# 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:** 7
**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 11, 2014, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/121 "2014-12-11T17:20:23Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > It wasn’t Zsa Zsa on Green Acres, was it? :smack: Hush! Don’t confuse my list with facts! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/122 "2014-12-11T18:21:32Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > It wasn’t Zsa Zsa on Green Acres, was it? not as Lisa, but she did appear in at least one, if not more, episodes as Lisa’s sister ---
**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 11, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/123 "2014-12-11T18:52:11Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > not as Lisa, but she did appear in at least one, if not more, episodes as Lisa’s sister 🙂 Now I feel less like an idiot. I’ve only ever seen one episode of Green Acres. All I remember is someone got a dentist chair as a gift. We watched \*Bewitched \*and _I Dream of Jeannie_ reruns in my house. ---
**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 11, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/124 "2014-12-11T19:28:57Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > 🙂 > > I’ve only ever seen one episode of Green Acres. [Arnold Ziffel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Ziffel), whose Mother tragically committed sooie cide. ---
**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 11, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/125 "2014-12-11T20:23:19Z")
My tragic news, although some forty years old, has killed the thread. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2014, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/126 "2014-12-11T20:26:01Z")
Well at least something died. ---
**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 11, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/127 "2014-12-11T20:44:56Z")
It is small comfort. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/128 "2014-12-11T21:07:57Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > everyone’s waiting for the first update of the popular picks! > > (okay, _ **I’m** _ waiting for that) Here you go. The top thirteen so far are as follows. Jimmy Carter 8 Muhammad Ali 8 Valerie Harper 8 George H.W. Bush 7 Lindsay Lohan 6 Barbara Bush 5 Charlie Sheen 5 Dick Cheney 5 Fidel Castro 5 Nancy Reagan 5 Sam Simon 5 Abe Vigoda 4 Billy Graham 4 ---
**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 11, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/129 "2014-12-11T21:11:21Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > [Arnold Ziffel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Ziffel), whose Mother tragically committed sooie cide. Arnold’s grandmother made her screen debut in [Sunrise: A Tale of Two Humans (and One Pig)](http://youtu.be/SfZQr2RPsp4). ---
**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 11, 2014, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/130 "2014-12-11T23:34:17Z")
OK, I’m jumping in. 1. Lynne Stewart, activist 2. Bill Cosby, as long as suicide counts. Or maybe he’ll have a heart attack. 3. Terry Pratchett. This is the one on my list who I hope doesn’t die. 4. Larry Kramer. OK, make that two that I hope don’t die. 5. Steve Strange, singer 6. Dave Prowse, actor 7. Sam Simon, producer/director 8. Lindsay Lohan, just because 9. Fidel Castro 10. Randy Travis 11. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 12. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 13. Michael Schumacher Alternates: 1. Chet Haze, Tom Hanks’s druggie son 2. Rob Kardashian 3. Rob Ford, ex-mayor ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/131 "2014-12-11T23:46:34Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > OK, I’m jumping in. > > 1. Lynne Stewart, activist > 2. Bill Cosby, as long as suicide counts. Or maybe he’ll have a heart attack. > 3. Terry Pratchett. This is the one on my list who I hope doesn’t die. > 4. Larry Kramer. OK, make that two that I hope don’t die. > 5. Steve Strange, singer > 6. Dave Prowse, actor > 7. Sam Simon, producer/director > 8. Lindsay Lohan, just because > 9. Fidel Castro > 10. Randy Travis > 11. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh > 12. Ruth Bader Ginsburg > 13. Michael Schumacher > > Alternates: > > 1. Chet Haze, Tom Hanks’s druggie son > 2. Rob Kardashian > 3. Rob Ford, ex-mayor Could you please do me the favor of posting your list clean, that is, without numbers or commentary? Thanks!😃 ---
**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 11, 2014, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/132 "2014-12-11T23:53:33Z")
Sorry. Clean List: Lynne Stewart Bill Cosby Terry Pratchett Larry Kramer Steve Strange Dave Prowse Sam Simon Lindsay Lohan Fidel Castro Randy Travis Prince Philip Ruth Bader Ginsburg Michael Schumacher Alternates: Chet Haze Rob Kardashian Rob Ford ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/133 "2014-12-12T00:16:57Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Here you go. The top thirteen so far are as follows. > > Jimmy Carter 8 > Muhammad Ali 8 > Valerie Harper 8 > George H.W. Bush 7 > Lindsay Lohan 6 > Barbara Bush 5 > Charlie Sheen 5 > Dick Cheney 5 > Fidel Castro 5 > Nancy Reagan 5 > Sam Simon 5 > Abe Vigoda 4 > Billy Graham 4 Thank you. ---
**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 12, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/134 "2014-12-12T00:20:33Z")
Billy Graham is still alive? Oye! ---
**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:** [December 12, 2014, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/135 "2014-12-12T00:41:44Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Billy Graham is still alive? > Oye! Both of them are apparently. 😃 ---
**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 12, 2014, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/136 "2014-12-12T03:13:49Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Both of them are apparently. 😃 Jay-jus! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/137 "2014-12-12T05:02:29Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Both of them are apparently. 😃 This. That conversation is like the dead pool ““challenge coin”” eh? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/138 "2014-12-12T14:20:55Z")
Seeing Fidel on the list, I Googled him to remind myself of how many points he might be worth (born Aug. 13, 1926), and immediately saw [this piece of news](http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/12/11/370086460/fidel-castro-awarded-chinas-confucius-peace-prize) from just yesterday: > [@](#): > > Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has been awarded the Confucius Peace Prize, China’s version of the Nobel Prize And yes, that link is to NPR, and not The Onion. There are times when you have to ask yourself: how the fuck does parody stand a chance, when reality keeps jumping ahead? ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/139 "2014-12-12T19:14:35Z")
**50% holdovers from my 2014 list, 50% new:** Rob Ford Roky Erickson Andrés Galarraga Valerie Harper Peter Criss Tony Iommi Joost van der Westhuizen Sly Stone Scott Stapp Pete Rose Sam Simon Ginger Baker Carrie Fisher **Alternates:** Rick Santorum Dick Cheney ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/140 "2014-12-12T23:34:41Z")
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