# Celebrity Deathpool 2001 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 2, 2000, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715 "2000-12-02T15:00:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Keymain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Keymain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keymain)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/81 "2000-12-05T22:27:30Z")
I think that I’ll probably revise my list to include some clebs already infirm and take off some of the long shots like Todd Bridges. But here it is. 1. Todd Bridges 2. Robert Byrd 3. The Pope 4. Gary Busey 5. Dudley Moore 6. Robert Downey Jr. 7. Richard Pryor 8. Cris Kirkwood (fmr. bassest fr. the Meat Puppets) 9. Liza Minelli 10. Kirk Douglas 11. Scott Weiland 12. Jerry Lewis 13. Johnny Carson Matt ---
**Author:** ![slackergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@slackergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slackergirl)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/82 "2000-12-05T23:23:20Z")
1. Robert Downey Jr. 2. Michael Douglas (doesn’t CZJ look great in black?) 3. Gary Busey 4. John Goodman 5. Dan Ackroyd 6. Axl Rose 7. Dick Cheney 8. The President of the U.S .(My roommate is convinced that whoever takes office will be assassinated, can I choose the office, or do I have to play psychic and figure out who will be inaugurated?) 9. Jack Lemmon 10. Anna Nicole Smith 11. Mariah Carey (I can dream, can’t I?) 12. Carol Channing 13. Rosie O’Donnell (she has pissed a lot of people off lately) ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/83 "2000-12-06T01:45:44Z")
I had originally chosen Deion Sanders just because I wanted a recent athlete in my list, but I just realized there are some much more likely candidates that still meet my criteria. So I would like to change my #3 choice to Daryl Strawberry. My updated list: 1. Ronald Reagan (seems like a gimme) 2. Norm McDonald 3. **Daryl Strawberry** 4. Rodney Dangerfield 5. Hume Cronyn 6. Boris Yeltsin 7. Abe Vigoda (just so I don’t have to think “isn’t he dead?” every time I see him in another movie) 8. Jackie Chan (stunt gone horrbly wrong) 9. Kiichi Miyazawa (former Japan PM and current Finance Minister. Old as dirt and in a stressful job) 10. Michael J. Fox 11. McCauley Culkin 12. Gallagher (more of a wish than a prediction) 13. Dennis Leary (heart attack) –sublight ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/84 "2000-12-06T03:17:23Z")
I’ve tried to pick 13 who nobody else has picked yet. Francis Ford Coppola Alberto Fujimori Christian Slater The Dalai Lama Colin Powell Ariel Sharon Derek Jacobi Rupert Murdoch Michael Milken Madonna Jack Palance Charlton Heston Oprah BTW, has anyone read Lawrence Block’s short story, “When This Man Dies”? Sobering for any of our participants. ---
**Author:** ![NothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/85 "2000-12-06T06:00:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by douglips \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by NothingMan \* > > \*\*This is sick . . . but strangely fun. > > … > > 8)Kurt Douglas > > \*\* > > Kirk Douglas? \*\* Whoops, yeah **that** guy. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/86 "2000-12-06T06:51:58Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Montfort \* \*\* > [@](#): > > 1. Hi Opal! \*\* 🙂 Hi! I’m still mulling over my list… _sigh_ I’m so out of the loop on celebrity gossip! ---
**Author:** ![Eggs\_a\_la\_Ted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c68b51/32.png) [@Eggs\_a\_la\_Ted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eggs_a_la_Ted)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/87 "2000-12-06T10:39:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Danimal \* > **I’ve tried to pick 13 who nobody else has picked yet. > … > Ariel Sharon** I got him first. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/88 "2000-12-06T16:37:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eggs à la Ted \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Danimal \* > > **I’ve tried to pick 13 who nobody else has picked yet. > > … > > Ariel Sharon** > > I got him first. 🙂 \*\* Dang, how’d I miss that one? Oh well, maybe we’ll both luck out . . . ---
**Author:** ![katie1341](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/89 "2000-12-06T17:37:26Z")
OK, be honest…how many of these are legitimate picks and how many of them are wishful thinking?? ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/90 "2000-12-06T18:06:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by katie1341 \* > \*\*OK, be honest…how many of these are legitimate picks and how many of them are wishful thinking?? \*\* There’s not a single person on my list who I want dead, honest. If I were picking that way, John Eric King, Tim McVeigh, and Jesse Helms would head my list, though the first two aren’t eligible under the rules. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/91 "2000-12-06T18:37:00Z")
