# 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:** 47
**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:** [June 25, 2007, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/921 "2007-06-25T03:52:40Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] 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. [/QUOTE] If you look at the cause of death of each of his picks, you will see a clue to his methodology. ---
**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, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/922 "2007-06-25T04:07:55Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] If you look at the cause of death of each of his picks, you will see a clue to his methodology. [/QUOTE] That would mean I’d have to read the entire thread and then some. I only check in every so often to see who died and who’s winning. I was just curious. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/923 "2007-06-25T08:12:57Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] 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? [/QUOTE] You are not the first person to wonder these things. Really. ---
**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 25, 2007, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/924 "2007-06-25T13:31:55Z")
Doo-wop singer [Hank Medress](http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003761327_lionobit25.html), best known as the lead vocals on “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by the Tokens has died. _Wimoweh Wimoweh Wimoweh Wimoweh_ ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/925 "2007-06-25T13:59:42Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Doo-wop singer [Hank Medress](http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003761327_lionobit25.html), best known as the lead vocals on “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by the Tokens has died. _Wimoweh Wimoweh Wimoweh Wimoweh_ [/QUOTE] Somebody should have died for that song… ---
**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 25, 2007, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/926 "2007-06-25T22:51:59Z")
This has been a bad couple of weeks for ex-Congressmen. [Donald Clancy](http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070614/NEWS0104/706140352/1060/NEWS01), [Robin Beard](http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/jun/17/former_congressman_beard_dies_at_age/), [William Hungate](http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/C4688C2E4200006286257302005DB3A1?OpenDocument), and [Jack Flynt](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Obit_Flynt.html) have all died since June 12th. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/927 "2007-06-25T23:11:24Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] Somebody should have died for that song… [/QUOTE] Awww now… tell me you can’t watch [this video](http://www.metacafe.com/watch/340089/the_lion_sleeps_tonight/) and say you feel the same way. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/928 "2007-06-25T23:16:03Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] 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. [/QUOTE] **Rachm Qoch** has won the Death Pool by a huge margin every time he has participated, and seldom posts to anything except Death Pool and Mafia game threads. His methodology appears to combine the best search engine, which ferrets out stories about _extremely_ minor celebrities in extremely obscure publications, with the best medical knowledge, which enables him to separate _immediately fatal_ conditions from those which merely _enhance the risk_ of an early demise. Unfortunately, he’s so good that he has taken the fun out of these threads. The rest of us are competing for second place. ---
**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 25, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/929 "2007-06-25T23:41:46Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] This has been a bad couple of weeks for ex-Congressmen. [Donald Clancy](http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070614/NEWS0104/706140352/1060/NEWS01), [Robin Beard](http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/jun/17/former_congressman_beard_dies_at_age/), [William Hungate](http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/C4688C2E4200006286257302005DB3A1?OpenDocument), and [Jack Flynt](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Obit_Flynt.html) have all died since June 12th. [/QUOTE] Once again, my own pick is lagging far behind the current trend. Jesse Helms, please do this world a favor and LEAVE. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2007, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/930 "2007-06-26T01:02:16Z")
Chris Benoit (WWE Wrestler) is reported dead, along with his family in his Atlanta home. ---
**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 26, 2007, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/931 "2007-06-26T12:25:33Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi] Chris Benoit (WWE Wrestler) is reported dead, along with his family in his Atlanta home. [/QUOTE] At first I thought “hmmm…must have been carbon monoxide poisoning.” Then I read the story. [Link to story](http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4920395.html) Jeez. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/932 "2007-06-26T13:49:19Z")
Freaky, I just sat down to watch an SVU rerun on our TiVo, and it caught the end of the telecast mentioned in the article. I didn’t know the name, and thought, “Strange, surely I would have seen this guy mentioned in the Death Pool thread.” Didn’t know the death had just happened. By what logic do you edit and air a three-hour tribute to a guy who, by all indications, has just murdered his family in cold blood? It was USA, not pay-per-view, so why not just put up an apology notice during breaks of the first hour of reruns of one of the many shows in their stable? Even if it’s old WWE product if they had to honor some contract? ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/933 "2007-06-26T20:25:39Z")
At the time of that telecast, the whole Benoit story wasn’t known yet. It’s such a horrifying story, and seems so insanely out of character for the guy (real life, not TV persona). ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/934 "2007-06-27T19:52:35Z")
[Liz Claiborne,](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19463584/?GT1=10056) the fashion designer who in 1976 founded a company whose products became mainstays of many career women’s wardrobes, has died at the age of 78. [J.B. “Bud” Handelsman,](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19442189/) who created nearly 1000 cartoons for _The New Yorker_ and also contributed to such magazines as _Playboy_ and _Punch_, died last week at the age of 85. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2007, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/935 "2007-06-30T00:52:55Z")
Did anyone have [Joel Siegel](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070630/ap_en_mo/obit_joel_siegel)? ---
**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:** [July 3, 2007, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/936 "2007-07-03T02:18:35Z")
[Opera star Beverly Sills dies at 78](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070703/ap_on_en_mu/obit_beverly_sills_12;_ylt=Ap0INz4QH_0CUiOc3x60nNwE1vAI) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/937 "2007-07-03T02:23:22Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] [Opera star Beverly Sills dies at 78](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070703/ap_on_en_mu/obit_beverly_sills_12;_ylt=Ap0INz4QH_0CUiOc3x60nNwE1vAI) [/QUOTE] Bubbles is dead? How sad. I met her once, on a class trip to the Met. She and a few other notables (tho I’ve forgotten who) were wondering the halls for various reasons, and she stopped to talk to us. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2007, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/938 "2007-07-03T02:37:33Z")
Lung cancer. An opera singer. Good G-d. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/939 "2007-07-03T21:58:58Z")
[Boots Randolph,](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070703/ap_en_mu/obit_randolph;_ylt=AlTF96O9CiEAorC3hdTvJcQnHL8C) the veteran session musician who gained fame for writing and recording the 1963 hit _Yakety Sax_, has died at the age of 80. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2007, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/940 "2007-07-03T22:34:11Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] [Boots Randolph,](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070703/ap_en_mu/obit_randolph;_ylt=AlTF96O9CiEAorC3hdTvJcQnHL8C) the veteran session musician who gained fame for writing and recording the 1963 hit _Yakety Sax_, has died at the age of 80. [/QUOTE] And somewhere, Jackie Wright is muttering _“Bastard…it’s about time…”_ to himself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=46) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=48)