Celebrity Death Pool

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Would anyone be interested in joining, or helping to set up, a Celebrity Death Pool on Boards.ie?

What is it?

Well, simple really. If you join you predict two celebrities who will die within the next year.

But I could pick someone really old...

Yes, you could, but this is a game which involves point scoring, which is yet to be worked out, but could go something like this:

>80 = 1 Point (ie Pope Benedict XVI)
Has a Terminal Illness, already diagnosed (ie Patrick Swayze) = 1 Point
>65 = 5 Points
> 50 = 10 Points
> 40 = 15 Points
> 30 = 25 Points
>20 = 35 Points
0-20 = 50 Points

So, anyone interested?

Sabre0001

Someones been watching CSI re-runs...

Seems terribly morbid though and I don't think I could be waiting for the news HOPING that someone would kick the bucket.


(Remember though - it's cheating to murder them yourself! )

beautiation

What if Maddy is confirmed dead but they don't know when she died?
If that doesn't count I'll have:
Ted Kennedy
Bobby Robson

Nichololas

Made one at the start of the year, here's hoping Britney Spears dies within in the next 5 days.. :pac:

c - 13

There was one run about a year or two ago on here, I missed out on getting my steve irwin points by a couple of days. Talk about gutted.

I think the way it was scored last time was you couldnt pick someone diagnosed with a life threatening condition already and that the score for the person was 100 - Persons age = Score. Person with the highest points = winner.

Keano

I'll take Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty.

Easy points.

token56

Your Ma, because shes a celebrity in my bed.

Sorry had to be done carry on.

Miguel_Sanchez

Does dead on the inside count at all?

Quality

That is a terrible idea.:eek:


Send it to Lolocaust.

c - 13

Quality wrote: »

That is a terrible idea.:eek:


Send it to Lolocaust.

If its good enough for Harry Callahan to work on then god-dammit its good enough for after hours.

Kold

I think there should be some sort of odds system. Maybe we could get Paddy Powers in?


Ill go with: Osama Bin Laden and let's say... Brandon Flowers (who I'd be happy to see die)

humanji

c - 13 wrote: »

If its good enough for Harry Callahan to work on then god-dammit its good enough for after hours.

Amen to that!

I'm doing one on another forum where you pick 10 people. Makes it more interesting. I have Britney down for a murder/suicide with her kids, but she doesn't seem to be as nuts anymore

c - 13

humanji wrote: »

Amen to that!

I'm doing one on another forum where you pick 10 people. Makes it more interesting. I have Britney down for a murder/suicide with her kids, but she doesn't seem to be as nuts anymore

Actually is there more points if you get the way they die correct as well ? Also i'd prefer 10 as well. Though i'm having problems coming up with one at the moment.

Frank Skinner had a great skit on this years ago. 'Twas feckin hilarious.....

It went along the lines of:

"The amount of money I've seen thrown away on the Queen Mother.....oooh....and of course once you back her you'll always have to keep backing her.......'same again this year Joe?'........'I s'pose so, she has to drop some time'......she's a bit like Spain in football tournaments that way"

Of course now she's dead it's not quite the same.

Anyway, I'll take David Attenbrough and Fidel Castro

Gone West

mordeth and winters
*gets spade*


I pick Stan Winston.

elmolesto

DesF wrote: »

Would anyone be interested in joining, or helping to set up, a Celebrity Death Pool on Boards.ie?

What is it?

Well, simple really. If you join you predict two celebrities who will die within the next year.

But I could pick someone really old...

Yes, you could, but this is a game which involves point scoring, which is yet to be worked out, but could go something like this:

>80 = 1 Point (ie Pope Benedict XVI)
Has a Terminal Illness, already diagnosed (ie Patrick Swayze) = 1 Point
>65 = 5 Points
> 50 = 10 Points
> 40 = 15 Points
> 30 = 25 Points
>20 = 35 Points
0-20 = 50 Points

So, anyone interested?

I'm interested. The point system makes sense.

My picks are :

Amy winehouse
Lewis Hamilton

chuci

im in id have to go with amy whinehouse, pete doherty, and amys husband bake thing-a-ma-gigy and throw in a britney spears too.

Dudess

I seem to have a particular "gift" not unrelated to this topic: the night before Johnny Cash died, I was talking about him with my brother; a few hours before Nina Simone died, I was talking about her with a mate; the night before Charlton Heston died, I was talking about him with my mum.

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Dudess wrote: »

I seem to have a particular "gift" not unrelated to this topic: the night before Johnny Cash died, I was talking about him with my brother; a few hours before Nina Simone died, I was talking about her with a mate; the night before Charlton Heston died, I was talking about him with my mum.

Don't you ever talk about me.

EVER.:mad::mad:

c - 13

Shit your a dead cert to win then Dudess

Ill get my coat

Dudess

DesF wrote: »

Don't you ever talk about me.

EVER.:mad::mad:

Well at least I seem to only kill people who are fairly old and have lived their life...

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token56 wrote: »

Your Ma, because shes a celebrity in my bed.

Sorry had to be done carry on.

Yeah, yore ma had to be done alright.

Pity though, she was rubbish.

GirlInterrupted

I can see how this would be fun alright, but I wouldn't ever want to be glad someone died because it proved me right.......and I would be:)

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On topic though, If there were 10 to choose, I'd choose a load of 1 point terminally ill people. That way I'm almost guaranteed to get 7/8 points. Everyone else is still lagging behind going on the young healthy folk getting hit by a bus theory.


1. Ronnie Drew

Dizzyblonde

Dudess wrote: »

I seem to have a particular "gift" not unrelated to this topic: the night before Johnny Cash died, I was talking about him with my brother; a few hours before Nina Simone died, I was talking about her with a mate; the night before Charlton Heston died, I was talking about him with my mum.

