# The Celebrity Death Pool 2003 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2002, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798 "2002-12-01T18:51:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798/221 "2002-12-31T23:10:39Z")
Looking back at other lists, I thought I had a scoop when I heard that Gordon Lightfoot was pretty sick. I guess that was more common knowledge then I’d guessed. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798/222 "2002-12-31T23:54:37Z")
SIX! And Happy New Year to all our Doper friends in the UK and Ireland! ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798/223 "2003-01-01T00:32:53Z")
It’s also my anniversary tonight. So, I better post now. I might not get a chance later. Drum roll please… Lucky #13 to my list AND my 666th post is Cardinal Lustiger of Paris [http://www.hackwriters.com/Lustiger.htm](http://www.hackwriters.com/Lustiger.htm) HAPPY NEW YEAR !!! ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798/224 "2003-01-01T00:55:06Z")
FIVE! ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798/225 "2003-01-01T01:55:44Z")
FOUR! ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798/226 "2003-01-01T02:55:04Z")
THREE! ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798/227 "2003-01-01T03:53:38Z")
TWO! ---
**Author:** ![mkl12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mkl12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkl12)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798/228 "2003-01-01T04:57:23Z")
I must admit that I did look at other posts to come up with this this list, but it is already hourst past midnight here, so I thought, who cares… 1 Osama bin Laden 2 Saddam Hussein 3Ronald Reagan 4 Sharon Osbourne 5 Arthur C. Clarke 6 The crocodile hunter, Irvine or whatever 7 Pope John Paul II 8 Charlton Heston 9 Michael Jackson 10 Queen Elizabeh II 11 Boris Yeltsin 12 Yassir Arafat 13 Zsa Zsa Gabor And I apologize in advance for everybody who dies who’s on my list. I hope it’s not my fault! ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798/229 "2003-01-01T04:57:31Z")
ONE! Happy New Year to the East Coast! ---
**Author:** ![Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8797f3/32.png) [@Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ins_Outs_What-have-yous)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798/230 "2003-01-01T05:28:17Z")
I am making changes to my original list during the final hour. New names are in bold font 1. Warren Zevon (musician) 2. **Marge Schott** (former Reds owner, life-long smoker) 3. Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle) 4. David Crosby (musician) 5. **Daryl Strawberry** (former baseball player) 6. **Vaclav Havel** (Czech prez) 7. Joey Buttafuoco (a celebrity of sorts) 8. **Bo Diddley** (musician) 9. Bob Dylan (songwriter) 10. **Michael Skakel** (Kennedy, murderer) 11. **John Goodman** (rotund actor) 12. Liza Minelli (actress/singer) 13. **Hugo Chavez** (leader of a troubled Venezuela) My alternates in case any of those do not qualify or if any die in the next few minutes. 1. Warren Spahn (Hall of Fame pitcher) 2. Joe Paterno (Penn St. football coach) 3. George Martin (Beatles’ producer) …And I will still go out on a limb and say that the pope will see 2004. ---
**Author:** ![Etherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@Etherman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Etherman)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798/231 "2003-01-01T05:41:34Z")
Last second picks(I hope): 1.Warren Zevon 2.Hamid Karzai 3.Saddam Hussain 4.The Pope 5.Hugo Chavez 6.Ronald Reagan 7.Whitney Houston 8.Nick Nolte 9.Valdimir Putin 10.Queen Elizibeth II 11.Suge Knight 12.Yasser Arafat 13.Axl Rose ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798/232 "2003-01-01T05:44:09Z")
[list=1] [li]John Astin, 72[/li][li]Chuck Barris, 73[/li][li]Gary Busey, 58[/li][li]Alice Ghostley, 76[/li][li]Buddy Hackett, 78[/li][li]Don Knotts, 78[/li][li]Grampa Al Lewis, 79[/li][li]Jack Parr, 84[/li][li]Soupy Sales, 76[/li][li]Pete Seeger, 83[/li][li]Suzanne Somers, 56[/li][li]Aaron Spelling, 79[/li][li]Jan-Michael Vincent, 58[/li][/list=1] Eric ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mike\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_H)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798/233 "2003-01-01T05:53:05Z")
1. Ronald Reagan 2. Pope John Paul II 3. Richard Daley (Mayor of Chicago) 4. Sadaam Husein 5. Jerry Lewis 6. Miss Cleo (And she won’t see it coming either!) 7. Elijah Wood 8. Gerald Ford 9. Keith Richards 10. Liza Minelli 11. Roberto Benini 12. Fidel Castro 13. O.J. Simpson ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798/234 "2003-01-01T06:03:38Z")
Okay, that’s it, folks! It’s 2003 in Chicago, and no more submissions or changes will be accepted! I can’t believe how many submissions there are!! I expected to have the master list up this weekend, but that probably isn’t gonna happen. I will get it out as soon as I can. Thanks for playing, everybody! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798/235 "2003-01-01T06:17:18Z")
I have just heard some grave news… Buckwheat is dead… ---
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798/236 "2003-01-12T07:09:32Z")
They just said on the news that Maurice Gibb died at age 53. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798/237 "2003-01-12T19:34:48Z")
Yeah, but nobody picked him. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798/238 "2003-01-17T03:56:49Z")
Whew, Mike H really squeezed that submission in there just in time! ---
**Author:** ![smam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@smam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smam)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798/239 "2003-01-17T18:42:30Z")
Are you gonna post a concise lttle table type thing featuring everyones selections in a handy ‘see how everybodys scoring at a glance’ type way? Perhaps the admins will give you edit power if you agree only to use it to update the scoring as the death toll rises. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798/240 "2003-01-18T17:44:59Z")
I was originally planning to type up a master list of everybody’s submissions and post it here, but there were so many submissions that it would mean a couple of very long posts, and I’m not sure it’s even necessary. It wouldn’t be a “concise” list 😃 because we had so many people trying to come up with unique submissions. I suspect there might be a bunch of “Inside Track” winners this year. I’ll just keep a running scoreboard. I do have a hard copy of all the submissions, just in case. So far, we have no scorers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798.md?page=13)