The Graffe's Celebrity Death Pool

Since we've had so many celebrities die lately, I thought we might as well start a pool for bragging rights. The rules are short and simple:

1) No choosing someone immediately after they have a 'serious accident'. If you hear that Matthew Broderick has been brought to a hospital after a serious car accident without a pulse, it doesn't count if you post him and claim victory in the pool an hour later.
2) No changing your choice after you post it. If you aren't sure, don't post it, because people will get paranoid about edits on this point.

The winner will be decided by the earliest death someone can post from a reputatble source, which means you have to pick someone who's death would be noticed in some kind of decent online publication. This goes by broad board consensus; if someone dies, we should be able to verify it. Earliest time of death wins.



I'll go first, and my pick is Carol Channing.

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Originally Posted by ClaudShatterglass

I'll go first, and my pick is Carol Channing.

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WTF, she's still alive???

Heck, I'll play and pick Dirty Dancing guy with his pancreatic cancer. Patrick Swayze.

Carol Burnett

Allan Arbus (Sydney), because I feel a M*A*S*H vibe after seeing Jamie Farr on TV today.

Abe Vigoda

Sean Connery

Amy Winehouse

Ronnie Biggs

tom hanks

Elizabeth Taylor

Gloria Stuart, the old lady from "Titanic", who turned 99 on Saturday.

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Originally Posted by Dru

Amy Winehouse

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Want to start a sub-pool on drug-related deaths? I was thinking of going with Mischa Barton, since she has major methface already, but after seeing how much weight she's lost and hearing her complain that her money is all gone I'm going to go with Courtney Love.

MacCaulay Culkin. You know there's no way he can go on living now that his true love has passed on.

Webster

Wilford Brimley

Rush Limbaugh

Patrick Swayze

Patrick Swayze was already picked, pick again. Yes, who gets in first counts too. I should have mentioned that. :p

Famous politicians count?

If so, Ted Kennedy.

A Salesman

I predict Anne Coulter's Adam's Apple grows a full body of its own and kills the host.