# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/161 "2005-12-20T14:30:05Z")
1. Sherman Hemsley 2. David Lander aka Squiggy 3. Jerry Lewis 4. Kirk Douglas 5. Gerald Ford 6. Lou Rawls 7. Bob Newhart 8. Cloris Leachman 9. Nancy Reagan 10. Jimmy Carter 11. Don Knotts 12. Gary Coleman 13. Luciano Pavarotti ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/162 "2005-12-20T21:54:11Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > This is morbid, but what the hell. I’ll only feel guilty if any of them die. And the guilt doesn’t last too long, either. Okay, here’s mine: ( **a** , please use this one instead of the one earlier in the thread.) 1. Pete Doherty – British rocker and crack addict 2. Stephen Hawking – “The Simpson’s” voice over actor and really smart guy 3. Darren McGavin – Night Stalker and Christmas Dad 4. Charlton Heston – one-time spokesman for God 5. Don Ho – world’s most famous Hawaiian 6. Kurt Vonnegut – author 7. Shelley Winters – 2005 heart attack survivor 8. Lou Rawls – Grammy-winning vocalist 9. Harold Pinter – playwright and 2005 Nobel Prize (Literature) winner 10. Wendy Wasserstein – another Pulitzer winning playwright 11. Dana Reeve – famous widow 12. Lady Bird Johnson – former FLOTUS 13. Tammy Faye Bakker Resner – former Norfolk VA television personality Alternates: a. Ed McMahon – perennial sidekick b. Tara Reid – safer bet than Courtney Love ---
**Author:** ![quelquechose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/6f9a4e/32.png) [@quelquechose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quelquechose)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/163 "2005-12-21T00:37:19Z")
Mine are all politicians and such: 1.George W. Bush 2.Ariel Sharon 3.Pope Benedict XVI 4.Jacques Chirac 5.Angela Merkel 6.Iyad Allawi 7.Tony Blair 8.Dick Cheney 9.Ariel Sharon 10.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 11.Jiang Zemin 12.Kim Jong Il 13.Saddam Hussein Alternates: Marwan Barghouti Vladimir Putin Aleksander Kwaśniewski ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/164 "2005-12-23T19:19:40Z")
Okay, I’m ready to submit my list. A few new names, several holdovers, and a couple of alternates (just in case a few of my picks for 2005 “beat the buzzer” in the next eight days): 1. [Joey Bishop](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Bishop) – Comedian, Rat Packer, and talk show host who’s been on my 2004 and 2005 lists 2. [Abdelaziz Bouteflika](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdelaziz_Bouteflika) – Algerian president, recently released from hospital in France 3. [Olivia de Havilland](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_De_Havilland) – Since this _Gone with the Wind_ actress turns 90 next year, the law of diminishing returns suggests this will be her final appearance on my list. 4. [Art Donovan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Donovan) – Former Baltimore Colt and current country club owner/raconteur 5. [Jerry Falwell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Falwell) – Thomas Road Baptist Church preacher and Liberty University founder will soon find out if he’s indeed punched his ticket to Heaven 6. [Bob Feller](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Feller) – Cleveland Indians pitching great and World War II veteran 7. [Joan Fontaine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Fontaine) – Estranged sister of Olivia de Havilland. **Eve** says the acting siblings hate each other so much that one won’t die until the other does. So when one finally goes, look for the other to follow in short order. 8. [Don Ho](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Ho) – Singer of _Tiny Bubbles_ and one-time _Brady Bunch_ guest performer is an admitted “bandwagon” pick after his experimental treatment for cardiomyopathy-induced heart failure 9. [Evo Morales](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales) – Newly-elected Bolivian president is a leftist coca farmer. In other words, an intelligence-agency orchestrated assassination waiting to happen. 10. [Lou Rawls](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Rawls) – Recent announcement that he’s being treated for cancer of the lung and brain makes this _Lady Love_ vocalist the “slam-dunk pick” for 2006, especially with that 1935 birthdate 11. [Oral Roberts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_Roberts) – University founder and televangelist who will finally be “called home” in 2006 12. [Norodom Sihanouk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norodom_Sihanouk) – Longtime Cambodian politician who’s been “King-Father” since abdicating his throne in the autumn of 2004 13. [Robert Anton Wilson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson) – Ever since I read that this _Illuminatus! Trilogy_ author is in ill health, he’s been my sleeper pick for this incarnation of the Death Pool Alternates (to be used in this order, if necessary) 1. [Lady Bird Johnson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Bird_Johnson) – Ex-First Lady of the U.S. isn’t worth enough points to stay on my “A-list” 2. [Billy Graham](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Graham) – If it’s true that “deaths come in threes”, he’ll join Falwell and Roberts in a trio of “men of the cloth” initiates to the Choir Invisible 3. [Gerald Ford](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford) – Another whose high risk of dying is offset by low reward, but whose name I can’t decline to mention after including it on my list for 2005 ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/165 "2005-12-23T19:32:17Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > 1. [Art Donovan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Donovan) – Former Baltimore Colt and current country club owner/raconteur Damn, there goes my unique pick. ---
