# 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:** 12
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/221 "2005-12-31T03:41:44Z")
I just think all you listing Keith Richards will not get a perfect score. He’s going to outlive the cockroaches ---
**Author:** ![IrreverentTone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@IrreverentTone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IrreverentTone)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/222 "2005-12-31T05:47:10Z")
Here goes… 1. Dick Clark 2. Dick Cheney 3. Annette Funicello 4. Dana Reeve 5. Larry Storch 6. Tammy Faye Bakker Messner 7. Don Ho 8. Mary Tyler Moore 9. Rupert Everett 10. Stephen Hawking 11. Margaret Thatcher 12. Lou Rawls 13. Madeleine L’Engle ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/223 "2005-12-31T07:22:55Z")
1. Courtney Love 2. Bob Dole 3. Dennis Rodman 4. Emeril Lagasse 5. Pam Anderson 6. Stephen King 7. Jay Leno 8. George Carlin 9. Ralph Wilson 10. Larry Flint 11. Jeff Gordon 12. John Travolta 13. Macaulay Culkin Woo Hoo, I’ll try again with the young and dangerous. I’m looking for big points not easy scores. Who knows maybe I’ll wind up with zero points again! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/224 "2005-12-31T08:03:59Z")
OK, this is my first Celebrity Death Pool tourny, so here goes: 1. Fidel Castro (He’s old) 2. Hugh Downs (Ditto) 3. Dick Clark (See above) 4. Lindsey Lohan (Took a sharp turn down cocaine blvd, most seem to think.) 5. Courtney Love (Do you really need a reason?) 6. B.B. King (Old AND diabetic) 7. 50 Cent (He’s already been shot, like, 1,000 times. Odds are, he’ll be shot again.) 8. Stephen Hawking (Old-ish, but also has a very bad disease) 9. Hank Aaron (Old) 10. Billy Graham (Same as most, old) 11. Hugh Hefner (Again, and old fogey) 12. John Goodman (not that old, but big and looks like he might have heart trouble.) 13. Jack Black (He likes the drugs) ---
**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 31, 2005, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/225 "2005-12-31T09:06:04Z")
My picks for '06 1 - Muhammad Ali 2 - Ginger Lynn Allen 3 - Ronnie Biggs 4 - Gerald Ford 5 - Billy Graham 6 - Don Ho 7 - Larry King 8 - Art Linkletter 9 - Tammy Faye Bakker Messner 10 - Eleanor Mondale 11 - Lou Rawls 12 - Elizabeth Taylor 13 - Margaret Thatcher Alternates if for any reason they’re necessary: 1 - Augusto Pinochet 2 - Henry Kissinger 3 - George McGovern ---
**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 31, 2005, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/226 "2005-12-31T12:37:28Z")
I have been agonizing over my picks for the past two days and trying to come up with a few that no one else has. Unfortunately, it looks like a few of you are on the same Perverse Wave Length as me … [Mr. Incredible] I still got time. [/Mr. Incredible] ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/227 "2005-12-31T13:03:10Z")
> [@Mr. Goob](#): > > Woo Hoo, I’ll try again with the young and dangerous. I’m looking for big points not easy scores. Who knows maybe I’ll wind up with zero points again! Yeah, no one says “young and dangerous” like Bob Dole. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/228 "2005-12-31T13:36:21Z")
Here goes: 1- Dick Cheney 2- Mikhail Gorbachev 3- George HW Bush (the legitimately elected one) 4- Rush Limbaugh 5- Dale Earnhardt Jr 6- William Shatner (you’re dead, Jim) 7- George Kell, Detroit Tiger Hall of Famer 8- Mike Tyson 9- Max Baer, Jr 10- Art Buchwald 11- Oliver North 12- Lou Ferrigno 13- Barbara Billingsley ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/229 "2005-12-31T13:41:29Z")
Ah, I see. I was under the impression that if someone was not sentenced to death **yet** you would still get the points if they were executed. If that’s the case, scratch my Iraqis and subs bench: I’ll have 1. Ian Huntley 2. Michael J. Fox 3. Muhammed Ali ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/230 "2005-12-31T14:11:53Z")
> [@SentientMeat](#): > > Ah, I see. I was under the impression that if someone was not sentenced to death **yet** you would still get the points if they were executed. I’m going to keep Saddam, because with the number of attempts on his life, and the rescue attempts both, I don’t think he’ll live long enought to be executed. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/231 "2005-12-31T14:14:32Z")
