2010 Cyburbia Death Pool (Traditional Version)

[Bear Up North]

Cyburbia Death Pool 2010
Traditional Version
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Hear ye! Hear ye!

Step right up, boys and girls, step right up......we are proud to pry open, for the first time ever, that tasteless and fun "slam bam, git in the dirt, m'am" thread.....The Cyburbia Death Pool 2010 Edition, Traditional Version. Come on down, join the festivities!

We are absolutely positive that Calendar Year 2010 will bring us.....

Folks that die that we expected to die.
Folks that die that we did not expect to die.
Real surprise deaths.
Folks that didn't die and we expected them to die.
Folks that didn't die and we "wanted" them to die.

Note that there are tons of internet sites that offer recommendations for these excursions into Grim Reaper territory. Start doing your homework. Check those sites. Tune into pop programs that discuss the "serious" nature of so-and-so's cancer. Wipe off your crystal balls.

With a little more than a month and a half to go, the 2009 version is a bit of a Cyburbian Horse Race. The New Year will bring on the crowning of a new champion and those who participate in the 2010 Pool will be "off and running"......or, at the very least, carving some grave markers.

The Rules
This Bear will moderate, because nobody else seems to want this grave job. Not a problem if I do it again.....not a problem if somebody else jumps in and volunteers to moderate. Remember, as a moderator your responsibility is to provide scoring updates, periodically. The Death Pool Moderator will also provide a final call on any questionable death or situation. (Hardly ever happens!)

You are allowed 10 picks. You are also allowed to indicate in your posting that you have alternate picks if one of the choices on your 2009 list actually croaks in the last 30-some days of 2009. Strongly encourage folks to make their list but do not submit it until near the final bell. Makes it easier on the moderator.

This thread will close near-midnight on December 31, 2009. Early in 2010, another thread will creak open (like the casket in a scary movie). That will be the UPDATE thread. It will be the "catch-all" for 2010 deaths, comments about those deaths, and the periodic (usually every quarter) standings update.

Traditional Version
There was some discussion among regulars that the rules should be changed for the 2010 Pool. Suggestions included awarding points for younger age deaths, etc. Some different options were presented.

Strongly recommend that any one of those "change suggestors" start a second 2010 Pool, without the "Traditional" tag. This pool will remain as it was.
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Now get your shovels and start digging !!!

".....a tisket, a tasket......who's gonna be in the casket?....."
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Bear

[Bear Up North]

The clock is ticking. Thanksgiving and December just around the corner. Remember to start researching your picks for the 2010 pool.

Bear

[Chet]

Originally posted by Bear Up North

The clock is ticking. Thanksgiving and December just around the corner. Remember to start researching your picks for the 2010 pool.

Bear

Not sure I have the energy. Hope no one picks Chet 'cept maybe RJ

[JNA]

SAW

Originally posted by Chet

Hope no one picks Chet 'cept maybe RJ

Come on now he wouldn't do that ?

[Rygor]

Here are my picks:

1. Phyllis Diller
2. Dolores Hope (wife of Bob Hope)
3. Don Rickles
4. Dennis Hopper
5. Jimmy Carter
6. Zsa Zsa Gabor
7. Andy Rooney
8. JD Salinger
9. Kirk Douglas
10. Ernest Borgnine

Alternates in case someone dies before 2010:
Betty White
Olivia de Havilland

[safege]

01. Zell Miller
02. John Waters
03. Rip Taylor
04. Bobby "the Brain" Heenan
05. Arthur Laffer
06. Rona Barrett
07. Phyllis Schlafly
08. Paul Volker
09. Aretha Franklin
10. David Brenner

Alternates, just in case
Charlie Callas
Allen Sues

[ofos]

My All-International/All-Political List for 2010

1. Kim Jong-il
2. Margaret Thatcher
3. Fidel Castro
4. Juan Antonio Samaranche
5. Vicente Fox
6. John Turner
7. Malcolm Fraser
8. Yasuhiro Nakasone
9. Nelson Mandela
10. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Alternates:
1. Queen Elizabeth II
2. Raul Castro

[RichmondJake]

Originally posted by Chet

.....Hope no one picks Chet 'cept maybe RJ

Tell us all how that rash is responding to treatment?


I'll make my picks next month after I make a few calls.

[Maister]

2010 Picks

1. Hamid Karzai
2. Jimmy Carter
3. Kirk Douglas
4. Andy Rooney
5. Elizabeth Taylor
6. George H. Bush
7. Arnold Palmer
8. Fidel Castro
9. Eli Wallach
10. Yitzhak Shamir

[danthonyjr]

I can't believe you guys are picking Andy Rooney. I had him pegged for better than a decade, but he just kept rolling along. I gave up on him in the mid-90s.