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I (or somebody else if I'm not around) will post the death of a celebrity and a link to the page that has the article about him/her. The interest thread contains the acceptable links for this.

I changed the bonus points by lowering them so as to make the competition a bit fairer.

-A 15 point bonus will be given for the following circumstances:

-Death for non-health, non-natural related reasons (suicide, car accident, drug OD etc) Exception to this rule is assisted suicide.
-If two or more people die on your list on the same day, you receive 25 points extra for each person
-If a unique pick, a selection made by you but not anybody else, dies.

:20 points will be granted if the person dies on their birthday

:30 points will be granted if the person dies on January 1st or December 31st of 2017

Good luck everybody!

This is my list as it is fair to let you guys know that I am competing:

Mel Stottlemyre
George H.W. Bush
Jimmy Carter
Olivia de Havilland
Kirk Douglas
Queen Elizabeth II
Carl Reiner
Don Rickles
Jake La Motta
Stephen Hawking
Henry Kissinger
Willie Mays
Billy Graham
Bob Dole
Mary Tyler Moore
Jenna Jameson*
Donald Trump
Stan Lee
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Jack Nicholson

*joker

mike illitch has been in rough shape for a long time. fully expecting my 313 brethren to pick that one like cotton.

Can you please clarify if two or more dying give 15, 25 each, or 15 plus 25 each?

Anybody have William Christopher? http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/01/entert...bit/index.html

I'll organize the lists tonight when I get back home and dole out points if necessary.

never mind, updated article now has his death as 12/13/16.

Paul Gascoigne.

I've received an escrow payment from rubixxcube.

SuperUber: are you going to post all the entries ITT? I know it's some work, but posting them all publicly will permit us all to mock one another throughout the course of the year.

One alternative is for each entrant to post their entries individually.

Mock Away:
I threw in some young peeps, Gambool!

1. Donald Trump
2. Lindsey Lohan
3. Charlie Sheen - JOKER
4. Ozzy Osborne
5. Michael Lee Aday AKA "Meat Loaf"
6. Joni Mitchell
7. Jamie-Lynn Sigler
8. Dustin Hoffman
9. Val Kilmer
10. Justin Bieber
11. Bob Dole
12. George Bush Sr
13. Miley Cyrus
14. Tommy Chong
15. Stan Lee
16. Betty White
17. Dennis Rodman
18. Bob Barker
19. Clint Eastwood
20. Keith Richards

William “the refrigerator” Perry
Hugh Hefner
Gene Hackman
Dabney Coleman
Angela Lansbury
Don Imus
Mary Tyler Moore
Roger Moore (007)
Barbara Eden
Lamar Odom
Little Richard
Ozzy Osbourne
Yoko Ono
Doc Gooden (Joker)
Corey Feldman
Glen Campbell
Buddy Guy
Aretha Franklin
Chevy Chase
Artie Lange

****, is it too late to name a joker? I totally forgot that part.

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Can't believe I missed this. If any HC reg is interested in doing a $100 contest let me know.

Have only read the last four names of the list above me me feiw

OK my list. I mixed the old and a few youngs for fun

Lamar Odom
Justin Beiber
Ian McKellen
Charlie Sheen
Mick Jagger
Bill Cosby
Little Richard
Lil Wayne (Joker)
Stan Lee
Tommy Chong
Mary Tyler Moore
Stevie Wonder
Hillary Clinton
Joe Jackson
Jerry Lawler
Hugh Hefner
Stephen Hawking
Jimmy Snuka
Don Rickles
Doyle Brunson

JDiamond 364 also sent me an escrow payment.

My entry:

Glen Campbell (joker)
Betty White
George HW Bush
Mel Stottlemyre
Kirk Douglas
Henry Kissinger
Hugh Hefner
Bashar al-Assad
Sean Connery
Jimmy Carter
Clint Eastwood
Angela Lansbury
Bob Barker
Mel Brooks
Adam West
Jerry Lewis
Monty Hall
Don Rickles
Nicolas Maduro
Summer Redstone
Bill Russell

Don't really know old celebrities so I'm really politician heavy

Queen Elizabeth
Jon Jones
Ronda Rousey
Bob Dole
Jimmy Carter
Donald Trump
Stephen Hawking
Bashar Al Assad
Recep Erdogan
Kim Jong Un
Michael Schumacher - Joker
Pope Benedict XVI
Hosni Mubarak
King Michael of Romania
Mugabe
Sean Connery
Mikhail Gorbachev
Kirk Douglas
Prince Philip
Ursula Le Guin

Henry Kissinger
Don Rickles
Donald Trump
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Jimmy Carter
George Herbert Walker Bush
Aretha Franklin
Macaulay Culkin
Elizabeth Warren
Bernie Sanders
Barney Frank
Mario Andretti
Jackie Martling
Hugh Hefner
Sheldon Adelson
Betty White
James Watson
Bernard Madoff
Artie Lange (joker)

Many of these mfers are doomed in 2017:

Joost van der Westhuizen
Steve Gleason
Fernando Ricksen (joker)
Helen Fawkes
Valerie Harper
Gord Downie
Paul Gascoigne
Desmond Tutu
Fats Domino
William Perry
Abu Bakr al Baghdadi
Leon White (Vader)
Bryan Murray (NHL)
John Bain
Javier Perez de Cuellar
Val Kilmer
Robert Pirsig
Luke Halpin
Leah Bracknell
Emperor Akihito

Bob whats the status of some of the world/militant leaders?
I hesitated to put some of them on my list because of the below:

"Law enforcement, spies and military personnel don't count unless their death was outside of their profession"

I don't want to name any specific people on certain lists to avoid singling them out, but do any of the names in the submitted lists fall under the above? Better to clear that up now so if they are assassinated/KIA we know ahead of time whether they count or not.

My interpretation was that politicians obviously count if assassinated/executed. Their profession isn't fighting/violence. Soldiers/rebels/terrorists don't count if killed by the enemy or in the line of duty.

I.E. Assad counts if hit by a drone strike, but Al Baghdadi doesn't.

No one on the Clinton's murder suicide?

Politicians don't fall under that category as they are not military personnel. So if a politician gets assassinated by a member/citizen of a country or group he/she is fighting then it's all cool (for the pool that is).

I didn't recall anybody naming any active military personnel or law enforcement members in their list. Not like anybody picked Joe Arpaio or anything like that (though that's a really good pick now that I think about it).

Simply put

Bingo.

ntanygd760 has sent me an escrow. That makes three.

Why doesn't al-Baghdadi count? He is neither part of law enforcement, a spy nor military personnel?