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design219 · Mar 5, 2008, 10:21 PM

Post your top 5-10 predictions. We can check back on New Years 2009 and see who won. (and lost)

1. Carol Channing (actress, 87)
2. Dick Cheney (Vice President, 67)
3. Muhammad Ali (Boxer, 66)
4. Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones, 71)
5. Walter Cronkite (journalist, 91)
6. Emma Watson (actress, 17)
7. Whitney Houston (singer, 44)
8. Bob Barker (game show host, 84)
9. William Perry (American pro football player, 45)
10. Eric Idle (English comedian, 64)

And as David Letterman says, this is for entertainment only, no wagering, please.

Lava Lamp Freak · Mar 5, 2008, 10:33 PM

1. George Carlin (comedian, 71)
2. Daniel Radcliffe (actor, 19)
3. Gene Wilder (actor, 75)
4. Richard Attenborough (actor, 85)
5. A close relative of Ronald Reagan

invisibleX · Mar 5, 2008, 10:44 PM

I'm curious why two young, presumably healthy, kids will drop dead...

awaspaas · Mar 5, 2008, 11:12 PM

Abe Vigoda (actor, 128)

kelso · Mar 5, 2008, 11:16 PM

Originally Posted by invisibleX

I'm curious why two young, presumably healthy, kids will drop dead...

Drugs, booze and STD's!!!

LegendaryPinkOx · Mar 5, 2008, 11:37 PM

Originally Posted by design219

10. Eric Idle (English comedian, 64)

He shall never die!

Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite eno-hou-hou-hou-hou-hoooooooough.

Just re-member that you're standing on a planet that's evolving and revolving at nine-hundred miles an hour.
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned, a Sun that is the source of all our power.
The Sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see, are moving at a million miles a day,
In an outer-spiral arm at forty-thousand miles an hour, of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred-billion stars, it's a hundred thousand lightyears side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen-thousand lightyears thick, but out by us it's just three-thousand lightyears wide.
We're thirty thousand lightyears from Galactic central point, we go round every two-hundred-million years.
And our Galaxy is only one of millions of billion in this amazing and expanding Universe

The Universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding in all of the directions it can whizz.
As fast as it can go, the speed of light you know, twelve-million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure how amazing unlikely is your birth.
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, 'cos there's buger all down here on Earth!

Spliff · Mar 6, 2008, 12:00 AM

Steve Jobs (He left his pancreatic cancer untreated for 9 months).
Patrick Swayze (Just diagnosed with pancreatic cancer)

Dave N · Mar 6, 2008, 12:15 AM

Originally Posted by awaspaas

Abe Vigoda (actor, 128)

Dang, ya took mine!

Atomic Rooster · Mar 6, 2008, 12:22 AM

Jeff Healey. Guitarist/Musician/Songwriter

Lava Lamp Freak · Mar 6, 2008, 12:48 AM

Originally Posted by invisibleX

I'm curious why two young, presumably healthy, kids will drop dead...

Someone wants Daniel Radcliffe dead.

British army watches Daniel Radcliffe's back | NEWS.com.au Entertainment

Big Mac · Mar 6, 2008, 01:05 AM

I'm going for the easy lay-up here - Britney.

Shaddim · 01:54 AM

Kirk Douglas (actor, 91)
Johnny Depp (actor, 44)
Ian McKellen (actor, 68)
O.J. Simpson (athlete, 60)

analogue SPRINKLES · Mar 6, 2008, 01:15 AM

Amy Winehouse

Lava Lamp Freak · Mar 6, 2008, 01:16 AM

Originally Posted by Shaddim

Jack Palance (actor, 89)

Welcome to 2006.

Nodnarb · Mar 6, 2008, 01:48 AM

How old's the queen?

(Is she a celebrity?)

Shaddim · Mar 6, 2008, 01:53 AM

Originally Posted by Lava Lamp Freak

Welcome to 2006.

Oh damn, thought he was still around.

Buckaroo · Mar 6, 2008, 02:10 AM

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead

For those of you that are too young to know what this all about, it was a Chevy Chase newscast on SNL.

Kerrigan · Mar 6, 2008, 02:29 AM

Britney Spears
Owen Wilson
Michael Jackson
Mike Wallace

Face Ache · Mar 6, 2008, 04:29 AM

David Hasselhoff
Tony Danza
Vanilla Ice (while trying to light up a stage to wax a chump like a candle)
Betty White
Cheetah
Seal
Steve McQueen (again)
Stephen Colbert
The entire cast of Lost
Björn Ulvaeus
Tom Jones in a trouser accident
The Get Smart movie

analogika · Mar 6, 2008, 05:50 AM

Originally Posted by Spliff

Steve Jobs (He left his pancreatic cancer untreated for 9 months).

UnANNOUNCED - you don't leave pancreatic cancer untreated. Had he done that, he'd be dead already.

Love Calm Quiet · Mar 6, 2008, 05:57 AM

Prediction:
"Celebrity" will never die.

Fame shall ever keep it famous.

And so immortal.

It is mindless.

So: never mind it.

Spliff · Mar 6, 2008, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by analogika

UnANNOUNCED - you don't leave pancreatic cancer untreated. Had he done that, he'd be dead already.

According to "unnamed sources" in a recent Forbes' magazine profile of Steve Jobs, he waited nine months, after being diagnosed, to have surgery. Of course, there is no way to know if these sources are truthful or accurate.

Source: The Trouble with Steve Jobs

osiris · Mar 6, 2008, 12:03 PM

I concur with awaspaas on the Abe Vigoda prediction, but think his age is closer to 270. I saw him in a revolutionary war painting.

