# 2023 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2022, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831 "2022-12-01T04:02:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 112
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2221 "2024-01-01T14:24:58Z")
No worries. I wasn’t criticizing, just informing. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2222 "2024-01-01T14:36:38Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > **Happy Lendervedder** won the game, with 201 points. Yayyyyyyy. Unfair! I demand a recount! Everyone knows there were fraudulent points! ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2223 "2024-01-01T15:13:15Z")
Find me 186 points . . . and I’ll take care of the rest! ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2224 "2024-01-01T15:13:25Z")
No. I won by a lot. I think certain other SDMB members were bringing in cancer patients and the elderly from other places to replace our celebrities. I have video of Happy Lendervedder passing a “death mint” to Baker. I have lists of alternate celebrities who did die but whose deaths were discounted. Why hardly any deaths in December and suddenly at midnight on New Year’s Eve we get a bunch more dead celebrities? There were death certificates for my celebrities that were changed to your celebrities by Hugo Chavez. RIGGED FAKE COUNTING!!! I will post proof in two weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2225 "2024-01-01T15:17:59Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > 13th place for me, by far my best result. 12th for me, also my best effort by a long way. I’m expecting just a bit more cooperation in 2024 from those on my list. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2226 "2024-01-01T15:18:42Z")
I need to think up an acronym for a red hat, and make some money off of this gig. 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2227 "2024-01-01T15:44:23Z")
> Donald Wildmon, the founder of the American Family Association — a Christian ministry — died on Thursday, Dec. 28 in Tupelo. They’re being far too generous. I’d have described the AFA as “a ministry that _identifies as_ Christian.” IOW, they call themselves Christian; it’s not our remit to determine whether that self-description is accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2228 "2024-01-01T15:53:05Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > I got a whopping zilch, zip, nada, for which I fully expect a special award 🙂 You and 27 others. Congrats to all the award winners 🏆 I came in tied with 26th out of 92 contestants; not too shabby. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2229 "2024-01-01T15:53:46Z")
I may be recalling incorrectly but several years after the towers fell there was a documentary by the French Naudet brothers. They’d been working with the NYFD filming the education of a rooky firefighter, and were there, getting the only footage of the first tower being struck. This was shown on network television and the profane reactions of the firefighters was not bleeped. Several groups complained about that, including I think the AFA. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2230 "2024-01-01T15:58:18Z")
Are you going to post the final points tally? I desperately need to know if I finished in 53rd or 54th place. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2231 "2024-01-01T15:58:32Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > They’re being far too generous. I’d have described the AFA as “a ministry that _identifies as_ Christian.” IOW, they call themselves Christian; it’s not our remit to determine whether that self-description is accurate. I had only ever heard of them because my church in the 1980’s used to put their brochures/flyers inside the church bulletins. My Dad has always insisted our church growing up didn’t dabble into politics, but also seems to not remember that the AFA had flyers in our bulletins at church. [Don Wildmon retired years ago. His son Tim runs the whole thing now.](https://www.afa.net/who-we-are/spokespersons/tim-wildmon/) Edit: I see Don Wildmon died from Lewy Body Dimensia. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone, if I understand it correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2232 "2024-01-01T16:01:00Z")
