# 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:** 53
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1041 "2018-08-17T17:52:31Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > The rest of us? A Chain of Fools… Well played. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1042 "2018-08-17T18:27:46Z")
> [@Borborygmi](#): > > I’m surprised only three of us had her. She was a bandwagon pick a few years ago when ominous news about her health came out as the 12/31 deadline for that year was coming up, so I’m surprised there’s not more carryover just from that. That was a while back, AFAICT. Aretha [was on 23 players’ lists in 2012](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14623703&postcount=501), but on a decreasing number of lists since. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1043 "2018-08-18T13:03:17Z")
[Kofi Annan](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://news.sky.com/story/ex-un-secretary-general-kofi-annan-dies-tributes-mourn-great-leader-11475526&ved=2ahUKEwjslKOt1PbcAhXSpFkKHczGDccQqUMwAnoECAkQDA&usg=AOvVaw2o7QRQ27NXWrK01suwUwoq) is at peace. ---
**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 18, 2018, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1044 "2018-08-18T13:06:12Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > That was a while back, AFAICT. Aretha [was on 23 players’ lists in 2012](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14623703&postcount=501), but on a decreasing number of lists since. She survived certain death. Hard to bet against that. ---
**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 18, 2018, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1045 "2018-08-18T13:07:12Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > [Kofi Annan](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://news.sky.com/story/ex-un-secretary-general-kofi-annan-dies-tributes-mourn-great-leader-11475526&ved=2ahUKEwjslKOt1PbcAhXSpFkKHczGDccQqUMwAnoECAkQDA&usg=AOvVaw2o7QRQ27NXWrK01suwUwoq) is at peace. The man from Ghana is now long-gone-a. ---
**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 18, 2018, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1046 "2018-08-18T14:04:18Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Today’s paper’s “Happy Birthday” column listed today as his birthday. Does that mean it’s only 14.9 points? Or do they expect him to have a happy day despite being dead? I guess we will never know. In our little corner of the internet, it’s just a pointless death… ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1047 "2018-08-18T16:39:06Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > [Kofi Annan](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://news.sky.com/story/ex-un-secretary-general-kofi-annan-dies-tributes-mourn-great-leader-11475526&ved=2ahUKEwjslKOt1PbcAhXSpFkKHczGDccQqUMwAnoECAkQDA&usg=AOvVaw2o7QRQ27NXWrK01suwUwoq) is at peace. He’ll be buried in his Kofi grounds. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1048 "2018-08-19T06:17:02Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > He’ll be buried in his Kofi grounds. Sorry, not even slightly original. It was used in that “_Hu’s the leader of China?_” [del]Abbot[/del] Bush & [del]Costello[/del] Rice routine. ---
**Author:** ![Allecher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@Allecher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allecher)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1049 "2018-08-21T19:41:41Z")
Woo hoo, [Stefán Karl Stefánsson](https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/21/lazy-town-actor-stefan-karl-stefansson-dies-of-cancer-7868135/), 57 points! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1050 "2018-08-21T22:19:52Z")
[_Second City_ co-founder Barbara Harris has died.](https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/barbara-harris-dies-second-city-actress-freaky-friday-nashville/) Some sources say she was 83, others say 84. ---
**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 21, 2018, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1051 "2018-08-21T22:23:09Z")
> [@Allecher](#): > > Woo hoo, [Stefán Karl Stefánsson](https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/21/lazy-town-actor-stefan-karl-stefansson-dies-of-cancer-7868135/), 57 points! That’s a shame. But I’ll take the points. Looks like 12 players had him. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1052 "2018-08-21T23:07:48Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [_Second City_ co-founder Barbara Harris has died.](https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/barbara-harris-dies-second-city-actress-freaky-friday-nashville/) Some sources say she was 83, others say 84. I see that she was the mom in the original _Freaky Friday_. I was just a kid, but I had a bit of a crush on her in that. ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1053 "2018-08-22T06:47:36Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Leukemia was given a couple mulligans to get [Jarrod Lyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=843565&page=5), a pro golfer from Australia. He would have been on my list this year had I remembered to submit one. He was 36 > > PGATour players have been wearing yellow ribbons and some might have his trademarked Yellow Bucket Hat this week at the PGA Championship this week. I had Lyle and haven’t received the points. Not sure if anyone else had him. ---
