# 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:** 28
**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 14, 2007, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/541 "2007-01-14T04:02:56Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] 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?) [/QUOTE] I saw the announcement on his website too but now of the usual suspects have picked it up. hmmmmmmm Anyway, RAW popped my cherry! And I have a good feeling about 3 of my other picks… FNORD ---
**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 14, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/542 "2007-01-14T20:46:08Z")
[Michael Brecker](http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-01-13-brecker-sax_x.htm?csp=34) has died. 13 days too late for pointage. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2007, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/543 "2007-01-15T01:41:00Z")
Alice Coltrane, jazz performer, composer and wife of the late jazz great John Coltrane, [has died at the age of 69.](http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-01-14-coltrane-obit_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA) ---
**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:** [January 16, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/544 "2007-01-16T03:18:20Z")
Tonight’s CSI has a Celebrity Death Pool storyline! Hmm, did one suspect kill a celebrity to win their pool?? Course, they’re offshore betting ten grand in theirs, lucky bastards. ---
**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 16, 2007, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/545 "2007-01-16T04:51:08Z")
> [@](#): > > Hmm, did one suspect kill a celebrity to win their pool?? See, that’s why we have rules against that. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/546 "2007-01-16T06:30:01Z")
[Castro moves to #1 with a bullet.](http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070116/D8MM63HO0.html) I hope that’s not a Death Pool faux pas… ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/547 "2007-01-16T12:49:28Z")
Anyone want to place any bets as to how soon the Cuban embargo gets dropped after Castro dies? I’m guessing within the next couple months. By the end of the year for sure. Come on, Fidel! Daddy needs some points! ---
**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:** [January 16, 2007, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/548 "2007-01-16T13:09:30Z")
[QUOTE=Diceman] Anyone want to place any bets as to how soon the Cuban embargo gets dropped after Castro dies? I’m guessing within the next couple months. By the end of the year for sure. [/QUOTE] I’ll take that bet. Care to make it interesting? ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/549 "2007-01-16T13:19:51Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] I’ll take that bet. Care to make it interesting? [/QUOTE] I’ll wager the communist government collapses entirely within a year of Fidel assuming room temperature. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/550 "2007-01-16T13:23:58Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] I’ll wager the communist government collapses entirely within a year of Fidel assuming room temperature. [/QUOTE] The bet was on the embargo, but I think you are wrong on the communist government as well. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/551 "2007-01-16T13:58:47Z")
Great. Robert Anton Wilson goes and now Fidel’s looking a little peakéd. C’mon Jesse Helms! Stop enjoying your good health and kick a few buckets around! :mad: ---
**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 16, 2007, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/552 "2007-01-16T14:24:46Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] The bet was on the embargo, but I think you are wrong on the communist government as well. [/QUOTE] I’m with you. Raul has a strangle hold on the government. Nothing will change while he is still around. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/553 "2007-01-16T16:18:52Z")
[Former NASCAR champ Benny Parsons, dead at 65](http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/6376034?FSO1&ATT=HMA). And of course, when I heard the news on the radio this morning, I couldn’t help but let out a “Woohoo!” And of course, it was the one time I was giving a neighbor a lift. And of course, I then had to lamely try to explain why I made such a happy noise upon hearing of another man’s death. D’oh. Ah, hell with it…woohoo! 35 points for me! ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/554 "2007-01-16T16:42:19Z")
Aw, Parsons was on my original list but got bumped for somebody else. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/555 "2007-01-16T16:49:08Z")
Parsons was really “good people” and funny as hell. But. Woohoo! 35 for me too. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/556 "2007-01-16T17:07:54Z")
Weeeeee. My first hit, and it’s still January! Are all the NASCAR fans going to replace their ‘3’ stickers with ‘Benny’ stickers now? ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/557 "2007-01-16T17:50:14Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] I’m with you. Raul has a strangle hold on the government. Nothing will change while he is still around. [/QUOTE] I don’t think he’ll be around for long. Nobody seems to like him. Besides, the Cuban Embargo has long since ceased to be anything other than a symbolic attack on Fidel. Even if nothing changes after his death, the fact that Fidel is gone will mean the embargo is now unnecessary. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/558 "2007-01-18T15:07:07Z")
[Columnist Art Buchwald has died at age 81.](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070118/ap_on_en_ot/obit_buchwald) ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/559 "2007-01-18T15:11:48Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] [Columnist Art Buchwald has died at age 81.](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070118/ap_on_en_ot/obit_buchwald) [/QUOTE] I’m sorry to see him go… but I’ll take the 19 points. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/560 "2007-01-18T15:53:58Z")
Three weeks into Jan. and I’ve scored twice. Dang, this is shaping up to be a record year! Come on Fidel! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=29)