Thread: Dead Celebrity Pool

You can bet on this stuff?

This is The Home Of The Celebrity Dead Pool. Stiffsville. Death Central. We make fun of famous people and the people who make them famous (i.e. you), and our main instrument of ridicule is our contest, The Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool. It's a simple enough premise (with a bunch of details attached to it) and it goes like this:

Pick ten famous people you think might die between January 1st and December 31st. Each entry costs you 15 bucks, and at the end of the year, the list with the most dead celebs wins a shitload of cash. This year, First Prize is $3000.00 in cold, hard, American currency. As if that weren't enough, each year's champion also gets his or her name engraved on The M.T. Graves Memorial Trophy, the most coveted prize in all of Dead Celebrity Land.

Ohmygoodness!

If betting on which celebrity was going to die next was a little more mainstream, the most money lost would've easily been bet on Keith Richards. That guy is the cockroach of celebrities.

List of famous people who have died since Jan. 1:

Claiborne Pell (01/01)
And our first stiff of the year is the exciting senator from Rhode Island, creator of the Pell Grant, and apparently the only politician on all of Wikipedia without a "scandals" section. Going to be a big year.

Pat Hingle (01/03)
Hingle buried.

Griffin Bell (01/05)
Rung.

Patrick McGoohan (01/13)
Number Deep 6.

Ricardo Montalban (01/14)
Boss...? Boss...?

Andrew Wyeth (01/16)
Easel come, easel go.

John Updike (01/27)
Rabbit make space.

Ingemar Johansson (01/30)
Down for the count.

Lux Interior (02/04)
Design flaw.

James Whitmore (02/06)
Brooks was here.

Philip Jose Farmer (02/25)
He wrote "A Woman a Day" and "Blown". We might be on to what killed him.

Paul Harvey (02/28)
Good day - you irritating, monotone, over opinionated, one-trick-pony weasel.

Horton Foote (03/04)
One Foote in the grave.

Natasha Richardson (03/19)
Went downhill fast.

Lou Saban (03/29)
Football coach - from when the footballs and helmets were made out of the same stuff.

Marilyn Chambers (04/12)
Under the green floor.

J.G. Ballard (04/19)
Just Gone? Jolly Ghost? Joined Graveyard? Jazzy Ghoul? Jostled Grave? Take your pick.

Doc Blanchard (04/19)
The doctor is out.

Jack Cardiff (04/22)
Marilyn Monroe once described him as "the best in the world". But then again, she was wasted a LOT.

Bea Arthur (04/25)
And then there's mulch.

Danny Gans (05/01)
The Las Vegas billboard industry just took a BIG hit.

Jack Kemp (05/02)
Unkempt.

Dom DeLuise (05/04)
Dom Dead. Decomposing delightfully. Deadpoolers delirious.

Dom DiMaggio (05/08)
Dom duplicate. Doornail dead. Deadpoolers dumbfounded.

Chuck Daly (05/09)
Might as well now.

Koko Taylor (06/03)
This is what happens when you keep wang dang doodling all night long.

David Carradine (06/04)
Time for you to leave.

Kenny Rankin (06/07)
Peaceful indeed.

Ed McMahon (06/23)
Heeeeeeeeeeere's Eternity!

Farrah Fawcett (06/25)
Not just Charlie's angel anymore.

Michael Jackson (King of pop) (06/25)
He touched so many...

Sky Saxon (06/25)
Clearly, he was pushing too hard.

Gale Storm (06/27)
Now downgraded to a tropical depression.

Billy Mays (06/28)
DEAD. BLURB PENDING. PLEASE STAND BY.

You Want Stiffs? We Got Your Stiffs

Originally Posted by Blueneck

List of famous people who have died since Jan. 1:



You Want Stiffs? We Got Your Stiffs

Since when was Billy Mays a celebrity. The man was a loud mouthed schmuck who had a good beard trim and dye job.

Originally Posted by Bourne

Since when was Billy Mays a celebrity. The man was a loud mouthed schmuck who had a good beard trim and dye job.

I'm not sure what the actual requirements are anymore... but I would say he had more claim to the title of celebrity than Paris Hilton does.

Well, looking at their site they had just over 750 entries this year and 28 people picked Michael Jackson. Not bad.

There are also four "celebrities" that have died this year that were each only picked by one person... if anyone's looking for the possible killers, we may have found them.

In case anyone was wondering, the person that appeared on the most ballots was Ted Kennedy.

Originally Posted by boontito

I'm not sure what the actual requirements are anymore... but I would say he had more claim to the title of celebrity than Paris Hilton does.

Paris did a porn film. Mays was just irritating. Paris is the definite celebrity.

But I do tear up whenever I use the Oxy Clean on my shorts.