# 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:** 98
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1941 "2017-12-05T14:19:31Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Yes? Oh, wait, different guy. Oh, just leave it ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1942 "2017-12-05T14:43:18Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I was told about that after the primary. I liked the guy and voted for him. So did I. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1943 "2017-12-05T15:05:00Z")
Perhaps I missed it somewhere, but who’s running this year’s contest now? When the people on my list get into a bus together at the Grand Canyon on Dec. 30, who will tally their deaths when their bus goes slip-sliding into the big hole below? ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2017, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1944 "2017-12-05T15:18:38Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Perhaps I missed it somewhere, but who’s running this year’s contest now? When the people on my list get into a bus together at the Grand Canyon on Dec. 30, who will tally their deaths when their bus goes slip-sliding into the big hole below? **phungi** is running tallies this year, and also next, with the main thread [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=843565) and a second, THEMED list [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=843566). ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1945 "2017-12-05T15:19:20Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > **phungi** is running things, with the main thread [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=843565) and a second, THEMED list [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=843566). No, I mean this year’s. This one that Idle Thoughts was running before he left. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1946 "2017-12-05T15:24:05Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > No, I mean this year’s. This one that Idle Thoughts was running before he left. You edited out the answer to your question. As krondys said, phungi is now running both the 2016 and 2017 deathpools. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1947 "2017-12-05T16:08:13Z")
Correction > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > You edited out the answer to your question. As krondys said, phungi is now running both the\*\* 2017\*\* and **2018** deathpools. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1948 "2017-12-05T17:02:05Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > You edited out the answer to your question. As krondys said, phungi is now running both the 2016 and 2017 deathpools. Uh, no I didn’t. I do see that krondys later edited his post to answer the question I asked about the 2017 game. Thanks krondys! ---
**Author:** ![kk\_fusion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kk_fusion/32/15276_2.png) [@kk\_fusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kk_fusion)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1949 "2017-12-05T17:21:59Z")
Michael I. of Romania, last WW2-era head of state, dead at 96. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1950 "2017-12-05T17:47:05Z")
Queen Elizabeth is a WW2-era head of state. There’s at least left. ---
**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 5, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1951 "2017-12-05T18:14:21Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Queen Elizabeth is a WW2-era head of state. There’s at least left. She became Queen in 1952. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2017, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1952 "2017-12-05T18:32:36Z")
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**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:** [December 5, 2017, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1953 "2017-12-05T20:13:37Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Uh, no I didn’t. > > I do see that krondys later edited his post to answer the question I asked about the 2017 game. Thanks krondys! I am phungi, your Death Shroom. Thou shalt have no other Death Masters before me. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1954 "2017-12-05T20:41:56Z")
What? None? \*\*Fine. \*\* \ ---
**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:** [December 5, 2017, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1955 "2017-12-05T22:14:12Z")
Christine Keeler, of 1963’s Profumo affair/scandal, dead at 75. Amazing what 50 years can do to a person. [1963](https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article9680160.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/CS70174526.jpg) [2013](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/08/24/article-0-1B726BF0000005DC-633_634x904.jpg) Sounds like she had a rough life. I was 15 at the time and thought [she and Mandy Rice-Davies](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02443/profumo_2443150b.jpg) were such gorgeous older women. :smack: ---