**Author:** ![katie1341](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/166 "2005-12-24T01:31:01Z")
1. Mr. T 2. Courtney Love 3. Jerry Falwell 4. Omar Sherif 5. Don Knotts 6. Jimmy Carter 7. Kitty Dukakis 8. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 9. Keith Richards 10. Dennis Rodman 11. Kate Moss 12. Steven Hawking 13. Robert Redford ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/167 "2005-12-26T13:02:23Z")
1. [Pope Benedict XVI](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1909127/), pope 2. [Whitney Houston](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001365/), singer 3. [Paris Hilton](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0385296/), heiress 4. [Stephen Hawking](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370071/), scientist 5. [Michael J. Fox](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000150/), actor 6. [George W Bush](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0124133/), president 7. [Mikael Persbrandt](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0675409/), actor 8. [Margaret Thatcher](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0857137/), former prime minister 9. [Frank Gardner](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1504125/), journalist 10. [Pete Doherty](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2014223/), singer 11. [Per Sinding-Larsen](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0801806/), journalist 12. [Tara Reid](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005346/), actress 13. [Harold Pinter](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056217/), author ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/168 "2005-12-27T00:20:06Z")
Ah, yes, nothing says “holiday festivities” like coming up with a Dead Pool list. So far this year, I’ve been shut out, the price one pays for trying too hard to go for younger, more exclusive picks. I’m not trying so hard for that this year… Anyway, I have 6 holdovers from last year: **You don’t really think these guys are gonna live to a ripe old age, do you?** Mike Tyson Suge Knight **Pro wrestlers, porn stars, what’s the difference?** Ron Jeremy Lou Albano **Recently lost a bunch of weight, but I fear that the damage is done.** Wayne Knight John Popper And the new additions: **Picking the low hanging fruit.** Don Ho Lou Rawls **Wait, I thought he/she was already dead.** John Byner Katherine Helmond **Most likely to die from an overdose of an ED drug.** Bob Dole Mike Ditka **He’s looked dead for 20 years already.** Ric Ocasek ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/169 "2005-12-27T00:38:47Z")
My list is pretty much the same as last year with only replacements for the The Pope, Pryor and for Scott Peterson who survived his first year in the clink. So I took him off. What happened to jailhouse justice? My Dead Pool: 1. Dick Clark -legendary TV and Music personality 2. John Wooden -legendary college basketball coach 3. Jesse Helms -legendary racist senator 4. Don Rickles -legendary comic 5. Willie Mays -legendary baseball legend 6. Mickey Rooney -legendary short actor 7. Walter Cronkite -legendary anchorman 8. Fidel Castro -legendary dictator 9. Gerald Ford -legendary Michigan football player 10. Lou Rawls -legendary singer 11. Muhammad Ali -legendary greatest boxer of all-time 12. Andy Rooney -legendary commentator 13. Michael Jackson -legendary white woman ---
**Author:** ![Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_First_Time)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/170 "2005-12-27T02:45:08Z")
After erroneously placing this list on the 2005 thread, I’ll submit my picks in their proper place. No changes, however, from the “preview.” 1.Dick Clark 1. Don Ho 2. Elizabeth Taylor 3. Fidel Castro 4. John Wooden 5. Kirk Douglas 6. Nancy Reagan 7. Queen Elizabeth II 8. Marcel Marceau 9. Jerry Falwell 10. Lou Rawls 11. Tammy Faye Bakker 12. Ashley Simpson Alternates: Hulk Hogan Boris Yelsten ---
**Author:** ![Trillionaire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Trillionaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trillionaire)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/171 "2005-12-27T05:19:05Z")
**Meat Loaf** (aka Marvin Aday - singer / actor) **Ringo Starr** (ex Beatle) **Stephen Hawking** (physicist and author) **Keith Richards** (ex Rolling Stone) **Gerald Ford** (ex US president) \*\*Ozzy Osbourne \*\* (Prince of Darkness) **Sharon Osbourne** (wife of Ozzy) **Yogi Berra** (ex NY Yankee) **Phyllis Dilller** (comedian) **Ed McMahon** (US television personality) **Pete Rose** (ex baseball player) **Charles Manson** (ex cult leader) **JD Salinger** (author) alternative: **Zsa Zsa Gabor** ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/172 "2005-12-27T07:29:39Z")
I doubt any of these folks are going to shuffle off this mortal coil within the next week, so, I can “roll over” my entire 2005 list: 1. Lady Bird Johnson 2. Ervin ‘Magic’ Johnson 3. Jerry Lee Lewis 4. Jerry Lewis 5. Jayne Meadows 6. Art Linkletter 7. Ann B. Davis 8. William Shatner 9. Barbara Billingsley 10. Larry Storch 11. Professor Irwin Corey 12. Don Knotts 13. Jan Murray (born 1917) I don’t even think it is necessary to state an alternate, but on the off chance my zero score for 2005 gets “ruined”, then I shall choose **Charlie Daniels** as an alternate. (Should I end up 2005 with a “perfect” score, as promised I will publish a Top Ten List of the Advantages of having a zero score in the death pool.) ---
