Take a Gamble. It's only celebrities.

I love chatting about celebrity deaths. Why do they always happen in threes? Why do we pretend like a celebrity has had such a great and meaningful career when they're dead/dying (ahem Patrick Swayze and Christopher Reeve)? How does Abe Vigoda manage to stay alive?  With these kinds of questions, I took to the interwebs and was able to make a bet on celebrity death.

I am the worst gambler in the world. Why in the hell would anyone spend money on gambling? Why would you put money in a slot machine when there's a 1% chance you're going to get even a fraction of what you spent? Why doesn't everyone just give me their money and I'll probably not give it back?  Gambling is the equivalent of throwing all of your money down the toilet and flushing. Maybe it all won't go down on the first pull...but chances are...by the second, it definitely will.

Rotten Dead Pool, though, has provided the only gamble I'm willing to take: the one that involves dead celebrities. So, you have a year from the date that you make your picks to have all ten of your celebrities die. Not that you win anything but the notoriety of being a celeb death-predicter, but even that is worthy of a fancy nametag or maybe a custom business card.

My Picks

1	Licia Albanese	Singer	Operatic soprano, La Bohème	22-Jul-1913	TBD	12-Feb-2011
2	Beverly Cleary	Author	Children's author, Ramona Quimby series	12-Apr-1916	TBD	12-Feb-2011
3	Pierre Cardin	Fashion Designer	Inventor of the "bubble dress"	06-Jul-1922	TBD	12-Feb-2011
4	Zsa Zsa Gabor	Actor	Cop-slapping Gabor sister	06-Feb-1917	TBD	12-Feb-2011
5	Joe Jackson	Relative	Patriarch of the Jackson family	26-Jul-1929	TBD	12-Feb-2011
6	Tommy Lasorda	Baseball	Slim-Fast shill	22-Sep-1927	TBD	12-Feb-2011
7	Lindsay Lohan	Actor	Mean Girls	02-Jul-1986	TBD	12-Feb-2011
8	Andy Rooney	Journalist	60 Minutes' resident crank	14-Jan-1919	TBD	12-Feb-2011
9	Elizabeth Taylor	Actor	Cleopatra	27-Feb-1932	TBD	12-Feb-2011
10	Slim Whitman	Country Musician	Western singer, balladeer and yodeler	20-Jan-1924	TBD	12-Feb-2011

There's no real science in this for me. I chose a series of old celebrities that I'd actually heard of, and then one wild card. As you can see, my wild card is Lindsay Lohn, but really with the life that she's been leading, it's hard to really even call it that.

I found it rather amusing that in the list of the most picked celebrities, Courtney Love was among Billy Graham, Kirk Douglas, and Fidel Castro (some really moldy oldies) with over 5,000 picks. Does everyone know something about her that I don't know? I mean, being an unattractive hanger-on isn't fatal, is it?

 Lord Have Mercy. To Quote Pee Wee Herman, "I've seen better heads on boils."

Like the sick weirdo I am, I will be waiting with baited breath to see if my predictions come true. I'm thinking that if I will, my business card will have a cat Grim Reaper. That'd be pretty sweet.