Gifted......or a jinx? :eek:

Just joking - I say Robbie Williams, he's always struck me as a tragic character.

5starpool

Are there any of those Kennedys left? I'll take all of them.

I'll take John Terry & Peter Cech.

KnifeWRENCH

Oh this sounds fun!

I'll take Shane MacGowan and Lindsay Lohan.

*runs to buy voodoo dolls*

Dlite

This is so wrong..... can't help myself.....

I'll take Paul Gascoigne... gets drunk, dresses up as big bird, tries to fly off the top of the Ritz Hotel.:eek:

Odds please...

Dlite

Dudess wrote: »

I seem to have a particular "gift" not unrelated to this topic: the night before Johnny Cash died, I was talking about him with my brother; a few hours before Nina Simone died, I was talking about her with a mate; the night before Charlton Heston died, I was talking about him with my mum.

You should rent Atonement and discuss Keira Knightley at length .... please:D

Kold

Dlite wrote: »

You should rent Atonement and discuss Keira Knightley at length .... please:D

Dibs on the corpse.

JerryHandbag

Robbie Williams and that whiny blondy pr1ck from westlife....and ill bury the bastards myself:mad:

Being serious, Ronnie Drew & Kirk Douglas

Abi

Jane Fonda, Isabelle Caro, Frank Lampard.


//Edit: What Anonoboy said about the picking not wanting dead. Not a Lampard fan, but hes on my list anyway.

Fonda - the big C or heart.. cant decide
Isabelle - she relapes and she doesnt make it this time
Lampard - Cardiac arrest

AnonoBoy

Pat Ingoldsby and Larry Gogan please.

[edit] and by please I mean that I want them as my picks, not that I actually want them to die. [/edit]

Dudess

Dlite wrote: »

You should rent Atonement and discuss Keira Knightley at length .... please:D

What a terrible thing to say... Such a masterpiece of a film shouldn't be abused like that!

Jigsaw

Kold wrote: »

Dibs on the corpse.

I don't want to be second though!!

Spitroast?

Mweelrea

Barrack Obama and The Queen for me

i like obama but some republican party extreamist will probably try to kill him

Toto Wolfcastle

Mweelrea wrote: »

Barrack Obama and The Queen for me

i like obama but some republican party extreamist will probably try to kill him

I've heard that from so many people.

suspectdevice

barack obama

another twenty year old american soldier in a foreign land

suspectdevice

Mweelrea wrote: »

Barrack Obama and The Queen for me

i like obama but some republican party extreamist will probably try to kill him

un fu'cking real, i posted that at the same time

Dlite

Kold wrote: »

Dibs on the corpse.

Necrophiliac? or Marshmellows on sticks?

magick

i remember seeing this in a movie once

i think it was called "the angry mans list"

Zaph

I'm in one of these elsewhere. Here are the rules we use:

For each person on your list of 10 that dies, you get 100 points. No points will be awarded nor taken away for anyone that doesn't die.

Each person who dies gets an additional point for every year younger than 75 years old. Similarly, for every year older 75 years old, you will be docked one point. So if a 50-year old dies, you would add 25 points, and if a 90-year-old dies, you would take off 15 points.

If your pick has a terminal illness or is in otherwise grave health as reported by the trustworthy world media as of the time of your pick, you lose 50 points. Patrick Swayze, for example, would count for 50 points, since it is widely reported (and accepted) that he has terminal cancer. Cases such as known heart disease will not count against you (e.g. Dick Cheney)

To keep people from all picking the same people, you will be penalized 5 points for someone on your list appearing on another list. For example, if you and 6 other people pick, say, Adam Sandler, you would get 25 points deducted from your would-have been score.

orestes

Does it count if you pick someone and then kill them yourself?

If so you could just pick everyone in the Big Brother house and then knock them all off by blowing up the house, that way you win and so does society in general

Terry

Patrick Swaze has a terminal disease?

That's what happens when you pretend to be a kiddie fiddler.
All those with the paedobear avatar better watch out.

I'll take Courtney Love.
She's due to die soon.

Also, someone should shoot Dog the bounty hunter and poison Bear Grills (even if he has a cool name).

Obama is an easy target.
He's black and his middle name is Hussein.
I'd almost guarantee there are at least 1,000 Americans waiting to assassinate him.

Abi

orestes wrote: »

Does it count if you pick someone and then kill them yourself?

Sure, but only 1 point.

Terry wrote: »

Patrick Swaze has a terminal disease?

You'd have no bother getting rid of a tv licence inspector.

longshanks

i'll go with ryan tubridy (and i'll have an alibi)
and sue barker, ultra cahunt

Terry

Abigayle wrote: »

You'd have no bother getting rid of a tv licence inspector.

Seven different haircuts and severe weight differences over the years have done me well.

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elviscostello wrote: »

On topic though, If there were 10 to choose, I'd choose a load of 1 point terminally ill people. That way I'm almost guaranteed to get 7/8 points. Everyone else is still lagging behind going on the young healthy folk getting hit by a bus theory.


1. Ronnie Drew

Forgot about this thread when Ronnie passed away... I appear to be in the lead!

Good man Ronnie !

elviscostello

elviscostello wrote: »

Forgot about this thread when Ronnie passed away... I appear to be in the lead!

Good man Ronnie !

Don't you worry ''Elvis'', my bet of Amy Winehouse will surely lead me to victory age wise etc.

EDIT - O ffs, instead of doing what I thought I said two CHelsea players as it was the day after the CL final. Balls on it!

Turd Ferguson

Does it count if you kill them?

Also I had Bernie Mac and Isacc Hayes, I just forgot to post it here. Do I still get the points?