However, Keith Richards has been dead for quite some time. He just doesn't know it.

osiris · Mar 6, 2008, 12:04 PM

Originally Posted by Nodnarb

How old's the queen?

(Is she a celebrity?)

I think she is already dead.

Oops, sorry. She is alive.

Dakar the Fourth · Mar 6, 2008, 12:07 PM

Originally Posted by Spliff

According to "unnamed sources" in a recent Forbes' magazine profile of Steve Jobs, he waited nine months, after being diagnosed, to have surgery. Of course, there is no way to know if these sources are truthful or accurate.

Source: The Trouble with Steve Jobs

So the iPhone does cure cancer!

Mrjinglesusa · Mar 6, 2008, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by Shaddim

Johnny Depp (actor, 44)

Any particular reasons you think a healthy 44 year-old will drop dead this year when he hasn't been recently linked to any drug or alcohol problems?

Dakar the Fourth · Mar 6, 2008, 12:10 PM

Originally Posted by osiris

I concur with awaspaas on the Abe Vigoda prediction, but think his age is closer to 270.

NO, no, you're both wrong, he couldn't be less than 340.

residentEvil · Mar 6, 2008, 01:40 PM

Originally Posted by design219

Post your top 5-10 predictions. We can check back on New Years 2009 and see who won. (and lost)

1. Carol Channing (actress, 87)
2. Dick Cheney (Vice President, 67)
3. Muhammad Ali (Boxer, 66)
4. Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones, 71)
5. Walter Cronkite (journalist, 91)
6. Emma Watson (actress, 17)
7. Whitney Houston (singer, 44)
8. Bob Barker (game show host, 84)
9. William Perry (American pro football player, 45)
10. Eric Idle (English comedian, 64)

And as David Letterman says, this is for entertainment only, no wagering, please.

you know, these are called "dead pools" (death pools) right? i'm sure you know that...but you made it sound like a 'new thing' you came up with

design219 · Mar 6, 2008, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by residentEvil

you know, these are called "dead pools" (death pools) right? i'm sure you know that...but you made it sound like a 'new thing' you came up with

That's because I am brilliant and original! Thank you for noticing.

No, I really didn't know what they are called. I've not seen a "dead pool" here and I don't really participate in other forums.

Dakar the Fourth · Mar 6, 2008, 01:58 PM

Hey everybody this guys a phony! A big fat phony! He didn't come up with this idea! You phony!

design219 · Mar 6, 2008, 02:00 PM

Who are you calling fat?

osiris · Mar 6, 2008, 02:12 PM

A dead pool sounds like a smaller version of the dead sea, and both are not filled with dead people. or are they?

Dakar the Fourth · Mar 6, 2008, 02:13 PM

Sounds like a Dirty Harry movie.

osiris · Mar 6, 2008, 02:25 PM

That's merely a trick of light and sound.

ShortcutToMoncton · Mar 6, 2008, 02:26 PM

Originally Posted by osiris

A dead pool sounds like a smaller version of the dead sea, and both are not filled with dead people. or are they?

You'd see them all floating at the surface...

design219 · Mar 6, 2008, 02:34 PM

Cement shoes, man.

residentEvil · 02:54 PM

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth

Sounds like a Dirty Harry movie.

no **** really? and what do you think the plot is about!

oh my! a death pool!

you darn fool edjits!

Dakar the Fourth · Mar 6, 2008, 02:53 PM

Cut down on the coffee.

residentEvil · Mar 6, 2008, 02:57 PM

don't drink any, thanks.

guess nobody sees how silly it is to use a definition/description of a word/idea instead of just saying the word/idea?

i leave for florida in a few days to see these guys hit this ball with a wooden bat. a guy tries to keep the game going by calling balls and strikes. there will be some running and some catching too!

design219 · Mar 6, 2008, 02:59 PM

Originally Posted by residentEvil

you darn fool edjits!

? ? ?

Dakar the Fourth · Mar 6, 2008, 03:01 PM

I don't think you realize that I was joking about the Dirty Harry thing. It's not like I thought it was a coincidence or something.

Originally Posted by residentEvil

guess nobody sees how silly it is to use a definition/description of a word/idea instead of just saying the word/idea?

Yeah, you're a little caught up about something I wasn't even considering.

residentEvil · Mar 6, 2008, 03:01 PM

Originally Posted by design219

? ? ?

Edjit

An Irish expression to call someone a fool, but in a friendly/non-insulting way.

olePigeon · Mar 6, 2008, 03:01 PM

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth

NO, no, you're both wrong, he couldn't be less than 340.

No, that's Dick Clark.

residentEvil · Mar 6, 2008, 03:03 PM

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth

I don't think you realize that I was joking about the Dirty Harry thing. It's not like I thought it was a coincidence or something.

Yeah, you're a little caught up about something I wasn't even considering.

oh i did...cause most your posts are of similar nature.

hence the edjit comment. read people, read!

Dakar the Fourth · Mar 6, 2008, 03:07 PM

Dude, whatever you were trying to say originally I'm completely confused.

residentEvil · Mar 6, 2008, 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth

Dude, whatever you were trying to say originally I'm completely confused.

all i'm saying is the OP described in detail a subject that has a phrase that means exactly what he took oh so many words to describe. just say the phrase. i was hoping he/she already knew it and but if not, i threw the phrase out there.

you add your humor; and i replied back with the edjit comment. edjit is just a light hearted term to poke fun at someone.