# 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:** 50
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/981 "2007-07-15T16:12:28Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] I was referring to the age of the sun – it being far enough above 100 years that it would score in negative numbers. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but think of the quality points for predicting THAT one! ---
**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:** [July 18, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/982 "2007-07-18T16:58:36Z")
It happened a few weeks ago but I just learned that science fiction author [Fred Saberhagen](http://www.sfwa.org/news/2007/fsaberhagen.htm) died at age 77. ---
**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 18, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/983 "2007-07-18T17:13:45Z")
_The Dracula Tapes_ dammit. ---
**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 22, 2007, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/984 "2007-07-22T00:54:45Z")
Tammy Faye Messner has died. The family asked Larry King to announce she died Friday morning, she was cremated and buried today. ---
**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 22, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/985 "2007-07-22T01:16:33Z")
[Tammy Faye Messner Dead At 65](http://cbs3.com/topstories/topstories_story_202000456.html) ---
**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:** [July 22, 2007, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/986 "2007-07-22T01:17:28Z")
You forgot the most important information – 35 points, dead at age 65. [Link.](http://cbs3.com/topstories/topstories_story_202000456.html) ---
**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:** [July 22, 2007, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/987 "2007-07-22T02:29:51Z")
DAMMIT. Again, wrong televangelist for the List of SpazCat.:mad: C’mon God. You can call Jerry Falwell, you can call Tammy Faye, hell, you even called my mom\* just to needle me some more. Doesn’t you need Billy to pay you an extended visit? \*not a televangelist, just another cruel joke by the Angel of Death who obviously hates me ---
**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2007, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/988 "2007-07-22T04:33:25Z")
I’m no longer a Death Pool virgin! Rest in peace Tammy Faye. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2007, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/989 "2007-07-22T06:08:44Z")
Tammy Faye was the #3 pick this year. Ironic that so many Dopers are losing their Death Pool cherries to a single fundamentalist christian. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/990 "2007-07-23T21:07:04Z")
[Laszlo Kovacs, one of the most active cinematographers of the last fifty years, is dead at 74](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/people/deaths/e3i26dfe10292c4995e6698dbfeae13d32d) ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/991 "2007-07-24T02:28:32Z")
Yay, I finally scored with Tammy Faye! Wait, that doesn’t sound right… ---
**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:** [July 24, 2007, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/992 "2007-07-24T02:32:45Z")
[QUOTE=BiblioCat] Yay, I finally scored with Tammy Faye! Wait, that doesn’t sound right… [/QUOTE] Not only doesn’t it sound right… it sounds repulsive. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/993 "2007-07-24T19:32:29Z")
[Mike Coolbaugh,](http://sports.espn.go.com/minorlbb/news/story?id=2945798&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines) who played in 44 Major League Baseball games and had earlier this month been hired as a coach by the minor-league Tulsa Drillers, was killed by a line drive during a game in Arkansas Sunday. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/994 "2007-07-28T14:05:49Z")
Oh no! Not [Lucky Grills](http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=281520)! RIP Bargearse ---
**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:** [July 28, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/995 "2007-07-28T16:05:29Z")
[QUOTE=Cazzle] Oh no! Not [Lucky Grills](http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=281520)! RIP Bargearse [/QUOTE] His friend says “He did two gigs back to back yesterday, not bad for a 79-year-old.” Apparently it was. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/996 "2007-07-28T22:04:32Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] [Mike Coolbaugh,](http://sports.espn.go.com/minorlbb/news/story?id=2945798&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines) who played in 44 Major League Baseball games and had earlier this month been hired as a coach by the minor-league Tulsa Drillers, was killed by a line drive during a game in Arkansas Sunday. [/QUOTE] I think I’ll buy season tickets for all the folks on my list. (The youngest is 86, and they’re all doing just fine. Sheesh.) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/997 "2007-07-30T09:34:20Z")
OK, who had Bergman? 11 points. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/998 "2007-07-30T11:32:47Z")
[QUOTE=Alessan] OK, who had Bergman? 11 points. [/QUOTE] more info please ---
**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 30, 2007, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/999 "2007-07-30T12:25:48Z")
From [NPR](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12343342) ---
**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 30, 2007, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1000 "2007-07-30T12:28:16Z")
[Newsman and talk show host Tom Snyder has died](http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_21294894.shtml): > [@](#): > > Tom Snyder, the veteran talk show host and newsman has passed away. Tom Snyder reportedly died from complications of leukemia. > Snyder died yesterday at 4 p.m. in San Francisco. He was 71 years old. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=49) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=51)