This just isn’t your day **Danimal**. Jack Palance is dead. ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/92 "2000-12-06T18:48:21Z")
1. Ronald Reagan (said with much pain and dread) 2. Lady Bird Johnson 3. Walter Cronkite 4. John Goodman 5. Dom Deluise 6. Robert Downey Jr. 7. Al Mcguire 8. Ed Begley 9. Kirk Douglas 10. Muhammed Ali 11. Dudley Moore 12. Darryl Strwaberry 13. Rosa Parks ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/93 "2000-12-06T18:59:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CnoteChris \* > \*\*This just isn’t your day **Danimal**. Jack Palance is dead. \*\* Jack Palance is still kicking. He’d prolly give you a swift kick himself for trying to bury him early. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/94 "2000-12-06T19:03:08Z")
[ul] [li]1- Ted Williams[/li][li]2- John Lee Hooker[/li][li]3- Ronald Reagan[/li][li]4- Robert Downey Jr.:eerie repeat of his death scene in _Less Than Zero_[/li][li]5- Richard Harris[/li][li]6- Bob Dever: Little buddy! horrible coconut tree accident[/li][li]7- Robert Duvall[/li][li]8- James Garner[/li][li]9- Russ Meyer: big hooter maven, falls prey to [_Amazon Women On the Moon_](http://us.imdb.com/Details?0052104) curse and that was a parody of…[/li][li]10- Zsa Zsa Gabor: [_Queen of Outer Space_](http://us.imdb.com/Details?0052104) curse.[/li][li]11- Vampira: [_Plan 9 from Outer Space_](http://us.imdb.com/Details?0052077) curse.[/li][li]12- Rosemary Clooney: [_Conquest of Space_](http://us.imdb.com/Details?0047947) curse.[/li][li]13- Kevin Spacey: my longshot, but part of the whole space thing.[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/95 "2000-12-07T01:18:08Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Danimal \* \*\* > [@](#): > > If I were picking that way, John Eric King, Tim McVeigh, and Jesse Helms would head my list, though the first two aren’t eligible under the rules. \*\* I don’t know who John Eric King is, but McVeigh is elligible, just as long as he dies in some way other than his official execution. Slipping in the shower and cracking his head on the faucet would give about 65 points. My wishful thinking? Well, I guess I don’t sincerely wish Gallagher **dead** , but I suppose I wouldn’t mind if his mouth were accidentally sewn shut. –sublight. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/96 "2000-12-07T01:41:16Z")
I guess this isn’t _my_ day. As a matter of fact, this whole week has been off. Oh well. **JavaMaven1** , your right. Jack is storming along at the ripe old age of 81. I could have sworn I heard Billy Crystal commenting on how much he missed him. ---
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/97 "2000-12-07T02:29:58Z")
[list=1] [li]Jack Nicholson[/li][li]Mickey Rourke[/li][li]Robert Downey Jr.[/li][li]Rhea Perlman[/li][li]Muhammed Ali[/li][li]Garrison Hearst[/li][li]Bobby Labonte[/li][li]Ted Kennedy[/li][li]Daryl Strawberry[/li][li]Marion ‘Shug’ Knight[/li][li]Perry Farrell[/li][li]Dan Akroyd[/li][li]The Pope[/li][/list=1] ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/98 "2000-12-07T02:40:07Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Sublight \* \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Danimal \* > I don’t know who John Eric King is… > –sublight. \*\* Not surprising, since I misremembered his name. It’s actually John _William_ King, who was the chief perpetrator in the Jasper, Texas murder of James Byrd. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/99 "2000-12-07T03:24:27Z")
I sincerely apologize for being so indecisive here, but I’m going to change my list again. Gallagher was kind of a mean-spirited throwaway, so I’ll replace him with junk bond guru and terminal cancer patient, Michael Milkin. 1. Ronald Reagan (seems like a gimme) 2. Norm McDonald 3. Daryl Strawberry 4. Rodney Dangerfield 5. Hume Cronyn 6. Boris Yeltsin 7. Abe Vigoda (just so I don’t have to think “isn’t he dead?” every time I see him in another movie) 8. Jackie Chan (stunt gone horrbly wrong) 9. Kiichi Miyazawa (former Japan PM and current Finance Minister. Old as dirt and in a stressful job) 10. Michael J. Fox 11. McCauley Culkin 12. Michael Milkin 13. Dennis Leary (heart attack) Again, I apologize to the organizer(s) of Deathpool 2001 for the inconvenience. –sublight. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715/100 "2000-12-07T03:32:43Z")
Here are my “lucky” 13: 1. Robert Downey Jr. (gee, everyone picked him) 2. Dick Cheney (heart atack, either way) 3. Chevy Chase (obligatory SNL thing) 4. Ronald Reagan (this time, for sure!) 5. Hugh Downs (he’s like, old, and stuff) 6. Rosa Parks (again, old and feeble) 7. Rush Limbaugh (just want to profit from his death:p) 8. Michael Moriarity (deranged ex-actor) 9. David Brinkley (older than Hugh Downs) 10. Eric Harris (Columbine shooter) 11. Burt Reynolds (car accident) 12. Pope John Paul II (another old guy) 13. Gerald Ford (Bad year for republicans) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715.md?page=6)