# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/21 "2004-12-02T00:28:58Z")
50 cent Shelley Long Rosa Parks Johnny Carson Michael Jackson Jean Stapleton Martin Lawrence Robert Downey Jr. Jesse Helms Pope John Paul II Angela Lansbury Dale Earnhardt Jr. Courtney Love ---
**Author:** ![Time\_Like\_Tears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@Time\_Like\_Tears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Like_Tears)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/22 "2004-12-02T00:43:05Z")
Here’s mine! 1.) Fidel Castro 2.) Ted Turner 3.) Ozzy Osbourne (by something worthy of a Darwin Award) 4.) Elizabeth Taylor 5.) Theresa Kerry 6.) Scott Weiland (OD) 7.) Nancy Reagan 8.) Pope John Paul II 9.) Lady Bird Johnson 10.) Annette Funicello 11.) Mary Kate Olsen 12.) Johnny Oates 13.) William Rehnquist ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/23 "2004-12-02T01:06:43Z")
I’ve been thinking about my list for a while - I actually had a text file on my computer that I’ve been putting people on as possibilities for 2005 for a while. So, here goes: 1. Pope JP II (always on there. It has to happen one of these years.) 2. Nelson Mandela 3. Barbara Bush (former first lady) 4. Richard Pryor 5. Earvin “Magic” Johnson 6. Bob Barker 7. Tom Brokaw (added tonight after watching the NBC news - his right eye looks funny, and I think there’s something going on.) 8. Elizabeth Taylor 9. Mikhail Gorbachev 10. Dick Clark 11. Yoko Ono 12. Queen Elizabeth II 13. Margaret Thatcher ---
**Author:** ![Lathe\_of\_Heaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Lathe\_of\_Heaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lathe_of_Heaven)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/24 "2004-12-02T01:19:23Z")
OK, here goes nothing: 1. Jay-Z 2. Prince Philip (Liz’s husband) 3. Beyonce Knowles 4. Madeline L’Engle 5. Pete Seeger 6. Barbara Bush _mère_ 7. William Rehnquist 8. The Pope 9. Nelson Mandela 10. Walter Cronkite 11. Mike Wallace 12. William Shatner 13. Zell Miller ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/25 "2004-12-02T01:30:15Z")
[ol] [li]Pope JP2[/li][li]Viktor Yushchenko (Ukrainian politician)[/li][li]Fidel Castro[/li][li]Gerald Ford[/li][li]Charles Manson[/li][li]Marget Thatcher[/li][li]Walter Cronkite[/li][li]Nancy Reagan[/li][li]Angela Lansbury[/li][li]John Goodman[/li][li]Rip Torn[/li][li]Regis Philbin[/li][li]Mickey Rooney[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/26 "2004-12-02T01:41:12Z")
I feel guilty, but here goes – In no particular order (and more or less randomly picked, as well): 1. Tammy Faye Bakker Resner 2. Michael Jackson (Going out on a limb, but…) 3. Jimmy Carter 4. Liza Minnelli 5. Gary Coleman 6. Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist 7. Convicted murderer Robert Chambers 8. Vice President Dick Cheney 9. Ruben Studdard 10. Brett Easton Ellis (just because) 11. Daryl Strawberry 12. Andy Griffith 13. Don Knotts ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/27 "2004-12-02T01:41:28Z")
1.) Vanilla Ice 2.) Scott Peterson 3.) Charlton Heston 4.) Artie Lange 5.) The Pope 6.) Jason Mewes 7.) Mel Brooks 8.) Stan “The Man” Lee 9.) Hugh Hefner 10.) Pam Anderson 11.) KRS-One 12.) Rob Halford 13.) Slash ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/28 "2004-12-02T01:56:49Z")
Fruitlessly swinging for the fences again: (1) Charles, Prince of Wales (2) Donald Rumsfeld (3) Morley Safer (4) Andrew Sullivan (5) Loretta Lynn (6) Hosni Mubarak (7) Osama Bin laden (8) Sandra Day O’Connor (9) Eminem (10) Betty Ford (11) Hunter S. Thompson (12) Kurt Vonnegut (13) Michael J. Fox ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/29 "2004-12-02T02:04:55Z")
1. James Doohan 2. Viktor Yushchenko 3. Elizabeth Taylor 4. Michael Jackson 5. Tom Brokaw 6. The Pope 7. Elizabeth Edwards 8. Michael Moore 9. Mary Kate Olsen 10. Michael J. Fox 11. Richard Pryor 12. Janet Reno 13. Clay Aiken ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/30 "2004-12-02T02:10:17Z")
1. Fidel Castro 2. Rosa Parks 3. Pope John Paul II ☹ Gonna be a bad year for US politicians: 1. Former President Gerald Ford (old age) 2. Former President Bill Clinton (heart trouble) 3. Sen. Ted Kennedy (heart attack) Also, 1. Osama bin Laden (Yep, we’ll get him in '05.) 2. Elizabeth Taylor 3. William Rehnquist 4. “Lady Bird” Johnson (she has to go eventually, why not in 2005?) 5. Angela Landsbury ☹ 6. Ossy Osbourne (drug overdose) 7. Scott Peterson (murdered in prison) ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/31 "2004-12-02T02:22:55Z")
