# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Electrical\_Storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac8455/32.png) [@Electrical\_Storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electrical_Storm)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/41 "2005-12-02T23:08:10Z")
My first go-round with the Pool! Here’s my picks: Jack Palance Elizabeth Taylor Paul McCartney Rip Torn Gary Busey Nick Nolte Jerry Lewis Danny Bonaduce Lauren Hutton Jerry Falwell Lillian Asplund (a gimmee, I know.) Estelle Getty (of “Golden Girls” fame) Whitney Houston ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/42 "2005-12-03T00:11:36Z")
1. Gerald Ford 2. Elizabeth Taylor 3. Michael Jackson 4. Lady Bird Johnson 5. Walter Cronkite 6. Richard Pryor 7. James Garner 8. Nancy Reagan 9. Tony Danza 10. Fred Phelps 11. Barbara Bush–Mrs George Herbert Walker Bush 12. Muhammed Ali 13. Loretta Lynn Alternates in order: Tammy Faye Baker Messner Angela Lansbury Mary Tyler Moore ---
**Author:** ![Lathe\_of\_Heaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Lathe\_of\_Heaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lathe_of_Heaven)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/43 "2005-12-03T02:03:11Z")
Here it is… the safest place to be for '06! \ \Mary Travers, from Peter Paul & Mary \Barbara Bush the Elder \Pete Seeger \50 Cent \Phred Phelps (Satan will ascend and transport him bodily to Hell) \Billy Graham \Stephen Hawking \Ray Bradbury \Peter Falk \Prince Philip \Emperor Akihito of Japan \Angela Lansbury \Jimmy Carter \ Bonus picks, in order, should any of the above be or become ineligible: \ \Doris Day \Bea Arthur \Tammy Faye Bakker Whatever \ ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/44 "2005-12-03T02:55:11Z")
First time I get to do this: Mine was almost a complete “K” list: \*\*Don Knotts \*\* (Actor) **Kurt Waldheim** (Former nazi, Former UN guy) **Kirk Douglas** (Actor. Tough guy not so tough anymore) **Karl Malden** (Actor) **Henry Kissinger** (diplomat, statesman, dictator supporter) **"Evel" Knievel** (Former daredevil, this will be his last jump) **Jack Klugman** (Actor, the odd couple can not be a couple unless they get together) The Gimmies: **Gerald Ford** (Former president) **Zsa Zsa Gabor** (Actress, sorry dahling) The rest: **Boris Yeltsin** (Former statesman) **Alexander Solzhenitsyn** (Former gulag prisoner, writer) **Nelson Mandela** (Former prisioner, statesman) **Eli Wallach** (Actor, the ugly one) * * * Alternates: **Fidel Castro** (Statesman) **Walter Cronkite** (Reporter) **Ernest Gallo** (Wine king) **Olivia De Havilland** (Actress) ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/45 "2005-12-03T03:52:08Z")
[ul] [li]Stephen Hawking[/li][li]Vic Chesnutt[/li][li]Frank Gardner[/li][li]Chuck Graham[/li][li]John Hockenberry[/li][li]Sharry Konopski[/li][li]Charles Krauthammer[/li][li]Deng Pufang[/li][li]Wolfgang Schäuble[/li][li]Randy Snow[/li][li]Magic Johnson[/li][/ul] I borrowed muchly from Wikipedia’s [list of paraplegic people](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paraplegic_people). ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/46 "2005-12-03T04:20:33Z")
Here’s mine: **John Goodman Michael J. Fox Dick Cheney Estelle Getty Muhammed Ali Dana Reeve George H. W. Bush Queen Elizabeth Gerald Ford Lindsay Lohan Robert Blake Howard Stern Joan Collins** ---
**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 3, 2005, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/47 "2005-12-03T04:54:33Z")
> [@Electronic Chaos](#): > > 1. [Lillian Gertrud Asplund](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Gertrud_Asplund) (oldest living Titanic survivor) > 2. [Moses Hardy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Hardy) (oldest living WWI vet). Moses Hardy isn’t worth any points at all as he is 112 years old and will be 113 in January. Lillian Asplund is only worth a single point if she dies early in January and after that, nothing. I understand that maybe you’re going for the quantity over quality award, but I’m disturbed by the selection of these people. Surely this is the same kind of bad taste that lead to the creation of rule 3f (“political prisoners, 'cause we’re macabre but not THAT macabre.”). A WWI vet and a titanic survivor stretch the definition of celebrity IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/48 "2005-12-03T06:00:05Z")
Antigen’s Death List 2006: **Dick Clark Kirk Douglas Ed McMahon Abe Vigoda David Letterman Jason Priestley Charleton Heston Jiri Fisher (Detroit Red Wings) Clint Eastwood Fidel Castro Gordie Howe Kylie Minogue Curtis James Jackson (aka 50 cent, rapper)** Alternates, in order: **Dan Rather Cindi Lauper** ---
**Author:** ![PrehensileRectum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@PrehensileRectum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PrehensileRectum)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/49 "2005-12-03T06:36:43Z")
Hello everyone! I’ve been a long time lurker. I registered just for this thread! 1. Tammy Faye Baker 2. Gerald Ford 3. Elizabeth Taylor 4. Margaret Thatcher 5. Lady Bird Johnson 6. Ronnie Biggs (Ambassador) 7. Queen Elizabeth the 2nd 8. Barbara Bush 9. Fidel Castro 10. Charlton Heston 11. Jimmy Carter 12. Eunice Shriver 13. Al Lewis (Grandpa Munster) ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/50 "2005-12-03T07:50:56Z")
