# 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:** 43
**Author:** ![candide](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/46a35a/32.png) [@candide](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/candide)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/841 "2015-02-19T17:35:53Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Did I steal him from you, Candide, or did you steal him from me? 🙂 I had him on last year. Pancreatic cancer, sad to say, is something I’m familiar with, so when I heard he had it I added him to my prospective list. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/842 "2015-02-19T21:02:09Z")
This year though **carnivorousplant** posted first, so I’d say you two are even. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2015, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/843 "2015-02-19T21:12:18Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > This year though **carnivorousplant** posted first, so I’d say you two are even. Cool. Points is points. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2015, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/844 "2015-02-19T21:44:55Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Yes, you certainly are. > The line forms right over there, in front of the cross. > 🙂 Line on the left, one cross each. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/845 "2015-02-19T23:04:30Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > Line on the left, one cross each. Speaking of crosses, I was in the grocery sto’ yesterday and in an Easter display (what better time for that than the first day of Lent!) I saw milk chocolate crosses. There are so many, many, many levels of wrong there! ---
**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:** [February 19, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/846 "2015-02-19T23:24:41Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > Line on the left, one cross each. … and always look on the bright side of life … ---
**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:** [February 20, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/847 "2015-02-20T01:26:36Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > … and always look on the bright side of life … “I’m not Spartacus, he’s the guy over there, hiding behind that cross!” ---
**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:** [February 20, 2015, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/848 "2015-02-20T01:29:02Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Speaking of crosses, I was in the grocery sto’ yesterday and in an Easter display (what better time for that than the first day of Lent!) I saw milk chocolate crosses. There are so many, many, many levels of wrong there! As a child, Tsarivich Nicholas II led such a regimented, denied life that he ate a wax cross containing a holy relic. One presumes that he ate the wax cross, not the relic it contained. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2015, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/849 "2015-02-20T01:30:22Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Speaking of crosses, I was in the grocery sto’ yesterday and in an Easter display (what better time for that than the first day of Lent!) I saw milk chocolate crosses. There are so many, many, many levels of wrong there! As a child, Tsarivich Nicholas II led such a regimented, denied life that he ate a wax cross containing a holy relic. One presumes that he ate the wax cross, not the relic it contained. I believe I win the nerd award for this thread. Just sayin’. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2015, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/850 "2015-02-20T01:44:58Z")
perhaps he mistook it for a [tadpole](http://www.coca-colacompany.com/history/2008/03/bite-the-wax-ta.html)? ---
**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:** [February 20, 2015, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/851 "2015-02-20T05:33:24Z")
[Jerome Kersey](http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-jerome-kersey-died-20150219-story.html), dead at 48 points. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2015, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/852 "2015-02-20T11:59:24Z")
It’s another Death Pool Miracle! **Darren Daulton passes along good news in [battle against brain cance](http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/25074436/darren-daulton-passes-along-good-news-in-battle-against-brain-cancer)r** > [@](#): > > Two years ago, long-time Phillies catcher Darren Daulton was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer the American Brain Tumor Association characterizes as being “highly malignant.” He had successful surgery to remove a pair of brain tumors in July 2013. > > Daulton, now 53, has undergone extensive chemotherapy and radiation treatment in the 19 months since the surgery. On Thursday he passed along some good news: > > “I’m incredibly blessed to have a clean scan. Thank u to all of u for the continued support. I’m doing well and feeling great” I think we should all pat ourselves on the back for another life saved. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/853 "2015-02-20T13:31:20Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I think we should all pat ourselves on the back for another life saved. Somehow we manage to achieve what modern medicine cannot… I can see the headlines now: SDMB Cures Rare Form of Cancer ---
**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:** [February 20, 2015, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/854 "2015-02-20T13:38:17Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > Somehow we manage to achieve what modern medicine cannot… I can see the headlines now: > > SDMB Cures Rare Form of Cancer I am more in the mind of a Life Insurance Company. A very _expensive_ Life Insurance Company. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/855 "2015-02-20T19:20:05Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > If Common Bond Deaths happen in “Threes” then who is next? > > Dean Smith, Jerry Tarkanian, and ??? > Joe B Hall? Age 86 > Dale Brown? Age 79 > John Thompson? Age 73 > Rollie Massimino? Age 80 > “Lou” Carnesecca? Age 90 > Bobby Knight? Age 74 I don’t know but I have Jud, coach of the 1979 NCAA Champions. That championship was magic I tell you. 😉 ---
**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:** [February 20, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/856 "2015-02-20T19:57:03Z")
Harris Wittels, producer for ‘Parks and Recreation,’ [dead at 70 points.](http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/harris-wittels-producer-parks-and-rec-dead-age-30?cid=eml_mda_20150220) ---
**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:** [February 21, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/857 "2015-02-21T22:29:22Z")
Reality television star Ahmad Givens, [dead at 67 points](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2963037/Real-Chance-Love-s-Ahmad-Givens-dies-age-33-battle-cancer.html) (for me). ---
**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:** [February 22, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/858 "2015-02-22T02:16:26Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Reality television star Ahmad Givens, [dead at 67 points](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2963037/Real-Chance-Love-s-Ahmad-Givens-dies-age-33-battle-cancer.html) (for me). Congratulations. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2015, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/859 "2015-02-22T11:06:50Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Congratulations. 🙂 Indeed. Looks like we’ve got a new frontrunner. Congrats, **Fear**! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2015, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/860 "2015-02-22T13:57:24Z")
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