# 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:** 27
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/521 "2015-01-03T04:32:13Z")
> [@missred](#): > > Little Jimmy Dickens has gone with the bird of Paradise. ☹ > > [Little Jimmy Dickens - Wikipedia](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Jimmy_Dickens) Well, I’m starting out the year with points. That sucks. I need to stop picking people I like for these lists. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/522 "2015-01-03T05:47:26Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > Well, I’m starting out the year with points. That sucks. I need to stop picking people I like for these lists. 😛 Me too. The one time that I met him, he was an absolute gentleman. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2015, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/523 "2015-01-03T05:57:15Z")
> [@CAMJAY77](#): > > Randy Seltzer and I picked Oren Miller and he contacted Straight Dope who contacted us and Baker. Well, that’s a first, as far as I know. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/524 "2015-01-03T09:54:51Z")
:(Folks, please, let’s have no more mention of this person. Do it for my sake, will you? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/525 "2015-01-03T12:45:59Z")
> [@CAMJAY77](#): > > Hoping for at least 5 unique pick deaths in 2015 Prasad, Crawford, Pollard, and Nakamatsu are your only unique picks, so you’re still out of luck there. > [@](#): > > and 10 total deaths Which is still quite possible, of course. > [@](#): > > Roy Marble 12/13/66 - Former NBA player and 1st round draft pick. > Ahuti Prasad 11/30/58? - Award winning actor with 28 year film career in India. > Kate Crawford 02/??/84- Founder and former CEO of Project Sweet Peas [http://www.projectsweetpeas.com/](http://www.projectsweetpeas.com/) > Dave Benton b 1963- Champaign, IL news anchor. > Sam Simon 06/06/53 - Television director, producer, writer. > [@](#): > > Martin Crowe 09/22/62- Former New Zealand cricketer, one of the best ever. > Bryan Murray 12/05/42 - NHL General Manager and former coach. > Steve Byrnes 04/14/59 - NASCAR announcer for Fox Sports 1. > Clive James 10/07/39 - Author, poet, journalist. > Morrissey 05/22/59 - Singer and lyricist. > Ion Trewin 07/13/43 - Author, publisher. > Jonathan Pollard 08/07/54 - Sold classified information to Israel. In prison since 1987. > > Alternates just in case: > > Yoshiro Nakamatsu 06/26/28 - Inventor - one of his patented inventions is A condom with an embedded magnet. That tidbit definitely made me go WTF?! I’m sure I’m not the only one. At any rate, according to [this page](http://piranitar.blogspot.com/2011/08/this-man-is-worlds-record-of-patent.html), the idea is that the condom’s magnet would supposedly “improv[e] sensitivity” as “electricity is generated in the blood vessels in the female organs by Fleming’s left-hand rule”. Ho-kay, then. 🙂 ---
**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:** [January 3, 2015, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/526 "2015-01-03T12:52:43Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > That Twilight Zone episode, was that the one with the old man and his bloodhound? [“The Hunt”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_%28The_Twilight_Zone%29). Written by Earl Hamner Jr, the guy who would later create _The Waltons_. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/527 "2015-01-03T12:52:11Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > Well, I’m starting out the year with points. That sucks. I need to stop picking people I like for these lists. 😛 Yeah, I don’t think the ‘rule’ that picking someone for your list helps ensure their survival applies if you actually \*want \*them to keep on living. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/528 "2015-01-03T18:49:14Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Yeah, I don’t think the ‘rule’ that picking someone for your list helps ensure their survival applies if you actually \*want \*them to keep on living. 😉 Yeah, that part of the karmic rules of the game sucks. ☹ ---
**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:** [January 3, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/529 "2015-01-03T21:00:53Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > At any rate, according to [this page](http://piranitar.blogspot.com/2011/08/this-man-is-worlds-record-of-patent.html), the idea is that the condom’s magnet would supposedly “improv[e] sensitivity” as “electricity is generated in the blood vessels in the female organs by Fleming’s left-hand rule”. Science! ---
**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:** [January 3, 2015, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/530 "2015-01-03T22:46:00Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Yeah, I don’t think the ‘rule’ that picking someone for your list helps ensure their survival applies if you actually \*want \*them to keep on living. 😉 On the other hand, it does not apply to wanting them to die, either. The first time I played a picked folks I\* wanted\* to die, and came out 110th or something. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2015, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/531 "2015-01-03T23:39:48Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > On the other hand, it does not apply to wanting them to die, either. The first time I played a picked folks I\* wanted\* to die, and came out 110th or something. They spite you by continuing to live and also leaving you pointless. What a pack of bastards, eh? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/532 "2015-01-03T23:56:47Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > On the other hand, it does not apply to wanting them to die, either. The first time I played a picked folks I\* wanted\* to die, and came out 110th or something. I’d say that that’s when it applies the most. If you don’t care about them one way or the other, but you’d be happy to pick up the points if they should kick the bucket, putting them on your list will help ensure their survival. (I think Michael Schumacher owes us all a major thank-you. :)) And if you really \*want \*them to die, they’re even less likely to die than if all you cared about was the points. That’s why I kept Kim Jong-Il as an alternate - I don’t want to keep that insane bastard alive for an extra minute beyond his time. 😃 ---
**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:** [January 4, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/533 "2015-01-04T00:52:19Z")
[Former Senator Edward Brooke dies at the age of 95](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/former-us-senator-edward-w-brooke-dies-at-95/) ---
**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:** [January 4, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/534 "2015-01-04T15:18:42Z")
As mentioned in a separate thread and eulogized on ESPN this morning, Stuart Scott who battled cancer 3 times lost the fight this morning. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/535 "2015-01-04T15:59:45Z")
That’s 51 points for me and 28(?) other people. ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2015, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/536 "2015-01-04T16:17:05Z")
RIP Stuart Scott also Ahuti Prasad, age 62 [http://movies.ndtv.com/regional/telugu-actor-ahuti-prasad-dies-722356](http://movies.ndtv.com/regional/telugu-actor-ahuti-prasad-dies-722356) ---
**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:** [January 4, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/537 "2015-01-04T16:32:06Z")
Stuart Scott: as cool as the other side of the pillow. RIP, Stuart. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/538 "2015-01-04T16:42:21Z")
Apparently everyone was waiting until after the holidays to die. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/539 "2015-01-04T17:53:32Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > That’s 51 points for me and 28(?) other people. In the 2014 Death Pool, 51 points would have put us all in the tie for 21st place, even if we had a goose egg otherwise (which I did). Looks like this is shaping up to be a busier year for the Reaper. (Cue “[Beat the Reaper](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3zZ_ih0Jpc)” theme music.) ---
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/540 "2015-01-04T17:56:36Z")
[Abu Anas al-Liby](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/03/us-usa-alqaeda-liby-idUSKBN0KC05T20150103), a suspect in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, has died. He was 50. His trial in New York was supposed to start this week. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=28)