# 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:** 68
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1341 "2015-05-27T15:08:27Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > And…we have a new player in first place! > > 1 RTFirefly 248 5 0 Congrats **RTF**! I should have had faith in Bill and promoted him off my shortlist and onto my main list this year, but I thought he was doing well. :smack: I hear you **RTF** about really liking him. Having someone on your list means you keep track of them and get to know them and it really makes you conflicted when you do get points. ☹ Such is the cost of being near the top of the death pool. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1342 "2015-05-27T15:20:11Z")
Well. since I have now gone over 2 years with no points, I will try very hard not to be conflicted if I ever get points. Not that I am eager for my picks to die, but really, what are they waiting for??? ---
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1343 "2015-05-27T15:23:07Z")
And because being moved down in stats makes me check on how my list is doing … it seems a number of folks (including me and **RTFirefly** ) got some more points and more ambivalent feelings about a really nice guy falling to cancer: [Dave Benton](http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2015-05-26/legacy-hes-left-speaks-volumes.html), news anchor, dies of brain cancer at age 52 ---
**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:** [May 27, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1344 "2015-05-27T15:24:21Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Well. since I have now gone over 2 years with no points, I will try very hard not to be conflicted if I ever get points. Points is points. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1345 "2015-05-27T15:36:33Z")
**kayT** I have already claimed last place and a goose egg all to myself so tell those slacker celebs of yours to get busy! ---
**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:** [May 27, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1346 "2015-05-27T16:20:35Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > He was the first Globetrotter in the NBA Hall of Fame. No such place. [Naismith Memorial Basketball HOF](http://www.hoophall.com/) for all basketball. In the US, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1347 "2015-05-27T16:53:05Z")
> [@Registered\_at\_Last](#): > > And because being moved down in stats makes me check on how my list is doing … it seems a number of folks (including me and **RTFirefly** ) got some more points and more ambivalent feelings about a really nice guy falling to cancer: > > [Dave Benton](http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2015-05-26/legacy-hes-left-speaks-volumes.html), news anchor, dies of brain cancer at age 52 I didn’t really get a chance to know much about him, so I’m not particularly conflicted this time. So as the comic strip character Lio would say, “[There’s Corpses Everywhere!](http://www.amazon.com/Theres-Corpses-Everywhere-Another-Collection/dp/0740797336)” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1348 "2015-05-27T21:36:48Z")
1 RTFirefly 296 6 0 2 Registered at Last 270 6 1 3 Fear Itself 236 5 1 4 carnivorousplant 213 5 0 5 CAMJAY77 200 5 1 6 phungi 159 3 0 7 Sami41 143 4 0 8 It’s Not Rocket Surgery 133 3 1 9 bowler girl 126 3 0 9 Hoopy Frood 126 3 0 9 zoog 126 3 0 12 candide 124 3 0 13 Randy Seltzer 119 3 1 14 MadTheSwine 102 3 0 14 Quartz 102 3 0 16 Captain Klutz 92 2 0 16 critter42 92 2 0 16 GIGObuster 92 3 0 16 Happy Lendervedder 92 2 0 16 Hockey Monkey 92 2 0 16 irritant 92 2 0 16 Kitten Mitten 92 2 0 16 Little Nemo 92 2 0 16 minionkat 92 2 0 16 RobotDevilDog 92 2 0 16 Tim R. Mortiss 92 2 0 27 Jeep’s Phoenix 86 3 0 28 Duckster 85 2 0 28 Hal Briston 85 2 0 28 VunderBob 85 2 0 29 Dung Beetle 75 2 0 29 jeezums 75 2 0 29 Mahaloth 75 2 0 29 Rich Kitchen 75 2 0 35 notfrommensa 68 2 0 36 Fleetwood 67 3 0 37 Nurse Carmen 58 2 1 38 BACI 52 2 0 39 bassett hound 51 1 0 39 Dr. Girlfriend 51 1 0 39 Icarus 51 2 0 39 Loach 51 1 0 39 RivkahChaya 51 2 0 39 Squonk 51 1 0 39 Yllaria 51 1 0 46 Dusty Rose 47 2 0 46 Invisible Chimp 47 2 1 48 J-P L 44 1 0 49 5 time champ 41 1 0 49 a35362 41 1 0 49 Borborygmi 41 1 0 49 DinoR 41 1 0 49 Maus Magill 41 1 0 49 Sario 41 1 0 49 sir viks 41 1 0 49 Spiff 41 1 0 49 Tit Whistle 41 1 0 49 zadscmc 41 1 0 59 kopek 38 1 1 60 Charley 34 1 0 60 Lsura 34 1 0 60 Mr. Goob 34 1 0 60 PaulParkhead 34 1 0 64 Cold Dish 27 1 1 65 Little Pig 26 2 2 66 Vashbul 25 1 1 67 El Famous Burrito 22 1 0 68 rucciface 18 1 1 69 Clothahump 17 1 0 69 Honey 17 1 0 69 Shoeless 17 1 0 72 Allecher 12 1 1 73 Clothilde 11 1 0 73 Dolores Reborn 11 1 0 73 littlespeedysuperbike 11 1 1 73 moldmonkey 11 1 0 73 Oakminster 11 1 1 73 Octarine 11 1 0 79 Grits and Hard Toast 10 1 0 80 Lok 6 1 0 80 missred 6 1 0 82 Catamount 5 1 0 82 wolf meister 5 1 0 84 BlossomDrearie 3 1 1 85 lel 2 1 1 86 Andrew21 0 5 5 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1349 "2015-05-28T13:36:08Z")
