# The Celebrity Death Pool 2007 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 2, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620 "2006-12-02T22:07:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**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, 2006, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/361 "2006-12-31T23:14:55Z")
1- Emeril Lagasse (BAM) 2- John Madden, football announcer (BOOM) 3- Danica Patrick, race car driver 4- George Steinbrenner 5- Barbara Bush, former first lady 6- Tiger Woods 7- Pope Benedict 8- Jack Nicholson 9- Arnold Palmer 10- Bill Clinton 11- Queen Elizabeth 12- George Foreman 13- Nancy Reagan ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Venom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@Lady\_Venom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Venom)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/362 "2006-12-31T23:17:24Z")
Joanie Laurer “Chyna” - former WWE Wrestler Danny Bonaduce - Former Child Star Ozzy Osbourne - Musician Jake “The Snake” Roberts - former WWE Wrestler Steve-O - Reality TV Personality Paris Hilton - Hilton Hotel Heiress Nicole Ritchie - Lionel Ritchie’s daughter/socialite Courtney Love - Musician Florence Henderson - Actress Bob Saget - Actor Haley Joel Osment - Actor Theo Fleury - Former NHL Player Peter Doherty - Musician Alternate: Bob Barker ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/363 "2006-12-31T23:22:24Z")
Courtney Love is a musician?! And I thought she was just a rich junkie whore. Like Ana Nicole Smith without the boob job. Every day I learn something new here. ---
**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, 2006, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/364 "2006-12-31T23:23:01Z")
[QUOTE=Rachm Qoch] 9 hours, and I can’t make up my mind. I’ve got three lists, and I’m not sure which way to take things. Decisions, decisions… [/QUOTE] Take the cream of the crop from each list ( 3) and then random potshots of one each from each list. Or, better yet, email me your dilemma and I’ll _cough_ help you pick. My lists were in several notebooks and scribbled on paper bits. I wanted to submit hours later, but we are going out tonight and there will be no internet access. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/365 "2006-12-31T23:23:16Z")
[QUOTE=Tripler] My picks: 11) Waylon Jennings: Again, see point # **4**. [/QUOTE] In a fun twist, your pick has been dead for \*\*4 \*\* years! ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/366 "2006-12-31T23:24:21Z")
[QUOTE=Tripler] 13) (First Name) al Zarqaqi: Yeah, I think this guy might have it coming to him too. [/QUOTE] If you are tlking about [Abu Musab al-Zarqawi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Musab_al-Zarqawi), he died last June. [Ayman al-Zawahiri](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawahiri), Osama’s Dick Cheney, is holed up in Pakistan as well. Or is there a Zarqaqi I am unaware of? ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/367 "2006-12-31T23:27:51Z")
I’ve just been informed by **Nawth Chucka** and **Fear Itself** that two of my picks have been dead for some time. I can only respond that I’ve been deployed for some time, and have been out of the “real world” since . . . aw shit, quite a while. I still stand by my other eleven picks though. Tripler Thank you, that is all. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/368 "2006-12-31T23:29:16Z")
You can replace any of your choices until midnight Chicago time. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/369 "2006-12-31T23:30:41Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] You can replace any of your choices until midnight Chicago time. [/QUOTE] Does that still count for those of us who are already in 2007? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/370 "2006-12-31T23:33:09Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] Does that still count for those of us who are already in 2007? 🙂 [/QUOTE] Yes. H-hour is 12:00 midnight in Chicago, IL, USA (Central Daylight Time) ---
**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, 2006, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/371 "2006-12-31T23:35:58Z")
[QUOTE=Tripler] I’ve just been informed by **Nawth Chucka** and **Fear Itself** that two of my picks have been dead for some time. I can only respond that I’ve been deployed for some time, and have been out of the “real world” since . . . aw shit, quite a while. I still stand by my other eleven picks though. Tripler Thank you, that is all. [/QUOTE] Can I have Triplers other two picks? Pleeeeeaaaaaaaaase??? What? ---
**Author:** ![CowPatty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@CowPatty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CowPatty)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/372 "2006-12-31T23:51:03Z")
I am truly ashamed of the amount of time and thought I gave this list. I’m also ashamed I only got 2 out of 13 for 2006. Jack Kevorkian Tammy Faye Messner Fidel Castro Annette Funicello Fred Phelps Don Ho Tom Snyder Anna Nicole Smith Robert Anton Wilson Louis Farrakhan Ariel Sharon Ronnie Biggs Mindy McCready alternates: Dick Clark Betty Ford ---
