# 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:** 105
**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 1, 2015, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2084 "2015-12-01T15:26:50Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Mostly. I am getting nervous that my ringer may check out early, though. I will be very disappointed if she does. Ha! you are giving it away. A woman. That narrows it down. šŸ˜ƒ Iā€™m pretty sure we have the same ringer. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2085 "2015-12-01T22:20:45Z")
Joey Feek, Iā€™m guessing. Sheā€™s already on a few 2016 lists. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2086 "2015-12-01T23:14:21Z")
Itā€™s here! Itā€™s here! > **[Celebrity Death Pool 2016](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=776787)** > > \*\*\*Itā€™s the most wonderful time of the year!!! Well, here we go for 2016! Iā€™m Baker, your Death Mistress, ready to wield the ceremonial scythe for one more year. Please read the following rules for how to play and how to submit your entries! ... ---
**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 2, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2087 "2015-12-02T02:20:42Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Joey Feek, Iā€™m guessing. Sheā€™s already on a few 2016 lists. I have planned to add her. Damn, others know about it. :dubious: ---
**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:** [December 2, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2088 "2015-12-02T02:29:13Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I have planned to add her. > Damn, others know about it. > :dubious: I knew about her issue a few months ago, I posted first about her and the copy cats just jumped at her, it looks like she would become the Zelda Rubinstein (2010 Pool) of 2016. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2089 "2015-12-02T02:32:44Z")
I would venture to say that when I get around to posting my list in the 2016 thread, it will be all unique picks. I try to keep most of mine unique, becausee if everyone has a person then while you do get points you donā€™t get ahead that much. ---
**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 2, 2015, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2090 "2015-12-02T03:09:53Z")
[Norman C. Pickering](https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2015/11/30/norman-pickering-who-refined-record-player-dies/fqVucmQfdxo1VkUlJBi20M/story.html), has made his last revolution. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2091 "2015-12-02T17:57:44Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I would venture to say that when I get around to posting my list in the 2016 thread, it will be all unique picks. I try to keep most of mine unique, becausee if everyone has a person then while you do get points you donā€™t get ahead that much. This year, I had no unique picks at all, and Iā€™m four points off the lead. And I only have one surviving pick thatā€™s also on RALā€™s list, so if any of my other six survivors kicks the bucket between now and the end of the month, Iā€™d win, assuming no other deaths that affect the leader board. So the non-uniqueness of my list hasnā€™t hurt me, and doesnā€™t prevent me from winning. Valerie Harperā€™s on plenty of lists, including mine. So is Muhammad Ali. But if either of them dies tomorrow, Iā€™m back in the lead. You can win with a list of non-unique picks. What you want is a _good list_, one with a high probability of scoring a lot of points, without regard to how many players have already picked those people. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2092 "2015-12-02T17:59:30Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > [Norman C. Pickering](https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2015/11/30/norman-pickering-who-refined-record-player-dies/fqVucmQfdxo1VkUlJBi20M/story.html), has made his last revolution. ā€œA man of intellectual energy and wandering curiosityā€¦ā€ ---
**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:** [December 2, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2093 "2015-12-02T20:55:28Z")
Sports Celtics great Jim Loscutoff, pictured in 1955, died Tuesday at age 85. > **[ā€˜Jungle Jimā€™ Loscutoff was fearsome but fun-loving - The Boston Globe](https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/12/03/jungle-jim-loscutoff-was-fearsome-but-fun-loving/NVV7Pl7WXKVD8LST8242ON/story.html)** > > Loscy had a well-earned reputation as the Celtics enforcer, but he was in fact a well-rounded basketball player. ---
**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 3, 2015, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2094 "2015-12-03T04:31:24Z")
[Cynthia Robinson](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/cynthia-robinson-sly-family-stone-dead-71-35540362) of Sly and the Family Stone ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2095 "2015-12-03T10:17:48Z")
