# RickJay's warning in the 2012 Death Pool **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 17, 2011, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rickjays-warning-in-the-2012-death-pool/606497 "2011-12-17T03:44:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rickjays-warning-in-the-2012-death-pool/606497/41 "2011-12-19T15:07:37Z")
I apologize **SpoilerVirgin** –I thought your jest was serious. You praised the Jon Corzine, who wasn’t on my list (if I had included a NJ governor it would be Christie). But to state one choice is bad and another good is ludicrous. We are not wishing or wanting these people to die. We’re just saying they might and if they do, more points for us! ---
**Author:** ![Dennis\_Arthur\_PERRETT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3e96dc/32.png) [@Dennis\_Arthur\_PERRETT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dennis_Arthur_PERRETT)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rickjays-warning-in-the-2012-death-pool/606497/42 "2011-12-21T00:24:11Z")
> [@](#): > > Now that all this has been said, as Death Mistress, I’m asking, can’t we all just get along? Thats exactly right Death Mistress. Sick of reading all this crap about what is offensive and what is not. Personally, I chose Harry Connick Junior because I hated his high and mighty attitude when he came to Australia and started crapping on about political correctness and golliwogs and have since then wished him to die. So what! My perogative. Must be a thousand to one though… more fool me eh… Shut up and play the freakin’ morbid game. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rickjays-warning-in-the-2012-death-pool/606497/43 "2011-12-21T20:08:34Z")
I agree with the intentions behind the moderation. In the past there have been some political or religious sniping about comments that have been in the DP. He was just trying to head it off at the pass. But it could have been written better which he did here. Loach Extremely Lapsed Catholic ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rickjays-warning-in-the-2012-death-pool/606497/44 "2011-12-22T22:58:42Z")
> [@Scissorjack](#): > > Well, technically it is wishing death on people 😉 Seems to me it defeats the purpose of the Death Pool game to list people you _want_ to die, as opposed to people you think will _likely_ die. Of course, I’m a purist. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rickjays-warning-in-the-2012-death-pool/606497/45 "2011-12-23T01:24:14Z")
At least it has generated a lot of interest in that thread. Perhaps to make a thread popular the Mods could boot someone out of the thread once a year? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rickjays-warning-in-the-2012-death-pool/606497/46 "2011-12-23T02:07:05Z")
Ah, the Warn Pool… ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rickjays-warning-in-the-2012-death-pool/606497/47 "2011-12-23T15:30:30Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > You’re correct in that I didn’t quote the part of the post I intended to. That was just bad cutting and pasting. Sorry about that. > > Nevertheless, the direction - it was not a warning - stands. The Game Room is not a place to engage in baiting people, which the Pope bit obviously was. I realize that the next comment will probably be “well, why’s it okay to call this obscure guy a cult leader and not the Pope” and the answer is that I don’t care about the Pope, but am heading off at the pass attempts to snipe at Catholics and whatnot. An attack on some obscure cult leader is unlikely to start a flame war, but an attack on the leader of the world’s biggest religion might. That was simply a bit too aggressive. > > **Nonetheless I screwed up the message by screwing up the quote, so I apologize for messing it up.** He actually used the word _cult_ correctly: cult[kuhlt] 1. a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies. 2. an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, especially as manifested by a body of admirers: the physical fitness cult. 3. the object of such devotion. 4. a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc. 5. Sociology . a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rickjays-warning-in-the-2012-death-pool/606497/48 "2011-12-23T17:37:03Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Seems to me it defeats the purpose of the Death Pool game to list people you _want_ to die, as opposed to people you think will _likely_ die. > > Of course, I’m a purist. I can see it. Who wants to be “profiting” from the death of a guy you actually like (say, Terry Pratchett)? It’s sort of like refusing to take players from a team you hate on your fantasy sports team - you’re handicapping yourself, but if it enhances your enjoyment of the game, why not? ---
**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:** [December 26, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rickjays-warning-in-the-2012-death-pool/606497/49 "2011-12-26T16:43:10Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Seems to me it defeats the purpose of the Death Pool game to list people you _want_ to die, as opposed to people you think will _likely_ die. > > Of course, I’m a purist. Some people are in it for the glory, others for the art. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rickjays-warning-in-the-2012-death-pool/606497.md?page=2)