2010 Cyburbia Death Pool (Traditional Version) - Cyburbia Forums

Bear Up North · 2009-11-06, 06:50 PM

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?....."
_____

Bear

Bear Up North · 2009-11-15, 04:27 PM

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

Bear

~~Chet~~ · 2009-11-15, 07:59 PM

Quote:

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 · 2009-11-15, 08:38 PM

SAW

Quote:

Originally posted by Chet

Hope no one picks Chet 'cept maybe RJ

Come on now he wouldn't do that ?

Rygor · 2009-11-16, 02:47 PM

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 · 2009-11-19, 05:39 PM

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 · 2009-11-19, 06:16 PM

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 · 2009-11-19, 08:24 PM

Quote:

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 · 2009-11-20, 07:59 AM

2010 Picks

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

danthonyjr · 2009-11-20, 03:05 PM

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.

Zoning Goddess · 2009-11-30, 09:25 PM

Cher
Helen Thomas
Camilla
Barbara Bush
Oral Roberts
Mike Wallace
James Taylor
Hal Holbrook
Prince Phillip
Leonard Nimoy

alternates:

Rosalynn Carter
Mick Jagger

mgk920 · 2009-11-30, 09:43 PM

My list of those who will see daylight on 2010-01-01 and not see daylight on 2011-01-01 are:

-Robert Byrd (USSenator)
-Margaret Thatcher (ex UK Prime Minister)
-Charles 'Chuck' Yeager (Major General-USAF (retired))
-Michael Moore (No idea)
-Fidel Castro (Blowhard dictator)
-Raul Castro (Understudy)
-Jimmy Carter (ex USA President)
-John Wooden (Retired college basketball coach)
-Paul Hornung (Retired NFL player)
-Robert Bork (USA federal judge)

If any decide that they'd rather not see daylight on 2010-01-01, I'll post any needed alternates.

Mike

Rygor · 2009-12-01, 09:54 AM

Looks like there's going to be some "stiff" competition.

kalimotxo · 2009-12-01, 06:41 PM

1. Pete Seeger
2. Mickey Rooney
3. Nancy Reagan
4. Robert Byrd
5. Dick Van Dyke
6. Stan Musial
7. Mikhail Kalashnikov
8. Dick Cheney
9. Jerry Lewis
10. Alan Greenspan

Alternates: Willie Nelson, Howard Zinn

MsAstria · 2009-12-09, 11:06 AM

10. Margaret Thatcher
9. Kim Jong Il
8. Fidel Castro
7. B.B. King
6. Hulk Hogan
5. Mickey Rooney
4. Billy Graham
3. Zsa Zsa Gabor
2. Elizabeth Taylor
1. Nelson Mandela

Alt: Rush Limbaugh

dandy_warhol · 2009-12-09, 11:14 AM

1. Kirk Douglas
2. Muhammad Ali
3. Elizabeth Taylor
4. Richard Simmons
5. Dolores Hope (Bob’s wife)
6. Dick Clark
7. Ariel Sharon
8. Steve Jobs
9. Annette Funicello
10. Art Linkletter

Alternate: Nelson Mandela & Betty Ford

NHPlanner · 2009-12-09, 11:48 AM

1) Fidel Castro
2) George HW Bush
3) Neil Simon
4) Kirk Douglas
5) Phyllis Diller
6) Betty White
7) Cloris Leachman
8) Larry Hagman
9) Stan Musial
10) Maya Angelou

TexanOkie · 2009-12-09, 12:13 PM

10. Margaret Thatcher (former UK PM)
9. Doris Day (US singer/actress)
8. Wilford Brimley (US actor)
7. Jack Welch (US businessman)
6. Elizabeth Taylor (US actress)
5. Dick Van Dyke (US actor and comedian)
4. Robert Byrd (US Senator -WV)
3. Michael J. Fox (US/Canadian actor)
2. James Garner (US actor)
1. Jimmy Carter (former US president)

* Alternate - Mary Tyler Moore (US actress)

otterpop · 2009-12-09, 12:35 PM

I always feel a little guilty about hoping certain well-known people are going to take a dirt nap.

