# 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:** 89
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1761 "2014-10-22T15:55:36Z")
Coincidentally, I’m sure, former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradle **e** has died. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2014, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1762 "2014-10-22T16:43:59Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Coincidentally, I’m sure, former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradle **e** has died. Well, bugger. :mad::p:smack:🙂 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1763 "2014-10-22T17:06:49Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Coincidentally, I’m sure, former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradle **e** has died. And Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead. ---
**Author:** ![Premislaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f0a364/32.png) [@Premislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Premislaus)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1764 "2014-10-22T20:36:18Z")
**Wilko Johnson says he is “cancer free”** [http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29727632](http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29727632) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1765 "2014-10-22T21:33:55Z")
> [@Premislaus](#): > > **Wilko Johnson says he is “cancer free”** > > [http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29727632](http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29727632) I just attended the funeral of my aunt, who had cancer. For Mr. Johnson’s sake I hope his news is true. Cancer sucks big time. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1766 "2014-10-22T22:28:50Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I just attended the funeral of my aunt, who had cancer. For Mr. Johnson’s sake I hope his news is true. Cancer sucks big time. Baker, you’ve had a rough year. My sincere condolences. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1767 "2014-10-23T00:17:08Z")
> [@Premislaus](#): > > **Wilko Johnson says he is “cancer free”** > > [http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29727632](http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29727632) It appears that a list of cancer victims was not a good way to pick my list. Oh, the shame! ☹ ---
**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:** [October 23, 2014, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1768 "2014-10-23T03:02:20Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I just attended the funeral of my aunt, who had cancer. For Mr. Johnson’s sake I hope his news is true. Cancer sucks big time. Yep. I lost my 12-year-old nephew to a sudden onset brain tumor last December. And my father now has both colon cancer and liver cancer, and the cancer is likely to be the secondary tumor, which has a survival rate of essentially 0% when it’s the secondary one. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1769 "2014-10-23T03:25:29Z")
my grandmother, my sister, and my mother all died from cancer. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2014, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1770 "2014-10-25T21:42:05Z")
[Jack Bruce](http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/25/showbiz/cream-jack-bruce-bass/), bassist and singer for Cream has died at 71. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2014, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1771 "2014-10-26T01:05:14Z")
_gone down the plughole_ ? ---
**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:** [October 26, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1772 "2014-10-26T23:47:20Z")
Marcia Strassman has died at the age of 66 after a long battle with breast cancer, her sister Julie Strassman confirmed. Well, of course she did. I took her off my list this year. :smack: ---
