# Celebrity Death Pool 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 2, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331 "2017-12-02T13:44:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 51
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1001 "2018-08-13T17:56:22Z")
VS Naipaul, Nobel prize winning author has gone for 15 points. . ---
**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, 2018, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1002 "2018-08-13T18:15:53Z")
In the “bad year to not pick wrestlers” department: [WWE Legend Jim ‘The Anvil’ Neidhart Dies at 63](https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2790767-wwe-legend-and-natalyas-father-jim-the-anvil-neidhart-dies-at-63) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2018, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1003 "2018-08-13T22:58:18Z")
Aretha Franklin is circling the drain. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2018, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1004 "2018-08-13T23:07:54Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Aretha Franklin is circling the drain. Again. ---
**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, 2018, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1005 "2018-08-14T01:36:29Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Aretha Franklin is circling the drain. I thought she died two years ago when I wimped out an didn’t list her because of “Mack the Knife”. :dubious: No, that was [Ella Fitzgerald.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI5fU6ZbyaA) dammit! ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1006 "2018-08-14T03:05:53Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Aretha Franklin is circling the drain. I ain’t no psychiatrist, I ain’t no doctor with degrees It don’t take too much high IQ’s  To see that points are, twenty three If she can hold on until next year. . ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2018, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1007 "2018-08-14T10:17:34Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Aretha Franklin is circling the drain. Bummer. Been a fan of hers since I was 12 or 13, I guess, whenever it was that she first started getting on the top-40 charts. My wife and I saw her perform once, at Wolf Trap maybe 15 years ago. With that voice of hers, she could have sung the phone book, and everyone would have gone away happy. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2018, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1008 "2018-08-14T12:07:43Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > In the “bad year to not pick wrestlers” department: > > [WWE Legend Jim ‘The Anvil’ Neidhart Dies at 63](https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2790767-wwe-legend-and-natalyas-father-jim-the-anvil-neidhart-dies-at-63) Damn he was on my long list but didn’t make the cut. In the mean time my sure things are doing fine. ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2018, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1009 "2018-08-14T12:09:12Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I thought she died two years ago when I wimped out an didn’t list her because of “Mack the Knife”. :dubious: > > No, that was [Ella Fitzgerald.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI5fU6ZbyaA) > > dammit! Ella Fitzgerald died 22 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2018, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1010 "2018-08-14T12:21:00Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Aretha Franklin is circling the drain. Doesn’t do _me_ any good. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1011 "2018-08-14T12:52:42Z")
[Another al-Baghdadi rumor,](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7010257/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-brain-dead-isis-syria-airstrike/) this one saying he’s brain-dead after an air strike. Even if it’s true [insert more than the usual skepticism here, especially going through this already last year], brain-dead doesn’t suffice for points. The rest of him has to be dead too. ---
**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 14, 2018, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1012 "2018-08-14T13:30:21Z")
Interesting [dead members of the Blues Brothers cast](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=856897) discussion going on in Cafe Society ---
**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:** [August 14, 2018, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1013 "2018-08-14T13:43:23Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > Interesting [dead members of the Blues Brothers cast](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=856897) discussion going on in Cafe Society It’s a conspiracy! How else do you explain how so many are dead from a 38 year old movie? ---
**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, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1014 "2018-08-14T15:10:06Z")
> [@Monstera\_deliciosa](#): > > Ella Fitzgerald died 22 years ago. Then it must have been more than 22 years ago when she forgot the lyrics to _Mack the Knife_. :dubious: ---
**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:** [August 14, 2018, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1015 "2018-08-14T16:16:31Z")
[Lorrie Collins](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/obituaries/lorrie-collins-dynamic-rockabilly-singer-is-dead-at-76.html), rockabilly child prodigy dead at 76. [Patricia Benoit](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/patricia-benoit-dead-wally-cox-sweetheart-mister-peepers-was-91-1134164), of Mister Peepers fame dead at 91. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1016 "2018-08-14T19:20:30Z")
Is Aretha still hanging in there? I ask not because she’s on my list, but because I had my MP3’s on shuffle while working this afternoon and (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman came on at 2:20. I noted the time, just in case I was trapped in some sort of temporal mortal coil shuffling. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1017 "2018-08-15T05:50:10Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Is Aretha still hanging in there? She’s apparently still singing. Or maybe just humming. Or tapping her foot… … to _I Will Survive_, perhaps? (Too soon?) ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1018 "2018-08-15T06:20:20Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Then it must have been more than 22 years ago when she forgot the lyrics to _Mack the Knife_. > :dubious: Etta James, perhaps? She died 6 years ago, which is 2 years in distracted adult time. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2018, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1019 "2018-08-15T14:25:41Z")
Actress and singer Morgana King, who played Marlon Brando’s wife in “The Godfather,” sleeps with the fishes for 13 points. > **[Morgana King, The Godfather Star and Jazz Singer, Dies at 87](https://people.com/movies/morgana-king-dead-87-the-godfather-actress-jazz-singer/)** > > The Godfather actress Morgana King died on March 22 in Palm Springs, California ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1020 "2018-08-16T14:05:03Z")
[The Queen of Soul is dead at age 76.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aretha_Franklin) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331.md?page=50) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331.md?page=52)