# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/101 "2004-12-04T07:07:43Z")
1. Elizabeth Taylor 2. Rosa Parks 3. Pope John Paul II 4. William Rehnquist 5. Lady Bird Johnson 6. Osama Bin Laden 7. Margaret Thatcher 8. Greg Louganis 9. Scott Peterson 10. Gordon B. Hinckley 11. Annette Funicello 12. Tammy Faye Bakker Messner 13. Anna Nicole Smith ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/102 "2004-12-04T09:46:24Z")
**LVgeogeek** , Brando(your #13) died this past July. ---
**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/103 "2004-12-04T18:01:38Z")
1. Richard Pryor 2. Pope John Paul II 3. Nancy Reagan 4. Liz Taylor etc., etc. 5. Gerald Ford 6. Rosa Parks 7. Muhammad Ali 8. Margaret Thatcher 9. Jerry Falwell 10. Donald Sutherland 11. Larry Flynt 12. William Rehnquist 13. Jared Fogle (Subway guy…he will die due to a drug OD cause nobody loses that much weight by eating greasy, carb-laden sandwiches) Alternates: 1. Stan Lee 2. Roy Horn 3. Fidel Castro I have been waiting for this all year. The CDP is one of the reasons I joined this board. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/104 "2004-12-04T23:16:53Z")
> [@Wallflower](#): > > 1. Scott Weiland > 2. James Doohan > 3. Jerry Lewis > 4. Nancy Reagan > 5. Gerald Ford > 6. The Pope > 7. Courtney Love > 8. Viktor Yushchenko > 9. Stephen Hawking > 10. Ted Kennedy > 11. Scott Peterson > > Alternates, in order: > > 1. Michael Jackson > 2. Osama bin Laden > 3. Elizabeth Taylor You skip from #6 to #9 in your list. Do you want to make Jacko and Osama your #7 and #8, or did you inadvertently omit two celebrities? ---
**Author:** ![Wallflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Wallflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallflower)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/105 "2004-12-04T23:53:42Z")
> [@Wallflower](#): > > 1. Scott Weiland > 2. James Doohan > 3. Jerry Lewis > 4. Nancy Reagan > 5. Gerald Ford > 6. The Pope > 7. Courtney Love > (snip) > [@Sternvogel](#): > > You skip from #6 to #9 in your list. Do you want to make Jacko and Osama your #7 and #8, or did you inadvertently omit two celebrities? :smack: I c&p’d from a draft I started a week ago, not the final I really wanted. I can be such a :wally at times. Here is the REAL final list. 1. Scott Weiland 2. James Doohan 3. Jerry Lewis 4. Nancy Reagan 5. Gerald Ford 6. The Pope JP2 7. William Rehnquist 8. Lady Bird Johnson 9. Courtney Love 10. Viktor Yushchenko 11. Stephen Hawking 12. Ted Kennedy 13. Scott Peterson Alternates, in order: 1. Michael Jackson 2. Osama bin Laden 3. Elizabeth Taylor ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/106 "2004-12-05T07:07:59Z")
My first ever entry. Mostly stolen off the brilliance of other posters, but a couple original guesses: James Doohan Pope John Paul II Imelda Marcos Courtney Love Richard Cheney Muhammed Ali Gerald Ford Jack Palance Richard Pryor Margaret Thatcher Daniel Schorr William Rehnquist Boris Yeltsin ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/107 "2004-12-05T08:09:02Z")
Hoping I’m wrong about (almost) everyone on this list, here goes: 1. Jack Osbourne 2. Vladimir Putin 3. Robert Byrd 4. Gerald Ford 5. Lady Bird Johnson 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/108 "2004-12-05T08:24:33Z")
Crap crap crap. Mods, can you delete that post please? ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/109 "2004-12-05T09:12:03Z")
In alphabetical order 1 - John Astin 2 - Ralph Bakshi 3 - David Bowie 4 - William B. Davis (cigarette man from the x-files) 5 - Gerald Ford 6 - Frank Gorshin 7 – Bill Keane 8 – Noel Neill (Lois Lane 50s) 9 - Mary-Kate Olsen 10 – Joy Page (Casablanca) 11 – Joyce Randolph (Played Trixie, Ed Norton’s wife, on the TV series “The Honeymooners”) 12 – Keith Richards 13 – Pernell (Parnell?) Roberts (Bonanza) ---
**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:** [December 5, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/110 "2004-12-05T14:29:29Z")
**Abe Vigoda** is also another Immortal. FYI. It is so hard just picking 13. It takes me longer to pick this baker’s dozen than it did picking out any of my cars or children’s names. So many celebs…so many politicans…who to pick? Who is worthy of my list? Who will give me the greatest pointage so that I can beat **Lance Murdock** the Lance Armstrong of the DP list this year. Clearly we need to open things wide up and have 30 people on the list. Then I’d be cooking with gas. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/111 "2004-12-05T19:25:26Z")
1. Dick Button 2. Fidel Castro 3. Carol Channing 4. Courtney Love 5. Tippl Hedren 6. John Paul II 7. Tammy Faye Bakker Messner 8. Tara Reid 9. Liz Taylor 10. Margaret Thatcher 11. Gore Vidal 12. Claus von Bulow 13. Esther Williams Alternates (in order): Jonathan Winters, Billy Graham, Jerry Lewis ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/112 "2004-12-05T19:33:31Z")