Which is why I never choose a celebrity that I like, even if I think he or she might take a dirt nap in the coming year. Here's hoping Dennis Hopper, Kirk Douglas, James Garner and B.B. King cheat the Grim Reaper another year.

Elizabeth Taylor
Robert Byrd
Fidel Castro
Steve Jobs
Art Linkletter
Kim Jong Il
Mickey Rooney
Nancy Reagan
Mike Wallace
Eli Wallach

Alternative: Ernest Borgnine

kalimotxo · 2009-12-10, 04:06 PM

For a Cyburbia death pool, I'm surprised no one (myself included) has mentioned Robert E. Simon, founder of Reston, VA. He'll be 96 next year...

ICT/316 · 2009-12-12, 11:13 PM

My 2010 picks

1. Nancy Reagan
2. Mikeil Saakashvili (President of Georgia)
3. Viktor Yushchenko (President of Ukrainia)
4. Fidel Castro
5. Jerry Lewis
6. BB King
7. Britney Spears
8. Dave Chappelle
9. Jesse Ventura
10. The Internet

Alternate: America

Zoning Goddess · 2009-12-16, 08:09 PM

Oral Roberts didn't have the decency to make it another 16 days... sigh.... so I have to revise my list by one:

Cher
Helen Thomas
Camilla
Barbara Bush
Mick Jagger
Mike Wallace
James Taylor
Hal Holbrook
Prince Phillip
Leonard Nimoy

Alternates:

Rosalynn Carter
BB King

~~Chet~~ · 2009-12-16, 08:16 PM

Oral Roberts died? OMG I need to make a happy dance.

EDIT: Holy Crap ZG is gonna win

chrisinmd · 2009-12-18, 10:12 AM

1.Queen Elizabeth II
2. Fidel Castro
3. Kim Jong-il
4.Robert Byrd
5. Elizabeth Taylor
6. Chuck Berry
7. Tiger Woods--he wore himself out in bed.
8. Tea Baggers

mgk920 · 2009-12-18, 11:49 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by chrisinmd

1.Queen Elizabeth II
2. Fidel Castro
3. Kim Jong-il
4.Robert Byrd
5. Elizabeth Taylor
6. Chuck Berry
7. Tiger Woods--he wore himself out in bed.
8. Tea Baggers

Only eight? C'mon, there are two more out there who won't be there!

Mike

2009-11-06, 06:50 PM	#1
Bear Up North Cyburbian Plus Registered: May 2003 Location: Northwestern Ohio Posts: 7,863	2010 Cyburbia Death Pool (Traditional Version) Cyburbia Death Pool 2010 Traditional Version -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. _____ Now get your shovels and start digging !!! ".....a tisket, a tasket......who's gonna be in the casket?....." _____ Bear __________________ I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, um, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq and everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa and should help Iraq, Cyburbia, and the Asian countries,so we will be able to build up our future - Best sentence ever!

2009-11-15, 04:27 PM	#2
Bear Up North Cyburbian Plus Registered: May 2003 Location: Northwestern Ohio Posts: 7,863	Tick Tick Tick The clock is ticking. Thanksgiving and December just around the corner. Remember to start researching your picks for the 2010 pool. Bear __________________ I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, um, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq and everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa and should help Iraq, Cyburbia, and the Asian countries,so we will be able to build up our future - Best sentence ever!