**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 27, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/173 "2005-12-27T23:48:53Z")
_:::::blows Whistle!::::::::::::_ **Time Out!** I have a **Brainfart Question©**. If we have alternates, and lets say one of our Top 13 dies after January 1, 2006, does this mean our 1st alternate is automatically moved up to the top 12 as a replacement or are we now just 12? oooooh, look, run on sentance. And if we have, say, three dead people on our list, and only two alternates…are we then short one, or just screwed. Or are we ( meaning me) being greedy? I’m sorry this this is so retarded, and one would think after all these years of Dead Pooling I’d _know_ these things. But, um…yeah. ::::blows whistle::::::::::::: Game On! ---
**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 27, 2005, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/174 "2005-12-27T23:51:01Z")
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. 20 would be cool…until I have to whittle it down to 20… ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/175 "2005-12-27T23:59:48Z")
Please delete my previous entry entirely, and replace it with this list: Saddam Hussein Fidel Castro Abu Moussab Al-Zarqawi Jerry Falwell Pervez Musharraf Michael Moore Dana Reeve, widow of Christopher Reeve Robert Mugabe George Soros Lou Rawls Muhammed Ali Tammie Faye Bakker Messner Maria Friedman, Broadway actress ---
**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 28, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/176 "2005-12-28T00:02:08Z")
> [@cazzle](#): > > 1. [Luciano Pavarotti](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavarotti) - born October 12 1935 > 2. [Colleen McCullough](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen_McCullough) - born June 1 1937 > 3. [Shelley Winters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Winters) - born August 18 1922 > 4. [Jerry Lewis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lewis) - born March 16 1926 > 5. [Richard Pryor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pryor) - born December 1 1940 > 6. [John Goodman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goodman) - born June 20 1952 > 7. [Elizabeth Taylor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Taylor) - born February 27 1932 > 8. [Larry Hagman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Hagman) - born September 21 1931 > 9. [Margaret Thatcher](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher) - born October 13 1925 > 10. [Nancy Reagan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Reagan) - born July 6 1921 > 11. [Bert Newton](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Newton) - born July 23 1938 > 12. [Belinda Emmett](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belinda_Emmett) - born April 12 1974 > 13. [Mark Latham](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Latham) - born February 28 1961 > > Alternate: > [Eunice Kennedy Shriver](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Kennedy) - born July 10 1921 Please bump Eunice Kennedy Shriver up to replace Richard Pryor. ---
**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, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/177 "2005-12-28T00:05:09Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > _:::::blows Whistle!::::::::::::_ > > **Time Out!** > I have a **Brainfart Question©**. > > If we have alternates, and lets say one of our Top 13 dies after January 1, 2006, does this mean our 1st alternate is automatically moved up to the top 12 as a replacement or are we now just 12? oooooh, look, run on sentance. > > And if we have, say, three dead people on our list, and only two alternates…are we then short one, or just screwed. Or are we ( meaning me) being greedy? > I’m sorry this this is so retarded, and one would think after all these years of Dead Pooling I’d _know_ these things. But, um…yeah. > ::::blows whistle::::::::::::: > > Game On! No, poopyhead, you have it wrong. The alternates come into play if someone in the top 13 assumes room temperature **before** Jan 1. ---
**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, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/178 "2005-12-28T00:06:27Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > No, poopyhead, you have it wrong. The alternates come into play if someone in the top 13 assumes room temperature **before** Jan 1. I forgot, they also work for the case of picking someone who was cold to begin with. ---
**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 28, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/179 "2005-12-28T00:07:05Z")
I always wonder why people feel the need to supply 3 alts. Has anyone lost 3 picks in the month of December? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632/180 "2005-12-28T00:17:31Z")
I have no alternates for my list - should I quickly think up a few? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632.md?page=10)