (OST)
Morgan Freeman (Commodore Amazing)
Muhammad Ali (!Chucklez!, Commodore Hagman, KennyKiller, MeMe, OST, Raj, Talitha)
Nancy Reagan (CES, CP, Jaguarscum, Mgm, OST, Raj, Ronaldofthewhite, Thoth)
Narain Karthikeyan (Aga)
Neil Armstrong (MatthewV)
Neil Young (DP)
Nelson Mandela (DP, Jaguarscum, Thoth, ZuFaul)
Nicole Richie (Thoth)
Noam Chomsky (Commodore Amazing)
Oprah Winfrey (Impossible root)
Oriana Fallaci (CES)
Osama Bin Laden (CP, MatthewV, Mgm, OST, Raj, Ronaldofthewhite, Talitha, Thoth, ZuFaul)
Ozzy Osbourne (DP, Talitha)
Pat Lawford (CES)
Patricia Neal (JaguarGL)
Pat Robertson (OST)
Paul Gascoigne (Aga)
Paul Harvey (Raj)
Paul McCratney (ZuFaul)
Pervez Musharraf (MatthewV)
Peter Doherty (Aga)
Peter O’Toole (MeMe)
Phil Margera (Impossible root)
Phil Rizzuto (Courk, Quailman)
Pope Benedict XVI (JaguarGL, Mgm, ZuFaul)
Prince Michael of Kent (Aga)
Queen Elizabeth II (Commodore Hagman, DP, Mgm, Raj, Ronaldofthewhite, ZuFaul)
Ralph Schumacher (DP)
Ralphie May (Impossible root)
Red Schoendienst (Quailman)
Regis Philbin (Fritzler)
Ricardo Montalban (Quailman)
Richard Branson (Aga)
Rick Majerus (CP)
Ricky Williams (Courk)
Ringo Starr (ZuFaul)
Rizgar Mohammed Amin, Saddam trial judge (Aga)
Robert de Niro (Fritzler)
Ronald Edward Santo (KennyKiller)
Ronnie Biggs (CES, KennyKiller)
Roy Edward Disney (Courk)
Russell Crowe (Commodore Amazing)
Russell Johnson (Quailman)
Saddam Hussein (Mgm, Thoth)
Sam Donaldson (Quailman)
Sandra Day O'Connor (Commodore Hagman, Fritzler)
Scott Scovell Hamilton (KennyKiller)
Sean Connery (Thoth)
Shane McGowan (Aga)
Sharon Stone (Thoth)
Shirley MacLaine (Commodore Amazing)
Sidney Poitier (Courk)
Stan Musial (Quailman)
Stephen Hawking (Aga, CES, !Chucklez!, JaguarGL, MeMe, Mgm, Quailman, Raj, Thesp)
Scott Carpenter (MatthewV)
Stephen King (Commodore Amazing)
Steven Adler (KennyKiller)
Steve O, Jackass (Aga, Impossible root)
Stevie Nicks (Talitha)
Stone Cold Steve Austin, WWE (JaguarGL)
Suge Knight (MeMe)
Susanne Osthoff (ZuFaul)
Ted Kennedy (Commodore Amazing, Courk, Thesp)
Ted Stevens (MatthewV)
Thabo Mbaki (Commodore Amazing)
The Big Show, WWE (JaguarGL)
The Game, Jayceon Terrel Taylor (Commodore Hagman)
Tina Turner (OST)
Tommy Lee (Impossible root)
Tony Bennett (OST, Quailman)
Trent Reznor (ZuFaul)
Valerie Singleton (Mgm)
Val Kilmer (Imposible root)
Vladimir Putin (MatthewV)
Walter Cronkite (Fritzler, Jaguarscum, MeMe, Thesp)
Whitney Houston (DP, Jaguarscum, Talitha)
Will Forte (Thesp)
Willie Nelson (OST)
Yogi Berra (Courk)
Yoko Ono (Impossible Root)
Zacarias Moussaoui (Thesp)
Zahi Hawas (Mgm)
Ziyi Zhang (Commodore Amazing)
Zsa Zsa Gabor (CES, Jaguarscum, KennyKiller, Ronaldofthewhite, Thoth)

Score:
Kennykiller 39+25=64 points
Raj 56 points
Jaguarscum 28 points
One Skunk Todd 19 points
Cogit Ergo Sum 5 points

[MeMe]

Oh my gosh. I have my list and everything -- just completely forgot to send it.

