Death Pool --- 2012

[LutherRackleyRulez]

Unfortunately,

2012 has started off with the passings

of several well known folks...



Whitney Houston: Born: 1963-08-09 - Died: 2012-02-11

Zalman King: Born: 1942-05-23 - Died: 2012-02-03

Ben Gazzara: Born: 1930-08-28 - Died: 2012-02-03

Don Cornelius: Born: 1936-09-27 - Died: 2012-02-01

Robert Hegyes: Born: 1951-05-07 - Died: 2012-01-26

Joe Paterno: Born: 1926-12-21 - Died: 2012-01-22

Etta James: Born: 1938-01-25 - Died: 2012-01-20

Sarah Burke: Born: 1982-09-03 - Died: 2012-01-19




http://www.famousdead.com/archive/






Who's next????

[LutherRackleyRulez]

Ok....

95 year old Zsa Zsa Gabor

cannot be selected....


http://i698.photobucket.com/albums/vv341/grecoleadermaximo/zaza.jpg

[BlueGuy]

I am taking Macaulay Culkin (http://cdn.wwtdd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/macaulay-culkin.png).

http://cdn.wwtdd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/macaulay-culkin.png

[JimmyTwoTimes37]

I am taking Macaulay Culkin (http://cdn.wwtdd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/macaulay-culkin.png).

http://cdn.wwtdd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/macaulay-culkin.png

Holy...That's Kevin McAlister?

I'm gonna go with Dennis Rodman

[Snipe]

http://gamutnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/euro2.gif

http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/wp-content/uploads/EURO1-298x300.png

http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/www.powerlineblog.com/admin/ed-assets/2012/02/1200x570xAV1C_20997-1200_0.jpg.pagespeed.ic.DqECdmdCsb.jpg

Athens is wonderful this time of year.

I am going with the Euro. It may die or it may be reconfigured, but I don't think it will be the same come 2013.

May you live in interesting times.

[nuts4xu]

I'm in for $100....

I will take Charlie Sheen.

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTm1T8JP6xrMk_SOMzHY__3vmxWszopz HfKB-JhvL0q_6K1HTYpFQ

[Kahns Krazy]

I'm cheating a bit, but I'm taking the cast of Family Ties. Someone's ticket's getting punched soon.

Edit: 10 or more episodes. Tracy Pollan counts, Tom Hanks does not.

[JimmyTwoTimes37]

RIP Gary Carter

[GoMuskies]

I had no idea Carter was that sick. Hate to hear that.

[LutherRackleyRulez]

RIP Gary Carter

Carter was 57 -- brain cancer....way too young!

Great catcher, but surely no Johnny Bench....

wonder how Mookie Wilson is doing???
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgcu6nqjJ91qz762fo1_500.jpg

[Cheesehead]

Lindsey Lohan

[Jumpy]

Bill Cosby.

[xu95]

Dayton Flyers.

[LutherRackleyRulez]

I hate to write this...

Jack Nicholson...
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6131/5961824337_f95dd3cb6a.jpg


Werd has it that he was noddin' off @ Lakers game last night....


http://www.sportsgrid.com/nba/jack-nicholson-sleeping-lakers-game-video/

[LutherRackleyRulez]

Per Gothamist....


"Seinfeld" Actor Daniel Von Bargen Survives Suicide Attempt


The actor who played George Costanza's boss Mr. Kruger on Seinfeld is "clinging to life in an Ohio hospital after shooting himself in the head Monday morning in a failed suicide attempt," according to TMZ. Daniel von Bargen called 911 and said, "I've shot myself in the head ... and I need help."

You can listen to the harrowing call here, but after the operator asks if it was an accident, von Bargen replied, "I was supposed to go to the hospital and I didn't want to," further explaining he's diabetic, "They were supposed to amputate at least a few toes." He also says, "I shot in my temple."

