# Celebrity Death Pool 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993 "2014-12-01T02:10:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/181 "2014-12-18T17:45:16Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Has Valerie Harper taken a turn for the worse? I had heard that she had gotten better. [xkcd: lanes](http://xkcd.com/931/) is my rationale for keeping her on my list. ---
**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, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/182 "2014-12-19T01:17:28Z")
> [@Lsura](#): > > **The authors** > Jean Auel If you had had her before 2011, I would have said NOOOOOOOOOOOO! But after reading ‘The Land of Painted Caves’, I’m ok with it. Boy, was that book a disappointment. ---
**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, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/183 "2014-12-19T02:52:57Z")
> [@Kitten\_Mitten](#): > > If you had had her before 2011, I would have said NOOOOOOOOOOOO! > But after reading ‘The Land of Painted Caves’, I’m ok with it. Boy, was that book a disappointment. I found them all to be disappointing after \*Clan of the Cave Bear. \* I thought the Cro Magnons were going to nuke the Neanderthals, or at least Brun, Braun, whatever the hell the rapist’s name was. dammit ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/184 "2014-12-19T09:09:37Z")
RivkahChaya’s list: Annette Dionne Allard Cecile Dionne Langlois Larry Kramer Frankie Muniz Joan Lunden Leonard Nimoy Pope Emeritus Benedict Judy Blume Mary Tyler Moore Kareem Abdul Jabbar Sheryl Crow Terry Prachett Nick Cannon alts: Nancy Reagan Chaz Bono Scott Peterson (not by execution-- by getting shivved in the shower, or something) The first two are the last remaining Dionne quintuplets. I think suicides, assisted or not, should be allowed. Even announced intentions are no guarantee, because they are not bound by law, unlike executions. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/185 "2014-12-19T10:27:00Z")
> [@Kitten\_Mitten](#): > > If you had had her before 2011, I would have said NOOOOOOOOOOOO! > But after reading ‘The Land of Painted Caves’, I’m ok with it. Boy, was that book a disappointment. I agree with you, I even started a thread about it back when. I’m one of the people that admits to enjoying the first five books, even _The Plains of Passage_. But try as I might I didn’t like _The land of Painted Caves_. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/186 "2014-12-19T18:19:00Z")
> [@Kitten\_Mitten](#): > > If you had had her before 2011, I would have said NOOOOOOOOOOOO! > But after reading ‘The Land of Painted Caves’, I’m ok with it. Boy, was that book a disappointment. Yep. And pretty much my exact thoughts. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/187 "2014-12-19T23:47:03Z")
Well, I earned not a single point in 2014, so I’m just going to recycle the 2014 list: William Shatner Valerie Harper Dick Van Dyke Barbara Walters George H. W. Bush Kareem Abdul Jabar Warren Buffet Rosie O’Donnell Michael Douglas Bob Newhart John McCain Robert Mugabe Harper Lee Alternates: Dan Rather John Williams (composer) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/188 "2014-12-20T00:51:36Z")
So far, as I type, entries are just a little behind last year. By the 19th last year there had been 55 entries, as of now, for the 2015 game, there are 49. These are the current top picked celebrities. Valerie Harper 13 George H.W. Bush 12 Jimmy Carter 10 Lindsay Lohan 10 Dick Cheney 9 Fidel Castro 9 Muhammad Ali 9 Nancy Reagan 7 Sam Simon 7 Barbara Bush 6 Bill Cosby 5 Billy Graham-e 5 Charlie Sheen 5 Mary Tyler Moore 5 Robert Mugabe 5 ---
**Author:** ![Library1900](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@Library1900](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Library1900)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/189 "2014-12-20T03:38:02Z")
I am going to try my list again with a few changes. Ruth Bader-Ginsburg Fidel Castro May already be gone George Bush the elder William Shatner Hosni Mubarak Macaulie Calulkin Stephen Hawking Jimmy Carter Bob Dole Hugh Hefner Dolly Parton Pope Benedict Ringo Star ---
**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 20, 2014, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/190 "2014-12-20T03:43:55Z")
I don’t see Ruth Bader-Ginsburg being worth many points. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2014, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/191 "2014-12-20T04:51:06Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I don’t see Ruth Bader-Ginsburg being worth many points. 1. Theoretically. Until the Ides of March. ---
**Author:** ![Vashbul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Vashbul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vashbul)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/192 "2014-12-20T05:03:45Z")
One of my alternates, [Virna Lis](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/arts/virna-lisi-actress-who-rose-in-60s-dies-at-78.html?_r=0)i, has died. I thus submit a corrected list: Dominique Strauss-Kahn Kim Fowley George RR Martin Joan Plowright Baba Ram Dass Orson Bean CCH Pounder Cliven Bundy Berke Breathed J. Danforth Quayle Tom Lehrer Kai Ryssdal Teller alternates: Margaret Trudeau Siegfried Marilyn Vos Savant ---
**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:** [December 20, 2014, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/193 "2014-12-20T06:46:36Z")
> [@Library1900](#): > > Fidel Castro May already be gone Conspiracy? ---
**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 20, 2014, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/194 "2014-12-20T16:43:33Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Conspiracy? As I’ve suggested before, it is a combination of how the Russians preserved Lenin, and Walt Disney anamatronics. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/195 "2014-12-20T16:56:47Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > As I’ve suggested before, it is a combination of how the Russians preserved Lenin, and Walt Disney anamatronics. Is it true that Walt Disney is in cryogenic suspended animation, waiting for a cure for whatever almost killed him? ---
**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:** [December 20, 2014, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/196 "2014-12-20T17:02:07Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Is it true that Walt Disney is in cryogenic suspended animation, waiting for a cure for whatever almost killed him? Freezer burn? ---
**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 20, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/197 "2014-12-20T17:26:39Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Is it true that Walt Disney is in cryogenic suspended animation, waiting for a cure for whatever almost killed him? Oh my G-d, Disney is in league with the Commies! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![rucciface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@rucciface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rucciface)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/198 "2014-12-20T18:43:39Z")
Zsa Zsa Gabor Artie Lange Gavin MacLeod Gene Gene the Dancing Machine Fidel Castro Aretha Franklin Ed Asner David Soul Joanne Woodward Sparky Lyle Bob Barker Nancy Reagan Kirk Douglas Jaye P. Morgan Tina Turner Jerry Lewis ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/199 "2014-12-21T16:41:38Z")
Fidel Castro G H W Bush Cristina Fernández Hosni Mubarak Juan Carlos I Pele Diego Armando Maradona Nicolas Maduro Justin Bieber Alberto Fujimori Stephen Hawking Akihito Betty White Alt Shimon Peres ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/200 "2014-12-21T21:30:38Z")
In 2104, by the end of 12/21, we had 61 players, so far this year we have 52. C’mon, people, let’s get morbid!!!:p:D:) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=11)