[Fritzler]

Damn. Me too meme

[Dragon Phoenix]

Just send it in today, I'll edit them in.

[Fritzler]

Thank you. Posting it in the other thread now.

Edit: Oh, its locked, here it is here, I'll delete it later so it doesn't clutter:

Edit2: You're pretty much a baller

[MeMe]

Sent!

[Commodore Amazing]

Who is Commodore Hagman?

[Dragon Phoenix]

Dunno. That's what was in the email.

First (minor) celebrity to snuff it:

Phillip Whitehead, 68, British Labour Member of the European Parliament for East Midlands, heart attack.

[Tamuz]

Talitha wants SIR Elton John to die. Thats half sacraledge. Without Sir ElJ what else would England have?

[impossibleroot]

Obie Trice, rapper and friend of Eminem, was shot today, then released from the hospital. Will it escalate into a full rap-land war? Commodore Amazing, ZuFaul, and I have Eminem, and Fritzler and Jaguar have 50...

[inHimshallibe]

Who is Commodore Hagman?

Hi. :waves:

Er, yeah DP, I suppose I should have let you known.

[MeMe]

Without Sir ElJ what else would England have?

Madonna?

[rolandofthewhite]

Ariel Sharon (!Chucklez!, Jaguarscum,

Ronald

ofthewhite, Talitha)

Jimmy Carter (Commodore Hagman, Jaguarscum,

Ronald

ofthewhite, Thesp, Thoth)

Queen Elizabeth II (Commodore Hagman, DP, Mgm, Raj,

Ronald

ofthewhite, ZuFaul)

Etc., etc...

My name has been rather thoroughly FUBAR.

[Commodore Amazing]

Talitha wants SIR Elton John to die. Thats half sacraledge. Without Sir ElJ what else would England have?

Just cuz I listed someone doesn't mean I want them dead!

With Zhang Ziyi, I'm cutting my losses. If she dies in some sort of anti-American riot in China, at least I get huge points in this game to help me through it!

Oh, and Keira Knightley, obviously.

[Dragon Phoenix]

My name has been rather thoroughly FUBAR.

So it's not your brother playing then?

[rolandofthewhite]

Boris Yeltsin had a stroke and is expected not to recover, I heard.

[rajrhcpfreak]

i think your talking about Ariel Sharon

but if your not, Ariel Sharon is in bad shape too.

[Stewie]

Pope Benedict XVI (JaguarGL, Mgm, ZuFaul)

Pretty old guy, I'm puzzled as to why he was chosen, when he's likely to die really soon.

Pat Robertson (OST)

I don't know if this guy is going to die, he's already pretty old, but you have to listen to what he says. He asked God for more openings in the Supreme Court... and two weeks later the Chief Justice dies. Freaky. Surprized nobody picked hugo chaves.

Anyways, I completly missed this, which is a shame. I'll be following this closely.

[Jaguar]

Jan 6: Lou Rawls dies at age 70 of lung cancer

[Fritzler]

Jan 6: Lou Rawls dies at age 70 of lung cancer

Oh, good call.

[Commodore Amazing]

Fritzler, I can understand Mary-Kate Olsen. But Ashley? And Ashton Kutcher?

[Fritzler]

I had a dream where they all died.
Don't ask.

[Commodore Amazing]

I'm sure you're not the only one who has dreams about the Olsen twins. And Ashton Kutcher, for that matter.

Just curious: who has the youngest total combined? Just in case there's some sort of apocalypse, I can think to myself, "Damn it! Not only is humanity perishing, but Thesp is also going to beat me in Deatchwatch!"

EDIT: Mine is 784 (slow work day, what can I say)

[Fritzler]

I think its me.

[Dragon Phoenix]

Actually 72, according to CNN.

Jaguarscum takes the lead with 28 points and the "Opening Kickoff" Award.