Von Bargen, 61, said of playing Mr. Kruger, the oblivious president of Kruger Industrial Smoothing (he donated to The Human Fund), "When you start becoming a commodity because of your face or your stature or whatever, those opportunities become fewer and fewer. So it's nice to get on a comedy and have people go, "You're funny!'" He also played Commandant Spangler on Malcolm in the Middle. Here's a nice montage of Kruger scenes.



http://gothamist.com/2012/02/22/seinfeld_actor_daniel_von_bargen_su.php


http://extratv.warnerbros.com/images/news/0222/daniel-von-bargen.jpg

[LutherRackleyRulez]

Per Enquirer....



Police: 'Seinfeld' actor shot self in Cincinnati apartment



Police say an actor who played George Costanza’s boss on “Seinfeld” and also starred on “Malcolm in the Middle” has shot himself in the head at his suburban Cincinnati apartment.

Montgomery police Chief Don Simpson says Daniel von Bargen called 911 on Monday morning after shooting himself in the temple.

Simpson said Thursday that von Bargen told the dispatcher he was supposed to go to a hospital that day to have some toes amputated because of diabetes complications and had already had one leg amputated.

He said he was feeling depressed before he shot himself.

Von Bargen appeared on four episodes of “Seinfeld” as Mr. Kruger. He also played Commandant Edwin Spangler on “Malcolm in the Middle.”

He was taken to a Cincinnati hospital. His condition wasn’t immediately known Thursday.






http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20120223/ENT/302230037/

[newtsac]

I am taking Macaulay Culkin (http://cdn.wwtdd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/macaulay-culkin.png).

http://cdn.wwtdd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/macaulay-culkin.png

Wow. Apparently as you get closer to death you look more like Willem Dafoe...

[bleedXblue]

Huggins or Pitino

Take your pick

[GoMuskies]

Huggins or Pitino

Take your pick

Both would be nice.

[XUglow]

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2012-02/68334313.jpg

Steve Kordek dead at 100. He made pinball games addictive.

[drudy23]

Pitino looks like a dead man walking...man he looks bad.

[kane79]

Add Davey Jones to the list

[Kahns Krazy]

Add Davey Jones to the list

Marcia is going to be crushed. She was the president of her school's Davey Jones fan club, you know.

[XUglow]

Davy Jones... the reason that we have David Bowie. Bowie's original stage name was also Davy Jones, but it got very confusing when The Monkees became popular, so he changed it to Tom Jones, which became confusing as well, so he changed it to David Bowie after Jim Bowie of Bowie knife fame.

[JimmyTwoTimes37]

Does Snooki's revelation of being 3 months pregnant signify the start of a slow death to Western Society?

[JimmyTwoTimes37]

Andrew Breitbart

http://biggovernment.com/lsolov/2012/03/01/draft/

[Snipe]

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2012-02/68334313.jpg

Steve Kordek dead at 100. He made pinball games addictive.


He ain't got no distractions
Can't hear those buzzers and bells,
Don't see lights a flashin'
Plays by sense of smell.
Always has a replay,
'N' never tilts at all
That deaf dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pin ball.

[Snipe]

Andrew Breitbart

http://biggovernment.com/lsolov/2012/03/01/draft/

Can't believe that Breitbart is gone! He just surged onto the national scene and now he is gone. I thought that you were linking to Breitbart talking about Davey Jones.

I loved Breitbart, he was one outspoken bastard. Damn. That sucks.

[Mel Cooley XU'81]

With the death of James Q. Wilson earlier today, America has lost a towering intellectual figure. The mind reels in thinking about the issues Professor Wilson wrote about with such precision, intelligence, originality, and elegance: crime and human nature; drug legalization, science, and addiction; moral character; benevolence; free will; families and communities; race; business ethics and capitalism; American government; democracy and the Islamic world; and much more.

James Q. Wilson was not only America’s pre-eminent political and social scientist; he was one of our leading moral philosophers. There was no subject, it seemed, on which he couldn’t deepen our understanding.

http://www.american.com/archive/2012/march/james-q-wilsons-moral-sense

Bummer. I taught from his American Government textbook back during my misguided youth.

He was a superstar.

[LutherRackleyRulez]

RIP Ronnie Montrose!