Yay! My very first Death Pool! I submit: Queen Elizabeth II (British Monarch) Donald Rumsfeld (American Defense Secretary) Fidel Castro (aging communist) James Hetfield (frontman/rhythm guitarist for Metallica) Nancy Cartwright (voice of Bart Simpson) Snoop Dogg (born Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., rapper) Sir James Paul McCartney (aging Beatle) Roger Michael Cardinal Mahoney (Archbishop of Los Angeles) Lindsay Lohan (Actress) Robert Shapiro (defense attorney) Ann Coulter (journalist) Christopher Lee (actor) Courtney Love (musician) ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/51 "2005-12-03T08:16:34Z")
1. Michael Jackson 2. Liz Taylor 3. Dolly Parton 4. Stephen Hawking 5. Robert DeNiro 6. Dick Clark 7. Macauley Culkin 8. Roseanne Barr/Arnold/whatever she goes by if anything 9. J.D. Salinger 10. David Hasselhoff 11. Rip Torn 12. Paul McCartney 13. Danielle Steele Alternates: Henry Winkler Kelsey Grammer Bob Barker ---
**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/52 "2005-12-03T14:10:48Z")
1.) Jerry Falwell (please, please, please let this man die this year) 2.) Richard Pryor 3.) Anne Rice 4.) Xaviera Hollander 5.) Muhammed Ali 6.) Pervez Musharraf 7.) Susan Powter 8.) Wilford Brimley 9.) Dan Fogelberg 10.) David Crosby 11.) Rachel Wallmeyer 12.) Richard Roundtree 13.) Arthur Frommer Alternates: 1.) Syd Barrett 2.) Adam West 3.) James Brown ---
**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 3, 2005, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/53 "2005-12-03T14:19:46Z")
I’m Dreaming of a Bush Death Pool: 1.George W. Bush 2. Barbara Bush (the elder) 3. George H.W. Bush 4. Laura Bush 5. Barbara Bush (the younger) 6. Jenna Bush 7. Jeb Bush 8. Columba Bush 9. Jebby Bush 10. Lauren Bush 11. George P. Bush 12. Neil Bush 13. Marvin Bush ---
**Author:** ![Carm6773](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/54 "2005-12-03T15:37:32Z")
Ok, I’ll play again: 1. Muhammad Ali 2. Fidel Castro 3. Dick Clark 4. Steven Cojocaru (Entertainment Tonight Kidney Disease guy) 5. Gerald Ford 6. Stephen Hawking 7. Eunice Kennedy Shriver 8. Mary Kate Olsen 9. Richard Pryor 10. The Queen 11. Nancy Reagan 12. William Shatner 13. Liz Taylor Alternates, in order: 1. Olivia de Havilland 2. Scott Peterson 3. Joseph Smith (killer of Carlie Brucia, whose abduction was caught on tape) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/55 "2005-12-03T15:37:46Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I’m Dreaming of a Bush Death Pool: > > 1.George W. Bush > 2. Barbara Bush (the elder) > 3. George H.W. Bush > 4. Laura Bush > 5. Barbara Bush (the younger) > 6. Jenna Bush > 7. Jeb Bush > 8. Columba Bush > 9. Jebby Bush > 10. Lauren Bush > 11. George P. Bush > 12. Neil Bush > 13. Marvin Bush Now this is person who takes their politics _seriously_. ---
**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 3, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/56 "2005-12-03T16:38:11Z")
> [@Carm6773](#): > > 1. Scott Peterson > 2. Joseph Smith (killer of Carlie Brucia, whose abduction was caught on tape) Note rule #7. Persons under sentence of death will be valid for scoring points only if they die by means other than official execution (not that either of these fine upstanding citizens are likely to be executed in 2006). ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/57 "2005-12-03T16:54:44Z")
**alterego** , you get two more picks. **Electronic Chaos** ’s picks are okay with me. **Dolores Reborn** and **yellowval** : do you mean John Madden the football guy or John Madden the film director? ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/58 "2005-12-03T18:33:51Z")
1. Michael Jackson 2. Stephen Hawking 3. Elizabeth Taylor 4. Zsa Zsa Gabor 5. Dick Clark 6. Jerry Lewis 7. Don Knotts 8. Lindsay Lohan 9. Gerald Ford 10. Annette Funicello 11. Anna Nicole Smith 12. Tammy Faye Bakker Messner 13. Fred Phelps ---
**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 3, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/59 "2005-12-03T18:42:57Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I’m Dreaming of a Bush Death Pool: > > 1.George W. Bush > 2. Barbara Bush (the elder) > 3. George H.W. Bush > 4. Laura Bush > 5. Barbara Bush (the younger) > 6. Jenna Bush > 7. Jeb Bush > 8. Columba Bush > 9. Jebby Bush > 10. Lauren Bush > 11. George P. Bush > 12. Neil Bush > 13. Marvin Bush Change 13 to Noelle Bush (all those drugs have to kick in sometime) and keep Marvin as an alternate pick (in case the drugs kick in in December) ---
**Author:** ![Glassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Glassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glassy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/60 "2005-12-03T18:49:07Z")
My first death pool. This is creepily enjoyable. 1. Piers Anderson (sf writer) 2. Willie Nelson (country music legend) 3. Muhammed Ali (ailing boxer) 4. Arthur C. Clarke (sf writer) 5. Michael Gambon (the latest Dumbledore) 6. Mike Wallace (journalist) 7. Nick Nolte (actor who’s lookin’ kind of bad) 8. Ron Howard (film director and former actor) 9. Valerie Plame (outed CIA agent) 10. Mary-Kate Olsen (see 7) 11. Rober Ebert (movie critic) 12. Dick Cheney (veep) 13. Nelly (rapper) Alternates, in this order: Jeremy Irons Al Pacino 50 Cent [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=4)