# 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:** 49
**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:** [February 24, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/961 "2014-02-24T21:09:21Z")
> [@critter42](#): > > yeah…I stretched on that one - would “The Twinkie just got bigger” been more comprehensible? Who’s _he_ gonna call? ---
**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:** [February 24, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/962 "2014-02-24T21:12:38Z")
Holy shit! My daughter and I were goofing around with _The Ghostbusters_ video game the other night and last night I watched _Stripes_. I quote Egon: “I blame myself.” ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/963 "2014-02-24T21:21:00Z")
> [@critter42](#): > > yeah…I stretched on that one - would “The Twinkie just got bigger” been more comprehensible? I bet you say that to all the girls. ---
**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 24, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/964 "2014-02-24T21:35:35Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Holy shit! My daughter and I were goofing around with _The Ghostbusters_ video game the other night and last night I watched _Stripes_. > > I quote Egon: “I blame myself.” I killed River Phoenix in much the same way. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/965 "2014-02-24T21:48:22Z")
\ What about the Twinkie \ ---
**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:** [February 25, 2014, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/966 "2014-02-25T11:35:52Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) gone at 31 pts. 'E gone. ---
**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 27, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/967 "2014-02-27T17:21:08Z")
Jim Lange, radio host, and better known as the first host of the 1960s _The Dating Game_ has died. He was 81. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2014, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/968 "2014-02-28T01:16:58Z")
Stand-up comedian and country singer Tim Wilson, who infused original songs into his comedy, died in Columbus, Ga., on Wednesday night of a massive heart attack, his manager Chris Dipetta told TODAY. [http://www.today.com/entertainment/comedic-country-singer-tim-wilson-dies-52-2D12183366](http://www.today.com/entertainment/comedic-country-singer-tim-wilson-dies-52-2D12183366) ---
**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:** [February 28, 2014, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/969 "2014-02-28T04:40:21Z")
Bummer. I used to listen to him all the time on The Bob and Tom Show (which I don’t even get in this area anymore). ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/970 "2014-03-01T01:12:35Z")
Aaron Allston, SF author and gamer, [has died at age 53](http://www.locusmag.com/News/2014/02/aaron-allston-1960-2014/). I liked his two Doc Sidhe novels and always hoped he’d be able to publish another one. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2014, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/971 "2014-03-01T07:21:42Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > Jim Lange, radio host, and better known as the first host of the 1960s _The Dating Game_ has died. He was 81. Jim Lange died in Mill Valley, CA which is just north across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. I was just reading the other day that Mill Valley is the town where Mariel Hemingway was born, in 1961. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2014, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/972 "2014-03-01T07:32:39Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > Jim Lange, radio host, and better known as the first host of the 1960s _The Dating Game_ has died. He was 81. > [@Bullitt](#): > > Jim Lange died in Mill Valley, CA which is just north across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. I was just reading the other day that Mill Valley is the town where Mariel Hemingway was born, in 1961. And, Jim Lange was a former Marine. Semper Fi. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/973 "2014-03-01T17:34:27Z")
Since it’s two months into the year, I’m posting current standings. 1 bowler girl 54 1 1 2 Quartz 40 1 1 3 Fleetwood 39 3 1 4 Fear Itself 38 1 1 5 Registered at Last 36 1 1 6 Schnitte 30 2 0 7 The Vorlon 26 1 1 8 guylevesque 24 2 0 9 amarinth 15 1 0 9 anyrose 15 1 0 9 arara123 15 1 0 9 Archeonomist 15 1 0 9 ataraxy22 15 1 0 9 critter42 15 1 0 9 Gleena 15 1 0 9 imthjckaz 15 1 0 9 jtgain 15 1 0 9 Labtrash 15 1 0 9 MadTheSwine 15 1 0 9 Maus Magill 15 1 0 9 notfrommensa 15 1 0 9 racer72 15 1 0 9 Sami41 15 1 0 9 Sarabellum1976 15 1 0 9 SCAdian 15 1 0 9 SpazCat 15 1 0 9 Squonk 15 1 0 9 Tazmanian Devil 15 1 0 9 TexCat 15 1 0 9 tim-n-va 15 1 0 31 Borborygmi 11 1 1 32 Dung Beetle 9 1 0 32 Kolak of Twilo 9 1 0 32 rucciface 9 1 0 32 Tread 9 1 0 36 Paul Parkhead 6 1 1 ---
**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:** [March 1, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/974 "2014-03-01T18:26:59Z")
Seems slow for two months in; how do do we stand versus last year, dead celebrity-wise? ---