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Montrose



http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rtY-2ZOt8fM/SwSMcKsmkPI/AAAAAAAAHTo/Mx4i29uRC20/s1600/,0.jpg

[LutherRackleyRulez]

RIP Harry Wendelstead!



Per NPR....





Harry Wendelstedt, Longtime Baseball Umpire, Has Died






http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/03/09/148315642/harry-wendelstedt-longtime-baseball-umpire-has-died

[BBC 08]

Dayton's basketball season just died. Cause of death: Tu much Lyons.

/what a terrible pun.

[xu95]

Dayton Flyers.

they are like Zombies now. We had to kill them a second time.

[JimmyTwoTimes37]

Dick Clark

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/18/dick-clark-dies-dead-heart-attack_n_1435415.html

[Snipe]

With the death of James Q. Wilson earlier today, America has lost a towering intellectual figure. The mind reels in thinking about the issues Professor Wilson wrote about with such precision, intelligence, originality, and elegance: crime and human nature; drug legalization, science, and addiction; moral character; benevolence; free will; families and communities; race; business ethics and capitalism; American government; democracy and the Islamic world; and much more.

James Q. Wilson was not only America’s pre-eminent political and social scientist; he was one of our leading moral philosophers. There was no subject, it seemed, on which he couldn’t deepen our understanding.

http://www.american.com/archive/2012/march/james-q-wilsons-moral-sense

Bummer. I taught from his American Government textbook back during my misguided youth.

He was a superstar.

Have to agree with superstar. James Q Wilson set the standard.

[Snipe]

Got to give it up to Mike Wallace (an amazing Jew). Grew up with 60 minutes. Watched it with my parents.

His son is the anchor of Fox News Sunday. He left his wife and child after he was born and didn't come back into his life until he was a teenager. I didn't know that. Dick move. I wonder what you say to your son when you finally meet him. It is not like Wallace was in jail or help captive by the North Vietnamese. I will never think of him the same way.

[JimmyTwoTimes37]

Junior Seau

43 years old. Died by Self inflicted gunshot.

http://ll-media.tmz.com/2012/05/02/0502-junior-seau-getty-1969-2013.jpg

http://www.tmz.com/2012/05/02/junior-seau-dead/

[BBC 08]

I'm going Jim McMahon if this is the theme.

Smart money is more of the 94 Chargers to bite the dust. Seau was number 8.

[Kahns Krazy]

Junior Seau

43 years old. Died by Self inflicted gunshot.
http://www.tmz.com/2012/05/02/junior-seau-dead/

Wow, that sucks. Mental illness is a horrible thing. Seau was a beast.

TMZ has this comment in the story:

Back in 2011, former NFL star Dave Duerson shot himself in the chest ... and explained in his suicide note that he wanted his brain donated to a research center because he believed the blows he took to the head during his football career caused him to become mentally impaired.


I would imagine a gunshot to the chest would be a pretty painful way to go.

[Smails]

I just read a report that said MCA, Adam Yauch of Beastie Boy fame has passed.

Cancer

I've got more rhymes than I got gray hairs, and that's a lot because I got my share -

[Jumpy]

MC A will truly be missed. My first ever concert was a Beastie Boys concert that I missed entirely because I was in the bathroom throwing up for an hour and a half straight. Sounded great from the john, though.

[Kahns Krazy]

Vidal Sassoon has curled up and dyed.

( I stole the joke from Fark.)

[MHettel]

I waited on Vidal Sasson at the Mt. Adams Bar and Grill. His wife was hot.

[joebba]

http://www.cbssports.com/general/story/19017825/legendary-racecar-driver-designer-shelby-dies-at-89

[wkrq59]

Add actor Robert Culp to the list.:mad::(:eek:

[UCGRAD4X]

http://www.cbssports.com/general/story/19017825/legendary-racecar-driver-designer-shelby-dies-at-89

What a legacy! Won the 59 Le Mans running the race "with nitroglycerin pills under his tongue."

The fact that he made it to 89 in itself is pretty incredible.

Not bad for a failed chicken farmer.

[paulxu]

Robin Gibb.

[waggy]

Which started the whole world living.

