Dead Pool 2012

[Jeremy]

Lindsay Lohan.

Thank you.

 

[alan1]

Billy Graham
Fidel Castro
John Paul Stevens
Walter Mondale
Bob Dole
Tom Foley
Ernest Hollings
George McGovern
Nelson Mandela

The Wild Card is Kim Jong Un

 

[strollingbones]

only a few more hours to go.....get the lists in....who is the grim reaper gonna reap this year?

 

[Nosmo King]

It's 8:57 here in the east! 3 hours until Dead Pool 2012 entries are officially closed!

 

[Baruch Menachem]

I want to add Kim Jong un to mine. He does not impress and I think the people of the PDRK have had enough of this dynasty.

 

[Nosmo King]

I want to add Kim Jong un to mine. He does not impress and I think the people of the PDRK have had enough of this dynasty.

By what method do the North Koreans purge leadership? Are they like the old soviet expulsion and hard labor followed by a bullet? Or are they more expeditious like the Nazis? Do you think there's be a popular uprising? The North Koreans gotta friend an Egyptian on Facebook first.

 

[MeBelle]

Fidel Castro
Billy Graham
Nancy Pelosi
Prince Phillip
Micheal Douglas
Etta James
David Hasselhoff
Angelina Jolie
Courtney Love
Hugh Heffner

15 minutes to spare

 

[Synthaholic]

I was gonna go with Hef, but I figure he's got good blood flow.

I should have taken the easy gimmes of Billy Graham and Etta James, but I like a challenge.

 

[Douger]

Ron Paul.....should he be elected.

 

[Synthaholic]

Ron Paul.....should he be elected.

Heh.

But that would be 2013.

 

[alan1]

I want to add Kim Jong un to mine. He does not impress and I think the people of the PDRK have had enough of this dynasty.

Glad I could help round out your final guess.

I just have a sneaking suspicion that Kim Jong Un will meet an untimely demise.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

I want to add Kim Jong un to mine. He does not impress and I think the people of the PDRK have had enough of this dynasty.

By what method do the North Koreans purge leadership? Are they like the old soviet expulsion and hard labor followed by a bullet? Or are they more expeditious like the Nazis? Do you think there's be a popular uprising? The North Koreans gotta friend an Egyptian on Facebook first.

More like what happened in Albania (Which was just as bad or worse than PDRK) Kid is just out of his depth and even the military is starving and tired of the kims. I was thinking a coup by the security forces.

No matter how you slice it, he will face a firing squad over the next 364 days

 

[Zoom-boing]

Damn, I meant to change one of mine and forgot. Ah well . . . .

 

[RadiomanATL]

Eh, I'm late but here's mine:

jimmy carter
Dick Clark
Kirk Douglas
Nancy Reagan
Aretha Franklin
Billy Graham
Andy Griffin
George H. W. Bush
Fidel Castro
Arnold Palmer

 

[Synthaholic]

I want to add Kim Jong un to mine. He does not impress and I think the people of the PDRK have had enough of this dynasty.

By what method do the North Koreans purge leadership? Are they like the old soviet expulsion and hard labor followed by a bullet? Or are they more expeditious like the Nazis? Do you think there's be a popular uprising? The North Koreans gotta friend an Egyptian on Facebook first.

More like what happened in Albania (Which was just as bad or worse than PDRK) Kid is just out of his depth and even the military is starving and tired of the kims. I was thinking a coup by the security forces.

No matter how you slice it, he will face a firing squad over the next 364 days

Why didn't they do that to Lil' Kim? He was the son of Kim Il Sung, and also had no pull with the military at the time of his father's death.

If Lil' Kim was respected and feared because he had close associations high up in the military, why wouldn't those same generals protect his son?

 

[Kiki Cannoli]

Have I won yet?

 

[rightwinger]

Have I won yet?

You are tied for first

 

[waltky]

Hawking misses his 70th birthday party due to illness...

Hawking too ill to make 70th birthday bash
8 Jan.`12 – Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking was too ill to attend a conference in honor of his 70th birthday Sunday, but in a recorded message played to attendees he repeated his call for humans to colonize other worlds.

University of Cambridge Vice Chancellor Leszek Borysiewicz told the conference that Hawking, who is almost completely paralyzed because of Lou Gehrig's disease, had only recently been discharged from the hospital for an unspecified ailment. "Unfortunately his recovery has not been fast enough for him to be able to be here," Borysiewicz said. In his recorded speech, Hawking pleaded for interplanetary travel, arguing that humans faced a grim future unless they spread out from their terrestrial home. "I don't think we will survive another thousand years without escaping beyond our fragile planet," he said. Hawking's speech — delivered in his distinctive, robotic monotone — charmed the audience of scientists, students and journalists gathered at Cambridge's Lady Mitchell Hall.

Colleagues including Nobel Prize winner Saul Perlmutter and renowned astronomer Martin Rees hailed Hawking as one of the most important physicists since Albert Einstein. Borysiewicz said Hawking had "transformed our understanding of space and time, black holes, and the origins of the universe," adding that he hoped that the scientist was watching the proceedings online. "If you're listening Stephen, happy birthday from all of us here today," Borysiewicz said to a round of applause. A black hole expert, Hawking is one of the leading lights in theoretical astrophysics. His achievements are all the more remarkable because of his Lou Gehrig's disease, an incurable degenerative disorder with which he was diagnosed as a 21-year-old. Most people die within a few years of the diagnosis, but Hawking has defied the odds and spent half a century carrying out pioneering research.

He owes much of his fame to his best-selling series of works popularizing the latest developments in theoretical astrophysics. "A Brief History of Time," published in 1988, has alone has sold millions of copies. A host of other books, including "A Briefer History of Time," have followed. Nevertheless the condition — known as motor neurone disease in the U.K — has made life difficult. Since catching pneumonia in 1985, he has needed around-the-clock care. Hawking relies on a computerized wheelchair to move around and a voice synthesizer to speak. His fragile health has forced him to cancel appearances in the past. Borysiewicz didn't say when Hawking was hospitalized or specify the nature of his condition, but he did say that Hawking would be well enough to meet some of the attendees over the next week.

Despite his absence Sunday, Hawking's celebrity status was evident at Lady Mitchell Hall, where hundreds crowded into the auditorium to hear prominent researchers outline the latest developments in cosmology. Outside the venue, three teenagers — self-described "groupies" — waited in hope of catching a glimpse of the eminent scientist. Eighteen-year-old engineering student Marianna Sykopetritou said that seeing Hawking would be "a once-in-a-lifetime" experience. She said that the event had a page-and-a-half-long waiting list. In his recorded message, Hawking said explaining the universe to the wider public was a duty, and that the issue had far more than just theoretical interest. "If you understand how the universe operates," he said, "you control it in a way."

Source

 

[Synthaholic]

I would like to state, once again, that I didn't go for the easy pickings like SOME in this thread!

Singing legend Etta James dies at 73 - CNN.com

 

[Rat in the Hat]

And the first one to go is Etta James.

Singing legend Etta James dies at 73 - CNN.com