**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 22, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1054 "2018-08-22T13:42:07Z")
Out of town, doing the “drop the kid off at college” but will update later tonight… ---
**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 22, 2018, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1055 "2018-08-22T17:31:38Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > Out of town, doing the “drop the kid off at college” but will update later tonight… Booooo!!! No excuses! ---
**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 22, 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1056 "2018-08-22T20:01:50Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > That’s a shame. But I’ll take the points. > > Looks like 12 players had him. 57 Points for **Loach, Registered at Last, tangent, candide, jeezums, phungi, team dirt, CAMJAY777, RTFirefly, basset hound, allacher, GIGObuster** and first points of the year for **allacher** ```auto Rank Player Score Picks(Unique) 1 jeezums 346 6(1) 2 CAMJAY77 331 6 3 phungi 258 5 4 Registered@Last 221 5(2) 5 basset hound 192 3 6 GIGObuster 190 3 7 Team Dirt 165 3 8 RTFirefly 149 3 9 candide 121 2 10 Loach 114 3(1) 11 carnivorousp 106 2 12 tangent 81 2 13 Hoopy Frood 70 2 14 ataraxy22 66 4(2) 15 Martonio 64 1 16 NurseCarmen 62 1 16 RobotDevilDog 62 1 18 Allecher 57 1 19 HappyLendervdr 42 1 20 bowler girl 39 1 20 FavreCo 39 1 22 bowler guy 37 1 22 zoog 37 1 24 Oakminster 32 2 25 Jacquernagy 28 2(2) 26 1b3bz18c9ed… 25 2 26 computergeek 25 2 26 critter42 25 2 29 Archeonomist 24 1 29 Borborygmi 24 1 29 Dr. Girlfriend 24 1 29 Grits&HardToast 24 1 29 kayT 24 1 29 krondys 24 1 29 Labtrash 24 1 29 Maus Magill 24 1 29 Stephe96 24 1 38 Biotop 23 1(1) 39 Czarcasm 16 1 39 JohnT 16 1 41 Old Wench 13 1(1) 41 The Vorlon 13 1(1) 43 irritant 10 1(1) 43 Rico 10 1(1) 45 Clothahump 8 1 45 J-P-L 8 1 45 PaulParkhead 8 1 45 peedin 8 1 45 picker 8 1 50 amarinth 1 1 50 Catamount 1 1 50 Jeep's Phoenix 1 1 50 Spiff 1 1 ``` ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1057 "2018-08-23T12:31:15Z")
You pick up 57 points, and you think, “great, I’m gonna move up in the standings!” Then you find out that while only 11 other players had him, 7 of them were ahead of you already on the leader board, so from 9th place, you go all the way up to…8th. In other Death Pool news, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is apparently [still alive](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-45277322), dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1058 "2018-08-24T04:56:52Z")
Ed King, at 68. _Turn it up_ > **[Former Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Ed King, who co-wrote 'Sweet Home Alabama,'...](https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2018/08/23/former-lynyrd-skynyrd-guitarist-ed-king-dead-68/1072400002/)** > > Ed King co-wrote the Southern rock classic "Sweet Home Alabama." ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1059 "2018-08-24T05:06:48Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > 57 Points for **Loach, Registered at Last, tangent, candide, jeezums, phungi, team dirt, CAMJAY777, RTFirefly, basset hound, allacher, GIGObuster** and first points of the year for **allacher** > … **CAMJAY777** is claiming an additional 64 points in post #1053. ---
**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 24, 2018, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331/1060 "2018-08-24T11:29:57Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > **CAMJAY777** is claiming an additional 64 points in post #1053. Thanks for keeping me up-to-date. 64 points, indeed, for **CAMJAY777** , as well as the lead in points and picks: ```auto Rank Player Score Picks(Unique) 1 CAMJAY77 395 7(1) 2 jeezums 346 6(1) 3 phungi 258 5 4 Registered@Last 221 5(2) 5 basset hound 192 3 6 GIGObuster 190 3 7 Team Dirt 165 3 8 RTFirefly 149 3 9 candide 121 2 10 Loach 114 3(1) 11 carnivorousp 106 2 12 tangent 81 2 13 Hoopy Frood 70 2 14 ataraxy22 66 4(2) 15 Martonio 64 1 16 NurseCarmen 62 1 16 RobotDevilDog 62 1 18 Allecher 57 1 19 HappyLendervdr 42 1 20 bowler girl 39 1 20 FavreCo 39 1 22 bowler guy 37 1 22 zoog 37 1 24 Oakminster 32 2 25 Jacquernagy 28 2(2) 26 1b3bz18c9ed… 25 2 26 computergeek 25 2 26 critter42 25 2 29 Archeonomist 24 1 29 Borborygmi 24 1 29 Dr. Girlfriend 24 1 29 Grits&HardToast 24 1 29 kayT 24 1 29 krondys 24 1 29 Labtrash 24 1 29 Maus Magill 24 1 29 Stephe96 24 1 38 Biotop 23 1(1) 39 Czarcasm 16 1 39 JohnT 16 1 41 Old Wench 13 1(1) 41 The Vorlon 13 1(1) 43 irritant 10 1(1) 43 Rico 10 1(1) 45 Clothahump 8 1 45 J-P-L 8 1 45 PaulParkhead 8 1 45 peedin 8 1 45 picker 8 1 50 amarinth 1 1 50 Catamount 1 1 50 Jeep's Phoenix 1 1 50 Spiff 1 1 ``` [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331.md?page=52) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331.md?page=54)