# 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:** 42
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/821 "2007-05-15T21:48:08Z")
[QUOTE=Tinkertoy] I got one! I finally got one! A death Pool virgin no more. [/QUOTE] You do realize that at future meetings of the SDMB Celebrity Death Pool Society Colloquium that you’ll have to say you lost your cherry to _Jerry Falwell_? Ick. Two preachers on my list, neither is Falwell. Rats. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/822 "2007-05-15T22:03:09Z")
[QUOTE=BJMoose] You do realize that at future meetings of the SDMB Celebrity Death Pool Society Colloquium that you’ll have to say you lost your cherry to _Jerry Falwell_? ick [/QUOTE] I’m just glad it wasn’t Fred Phelps. Six more religious leaders and I’m golden. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/823 "2007-05-15T23:39:35Z")
I’d like to thank Gerald Ford for dying in late 2006, cuz Jerry was my alternate! Woohoo! I mean, I’m sorry Gerald Ford passed away. Falwell can rot. ---
**Author:** ![Grits\_and\_Hard\_Toast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Grits\_and\_Hard\_Toast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grits_and_Hard_Toast)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/824 "2007-05-16T01:09:08Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] [Peace Officers memorial day.](http://www.petersonflags.com/half_staff_info.htm) May 15 every year. [/QUOTE] Thanks for that info. I hadn’t known about that. I knew they had been down for a bit after the VA Tech shootings, but thought they had been back up. I had also wondered how folks who had flags knew when there was a special order to fly them half-mast, your site answered that for me as well. The things you learn here…even in Celebrity Death Pool! ---
**Author:** ![qubed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f07891/32.png) [@qubed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qubed)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/825 "2007-05-16T04:48:13Z")
Wow! My first one. I’m excited. I join the the ~12 of you in excellent choosing. ---
**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:** [May 16, 2007, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/826 "2007-05-16T11:17:53Z")
[Yolanda King](http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/16/obit.king.ap/index.html), aged 51 > [@](#): > > Yolanda Denise King, daughter and eldest child of civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died, said Steve Klein, a spokesman for the King Center. ---
**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 16, 2007, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/827 "2007-05-16T11:23:42Z")
[QUOTE=NurseCarmen] It’s the lesbians fault that Falwell is not on my list. [/QUOTE] Were you trying to be converted to lesbianism again? :dubious: ---
**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:** [May 16, 2007, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/828 "2007-05-16T12:12:47Z")
Billy, Billy, Billy. Why did you let Jerry beat you to God? C’mon, your family’s already arguing about where you’ll be buried! Hop to! ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/829 "2007-05-16T19:13:26Z")
[Theodore H. Maiman,](http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=52047&src=site-marq) who is credited with building the first working laser and was dismayed when his invention was mischaracterized as a 1960-style “death ray”, has died at the age of 79. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/830 "2007-05-16T21:17:13Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] [Theodore H. Maiman,](http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=52047&src=site-marq) who is credited with building the first working laser and was dismayed when his invention was mischaracterized as a 1960-style “death ray”, has died at the age of 79. [/QUOTE] Damn. That’s the father of one of my high school classmates. A card is in order, apparently. ---
**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 16, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/831 "2007-05-16T21:37:09Z")
Behold the virgin and his list of immortals! ---
**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:** [May 19, 2007, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/832 "2007-05-19T03:10:56Z")
[Lloyd Alexander’s gone.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/17/AR2007051702371.html) ☹ First Vonnegut, now Alexander. Who will be next in the Really Good Author Trifecta? ---
**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 19, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/833 "2007-05-19T16:37:23Z")
[QUOTE=SpazCat] [Lloyd Alexander’s gone.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/17/AR2007051702371.html) ☹ First Vonnegut, now Alexander. Who will be next in the Really Good Author Trifecta? [/QUOTE] I’m hoping for JD Salinger and Harper Lee to bite the big one for a two-fer. I’m starting to worry. I didn’t do any gimme’s this year. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/834 "2007-05-19T18:30:06Z")
Heck, everyone on my list is over 85, and they’re all doing fine, thank you very much. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/835 "2007-05-19T19:18:04Z")
All I know is, next year I’m putting my own name on my list, and cancelling my life insurance. ---
**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 19, 2007, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/836 "2007-05-19T22:54:17Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] All I know is, next year I’m putting my own name on my list, and cancelling my life insurance. [/QUOTE] Life insurance won’t do _you_ any good. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/837 "2007-05-19T23:06:09Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] All I know is, next year I’m putting my own name on my list, and cancelling my life insurance. [/QUOTE] I think that’s what they’d call a hollow victory if you earned points on it. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/838 "2007-05-19T23:09:55Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] Life insurance won’t do _you_ any good. [/QUOTE] Well, no, but if folks on his list are immortal, he won’t need it. 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 19, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/839 "2007-05-19T23:11:29Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] Life insurance won’t do _you_ any good. [/QUOTE] The premiums will. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2007, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/840 "2007-05-20T13:53:17Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] I’m hoping for JD Salinger [/QUOTE] I said “Really _Good_”, not Overrated Bitter Hack. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=41) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=43)