# 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:** 46
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/901 "2005-09-06T19:08:25Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > The news item I just read on Gilligan says his “bumbling got a group of tourists marooned on an uncharted desert island”… How was the shipwreck his fault? Wasn’t it just a bad storm that landed them on the island? Or am I missing a key piece of Gilligan trivia? That belongs in Great Debates. But there was that “If not for the courage of the fearless crew, the minnow would be lost”. He did, however, manage to bungle several attempts to get _off_ the island. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/902 "2005-09-06T19:11:08Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > The news item I just read on Gilligan says his “bumbling got a group of tourists marooned on an uncharted desert island”… How was the shipwreck his fault? Wasn’t it just a bad storm that landed them on the island? Or am I missing a key piece of Gilligan trivia? I recall a tv movie where they were rescued, then went out on another boat ride “for fun” (morons), and Gilligan’s bumbling got them stranded again on the same island. But I don’t think it was his fault in the first place–it was the weather. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2005, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/903 "2005-09-06T20:00:17Z")
**Draelin** \* But I don’t think it was his fault in the first place–it was the **weather**.\* I believe you are correct. I remember hearing that the weather started getting rough … ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/904 "2005-09-06T21:29:05Z")
Okay, that’s two. Who’s gonna be three? ---
**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:** [September 6, 2005, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/905 "2005-09-06T22:34:35Z")
I’m hoping for **Scott Peterson** to get snuffed. I need my Hail Mary Pass of 2005 to come through and catapult me into some respectable pointage. ---
**Author:** ![Carm6773](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/906 "2005-09-06T22:42:58Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > I’m hoping for **Scott Peterson** to get snuffed. > > I need my Hail Mary Pass of 2005 to come through and catapult me into some respectable pointage. Amen! ---
**Author:** ![Kuizelemartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@Kuizelemartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuizelemartz)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/907 "2005-09-07T00:15:26Z")
I spent so much time on making my 2005 list and I’m so mad my people aren’t dying. I know this isn’t normal and feel I need a 12 step program. Everytime someone dies, I think, “DAMMIT, die Whitney”. God, just do some more drugs and die. Or during that awards show, was it the Shug? man who got shot? I’m so pissed, “NO, its 50 Cent you gotta kill asswipe”. I am pissed and if I do this next year, I’m picking all old people, my drug addicts won’t die. Oh and Mike Tyson, just die already, I really need the points. I can’t even get Estelle Getty to die, now come on, hurry up, soon you’ll be 100 years old and worthless to me. All I have is the friggin Pope, whoop tee do. ---
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/908 "2005-09-07T00:22:05Z")
Gillian aka Bob Denver got off the island so to speak at the age of 70. Who knew he had cancer? I sure didn’t. My list is a sure way to keep on living. Rest in peace “little buddy”. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Carm6773](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/909 "2005-09-11T13:19:40Z")
Blues Musician [Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown](http://deathbeeper.com/6413421.html) has died. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/910 "2005-09-13T01:49:49Z")
Sportscaster [Chris Schenkel](http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2005-09-11-schenkel-obit_x.htm) died Sunday. I’m not sure if anybody had him. I remember him doing the Olympics and College football for ABC. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/911 "2005-09-13T08:35:55Z")
Will there be an updated set of totals soon? Pretty please? ---
**Author:** ![Carm6773](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/912 "2005-09-15T10:16:34Z")
[Robert Wise](http://deathbeeper.com/6765021.html), who won four Oscars as producer and director of the classic 1960s musicals “West Side Story” and “The Sound of Music,” has died. He was 91. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/913 "2005-09-20T02:17:00Z")
I was mocked by the Emmy telecast yesterday. During the Parade O’ Death they showed picture after picture of people I didn’t pick. And then they put Jerry Orbach in the final position of honor. The same bastage that couldn’t hold out for three more days so I could score. I remain at the top of the bottom with zero points. :mad: ---
**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:** [September 20, 2005, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/914 "2005-09-20T11:11:21Z")
[Simon Wiesenthal](http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/09/20/obit.wiesenthal/index.html) the nazi hunter is gone. RIP Simon. You did a good job. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/915 "2005-09-20T21:55:57Z")
[Sid Luft,](http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002502802_luftobit18.html) who married Judy Garland in 1952 and produced _A Star is Born_ (which won Judy an Academy Award nomination) two years later, has died at the age of 89. Luft is created with creating the “Garland legend” by staging New York and London concerts that sold out and were each capped by Judy’s performance of _Somewhere Over the Rainbow_. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/916 "2005-09-21T02:06:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Will there be an updated set of totals soon? Pretty please? a35362’s probably opening that second envelope I left her around now. ---
**Author:** ![Carm6773](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/917 "2005-09-25T14:36:10Z")
[Butch, the nemesis of Alfalfa.](http://deathbeeper.com/7633821.html) ---
**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:** [September 26, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/918 "2005-09-26T18:32:47Z")
[Don Adams of ‘Get Smart’ Dies at 82](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050926/ap_on_en_tv/obit_adams) Sleep well, Tennesse Tuxedo. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/919 "2005-09-26T19:21:05Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#): > > [Don Adams of ‘Get Smart’ Dies at 82](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050926/ap_on_en_tv/obit_adams) > > Sleep well, Tennesse Tuxedo. On the premiere of _E-Ring_ the other night, Benjamin Bratt’s character is taken through a huge metal door. Another character tells him it’s a relic from the Cold War. As they’re going through them, and the door is slamming shut behind the, Bratt whistles the _Get Smart_ theme. It made me giggle. Farewell, Agent 86. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/920 "2005-09-26T20:12:15Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I remain at the top of the bottom with zero points. :mad: And I’m in the same boat as you, I haven’t gotten a point in two years now. I’m thinking next year I’m going to pick people who are all 99 just so I can get at least one damn point! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574.md?page=45) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574.md?page=47)