The Drudge Report has a link reporting that Clintonista patsy Sandy Berger will steal no more classified documents from the National Archive. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2096 "2015-12-04T06:01:37Z")
[Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland found dead in his tour bus.](http://www.tmz.com/2015/12/03/scott-weiland-dead/) ---
**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 4, 2015, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2097 "2015-12-04T11:20:44Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland found dead in his tour bus.](http://www.tmz.com/2015/12/03/scott-weiland-dead/) I kind of expected this to happen twenty years ago. Another grunge great down. ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2098 "2015-12-04T11:41:33Z")
what about a second list in post. who you WISH would dieā€¦? I love this kind of thread!! I rarely predict correctly anyway so I dont foresee points for me! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2099 "2015-12-04T13:05:50Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland found dead in his tour bus.](http://www.tmz.com/2015/12/03/scott-weiland-dead/) Like a punch in the gut. Liked STP and Velvet Revolver. I wonder if it was an overdose or just a heart attack from years of abuse. I canā€™t believe he was 48. I feel older just realizing that. Still, young. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2100 "2015-12-04T22:59:29Z")
\*\*pachabel \*\*loses their virginity to Scott Weiland, and leaps from nothing to 43rd place. 1 Registered at Last 300 7 2 2 RTFirefly 296 6 0 3 Fear Itself 288 6 1 4 CAMJAY77 252 6 1 5 carnivorousplant 213 5 0 6 Itā€™s Not Rocket Surgery 208 4 1 7 Quartz 177 4 0 8 phungi 159 3 0 9 Sami41 143 4 0 10 VunderBob 139 3 1 11 bowler girl 126 3 0 11 Dr. Girlfriend 126 2 0 11 Hoopy Frood 126 3 0 11 Squonk 126 2 0 11 zoog 126 3 0 16 candide 124 3 0 16 GIGObuster 124 4 1 18 Randy Seltzer 119 3 1 19 MadTheSwine 102 3 0 20 Captain Klutz 92 2 0 20 critter42 92 2 0 20 Happy Lendervedder 92 2 0 20 Hockey Monkey 92 2 0 20 irritant 92 2 0 20 Kitten Mitten 92 2 0 20 Little Nemo 92 2 0 20 minionkat 92 2 0 20 RobotDevilDog 92 2 0 20 Tim R. Mortiss 92 2 0 30 Jeepā€™s Phoenix 86 3 0 31 Duckster 85 2 0 31 Hal Briston 85 2 0 33 Loach 84 2 1 34 The Vorlon 78 1 1 35 Dung Beetle 75 2 0 35 Eliahna 75 1 0 35 jeezums 75 2 0 35 Mahaloth 75 2 0 35 Rich Kitchen 75 2 0 40 notfrommensa 68 2 0 41 Fleetwood 67 3 0 42 Nurse Carmen 58 2 1 43 BACI 52 2 0 43 pachabel 52 1 1 45 bassett hound 51 1 0 45 Icarus 51 2 0 45 RivkahChaya 51 2 0 45 Yllaria 51 1 0 45 zadscmc 51 2 0 50 Dusty Rose 47 2 0 50 Invisible Chimp 47 2 1 52 J-P L 44 1 0 53 Oakminster 42 2 1 54 5 time champ 41 1 0 54 a35362 41 1 0 54 Borborygmi 41 1 0 54 DinoR 41 1 0 54 Maus Magill 41 1 0 54 Sario 41 1 0 54 sir viks 41 1 0 54 Spiff 41 1 0 54 Tit Whistle 41 1 0 63 kopek 38 1 1 64 Cold Dish 37 2 1 65 PaulParkhead 36 2 1 66 Grits and Hard Toast 35 2 1 67 Charley 34 1 0 67 Lsura 34 1 0 67 Mr. Goob 34 1 0 70 Little Pig 33 3 2 71 Biotop 31 1 0 72 Lok 25 2 1 72 Vashbul 25 1 1 74 Clothilde 22 3 1 74 El Famous Burrito 22 1 0 76 rucciface 18 1 1 77 Clothahump 17 1 0 77 Honey 17 1 0 77 Shoeless 17 1 0 80 Bullitt 16 1 1 81 racer72 14 1 1 82 Allecher 12 1 1 83 Dolores Reborn 11 1 0 83 littlespeedysuperbike 11 1 1 83 moldmonkey 11 1 0 83 Octarine 11 1 0 87 vivalostwages 9 1 1 88 BlossomDrearie 7 2 2 89 missred 6 1 0 90 Catamount 5 1 0 90 wolf meister 5 1 0 92 anyrose 4 1 0 92 Schnitte 4 1 0 94 lel 2 1 1 95 Andrew21 0 7 7 ---
**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:** [December 4, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2101 "2015-12-04T23:17:02Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > I kind of expected this to happen twenty years ago. > > Another grunge great down. ā˜¹ Well Little Nemo had him in his Celebrity Death Pool for the year 2000ā€“but I bet he didnā€™t persevere: > **[Celebrity Deathpool 2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=20546)** > > Yes, once again itā€™s that time of year. Time to guess which celebrities will die in the year 2000. The rules are simple. 1 - You get ten picks. Anyone who posts more than ten picks will only have their first ten picks count towards point scoring and... Hereā€™s a quick 65 points if he was a big enough celebrity: Chris Carney, who starred in the MTV reality show twentyfourseven, was killed early Friday in a car accident in Arkansas. He was 35. [http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20971231,00.html](http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20971231,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2102 "2015-12-04T23:49:24Z")
Actor [Robert Loggia](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005162/) will not be down for breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/2103 "2015-12-05T00:18:03Z")
> [@Fleetwood](#): > > Actor [Robert Loggia](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005162/) will not be down for breakfast. ā˜¹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=104) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=106)