2011 Cyburbian Death Pool

**Bear Up North** · 10 Dec 2010, 9:46 PM

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. Time for Cyburbians to submit their nominations for the 2011 Cyburbian Death Pool. The rules remain the same.....submit 10 names of well-known folks that you think will dance with death in Year 2011. You may submit an 11th name as an "alternate", in case one of your submissions slide into the coffin prior-to the new year. (No more than 11 are allowed, though.)

This thread will self-destruct after Midnight on New Year's Eve. When the death list begins in early 2011, somebody in Cyburbialand will jump-start an update thread. This Bear will keep score, providing quarterly updates.

Generally speaking, we Cyburbians are not very good at this game. There are a number of web sites that can help you chose OR you can just take wild-ass guesses. Have fun and good hunting!

Bear

**Rygor** · 12 Dec 2010, 8:08 PM

1. Queen Elizabeth II
2. Elaine LaLanne (wife of Jack)
3. George Karl
4. Zsa Zsa Gabor
5. Betty Ford
6. Kirk Douglas
7. Billy Graham
8. BB King
9. James Garner
10. Jake LaMotta

Alternates:
1. Fidel Castro

**Bear Up North** · 16 Dec 2010, 7:12 PM

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Got 'em.

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Bear

**imaplanner** · 16 Dec 2010, 7:19 PM

lol. And every year when I see this thread my first thought is "A pool on which cyburbians are going to die next year??

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**ofos** · 17 Dec 2010, 1:09 PM

I am resubmitting my 2010 list for 2011 with one exception, Juan Antonio Samaranche, who had the good graces to expire in April. I'm promoting Queen Elizabeth II from the bench to the lineup to replace him. Since none of the rest have thanked me for prolonging their lives, I now hereby declare them as dead to me.

Kim Jong-il
Margaret Thatcher
Fidel Castro
Queen Elizabeth II
Vicente Fox
John Turner
Malcolm Fraser
Yasuhiro Nakasone
Nelson Mandela
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Alternate
Raul Castro

**NHPlanner** · 17 Dec 2010, 1:30 PM

1) Fidel Castro
2) George HW Bush
3) Neil Simon
4) Kirk Douglas
5) Phyllis Diller
6) Michael Douglas
7) Zsa Zsa Gabor
8) Larry Hagman
9) Stan Musial
10) Kim Jong-Il

**Suburb Repairman** · 17 Dec 2010, 3:29 PM

1. Michael Douglas, actor
2. Fred Phelps, "religious" piece of s*** pastor that is going straight to hell
3. Fidel Castro, politics (Cuba)
4. Ruth Bader Ginsberg, retired USSC justice
5. Prince Phillip, politics (England)
6. Roger Ebert, famous movie critic
7. Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader that is amazingly still alive. Who knew?
8. Kirk Douglas, actor
9. Julian Assange, Wikileaks activist making enemies faster than he can kill them
10. Kim Jong Il, politics (North Korea)

Alternate:
Dick Clark, radio & TV personality

**imaplanner** · 17 Dec 2010, 5:22 PM

Alright I'm in

1) Aretha Franklin
2) Michael Douglas
3) Nancy Reagan
4) Jack Kevorkian
5) Ariel Sharon
6) Lindsey Lohan
7) Muhammad Ali
8) Bradley Manning (Wikileaks leaker)
9) Dick Cheney
10) Felipe Calderon

**beach_bum** · 17 Dec 2010, 9:48 PM

Maybe I'll get one this year!

Kim Jong Il
Kirk Douglas
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Margaret Thatcher
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Roger Ebert
Dick Clark
Billy Graham
Mike Wallace
Fidel Castro

**mgk920** · 17 Dec 2010, 10:34 PM

My list of those who will see daylight on 2011-01-01 and not see daylight on 2012-01-01 are:

-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)
-Paul Hornung (Retired NFL player)
-Robert Bork (USA federal judge)
-Little Jimmy Dickens (Musician)
-Sean Connery (Actor)

If any decide that they'd rather not see daylight on 2011-01-01, I'll post any needed alternates.

Mike

**Zoning Goddess** · 19 Dec 2010, 11:22 PM

Cher
Helen Thomas
Hal Holbrook
Prince Phillip
Mike Wallace
Doris Day
Larry King
Leonard Nimoy
Liza Minelli
Mick Jagger

Alternates in case any of the above expires in the next week:

Jimmy Carter
Martha Stewart

**Hink** · 20 Dec 2010, 8:21 AM

-Michael Douglas
-Kim Jong Il
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
-Kirk Douglas
-Clint Eastwood
-Andy Griffith
-Abe Vigoda
-Ann B. Davis (from Brady Bunch)
-Dick Van Dyke
-Carl Reiner

My alternate is:

-Russell Johnson (the professor)

**Maister** · 20 Dec 2010, 9:47 AM

1.Britney Spears
2.Fidel Castro
3.Kirk Douglas
4.Mike Wallace
5.Mikhail Gorbachev
6.Ariel Sharon
7.Fats Domino
8.Zsa Zsa Gabor
9.Hugh Hefner
10.Arnold Palmer

**giff57** · 20 Dec 2010, 9:56 AM

Frederica Sagor Maas
Muhammed Ali
Kirk Douglas
Abe Vigoda
Liz Taylor
Bob Barker
Fidel Castro
George Beverly Shea
Eli Wallach
Ariel Sharon

**Zoning Goddess** · 21 Dec 2010, 10:20 PM

Somebody has a 60's-70's t.v. fixation; but you got the wrong guy from Barney Miller...