Well, with the exception of Reagan, my picks all remained remarkably healthy. So, rather than doom them all by taking them off my list, I’ll preserve their good health for another year by keeping most of them. 1. Bea Arthur 2. Kirk Douglas 3. Andy Rooney 4. Cicely Tyson 5. Harry Dean Stanton 6. Jean Stapleton 7. Conrad Bain (“Mr. Drummond” from Diffrent Strokes) 8. Russell Johnson (“The Professor” from Gilligan’s Island) 9. Howard Hesseman 10. Gavin MacLeod 11. Jim Nabors 12. Darryl Strawberry 13. Mickey Rooney And if any of the above should croak before Jan. 1, here are my alternates, to be used in this order: a. Pope John Paul II b. “Beat” Takeshi Kitano (actor/director) c. Denis Leary ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/32 "2004-12-02T02:27:00Z")
Damn you all. My chances at the “Inside Track with the Grim Reaper” Award have been reduced by 7/13[sup]ths[/sup]. Can we just award 19 points from the get go to everyone, so we can skip Rhenquist? ---
**Author:** ![Jaade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@Jaade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaade)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/33 "2004-12-02T02:29:09Z")
Yay! I have been waiting for this thread. I missed it last year, being so busy during the holidays. Here are my submissions, in no particular order (y’all are wrong for putting Bob Barker! :eek: Wrong, I say!) 1. Robert Downey, Jr. 2. Michael Jackson 3. Henry Winkler 4. Dan Rather 5. Pope John Paul II 6. Marion Barry 7. Dick Cheney 8. Osama Bin Laden 9. Andy Griffith 10. J. Lo 11. William Rehnquist 12. Ludacris 13. Kevin Federline ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/34 "2004-12-02T02:55:39Z")
Hoo yeah, I’m getting me a piece o’ the Death Pool this year. (The Obvious) 1. Charlton Heston 2. Lady Bird Johnson 3. Jimmy Carter 4. Fidel Castro 5. Pope John Paul II 6. Gerald Ford 7. Nancy Reagan (ouch…two chiefs and two first ladies) (The Wild Cards) 8. Keith Richards (though if he’s not dead already, he may be immortal) 9. B.B. King 10. Yogi Berra (just looked him up…I didn’t even know he was still alive) 11. Gordie Howe 12. 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) 13. Stan Lee ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/35 "2004-12-02T03:14:42Z")
1. Kurt Vonnegut 2. Pope John Paul II 3. William Rehnquist 4. Carl Reiner 5. Queen Elizabeth II 6. Kenneth Lay 7. Scott Peterson (bah, **Diceman** scooped me! 2 to 1 he gets whacked by his fellow inmates :D) 8. Courtney Love 9. Fidel Castro 10. George H.W. Bush 11. Sharon Osborne 12. Billy Bob Thornton 13. James Earl Jones ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/36 "2004-12-02T03:43:34Z")
1. Pope John Paul II 2. James Watson 3. Dick Clark 4. Jiang Zemin 5. Britney Spears 6. Henry Kissinger 7. John Paul Stevens 8. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 9. Larry Fortensky 10. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger 11. Tom Brokaw 12. Betty White 13. Sargent Shriver ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/37 "2004-12-02T04:11:38Z")
I’ve never played before. All ye who have chosen names I’m going to put down weep! Weep! For I am never right. 1. Fidel Castro 2. Michael J. Fox 3. Gerald Ford 4. PJP2 5. Willie Mays 6. Bob Feller 7. James Doohan 8. Bobby Doerr 9. Luciano Pavarotti 10. Muhammad Ali 11. Scott Hamilton 12. Dick Cheney 13. Pervez Musharraf ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/38 "2004-12-02T04:29:16Z")
Alrighty then… 1. Courtney Love 2. Richard Pryor 3. Elizabeth Taylor 4. Gerald Ford 5. Lady Bird Johnson 6. James Doohan 7. Rosa Parks 8. William Rehnquist 9. Tammy Faye Bakker Resner 10. Billy Graham 11. Annette Funicello 12. Stephen Hawking and last, but not least… because he’s due… 1. El Papa, John Paul II ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/39 "2004-12-02T04:49:26Z")
A question. If one of our picks buys the farm the day before their birthday, are they counted in at the lower age? So if popular pick Rosa Parks should die on February 3 or before, would she count in at 91 or 92? ---
**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:** [December 2, 2004, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/40 "2004-12-02T05:27:21Z")
Ok, last year sucked rocks for me, so I’m-a scrapping the survivors and starting (mostly) fresh: 1. Pope John Paul II 2. Willie Nelson 3. Glen Cambell 4. Ethan Suplee 5. Walter Cronkite 6. Charlton Heston 7. Wellington Mara 8. Fidel Castro 9. Prince Rainier 10. Paul McCartney 11. Ruben Studdard 12. Suge Knight 13. Scott Peterson And in case someone drives a bus into a country singer retirement home or something, the backups: 1. Preston Robert Tisch 2. Reverend Donald Wildmon 3. Sally Struthers [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574.md?page=3)