# 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:** 75
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1481 "2014-07-20T09:31:06Z")
I’m leaving the house for my trip at 8:00AM, so there’s still time to say Mona Lott has scored a unique pick with Garner. Damn. I was just rewatching _Victor/Victoria_ last week, my favorite movie with him in it. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1482 "2014-07-20T09:53:57Z")
1 Randy Seltzer 162 3 0 2 Registered at Last 147 3 1 3 CAMJAY77 112 2 0 4 Kitten Mitten 79 2 0 5 GIGObuster 72 2 0 6 Gleena 70 2 0 7 critter42 66 2 0 8 Captain Klutz 61 1 0 9 Cumbrian 55 1 0 10 bowler girl 54 1 1 10 NurseCarmen 54 1 0 12 bassett hound 51 1 0 12 Little Nemo 51 1 0 12 Shaggy Z 51 1 0 15 Tit whistle 48 2 1 16 Premislaus 42 2 1 17 Quartz 40 1 1 18 Fleetwood 39 3 1 19 Fear Itself 38 1 1 20 Hal Briston 35 1 1 21 guylevesque 34 3 0 22 Sami41 33 2 0 23 BACI 30 2 1 23 Mona Lott 30 2 1 23 Schnitte 30 2 0 26 BlossomDrearie 29 2 1 27 Invisible Chimp 27 2 2 27 Tread 27 2 0 29 The Vorlon 26 1 1 30 Clothilde 25 2 0 30 SCAdian 25 2 1 32 candide 18 1 0 32 CowPatty 18 1 0 32 Duckster 18 1 0 32 NotherYinzer 18 1 0 32 sir viks 18 1 0 37 SpazCat 17 2 0 38 12543 16 1 0 38 Allecher 16 1 0 38 Bewildebeest 16 1 0 38 Face Intentionally Left Blank 16 1 0 38 Jeep’s Phoenix 16 1 0 38 Oakminster 16 1 0 38 panache45 16 1 0 38 santorum 16 1 0 38 Shirley Ujest 16 1 0 38 smithsb 16 1 0 48 amarinth 15 1 0 48 anyrose 15 1 0 48 arara123 15 1 0 48 Archeonomist 15 1 0 48 ataraxy22 15 1 0 48 imthjckaz 15 1 0 48 jtgain 15 1 0 48 Labtrash 15 1 0 48 MadTheSwine 15 1 0 48 Maus Magill 15 1 0 48 notfrommensa 15 1 0 48 racer72 15 1 0 48 Sarabellum1976 15 1 0 48 Squonk 15 1 0 48 Tazmanian Devil 15 1 0 48 TexCat 15 1 0 48 tim-n-va 15 1 0 65 wolf meister 12 1 1 66 Borborygmi 11 1 1 67 Dung Beetle 9 1 0 67 Kolak of Twilo 9 1 0 67 rucciface 9 1 0 67 WalterMitty 9 2 0 71 Dusty Rose 7 1 0 71 Idle Thoughts 7 1 0 71 Spoons 7 1 0 71 vivalostwages 7 1 0 75 Paul Parkhead 6 1 1 76 shadken 2 1 0 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1483 "2014-07-20T10:16:37Z")
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**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:** [July 20, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1484 "2014-07-20T12:46:24Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > [James Garner had died at age 86](http://www.tmz.com/2014/07/19/james-garner-dead-dies-maverick-rockford-files/). ☹ And lo, he ascended into Heaven in a Pontiac Firebird. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1485 "2014-07-20T14:20:41Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > [James Garner had died at age 86](http://www.tmz.com/2014/07/19/james-garner-dead-dies-maverick-rockford-files/). ☹ _::waves sadly as Maverick rides off into the sunset::_ ---
**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1486 "2014-07-20T15:27:52Z")
[Hey kids, let’s put on a show!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRZ5400UKSc) Inspired by **Baker’s** vacation, Performed by the **Really** _Not Ready For Prime Time Straight Dopers_, I give you: _ **Death Mistress Takes A Holiday!** _ Who can’t wait to hear **Baker** utter the phrase “All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.” Anybody got a barn? ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1487 "2014-07-20T17:19:51Z")
The Patriot Actress Skye McCole Bartusiak Found Dead at 21 If anyone had her, that’s a big old bucket of points. [http://www.people.com/article/skye-mcCole-bartusiak-dies-21](http://www.people.com/article/skye-mcCole-bartusiak-dies-21) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1488 "2014-07-21T00:32:29Z")
> [@dba\_Fred](#): > > [Hey kids, let’s put on a show!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRZ5400UKSc) > > Inspired by **Baker’s** vacation, > Performed by the **Really** _Not Ready For Prime Time Straight Dopers_, > I give you: > > _ **Death Mistress Takes A Holiday!** _ > > Who can’t wait to hear **Baker** utter the phrase “All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.” > > Anybody got a barn? _I **am** big, it’s the pictures that got small!_ Ha, the Comfort Inn here in Hutchinson Kansas has a computer. Can’t do updates, but I can keep an eye on you all. Please, I love a good show, go on with it! ---
**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:** [July 21, 2014, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1489 "2014-07-21T01:58:10Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > If anyone had her, that’s a big old bucket of points. If Baker had her, that’s a big old bucket of suspicion. ---
**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1490 "2014-07-21T02:55:42Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > _I **am** big, it’s the pictures that got small!_ > > Ha, the Comfort Inn here in Hutchinson Kansas has a computer. Can’t do updates, but I can keep an eye on you all. > > Please, I love a good show, go on with it! Kansas, huh? I’m seeing a sequel, we can reuse the barn. Can you wear your hair in pigtails? Will you work with a little dog? Click your heals together and say “there’s no death like a celebrity death, there’s no death like a celebrity death”? We’ve got plenty of posters who can be a witch (good or bad) and no shortage of posters who have no heart or courage or brains. _We’re off the see the Death Mistress, the wonderful Death Mistress of the Dope, Because, because, because, because, because, because of the wonderful pool she runs!