# 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:** 64
**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 31, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1261 "2007-10-31T03:39:03Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] _“But if I’d ever leave you, It couldn’t be in autumn. How I’d leave in autumn I never will know.”_ [/QUOTE] Well, he’s figured it out. ---
**Author:** ![Zog\_10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c57346/32.png) [@Zog\_10](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zog_10)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1262 "2007-10-31T04:34:37Z")
[QUOTE=a35362] Okay, big surprise: Mister Smartypants McBrainiac **Rachm Qoch** is still in the lead with **283** points. He also leads with **seven** dead celebrities. However, clever and industrious **Zog\_10** is not that far behind with **254** points. Wooooooo! [/QUOTE] If you can’t beat death, join death? ---
**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 31, 2007, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1263 "2007-10-31T06:51:09Z")
[Robert Goulet confirmed](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,306526,00.html) One more of my 08 shortlisters is gone. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2007, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1264 "2007-11-01T02:01:48Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Well, he’s figured it out. [/QUOTE] The schtick of the song was that he wouldn’t leave his lover in any season. One could be a smart ass at whatever time of year he died. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2007, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1265 "2007-11-01T02:32:54Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] The schtick of the song was that he wouldn’t leave his lover in any season. One could be a smart ass at whatever time of year he died. [/QUOTE] Yes, which makes it a GREAT song! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1266 "2007-11-01T02:48:34Z")
Robert Goulet: [In Tribute](http://youtube.com/watch?v=p2zRGQX2QLo) (video link, possibly NSFW) ---
**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:** [November 1, 2007, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1267 "2007-11-01T02:53:15Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Yes, which makes it a GREAT song! [/QUOTE] I rest my case. :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [November 1, 2007, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1268 "2007-11-01T02:59:59Z")
The Ramones curse continues. Thier manager [Linda Stein](http://wcbstv.com/local/linda.stein.dead.2.479621.html) was found murdered. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2007, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1269 "2007-11-01T16:40:09Z")
Reports coming in Paul Tibbets, Air Force pilot, has passed away. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1270 "2007-11-01T16:55:05Z")
[Article on Tibbets death:](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071101/ap_on_re_us/obit_tibbets_12;_ylt=AqARm86j3eL2.p4ukwgDfVgE1vAI) > [@](#): > > Paul Tibbets, who piloted the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died Thursday. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1271 "2007-11-01T16:59:06Z")
[Eve Curie Labouisse](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%88ve_Curie), daughter of Marie & Pierre Curie, dead at 102. Everyone who had her, give two points back. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1272 "2007-11-01T17:16:23Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Everyone who had her, give two points back. [/QUOTE] It could be worse. Rather than zero, I could be in the hole. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1273 "2007-11-02T18:54:33Z")
[John Woodruff,](http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-woodruff2nov02,1,3857864.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california) who won the 800-meter race at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, has died at the age of 92. Woodruff, an African-American, had been the USA’s last surviving track-and-field gold medalist from the competition famed for his and teammate Jesse Owens’s refutation of Adolf Hitler’s “master race” theory. [Sam Dana,](http://www.nfl.com/news/story;jsessionid=7DBCA71B4F0334CA29A1DCA1CCAB6B63?id=09000d5d803c295e&template=without-video&confirm=true) who had been the oldest living former National Football League player, passed away at the age of 104. Dana played for the Hartford Blues in 1926 and the football New York Yankees in 1928. At Columbia University, he had been a teammate of Lou Gehrig, who went on to a Hall of Fame career with the New York Yankees of baseball’s American League. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2007, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1274 "2007-11-05T06:25:21Z")
[The Fabulous Moolah is dead at 84.](http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/04/obit.ellison.ap/index.html) ---
**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:** [November 7, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1275 "2007-11-07T15:27:22Z")
Legendary Rock ‘n’ Roll Disc Jockey [Jim Hawthorne](http://www.jimhawthorne.com/radio.html) has passed on at 45RPM to that great radio station in the sky. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1276 "2007-11-08T19:49:00Z")
[George Osmond,](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,308558,00.html) father of Donny, Marie, and several other singers, has died at the age of 90. [George Ratterman,](http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071105/NEWS03/711050371) who quarterbacked the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and several professional football teams, has passed away at the age of 80. After his retirement from the Cleveland Browns, Ratterman was elected sheriff of Kentucky’s Campbell County and helped clean up organized crime in Newport, which had gained a reputation as the “Sin City of the South”. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1277 "2007-11-08T21:10:14Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] [George Osmond,](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,308558,00.html) … [George Ratterman,](http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071105/NEWS03/711050371) … [/QUOTE] Bad day to be a George. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2007, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1278 "2007-11-10T12:42:11Z")
[Author Norman Mailer dies at 84](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071110/ap_on_en_ot/obit_mailer_1;_ylt=AtAHpBl0EpcWqv7KelHe2z0E1vAI) congrats **gaucho** , you got a unique pick! ---
**Author:** ![gaucho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gaucho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaucho)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1279 "2007-11-10T13:09:00Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] [Author Norman Mailer dies at 84](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071110/ap_on_en_ot/obit_mailer_1;_ylt=AtAHpBl0EpcWqv7KelHe2z0E1vAI) congrats **gaucho** , you got a unique pick! [/QUOTE] I’m buffing my fingernails on my lapel. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2007, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1280 "2007-11-10T15:04:54Z")
[QUOTE=gaucho] I’m buffing my fingernails on my lapel. [/QUOTE] One more DP08 shortlister scratched off. nuts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=63) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=65)