# The Celebrity Death Pool 2004 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359 "2003-12-01T22:29:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 25
**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:** [July 10, 2004, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/481 "2004-07-10T12:47:27Z")
**Captain Lance Murdoch** is apparently the [Ken](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=256896&page=3&pp=50) of the Celebrity Deathpool ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/482 "2004-07-10T13:37:32Z")
Jeff Smith and I share an alma mater – he went to seminary where I went to grad school (Drew Unversity in NJ). /end pathetic and really quite irrelvant aside ---
**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:** [July 10, 2004, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/483 "2004-07-10T22:43:55Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > **Captain Lance Murdoch** is apparently the [Ken](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=256896&page=3&pp=50) of the Celebrity Deathpool Maybe he _is_ Ken. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/484 "2004-07-10T22:58:04Z")
Nope, nobody picked Jeff Smith. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/485 "2004-07-12T18:18:00Z")
Okay, I was on Jeopardy!, but I’m not Ken. He’s 27 (and counting) victories ahead of me. I only wish the death pool payed as well! Is it possible to win the Quantity _and_ Quality award? All I can say to the remaining nine people on my list is I hope your affairs are in order! My secret? Don’t pick Gwyneth Paltrow. By the way, Isabel Sanford shed her vail of tears today. Anyone have her? ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/486 "2004-07-12T18:31:04Z")
Nope, nobody picked Isabel Sanford. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/487 "2004-07-15T17:42:15Z")
I suspect no one had him, but we whizzed past the death of author William Manchester on June 1 (damned local paper doesn’t cover diddly any more). ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/488 "2004-07-15T18:29:56Z")
Likewise for New York Dolls bassist [Arthur Kane](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040715/music_nm/music_dolls_dc_3). Errr…“likewise” that probably no one had him, not that he died June 1st. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/489 "2004-07-15T18:52:20Z")
Nope, nobody picked either Manchester or Kane. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/490 "2004-07-15T19:30:24Z")
Billionaire philanthropist/conservationist/venture capitalist [Laurance Rockefeller](http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2004/07/12/537328-ap.html) shuffled off this mortal coil last Sunday. He was 94. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/491 "2004-07-15T20:15:48Z")
Nope, no Rockefellers on the list. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/492 "2004-07-16T15:19:43Z")
Well heck, everyone knows Rockefellers don’t die - they just transmorgrify into oil. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/493 "2004-07-22T21:55:56Z")
Hollywood composer Jerry Goldsmith has died, but nobody picked him. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/494 "2004-07-24T20:01:03Z")
He was primarily a celebrity in France (and somewhat less so in England), but singer and songwriter [Sasha Distel](http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries.cfm?id=841112004) passed away this week aged 71. If anyone picked him, I’d be very, very surprised. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/495 "2004-07-26T21:17:15Z")
Nope, nobody picked Sasha Distel. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/496 "2004-07-29T15:40:06Z")
The BBC is reporting that Francis Crick, co-discover of the DNA matrix, has died at age 88. That’s 12 points for two players, \*\*amarone \*\* and **lel**. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/497 "2004-07-29T15:41:42Z")
Err, make that “double-helix” instead of “matrix.” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/498 "2004-07-29T16:13:22Z")
And with the death of Francis Crick, **amarone** and **lel** are now tied with 19 points each. Thanks for pointing this one out to me, **Spiff**. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/499 "2004-07-29T17:31:06Z")
Wow, 7 points. Well, that’s not too bad for a first timer, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/500 "2004-07-29T18:28:39Z")
> [@Spiff](#): > > The BBC is reporting that Francis Crick, co-discover of the DNA matrix, has died at age 88. > > That’s 12 points for two players, \*\*amarone \*\* and **lel**. I wanted to report it first! I had “shuffled off this mortal helix” all ready. I’ll have to reserve that one for Watson (who I also chose to denature this year). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359.md?page=26)