# 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:** 38
**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:** [April 25, 2007, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/741 "2007-04-25T21:44:32Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] [Warren Avis,](http://www.thecarconnection.com/blog/?p=600) who founded the car-rental firm that bears his name, has died at the age of 92. [/QUOTE] I guess he got tired of trying harder. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/742 "2007-04-26T20:02:57Z")
Monster Mash singer [Bobby “Boris” Pickett](http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/26/obit.pickett.ap/index.html) dead at 69. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/743 "2007-04-26T20:22:47Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Monster Mash singer [Bobby “Boris” Pickett](http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/26/obit.pickett.ap/index.html) dead at 69. [/QUOTE] Word on the street is that he will be a graveyard smash. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2007, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/744 "2007-04-27T00:51:45Z")
It appears that Jack Valenti’s curtain has come down ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/745 "2007-04-27T01:29:28Z")
[QUOTE=The Vorlon] It appears that Jack Valenti’s curtain has come down [/QUOTE] “The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.” -Jack Valenti No points for me. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/746 "2007-04-27T02:58:54Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] I guess he got tired of trying harder. [/QUOTE] Ouch. That Hertz. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/747 "2007-04-27T13:02:39Z")
[Did anyone have Rostropovich?](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070427/ap_on_en_mu/obit_rostropovich) ---
**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:** [April 27, 2007, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/748 "2007-04-27T15:02:42Z")
[QUOTE=ErinPuff] [Did anyone have Rostropovich?](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070427/ap_on_en_mu/obit_rostropovich) [/QUOTE] I think I had his brother. Maury Povich. ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/749 "2007-04-29T17:18:15Z")
[Cardinals relief pitcher Josh Hancock killed in car crash.](http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-cardinals-hancockkilled&prov=ap&type=lgns) ---
**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:** [April 29, 2007, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/750 "2007-04-29T21:43:55Z")
[Robert Rosenthal](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070429/ap_on_re_us/obit_robert_rosenthal_1), WWII flying hero and a Nuremburg prosecutor, dead at age 89. It’s almost impossible to read a WWII AAF European history and not come across one account or another of his exploits. B-17 pilot, survivor of 52 missions and shot down twice over enemy territory, he was the best of the best. I never met him, but I’ve read so much about him that I am a little teary-eyed to learn this, which hasn’t happened for any other person listed this year. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/751 "2007-04-30T21:02:50Z")
[Tommy Newsom](http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.national/3027c216-www.wlos.com.shtml) of the Carson era _Tonight Show_ ---
**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:** [May 1, 2007, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/752 "2007-05-01T12:10:08Z")
[Abu Ayyub Al Masri](http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/01/iraq.main/index.html) death has not been confirmed by any Big Wig, but I am holding onto hope that I have finally scored and lost my cherry. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/753 "2007-05-01T15:11:33Z")
[Character actor Dabbs Greer](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070501/ap_en_tv/obit_greer_4), possibly best known for playing Reverend Alden on _Little House on the Prairie_, has died at age 90, which means I’m finally on the board. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/754 "2007-05-01T22:19:06Z")
Comic actor [Tom Poston](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070501/ap_en_tv/obit_poston), dead at 85. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/755 "2007-05-01T22:34:09Z")
> [@](#): > > Comic actor Tom Poston, dead at 85. My immediate reaction was “Mr. C!” Then I realized it wasn’t [Tom Bosey](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0098014/). I always got those two mixed up (their names, not their faces). ---
**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:** [May 1, 2007, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/756 "2007-05-01T23:03:26Z")
For the first time this year, I think, I am truly sad. I really, really liked Tom Poston. _Sniff_ Goodbye George Utley. _Sniff_ ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/757 "2007-05-02T11:49:10Z")
Just my luck. Poston croaks, and I picked his wife Suzanne Pleshette. :mad: ---
**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:** [May 2, 2007, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/758 "2007-05-02T11:55:24Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] Just my luck. Poston croaks, and I picked his wife Suzanne Pleshette. :mad: [/QUOTE] Yeah, me too. This is definitely not my year. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/759 "2007-05-02T13:08:13Z")
Heck with this. I have started work on the 2008 list. I really thought I had a good list too. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/760 "2007-05-02T13:52:14Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi] Heck with this. I have started work on the 2008 list. I really thought I had a good list too. [/QUOTE] A little late to the game, aren’t you? I started mine at 00:00:01 Jan 1 2007… 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=37) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=39)