# 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:** 29
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2004, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/561 "2004-09-13T12:27:41Z")
> [@](#): > > By my calculations, we have 96 people on the scoreboard and 35 who have not yet scored. 35 Virgins. On The Web. What are the odds? Don’t hit me. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2004, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/562 "2004-09-13T13:04:01Z")
What are the ods of 35 Virgin Dopers? ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/563 "2004-09-16T09:57:25Z")
Johnny Ramone, nee John Cummings, of _The Ramones_. Prostate cancer got him at the ripe old age of 55. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2004, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/564 "2004-09-16T13:08:37Z")
Ahhh, crap. That has multiple levels of suckiness. 1. I’m a huge Ramones fan. 2. I had him on my early list for next year. Damn. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/565 "2004-09-16T13:14:32Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > What are the ods of 35 Virgin Dopers? Quite good, actually ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Zog\_10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c57346/32.png) [@Zog\_10](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zog_10)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/566 "2004-09-16T14:39:20Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > 1. I had him on my early list for next year. Speaking of which, when will the thread start for next year? I think I’ll play. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/567 "2004-09-16T15:29:31Z")
Ooooh, 45 points for me! I’m also quite sad, though, because I’m also a big Ramones fan. ☹ I wanna be sedated. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/568 "2004-09-17T00:39:51Z")
And with the death of Johnny Ramone, **Spiff** fearlessly leaps into second place with 65 points! Whoo-hoo! He will also get credit for a unique dead celebrity. **Zog\_10** , welcome! I will open up the 2005 game on December 1st and accept submissions through the end of 2004. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/569 "2004-09-23T15:46:39Z")
**Russ Meyer** of “Vixens” fame and singer **Skeeter Davis** [http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/20/obit.davis.ap/](http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/20/obit.davis.ap/) have both passed away recently. I’m guessing no one had them on their list - but you never know. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/570 "2004-09-23T20:37:55Z")
[Here is an obituary](http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2002043461_meyerobit23.html) for Meyer, whose _Beyond the Valley of the Dolls_ was written by none other than film critic Roger Ebert. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/571 "2004-09-24T05:55:06Z")
It seems Rodney Dangerfield has risen to the top. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/572 "2004-09-24T06:00:05Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > It seems Rodney Dangerfield has risen to the top. ☹ Huh? Nothing on Google. Channel 4 KNBC in Burbank, where Dangerfield is hospitalized, had nothing on their 11:00 news headlines about it. I’ll wait until the news is over and then let you know what I hear. Last news – he was in a coma - but not pushing up daisies - he still was getting no respect. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/573 "2004-09-24T06:40:24Z")
Nope. Nothing on Channel 4 news. 11:35PM 9/23/04 ---
**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:** [September 24, 2004, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/574 "2004-09-24T13:35:38Z")
Naw…not dead yet. Just on everyone’s short list for next year’s pool. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2004, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/575 "2004-09-25T22:06:14Z")
I hope Rodney Dangerfield recovers, because he is not on my list year. He is on my 2005 short list. Really, though, if he is dying, he is going one of the worst possible ways. I can’t imagine what pain he is in and how his family feels right now. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/576 "2004-09-26T01:47:19Z")
Nobody picked Russ Meyer or Skeeter Davis. And Dangerfield isn’t dead yet. I mean, come on. Show some respect. 😛 Hang in there, Mr. Dangerfield. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/577 "2004-09-29T06:19:38Z")
John E. Mack, the Harvard Medical School professor of psychiatry who gained some notoriety for studying the transformational aspects of 200 people’s perceived encounters with extraterrestrial aliens, [has died at the age of 74.](http://johnemackinstitute.org/center/center_news.asp?id=227) Mack, who was also the author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), was killed by a car while in London as a speaker at the T.E. Lawrence Society Symposium. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/578 "2004-09-29T10:25:11Z")
Anybody have [Geoffrey Beene](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=765&ncid=1597&e=1&u=/nm/20040928/people_nm/people_beene_dc) ? ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/579 "2004-09-30T04:13:33Z")
I haven’t checked this thread in a long time. I had no idea I was in third place. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2004, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359/580 "2004-09-30T13:45:29Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > John E. Mack, the Harvard Medical School professor of psychiatry who gained some notoriety for studying the transformational aspects of 200 people’s perceived encounters with extraterrestrial aliens, [has died at the age of 74.](http://johnemackinstitute.org/center/center_news.asp?id=227) Mack, who was also the author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), was killed by a car while in London as a speaker at the T.E. Lawrence Society Symposium. Oh, sure. That’s what THEY want you to believe. :eek: Of course, we all know he was transported to outer space, to live out the rest of his centuries in his true form as a Grey. Seriously, though, hit by a car. That’s awful. ☹ Did anyone pick him? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359.md?page=28) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359.md?page=30)