**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:** [March 1, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/975 "2014-03-01T18:43:26Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Seems slow for two months in; how do do we stand versus last year, dead celebrity-wise? Upthread I posted links to previous years’ pools. From that I’d think you could readily get your answer. When you do, please share! ETA: [here it is, at post 614](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17005541#post17005541). > [@Bullitt](#): > > Does anyone remember what this game was called in the 1990s here on The Dope? I can’t find the old threads from back then. I’m new to The Dope and was able to find them going back to 2000, but not before. I’m guessing it might’ve gone by another thread name and I’m searching on the wrong string. Here’s what I could find, trivially including this current one simply for completeness. > > Listed is each year with its Death, uhh, Paramour. > 2014 by Baker: [Celebrity Death Pool 2014 - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=709201) > > 2013 by Baker: [The Celebrity Death Pool 2013 - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=674062) > > 2012 by Baker: [The Celebrity Death Pool 2012 - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=633271) > > 2011 by amarone: [The Celebrity Death Pool 2011 - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=587533) > > 2010 by amarone: [The Celebrity Death Pool 2010 - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=542082) > > 2009 by amarone: [The Celebrity Death Pool 2009 - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=495515) > > 2008 by amarone: [The Celebrity Death Pool 2008 - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=446179) > > 2007 by a35362: [The Celebrity Death Pool 2007 - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=398513) > > 2006 by a35362: [The Celebrity Death Pool 2006 - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=347482) > > 2005 by a35362: [The Celebrity Death Pool 2005 - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=289505) > > 2004 by a35362: [The Celebrity Death Pool 2004 - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=226569) > > 2003 by a35362: [The Celebrity Death Pool 2003 - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=147316) > > 2002 by Little Nemo: [Celebrity Deathpool 2002: in 3D! - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=101918) > > 2001 by Little Nemo: [Celebrity Deathpool 2001 - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=49083) > > 2000 by Little Nemo: [Celebrity Deathpool 2000 - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=20546) > (Which, BTW, from beginning of thread to the end of 2000 there were 105 posts. Total. > Here we are at post #614, and we’re not halfway through January.) > For the 2000 pool, **Little Nemo** opens with (italics mine), “_Yes, once again it’s that time of year. Time to guess which celebrities will die in the year 2000._” So we know there was one in 1999, right? ---
**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:** [March 3, 2014, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/976 "2014-03-03T06:23:47Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > And, Jim Lange was a former Marine. There is no such thing as a former Marine. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/977 "2014-03-03T14:29:10Z")
> [@](#): > > For the 2000 pool, Little Nemo opens with (italics mine), _“Yes, once again it’s that time of year. Time to guess which celebrities will die in the year 2000.”_ So we know there was one in 1999, right? No, that was me making a joke. The 2000 thread was the first one. As for its short length, timing may have been an issue. The idea occurred to me on December 30 so we only had one day to collect picks. In subsequent years, we had a month for people to post their picks. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/978 "2014-03-06T00:42:16Z")
from: [http://katiecouric.com/2014/03/04/proving-innocence-ray-spencer/](http://katiecouric.com/2014/03/04/proving-innocence-ray-spencer/) > [@](#): > > Right after Jen Arnold and Bill Klein expanded their family with a new daughter from India, Jen received shocking news that she had an aggressive form of cancer. But after 4 months of intensive treatment, she has won her battle against the disease. Thank goodness!!! Doesn’t always pay to change your list based on health (or lack thereof) news revealed in December. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/979 "2014-03-06T01:09:36Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > There is no such thing as a former Marine. Sure there is. The term they get their panties in a bunch over is ex-Marine. As I had it told to me, “The only ex-Marine is Lee Harvey Oswald.” ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/980 "2014-03-06T18:32:22Z")
A bad week for game show hosts: [Geoff Edwards dies at 83](http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-geoff-edwards-20140306,0,3793049.story#axzz2vBnPQaIQ) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=48) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=50)