| 1 | Happy Lendervedder | 201 | 4 | 2 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2 | phungi | 171 | 3 | 2 | | 3 | candide | 144 | 2 | 1 | | 4 | GIGObuster | 135 | 3 | 0 | | 5 | jeezums | 127 | 3 | 1 | | 6 | Hoopy Frood | 126 | 3 | 0 | | 6 | RTFirefly | 126 | 3 | 0 | | 8 | Registered at Last | 65 | 1 | 0 | | 8 | Cazzle | 65 | 1 | 0 | | 8 | critter42 | 65 | 1 | 0 | | 11 | McDeath the Mad | 61 | 2 | 0 | | 12 | Railer 13 | 58 | 3 | 1 | | 13 | Mean Mr. Mustard | 54 | 2 | 0 | | 14 | Pardel-Lux | 49 | 2 | 1 | | 15 | Flik the Blue | 47 | 2 | 1 | | 16 | zadscmc | 45 | 5 | 1 | | 17 | Reindeer Flotilla | 44 | 1 | 0 | | 17 | tuesdayweld | 44 | 1 | 0 | | 19 | It’s Not Rocket Surgery | 42 | 1 | 0 | | 20 | WolfpackJeep | 39 | 2 | 0 | | 21 | smithsb | 38 | 1 | 1 | | 22 | Stephe96 | 36 | 2 | 0 | | 23 | precambrianmollusc | 35 | 2 | 0 | | 23 | Bayaker | 35 | 1 | 0 | | 25 | GuanoLad | 34 | 3 | 2 | | 26 | KittenMitten | 33 | 1 | 0 | | 26 | RobotDevilDog | 33 | 1 | 0 | | 28 | Jegpeg | 32 | 2 | 1 | | 28 | ataraxy22 | 32 | 2 | 0 | | 30 | Queen Anne’s Lace | 28 | 1 | 0 | | 31 | Mahaloth | 26 | 2 | 2 | | 32 | lel | 25 | 1 | 1 | | 33 | Jack Batty | 24 | 1 | 1 | | 33 | Suntan Lotion | 24 | 1 | 1 | | 35 | Shoeless | 23 | 2 | 0 | | 36 | Lord Feldon | 22 | 4 | 0 | | 37 | Bad Wiring | 21 | 2 | 0 | | 37 | kayT | 21 | 2 | 0 | | 37 | Loach | 21 | 1 | 0 | | 37 | NotherYinzer | 21 | 2 | 1 | | 41 | JohnT | 19 | 1 | 0 | | 41 | RollOutTheBarrel | 19 | 1 | 1 | | 43 | teela brown | 18 | 1 | 1 | | 44 | J-P L | 17 | 2 | 0 | | 44 | Superdude | 17 | 2 | 1 | | 46 | Karl Gauss | 16 | 1 | 0 | | 46 | Paul Was in Saudi | 16 | 6 | 0 | | 48 | Allecher | 13 | 1 | 1 | | 49 | romansperson | 11 | 1 | 1 | | 49 | xizor | 11 | 1 | 1 | | 51 | D Anconia | 10 | 1 | 0 | | 51 | kitap | 10 | 1 | 0 | | 53 | commasense | 8 | 2 | 0 | | 54 | gwendee | 7 | 1 | 0 | | 54 | Ponch8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | | 56 | Biotop | 5 | 1 | 1 | | 56 | Borborygmi | 5 | 1 | 1 | | 56 | Spoiler Virgin | 5 | 1 | 1 | | 59 | Catamount | 4 | 1 | 0 | | 60 | Baker | 1 | 2 | 1 | | 60 | Dr. Girlfriend | 1 | 1 | 0 | | 60 | imthjckaz | 1 | 2 | 0 | | 60 | journeyfan | 1 | 2 | 0 | | 60 | Mrs. E | 1 | 1 | 0 | ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2233 "2024-01-01T16:01:57Z")
And, at 61st with 0, Prof. Pepperwinkle. Huzzah! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2234 "2024-01-01T16:04:54Z")
I’m way more excited about this victory than I should be. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2235 "2024-01-01T16:10:33Z")
Yeah, this was my first year ever without points. Have I lost my touch…of Death? 😵 ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2236 "2024-01-01T16:10:46Z")
Got at least the Kickoff award. I said it before, I feel a lot like Richard Teichmann, the chess master. He was known as “Richard the Fifth” because he often finished in fifth place in chess tournaments, at least got to fourth place this time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2237 "2024-01-01T16:14:02Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > > [@RTFirefly](#): > > > > hether that self-description is accurate. > > I had only ever heard of them because my church in the 1980’s used to put their brochures/flyers inside the church bulletins. As a born-again Christian since before the ‘religious right’ became a thing, I was all too aware of the Moral Majority, the AFA, the Concerned Women for America (aka “Ladies Against Women”), and all those other groups that came along in the 1970s and 1980s that seemed to believe that the appropriate way of serving the Lord was to be a bunch of assholes. Anyway: tie for sixth with the frood who knows where his towel is - not too bad. Hoping for top 5 in 2024. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2238 "2024-01-01T16:14:35Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > > > 13th place for me, by far my best result. > > 12th for me, also my best effort by a long way. I’m right behind you both, also my best result. And one unique pick, really can’t complain. But will nonetheless, of course: pity and shame that the end-of-year mass sprint was not as riveting as last year’s! > [@Baker](#): > > I need to think up an acronym for a red hat, and make some money off of this gig. 🤣 SMDB -CDP- But I would suggest a black hat, with red letters outlined in gold (that is: yellow). And stars. Stars are always good. Silver (white). Gold (yellow). Purple (whatever). ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2239 "2024-01-01T16:22:27Z")
And thank you Baker for doing this, and continuing to do this! It seems like an overwhelming task to manage all of this, but you do it brilliantly. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831/2240 "2024-01-01T16:26:46Z")
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