**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:** [December 5, 2017, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1956 "2017-12-05T22:27:28Z")
[Mundell Lowe](http://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/mundell_lowe.html), jazz guitarist and composer. ---
**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 6, 2017, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1957 "2017-12-06T07:26:10Z")
ex-King Michael of Romania has died, age 96. > **[King Michael of Romania, Who Ousted a Hitler Puppet, Dies at 96 (Published 2017)](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/obituaries/king-michael-romania-dead.html)** > > First becoming king at age 5, Michael, at just 22, may have shortened World War II by arresting his country’s fascist dictator. He later went into exile. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2017, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1958 "2017-12-06T13:55:40Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > ex-King Michael of Romania has died, age 96. > [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/obituaries/king-michael-romania-dead.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/obituaries/king-michael-romania-dead.html) I knew he wouldn’t Romania much longer. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1959 "2017-12-06T15:15:11Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Uh, no I didn’t. > > I do see that krondys later edited his post to answer the question I asked about the 2017 game. Thanks krondys! No problem! If I had read better, I could have eliminated the confusion… ---
**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:** [December 6, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1960 "2017-12-06T18:24:34Z")
No one had John Anderson (or Jon Anderson) Vincent Scully (but 3 have Vin Scully), Christine Keeler, or Mundell Lowe. But, Michael I of Romania yields 4 points each for **ataraxy22** and **Avarie537** : ```auto Rank Name Score Picks(Unique) 1 Registered@Last 291 7(3) 2 carnivorousp 274 5(2) 3 phungi 269 6(4) 4 basset hound 256 7(2) 4 jeezums 256 7 6 bowler girl 245 7(1) 7 RTFirefly 234 4 8 Andrew 21 213 7 9 Captain Klutz 208 4 10 Quartz 176 3(1) 11 GigoBuster 173 4 12 Rocket Surgery! 171 5 13 RobotDevilDog 163 5(1) 14 minionkat 153 3 15 Martonio 151 4 16 Team Dirt 138 3 17 Hoopy Frood 121 3 17 Tangent 121 3 19 FavreCo 112 5(2) 20 Loach 110 3 21 42fish 102 2 21 Hockey Monkey 102 2 21 QueenAnneLace 102 4(1) 24 DeaderThanDead 97 3 25 septimus 95 4 26 J-P-L 92 3 27 Jack Batty 89 3 28 motu 86 2 29 melondeca 83 2 29 Scoobysnax 83 2 31 notfrommensa 82 2 32 Jeep's Phoenix 77 3 33 lel 74 2 34 zoog 73 2 35 cazwhatever 72 2 36 Yllaria 70 2 37 Maus Magill 67 2 38 Clams* 66 1 38 Vunderbob 66 2 40 Dr. Girlfriend* 65 2(1) 41 Biotop 61 3(3) 42 Superdude 58 4 43 cardboardbox 56 2(1) 44 Tit Whistle 54 3 45 Labtrash 51 3(1) 46 bowler guy 50 2 46 Dung Beetle 50 2 48 5 time champ 47 1 48 Eliahna 47 1 48 emcee2k 47 1 48 Happy Lender… 47 1 48 Lsura 47 1 48 NurseCarmen 47 1 48 Sarabellum1976 47 1 48 Squonk 47 1 56 RivkahChaya 43 2 57 Lancia 42 2 58 Idle Thoughts 41 3 59 kayT 39 2 59 Spiff 39 2 59 TexCat* 39 1(1) 62 ataraxy22 33 4(2) 62 Mean Mr.Mustard 33 1(1) 62 Mona Lott 33 2 62 rucciface 33 4(1) 66 DigitalC 32 2 67 Paul in Qatar 31 2 68 Randy Seltzer* 30 2(2) 69 computergeek 29 2 69 Dolores Reborn 29 2 69 Old Wench 29 2(2) 72 Allecher 28 2 72 JohnT 28 2 72 Taco the cat 28 3 75 Avarie537 24 2 76 amarinth 23 1 76 Borborygmi 23 1 76 freckafree 23 1 76 kopek 23 1 76 Mahaloth* 23 1 81 racer72 22 2 82 PaulParkhead 21 1 83 Bayaker* 20 1 83 Clothahump 20 1 83 panache45* 20 1 83 swampbear 20 1 83 Two Many Cats 20 1 88 BACI 19 1 88 Buttercup Smith 19 1 88 maplekiwi 19 1 88 Simmerdown 19 1 88 SpoilerVirgin 19 1 88 Tread* 19 1 94 Nema98 17 1(1) 95 Sternvogel* 16 1(1) 96 GuanoLad 14 2(1) 97 InvisibleChimp* 13 1(1) 98 RollOutTheBrl 12 1 99 cutielemon07 11 1(1) 100 Kitten Mitten* 10 1(1) 100 RandMcnally 10 1 102 Carlos'Weiner 9 1 102 imthjckaz 9 1 102 justmeetee 9 1 102 Little Nemo 9 1 102 Little_Pig 9 1(1) 102 meghan 9 1 102 UncaStuart 9 1 102 Uncle Frank 9 1 102 wolf_meister 9 1 111 Baker 8 1(1) 112 critter42 5 1 ``` [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517.md?page=97) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517.md?page=99)