# 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:** 33
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/641 "2005-04-01T15:28:32Z")
I don’t remember [Frank Perdue](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050401/ap_en_tv/obit_perdue) appearing on anybody’s list, but the chicken processor who gained fame appearing in commercials for his company has died at the age of 84. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/642 "2005-04-01T15:33:02Z")
[Frank Perdue](http://www.newsday.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-obit-perdue,0,5180128.story?coll=sns-ap-business-headlines) has gone to that Great Chicken Coop in the Sky. Don’t know how much of an actual “celebrity” he was, but he was quite well-known on the East Coast. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/643 "2005-04-01T15:50:10Z")
Update tomorrow, swear. Yup, employers are making me _work_ again. _tch_ ---
**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:** [April 1, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/644 "2005-04-01T18:38:30Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Update tomorrow, swear. Gonna be a busy one…looks like lotsa people snagged 16 points today. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/645 "2005-04-01T19:44:09Z")
[Alan Dundes,](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17389-2005Mar31.html) the University of California professor whose Introduction to Folklore class was among the most popular courses on campus, died at the age of 70. Dundes also produced such books as _Cracking Jokes: Studies of Sick Humor Cycles and Stereotypes_, the business-grapevine-inspired _Urban Folklore From the Paperwork Empire_, and _When You’re Up to Your Ass in Alligators: More Urban Folklore_. (Free registration required to read linked article.) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/646 "2005-04-01T22:13:22Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > I don’t remember [Frank Perdue](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050401/ap_en_tv/obit_perdue) appearing on anybody’s list, but the chicken processor who gained fame appearing in commercials for his company has died at the age of 84. In lieu of burial, the family says he will be stuffed and roasted. ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Andrew\_21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_21)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/647 "2005-04-02T01:36:12Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Will this be the single biggest “hit” in the history of the game? Yes, the biggest “hit” thus far was Reagan last year (84 votes). > [@twickster](#): > > A lot of people had Reagan – but I, for one, didn’t (too old – not enough points). Who is the person who appeared on the most lists? The Pope was on 132 lists this year, the most by far. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/648 "2005-04-02T01:49:50Z")
Thanks for the info, **Andrew 21**! (It’s hard to imagine anyone ever topping 132.) ---
**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:** [April 2, 2005, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/649 "2005-04-02T02:14:38Z")
There was a joke going around about 25 years ago. Frank Perdue is dead … the police suspect “fowl” play. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/650 "2005-04-02T20:17:50Z")
Bad taste alert: Look like the Pope’s officially dead. I’m on the board! Me and like 150 other Dopers. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/651 "2005-04-02T20:18:11Z")
I’m not necessarily happy about it, but I’m finally on the board (along with almost everybody else). RIP Pope John Paul II. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/652 "2005-04-02T20:28:21Z")
RIP indeed. I lost two grandparents to Parkinson’s and, in the end, you are a lucid mind trapped in a body that is trying to cut you off from the world. I missed them terribly when they died but was not TOO sad. I was sadder for myself and my family than for the person, who was whole again and with God and his/her relatives. ---
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/653 "2005-04-02T20:38:32Z")
I’m not Catholic but after following his health situation the last couple months, and especially the last 2 or 3 days, I don’t feel good about getting those 16 points. ☹ Kathy ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/654 "2005-04-03T02:48:00Z")
Still typing. Lots of changes. Very tired. Did you know the Pope died? Also John De Lorean. And others. Anyway. Tired. And hungry. Scoreboard turned…upside down! Whoooo! Many changes. Pope dead. Pope dead. Pope dead. I’m going to eat something. And then read something…NOT about the Pope dying. And then I will sleep, and dream about the Pope’s funeral. Many, many people picked the Pope. Who is dead now. Yr obd. svt., **a35362** , also dead (tired) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/655 "2005-04-03T03:07:57Z")
Scene from a35362’s workplace: “What’s all that crying?” “They just announced on the radio that the Pope died.” “Look how distraught she is. I never even knew she was a catholic.” “What’s that she’s saying?” “132 updates! What was I thinking!” ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/656 "2005-04-03T03:23:43Z")
Drabfnammit! I really was certain that Karol came from Rasputin’s bloodline. I was prepping him for next years list. After much brouhaha and self promotion, I remain a DP virgin. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/657 "2005-04-03T03:28:14Z")
You know, it was really a cheap 16 points. I almost feel guilty accepting them. Why don’t we just agree to give an extra 16 points to the six people who _didn’t_ put the Pope on their list, so that \*\*a35362 \*\* can get some sleep tonight? We can call it an act of charity in remembrance. Or not. ---
**Author:** ![Kuizelemartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@Kuizelemartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuizelemartz)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/658 "2005-04-03T04:06:14Z")
My first thought after I heard that the pope had died was, oh that poor a and the numbers lady thought she had a big update days ago, now she has a nightmare on her hands. Sorry, I never remember your name, to me you are the “a” lady with numbers after the a. I am finally on the board. Half my picks this year were based on the concept that drugs are bad. None of my druggies are dying. Someone has to die or I’m gonna ignore that commercial about my brain on drugs being like a fried egg. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/659 "2005-04-03T23:59:15Z")
> [@Suburban Plankton](#): > > to the six people who _didn’t_ put the Pope on their list, so that \*\*a35362 \*\* can get some sleep tonight? I’m one of those six! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/660 "2005-04-04T00:15:32Z")
I was feeling guilty that I finally got on the scoreboard because of the Pope’s death. Then I read through the thread and saw this: > [@a35362](#): > > **Irreverent Tone** and > **ladybug** - also share 37 points for Sandra Dee and are tied for fifth place. I was in fifth place and didn’t even know it! Shows how much I’ve been paying attention. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574.md?page=34)