2026 SMDB Celebrity Death Pool submission
Claire Brosseau
Ben Sasse
Jason Collins
Theor Burrell
Scott Adams
Dave Coulier
Chris Hoy
Victoria Jackson
Gavin Mitchell
James Van Der Beek
Michael Bolton
Rick Link
Roberto Carlos
Christiane Amanpour
Joe Biden
Jesse Jackson
Excellent, it took me nearly twenty minutes to figure out how to fix the cursed paragraph spacing. Anyway yes, must add Jon Kyl (unfortunately).
Bruce Babbitt
Janet Napolitano
Joe Arpaio
Michael Dukakis
Bill Clinton
Joe Biden
Kay Granger
Donald Trump
Eugenia Cooney
Paul LePage
Hunter Biden
Mitch McConnell
Jon Kyl
Alternates:
Carol Burnett
Bruce Willis
Randy Moss
ETA: I tried pasting it over to Google Docs and back like four different times and I finally had to delete all spacing in Google Docs and then paste it back over. I’m not trying to be disobedient. Sorry!
Last year we still only had one way to enter text in a reply box, but this year we have two, and the default setting is to keep all pre-formatting from whatever app you copied it from, but hide the code it uses to do that. That’s the Capital A button at the top left of the Reply Box. If you click that option to shift it to M 
it lets you see the code, to edit or delete it, or you can paste over it with plain text.
Princess Bajrakitiyabha
Chris Hoy
Randy Moss
Ben Sasse
Will Lam
Ian Smith
Lou Koller
James Van Der Beek
Jason Collins
Nat Myers
Theo Burrell
Susie Wilson-Rowe
Scott Adams
Alternates
Rob Hirst
Pat Croce
Damien Martyn
James Van Der Beek
Scott Adams
Dave Coulier
Ben Sasse
Jason Collins
Michael Bolton
Theo Burrell
Richard Sterban
Chris Hoy
Brad Arnold
Jennifer Wexton
Princess Bajrakitiyabha
Alternates
Eric Dane
Maria Menounos
Steve Gleason
Tick tock…
And we are off,
I will have to spend some time tomorrow toting up the later entries
But keep and eye out, we once had two deaths on Jan 1
Selma Blair
Cher
Elon Musk
Celine Deon
Zelinski
Nicolas Maduro
Rudy Guiliani
Tom Brokaw
Pete Townsend
William Shatner
Gislie Maxwell
Yoko Ono
Chris Evert
Susan Sullivan (actress, not the marathoner)
Michael J Fox
Bruce Willis
Kim Novak
Clint Eastwood
Tippy Hendren
Too many picks, and I believe the cutoff was midnight, Chicago Time.
I am wonderung what attracted so many new accounts, and why most of them didn’t seem to read the rules. A few did but not most. I really appreciate the players who helped by correcting wrongly made entries.
I am wondering if a new rule is needed: Before posting to a thread for the first time, at least read the first post.
I think too many are coming from other platforms where you see the exact same thing is posted over and over again because they only thing they read is the title.
Reading is hard
Following directions is also beyond the capabilities of some people. Though if someone makes it far enough to post they should be able to get things right
Taking the discussion here, Possible new rule, or at least strong suggestion, about posting - About This Message Board - Straight Dope Message Board, to avoid a hijack.
Sounds really good to me.
How many this year vs last? It felt like a ton this year, but only 5-6 more?
We had ninety eight last year and this year have ten more.
This one was posted before midnight but was hung up by Discourse. Needed a mod to approve it before posting.
And Rule 8 in the OP handles the ‘too many picks’ issue. First 13 count, the rest don’t.
FWIW, Scott Adams in his most recent video says his outlook is grim and he expects to “transition one way or another” this month.
OMG, didn’t know he was transgender. All blessings to him.