[Mel Cooley XU'81]

Survey Said!

Dead!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/richard-dawson-of-family-feud-and-hogans-heroes-dies-at-79/2012/06/03/gJQA2pi7BV_story.html

[Olsingledigit]

Put me down for TO going in 2012.

Add Lane of Mad Men to the list

[UCGRAD4X]

Pedro Borbon

http://cincinnati.com/blogs/reds/

one of the most colorful sports characters ever

[Porkopolis]

Sad to hear of Borbon's passing. One of the game's great characters.

[bobbiemcgee]

Sad to hear of Borbon's passing. One of the game's great characters.

Strong Teeth and a Rubber arm. RIP.:(

[Kahns Krazy]

"Now batting for Pedro Borbon, Manny Mota... Mota..."

[bobbiemcgee]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d4L8ASGvKKk/TdluqzBpD9I/AAAAAAAASJ0/VkhNtbmmSN8/s320/1973+%25283%2529.jpg

Take that, Buzz.

[nuts4xu]

http://grouchoreviews.com/content/films/2562/1.jpg

Andy Griffith is now dead.

If you had him in this year's death pool, you can collect your $200.

Please see LutherRackleyRulez for payment.

[UCGRAD4X]

Jerry Jones of the famous Drug Store List


http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120721/NEWS/307210097/Jerry-Jones-76-pioneer-NFL-draft-prognostication?odyssey=obinsite

[Snipe]

Radical writer Alexander Cockburn dead at 71 (http://online.wsj.com/article/AP92d8b16828734ef0ad575ae1dfb9cce0.html)

Truth to Power!

[Roach]

I'm gonna go with someone random - Stan Lee, one of my childhood heroes, and creator (along with Jack Kirby) of Spider-Man, X-Men, Hulk, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Daredevil, and many, many more. He's 90 years old and about as spry as a turtle ...

[wkrq59]

Jerry Jones of the famous Drug Store List
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120721/NEWS/307210097/Jerry-Jones-76-pioneer-NFL-draft-prognostication?odyssey=obinsite

Knew Jerry very well. He always credited me among those in the front of his book even though I did little to help him with information. Jerry was truly a nice guy who finished first. He was a friend and will be missed. I might add that he gave me tips that eventually led to some damned good stories. I once sent him a Small check of gratitude which he used to buy some Bengals tickets for the General Protestant Orphans Home kids. It wasn't a big check but he said it covered the taxes on the ducats he bought.:(

[PMI]

Knew Jerry very well. He always credited me among those in the front of his book even though I did little to help him with information. Jerry was truly a nice guy who finished first. He was a friend and will be missed. I might add that he gave me tips that eventually led to some damned good stories. I once sent him a Small check of gratitude which he used to buy some Bengals tickets for the General Protestant Orphans Home kids. It wasn't a big check but he said it covered the taxes on the ducats he bought.:(

It sounds like he was a good man. Glad to know at least one of the NFL's Jerry Jones is a decent person.

[PMI]

Add both the president of Ghana and George Jefferson to the list.

[Jumpy]

Add both the president of Ghana and George Jefferson to the list.

Sadly, it is true that Sherman Hemsley, aka George Jefferson, moved on up to the deluxe apartment in the sky today. Many people don't know this, but 'ol Sherman was a more talented singer/dancer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0is0hYpk-U) than he was an actor/comedian.

[UCGRAD4X]

100 years old! Despite her obvious connections to the University of Cincinnati - a great philanthropist - pretty much saved the CSO, the Opera and the Pops orchestra. Likely that none would be here today.

So much for the "City that Sings"

I imagine her estate will keep many arts organizations alive for quite some time.

Still a shareholder in the Reds too if I am not mistaken.

[Cheesehead]

100 years old! Despite her obvious connections to the University of Cincinnati - a great philanthropist - pretty much saved the CSO, the Opera and the Pops orchestra. Likely that none would be here today.

So much for the "City that Sings"

I imagine her estate will keep many arts organizations alive for quite some time.

Still a shareholder in the Reds too if I am not mistaken.

Also gave a lot of money to XU.