Originally posted by Hink_Planner

-Michael Douglas
-Kim Jong Il
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
-Kirk Douglas
-Clint Eastwood
-Andy Griffith
-Abe Vigoda
-Ann B. Davis (from Brady Bunch)
-Dick Van Dyke
-Carl Reiner

My alternate is:

-Russell Johnson (the professor)

**safege** · 21 Dec 2010, 10:40 PM

Same names, same alternates, as last year.

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

Charlie Callas
Allen Sues

**Hink** · 22 Dec 2010, 8:18 AM

Originally posted by Zoning Goddess

Somebody has a 60's-70's t.v. fixation; but you got the wrong guy from Barney Miller...

They are all going to die this year. It was easy pickin'

**kalimotxo** · 26 Dec 2010, 3:08 PM

1. Pete Seeger
2. Mickey Rooney
3. Nancy Reagan
4. Phyllis Schlafly
5. Dick Van Dyke
6. Stan Musial
7. Mikhail Kalashnikov
8. C. Everett Coop
9. Jerry Lewis
10. Helmut Schmidt

Alternate: Richard "Dick" Cheney

**kjel** · 26 Dec 2010, 4:31 PM

Ok here's my list....6 holdovers from 2010 and 4 new ones.

1. Billy Graham
2. Margaret Thatcher
3. Kirk Douglas
4. Dick Clark
5. Betty Ford
6. Dolores Hope
7. Aretha Franklin
8. Michael Douglas
9. Andy Rooney
10. Fidel Castro

**Zoning Goddess** · 28 Dec 2010, 8:35 PM

Originally posted by Hink_Planner

They are all going to die this year. It was easy pickin'

Yeah, this year it was actors in "Airplane" which I realized watching an NBC list of dead people last night (Peter Graves, Barbara Billingsley, and Leslie Nielsen). So maybe this is the year of the old sitcom people. Or, for Safege, obscure comedians that only us older Cybs remember..

**Veloise** · 29 Dec 2010, 8:50 AM

Betty Ford
Dick Clark
Pete Seeger
Michael Douglas
Kirk Douglas
Dick Cheney
Dick Van Dyke
Roger Ebert
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Phyllis Diller

Larry King
Billy Graham

**Bear Up North** · 31 Dec 2010, 7:02 AM

Billy Graham (Evangelist)
Kirk Douglas ("I'm Spartacus!")
Fidel Castro (Dick Tater)
Ariel Sharon (The "new" Abe Vigoda)
George Beverly Shea (Gospel Singer)
Annette Funicello (Mickey Mouse bikini)
Delores Hope (Wife of Bob Hope)
Andy Griffith (Of Mayberry)
Aretha Franklin (Soul)
Nancy Reagan (Wife of President)

No alternate picks. If a menu item is yanked before the ball drops on a snowy New York City tonight, so be it.
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Get your picks in, my Cyburbian pals. Don't put me on your list, I plan to continue to bug you in 2011.

Bear

**Bear Up North** · 31 Dec 2010, 5:55 PM

Throw a rose on this casket of a thread, as it is lowered into the hole. As official Moderator of this thread I will not accept any submissions for the Cyburbia Death Pool - 2011 Version after Midnight, EST. The real mod team will close the thread. When a well-known person kicks the bucket in early 2011, first person to post starts the official "Cyburbia Death Pool 2011 Update" thread.

Somebody go pull a plug or step on an air line. Let's get this thing rolling.

Bear

**dandy_warhol** · 31 Dec 2010, 10:31 PM

1. Kirk Douglas
2. Annette Funicello
3. Kim Jung Il
4. Aretha Franklin
5. Artie Lang
6. Rush Limbaugh
7. Billy Graham
8. Zsa Zsa Gabor
9. Ariel Sharon
10. Dick Clark

**Salmissra** · 31 Dec 2010, 11:31 PM

OK, I'm in. This is my first year participating.

It's not even 11pm here, so I think this gets in under the wire.

1 Dick Clark
2 Michael Douglas
3 Zsa Zsa Gabor
4 Aretha Franklin
5 Liza Minnelli
6 Fidel Castro
7 Dick Cheney
8 Queen Elizabeth
9 Andy Rooney
10 Ariel Sharon

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