# Celebrity Death Pool 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2013, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193 "2013-12-01T06:00:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 38
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/741 "2014-01-17T01:51:12Z")
As seen on my Facebook page (verbatim). Sue me, I’m lazy: The Professor - gone! Reuben Kincaid - gone! Place your bets, who’s the trifecta? 60’s - 70’s sit-com stars beware! Greg Brady? Potsie Webber? Venus Flytrap? Oh shit! This could finally be Abe Vigoda’s year! ---
**Author:** ![Bellhorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bellhorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bellhorn)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/742 "2014-01-17T01:51:59Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > You guys Google those ladies, click “images” and you’ll calm right down. > They look like very nice, wrinkled, older ladies. 50 years on a tropical island, without sunscreen or moisturizer, will do that to you. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/743 "2014-01-17T11:03:20Z")
[Ruth Duccini](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Duccini), who had until yesterday been one of the last two living Munchkins from The Wizard of Oz, died at age 95. [Jerry Maren](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Maren) is now the lone remaining Munchkin. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/744 "2014-01-17T11:12:11Z")
[Hiroo\_Onoda](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda), a Japanese soldier from WWII who didn’t surrender until 1974, died yesterday at the age of 91. I remember when I was growing up in the 1960s, it seemed that every few years, another Japanese soldier who’d been hiding out on some island, thinking the war hadn’t ended, would come out of the jungle and surrender. (Since we’ve been talking about Gilligan’s Island in the wake of the Professor’s death, I should mention that there was an episode in Season 1 that was a riff on this.) IIRC, Onoda was the last of these. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/745 "2014-01-19T12:25:36Z")
As of 25 minutes ago, we’re 5% of the way through 2014. Given that we’ve only had 3 deaths for points, there’s hardly a need for a full-blown DeathMistress scoreboard yet, but it looks like we’ve got **Quartz** in the lead with 40 points, the 24 people who had Ariel Sharon tied for second with 15 points, and **Borborygmi** in 26th with 11 points. **Baker** says there are 165 of us in the game this year, so that leaves 139 of us tied for 27th, with zero points. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/746 "2014-01-19T13:07:06Z")
Too bad **Borborygmi** didn’t play the same list here as in the other place I play. They’re in the lead over there, and would be here as well. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/747 "2014-01-19T13:14:45Z")
Sounds like I’d still be behind **Quartz**. But having 26th place all to myself has a certain cachet to it anyway, so no regrets here. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/748 "2014-01-19T13:30:22Z")
> [@Borborygmi](#): > > Sounds like I’d still be behind **Quartz**. But having 26th place all to myself has a certain cachet to it anyway, so no regrets here. :smack:I shouldn’t be running this if I can’t do basic math. Oh well, I’m playing two completely different lists. I did better (nine points) in 2013 over there then I did here(three points)!😃 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/749 "2014-01-19T14:36:38Z")
I’m tied for second!!! 😃 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/750 "2014-01-19T22:35:08Z")
I think we have a death for points (not my points, unfortunately): [Dennis Frederiksen](http://ultimateclassicrock.com/dennis-frederiksen-dies/)of the 1970s band Toto. I think he was on **Fear Itself** ’s list. Wikipedia has his age as 62. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/751 "2014-01-19T23:00:45Z")
Woo HOO!! That’s my earliest cherry-busting ever! 38 points! Where’s the champagne and white women? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/752 "2014-01-19T23:10:00Z")
**Fear Itself** is now in second place, two points behind **Quartz**. 1 Quartz 40 1 1 2 Fear Itself 38 1 1 3 amarinth 15 1 0 3 anyrose 15 1 0 3 arara123 15 1 0 3 Archeonomist 15 1 0 3 ataraxy22 15 1 0 3 critter42 15 1 0 3 Fleetwood 15 1 0 3 Gleena 15 1 0 3 guylevesque 15 1 0 3 imthjckaz 15 1 0 3 jtgain 15 1 0 3 Labtrash 15 1 0 3 MadTheSwine 15 1 0 3 Maus Magill 15 1 0 3 notfrommensa 15 1 0 3 racer72 15 1 0 3 Sami41 15 1 0 3 Sarabellum1976 15 1 0 3 SCAdian 15 1 0 3 Schnitte 15 1 0 3 SpazCat 15 1 0 3 Squonk 15 1 0 3 Tazmanian Devil 15 1 0 3 tim-n-va 15 1 0 27 Borborygmi 11 1 1 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/753 "2014-01-19T23:16:39Z")
And the rest of us drop back into a tie for 28th. 😃 ---
**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 19, 2014, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/754 "2014-01-19T23:55:29Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > I think we have a death for points (not my points, unfortunately): [Dennis Frederiksen](http://ultimateclassicrock.com/dennis-frederiksen-dies/)of the 1970s band Toto. I think he was on **Fear Itself** ’s list. Wikipedia has his age as 62. I dropped him for 2014. Unbelievable. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/755 "2014-01-20T01:46:09Z")
Reality star Roy Garber dead at 49 [http://www.hollywood.com/news/brief/56748148/reality-star-roy-garber-dead-at-49](http://www.hollywood.com/news/brief/56748148/reality-star-roy-garber-dead-at-49) “Shipping Wars” reality show??? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/756 "2014-01-20T15:19:10Z")
The word on several army pages I follow is that Hal Moore is dying. That would give me my first few points. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/757 "2014-01-20T15:25:12Z")
[Conductor Claudio Abbado has died](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25807203), age 80. A great man in the classical music world. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/758 "2014-01-20T15:32:24Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > The word on several army pages I follow is that Hal Moore is dying. That would give me my first few points. Ariel Sharon, from your previous list, would have given you more points, but wouldn’t have fit the theme! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/759 "2014-01-20T15:45:36Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Ariel Sharon, from your previous list, would have given you more points, but wouldn’t have fit the theme! Since I had him on my list since 2006, it was obvious that Sharon was staying alive just to spite me. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/760 "2014-01-20T16:28:34Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Since I had [Ariel Sharon] on my list since 2006, it was obvious that Sharon was staying alive just to spite me. > [@Mahaloth](#): > > I dropped [Dennis Frederiksen] for 2014. Unbelievable. That’s what happens: guys like you stop providing artificial life support, and then they die! 😃 ETA: [Aslan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aslan_Gahramanly) died. That’s Aslan Gahramanly, the Azerbaijani playwright, but I just had to see if I could make any C.S. Lewis fans’ heads spin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=37) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=39)