# 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:** 96
**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:** [November 27, 2014, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1901 "2014-11-27T17:16:05Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > People, it’s time to be getting your 2015 list ready! Why go fight the crowds on Black Friday when you could be putting the finishing touches on your Death Pool picks? Less than a week away! Let’s make Black Friday just a little darker! ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1902 "2014-11-27T18:10:40Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > People, it’s time to be getting your 2015 list ready! Why go fight the crowds on Black Friday when you could be putting the finishing touches on your Death Pool picks? Less than a week away! 34 days away for many of us ---
**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:** [November 27, 2014, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1903 "2014-11-27T18:23:08Z")
As we prepare to do this again, for a historical reference, last January I posted links to the previous SDMB Death Pools for each year going back to 2000: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17005541#post17005541](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17005541#post17005541). [QUOTE=Bullitt;17005541Listed 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.)[/QUOTE] HTH, **Bullitt**. I know it was very helpful to me for all the points I have in 2014. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1904 "2014-11-27T19:49:55Z")
I can just copy/paste my 2014 list. ☹ ---
**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:** [November 27, 2014, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1905 "2014-11-27T20:47:06Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > I can just copy/paste my 2014 list. ☹ With just three substitutions, I can reuse my 2001 list. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2014, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1906 "2014-11-27T21:54:01Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > With just three substitutions, I can reuse my 2001 list. I think I can use my 2014 list, too, with three new immortal folks to replace one death and two cures. ---
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1907 "2014-11-27T22:29:55Z")
At 6 big points, [PD James](http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/27/pd-james-detective-fiction-dies-aged-94-detective-adam-dalgliesh) has died. Dalgliesh is not on this case ☹ ---
**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:** [November 27, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1908 "2014-11-27T23:21:35Z")
I’m so sorry to hear about PD James. Not least because I didn’t have her. Six points is six more points than I have this year. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1909 "2014-11-28T00:26:39Z")
Lebanese singer/actor [Sabah](http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/26/world/meast/obit-sabah/), dies at 13 points. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2014, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1910 "2014-11-28T03:51:24Z")
Soccer Legend [Pele Hospitalized](http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2014/11/27/hospital-says-pele-taken-to-special-care-unit/19578143/) but not in ICU. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2014, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1911 "2014-11-28T06:18:18Z")
A second Real World star has died this month. Ryan Knight, from the New Orleans show, was found dead in his home at age 29. The initial reports are saying it was a drug-related accident. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2014, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1912 "2014-11-29T01:09:22Z")
Lo sospeche desde un principio! (I suspected it from the begining) [http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/28/us-mexico-chespirito-idUSKCN0JC23420141128](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/28/us-mexico-chespirito-idUSKCN0JC23420141128) Chespirito the great mexican comedian dies, he was the inspiration of Channel Ocho Bumble Bee man from the Simpsons. I had him in a past list and he was going to be in my 2015 one… Could he not wait a month and few days? Chespirito: “No contaban con mi astucia!” No, I did not count on your slyness ☹ RIP ---
**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:** [November 29, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1913 "2014-11-29T01:22:42Z")
While driving in Mexico, remember that “Su madre es un puta!” means, “Good morning, officer!” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1914 "2014-11-29T01:38:07Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Lo sospeche desde un principio! > > (I suspected it from the begining) > > [http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/28/us-mexico-chespirito-idUSKCN0JC23420141128](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/28/us-mexico-chespirito-idUSKCN0JC23420141128) > > Chespirito the great mexican comedian dies, he was the inspiration of Channel Ocho Bumble Bee man from the Simpsons. I had him in a past list and he was going to be in my 2015 one… Could he not wait a month and few days? > > Chespirito: “No contaban con mi astucia!” > > No, I did not count on your slyness ☹ > > RIP I did not see anybody with him this year, would he have been listed by that name or some other? ---
**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:** [November 29, 2014, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1915 "2014-11-29T01:45:26Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I did not see anybody with him this year, would he have been listed by that name or some other? His name was Roberto Gomez Bolanos, but I think I had him in my alternate list the previous year; and yes, I had him on the one for next year, back to the drawing board… ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1916 "2014-11-30T00:04:12Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > People, it’s time to be getting your 2015 list ready! Why go fight the crowds on Black Friday when you could be putting the finishing touches on your Death Pool picks? Less than a week away! For some of us, there is not a lot of touching up to do. Just Copy & Paste. Not an unusual situation for me at least. > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > While driving in Mexico, remember that “Su madre es un puta!” means, “Good morning, officer!” > :rolleyes: I don’t speak Spanish and I know better than that! :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1917 "2014-11-30T14:23:41Z")
I’ll be posting the 2015 game thread before I go to bed tonight, as I don’t care to stay up until midnight just to post that dang button. **Remember, your lists must be posted after midnight, if you are that bloodthirsty.** ---
**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:** [November 30, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1918 "2014-11-30T19:02:07Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > I can just copy/paste my 2014 list. ☹ Yep, I think that’s what I’ll do, too. That’ll guarantee a healthy 2015 for all of them. ☹ eta: after midnight tonight, of course. ---
**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:** [November 30, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1919 "2014-11-30T19:13:01Z")
Lucky you. 🙂 I have to come up with replacements for those who have been declared cured. ☹ ---
**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:** [December 1, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1920 "2014-12-01T13:12:23Z")
[People Magazine Publishes Obituary for Not-Dead Kirk Douglas](http://www.boston.com/entertainment/celebrity/2014/11/30/people-magazine-publishes-obituary-for-not-dead-kirk-douglas/07ienbutPXSkzPlyEDaSjN/story.html) Kirk Douglas isn’t dead. Yet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=95) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=97)