# 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:** 63
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1241 "2007-10-24T04:05:13Z")
Thank you very much for the update!!! ---
**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:** [October 24, 2007, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1242 "2007-10-24T12:54:26Z")
It’s just nice to be able to see my name on the board this year. Even if it is way down at the bottom with 26 points. Oh well still plenty of time left. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2007, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1243 "2007-10-24T13:08:49Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] It’s just nice to be able to see my name on the board this year. Even if it is way down at the bottom with 26 points. Oh well still plenty of time left. [/QUOTE] I hate you. 🙂 ---
**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:** [October 24, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1244 "2007-10-24T13:23:15Z")
Get in line. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1245 "2007-10-24T13:29:18Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] [a little premature, no?](http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jRxjCYbGjbQvviBKeV3mTnLFX3uA) [/QUOTE] Yikes, he’s still alive! My apologies, Mr. Goulet; take your time, sir. (But in any case, nobody picked him.) ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1246 "2007-10-24T13:50:29Z")
Still in the Top 10. Woohoo! ---
**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:** [October 24, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1247 "2007-10-24T17:21:50Z")
25th baby. WOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I’m such a DPdweeb that I printed out the latest scoreboard to show the girls at bowling tonight. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1248 "2007-10-24T17:38:52Z")
Wow, tied for 37th place. That’s higher than I ever expected to get! ---
**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:** [October 24, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1249 "2007-10-24T19:26:10Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] 25th baby. WOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I’m such a DPdweeb that I printed out the latest scoreboard to show the girls at bowling tonight. [/QUOTE] Somehow, the CDP and bowling just seem to go together don’t they? I’m sure the girls will either be impressed or squicked. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1250 "2007-10-24T19:32:52Z")
Painter [R.B. Kitaj](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._B._Kitaj) died. Like a lot of artists who don’t work in dead animals or their excretions, he was a lot more talented than he was famous. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1251 "2007-10-24T19:45:45Z")
Still a virgin… \ ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1252 "2007-10-24T20:23:44Z")
Nope, nobody picked him. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1253 "2007-10-24T20:32:07Z")
I thought we broke the thread - I couldn’t get past page 25 until you posted ---
**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:** [October 25, 2007, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1254 "2007-10-25T12:47:28Z")
[QUOTE=Rilchiam] [Peg Bracken](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/arts/23bracken.html?em&ex=1193284800&en=6ace92896b904a81&ei=5087%0A) died, but no one had her. [/QUOTE] She was one of my favorite writers. The obit doesn’t mention that she wrote a newspaper column with Homer Groening, whose son Matt went on to bigger and better things. Bracken remained friends with Marge Groening her whole life. [Cite](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/22/print/main3389846.shtml?source=RSSattr=Entertainment_3389846) ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1255 "2007-10-29T04:39:10Z")
[Long Time Country Music star Porter Wagoner dies at age 80.](http://www.cmt.com/news/articles/1572922/20071028/wagoner_porter.jhtml) ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1256 "2007-10-29T14:19:50Z")
Paul Fox who produced albums for XTC, They Might Be Giants, The Sugarcubes and others has died. Now it’s time for everyone I intended to pick next year to start going. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2007, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1257 "2007-10-29T20:24:26Z")
[QUOTE=Rico] [Long Time Country Music star Porter Wagoner dies at age 80.](http://www.cmt.com/news/articles/1572922/20071028/wagoner_porter.jhtml) [/QUOTE] Oh, another one of those guys who I thought was dead 20 years ago. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1258 "2007-10-30T16:59:54Z")
I’m going to go out on a limb and say no one had him (except me, on my short list for next year), but [Enuff Z’nuff drummer Ricky Parent](http://www.sleazeroxx.com/news07/1028par.shtml) has died of cancer. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1259 "2007-10-30T23:53:13Z")
Channel 4 in Salt Lake City is reporting that Robert Goulet died today. Interesting - no web confirmation except Goulet’s Wikipedia page… ETA: [Here it is.](http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7288146) RIP Mr. G. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2007, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1260 "2007-10-31T01:03:33Z")
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