The Back Alley Archives

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[TD]IHateUGAlyDawgs[/TD]
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[TD]Tipmoose[/TD]
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[TD]UFGirlluvr[/TD]
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[TD]radbag[/TD]
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I know radbag will love this. Conrad Bain's passing got me reminiscing about past BA Dead Pools.

So who wants to do one? Here am the rules:

1. A celebrity is anyone famous enough to have their own permanent Wikipedia entry. A celebrity can be a head of state. If your celebrity is obscure, yet still qualifies as a celebrity, please provide a short description of why that person is famous.


2. 10 entries per player.


3. Scores will be calculated based on the celebrities' ages at their time of death. Score will be 125-age. That way, if you stack your entries with the elderly, you're not going to get a lot of points, but you will be rewarded for taking risks on younger celebs.


4. Duplicate entries are permitted - more than one person may name a given celebrity in their list.


5. If you accurately predict the cause of death, you'll get a bonus of 25 points. This has to be specific - i.e., "pancreatic cancer" would get the bonus, but "natural causes" would not.


6. Deadline for entry is 11:59 p.m. January 31, 2013. If, however, you enter before then, and someone on your list dies within the first 31 days of 2013, you will be awarded the points. You thus have an incentive to enter as soon as possible.


7. You may not cause the death of someone on your list.


8. You may not name a celebrity who, at the time of your entry, is suffering from an illness or injury that presents an immediate threat to his or her life. In other words, you'd be allowed to name Stephen Hawking, whose ALS will definitely kill him at some future time, but you would not be allowed to names someone whose death appears imminent.


9. Similarly, you may not name someone who is scheduled to be executed by any government. Death row inmates are fine, as long as their execution date has not been set. Same goes for folks like Terry Shiavo - once the court allows them to pull the plug, she can't be used, but as long as the litigation continues, it's fine.


10. Submissions will be made in a sticky thread. Edits will not be allowed, save for my editing of the first post, in which I'll keep score.

Okay, assholes, I'll start:

1. Former President George H.W. Bush (b. 6/12/24) - pneumonia
2. Actress Lindsay Lohan (duh) (b. 7/2/86) - drug overdose
3. Pope Benedict XVI (b. 4/16/27) - heart attack
4. Football Player Manti Te'o (b. 1/26/91) - suicide but later determined to be a hoax - it still counts if the hoax is not figured out until after Dec. 31 2013
5. Bodybuilder/Actor/Politician Arnold Schwarzenegger (b. 7/30/47) - heart attack
6. Model/Actress Lauren Hutton (b. 11/17/43) - auto accident
7. Actor Corey Feldman (b. 7/16/71) - drug overdose - I always have a Corey in my dead pools
8. Actor Daniel von Bargen (Mr. Kruger from Seinfeld) (b. 6/5/50) - complications from diabetes or suicide
9. Football Coach Bobby Bowden (b. 11/8/29) - kidney failure
10. Boxer Muhammed Ali (b. 1/17/42) - complications from Parkinson's Disease

I'm surprised nobody has yet to say Abe Vigoda - age/natural causes.

1) Hugo Chavez - Cancer
2) Fidel Castro - Cancer
3) Hosni Mubarak - Murder
4) Margaret Thatcher - Old age
5) Kirk Douglas - Old age
6) Bashar Assad - Assassination
7) Lindsey Lohan - Drug OD
8) Billy Graham - Old age
9) Sean Connery - Old age
10) 50 cent - Murder/gunshot

Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch dead at 88: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ed-88.html (probable pneumonia).

And fuck all y'all who aren't playing.

Pope Benedict retiring due to health issues. Not dead yet, though.

jack klugman
etta james
george lindsay
robin gibb
donna summer
mike wallace
MCA beastie boys
robert hegyes
junior seau
davy jones
ll cool j
conrad bain


how's my team doin so far?

Some of those people died already. In fact, almost all of them did.

thatsthejoke.jpg

Too late to enter?

Nope. Nice to see you.

1. Pope Benedict - stroke

2. Hugo Chavez - cancer

3. Fidel Castro - cancer

4. Jimmy Carter - run over by peanut truck

5. Vin Scully - heart attack

6. Stuart Scott - cancer

7. Mohammad Ali - Stroke

8. Michael J. Fox - Parkinsons

9. Queen Elizabeth - Old Age

10. Chris Dorner - Gunshot.

*Ahem*...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/christopher-do ... d=18480021

Cops said they heard a single gunshot go off from inside the cabin just as they began to see smoke and fire. Later they heard the sound of more gunshots, the sound of ammunition being ignited by the heat of the blaze, law enforcement officials said.

I will argue that first gunshot was a suicide shot...thus I get the bonus. Though, we may have to wait for the Medical Examiner's findings.

hepicide.001:

Welp. You are the first to score, and it's a big one. 125-33 = 92. If he was killed by gunshot, as you suspect, you get another 25 points.

Damn. I shouldn't have allowed you to come in late with your timely selection!

I will update the OP.

doc and tip tied for 2nd and tied for last...bahahahahah

Jerry Buss, owner of the Lakers: dead.
Mindy McCready, country music singer: dead.

Oscar Pistorius' girlfriend.

If I could edit my list I would add Oscar Pistorius - cause: Pongo Pongo.

I DONUT GET IT

In other Mindy McCready news:

1. She has a sex tape(haven't seen it)

and

2. She is the fifth person from Dr. Drew's Celebrity Rehab to die. Had I known that, I would have pulled some of my pool from people who have been on that show.

Hugo Chavez-Cancer, bad medical treatment
Fidel Castro-old
Lindsay Lohan-OD
Jerry Sandusky-Prison Shank
Pope Benedict-Karma
Muhammad Ali-Parkinson's
Bashar Al-Assad-Revolution
Zsa Zsa Gabor- almost dead
Brooke Mueller-OD
Chris Brown- rap beef
Tom Brokaw- Ambien OD

And Joey checks in, no doubt licking his wounds over UK's 30-point loss to Tennessee.

Honestly since we have had Kennedy I haven't watched a game all year. Funny how your priorities change. It's down year for sure. They are missing an upperclassman with some leadership. Since Cal has been there they have had at least one every year.

[quote=UFGirlluvr]Honestly since we have had Kennedy I haven't watched a game all year. Funny how your priorities change. It's down year for sure. They are missing an upperclassman with some leadership. Since Cal has been there they have had at least one every year.[/QUOTE]

You got that right. Life changes for a long time, maybe permanently, once you have kids.

Abe Vigoda status, as of yesterday:

Death cheated for 92 long years. Happy Birthday, Detective Fish!