# Celebrity Death Pool 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2016, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517 "2016-12-01T07:00:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 82
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1621 "2017-08-31T21:07:32Z")
[Larry Elgart](http://www.yourobserver.com/article/larry-elgart-remembered-for-his-love-of-swing-music), the bandleader and composer who helped record _American Bandstand_’s longtime theme song “Bandstand Boogie”, has died at the age of 95. Elgart also helped introduce a new generation to swing music with his 1982 hit “Hooked on Swing”. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1622 "2017-09-01T02:11:03Z")
Richard Anderson (not that one), who is best known as Oscar Goldman in the _Six Million Dollar Man_ TV series, and who I didn’t realise was still alive all this time, [has died at age 91](http://tvtonight.com.au/2017/09/vale-richard-anderson.html). ---
**Author:** ![motu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/motu/32/259_2.png) [@motu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/motu)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1623 "2017-09-01T04:03:59Z")
Derp, never mind, info in your link Mental note, check link, \*then \*post ---
**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:** [September 1, 2017, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1624 "2017-09-01T15:57:45Z")
No one had Larry Elgart or Richard Anderson… ---
**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:** [September 1, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1625 "2017-09-01T19:42:43Z")
[Shelly Berman’s](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/shelley-berman-stand-comic-curb-your-enthusiasm-actor-dies-92-n798201) enthusiasm has been permanently curbed. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1626 "2017-09-01T20:32:55Z")
[Shelley Berman on what laughter is](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZRvJrhrbv8). (Warning: it’s not funny.) ---
**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:** [September 2, 2017, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1627 "2017-09-02T01:54:36Z")
We may have to give [our points](http://www.newsweek.com/intelligence-points-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-being-alive-us-commander-658192) back. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2017, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1628 "2017-09-02T14:48:33Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > We may have to give [our points](http://www.newsweek.com/intelligence-points-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-being-alive-us-commander-658192) back. [Different link](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41121043) ---
**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:** [September 2, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1629 "2017-09-02T19:26:25Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > We may have to give [our points](http://www.newsweek.com/intelligence-points-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-being-alive-us-commander-658192) back. He’s only mostly dead. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1630 "2017-09-02T19:39:51Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > He’s only mostly dead. And points is points. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2017, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1631 "2017-09-02T22:14:45Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > We may have to give [our points](http://www.newsweek.com/intelligence-points-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-being-alive-us-commander-658192) back. Good. He still owes me 20 bucks. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1632 "2017-09-02T23:19:00Z")
[WOOOOOOOOOOOO!](https://twitter.com/usatodaysports/status/904101834935164928) Ric Flair is recovering! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1633 "2017-09-03T06:51:43Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > We may have to give [our points](http://www.newsweek.com/intelligence-points-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-being-alive-us-commander-658192) back. I will of course cheerfully support our excellent Death Shroom if he should decide that it’s necessary that we give back the points, either now or later in the year. My only thought about it is that it would seem bad business for a terrorist chief to let his followers doubt his continued existence for such a stretch of time as he has already done. His death has been rumored on more than one earlier occasion, but unless I’ve missed something, such rumors have been corrected quickly each time. But not this time. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1634 "2017-09-03T12:15:23Z")
I would expect to see a body, especially since he owes Loach money. ---
**Author:** ![jeezums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@jeezums](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeezums)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1635 "2017-09-03T14:29:49Z")
RIP Walter Becker [http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/walter-becker-steely-dan-co-founder-dead-at-67-w500956](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/walter-becker-steely-dan-co-founder-dead-at-67-w500956) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1636 "2017-09-03T15:37:34Z")
Wow. Sent from my XT1635-02 using Tapatalk ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1637 "2017-09-03T17:01:18Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > I will of course cheerfully support our excellent Death Shroom if he should decide that it’s necessary that we give back the points, either now or later in the year. > > My only thought about it is that it would seem bad business for a terrorist chief to let his followers doubt his continued existence for such a stretch of time as he has already done. His death has been rumored on more than one earlier occasion, but unless I’ve missed something, such rumors have been corrected quickly each time. But not this time. I am anxiously awaiting 4 months of “successful precision drone strikes”, thereby making this discussion moot ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1638 "2017-09-03T20:42:04Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I would expect to see a body, especially since he owes Loach money. The Russkis beat him up and stole his Loach money. > [@jeezums](#): > > RIP Walter Becker The years have reeled him in. And he’s never going back to his old school. > [@phungi](#): > > I am anxiously awaiting 4 months of “successful precision drone strikes”, thereby making this discussion moot From your lips to God’s ears. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1639 "2017-09-03T21:15:50Z")
> [@jeezums](#): > > RIP Walter Becker > > [http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/walter-becker-steely-dan-co-founder-dead-at-67-w500956](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/walter-becker-steely-dan-co-founder-dead-at-67-w500956) I am majorly bummed! _Steely Dan_ has long been one of my favorite and most highly regarded groups. I was fortunate enough to see them in concert three years ago. Becker was funny, made lots of jokes, and introduced all the other band members. I felt kind of sorry for him because when he mentioned his own name he got about the same polite round of applause as everyone else. Then he introduced Donald Fagen and every man, woman and child in the place lept to their feet in thunderous applause. I suppose he was used to it, but still… I had no idea he was only 67. I thought he and Fagen were a few years ahead of me in school and I’m 68. Way too young! Still, I’m happy that Fagen survives. Of the two he’s always been my favorite, and of course he’s the one behind the _Steely Dan_ sound. Listen to a Becker solo album and it doesn’t sound like _Steely Dan_, listen to a Donald Fagen solo album and it does. Not only vocally but instrumentally as well. Here’s hoping for many more good years ahead for him. Gotta be tough losing a close friend of 50 years or so. And on a woo note, for some reason I’ve played _Two Against Nature_ in its entirety twice over the last couple of days, and I haven’t listened to it in several years. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1640 "2017-09-03T21:39:41Z")
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