# 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:** 98
**Author:** ![SirCreep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sircreep/32/20434_2.png) [@SirCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirCreep)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1941 "2014-12-10T15:46:31Z")
13 Good Enders: Jeff Golub Lynne Stewart Gordie Howe Bart Starr Bryan Murray Jules Bianchi Sam Simon Fidel Castro Rev. Billy Graham “Superstar” Billy Graham Grace Lee Boggs Gino Odjick Bryan Weidmeier Alts: Al Molinaro Kirk Douglas Ryan Buell ---
**Author:** ![SirCreep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sircreep/32/20434_2.png) [@SirCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirCreep)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1942 "2014-12-10T15:48:35Z")
sorry repost ---
**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:** [December 10, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1943 "2014-12-10T16:12:14Z")
Not only did you post in the wrong thread, you did it twice. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1944 "2014-12-10T19:05:12Z")
Just 3 weeks left in the year, and a mere 70 points gets you into the top 10! It’s definitely been an ‘off year’ for celebrity deaths. Of course, my 13 are all still alive and kickin’. And one of my _alternates_ died, just to rub it in a little bit. Well, there’s always next year. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1945 "2014-12-10T19:47:51Z")
I have had three bonafide miracles among my listees: Wilko Johnson - cancer free after being diagnosed as terminal with pancreatic cancer. Andrew Florent - Tennis player who had 40 tumors on his liver last year, now he has only 3. Jen Arnold - Diagnosed with stage 3 choriocarcinoma, she is now cancer free. I should go into the remission business. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1946 "2014-12-10T19:59:21Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I have had three bonafide miracles among my listees: > > Wilko Johnson - cancer free after being diagnosed as terminal with pancreatic cancer. > Andrew Florent - Tennis player who had 40 tumors on his liver last year, now he has only 3. > Jen Arnold - Diagnosed with stage 3 choriocarcinoma, she is now cancer free. > > I should go into the remission business. Perhaps we should build a shrine to your list. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1947 "2014-12-10T20:40:47Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Perhaps we should build a shrine to your list. 😃 “Forget about Lourdes! For a miraculous recovery, get yourself on **Fear Itself** ’s Celebrity Death Pool list!” Yeah, I had Wilko Johnson too. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1948 "2014-12-10T20:48:03Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Yeah, I had Wilko Johnson too. As did I. I’m planning on going to his next concert. :dubious: Anyone else want to go? ---
**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:** [December 10, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1949 "2014-12-10T20:58:15Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I have had three bonafide miracles among my listees: > > Wilko Johnson - cancer free after being diagnosed as terminal with pancreatic cancer. > Andrew Florent - Tennis player who had 40 tumors on his liver last year, now he has only 3. > Jen Arnold - Diagnosed with stage 3 choriocarcinoma, she is now cancer free. > > I should go into the remission business. Have you considered the possibility that you may be the Messiah? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1950 "2014-12-10T22:39:33Z")
I currently have high hopes of Stuart Scott making a late appearance. Just to check, by my count I have already scored for Paul Goggins and Mario Oriani-Ambrosini, right? Everyone else seems to be in distressingly rude health. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1951 "2014-12-11T01:47:41Z")
So I submitted my DP list and then got busy, forgot my password and got busier and then super busy, then I went on vacation and returned to a hellovamess at work and it’s been busier than before I left. It’s still nuts. But, the DP is near and dear to my cold, dark heart. **BAKER** sorry to have not gotten your PM nearly a year ago. I suck. I don’t have the determination to read through every page here to see what the ruling was, for i will get distracted by all the corpses popping up and the gay banter of ye who have darketh souls. Everyone else, HI! ---
**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:** [December 11, 2014, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1952 "2014-12-11T02:42:10Z")
Now, that’s what I call following up. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1953 "2014-12-11T11:09:46Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > So I submitted my DP list and then got busy, forgot my password and got busier and then super busy, then I went on vacation and returned to a hellovamess at work and it’s been busier than before I left. It’s still nuts. But, the DP is near and dear to my cold, dark heart. > > **BAKER** sorry to have not gotten your PM nearly a year ago. I suck. I don’t have the determination to read through every page here to see what the ruling was, for i will get distracted by all the corpses popping up and the gay banter of ye who have darketh souls. > > Everyone else, HI! Whoa, that _ **is** _ some following up! What ended up happening is that one of your choices, Sultan Kosen, was deemed ineligible, as he was only famous due to a medical condition. So you were playing with 12 choices. You are on the board though!😃 You, along with several others, got Fred Phelps! ---
**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:** [December 11, 2014, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1954 "2014-12-11T22:10:47Z")
[Judy Baar Topinka](http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/10/illinois-comptroller-dies-following-stroke/), Illinois Comptroller who is probably most famous outside of Illinois for losing the gubernatorial election to a man who was later convicted for corrupt dealings, dead at 70. ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2014, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1955 "2014-12-15T14:26:02Z")
Packers great Fuzzy Thurston [http://www.packers.com/news-and-events/article-1/Fuzzy-Thurston-legendary-Packers-guard-dead-at-80/f0054181-d675-459e-9aac-29e3b3651548](http://www.packers.com/news-and-events/article-1/Fuzzy-Thurston-legendary-Packers-guard-dead-at-80/f0054181-d675-459e-9aac-29e3b3651548) ---
**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:** [December 17, 2014, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1956 "2014-12-17T00:07:41Z")
Norman Bridwell, Creator of Clifford the Big Red Dog, [Dies at 86.](http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/12/16/norman-bridwell-who-created-clifford-the-big-red-dog-is-dead-at-86/) Awww. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1957 "2014-12-19T00:51:17Z")
13 more days. Come on peeps on my list that are still kicking. Wouldn’t it be fun to kick the bucket? Hey, where’d that handbasket come from? ---
**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:** [December 19, 2014, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1958 "2014-12-19T02:43:29Z")
Who the Hell are You, and what have you done with Baker, Our Beloved Death Mistress? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1959 "2014-12-19T10:24:53Z")
[Mandy Rice-Davies](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11303060/Profumo-affair-Mandy-Rice-Davies-dies-aged-70.html), she of the Profumo affair, has died aged 70. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1960 "2014-12-19T17:08:05Z")
Weather Channel tweet: > [@](#): > > Sad news for the meteorological world today as Bob Simpson, co-creator of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, has died at age of 102. > [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=97) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=99)