Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Starting Line-Up

Good morning, ghouls! This is the first day of the rest of DEAD POOL 2009!

The lists are in, and we have thirteen players this year, one more than last year. We may have some folks reporting in late, too, and I'd like to hear from y'all if we're open to admitting stragglers. (I'm more open to it this year than I would have been last year, since uniqueness isn't counting for so much; also, the potential stragglers I know about are extremely unlikely to have looked here and seen y'all's lists.)

Anyway.

Here are the lists! Danny has been creating a spreadsheet for us in Google Docs, and once he's got the last few lists entered (we had some just-under-the-wire submissions), you'll get an email inviting you to view it.

Danny
Chemical Ali
Tapan Sinha
Kirk Douglas
Ronnie Biggs
Claude Levi-Strauss
Patrick Swayze
Ted Kennedy
Robert Novak
Susan Atkins
Dino de Laurentiis

Tom
Ronnie Biggs
Oscar Niemeyer
Claude Levi-Strauss
Ariel Sharon
Ted Kennedy
Susan Atkins
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
Jack LaLanne
Bernard Madoff
Severiano Ballesteros

Ben
Robert Byrd
Joaquin Phoenix
Maggie Thatcher
Ted Stevens
Alan Greenspan
Ariel Sharon
Fidel Castro
Scott Weiland
Walter Cronkite
Kirk Douglas

Holly L.
Fidel Castro
Chemical Ali
Ted Kennedy
Michael Jackson
Robert Byrd
Pauline Phillips (Abigail Van Buren)
Bob Novak
Bob Barker
Susan Atkins
Rip Torn

Cathy
Mel Brooks
Pete Doherty
Annette Funicello
Ted Kennedy
Maureen O'Hara
Joaquin Pheonix
Tara Reid
J.D. Salinger
Ringo Starr
Joanne Woodward

Betsy
George Steinbrenner
Natalie Cole
Robert Novak
Elizabeth Edwards
Scott Glenn
Dick Clark
Michael Jackson
Mohammed Ali
Ariel Sharon
Barbara Bush

Heather
Delores Hope
Fidel Castro
Jack Kevorkian
Farah Fawcett
Art Linkletter
Abe Vigoda
Kirk Douglas
Karl Malden
Billy Graham
Patrick Swayze

Andy
Stephen Hawking
Muhammad Ali
Yitzhak Shamir
Farrah Fawcett
Gloria Stuart
Charlie Louvin
Fidel Castro
Robert Novak
Chemical Ali
Ted Kennedy

Becca
Margaret Thatcher
Fidel Castro
Kim Jong-Il
King Bhumibol Adulyadej
King Norodom Sihanouk
J.D. Salinger
Claude Levi-Strauss
William Willard Wirtz
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Beverly Cleary

Holly G.
Patrick Swayze
Elizabeth Taylor
Chuck Close
Edward Kennedy
Nancy Reagan
Stan Lee
John Goodman
Gloria Stuart
Phyllis Diller
Nelson Mandela

Emily & Kevin
Ted Stevens
Ted Kennedy
Kirk Douglas
Nancy Reagan
Walter Cronkite
John Wooden
O.J. Simpson
Carl Reiner
Beverly Cleary
Bob Barker

Bob
Oscar Niemeyer
Billy Graham
Ariel Sharon
Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed Al Megrahi
Bobby Robson
Fidel Castro
Wendy Richard
Jake LaMotta
Mitch Miller
Clifford Hansen

Craig
Ariel Sharon
Fidel Castro
Ali Hassan al-Majid
Kirk Douglas
Patrick Swayze
John Wooden
Margaret Thatcher
Betty Ford
Claude Levi-Strauss
Eunice Kennedy Shriver

6 comments:

Dji said...

You can view the spreadsheet here and I'll also add it to the resources list in the left column of this site.

There are eleven picks listed for Craig, so I treated the last one as an alternate.

Let the trash talk begin.

Ben said...

C'mon Joaquin, choke on your ego already. $'s depend on it...

Holly G-P said...

Doh, so many that I had then took off my list!!!! Ben, I was actually going to go out on a limb and have ego-tastic Joaquin, too. So. Many. Regrets. ;)

oh well, I can't wait for the first death!!! ooh, is that bad to say?!?! :) bring it on!

Dji said...

Yes, Holly. It is bad to say. You're a bad, bad person. :)

Shopkeeper said...

What did I miss about Joachim?

Dji said...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28583735/

Pneumonia for Pat.