# 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:** 45
**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:** [February 9, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/881 "2014-02-09T21:15:25Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > Just so it’s clear, I’m alive and well. :smack: Well, that’s a relief. ---
**Author:** ![Dusty\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba8739/32.png) [@Dusty\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dusty_Rose)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/882 "2014-02-11T10:55:19Z")
Shirley Temple has died. I still picture her as a little girl… ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/883 "2014-02-11T11:03:18Z")
At age 85, or at 15 points if anyone had her. ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/884 "2014-02-11T11:07:19Z")
Aw, sad about Shirley Temple ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/885 "2014-02-11T11:22:36Z")
Two players had her, **Schnitte** and **TexCat**. This puts **Schnitte** in fourth place, and the first player to have two selected celebrities die. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/886 "2014-02-11T11:33:09Z")
Shirley Temple was 85 years old, and she died at her home in Woodside, CA which is near San Francisco and San Jose and Palo Alto. I never realized she lived right here. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/887 "2014-02-11T11:38:00Z")
[Link for Shirley Temple.](http://www.latimes.com/la-et-mn-shirley-temple-iconic-child-actress-dies-at-85-20140211,0,1251852.story) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/888 "2014-02-11T14:14:36Z")
And on a less global note, [Paul Ash, son of Sam Ash (yes, _that_ Sam Ash)](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/business/paul-ash-president-of-music-store-chain-dies-at-84.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=0) has played his last keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/889 "2014-02-11T16:54:46Z")
Shirley Temple\*\* Black \*\*has finally put me on the board for the first time in 3 years! I was starting to think I would remain a virgin forever. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2014, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/890 "2014-02-11T17:00:38Z")
> [@TexCat](#): > > Shirley Temple\*\* Black \*\*has finally put me on the board for the first time in 3 years! I was starting to think I would remain a virgin forever. You lost your virginity to Shirley Temple?:eek: ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/891 "2014-02-11T17:29:37Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > You lost your virginity to Shirley Temple?:eek: Once you go Black… ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/892 "2014-02-12T03:00:41Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > You lost your virginity to Shirley Temple?:eek: > > Once you go Black… On The Good Ship _Goin’ to Hell_ It’s a warm trip, cantcha tell? Where Poolers play On the dreary shores Of the River Styx bay… (and in case there’s any doubt, I will in all likelihood be captaining said ship…) ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/893 "2014-02-12T11:32:51Z")
> [@critter42](#): > > On The Good Ship _Goin’ to Hell_ > It’s a warm trip, cantcha tell? > Where Poolers play > On the dreary shores > Of the River Styx bay… > > (and in case there’s any doubt, I will in all likelihood be captaining said ship…) Dear Sir or Madam, I applaud you. [Really I do.](http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/4041/applause123436388.gif) ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/894 "2014-02-12T11:43:28Z")
**critter42** I stand in awe. Well played! Meanwhile, sixish weeks into 2014 and all my picks remain healthy and more alert than ever. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/895 "2014-02-12T13:36:33Z")
> [@critter42](#): > > On The Good Ship _Goin’ to Hell_ > It’s a warm trip, cantcha tell? > Where Poolers play > On the dreary shores > Of the River Styx bay… > > (and in case there’s any doubt, I will in all likelihood be captaining said ship…) You also get [one of these.](http://instantrimshot.com/classic/?sound=rimshot) ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/896 "2014-02-12T17:10:16Z")
> [@](#): > > FORMULA One legend Michael Schumacher, who is still lying in a coma in a French hospital, has contracted pneumonia, the German newspaper Bild has reported. [http://www.news.com.au/sport/motor-sport/comatose-michael-schumacher-has-developed-pneumonia-bild-reports/story-fnec578q-1226825253146](http://www.news.com.au/sport/motor-sport/comatose-michael-schumacher-has-developed-pneumonia-bild-reports/story-fnec578q-1226825253146) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/897 "2014-02-12T18:27:38Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > [http://www.news.com.au/sport/motor-sport/comatose-michael-schumacher-has-developed-pneumonia-bild-reports/story-fnec578q-1226825253146](http://www.news.com.au/sport/motor-sport/comatose-michael-schumacher-has-developed-pneumonia-bild-reports/story-fnec578q-1226825253146) IOW, neither healthy nor alert. 😛 ---
**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:** [February 12, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/898 "2014-02-12T20:27:21Z")
Sid Caesar dies at 91 > **[Sid Caesar, Master of TV Comedy, Dies at 91](https://variety.com/2014/tv/news/sid-caesar-master-of-tv-comedy-dies-at-91-1201100019/)** > > Sid Caesar, one of the first stars created by television via his weekly live comedy program “Your Show of Shows,” died Wednesday at his home in Beverly Hills after a brief illness. He was 91. A two… ---
**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:** [February 12, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/899 "2014-02-12T20:35:40Z")
Aw, Sid. ☹ Still, I’ve got some points now… ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/900 "2014-02-12T20:44:39Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Sid Caesar dies at 91 > > [Sid Caesar Dead, Iconic Comedian Dies At 91](http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/sid-caesar-master-of-tv-comedy-dies-at-91-1201100019/) Okay, this is the second time this week that this has happened. I thought Sid Caesar and Shirley Temple Black had died years ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=44) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=46)