_ “Pay no attention to that woman behind the computer monitor.” **Dirty Death Mistress** If you’re a celeb, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: “Do I feel lucky this year?” :dubious: Well, **do ya** , celeb? \ ---
**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:** [July 21, 2014, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1491 "2014-07-21T04:01:32Z")
Curt Gentry, an author and well-regarded biographer of J. Edgar Hoover who had his biggest commercial success when he teamed up with Vincent Bugliosi to write the 1974 blockbuster “Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders,” died on July 10 in San Francisco. He was 83. Didn’t see him back on the 10th. > **[Curt Gentry, 83, Co-Author of ‘Helter Skelter,’ Dies (Published 2014)](https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/books/curt-gentry-83-co-author-of-helter-skelter-dies.html?_r=0)** > > Mr. Gentry’s books ranged from the Manson murders to J. Edgar Hoover to the madams of San Francisco. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1492 "2014-07-21T04:06:24Z")
NASA astronaut Henry “Hank” Hartsfield, who in 1984 commanded the maiden mission of the space shuttle Discovery, died on Thursday (July 17). He was 80. His death came as a result of complications from back surgery he had several months ago. [http://thespacereporter.com/2014/07/henry-hartsfield-jr-commander-of-discoverys-maiden-flight-passes-away-at-80/](http://thespacereporter.com/2014/07/henry-hartsfield-jr-commander-of-discoverys-maiden-flight-passes-away-at-80/) ---
**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:** [July 21, 2014, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1493 "2014-07-21T07:21:57Z")
Bodies are piling up. Victor “Vic” Atiyeh, Oregon’s 32nd governor and the nation’s first Arab-American governor, died Sunday night when he succumbed to renal failure at a Portland hospital. Atiyeh turned 91 in February. He served two terms as Oregon governor, from 1979 to 1987. > **[Victor Atiyeh, 1st Arab-American governor, dies in Oregon](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/07/21/victor-atiyeh-arab-american-governor-dies/12929261/)** > > Victor "Vic" Atiyeh, Oregon's 32nd governor and the nation's first Arab-American governor, died Sunday night when succumbed to renal failure at a Portland hospital. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2014, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1494 "2014-07-21T18:49:07Z")
Unlikely - but Death is Death. [Aldi’s Co-Founder Karl Albrecht, a Pioneer in Food Retailing, Dies at 94](http://news.google.com/news/url?sr=1&ct2=us%2F1_0_s_9_1_a&sa=t&usg=AFQjCNFXCdREyymesjQyBninzklQViIqpg&cid=52778564899088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Faldis-co-founder-karl-albrecht-a-pioneer-in-discount-retailing-dies-at-94-1405965317&ei=FGDNU5jfMeqCmAKn8IG4AQ&rt=SECTION&vm=STANDARD&bvm=section&did=-1133227682100866115&sid=en_us%3Ab&ssid=b) ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1495 "2014-07-22T00:49:50Z")
Thomas Berger, ‘Little Big Man’ Author, Is Dead at 89 > **[Thomas Berger, ‘Little Big Man’ Author, Is Dead at 89 (Published 2014)](https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/22/books/thomas-berger-little-big-man-author-is-dead-at-89.html)** > > Mr. Berger was known as the author of “Little Big Man” and books that explored the American West, but his body of work was broader than that. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1496 "2014-07-22T18:33:44Z")
[Red Klotz](http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/red-klotz-who-led-basketballs-biggest-losers-the-washington-generals-dies-at-93/2014/07/18/91dbf08e-0d02-11e4-b8e5-d0de80767fc2_story.html), biggest loser in sports history, dead at 93. [Joep Lange](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/17/joep-lange-dead-aids-expert-plane-crash_n_5597834.html), prominent AIDS researcher and former president of the International AIDS Society, dead at 59, along with many other AIDS experts that were traveling on the flight shot down in the Ukraine. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2014, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1497 "2014-07-23T07:00:08Z")
> **[Former Cowboys FB Newhouse dies at 64](https://www.espn.com/dallas/nfl/story/_/id/11250595/former-dallas-cowboys-fb-robert-newhouse-dies-64-son-says)** > > Robert Newhouse, responsible for one of the most iconic plays in Dallas Cowboys history, died Tuesday after a long illness. Robert Newhouse, responsible for one of the most iconic plays in Dallas Cowboys history, died Tuesday after a long illness. He was 64. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1498 "2014-07-24T20:03:17Z")
MagicJack inventor Dan Borislow [lost his dial tone at 48 points.](http://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/magicjack-inventor-dan-borislow-dies-52-n162576) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1499 "2014-07-24T23:33:17Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Thomas Berger, ‘Little Big Man’ Author, Is Dead at 89 > > [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/22/books/thomas-berger-little-big-man-author-is-dead-at-89.html](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/22/books/thomas-berger-little-big-man-author-is-dead-at-89.html) Some 20 years short of how long Jack Crabbe lived. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1500 "2014-07-25T07:39:30Z")
Anthony Smith, Explorer With Zest for Land, Sea and Air, Is Dead at 88 > **[Anthony Smith, Explorer With Zest for Land, Sea and Air, Is Dead at 88...](https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/25/books/anthony-smith-explorer-with-zest-for-land-sea-and-air-is-dead-at-88.html?_r=0)** > > Mr. Smith’s many adventures included a late-life, 66-day odyssey across the Atlantic on a raft. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=74) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=76)