**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:** [October 27, 2014, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1773 "2014-10-27T00:45:13Z")
Extra spatial dimensions are not of much value if we cannot observe them somehow, or make use of them for practical or investigative purposes. I recall reading an interesting article on sphere packing, in which they noted that face-centered-cubic seems to be the most efficient scheme in 3 dimensions (least amount of intervening space), but once you get to around 15~18 dimensions, huge gaps form between the spheres in that scheme. A “dimension” is an abstraction, a way to measure, typically continuous, progressive and boundless, but not always. There are no “higher dimensions” in the sense of physical location, but there may well be characteristics to the universe that could be dimensionalized in useful ways. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1774 "2014-10-27T01:44:52Z")
Oscar Taveras, rookie St. Louis Cardinals outfield,[killed in a car wreck at age 22.](http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cards-taveras-killed-in-car-accident/article_fdb241ae-b39e-5ce7-ab00-69e5459bd7d7.html) ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1775 "2014-10-27T01:57:10Z")
Are you in the wrong thread, **eschereal**? ---
**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:** [October 27, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1776 "2014-10-27T02:01:45Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Are you in the wrong thread, **eschereal**? Yeah, oops ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1777 "2014-10-27T02:23:52Z")
Been a while since I posted the standings, so with the death of Marcia Strassman(four players had her) here’s the rankings. 1 Randy Seltzer 241 5 0 2 Registered at Last 226 5 1 3 CAMJAY77 199 4 0 4 Captain Klutz 95 2 0 5 Quartz 87 2 1 6 Kitten Mitten 79 2 0 7 GIGObuster 72 2 0 8 Gleena 70 2 0 9 critter42 66 2 0 10 Cumbrian 55 1 0 11 bowler girl 54 1 1 11 NurseCarmen 54 1 0 11 Premislaus 54 3 1 14 bassett hound 51 1 0 14 Little Nemo 51 1 0 14 Shaggy Z 51 1 0 17 12543 50 2 0 18 Tit whistle 48 2 1 19 BACI 42 4 1 20 Fleetwood 39 3 1 21 Fear Itself 38 1 1 22 Hal Briston 35 1 1 23 5 time champ 34 1 0 23 guylevesque 34 3 0 23 Vunder Bob 34 1 0 26 Sami41 33 2 0 27 Mona Lott 30 2 1 27 Schnitte 30 2 0 29 BlossomDrearie 29 2 1 30 Idle Thoughts 28 3 0 31 Invisible Chimp 27 2 2 31 Tread 27 2 0 33 Archeonomist 26 2 0 33 The Vorlon 26 1 1 35 Clothilde 25 2 0 35 SCAdian 25 2 1 37 Library1900 19 1 1 38 candide 18 1 0 38 CowPatty 18 1 0 38 Duckster 18 1 0 38 NotherYinzer 18 1 0 38 Paul Parkhead 18 2 1 38 sir viks 18 1 0 38 Spoons 18 2 0 45 SpazCat 17 2 0 46 Allecher 16 1 0 46 Bewildebeest 16 1 0 46 Face Intentionally Left Blank 16 1 0 46 Jeep’s Phoenix 16 1 0 46 Oakminster 16 1 0 46 panache45 16 1 0 46 santorum 16 1 0 46 Shirley Ujest 16 1 0 46 smithsb 16 1 0 55 amarinth 15 1 0 55 anyrose 15 1 0 55 arara123 15 1 0 55 ataraxy22 15 1 0 55 imthjckaz 15 1 0 55 jtgain 15 1 0 55 Labtrash 15 1 0 55 MadTheSwine 15 1 0 55 Maus Magill 15 1 0 55 notfrommensa 15 1 0 55 racer72 15 1 0 55 Sarabellum1976 15 1 0 55 Squonk 15 1 0 55 Tazmanian Devil 15 1 0 55 TexCat 15 1 0 55 tim-n-va 15 1 0 71 wolf meister 12 1 1 72 Borborygmi 11 1 1 73 Dung Beetle 9 1 0 73 Kolak of Twilo 9 1 0 73 rucciface 9 1 0 73 WalterMitty 9 2 0 77 Dusty Rose 7 1 0 77 vivalostwages 7 1 0 79 Happy Lendervedder 4 1 1 79 shadken 4 2 1 81 Andrew 21 3 1 1 82 Eliahna 2 1 0 ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1778 "2014-10-27T04:00:36Z")
> [@Dusty\_Rose](#): > > Marcia Strassman has died at the age of 66 after a long battle with breast cancer, her sister Julie Strassman confirmed. > > Well, of course she did. I took her off my list this year. :smack: I thought the COD might have been her World Famous Tuna Fish Casserole. RIP Mrs Kotter ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1779 "2014-10-27T05:54:49Z")
> [@Dusty\_Rose](#): > > Marcia Strassman has died at the age of 66 after a long battle with breast cancer, her sister Julie Strassman confirmed. > > Well, of course she did. I took her off my list this year. :smack: And I just lost my virginity to her. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1780 "2014-10-27T11:28:53Z")
> [@Dusty\_Rose](#): > > Marcia Strassman has died at the age of 66 after a long battle with breast cancer, her sister Julie Strassman confirmed. > > Well, of course she did. I took her off my list this year. :smack: yeah, she’d been a list standard of mine for years - until this year. > [@notfrommensa](#): > > I thought the COD might have been her World Famous Tuna Fish Casserole. possibly too soon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=88) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=90)