# The Celebrity Death Pool 2006 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2005, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632 "2005-12-01T22:25:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/181 "2005-12-28T01:03:28Z")
Estelle Getty Lou Rawls Stephen Hawking Muhammed Ali Osama Bin Laden Sid Caeser Don Ho Tammy Faye Bakker Messner Elizabeth Taylor Mary Travers (Peter Paul & Mary) Shelley Winters Margaret Thatcher Annette Funicello Alternates: Robert Anton Wilson Jerry Lewis Keith Richards ---
**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 28, 2005, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/182 "2005-12-28T02:12:35Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > No, poopyhead, you have it wrong. The alternates come into play if someone in the top 13 assumes room temperature **before** Jan 1. Well, I \*know \* that._Blows a Raspberry towards **Vunderboob**._ But, what about _after_ January 1st? ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/183 "2005-12-28T02:30:14Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Well, I \*know \* that._Blows a Raspberry towards **Vunderboob**._ But, what about _after_ January 1st? The list is carved in stone at 00:00:00.00000000000000000001 on 1 Jan. It doesn’t change. Having an alternate fill in because you got lucky with a top 13er constitutes changing the list. Unless you want to run your own pool, and have that be your operational concept…?.. If so, what happens when an alternate croaks before bumping into the 13? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/184 "2005-12-28T03:22:58Z")
**Graham, Billy** , 1918, Christian evangelist \*\*Kilpatrick, James J., \*\* 1920, political writer **Parker, Eleanor** , 6/26/22, actress **Barker, Bob** , 12/12/23, game show host **Heston, Charlton** , 1924, actor **Hefner, Hugh** , 1926, publisher **Ariel Sharon** , 2/27/1928, Israeli politician **Marcos, Imelda** , 7/2/29, politician **Phelps, Fred** , 11/13/29, hatemonger **Paget, Debra** , 8/19/33, actress **Hawking, Stephen** , 1/8/42, physicist **Bhutto, Benazir** , 6/23/53, Pakistani politician ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/185 "2005-12-28T03:40:44Z")
Incidentally, I’ll take Bob Barker as an alternate. For some reason, I thought he was dead already. ---
**Author:** ![Critical\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/186 "2005-12-28T04:35:16Z")
Please replace my previously submitted list with this one: Special thanks to **a35362** for running the pool. 1. Ronnie Biggs 2. Abe Vigoda 3. Tammy Faye Bakker 4. Gerald Ford 5. Lou Rawls 6. Stephen Hawking 7. Elizabeth Taylor 8. Dana Reeve 9. Hosni Mubarak 10. Estelle Getty 11. Kirk Douglas 12. Mike Danton 13. Augusto Pinochet Alternate Keith Richards ---
**Author:** ![Rachm\_Qoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Rachm\_Qoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachm_Qoch)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/187 "2005-12-28T21:02:18Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > The list is carved in stone at 00:00:00.00000000000000000001 on 1 Jan. It doesn’t change. Having an alternate fill in because you got lucky with a top 13er constitutes changing the list. But what happens if you wake up Sunday morning to find Tom Brokaw had a bit too much fun with the cocaine and ODed New Years Eve? Or they find Pete Doherty’s corpse fermenting Layne Staley style? Or Bin Laden’s skeletal remains are finally put on display. I plan on listing a couple Alts for these sorts of "just in case"s. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/188 "2005-12-28T21:12:34Z")
**Baker** , you only listed 12, so you get another pick. Count me among those surprised to realize Eleanor Parker’s heart still beats. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/189 "2005-12-28T22:59:37Z")
Tammy Faye Bakker Ronnie Biggs Susan Butcher Belinda Emmett Maria Friedman Don Ho Kylie Minogue Mike Peters Ferenc Puskas Lou Rawls Dana Reeve Johnny Sain Tom Snyder Alternate: Harold Pinter ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/190 "2005-12-29T16:01:36Z")
my first foray into the world of death prognostication: 1. Ariel Sharon 2. Ray Rhodes (football coach) 3. Albert Hofmann 4. Claude Levi-Strauss 5. Abe Vigoda 6. Kirk Douglas 7. Micky Rooney 8. Lady Bird Johnson 9. Zsa Zsa Gabor 10. Gerald Ford 11. Ernest Borgnine 12. Shelly Winters 13. John Madden Alt1: Henry Kissinger Alt2: Sadaam Husein ---
