Death Pools

[BrainyBeauty]

Have any of you ever heard of this? I really must be living in a cave, as this morning on the radio I heard a man talking about this for the first time. For those of you equally out of the loop, it is similar to Fantasy Football Leagues only you bet on celebs who will die-within a certain time frame.

I know this sounds sick and maybe I have a warped sense of humor , but after I stopped howling, I realized that my friends and I do this all the time- just without benefit of making money! (the guy on radio made $13,000 in '99 and had an off year with only $6000 in 2000)

I had to laugh though when he mentioned that he was mad at Bob Hope for hanging in there still and costing him money! Apparently there is a simple mathematical formula- e.g., Hope is 98 years old. Subtracted from 100 he is only worth 2 points. Jim Varney, however, was relatively young when he died last year and was worth 50 points!

So does anyone want to 'play' (for fun, not money)? Who's on your list of most likely to bite the dust/cash in their chips/buy the farm/kick the bucket?

I would have to have Bob Hope and Pope John Paul 2 on my list. Oh, and you can choose young-uns too (more valuable dontchaknow)

 

[Purple Haze]

Robert Downey Jr. seems to be a good bet for a few points, I would say.

Robbie Knievel?

 

[R Nitelight]

Morbid As Hell Thread, But Why Not...

I'll take Margaret Thatcher and F Murray Abraham.

 

[BrainyBeauty]

Morbid? Yes.
Funny? Questionable.
Profitable? Apparently!

Downey is a good one. And he's young so I bet he's worth a ton of points. Nite, sweetie, is Maggie sickly? She reminds me of another pick..Ronnie Reagan.

I forgot to mention that I did a search and found lots of sites. Here is one:

http://www.melodyr.com

 

[Ezzy]

Have you not seen...

The Clint Eastwood film about this?

The reruns should have been on cable by now, it was called the Dead Pool.



EZ http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/s/cwm2/sleep.gif

 

[R Nitelight]

BrainyBeauty

Nope. To the best of my knowledge, both of my picks are in the best of health. That's what makes it interesting.
I'm pretty sure both of your picks are going to pay off this year, but if we go by your scoring system, how many points are you getting?
What's Bob Hope? 2 points? Damn, if 100 is the cutoff, you're pretty close to losing points on him.

 

[JustMeCreed]

I think I'll take the political side and go for....

Ted Kennedy and Strom Thurmond

Something's got to give with either one of these two any day now....Have no idea what they're worth though, Kennedy - 25 maybe and Strom - negative 10 (hehehe)

 

[ContessaR]

Brittany Spears

by a mysterious young woman...

I know where she lives, heh heh heh.

 

[Melody_lane]

Yeah know, something about having your name in the address of a website that gambles on death just disturbs me.


*grins

 

[Ezzy]

I'll take $50.00...

On the 0 year curse, put me down for GWB by the end of his term.



EZ http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/s/cwm2/sleep.gif

 

[jcgirl]

Slow nite guys?

Well hell, okay, I take Jack Lemmon

 

[GuyJD]

THIS IS NOTHING NEW

Have any of you ever heard of this? I really must be living in a cave, as this morning on the radio I heard a man talking about this for the first time. For those of you equally out of the loop, it is similar to Fantasy Football Leagues only you bet on celebs who will die-within a certain time frame.

I know this sounds sick and maybe I have a warped sense of humor , but after I stopped howling, I realized that my friends and I do this all the time- just without benefit of making money! (the guy on radio made $13,000 in '99 and had an off year with only $6000 in 2000)

I had to laugh though when he mentioned that he was mad at Bob Hope for hanging in there still and costing him money! Apparently there is a simple mathematical formula- e.g., Hope is 98 years old. Subtracted from 100 he is only worth 2 points. Jim Varney, however, was relatively young when he died last year and was worth 50 points!

So does anyone want to 'play' (for fun, not money)? Who's on your list of most likely to bite the dust/cash in their chips/buy the farm/kick the bucket?

I would have to have Bob Hope and Pope John Paul 2 on my list. Oh, and you can choose young-uns too (more valuable dontchaknow)

THIS HAS BEEN ON THE HOWARD STERN RADIO SHOW FOR OVER A DECADE.

 

[GuyJD]

MY PICKS FOR Y2K1

I GOT DIBBS ON THE FOLLOWING:

Robert Downey, Jr.-He will,eventually, OD on something.

Ronald Reagan- He's practically a vegatable as we speak.

Elizabeth Taylor-She's always ill.

Eminem-He's always drawing his empty gun. Someone else's gun might not be emptied.