2009-11-16, 02:47 PM	#5
Rygor Cyburbian Registered: Jun 2009 Location: Where the Wild Things Are Posts: 576	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 __________________ "When life gives you lemons, just say 'No thanks'." - Henry Rollins

2009-11-19, 05:39 PM	#6
safege Cyburbian Registered: Jul 2005 Location: Golden Valley MN Posts: 642	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 __________________ Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent. -Larry Wall

2009-11-19, 06:16 PM	#7
ofos Cyburbian ne plus ultra Registered: Jul 2006 Location: Slightly Off-Center Posts: 3,716	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 __________________ "Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am, Stuck in the middle with you.” - Stealers Wheel

2009-11-20, 07:59 AM	#9
Maister Chairman of the bored Registered: Feb 2004 Location: on my 15 minute break Posts: 9,276	2010 Picks 1. Hamid Karzai 2. Jimmy Carter 3. Kirk Douglas 4. Andy Rooney 5. Elizabeth Taylor 6. George Blanda 7. Arnold Palmer 8. Fidel Castro 9. Eli Wallach 10. Yitzhak Shamir Last edited by Maister; 2009-12-09 at 02:24 PM. Reason: replaced GHB with NFL great Blanda

2009-11-20, 03:05 PM	#10
danthonyjr Cyburbian Registered: Oct 2007 Location: Way out there Posts: 173	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.

2009-11-30, 09:25 PM	#11
Zoning Goddess White Tile Goddess Registered: Sep 1999 Location: Redneck City, FL Posts: 10,960	Cher Helen Thomas Camilla Barbara Bush Oral Roberts Mike Wallace James Taylor Hal Holbrook Prince Phillip Leonard Nimoy alternates: Rosalynn Carter Mick Jagger

2009-11-30, 09:43 PM	#12
mgk920 Cyburbian Registered: Mar 2004 Location: Appleton, Wisconsin Posts: 2,964	My list of those who will see daylight on 2010-01-01 and not see daylight on 2011-01-01 are: -Robert Byrd (USSenator) -Margaret Thatcher (ex UK Prime Minister) -Charles 'Chuck' Yeager (Major General-USAF (retired)) -Michael Moore (No idea) -Fidel Castro (Blowhard dictator) -Raul Castro (Understudy) -Jimmy Carter (ex USA President) -John Wooden (Retired college basketball coach) -Paul Hornung (Retired NFL player) -Robert Bork (USA federal judge) If any decide that they'd rather not see daylight on 2010-01-01, I'll post any needed alternates. Mike

2009-12-01, 09:54 AM	#13
Rygor Cyburbian Registered: Jun 2009 Location: Where the Wild Things Are Posts: 576	Looks like there's going to be some "stiff" competition. __________________ "When life gives you lemons, just say 'No thanks'." - Henry Rollins

2009-12-01, 06:41 PM	#14
kalimotxo Cyburbian Registered: Feb 2009 Location: Blacksburg, VA Posts: 197	1. Pete Seeger 2. Mickey Rooney 3. Nancy Reagan 4. Robert Byrd 5. Dick Van Dyke 6. Stan Musial 7. Mikhail Kalashnikov 8. Dick Cheney 9. Jerry Lewis 10. Alan Greenspan Alternates: Willie Nelson, Howard Zinn __________________ Process and dismissal. Shelter and location. Everybody wants somewhere.

2009-12-09, 11:06 AM	#15
MsAstria Member Registered: Dec 2009 Location: Byro Posts: 1	10. Margaret Thatcher 9. Kim Jong Il 8. Fidel Castro 7. B.B. King 6. Hulk Hogan 5. Mickey Rooney 4. Billy Graham 3. Zsa Zsa Gabor 2. Elizabeth Taylor 1. Nelson Mandela Alt: Rush Limbaugh

2009-12-09, 11:14 AM	#16
dandy_warhol Cyburbian Plus Registered: Aug 2005 Location: meh. Posts: 4,274	1. Kirk Douglas 2. Muhammad Ali 3. Elizabeth Taylor 4. Richard Simmons 5. Dolores Hope (Bob’s wife) 6. Dick Clark 7. Ariel Sharon 8. Steve Jobs 9. Annette Funicello 10. Art Linkletter Alternate: Nelson Mandela & Betty Ford

