# 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:** 43
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/841 "2005-07-20T21:22:09Z")
It’s not likely that anyone had any of these people, but biographer/novelist Gavin Lambert, former _Washington Week In Review_ host Paul Duke, and British far-right figure John Tyndall have all died in the last few days. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/842 "2005-07-20T22:34:32Z")
NOOO! RIP James Doohan, certainly … but why did I take him off my list this year?! (Hope that Karma doesn’t come and bit me back for that one … ) “Beam me up …” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/843 "2005-07-21T14:38:24Z")
Omigod, I am so totally going to hell – I’ve got Tammy Faye Bakker Messner on my list. She was on _The Insider_ last night – apparently her cancer is back, and the poor woman is obviously very ill. I’m not sure I actually have the temperament to be a successful Death Pooler. Or at least I don’t want to see any of my people on TV, if you know what I mean. [Sub]Going down? Hold the elevator, pls.![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/844 "2005-07-21T16:42:39Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Omigod, I am so totally going to hell – Fear not, I’m sure you’ll have plenty of company… ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/845 "2005-07-21T16:54:35Z")
> [@zoog](#): > > Fear not, I’m sure you’ll have plenty of company… Absolutely. Thanks for the tip, **twickster**! 😃 ---
**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:** [July 21, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/846 "2005-07-21T17:55:38Z")
**Twickster** what in the hell are you doing showing your DP2006 cards like that! GAH! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/847 "2005-07-21T18:02:00Z")
Apparently I was unclear. She’s on my '05 list. Let’s just say the “god, she looks like hell” wasn’t entirely … um … sympathetic. The Pope may be my first score for the year, but I’m thinking he won’t be my last. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/848 "2005-07-28T16:10:18Z")
[Danny Simon.](http://www.edmontonsun.com/Entertainment/OtherEntertainment/2005/07/28/1150751-sun.html) who mentored younger brother Neil in the art of writing comedy as the siblings worked on such programs as _Your Show of Shows_, has died at the age of 86. [Catherine Woolley,](http://www.edmontonsun.com/Entertainment/OtherEntertainment/2005/07/28/1150750-sun.html) author of 87 children’s books, passed away at the age of 100. She wrote under both her own name and the pseudonym of Jane Thayer. [Al Held,](http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/people/12235049.htm) a New York City native, was 76 when he died at his home in Italy. Held was an abstract expressionist painter known for large, complex canvases, which he filled with colorful geometric shapes. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/849 "2005-07-30T03:26:36Z")
Veteran character actor **Ford Rainey** died. Also, **Eugene Record** of the Chi-Lites. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2005, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/850 "2005-07-30T12:59:49Z")
Any updated scores for the midway pointage? Not that I have a chance at overtaking the lead. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2005, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/851 "2005-08-01T12:02:17Z")
Shame about King Fahad. So I get what, 17 points? ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/852 "2005-08-02T00:39:03Z")
> [@Happy Lendervedder](#): > > 1. John Garang (Sudanese rebel leader) [John Garang](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2134220.stm), the Sudanese Vice-President and a Southern Sudanese, died yesterday in an aircrash at the age of 60 years. He was the best hope for peace in the Sudan. He was also a friend of my brother’s. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/853 "2005-08-02T01:20:19Z")
[Pat McCormick,](http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/01/obit.mccormick.ap/) who wrote for Johnny Carson and made frequent appearances on Carson’s _Tonight Show_, died at the age of 78. McCormick also appeared in _Smokey and the Bandit_, as well as that film’s two sequels. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/854 "2005-08-05T23:11:43Z")
[Sue Gunter](http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/05/sports/ncaabasketball/05gunter.html), who officially recorded 708 victories (statistics from several of her early seasons are not recognized by the NCAA) as a coach of women’s college basketball, has died at the age of 66. Gunter was elected to both the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (the one in Springfield, Massachusetts, that honors contributors at any level of the game) after leading Louisiana State University to numerous national championship tournaments. She also was selected to coach the Olympic team in 1980, the year the USA boycotted the Moscow Games in order to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/855 "2005-08-08T03:40:19Z")
Peter Jennings has died. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2005, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/856 "2005-08-08T11:59:34Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I had him in DP05 (along with Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Ken Jennings). > > Not that I’m wishing death on Peter. I hope he recovers. When I heard the news at 6:30, the first thought to hit my sleepy brain was “Deathpool.” Sometimes I’m a sick, crass person. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/857 "2005-08-08T12:10:56Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > When I heard the news at 6:30, the first thought to hit my sleepy brain was “Deathpool.” > > Sometimes I’m a sick, crass person. My first thought was, “Damn, there goes one of my people for Death Pool 2006.” Can I join you on the bench for the Sick and Crass? ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/858 "2005-08-08T14:23:47Z")
:: comes in and sits down on the S&C bench :: ---
**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:** [August 8, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/859 "2005-08-08T17:09:04Z")
Okay, so I guess Boris Yeltsin goes back on next year’s list. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/860 "2005-08-08T17:14:56Z")
[Ibrahim Ferrer,](http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/06/ferrer.obit.ap/index.html) a veteran Cuban musician who became known late in life as a member of the Buena Vista Social Club, has died at the age of 78. [Robin Cook,](http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/08/06/cook.obit.ap/index.html) who served as Foreign Secretary in the British government from 1997-2001 and resigned as House of Commons leader in 2003 in order to protest Prime Minister Blair’s decision to participate in the invasion of Iraq, has passed away at the age of 59. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574.md?page=42) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574.md?page=44)