**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 31, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/373 "2006-12-31T23:52:06Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] Take the cream of the crop from each list ( 3) and then random potshots of one each from each list. Or, better yet, email me your dilemma and I’ll _cough_ help you pick. My lists were in several notebooks and scribbled on paper bits. I wanted to submit hours later, but we are going out tonight and there will be no internet access. [/QUOTE] Alas, that’s not gonna work. Each list has it’s own thing goin on. The first **Cap’n Lance** inspired hellfire-up-your-ass list is rich in style points, but might not win. The second “13-for-13” list includes picks that wouldn’t make sense points-wise (e.g. Ladybird Johnson), and would most certainly not win the horserace, but is the greater challenge. And the third is the winner. Or I would hope, as something tells me '07 will be the most competitive game yet. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/374 "2006-12-31T23:58:28Z")
My final list. 1. Dick Cheney. One may hope. 2. Ringo Starr. Two down, two to go. 3. David Hampton Pryor, Former US Senator from Arkansas. 4. Fidel Castro. The “everybody else picked him” candidate. 5. Patricia Neal. Had the hots for her when I was a pup. 6. Christopher Lee, actor. Van Helsing is gone, can Dracula be far behind? 7. Ray Bradbury. Hope not. 8. Dwayne Hickman, actor. Maynard is already gone. 9. Buzz Aldrin. #2 on the moon. 10. Neil Armstrong. Again, I hope not. 11. Ariel Sharon. Gefilte fish in a barrel. 12. Stephen Hawking. Statistically due. “G-d does not play dice.” 13. Michael E. DeBakey, heart surgeon. Already had a big one. Alternate: Carol Buckley Executive Director/ co-founder The Elephant Sanctuary (They lost a “caregiver” last Summer.) ---
**Author:** ![Ragiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ragiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ragiel)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/375 "2006-12-31T23:59:20Z")
1. Luciano Pavarotti 2. Eddie Van Halen 3. Fidel Castro 4. Dr Jack Kevorkian 5. Tammy Faye Bakker Messner 6. Ariel Sharon 7. Jerry Falwell 8. Roger Ebert 9. Eartha Kitt 10. Michael J Fox 11. John Goodman 12. Phil Lesh 13. Farrah Fawcett Alternates: Lindsay Lohan, Stephen Hawking, Elizabeth II ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/376 "2007-01-01T00:06:46Z")
1. Fidel Castro 2. Muhammad Ali 3. Ariel Sharon 4. Farrah Fawcett 5. Bill Walsh 6. Ramzan Kadyrov 7. Jack Klugman 8. Roger Ebert 9. Evel Knievel 10. Patrick Moore (astronomy writer) 11. Abdulkassim Salat Hassan 12. Norodom Sihanouk 13. Margaret Thatcher ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/377 "2007-01-01T00:16:38Z")
Actual list [ol] [li]Muhammed Ali[/li][li]Robert Byrd[/li][li]Fidel Castro[/li][li]Dick Clark[/li][li]Kirk Douglas[/li][li]Zsa Zsa Gabor[/li][li]Billy Graham[/li][li]Ralph Hall[/li][li]Paul Harvey[/li][li]Lady Bird Johnson[/li][li]Tammy Faye Baker Messner[/li][li]Ashley Olsen[/li][li]Ariel Sharon[/li][/ol] Alternates - on the odd chance that three of those people die in the next few hours: [ul] [li]Ernest Borgnine[/li][li]Roger Ebert[/li][li]Jane Wyman[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/378 "2007-01-01T00:28:28Z")
Can’t leave it later waiting for you-know-who to post. Gotta go have some fun. Garry Betty (ex-CIO of Earthlink) Ronnie Biggs Fidel Castro Farrah Fawcett Dan Fogelberg Jane McGrath (Glenn’s wife) Magnus Magnusson Tammy Faye Messner Benny Parsons Suzanne Pleshette Ariel Sharon Yuri Shtern Chuck Strahl Alternate 1. Jack Kevorkian 2. Terry Jones ---
**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/379 "2007-01-01T00:36:48Z")
1. Jerry Falwell 2. Fred Phelps 3. Jack Kevorkian 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. Fidel Castro Alternates 1. Adam West 2. Geri Halliwell ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/380 "2007-01-01T00:42:58Z")
1. Art Buchwald: cheated the Grim Reaper long enough 2. George Bush peres: Bush fils needs all the sympathy he can get 3. Joey Bishop: last living Rat Packer 4. Ariel Sharon: see #1 5. Ron Santo: my favorite baseball player growing up, multiple health problems 6. Mary Kate Olsen: youth, anorexia & alleged coke use make her just too hard to pass up she looks worse than Keith Richards [who BTW will outlive us all] 7. Ronnie Biggs: Great Trail robber 8. Zsa Zsa Gabor: famous for being famous (& slugging a cop) 9. Don Ho: famous for having tiny bubbles 10. Margaret Thatcher: famous for having iron bubbles 11. Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis: he looked horrible at John Madden’s HoF induction, the Raiders 2-14 record will be noted as the cause of death 12. Mickey Carroll: famous Munchkin 13. Fidel Castro: duh . . . and if Castro or one of the other can’t make another 5 hours: Dick Clark, world’s olderst dead teenager. Oh, come on **Rachm** the suspense is killing us. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=20)