Last Call! Last Call for bets! Place your bets! Last Call! (Remember in the SDMP Death Pool, like the Oscars, it is an honor just to be nominated!) ---
**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 31, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/232 "2005-12-31T14:31:37Z")
Gah, I’ve spent 4 hours this morning trying to fine tune my list and I am still Not Happy. ---
**Author:** ![Saitou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Saitou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saitou)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/233 "2005-12-31T14:34:09Z")
[ol] [li]Efram Zimbalist Jr. [/li][li]Haji Mohammad Soeharto [/li][li]Max Wright[/li][li]Sir Arthur C. Clarke[/li][li]Jürgen Habermas[/li][li]Jean Stapleton[/li][li]Sir Patrick Moore[/li][li]Alexander Haig[/li][li]Kim Novak[/li][li]Javier Pérez de Cuéllar[/li][li]Maximilian Schell[/li][li]Lord Peter Carrington[/li][li]Norodom Sihanouk[/li] Alternates [li]Milton Friedman [/li][li]Kurt Waldheim[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/234 "2005-12-31T14:34:41Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Gah, I’ve spent 4 hours this morning trying to fine tune my list and I am still Not Happy. Sometimes you’ve just got to post. I was going to wait till today, gave up and did it the other evening – and have been finding notes to myself all over the house with possible names. I’m just gonna stay with my list. (I’ll tell you, though – if Jane Fonda kicks this year I’m gonna be _pissed_. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/235 "2005-12-31T14:53:33Z")
[Tammy Faye Messner](http://soundwise.org/lifeandtimes/wp-content/wordpress/images/Tammy%20Faye%20Messner.jpg) Local girl makes “good.” Looks like a panda bear. A scary panda bear. [Lou Rawls](http://www.mp3rockabilly.com/tbLouRawls.jpg) The first musician I can remember disliking. Of course, I liked the Bay City Rollers back then. [Belinda Emmett](http://www.wwwterminator.com/all_nude_celebrities/belinda_emmett_2.jpg) Australian TV star married to another TV star. Proponent of alternative medicine. Her inclusion on this list tells you what I think of alt meds. [Sarah Brady](http://www.billstclair.com/blog/images/wanted.jpg) Gun control advocate. To right-wing gun nuts she’s one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. [Yves St. Laurent](http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/images/YSL/ysl_nude.jpg) Chain-smoking, boozehound fashion designer. Appropriately, he’s best kown for creating the smoking jaket. [Lansana Conte](http://www.africatime.com/data/nouvelles/44893.JPG)Long-time President (dictator) of Guinea. Survived a round of bullet hockey in January. I’m taking another “shot” at it with him this year. [Harold Pinter](http://dvdtoile.com/ARTISTES/3/3785.jpg) Writer who is probably more famous for his political views than any of his books. Big supporter of Fidel Castro and Slobodan Miloševic. [Ronnie Biggs](http://hangoverguide.com/out/hall/pics/ronnie_girls.jpg) Robbed a train and has parleyed that into a lifetime of making a spectacle of himself. [Michael Brecker](http://www.ballade.no/nmi.nsf/pic/michaelbrecker_ojf_03/%24file/michaelbrecker_ojf_03.jpg) Jazz Saxophonist. Has won eleven Grammys, but is a respected musician anyway. Patsy Ramsey 1977 Miss West Virgina. More famous, however, for being the mother of [JonBenet](http://pages.infinit.net/irulan/people4jonbenet.jpg) And in the 72 virgins club… Imad al Diab Islamic Jihad leader. Israelis once [pimped his ride.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1380000/images/_1383878_explodedcarap150.jpg) [Mohamed al Hindi](http://cidinfo2000.free.fr/Hamas/mohamedalhindi.jpg) Senior member of Islamic Jihad. Famous for saying “we will not lay down our weapons.” He forgot to mention the cold, dead hand part of that saying. [Warren Jeffs](http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/fugitive/aug2005/augjeffs.htm) Holy man, prophet, voice of God and the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints. Also a rapist, pedophile, extortionist, polygamist, etc. Pratices what might be called reverse-Islam. He gets his 72 virgins _before_ his martyrdom. This is the way to go. The Islamic Jihad guys might get the shaft from Allah when they go to