Richard Pryor-It's sad to think about it but he is slowly going.

 

[BrainyBeauty]

Well, as if a couple of the posts didn't already make me feel stupid for living a sheltered life and not ever hearing about this before...

Now I feel really dumb. Nitey, you are so right. That is the whole point of this game isn't it? DUH! Of course it is more fun to pick someone who isn't so obvious and knocking on death's door! LOL I am such a maroon!

So, for you, and I think you will agree, I wanna add Bud Selig for obvious reasons.

My fave answer here is Contessa's- Britney Spears! I am spewing coffee on that one!

 

[Juspar Emvan]

I like the cut of Contessa's jib. I'm in for any or all of the boy/girl groups (don't you dare sully the word band) out there. And if anyone knows who can help me 'fix' the odds, I'd be really greatful.

 

[Gaucho]

Re: Have you not seen...

The Clint Eastwood film about this?

The reruns should have been on cable by now, it was called the Dead Pool.

Ah, yes. The Dead Pool. Not bad, as sequels go, with Liam Neeson and a little known comic/actor by the name of Jim Carrey in supporting roles. Dirty Harry wins in the end, as always, but not before getting yet another partner killed in the process. Won't these people ever learn? The moment you learn you're going to partner Clint Eastwood in anything, just kill yourself and get it over with! Especially if it's golf at Pebble Beach. Eastwood swings a golf club like it's a 44 Magnum.

And speaking of Big Clint, I've been a huge fan of his for years, going all the way back to Rawhide, but I've always had a problem with his name. Clint. To me, it's always sounded like either someone with a lisp trying to say "Clit" or a stutterer trying to say "Cunt", you know?

But we were talking about Dead Pools, weren't we? Yes, BB, it is in very poor taste (if it's been on the Stern show for 10 years, that kind of cements it, doesn't it?). And normally, even in jest, I would never consider making this kind of list. But you know what? Everybody has lists. Most of us just have more sense than to make them public. But even Joseph Campbell once said that if anyone had a working guillotine, he'd be more than happy to give them his list. So, for better or worse, here's mine at the moment (always, of course, subject to change):

Bill and Hillary
Jesse Jackson
Al Sharpton
Osama Bin Laden
Yasser "that's my baby" Arafat
Saddam Hussein (but he was so cute in "South Park". Wasn't he cute?)
Slobodan Milosevec
Jesse Helms
Trent Lott
Ralph Nader
The far left wing of the Democratic Party
The far right wing of the Republican Party
Normal, Ohio
That 70's Show
Temptation Island
Rosie O'Donnell
Calista Flockhart
Oprah
Kathy C. Gifford
Timothy McVeigh (now there's a guy with short odds!)
er (except for Alex Kingston. Yum!)
3rd Cock, er, Rock from the Sun
Regis "I wanna shove a million dollars up your ass" Philbin
Dharma and Greg
NYPD Blue (I'm sorry, Sipowicz, but it's over)
Charlie Sheen (I'd put him on here twice if I could)
The View
Survivor
All the brain surgeons at the news networks who called Florida on election night
Tim Russert and his fucking little blackboard
Nash Bridges (but not Cheech Marin)
Andre Agassi
The Florida Supremes
Any and all hanging, dimpled, or pregnant chads

I don't quite have the heart to put big Al "The sportsman's Pal" Gore on this list because, politically speaking, he's already a walking corpse.

And last, but not least, from today's headlines:

Judge Idris Usman Gusau of Nigeria for sentencing a 17-year-old Muslim girl to be flogged 180 lashes with a cane because her father forced her to have sex with 3 men, thus breaking a law against premarital sex. The father, so far unidentified, also merits inclusion on this list. No charges have been filed against him.

 

[GuyJD]

GAUCHO.........You got the wrong impression of the Death Pool. You're suppose to list all of whom you predict with "shake hands with the Grim Reaper" this year, not who you would want to see on that list. Not that I disagree with you on that list that you created. If I add anymore, this post would run into another website.

 

[Gaucho]

Oh, I got the concept all right, Guy.

If I were playing (which I'm not) my real Death Pool list would look a bit different.

Just call this list a bit of wishful thinking on my part.

 

[ContessaR]

Juspar, You're My Kinda Person!

but honestly (and not the least wishfully, for I admire them both), I'm going to have to say Liza Minelli or Elizabeth Taylor...far too many health problems for either of them to keep on keepin' on.

I wish there was a snuff film with Justin cutting the the silicon outta Brittany's tits, w/o anesthesia...but alas, I am a bitter old lady. <sigh>