But, we WAS robbed!

So with this year’s Dead Pool I knew I had a lock: that old creepy lady from Poltergeist was absolutely on Death’s door, and I was going to sneak into first place and not look back.  And I did, albeit a few days late.

Only MillieJOW snuck in right behind me!

Millie lives in probably the best part of Florida, every night slinging drinks to happy people with loud, happy music.  She’s got a great place to live and great weather and if ever there was someone borrowing heavily from the Bank of Karma, it would be her.  But it was an absolute punch in the pants for me to take such a huge, important early lead only to have her pee all over it literally HOURS LATER!

J.D. freaking Salinger died only hours after Mrs. Creepy, and guess who picked him to die?  Fats Florida.

I feel like Millie’s avatars should be of famous gamblers and hustlers — Kenny Rogers, Paul Newman, or even Jackie Gleason.  I got played.  I got rooked.

I’m wondering… maybe I should start putting up Facebook fan pages to Millie, and trying to make her famous so that I can pick her as one of my choices for next year?  Maybe that’s how I’ll finally beat her?

Yep, those morbid contestants have put some serious thought into it, and have decidedly prognosticated upon which famous people around the world will not make it through 2010.

The names are from all over: actors, musicians, politicians, scientists, criminals — you name it!  All people that have made plenty of headlines, and are now expected to be getting some headstones.

So without further ado, we bring you the official selections of the 2010 HisDaddy.com Dead Pool!

BTW — red = dead

The Angels

The Devils

Note: we’ll be linking to more celebrity bios soon — this is painstaking!

If you would like to participate in this year’s Dead Pool and haven’t yet been invited, please feel free to comment on this post telling us why we should consider you.

The Dead Pool is comprised of experts from all walks of life.  Their prognostications are highly-valued, and thus we only invite people who show incredible knowledge of the life cycle.

Well that, and comedic value.

This is Guy. He just killed these fish.

You heard right, kids, the 2010 Dead Pool has officially been opened!

The event is still invitation-only.  This year we will again make it possible for people not invited to plea their cases, but until then, start thinking about who you think isn’t going to make it to 2011.

Our friend Guy tied for first in the 2008 match, and is clearly in the lead now in 2009.  There’s still another week or so left, so maybe somebody can pull a miracle out of a coffin?

If you haven’t checked out the official rules for the Dead Pool, click on the link at the top of the screen!

He had a funny nose, and now he has a coffin.

And just like that, Guy regained the lead.

The world lost a solid actor in Karl Malden today (1912 - 2009).  Perhaps most famous for his role as Detective Lt. Mike Stone on the 70’s hit show, The Streets of San Francisco, Malden was in a ton of movies and television shows during a career than spanned most of the 20th century.

There’s very little chance anybody can beat Guy this year.  Which makes us wonder… is he just a really good prognosticator, or is he perhaps taking a more active role in ensuring his victory?

Famous people are going to die this year — can you guess which ones will go for it?

A dead pool is where you pick three celebrities that you guess will die that calendar year. The person who picks the most celebrities win. As a tie-breaker, points are scored for the month in which the celebrity died. For example, if the celebrity dies in January, you get 12 points. In February, you get 11, all the way down to only 1 point in December.

We invited many HisDaddy.com regulars to share with us their 2009 Dead Pool picks. Here they are:

Lamont - Fidel Castro, Mick Mars, Mary-Kate Olsen

His Daddy - Fidel Castro, Steve Jobs, Kirk Douglas

MillieJOW - Barack Obama, Patrick Swayze, Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Kellie - Peter O’Toole, Betty White, Kirk Douglas

Guy - Sen. Claiborne Pell, Karl Malden, Kirk Douglas

Kermit - Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nancy Reagan, Scott Weiland

Adam - Patrick Swayze, Ted Kennedy, George Steinbrenner

Andy - Amy Winehouse, Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman

Fil - Kirk Douglas, Elizabeth Taylor, Scott Weiland

Meem - Amy Winehouse, Mickey Rooney, Ted Kennedy

Bouch - Betty White, Ed McMahon, Ted Kennedy

Noel - Kirk Douglas, Amy Winehouse, An Olsen Twin

J - Patrick Swayze, Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson

Kendall - Steve Jobs, Patrick Swayze, Nancy Reagan

Which three celebrities would you pick?

He was a friend of students, and a friend of Guy.

So Guy, one of the Dead Pool contestants, is just good at predicting death.

For last year’s Dead Pool the fucker picked Charlton Heston, Claiborne Pell, and Amy Winehouse. He scored pretty sweet points with Heston — enough to land a tie with Roger. And if Pell had died just a few hours sooner, he’d have taken the title all solo-like.

Here I am inputting this year’s picks, and already Guy scored the maximum points with Pell. Yes, he let Pell ride, and is the first to score points (again) this year! Any chance that Guy, a Canadian cop who married a Vietnamese nail salon owner, is influencing the competition in a way that is unhealthy?

These two may just be immortal.

It’s official — the year is over, and this year TWO contestants won the Dead Pool.

Congrats to Roger and Guy for their stunning victories.  The final tally was:

WINNER (TIE) - Guy - 9
WINNER (TIE) - Roger - 9
Kellie - 4
Dave - 0
HisDaddy - 0
J - 0
Kermit - 0
Lamont - 0
MillieJOW - 0
Rockstar - 0
Steve - 0
Stoney - 0

Congrats to everyone who scored points (that means Kellie), and shame on the rest of you chumps!

He reaped in one movie, and now he’s been reaped.

That’s right, after months of nobody scoring any points in the Death Pool, Kellie (also known as “IE”) scored a big win with Paul Newman.

Kudos to IE for her wonderful prognostication!

Unfortunately her small victory comes at a significant expense — Paul Newman was one of the best actors of all time, and perhaps one of the greatest guys to have ever lived.  His loss is huge, and we’d have gladly thrown Amy Winehouse,  50 Cent, Dick Cheney, and a slew of other people into the pit to not lose a guy like Paul Newman.  But alas, such is life.

Congrats IE, and thank you for so many great memories and humanitarian efforts, Paul!

He was big, he was bad, and now he’s dead.

It took until the fourth month of competition for the first contestants to score, but the 2008 His Daddy Death Pool has finally drawn first blood!

On April 5th, legendary screen actor Charlton Heston went the way of the Dodo and passed from this world. He was 84.

This game as great news to Roger and Guy, stiff competitors and the first players to score in the heated Death Pool. Both men receive 9 points each, as it occurred in the 4th month of the year.

Taking such a quick lead over other contestants who had picked sure-to-win celebs such as Any Winehouse and Britney Spears shocked most, though not all.

“Britney was on the rocks sure,” noted new leader Guy. “But come on — Heston looked like a walking corpse! When doing research for the Pool, I was shocked to find out he was still alive!”

The Death Pool runs until 11:59:59 on December 31st, 2008.

Current Scores:
Guy - 9
Roger - 9
Everyone else - 0