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Placeholder for scorekeeping.

You should repost the rules in here. I've never done this before so I'm a virgin to this sort of thing.

1. Regis Philbin
2. Lindsay Lohan
3. Jodie Sweetin
4. Alton Brown
5. Rebecca Gayheart

Bernie Madoff
Andy Rooney
Fidel Castro
Loretta Lynn

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. Just to make this more interesting, we'll have 15 entries per person instead of the standard 10.
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 10, 2010. If, however, you enter before then, and someone on your list dies within the first 10 days of 2010, 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 in Terry Shiavo's situation - 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.

Alton Brown? WTF? LOL I'm going to have to read the rules more carefully and then I'll make my list.

Alton Brown? WTF? LOL I'm going to have to read the rules more carefully and then I'll make my list.

He looks horrible. He either lost too much weight on purpose, or he's sick. Nobody knows.

1. Kirk Douglas
2. Fidel Castro
3. Muhammad Ali
4. Seve Ballesteros
5. Amy Winehouse
6. Nancy Reagan
7. George Steinbrenner
8. Art Linkletter
9. Billy Graham
10. Whitney Houston
11. Ariel Sharon
12. Al Davis
13. Lindsey Lohan
14. Elizabeth Taylor
15. Lauren Bacall

1. Fidel Castro
2. Kim Jong-Il
3. Keith Richards
4. B.B. King
5. Nelson Mandela
6. Mohammed Ali
7. Michael J. Fox
8. Dick Clark
9. Mickey Rooney
10. John Wooden
11. Nancy Pelosi (more of a hopeful, than an actual guess)
12. Artie Lang
13. Bob Barker
14. Steve Jobs
15. Mary-Kate Olsen

^^^You have a bunch that I was thinking of...that's okay though right?

1. Muhammed Ali
2. Don Rickles
3. Dick Clark
4. Nancy Reagan
5. Larry King
6. Bob Newhardt


I will be adding some younger folks too, but I need to think some more about it.

1. Fidel Castro
2. Mick Jager
3. Jon Boener (freak tanning bed accident)
4. B.B. King
5. President George Bush (41)
6. President Jimmy Carter

do we get bonus points for selecting a young person vs an older person?

1. Rosie O'donnell (some kind of sandwich incident)
2. Fidel Castro
3. President Jimmy Carter
4. Lindsey Lohan
5. Robert Pattinson
6. Jennifer Lopez
7. Mark Mangino
8. Muhammed Ali
9. Macauly Culkin
10. Charlie Sheen (drunken car wreck)

That's all I've got for now.

do we get bonus points for selecting a young person vs an older person?

Read the rules.

do we get bonus points for selecting a young person vs an older person?

Read the rules.

Reallydoh.

what does it say? i don't have the time.

If we posted it here wouldn't you have to take the time to read it?

i'm a lazy bastid...what does it say?

It says, read rule #4 in post 5.

1. Emma Watson – Drug overdose
2. Lil Wayne – Drug overdose
3. Jon Gosselin – Murder (explanation is found in this crazy ass story: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2009/12/27/jon-gosselins-nyc-pad-ransacked-weekend/?test=faces)
4. Kirk Douglas – Myocardial infarction
5. Margaret Thatcher – Pneumonia
6. Dick Cheney – Myocardial infarction
7. Fidel Castro -
8. Ariel Sharon – Pneumonia
9. Larry King
10. Keith Richards
11. Muhammad Ali
12. Robert Byrd
13. Kim Jong-il
14. Billy Graham
15. Jerry Lewis

1) Amy Winehouse
2) Fidel Castro
3) Kim Jong Il
4) Kirk Douglas
5) Andy Griffith
6) Lindsey Lohan
7) Art Linkletter
8) Leonard Nimoy
9) Harry Morgan
10) Michael J. Fox
11) Larry Hagman
12) Billy Graham
13) Dick Clark
14) Muhammed Ali
15) Billy Joel

1. Paul Allen (cancer)
2. Lindsay Lohan (cocaine)
3. George H. W. Bush (pneumonia)
4. Urban Meyer (heart attack)
5. Rick Pitino (syphilis)
6. Aretha Franklin (obesity)
7. Courtney Love (drugs)
8. Ayman al-Zawahiri (bomb)
9. Kim Jong-il (stroke)
10. Tila Tequila (suicide)
11. Bobby Bowden (boredom)
12. Amy Winehouse (crack)
13. Michael J. Fox (Parkinson’s)
14. David Hasslehoff (alcohol)
15. Dick Cheney (heart attack)

Good call on Artie Lang Jimmy. I guess the nutball tried to off himself last weekend by stabbing himself 9 times. Too bad he survived or you would have had the first pick of the year.

the year is young, Joe. the year is young.