I'm posting this to see if there is enough interest in us forming a "Dead Pool" for next year.

Basically, you make up a list of 50 people whom you think will die next year. They have to have some sort of celebrity status whether it be a movie star, a political or literary figure, a sports star, etc. (it can't be someone like your next door neighbor or your mailman). The person who has the greatest number of "kills" at the end of the year wins.

I belong to such a pool this year, and its fun comparing our picks and kills. (So far I have eight kills including Tammy Faye Baker, Lady Bird Johnson and Phil Rizzuto).

Let me know if you're interested in joining. If we get enough participants (at least 5 or 6) I'd be happy to organize the thing. Your list of 50 would have to be submitted before December 31st.

Start checking all those old and sick celebrities (but please don't post any here).

Would I get Uber points (whatever they are) from ESPN??

My first reaction was yeah I'm in! But then I started thinking about how I would he happy each time someone on my list died. This game sounds slightly disturbing......... in a fun way.

Only for sports stars.

Blibble - I felt the same way when I was approached to join the group I'm in now. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that these people are gonna die whether or not I have them on my list... its not like I'm hoping they die (just to win a contest).

If it's anything like fantasy sports, the people on my list should feel LUCKY they'd have at least another year to live...

I really haven't looked in there this year... but I think I know what you mean... I'd like to put some of my golf picks on that list.

I join in,sounds like fun..

Is this gonna be complicated like the sports betting??? Do we play for money, points, or fun (I know sounds awful playing with the "dying" odds)

If it's fairly simply, I'll try. Also, do you have to come up with 50 names or can it be less? And, one more question, can you give brief description of how this works. Maybe call it "Dying Pool Rules For Dummies."

TIS

Its easy, TIS. This group would be for fun (the one I'm in off the boards costs $20).... everyone submits a list of 50 people. Put a short description by their name. An example is:

Lady Bird Johnson - former First Lady
Phil Rizzuto - baseball player
Tammy Faye Baker - tv evangelist

At the end of the year we total up who had the most correct picks and they win.

Simple.

(Fifty names is hard to come up with... start making a list now of old movie stars, tv personalities, etc., and then add names of famous people that you hear about being sick, etc. By the end of this year you should have 50 names).

You can also use it as a wish list of who you WANT to die.

Who knows, you may have the cursed. Then you'll win money on top of getting your wish...haha.

When do we have to have a list? You say for the year, so do you mean January, or a year from now? I will join as long as I have time to make a list.

Let me add, it's awkward putting a "death" list together. :oI hope by putting each and every person on the list, it adds another 20 years to that person's life. But hell, I'll do it.

TIS

I have a few on my list this year... Osama bin Laden comes to mind.

TIS - The list would have to be submiited by December 31st. The contest would be for all those who die in 2008.

I always thought that these Dead Pools were a twisted way to make money and never participated in them because of how I felt. But what the heck, I'll do it too.

Do we post the names here?

My early wish list

Britney Spears
Paris Hilton
All X Factor and Pop Idol Winners
Reality Programme Executives
Roman Abramovich
Amy Whitehouse

Ok, I'm in. Just keep me/us posted.

I'm assuming, dead means dead, whether it be a natural old age death or if someone thinks that a certain famous person may do him/herself in, as sad as it is, that can be included.

Let me ask, out of 50 names, how many right did the last winner get? I'm thinking even 10 outo 50 is good.

TIS

C'mon DE NIRO, please don't start posting bullshit lists unless you're really going to participate.

No. I'm just testing the waters to see if enough people are interested. If there are, then everyone can submit their lists privately in December.

I'll post all the submitted lists after New Year's.

I will-that is my "Wish List"

Ok. Just give us a reminder as it gets closer.

So far, the leader in my group (this year) has 14 kills. I have 8. To possibly give you a better understanding (and maybe some help) my eight are:

Tammy Faye Baker
Phil Rizzuto
Lady Bird Johnson
Brooke Astor (105 year old heiress)
Ernest Gallo (Gallo Bros. winemaker)
Charles Lane (old movie actor)
Bruce Bennett (old movie actor)
Kitty Carlisle (old actress)

I had to do some research on the net to come up with some of these names... if nothing else, its fun.

It's sick and twisted.

But fun.

Ut oh, Cardi's involved? I can see it now on Dec 31, 2008:

I kill old actors for fun, but for a dead man pool, I carve them up real nice...

Ive not heard of any of these dead people.LOL

It is!!

One of the gals from work got me into it. Her husband is the one who organized it... there have been days when I went to work and saw her and shouted out "I GOT TWO TODAY!!!" (Her husband once got three in two days... I cursed her out when I saw her. He just passed me on the scoreboard when Leona Helmsley died - he has 9 now).

Will Leona's dog count once someone offs the pup for the $12 million inheritance?

Ok, what are we playing for?

The key to your hot tub.