**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:** [December 29, 2005, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/191 "2005-12-29T16:04:17Z")
> [@cazzle](#): > > I always wonder why people feel the need to supply 3 alts. Has anyone lost 3 picks in the month of December? Probably because the saying goes that people tend to die in groups of three. If anyone did in the end of December, it would be truly amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/192 "2005-12-29T16:51:23Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > Mike Peters > Johnny Sain Just to clarify, you mean the Mike Peters who sang with [The Alarm](http://www.thealarm.com/) as opposed to the [_Mother Goose and Grimm_](http://www.grimmy.com/) cartoonist, correct? Warren Spahn died a couple of years ago, but it’ll be interesting to see if the death of Sain is followed by [two days of rain.](http://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/po_rain.shtml) Incidentally, I picked [Bob Feller,](http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/F/Feller_Bob.stm) who lost the first game of the Cleveland-Boston World Series to Johnny (scroll to October 6, 1948 for details). My dad (who grew up an Indians fan) has a friend, Jack, who followed the Braves as a boy in New Hampshire. Dad always greets Jack by exclaiming “Masi was OUT!” ---
**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:** [December 29, 2005, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/193 "2005-12-29T18:04:48Z")
> [@](#): > > Also, why 13? There are so many wonderful possibilities for DP Lists and shaving off so many for the Golden 13 is harder for me than naming my kids was. Because back when I was running this thing, I couldn’t whittle my preliminary list down to only ten (which is what it was the first year) so I changed the rules and made it thirteen. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/194 "2005-12-29T18:34:01Z")
1. Queen Elizabeth II (Her Maj) 2. Prince Philip (Phil the Greek, husband of QE2) 3. Margaret Thatcher (The Milk Snatcher, ex U.K. PM) 4. Pope Benedict (Pope) 5. Fidel Castro (Dictator) 6. Olivia de Haviland (Actress) 7. Gerald Ford (Ex-President) 8. Augusto Pinochet (Ex-Dictator) 9. Vera Lynn (WW2 singer) 10. Charlton Heston (Actor) 11. Dick Cheney (Current VP) 12. Christopher Lee (Actor) 13. Jimmy Carter (The ex-President) Alternates Elizabeth Taylor (Actress) Robert Mugabe (Dictator / President of Zimbabwe) ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/195 "2005-12-29T18:35:11Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > Because back when I was running this thing, I couldn’t whittle my preliminary list down to only ten (which is what it was the first year) so I changed the rules and made it thirteen. And I assumed the number was picked on the basis of lucky 13… ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/196 "2005-12-29T18:52:30Z")
Oh boy! I get to participate this year. Last year I forgot to send in my list in time. _…grumble grumble…_ 1. Tammy Faye Bakker Messner 2. Charlton Heston 3. Dana Reeve 4. Dick Cheney 5. Walter Cronkite 6. Ariel Sharon 7. Billy Graham 8. Annette Funicello 9. Lady Bird Johnson 10. Muhammad Ali 11. Nancy Reagan 12. Stephen Hawking 13. Arthur C. Clarke Alternates: George Jones Gerald Ford ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/197 "2005-12-29T19:04:04Z")
Ron Santo - Former Cub 3rd baseman who has chosen a drastic weight loss plan. Muhammed Ali - Shaky boxer Webster - Tiny actor with big death pool upside Tommy Morrison - Former boxer I expect to be KO’d by AIDS Casey Martin - Limping linkster Al Unser Jr - A race car driver with an alcohol problem Andres Galarraga - Former 1st baseman with cancer and a prediliction towards weight gain. Fay Vincent - Former commish of baseball that just strikes me as sickly Kirby Puckett - True penthouse to doghouse former slugger Darryl Strawberry - Maybe, just maybe, drug related Eddy Curry - Current Knick with a shakier heart than Fred Sanford Jayson Williams - Chaffeur shooting former NBA bigman with little to live for. Nate Newton - Former NFL lineman with weight and drug issues. ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/198 "2005-12-29T21:51:31Z")
> [@Mullinator](#): > > Webster - Tiny actor with big death pool upside \*\* Mullinator\*\*, do you mean [Emmanuel Lewis](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507171/)? ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/199 "2005-12-29T23:08:02Z")
1. Nancy Reagan 2. Stan Lee (comic book creator) 3. Michelle Rodriguez (actress, _Lost_) 4. Mickey Rooney 5. Anna Nicole Smith 6. John Goodman 7. Dick Button (commentator/former figure skater) 8. Carol Channing 9. Randy “Macho Man” Savage 10. Ian McKellen 11. Dick Clark 12. Mel Brooks 13. Shirley Temple ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/200 "2005-12-30T00:20:20Z")
**Holy Men:** 1. Billy Graham 2. Benedict XVI **Heads of State:** 3. Fidel Castro 4. Jimmy Carter 5. Gerald Ford 6. Bill Clinton 7. Dick Cheney 8. John Paul Stevens **Game Show Hosts:** 9. Merv Griffin 10. Bob Barker **Musicians:** 11. Lou Rahls 12. Ashlee Simpson 13. Britney Spears [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=11)