# 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:** 21
**Author:** ![hammos1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@hammos1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hammos1)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/401 "2005-01-06T15:59:11Z")
> [@JohnBckWLD](#): > > Celebrities Selected By Ten Or More (Out Of 197) Dopers: > 23. Queen Elizabeth Windsor II (Queen of England) 17 I don’t understand why so many Dopers picked the Queen? She’s in rude health, has excellent healthcare and has genetics on her side (remember her mother?). ---
**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 6, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/402 "2005-01-06T16:01:31Z")
> [@hammos1](#): > > I don’t understand why so many Dopers picked the Queen? She’s in rude health, has excellent healthcare and has genetics on her side (remember her mother?). Because she is old. Duh! ---
**Author:** ![hammos1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@hammos1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hammos1)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/403 "2005-01-06T16:08:03Z")
Not _that_ old (78) and pretty sprightly for it. She’ll still be around for Celebrity Death Pool 2020, I’m telling you! ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/404 "2005-01-06T16:08:48Z")
I know it’s too late to get in on the game, but I’d like to throw in Phil Anselmo as mine. I had others, but I’m pretty sure Phil’s a shoo-in. ---
**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 6, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/405 "2005-01-06T16:21:58Z")
Not only does the Queen have genetics on her side, she has a personal chef as well. Her highness has probably never wallowed in a carton of Ben & Jerry’s for breakfast and some kind of grilled cheese/hot chocolate/mash potato Comfort Food Trifecta because her family problems being aired Globally. Me, hell, it would take a battalion of men in Busby’s to keep me away from the nachos and ice cream. I’m worth 62 points, but only famous inside my head. Sorry peoples. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/406 "2005-01-06T16:27:23Z")
> [@Freddy the Pig](#): > > Did anybody pick a celebrity who’s already dead? I run a small death pool for a few friends IRL and every year at least one person picks somebody who’s already dead. The 4 Dopers with stone cold choices: Pablito ¤ Idi Amin DWToml815 ¤ A _‘forgot to remove socks’_ omission booklover ¤ Johnny Oates _Deva_ ¤ Johnny Oates Questionable Selections: HelloKitty ¤ Saddam Hussein - Is he considered a political prisoner? EmperorRoman ¤ Ali Hassan (Chemical Ali) - Is he captured / political prisoner? MC$E ¤ Shirley McClain - The woman’s claimed to be have died and been reincarnated a multiple number of times. Are we to assume she’s like a cat with 9 lives? ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/407 "2005-01-06T16:49:41Z")
> [@JohnBckWLD](#): > > If you take each doper’s picks & add the total number of selections a celebrity received, the 25 Dopers with the most popular selections are:[ol] > [li] DeVena § 524[/li][li] Cinnamon Girl § 507[/li][li] Carm6773 § 503[/li][/ol] Woo Hoo! Look! I’m number 1!! I choose to see this as my choices were so brilliantly chosen that every one who posted after December 1 thought I was right and copied my list. Yeah that’s right! Why yes, I do live in my own little world. ---
**Author:** ![Lockz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Lockz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockz)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/408 "2005-01-06T17:04:52Z")
Personally, I picked Her Majesty in hopes that she WOULDN’T die. I know I never do well on games like this, so hopefully by picking her she will contribute to my suckage. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/409 "2005-01-06T19:10:16Z")
> [@JohnBckWLD](#): > > The 4 Dopers with stone cold choices: > Pablito ¤ Idi Amin > DWToml815 ¤ A _‘forgot to remove socks’_ omission > booklover ¤ Johnny Oates > _Deva_ ¤ Johnny Oates An amazing avoidance of the already-dead! The picks of Oates don’t really count, since he was alive when selected. (The posters may have neglected to replace him, or to name an alternate, but that’s a sin of a different order.) I see that **Pablito** _did_ pick an alternate, after naming Idi Amin. What’s the word, **a35362** –does an alternate automatically replace an already-dead pick? ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/410 "2005-01-06T19:19:44Z")
Yes – that’s what they’re for. ---
**Author:** ![kka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@kka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kka)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/411 "2005-01-06T20:08:21Z")
Nelson Mendela’s son, Makgatho Mandela [died](http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/01/06/mandela.son.reut/index.html) of AIDS. ---
**Author:** ![GWVet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/65b543/32.png) [@GWVet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GWVet)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/412 "2005-01-06T23:54:22Z")
> [@Indygrrl](#): > > I know it’s too late to get in on the game, but I’d like to throw in Phil Anselmo as mine. I had others, but I’m pretty sure Phil’s a shoo-in. I had him last year - when I met him he looked like the walking dead (large amounts of heroin will do that to a person) and I thought sure he would win the whole thing for me…result - goose egg. The Keith Richards factor can never be ruled out when the Grim Reaper is in town. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/413 "2005-01-07T22:34:31Z")
> [@Captain Lance Murdoch](#): > > People really should try to point out who their celebs are when they pick them. Even if it’s someone who’s well-known. The “Pope” and “Barbara Bush” selections are pretty infamous here, but there were also picks for people like John Madden and Jason Alexander. One of my picks was John Madden, and FTR, I mean the football one. I wasn’t aware of the other one. ---
**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 8, 2005, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/414 "2005-01-08T04:44:06Z")
I wish I had thought of her, even if she was only 14 points. [Rosemary Kennedy dies at 86.](http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/07/kennedy.obit.ap/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2005, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/415 "2005-01-08T05:21:27Z")
They are getting closer to Senator Chivas. 192 hours in and no one has scored ---
**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 8, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/416 "2005-01-08T16:30:57Z")
I had no idea that Rosemary Kennedy was still around until today. I cannot beleive we are all still virgins. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/417 "2005-01-08T20:10:51Z")
I was also surprised that Rosemary Kennedy was still alive. Wish I’d thought of her, too. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/418 "2005-01-09T00:28:47Z")
I’m sure no one had him, but the radio commentator for the New Orleans Saints, [Buddy Diliberto](http://www.wpri.com/Global/story.asp?S=2783742), died yesterday at 73. As a Saints fan, I can only say ☹ ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2005, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/419 "2005-01-09T01:17:45Z")
No, nobody picked him. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2005, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/420 "2005-01-09T05:30:58Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > No, nobody picked him. Somebody needs to do a statistical analysis of how many times a35362 says that in a year. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574.md?page=22)