# 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:** 45
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/881 "2007-06-09T04:49:58Z")
How many points do I get for my 2 unique picks? Because 11 is such a weak number. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/882 "2007-06-11T14:10:00Z")
Seven points for Frankie Laine, four for Kitty Carlisle. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2007, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/883 "2007-06-11T14:20:24Z")
[QUOTE=Only Mostly Dead] Exactly. Lou Rawls popped my Death Pool cherry last year. I’m not a virgin, I’m just in a period of involuntary Death Pool celibacy. [/QUOTE] Your Dead Pool Cherry is magically renewed at Midnight on the first of the year. It is the only place in the world that one gets their virginity back at the stroke of midnight. I usually have one measely corpse by now. Harmumphhhf. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/884 "2007-06-11T19:01:39Z")
Well, I’ve got my obligatory one per year, so everyone else on my list is safe now. It’s just a shame that my one had to be Vonnegut. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/885 "2007-06-11T19:14:11Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] Your Dead Pool Cherry is magically renewed at Midnight on the first of the year. It is the only place in the world that one gets their virginity back at the stroke of midnight. I usually have one measely corpse by now. Harmumphhhf. [/QUOTE] I was **re-virginated**?! Crap. 😉 I’m still convinced that the only things keeping Tammy Faye alive is sheer orneriness and being on my list. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/886 "2007-06-11T19:18:35Z")
[QUOTE=DeVena] I was **re-virginated**?! Crap. 😉 I’m still convinced that the only things keeping Tammy Faye alive is sheer orneriness and being on my list. [/QUOTE] A lot of corks will be popping when Tammy Faye bites it. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/887 "2007-06-12T22:40:50Z")
[Don Herbert, who hosted the “Mr. Wizard” program on and off from 1951 to 1990, is dead at 89](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-ex-herbert12jun13,0,4867128.story?coll=la-home-center) ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/888 "2007-06-14T13:16:16Z")
Ex-nazi Kurt Waldheim has died. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/889 "2007-06-14T16:15:53Z")
[QUOTE=Spiff] Ex-nazi Kurt Waldheim has died. [/QUOTE] Hot damn, I’m on the board! ---
**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:** [June 14, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/890 "2007-06-14T19:29:08Z")
I thought he died years ago. [Kurt Waldheim is tot.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-ex-waldheim14jun15,1,3620909.story?coll=chi-news-hed) Dunno. Poppin’ your cherry on a nazi. Kinda cool and kinda creepy. Not many of them left anymore. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2007, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/891 "2007-06-14T21:25:59Z")
I think there was a question for a while as to whether he really was an **ex** -nazi. He certainly is now. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/892 "2007-06-14T22:08:12Z")
[Ruth Bell Graham](http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/06/14/billy_grahams_wife_ruth_dies/), wife of Billy Graham for 63 years, has died. It’s time to start placing side-bets on Billy Boy. [Kelly Jo Dowd](http://www.thecancerblog.com/2007/05/26/kelly-jo-dowd-mom-of-teen-golf-pro-dies-of-cancer/), mother of teenage golf phenom [Dakota Dowd](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakoda_Dowd), has died. And no, I didn’t have either of them. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2007, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/893 "2007-06-14T22:18:53Z")
[QUOTE=Rachm Qoch] [Ruth Bell Graham](http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/06/14/billy_grahams_wife_ruth_dies/), wife of Billy Graham for 63 years, has died. It’s time to start placing side-bets on Billy Boy… [/QUOTE] BINGO! Popped my cherry! And Billy is on my list, almost money in the bank. I think Ruth is going to be worth points to lots of Dopers. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/894 "2007-06-14T22:57:55Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] I think Ruth is going to be worth points to lots of Dopers. [/QUOTE] Far from it - I believe you have a unique one. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2007, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/895 "2007-06-14T23:17:42Z")
[QUOTE=amarone] Far from it - I believe you have a unique one. [/QUOTE] I am amazed. I thought she was a well known deathbed celeb, like Tammy Faye. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/896 "2007-06-15T00:44:32Z")
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I have Kelly Jo Dowd! The drought is over!!!11 ---
**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:** [June 15, 2007, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/897 "2007-06-15T02:35:24Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] I thought he died years ago. [Kurt Waldheim is tot.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-ex-waldheim14jun15,1,3620909.story?coll=chi-news-hed) Dunno. Poppin’ your cherry on a nazi. Kinda cool and kinda creepy. Not many of them left anymore. [/QUOTE] I popped mine with a Pope. Very creepy, but I was glad for the points. [QUOTE=Boyo Jim] BINGO! Popped my cherry! And Billy is on my list, almost money in the bank. [/QUOTE] Yep, I think they say the widower generally doesn’t last 6 months after his wife dies once they get to a certain age. That is cutting it close for us now, but I am optimistic. We may get a TV preacher trifecta afterall! ---
**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:** [June 15, 2007, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/898 "2007-06-15T02:47:57Z")
[QUOTE=Grits and Hard Toast] I popped mine with a Pope. … [/QUOTE] You and 10 million altar boys. 😃 ---
**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:** [June 15, 2007, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/899 "2007-06-15T03:05:44Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] You and 10 million altar boys. 😃 [/QUOTE] Ha! I didn’t even see that one coming! :smack: Very funny!! ---
**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:** [June 15, 2007, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/900 "2007-06-15T08:23:06Z")
[QUOTE=Spiff] Ex-nazi Kurt Waldheim has died. [/QUOTE] Batting 1000 in alternates, zero real points. Darn, all my alternates are dying on me! (I had Kirkpatrick as an alternate for this year, but had to change my list when she died late last year.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=44) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=46)