# The Celebrity Death Pool 2005 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574 "2004-12-01T21:22:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Etherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@Etherman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Etherman)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/341 "2005-01-01T05:38:27Z")
OK, so as to avoid the rush in the last 10 minutes or so, here we go: 1. Pope John Paul II 2. Fidel Castro 3. Muhammed Ali 4. Abe Vigoda 5. William Rehnquist 6. Richard Pryor 7. Rosa Parks 8. Queen Elizabeth II 9. Jesse James (the arrogant blowhard from the Discovery Channel, not the one who actually made the name famous, he’s already dead) 10.Courtney Love 11.Nancy Reagan 12.Liz Taylor 13 Margret Thatcher Alts (if needed, in order): 1. Gerald Ford 2. Lady Bird Johnson 3. James Brown ---
**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:** [January 1, 2005, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/342 "2005-01-01T07:35:40Z")
Any Dead People Yet or are we all still virgins? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kuizelemartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@Kuizelemartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuizelemartz)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/343 "2005-01-01T07:54:32Z")
With any luck, one of my party hard people could OD on tonights festivities and gimme some nice points. So, live it up Andy Dick, Whintney, do another line. Anna, I think you could use a few more shots! And Keith Richards, oh hell, why did I pick you, you’ll never die. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2005, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/344 "2005-01-01T08:01:10Z")
Hell, maybe the Pope will have a heart attack while being serviced, if you know what I mean. and I think you do. Everyone **But** Captain Lance Murdoch would score. Bwahahahahahahaha Sorry. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Stage\_Manager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stage_manager/32/7267_2.png) [@Stage\_Manager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stage_Manager)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/345 "2005-01-01T15:22:02Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Hell, maybe the Pope will have a heart attack while being serviced, if you know what I mean. and I think you do. > Everyone **But** Captain Lance Murdoch would score. I didn’t pick His Holiness either. Although, I think I’m the only one who picked Sondheim. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/346 "2005-01-01T15:55:15Z")
Either you, **Stage Manager** and **Lance** know something the rest of us don’t know, or you are clearly geniuses or stark raving mad. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/347 "2005-01-01T15:57:12Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Either you, **Stage Manager** and **Lance** know something the rest of us don’t know, or you are clearly geniuses or stark raving mad. :dubious: Take it you wont’ be telling me I’m not crazy antime soon, then, hm? 😉 (I dunno why I skipped out on him, except maybe I didn’t see much point value in him. How old is that man, anyway?) ---
**Author:** ![Einmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Einmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einmon)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/348 "2005-01-01T16:06:35Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > [Diego Armando.](http://www.diegomaradona.com/ingles/iindex.html) Thank you, **TellMe**. (I was busy attending a crappy New Year’s party - why do those always suck?) Now that I’m reading all those excellent picks in retrospect I’m starting to wonder about my list a bit. I’m sure they’ll all clean up and lead a very healthy and prosperous life from now on. But maybe the people I crossed OFF my list should worry - at the very top was Jerry Orbach (“He’ll live, he looks healthy enough”). ---
**Author:** ![Einmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Einmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einmon)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/349 "2005-01-01T16:09:12Z")
Oh, and apparently, [the pope was born in 1920](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II). ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/350 "2005-01-01T16:10:46Z")
> [@Einmon](#): > > Oh, and apparently, [the pope was born in 1920](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II). Must. resist. joke! Thanks though 😉 Oh, and no problem on the Maradona thing; I hated to answer for you but I didn’t want time to run out on you with an unconfirmed pick lingering 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Einmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Einmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einmon)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/351 "2005-01-01T16:21:23Z")
Oh, I see … duh! I took Sondheim as being young and sprightly and figured since the pope looks like he’s at least 400 years old there was some confusion as to his actual age 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Stage\_Manager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stage_manager/32/7267_2.png) [@Stage\_Manager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stage_Manager)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/352 "2005-01-01T16:27:13Z")
[Stephen Sondheim is 73.](http://www.bookrags.com/biography/stephen-sondheim/) ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/353 "2005-01-01T16:55:00Z")
Dude! We musical theater fans already lost Cy Coleman, Jerry Orbach, and Fred Ebb this year! Whaddya saying? ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/354 "2005-01-01T18:39:18Z")
I woke up this morning only to read in the paper that Mrs. Anthrax is dying of cancer. Couldn’t they have printed that one yesterday? :mad: Did anyone pick her? ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/355 "2005-01-01T19:34:41Z")
Who’s Mrs. Anthrax? The wife of one of the guys in that sucky Metallica-wannabe band? ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/356 "2005-01-01T20:00:54Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > Who’s Mrs. Anthrax? The wife of one of the guys in that sucky Metallica-wannabe band? [Mrs. Anthrax](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041231/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_mrs__anthrax_2) ---
**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 1, 2005, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/357 "2005-01-01T21:24:52Z")
O’ Death, roll on. Do your dirty, thankless, yet necessary deed. We need points. ---
**Author:** ![Sevo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sevo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevo)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/358 "2005-01-02T22:55:38Z")
C’mon, [Anna-Nicole](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4138381.stm)… ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/359 "2005-01-02T23:08:52Z")
> [@](#): > > Must. resist. joke! You have amazing self-control, Tell. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2005, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/360 "2005-01-03T13:28:42Z")
Well, we’ve got [Shirley Chisolm](http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/03/obit.chisholm.ap/index.htm) (wish they used a better picture) and [Robert Matsui](http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/02/obit.matsui/index.html). Both were members of the US House Of Representatives at some time in their political careers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574.md?page=19)