This thread has gotten pretty frickin massive. What is it 8 pages? 9? It’s not even mid-January, fercryinoutloud!!
Would it be possible to lock this, and start a new one with a linky to this one? Just so we can keep the scores, grim-reaper updates and general discussion seperate from the entries?
Just a thought…
Happy
It’ll slow down at this point. The bulk of the posts come from the predictions. And part of the fun of Celebrity Deathpool is they’re the longest running threads on the board.
I just noticed that I made an error in my list. My selection 13 is Carl XIV Gustaf, King of Sweden. No such person exists; the King of Sweden is Carl XVI Gustaf.
I imagine it will slow down a bit (although no signs of that yet), but last year we didn’t get to page nine until May!
The size of the thread indicates how exponentially more popular The Straight Dope Celebrity Death Pool has become. Someone is spreading the word about the magnificence of this board. 
Gotcha.
You know the King of Sweden? He gave me things that I was needin.’
He gave me a home built of gold and steel; a diamond car with a platinum wheel…
A heidi-heidi-heidi-heidi-heidi-heidi-ho…!
Thanks.
AudienceA heidi-heidi-heidi-heidi-heidi-heidi-ho…!
Smoogly-do smoogly-do smoogly oogly oogly oogly-do…!
Did he give you his townhouse, and his racing horses?
Is each meal you eat a dozen courses?
Do you have a million dollars in nickles and dimes?
That you have counted one million times?
whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Most excellent reference BTW
Does anyone have Spencer Dryden from Jefferson Airplane on their list? He died on 1/11 from colon cancer.
Nope, nobody picked him.
Bread guitarist Jimmy Griffin dead at 61 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&e=4&u=/nm/20050114/en_nm/music_bread_dc
Seems like it’s a bad week to be an aging rocker.
Buenos noches Victoria de los Angeles
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050115/325/faclb.html
Death in her case means a cold body, funeral, and a burial. Well, it means that in any case. I wasn’t trying to sneak in with a re-incarnation or anything. Honest. 
Nobody picked either Jimmy Griffin or Victoria de los Angeles.
How long was it last year before a “picked celebrity” died?
January 5th. Tug McGraw. I know this, because he was one of my two “winners” from last year.
This year, the black horse of death is still at the starting gate. We are off to a slow start, yet it doesn’t stop the MPS, like The King of Sweden reference. This is going to be a loooooooong, fun thread.
First blood has finally been drawn! Charlie Bell has gone to the giant golden arches in the sky, earning VunderBob and amarone each 56 big points.
Zhao Ziyang, a former premier and reform-minded Communist Party leader who was toppled in a power struggle following the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, died Monday, a prominent human rights activist said, citing Zhao’s family. He was 85.
Source: Yahoo / AP Wire