DMC is a legend in his own mind!! And on the BB of course.

TIS

If we pick DMC, then Turi can't be far behind.

I just missed out on Gerald Ford... I picked him for my list this year and he died a few days before the beginning of the year (thus making him ineligible).

Former Presidents: Clinton, Bush Sr. & Carter right? All three wives are living as well.

SC in checking out old people today (ha ha ha times are tough), did you know that Art Linkletter is still living? Sounds awful, but there were a lot of people I really thought had passed on, that are still alive.


TIS

I REALLY shouldn't be discussing particulars with you (aiding the enemy) but Linkletter is on my list for this year.

I still want to know if Leona Helmsley's $2M dollar dog counts.

Gotta be human! (that would have disqualified Leona ).

You're right. I already got some names in mind.

I assume at some point (Next year) we all post our list on the Dead Pool thread or what?

TIS

It would be best if your names are submitted in private (so that no copying can be done)... Once all the participants submit their lists the names will be posted in public.

Count me in SC unless I can't get enough names written down by the new year. But I'll try.

Ok, thus far: SC, DC, Beth, Bibble, Me and I'd bet $20 Geoff joins in. Is that it? Ok, so far I'll be winning $100 bucks.

TIS

I'll give it a shot but you have to remind me ok

Wait a minute, is there money involved here?? I don't want to make money on people's deaths... I just want to have fun at their expense

No money is involved. TIS got carried away with the excitement of the contest.

Is Keith Richards eligible?

I've never played this game for the same morbid reasons others pointed out... but they seem to be willing anyway! I'll think about it....

Sure, why not? But you get no points just because he LOOKS dead.

Oh, this is so morbid. I'll do it.

My list is finished. How sick am I?

Geeez... you're done already???

Well, you have three months to fine tune your list.

I think I'm fine tuning it after 3 hours. I thought of 4 people in the middle of the night, and have to think of who will deleted, and be saved from the Bethie Curse.

You think about people who have the potential of dying when you're laying in bed at night?

No wonder why you are always complaining about the men in your life!

If there were men in my life I'd be doing something else in my bed at night.

Yeah. Listing them in your dead pool and then helping them go ala John Garfield style!

Instead of dead man walking it'll be dead man....

Oh, never mind.

CSI: Miami had an episode around this topic. The Dead Pool was for big money and a young starlet got murdered. So naturally there was motive - someone was going to get rich.

I find the whole premise a bit morbid. Don't we have better things to do with our time?....bring bologna sandwiches to homeless people?....but I don't care how a man makes a living, as long as his interests don't conflict with my interests.

Of course it's morbid, that's why we love it. Like looking over at a car accident, or watch Lindsay Lohan get behind the wheel of a car. You know it's not gonna be pretty, but you can't resist.

I would server the homeless bologna sandwiches, but the ones around where I work at don't want bologna, they want bourbon.

Marycas, for years I've refrained from participating in these Dead Pools because I felt exactly as you did about their being a bit morbid and weird.

But this time I'm taking a different approach. So I figured "what the heck."

I do know that even though I may be in this one for the first time ever, I will NEVER be able to bring myself to root for someone, who is not evil, that may be on my list to die.

So what I was thinking of doing was trying to make my list to include scumbags like Usama Bin Laden, the scumbags of the world, so I can I hope and pray for them to drop dead without feeling any guilt.

You have to find him First..

This is probably a sin, but could I get odds on Britney Spears, being she's so young and all?

SC, can you bump this thread a few weeks before the end of the year? I keep forgetting about it and I want to make sure to make my list before the year ends.