# 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:** 46
**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:** [June 15, 2007, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/901 "2007-06-15T11:41:48Z")
[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] I’ve had a bet on Billy Boy for the last three years. Will this be the year he’s replaced? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/902 "2007-06-15T12:07:53Z")
I heard on the news this morning that Farrah Fawcett’s cancer is back. She’s gone to Germany for some kind of treatment… I may pop my cherry yet! (But this re-virginity-fying is most disconcerting…) 😃 ---
**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:** [June 15, 2007, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/903 "2007-06-15T12:25:12Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] I heard on the news this morning that Farrah Fawcett’s cancer is back. She’s gone to Germany for some kind of treatment… I may pop my cherry yet! (But this re-virginity-fying is most disconcerting…) 😃 [/QUOTE] Don’t get your hopes up. I’ve had Ariel Sharon since before he went into a coma. It’s been what, 18 months now? ---
**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, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/904 "2007-06-15T12:36:42Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] Don’t get your hopes up. I’ve had Ariel Sharon since before he went into a coma. It’s been what, 18 months now? [/QUOTE] I am pretty sure that with Ariel being on everyone’s death list he has now been given the Keith Richards-Stephen Hawkins-Osama Bin Laden Gift of Life and go on Forever. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2007, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/905 "2007-06-15T14:02:34Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] I am pretty sure that with Ariel being on everyone’s death list he has now been given the Keith Richards-Stephen Hawkins-Osama Bin Laden Gift of Life and go on Forever. [/QUOTE] I can see it now - instead of asking us to add a loved one to our prayer list, people will be asking us to add them to our death pool list. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/906 "2007-06-15T16:29:24Z")
But dammit I had him last year _before_ he went into the coma. Of course I had to keep him this year but the bandwagon got very crowded. ---
**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, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/907 "2007-06-15T19:31:12Z")
Would it be tacky to send a note to Billy thanking him for his wife’s point contribution, and reminding him that it’s not too late for his own? Do we know who the most popular 2007 DP choices are? ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/908 "2007-06-15T20:33:16Z")
Sherri Russell, better known as “Queen” and “Sensational Sherri” of WWF/E fame (and later WCW), has [passed away at 49.](http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/news/55805/Sensational-Sherri-Martel-Passes-Away.htm) ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/909 "2007-06-16T18:12:30Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Do we know who the most popular 2007 DP choices are? [/QUOTE] Top 10, in order: Fidel Castro Ariel Sharon Tammy Faye Messner Muhammud Ali Billy Graham Kirk Douglas Elizabeth Taylor Farrah Fawcett Dick Clark Margaret Thatcher ---
**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:** [June 16, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/910 "2007-06-16T18:22:19Z")
[QUOTE=amarone] Top 10, in order: Fidel Castro Ariel Sharon Tammy Faye Messner Muhammud Ali Billy Graham Kirk Douglas Elizabeth Taylor Farrah Fawcett Dick Clark Margaret Thatcher [/QUOTE] Image if they all died in the same plane crash! ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/911 "2007-06-16T20:36:07Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Image if they all died in the same plane crash! [/QUOTE] Yahtzee! ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/912 "2007-06-16T21:32:13Z")
Being a popular pick does seem to confer a degree of immortaility. All the top 31 are still alive. The most popular corpse is Art Buchwald, at number 32, picked by 12 dopers. The top 31 accumulated 846 picks. ---
**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 16, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/913 "2007-06-16T22:00:17Z")
[QUOTE=BiblioCat] Yahtzee! [/QUOTE] No kidding! I have 5 of them on my list. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2007, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/914 "2007-06-17T03:03:10Z")
I’m depressed by the realization that I’m having my best year ever in this game and I’m still so far behind Rachm Qoch that eight of the ten remaining people on my list could die and he’d still beat me. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/915 "2007-06-17T03:33:57Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] eight of the ten remaining people on my list could die and he’d still beat me. [/QUOTE] The man obviously has access to a time machine and should be disqualified. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/916 "2007-06-19T20:48:12Z")
[Terry Hoeppner,](http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/college_football/20070619-1005-fbc-obit-hoeppner.html) the NCAA football coach who had guided the Indiana Hoosiers to a 9-14 record over the past two seasons, has died at the age of 59. Hoeppner had been battling a brain tumor and its attendant complications since at least December of 2005. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/917 "2007-06-20T19:56:37Z")
[Vilma Espin Guillois,](http://www.sacbee.com/830/story/229297.html) the wife of Cuba’s current acting president Raul Castro, died Monday at the age of 77. Even while Fidel Castro was firmly grasping the reins of power on the Communist island, Espin was recognized as the “first lady of the Revolution” after helping to found the Federation of Cuban Women. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/918 "2007-06-20T20:05:10Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] [Vilma Espin Guillois,](http://www.sacbee.com/830/story/229297.html) the wife of Cuba’s current acting president Raul Castro, died Monday at the age of 77. Even while Fidel Castro was firmly grasping the reins of power on the Communist island, Espin was recognized as the “first lady of the Revolution” after helping to found the Federation of Cuban Women. [/QUOTE] (a broadway stage full of extras begin to sing) "Vilmita! Vilmita!’ ---
**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:** [June 24, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/919 "2007-06-24T21:46:55Z")
Former Major League closing pitcher [Rod Beck](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/06/24/bc.bbo.obit.beck.ap/index.html?cnn=yes) is dead at 38. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/920 "2007-06-25T03:40:40Z")
[QUOTE=a35362] As of June 8th to the best of my knowledge our scoreboard stands as follows: Last year’s champ **Rachm Qoch** is in fine form with 208 points. … [/QUOTE] I don’t really know this poster but I find it extremely odd and creepy that they won last year and are way ahead this year, and did so with a couple unique high-point picks. Could RQ have some inside information? Is RQ, by any chance, a very thin fellow who wears robes, carries a farming implement and an hourglass? Perhaps even rides a horse named Binky? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=45) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=47)