# 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:** 86
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1703 "2015-08-13T00:07:07Z")
I voted for Carter. Now dammit its his turn to pay off!!! ---
**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:** [August 13, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1704 "2015-08-13T20:49:56Z")
Can’t say I know who he is, but British actor [Stephen Lewis](http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-33914037) has died at 12 points ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1705 "2015-08-13T21:17:43Z")
We have three celebrities surnamed Lewis, but not that one. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1706 "2015-08-14T10:19:41Z")
> [@The\_Vorlon](#): > > I’ll be over in the corner, in the hand basket… In this thread, we’re ALL in that handbasket! 😃 Now excuse me, I’ve got to Google a few people to see whether they’re gonna kick off soon or what. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1707 "2015-08-14T21:14:34Z")
I will be in three different handbaskets next year. I play here and play and moderate at another site as well. Now just last week, while searching for something else, I have found yet a third website that has a deathpool. I will submit three different lists, to see how they work out. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2015, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1708 "2015-08-14T21:42:13Z")
Will you share with your humble minions, Oh Most Esteemed Death Mistress? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1709 "2015-08-15T00:42:57Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Will you share with your humble minions, Oh Most Esteemed Death Mistress? See your PM’s ---
**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:** [August 16, 2015, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1710 "2015-08-16T09:36:40Z")
> **[Julian Bond, Charismatic Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 75 (Published 2015)](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/17/us/julian-bond-former-naacp-chairman-and-civil-rights-leader-dies-at-75.html?_r=0)** > > Mr. Bond was also a lightning rod of the anti-Vietnam War campaign and a former chairman of the N.A.A.C.P. Julian Bond, a former chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a charismatic figure of the 1960s civil rights movement, a lightning rod of the anti-Vietnam War campaign and a lifelong champion of equal rights for minorities, died on Saturday night, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. He was 75. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2015, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1711 "2015-08-16T09:43:55Z")
> **[Pakistan’s pro-jihad ex-ISI chief Hamid Gul dies](https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/pakistans-projihad-exisi-chief-hamid-gul-dies/article7546761.ece)** > > He also conducted the Zarb-e-Momin military exercise in November-December 1989 against India Pakistan’s hardline Islamist general Hamid Gul, known for nurturing militants in Kashmir and Punjab and Afghanistan during his stint as chief of the powerful ISI, has died following a brain haemorrhage. 78-year-old Gul ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1712 "2015-08-17T19:18:55Z")
Batman has died [http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/route-29-batman-is-killed-after-his-batmobile-breaks-down-along-a-md-highway/ar-BBlOjqd](http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/route-29-batman-is-killed-after-his-batmobile-breaks-down-along-a-md-highway/ar-BBlOjqd) His secret identity was not Bruce Wayne but Leonard Robinson. The guy, on his own dime, did all this work for kids, giving stuff away and visiting them in the hospital. I just heard of this guy on Saturday, when his 2012 enounter with the police was on a clip show _Caught on Camera_. Now he’s dead, and after reading more about him I am so sorry. ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1713 "2015-08-18T05:19:21Z")
[Emma Didlake, believed to be nation’s oldest veteran, dies at age 110](http://www.stripes.com/emma-didlake-believed-to-be-nation-s-oldest-veteran-dies-at-age-110-1.363273) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1714 "2015-08-18T17:04:04Z")
> [@2nd\_Law](#): > > [Emma Didlake, believed to be nation’s oldest veteran, dies at age 110](http://www.stripes.com/emma-didlake-believed-to-be-nation-s-oldest-veteran-dies-at-age-110-1.363273) And amazingly enough, **Andrew 21** didn’t have her on his list. Speaking of **Andrew** ’s list, the youngest person on his list, Abdul Rashid Kahn, turns 107 tomorrow. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1715 "2015-08-18T19:18:52Z")
A [Martin Crowe](http://www.redemptorists.net/departed-details.cfm?id=22&year=2007) has died, but the wrong one. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1716 "2015-08-19T04:55:38Z")
First Batman (ok, not the real one), now Batgirl (the real one) Yvonne Craig has left us. [http://www.yvonnecraig.com/news/2015/08/19/yvonne-craigs-official-obituary/](http://www.yvonnecraig.com/news/2015/08/19/yvonne-craigs-official-obituary/) ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1717 "2015-08-19T19:17:28Z")
NM - I should read the whole thread. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1718 "2015-08-19T19:21:38Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > A [Martin Crowe](http://www.redemptorists.net/departed-details.cfm?id=22&year=2007) has died, but the wrong one. Sez 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:** [August 19, 2015, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1719 "2015-08-19T19:24:32Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Sez you. 😉 Did you have him? Congratulations! ---
**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:** [August 19, 2015, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1720 "2015-08-19T22:16:16Z")
No points but a tribute to a WWII ace. > **[Frederick Payne Jr., Marine Corps ace of World War II, dies at 104](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/frederick-payne-jr-marine-corps-ace-of-world-war-ii-dies-at-104/2015/08/17/e5ba9c16-4508-11e5-8ab4-c73967a143d3_story.html)** > > A veteran of the Guadalcanal battle, he was credited with 51/2 kills because one was in collaboration. One day after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Fritz Payne’s Marine unit headed to sea on the aircraft carrier Saratoga. Within a year, he flew into the elite ranks of American aces — fighter pilots who downed at least five enemy aircraft. He died Aug. 6 at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., a week after turning 104. He was the oldest living ace, according to Arthur Bednar, coordinator of the Seattle-based American Fighter Aces Association. No cause of death was reported. “Throughout that strenuous period when the island airfield was under constant bombardment and our precarious ground positions were menaced by the desperate counter thrusts of a fanatical foe, Major Payne repeatedly patrolled hostile territory and intercepted enemy bombing flights,” a Marine citation read. “In five vigorous fights against tremendous odds, [he] shot down a total of six Japanese planes.” Officially, Gen. Payne was credited with 5 1/2 kills because one of them was in collaboration with another U.S. airman. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1721 "2015-08-20T00:10:03Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Did you have him? > Congratulations! No, I don’t have anyone that old. Valerie Harper’s the oldest person on my list. But seeing as how I _don’t_ have the ex-cricket player Martin Crowe, but you and \*\*Registered At Last \*\*and **Fear Itself** and **CAMJAY77** all have him, from my POV _that_ Martin Crowe is the _wrong_ one, so _this_ one must be the _right_ one. Impeccable logic, don’t you think? 😃 At any rate, I’m rooting hard for the cricketer Martin Crowe to hang in there for another four and a half months. If he does, you can bet he’ll be on my 2016 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:** [August 20, 2015, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/1722 "2015-08-20T02:17:08Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Impeccable logic, don’t you think? 😃 Logic has nothing to do with it. You have a G-d damn time machine. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=85) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=87)