collect their holy hotties. Jeffs on the other hand, gets all the divine tail he can handle in the here and now. Alternates [al Zarqawi](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y225/lanotom/zar.jpg) Asshat [Mahmoud al Zahar](http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030911/ind4.jpg) Was elected leader of Hamas in secret to protect him from assassination. If I know he’s the “secret” Hamas leader what are the odds the Israelis have figured out the “secret” too? [Pete Doherty](http://www.yorkshiresoul.org/pete%20doherty.jpg) Musician who has been said to take the odd nip at the bottle. Boyfriend of [Kate Moss](http://www.netplugged.com/photos/kate_moss_shoping.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/236 "2005-12-31T15:31:44Z")
Hokey smoke! I almost missed the deadline. _Again_. Here goes: 1. Dave Brubeck 2. Sid Caesar 3. Phyllis Diller 4. Gerald Ford 5. Billy Graham 6. Harvey Korman 7. Tammy Faye Bakker Messner 8. Louis Nye 9. Don Rickles 10. Lou Rawls 11. Mickey Rooney 12. Gene Wilder 13. Studs Terkel For the record: I’m not really jumping on the Rawls bandwagon, since I named him two years ago (so _there_). I am with Ms. Messner, since so many have named her and she carries to many points to pass up. ---
**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 31, 2005, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/237 "2005-12-31T16:12:03Z")
2006 Dead Pool Picks: Trying for the Quantity Over Quality Award: 1. **Gerald Ford** ( Carry over from DP2005) 2. **Margaret Thatcher.** ( 1925) 3. **Saddam Hussein** (1937) Assassinated or hangs himself. 4.\*\*Fidel Castro \*\*(1926) (He could be the Keith Richards of politics.) 5.\*\*Stephen Hawking \*\*(1942) ( Another Immortal, but worth the shot.) 6. **Osama Bin Laden** (1957) Worth a shot. 7. **Tom Snyder.** Former talk show host. Cancer. (WAG as my Opening Kickoff winner. His website is now down.) 8. **Michael Brecker.** (1949) Musician. 9. **Carlo Ponti** (1912) Sophia Loren’s husband. Old Age. 10.\*\*Harper Lee \*\*( 1926) To Kill A Mocking Bird. ( WAG & Icon Writer Pick) 11. **Alexander Solzhenitsyn** (1918) Writer. Old Age. Obsure Pick. 12. **Ronnie Biggs** (this year he is going to go and he is on my list finally!) 13. **Lou Rawls.** (On the bandwagon!) **Alternates:** Claude Levi-Strauss ( 1908) Arthur Clarke (1917) Paris Hilton (perferably strangled by Andy Dick) Andy Dick (who then flames out in a pile of coke.) Go forth and die! ---
**Author:** ![GWVet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/65b543/32.png) [@GWVet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GWVet)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/238 "2005-12-31T16:37:04Z")
**First the carry-overs from 2005 (because I can’t believe they made it):** Mickey Rooney 09/23/1920 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 11/11/1922 **Stream of Consciousness WAGS:** Jim Fowler 04/09/1932 (notorious beast wrangler from _Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom_) Arte Johnson 01/20/1929 Donovan Philips Leitch 05/10/1946 (quite rightly) Jon Voight 12/29/1938 **"I Thought They Were Dead" category:** Barnard Hughes 07/16/1915 Gary Owens 05/10/1936 (famous announcer on just about every 70’s TV show) **"Live Fast and Die Young" category:** Marshall Bruce Mathers III 10/17/1972 Artie Lange 10/11/1967 **"Aging Childhood Infatuation" category:** Barbara Hall Feldon 03/12/1932 **"I Hope My List Doesn’t Keep Them Alive" category** Harry Belafonte 03/01/1927 Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz 08/13/1926 And Finally, **The Alternates (since they didn’t croak last year):** Sir Edmund Hillary 07/20/1919 Chuck Yeager 02/13/1923 ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/239 "2005-12-31T16:40:58Z")
Just to clarify (for my own list, not referencing anyone else’s picks) “celebrity” doesn’t have to be current, right? I mean, someone famous in the 70s but not active/famous/whatever _now_ counts. Right? ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/240 "2005-12-31T17:25:48Z")
Mel Brooks Mark “Deep Throat” Felt Gerald Ford Paul Newman Nick Nolte Pauline Friedman “Abigail (Dear Abby) Van Buren” Philips Ralph Waite Mike Wallace Jonathan Winters Caspar Weinberger Dick “Mr. Whipple” Wilson Boris Yeltsin Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=13)