# 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:** 27
**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:** [January 10, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/521 "2007-01-10T15:19:30Z")
**Shirley** , put down the coffee and step away from the keyboard. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/522 "2007-01-10T15:23:49Z")
You are so correct. Or I could switch to decaf. Not. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/523 "2007-01-10T19:47:37Z")
[Yvonne De Carlo](http://http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/10/obit.decarlo.ap/index.html?eref=yahoo) joins Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/524 "2007-01-10T19:58:07Z")
[Carlo Ponti is dead](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2540805,00.html). ---
**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:** [January 10, 2007, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/525 "2007-01-10T19:59:41Z")
[QUOTE=Duckster] [Carlo Ponti is dead](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2540805,00.html). [/QUOTE] Still? What about Generalisimo Fransisco Franco? ---
**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:** [January 10, 2007, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/526 "2007-01-10T22:05:02Z")
Sadly, some vampires don’t live forever ☹ [http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/10/obit.decarlo.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/10/obit.decarlo.ap/index.html) > [@](#): > > Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful star who played Moses’ wife in “The Ten Commandments” but achieved her greatest popularity on TV’s “The Munsters,” has died. She was 84. > > De Carlo died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Los Angeles, longtime friend and television producer Kevin Burns said Wednesday. > > De Carlo, whose shapely figure helped launch her career in B-movie desert adventures and Westerns, rose to more important roles in the 1950s. Later, she had a key role in a landmark Broadway musical, Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies.” > > But for TV viewers, she will always be known as Lily Munster in the 1964-1966 slapstick horror-movie spoof “The Munsters.” The series (the name allegedly derived from “fun-monsters”) offered a gallery of Universal Pictures grotesques, including Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster, in a cobwebbed gothic setting. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/527 "2007-01-10T22:11:37Z")
First time ever I hoped a time out error would not post what \*\*Sean Factotum \*\* reported earlier, alas. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2007, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/528 "2007-01-11T12:54:33Z")
Yvonne de Carlo: file under **Thought She Was Already Dead**. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/529 "2007-01-11T20:02:28Z")
[QUOTE=GIGObuster] First time ever I hoped a time out error would not post what \*\*Sean Factotum \*\* reported earlier, alas. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but your coding was right. Call it a tie. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/530 "2007-01-11T23:26:25Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] Yvonne de Carlo: file under **Thought She Was Already Dead**. [/QUOTE] No kidding. That’s what I said to my husband last night when we heard. I could have SWORN she died at least a decade ago. ---
**Author:** ![gaucho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gaucho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaucho)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/531 "2007-01-12T01:31:54Z")
Anybody have Robert Anton Wilson? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/532 "2007-01-12T04:15:40Z")
[QUOTE=gaucho] Anybody have Robert Anton Wilson? [/QUOTE] I did, and I think **Loach** did as well. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/533 "2007-01-12T04:20:02Z")
Posters who had Robert Anton Wilson (January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007, 74 years old, 26 points): **Sternvogel Sublight Loach Little Nemo CowPatty** Any others, please add your names. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2007, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/534 "2007-01-12T10:31:54Z")
> [@](#): > > I could have SWORN she died at least a decade ago. A lot of people are remembering the death of Carolyn Jones (who played Morticia Addams) in 1983 and confusing her with de Carlo. ---
**Author:** ![gaucho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gaucho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaucho)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/535 "2007-01-12T13:52:12Z")
[QUOTE=Sublight] Posters who had Robert Anton Wilson (January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007, 74 years old, 26 points): **Sternvogel Sublight Loach Little Nemo CowPatty** Any others, please add your names. [/QUOTE] Well played, people. Well played indeed. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/536 "2007-01-12T13:56:53Z")
[QUOTE=gaucho] Well played, people. Well played indeed. [/QUOTE] Indeed! ::Polite golf clap:: Indeed! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/537 "2007-01-12T19:17:54Z")
[QUOTE=gaucho] Anybody have Robert Anton Wilson? [/QUOTE] Anyone with a link? I need proof that I am no longer a virgin. I can’t help but think this is all a plot by the Illuminati. fnord ---
**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:** [January 12, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/538 "2007-01-12T21:16:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Well played, people. Well played indeed. Well, it’s not like his death was any surprise to us. We had discussed it at our December meeting… …maybe I’ve said too much. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/539 "2007-01-12T22:45:59Z")
I haven’t found any mainstream media confirmation of Robert Anton Wilson’s death, but here’s a [relevant blog entry.](http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/12/062113.php) My streak of getting at least one “hit” in each of my four years of **Celebrity Death Pool** participation continues: 2004: Uta Hagen, Betty Hill, and Alan King 2005: Arthur Miller 2006: Lou Rawls 2007: RAW (with others to follow?) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/540 "2007-01-13T18:09:15Z")
[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16607436/?GT1=8921](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16607436/?GT1=8921) Larry Stewart, of Kansas City, has died. At least one Doper had him, and jumps in with a big 42 points. Wish it was me! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=28)