Video(Blogger) Killed The Rodeo Star

Last Tuesday, Scaryduck (who took his first webfooted steps into video blogging yesterday) put up a post asking his readers to compete in The Duck of Death’s Celebrity Death Pool featuring the Duke of Edinburgh Memorial Gold Cup

The rules were thus:

1. Choose THREE celebrities who you think may cark it in the next twelve months. Ten points.
2. Choose one additional TRAGEDY PICK – a celebrity less than fifty years of age who you think may shuffle off this mortal coil before the end of 2008. Twenty points.

I went for:

Doris Day
Fidel Castro
Elizabeth Taylor
Tragedy: Claire from Steps (AND double points for irony)

Nice and safe choices, ending with a comedy number. Thank you and goodnight. 

But someone else called John went with a somewhat edgy this:

Menzies Cambpell
Honor Blackman
Mickey Rooney
DOE to DIE on 11 November 2008
Tragic Pick: Heath Ledger
(I dreamt about this one).
John

Now of course, the competition takes a nasty twist, because less than a week later, we learn that Heath Ledger is dead.

I know this looks insentive given Sunday’s post, but death happens. It’s sad and it does. But when your blogging peers ask for predictions, then get them from the dreams of thier readers, then something’s going on.

If Rooney, Blackman and Cambell die on 11 November, there should be an inquest. Although I would pay good money to hear the words ”ming with honour” said on Newsnight.