# 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:** 53
**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:** [August 9, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1041 "2007-08-09T18:52:32Z")
[QUOTE=SpazCat] Psst. Check posts #1017, 1018 and 1022. [/QUOTE] :smack: ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1042 "2007-08-10T13:56:18Z")
[Merv Griffin is apparently circling the drain…](http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/articles/0809merv0809.html) ---
**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:** [August 10, 2007, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1043 "2007-08-10T15:04:02Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] [Merv Griffin is apparently circling the drain…](http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/articles/0809merv0809.html) [/QUOTE] Hear that? It’s the sound of a couple hundred “2008 short lists” being updated. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1044 "2007-08-10T22:17:03Z")
[Screenwriter/director Melville Shavelson is dead at 90](http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=285043&rss=yes), [English broadcaster/music promoter Tony Wilson is dead at 57](http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1013/1013299_tony_wilsons_battle_is_over.html), and [LDS official James Faust is dead at 87](http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695199591,00.html) ---
**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:** [August 11, 2007, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1045 "2007-08-11T00:56:17Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] [Merv Griffin is apparently circling the drain…](http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/articles/0809merv0809.html) [/QUOTE] According to the National Inquirer at the store today, Mervy has finally come out of the closet with his Big Fat Gay Secret. Apparently, the rags were the last to know. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1046 "2007-08-11T23:58:07Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] According to the National Inquirer at the store today, Mervy has finally come out of the closet with his Big Fat Gay Secret. Apparently, the rags were the last to know. [/QUOTE] Many years ago a Friend of a Friend spotted him making public displays of affection with a boyfriend…but then, much more recently, there was a profile of him and his wife on CBS Sunday Morning. The moral: always go with the FOAF over CBS News. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1047 "2007-08-12T01:10:37Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] According to the National Inquirer at the store today, Mervy has finally come out of the closet with his Big Fat Gay Secret. Apparently, the rags were the last to know. [/QUOTE] No, _I_ was the last to know. And the last to care. . . . ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1048 "2007-08-12T15:43:23Z")
Merv Griffin has died. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1049 "2007-08-12T18:59:40Z")
[Link for Merv Griffin](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070812/ap_en_tv/obit_merv_griffin) ---
**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:** [August 12, 2007, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1050 "2007-08-12T19:05:22Z")
[QUOTE=jsc1953] Many years ago a Friend of a Friend spotted him making public displays of affection with a boyfriend…but then, much more recently, there was a profile of him and his wife on CBS Sunday Morning. The moral: always go with the FOAF over CBS News. 😉 [/QUOTE] Zactly. Wise words, indeed. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1051 "2007-08-14T02:57:46Z")
[Brooke Astor](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20252379/). ---
**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:** [August 14, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1052 "2007-08-14T03:04:53Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] [Brooke Astor](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20252379/). [/QUOTE] Meh, no points. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1053 "2007-08-14T15:07:14Z")
According to Wiki, [Phil Rizzuto](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Rizzuto), age 89. 11 points ---
**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:** [August 16, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1054 "2007-08-16T21:04:24Z")
[Max Roach](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/arts/music/16cnd-roach.html?ex=1344916800&en=56fc9ddda51ef34c&ei=5089&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss), jazz drummer, dead at 83. 17 points for some lucky jazz ghoul? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1055 "2007-08-17T22:24:51Z")
[Yone Minagawa,](http://www.dailypress.com/news/sns-ap-obit-oldest-person,0,315197.story) who had been proclaimed the world’s oldest living person in January, has died at the age of 114. We have thus lost the last human to have lived during Benjamin Harrison’s term as President of the United States. The new reigning champion super-centenarian is [Edna Parker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_Parker) of Indiana. ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Andrew\_21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_21)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1056 "2007-08-18T18:25:57Z")
[Michael Deaver](http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/18/deaver.obit.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest) has died. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1057 "2007-08-20T15:08:07Z")
[Leona Helmsley.](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293798,00.html) My concept of justice had her in a jail cell with Zsa Zsa Gabor, and 1 lipstick between them… ---
**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:** [August 20, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1058 "2007-08-20T15:45:23Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] [Leona Helmsley.](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293798,00.html) My concept of justice had her in a jail cell with Zsa Zsa Gabor, and 1 lipstick between them… [/QUOTE] How ironic that she died of heart failure. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1059 "2007-08-20T18:01:42Z")
[QUOTE=SpazCat] How ironic that she died of heart failure. [/QUOTE] Ironic or surprising? Because it seemed during her trial that she didn’t have a heart. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1060 "2007-08-20T21:26:36Z")
[QUOTE=Sean Factotum] Ironic or surprising? Because it seemed during her trial that she didn’t have a heart. [/QUOTE] Exaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaactly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=52) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=54)