# 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:** 7
**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 6, 2004, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/121 "2004-12-06T11:41:28Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > 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? It would take having Lance Armstrong-Paris Hilton-Anna Nicole Smith Trifecta with the deal clincher of Gary Coleman. Whomever made a crack about **Peter O’Toole** Take it back. That is not right. He is one of the best actors ever. I’m not ready to put him on my list, despite the fact I adore him. And he has a double phallic name! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/122 "2004-12-06T11:55:27Z")
1. Bill Clinton 2. Morgan Faichild 3. Florence Henderson 4. Crispin Glover 5. Barry Bonds 6. Liz Taylor 7. Al Pacino 8. Gene Hackman 9. Anne Heche 10. Roger Daltry 11. John Cleese 12. Wilford Brimley 13. Deborah Harry ---
**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 6, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/123 "2004-12-06T15:11:07Z")
> [@watsonwil](#): > > I had Gerald Ford, but I think he is going for Reagan’s record of #1 all-time! [Dan Rather] Tragedy today, as Gerald Ford was eaten by wolves. He was delicious. [/Dan Rather] ---
**Author:** ![Qwisp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qwisp/32/397_2.png) [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/124 "2004-12-06T16:05:11Z")
My kids think it’s hilarious. Evrytime someone dies I get questioned if they are on my list. Of course not I tell them. Being on my list is a guarantee of another year on this plane of exsistence. Now my picks 1.John Cleese 2.Dennis Hopper 3.Don Rickles 4.Phylis Diller 5.Ted Kennedy 6.Johnny Carson 7.Barbara Eden 9.Steve “Crocoldile Hunter” Irwin 10.Bob Barker 11.Michael Moore 12.Marilyn Manson 13.Mick Jagger ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/125 "2004-12-06T16:24:23Z")
Steve Irwin? That’s really macabre. I _like_ it! ---
**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, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/126 "2004-12-06T20:00:31Z")
Actually, somebody already had Steve Irwin, I don’t know who though. When I was tallying the choices I didn’t put down names of posters. ---
**Author:** ![Qwisp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qwisp/32/397_2.png) [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/127 "2004-12-06T20:17:14Z")
Just in case anyone noticed, I really do know how to spell. Honest. ---
**Author:** ![eman77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@eman77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eman77)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/128 "2004-12-06T21:30:46Z")
1. Elizabeth Taylor 2. Pope John Paul II 3. Bob Barker 4. James Earl Jones 5. Jack Lalanne 6. Roy Horn 7. Johnny Carson 8. Gerald Ford 9. Jimmy Carter 10. William Rehnquist 11. Magic Johnson 12. Gore Vidal 13. Abe Vigoda ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/129 "2004-12-06T23:08:01Z")
> [@Qwisp](#): > > Just in case anyone noticed, I really do know how to spell. Honest. Okay, but your counting skills appear a bit shaky 😉 – you skipped from #7 right to #9. ---
**Author:** ![Qwisp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qwisp/32/397_2.png) [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/130 "2004-12-06T23:27:51Z")
Did you ever have one of those days? 8.Ed Asner ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/131 "2004-12-06T23:33:03Z")
Here’s mine - 1. Lauren Bacall - and I’ll be heartbroken. 2. Pope John Paul - and I’ll be relieved, poor guy’s more than ready. 3. Gordon Lightfoot - and I’ll be totally upset. 4. Charleton Heston - he’ll get to meet God instead of just playing Him! 5. Queen Elizabeth - all the tabloids will think Chuckie got tired of waiting and whacked her! 6. Hulk Hogan - the heart will catch up to him. 7. Charlie Watts - Mick and Keith are vampires. Isn’t it obvious? Charlie will get prostate cancer. Bets? 8. Paul Newman - car crash. Just driving down the road, too. 9. Eminem - shooting, possibly by a fan. 10. George Bush Senior - simple heart failure. 11. Bill Cosby - another heart failure. 12. The Anorexic Olsen (can’t remember which one) complications from the damage she already did. 13. Marilyn Manson - pure wishful thinking! I have no particular stratagy. These people just popped into my head. Several of them are people I’d love to be wrong about. ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/132 "2004-12-07T00:04:46Z")