After a good performance in 2003, I missed the 2004 pool, so I’m back with a vengeance this year. 1. Muhammed Ali 2. Stephen Hawking 3. Margaret Thatcher 4. Angela Lansbury 5. William Rehnquist 6. James Doohan 7. Jack Palance 8. Joe Piscopo 9. Pope John Paul II 10. James Garner 11. Courtney Love 12. Bruno Sammartino (former WWF champion) 13. Boris Yeltsin ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Babbington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Mr.Babbington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Babbington)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/113 "2004-12-05T19:37:54Z")
Got’s to wait. The year isn’t over yet. I can still hold out hope that Peter O’Toole and The Pope kick the bucket this year. I’m betting on Christmas Eve for the both of them. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/114 "2004-12-05T21:37:12Z")
At this point, what would it take to beat\*\* Lance Murdoch\*\*? Who amongst his nearest competitors would have a shot? D0 they gave any choices that Murdoch doesn’t? ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/115 "2004-12-05T22:31:19Z")
What a sick, freaking game. You people are disgusting. Ok, I’m in. 1. Pope John Paul II (The Freaking Pope) 2. Tommy Morrison (Boxer/Actor) 3. Margaret Thatcher (Former PM of GB) 4. Osama Bin Laden (Read a newspaper for Pete’s sake!) 5. Ayman al-Zawahiri (Again with terrorist thing) 6. Fidel Castro (Cuban Dictator) 7. Walter Cronkite (News Anchor) 8. William Rehnquist (SCOTUS Chief Justice) 9. Dick Cheney (A Heartbeat away in more ways than one) 10. Harry Knowels (AICN…of course, Harry COULD be a DOPER!) 11. Jason Giambi (Roided up baseball player) 12. Diago Maradona (Ex-Soccer Great) 13. Wilmer Valderama (That 70’s Show’s FEZ) Alternates: 14. Bruce Vilanch (comedian) 15. Danny Masterson (Somebody from the 70’s Show is going to crash and burn!) 16. Jared Fogle (Subway spokesman) I had Gerald Ford, but I think he is going for Reagan’s record of #1 all-time! And Son of GUN! I had a witty one in Jared Fogle and **Melondeca** gets me on the last page I had to read over! Well Played! I put him as third alternate instead to honor your selection. (I love some of the picks. So bizarre! Plus, I thought Conrad Bain was dead. Guess not!) ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/116 "2004-12-05T22:47:52Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > ``` > LVgeogeek, Brando(your #13) died this past July. > > ``` I knew that… why did I put him down… :o OK, here is my submission for the Death Pool 2005: again 1. Fidel Castro, dictator 2. Jimmy Carter, ex-president 3. Gerald Ford, ex- president 4. Pope John Paul II 5. Dan Rather, newscaster 6. William Rehnquist, SCOTUS 7. Keith Richards, Roling Stones 8. Kirk Douglas, actor 9. Wilford Brimley, actor 10. Jerry Stiller, comedian 11. Jerry Lewis, comedian 12. Kris Kristofferson, country singer 13. Abe Vigoda, actor Alternates: (to be used in this order) 1. Orrin Hatch, Utah Senator 2. Courtney Love, musician 3. Paris HIlton, spoiled brat/heires ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/117 "2004-12-06T04:00:43Z")
Because I had nothing better to do I went through all the lists so far and made a tally of which celebrity had been picked by the most people, and how many names had been chosen over all. Pope John Paul II heads the list of course. He has almost twice as many picks as his nearest competitor. When compiling my list I counted for him those poster who wrote “the pope” without giving a name. 398 different names have been chosen, 264 of which are single picks, so far of course. **THE FOLLOWING IS NOT MY LIST!!! IT’S A LIST OF THE TOP 13 CHOICES.** 55- John Paul II 29- William Rehnquist 26- Elizabeth Taylor 26- Gerald Ford 18- Fidel Castro 16- Richard Pryor 15- Courtney Love 15- James Doohan 13- Lady Bird Johnson 13- Margaret Thatcher 13- Walter Cronkite 12- Rosa Parks 11- Michael Jackson ---
**Author:** ![infamousmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d6d6ee/32.png) [@infamousmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infamousmom)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/118 "2004-12-06T08:33:21Z")
1. Dick Cheney 2. Jack LaLanne 3. Roy (of Sigmund and) 4. James Garner 5. Johnny Carson 6. Phyllis Schlafly 7. Ed McMahon 8. Gerald Ford 9. Pope John Paul II 10. Carol Channing 11. Robert Blake 12. Rose Marie 13. James Arness ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/119 "2004-12-06T09:44:11Z")
1. McCauley Culkin 2. Leonardo DiCaprio 3. Eminem 4. R. Kelly 5. Courtney Love 6. Darryl Strawberry 7. Mary Kate Olsen 8. Chris Robinson 9. Drew Barrymore 10. Shaquille O’Neill ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/120 "2004-12-06T09:47:43Z")
> [@zuma](#): > > 1. McCauley Culkin > 2. Leonardo DiCaprio > 3. Eminem > 4. R. Kelly > 5. Courtney Love > 6. Darryl Strawberry > 7. Mary Kate Olsen > 8. Chris Robinson > 9. Drew Barrymore > 10. Shaquille O’Neill Oops… we pick 13. 1. Corey Feldman 2. Axl Rose 3. Dale Earnhardt Jr. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574.md?page=7)