Bring out yer dead!
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I'm in a celebrity dead pool and I need your help!
For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, a celebrity dead pool is a pool whereby you pay a $20 entry fee and select a roster of celebrities (20 in our case). If one of them "goes" during the year, you subtract their age from 100 and that's how many points you get. Person with the most points at the end of the year wins the pot.
Go ahead. Get it out of the way. Feign your moral outrage. Your righteous indignation. Everyone does. I don't mind. But before long, they also start throwing out names too. They always do. You can't help yourself. So I'll give you a couple of minutes to go through all the emotions and then we'll continue.
(pauses)
All set? Good!
I ended up in 3rd place for the 2007 season, as my one and only score last year proved to be a big one in the form of 39 year old Anna Nicole Smith (good for 61 points!). I had jumped out to an early, sizable lead, only to see it get chipped away at throughout the year as other entrants scored with the likes of Pavarotti, Evil Knievel, Boris Yeltsin, Lady Bird Johnson, Jerry Falwell, and Tammy Fay Messner. My 3rd place finish was good enough to win my $40 though, so I'll take it.
That leads us to the purpose of my post. The 2008 "season" will begin as of 2/1/08 and I'd like some help finalizing my roster. Here are the 20 celebrities I've got so far:
Amy Winehouse
Ariel Sharon
Artie Lange
Ayman Al Zawahiri
Betty Ford
Billy Graham
Britney Spears
Dick Clark
Diego Maradona
Dom Deluise
Elizabeth Taylor
Fidel Castro
Pervez Musharraf
Kirk Douglas
Nancy Reagan
Osama Bin Laden
Pete Doherty
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Steve-O
Suzanne Pleshette
I usually try to balance it with a number of aging actors, child stars gone bad, drug addicts, and those whom others are actively seeking their demise.
If you have any suggestions for fine tuning my roster, I'd love to hear them!
Thanks in advance.
G
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