To The Following People, I bestow the Gift of Life. I think I got one this year, and I was expecting a different mode of departure: 1. Pope John Paul II 2. Fidel Castro 3. Whitney Houston 4. Paris Hilton 5. Courtney Love 6. Zell Miller 7. Iyad Allawi 8. Mary-Kate Olsen 9. William Reihnquist 10. Viktor Yushchenko 11. Viktor Yanukovych (it’s called “hedging your bets”, children) 12. Merv Griffin 13. Jeff Gordon ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/133 "2004-12-07T01:38:38Z")
1. Winona Ryder 2. Robert Downey Jr 3. Calista Flockhart 4. Jerry Falwell (wishful thinking) 5. David Rockefeller 6. Della Reese 7. Larry King 8. Phyllis Diller 9. Eddie Albert 10. Paul Harvey 11. Kitty Carlisle 12. Olivia DeHavilland 13. Geraldine Fitzgerald Alternates: Andy Rooney Jack Palance Olympia Dukakis ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/134 "2004-12-07T02:22:01Z")
> [@zoogirl](#): > > 1. Charleton Heston - he’ll get to meet God instead of just playing Him! I wouldn’t bet the farm on that. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/135 "2004-12-07T02:52:37Z")
1. Pope John Paul II 2. Nancy Reagan 3. Johnny Carson 4. Emo Philips 5. Ed McMahon 6. Diana Ross 7. Queen Elizabeth II 8. Charleton Heston 9. Paul Newman 10. Kurt Vonnegut 11. Barbara Bush 12. Jimmy Carter 13. Nelson Mandela Alternates: George Herbert Walker Bush (AKA “Poppy”) Prince Charles Don Knotts ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/136 "2004-12-07T06:05:19Z")
1. Gore Vidal, author 2. Jane Jacobs, author 3. Michael Jackson, dethroned king of pop 4. Norman Mailer, author 5. Kurt Vonnegut, author 6. Hank Jones, jazz pianist 7. Marian McPartland, jazz pianist 8. Dick Cheney, vice president 9. William Rehnquist, chief justice 10. Fidel Castro, cigar aficionado 11. James Doohan, chief engineer 12. John Paul II, pope on the ropes 13. Günter Grass, author ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/137 "2004-12-07T12:15:16Z")
1. Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 2. Richard Pryor - December 1, 1940 3. Scott Weiland - October 27, 1967 4. Doris Day - April 3, 1924 5. Elizabeth Taylor - February 27, 1932 6. Courtney Love - July 9, 1964 7. Angela Lansbury - October 16, 1925 8. Peter Falk - September 16, 1927 9. John Goodman - June 20, 1952 10. Margaret Thatcher - October 13, 1925 11. Nancy Reagan - July 6, 1921 12. Don Adams - April 13, 1926 13. Charles Manson - November 12, 1934 ---
**Author:** ![williamweigand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b3f665/32.png) [@williamweigand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williamweigand)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/138 "2004-12-07T13:59:24Z")
Considering my selections for 2004, inclusion on my list seems to guarantee continued life. So my selection of people whose obituaries I’d hate to see are : Some of my favorite authors : 1. Ray Bradbury 2. Arthur C. Clarke 3. Harlan Ellison 4. Robert Silverburg 5. Kurt Vonnegut Some fave musicians : 1. Bob Dylan 2. Paul McCartney 3. Ringo Starr 4. Lou Reed 5. John Cale Some fave actresses : 1. Diane Lane 2. Elizabeth McGovern 3. Annette O’Toole Alternates, because they looked so close to death the last time I saw them : Angie Dickinson, Rose Marie and Mary Tyler Moore. ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/139 "2004-12-07T14:51:38Z")
Death Pool 1. Pope 2. James Doohan 3. Larry Hagman 4. Scott Hamilton 5. William Rehnquist 6. B.B. King 7. Wilford Brimley 8. Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9. Olivia De Havilland 10. Muhammad Ali 11. Viktor Yuschenko 12. Boris Yeltsin 13. Kirk Douglas And as an alternate should one of my choices cruelly rob me of points in December. 1. ``` Hamid Karzai (or however you spell it) ``` ---
**Author:** ![sWitchazel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@sWitchazel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sWitchazel)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574/140 "2004-12-07T14:57:47Z")
My list in no particular order: 1. Jesse Helms 2. John Ashcroft 3. Fidel Castro 4. Rush Limbaugh 5. Imelda Marcos 6. Garrison Keillor 7. Claude Vorilhon, founder of Raelian Movement 8. John DeLorean 9. Maya Angelou 10. Loretta Lynn 11. Sylvester Stallone 12. Yo-Yo Ma, cellist 13. Tatjan Patitz, supermodel Alternates: A) Kim Novak B) Mickey Rooney C) Joaquin Phoenix May the invisible pink unicorn have mercy on their souls. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574.md?page=8)