2009-12-09, 11:48 AM	#17
NHPlanner Forums Administrator & Gallery Moderator Registered: Apr 1996 Location: New Hampshire Posts: 7,013	1) Fidel Castro 2) George HW Bush 3) Neil Simon 4) Kirk Douglas 5) Phyllis Diller 6) Betty White 7) Cloris Leachman 8) Larry Hagman 9) Stan Musial 10) Maya Angelou __________________ "Growth is inevitable and desirable, but destruction of community character is not. The question is not whether your part of the world is going to change. The question is how." -- Edward T. McMahon, The Conservation Fund

2009-12-09, 12:13 PM	#18
TexanOkie Texan Born, Okie Bent Registered: Jun 2007 Location: Greater Austin Posts: 1,969	10. Margaret Thatcher (former UK PM) 9. Doris Day (US singer/actress) 8. Wilford Brimley (US actor) 7. Jack Welch (US businessman) 6. Elizabeth Taylor (US actress) 5. Dick Van Dyke (US actor and comedian) 4. Robert Byrd (US Senator -WV) 3. Michael J. Fox (US/Canadian actor) 2. James Garner (US actor) 1. Jimmy Carter (former US president) * Alternate - Mary Tyler Moore (US actress)

2009-12-09, 12:35 PM	#19
otterpop Cyburbian Registered: Jul 2003 Location: Down by Dun Ringill Posts: 3,736 Blog entries: 6	I always feel a little guilty about hoping certain well-known people are going to take a dirt nap. Which is why I never choose a celebrity that I like, even if I think he or she might take a dirt nap in the coming year. Here's hoping Dennis Hopper, Kirk Douglas, James Garner and B.B. King cheat the Grim Reaper another year. Elizabeth Taylor Robert Byrd Fidel Castro Steve Jobs Art Linkletter Kim Jong Il Mickey Rooney Nancy Reagan Mike Wallace Eli Wallach Alternative: Ernest Borgnine __________________ "So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

2009-12-10, 04:06 PM	#20
kalimotxo Cyburbian Registered: Feb 2009 Location: Blacksburg, VA Posts: 197	For a Cyburbia death pool, I'm surprised no one (myself included) has mentioned Robert E. Simon, founder of Reston, VA. He'll be 96 next year... __________________ Process and dismissal. Shelter and location. Everybody wants somewhere.

2009-12-12, 11:13 PM	#21
ICT/316 Cyburbian Registered: May 2005 Location: Wichita, Kansas Posts: 445	My 2010 picks 1. Nancy Reagan 2. Mikeil Saakashvili (President of Georgia) 3. Viktor Yushchenko (President of Ukrainia) 4. Fidel Castro 5. Jerry Lewis 6. BB King 7. Britney Spears 8. Dave Chappelle 9. Jesse Ventura 10. The Internet Alternate: America __________________ I Feel Your Pain

2009-12-16, 08:09 PM	#22
Zoning Goddess White Tile Goddess Registered: Sep 1999 Location: Redneck City, FL Posts: 10,960	Oral Roberts didn't have the decency to make it another 16 days... sigh.... so I have to revise my list by one: Cher Helen Thomas Camilla Barbara Bush Mick Jagger Mike Wallace James Taylor Hal Holbrook Prince Phillip Leonard Nimoy Alternates: Rosalynn Carter BB King

2009-12-16, 08:16 PM	#23
~~Chet~~ BANNED Registered: Aug 2001 Location: South Milwaukee Posts: 8,931	Oral Roberts died? OMG I need to make a happy dance. EDIT: Holy Crap ZG is gonna win

2009-12-18, 10:12 AM	#24
chrisinmd Cyburbian Registered: Feb 2004 Location: Near Madness Posts: 317	Death Pool Picks 1.Queen Elizabeth II 2. Fidel Castro 3. Kim Jong-il 4.Robert Byrd 5. Elizabeth Taylor 6. Chuck Berry 7. Tiger Woods--he wore himself out in bed. 8. Tea Baggers