Rob Ford, who’s on at least a few lists (including mine), turns 46 today, and is [apparently lucky to have made it this far.](http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/05/26/rob-ford-released-from-hospital.html) > [@](#): > > Two weeks [ago], a surgical team operated on Ford at Mount Sinai Hospital for almost 10 hours. They opened his abdomen with two large incisions and removed a rare and aggressive pleomorphic liposarcoma tumour. > > Doctors had told Ford that, if surgery was unsuccessful, they could do nothing more to save his life. He still has a battle for long-term survival, and was told to go home and rest until September. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1350 "2015-05-28T14:07:16Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Rob Ford, who’s on at least a few lists (including mine), turns 46 today, and is [apparently lucky to have made it this far.](http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/05/26/rob-ford-released-from-hospital.html) Damn. Another one of mine in the throes of recovery. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1351 "2015-05-28T14:21:36Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Damn. Another one of mine in the throes of recovery. He’s hardly out of the woods yet, from the sound of it. And he certainly seems the sort to jeopardize his own recovery by living too fast and hard. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1352 "2015-05-28T20:42:38Z")
Longtime college basketball coach Bill Foster [died yesterday of Parkinson’s disease](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Foster_%28basketball,_born_1936%29). There were two longtime college hoops coaches by that name. This was the one who coached at UNC-Charlotte, Clemson, Miami, and Virginia Tech. The Bill Foster who coached at Rutgers, Duke, South Carolina, and Northwestern is still with us. (To make life interesting, their ACC coaching careers overlapped by several years.) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1353 "2015-05-28T22:41:13Z")
Twenty players are, I"m sure, following the health of Rob Ford very closely. ---
**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:** [May 28, 2015, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1354 "2015-05-28T23:35:34Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Twenty players are, I"m sure, following the health of Rob Ford very closely. I wish him all the best. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1355 "2015-05-28T23:42:15Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I wish him all the best. 🙂 Translation: “He’s not on my list.” 😃 ---
**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:** [May 29, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1356 "2015-05-29T00:11:30Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Translation: “He’s not on my list.” 😃 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1357 "2015-05-29T00:27:44Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Twenty players are, I"m sure, following the health of Rob Ford very closely. And 66 more are rooting for him to hang in there until January! ---
**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:** [May 29, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1358 "2015-05-29T01:21:45Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > And 66 more are rooting for him to hang in there until January! When we will add him. 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 29, 2015, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1359 "2015-05-29T13:38:24Z")
He’s already on my Short List, so… Points for twenty players. ---
**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:** [May 29, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1360 "2015-05-29T16:18:58Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Twenty players are, I"m sure, following the health of Rob Ford very closely. > [@kunilou](#): > > And 66 more are rooting for him to hang in there until January! For the record, there are more than 86 players in the Pool. Some of us just aren’t on the scoreboard yet. :o [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=67) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=69)