# 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:** 67
**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 30, 2007, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1321 "2007-11-30T22:23:07Z")
[QUOTE=NurseCarmen] And 31 points have come flying over the canyon right at me! WooHooo! [/QUOTE] In a patriotic spandex jumpsuit only rivaled by Elvis. Congrats. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1322 "2007-12-01T00:47:59Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] I was about to throw up my hands in despair and blow off the 2008 pool. But I just scored with Knievel, and now I’m all amped up to enter again. It’s like fishing; all it takes is a couple of nibbles to keep you going. [/QUOTE] I also thought this year was going to give me one big goose egg, 31 points all the sudden. Best line from an early Knievel “biographical” movie: _Reporter_ - It is true that you kidnapped our wife? \* Knievel\* - That is absolutely true! [scene cuts to flashback of Knievel going inside his future wife’s college dorm with his bike and taking her away. (the movie points out she did accept his rushed proposal so calling it a kidnapping was just Knievel way of pumping up his wild side)] ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1323 "2007-12-01T11:48:13Z")
[QUOTE=MadTheSwine] 2008 thread opens soon doesn’t it? [/QUOTE] [And we’re off.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9229482#post9229482) ---
**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:** [December 1, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1324 "2007-12-01T14:59:48Z")
With a great big fat thank you to The Numbers Lady of Death for all her years of keeping track of Dead Peeples! ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1325 "2007-12-02T18:10:24Z")
[Richard Leigh,](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/30/db3003.xml) one of the three men who collaborated on the book _The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail_, has died at the age of 64. With Henry Lincoln and Michael Baigent, Leigh produced a work which claimed that Jesus Christ had married Mary Magdalene, and that the descendants of this union continued to exert a secret influence on European affairs. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1326 "2007-12-03T21:36:44Z")
[Vladimir Kryuchkov](http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071125/wl_afp/russiapoliticshistorykryuchkov;_ylt=Armt0JBAkMEkV2q4MTYp1uxEhMgF) , the former head of the Soviet KGB, has died. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1327 "2007-12-04T22:00:46Z")
[Pimp C](http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g2tjxLD9MVtOilJNjkldAB7SQ7QAD8TASBT80), rapper, dead at 33 (and that’s a post I never thought I’d make) ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1328 "2007-12-05T05:47:31Z")
You even rhymed it. You’re a ghetto poet and you don’t even know it. ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1329 "2007-12-05T15:42:45Z")
Poker star [David ‘Chip’ Reese](http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gVfZCZhgfJQQ0kyamPwtIH9afOfgD8TB372O0) has died at the age of 56. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1330 "2007-12-05T23:26:39Z")
[Ian Smith,](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2007/11/20/noindex/wsmith120.xmll) who served as prime minister of Rhodesia from 1964 to 1979, died last month at the age of 88. Smith declared independence from the United Kingdom in 1965, and sought to preserve the country’s white minority’s dominance over the blacks who composed 96% of the populace. He had left his homeland (now known as Zimbabwe) in 2005, and moved to Cape Town, South Africa, where he passed away. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1331 "2007-12-05T23:44:56Z")
[Ginger Meggs creator, James Kemsley](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22864583-2,00.html), died 12/3/07 of a motor neuron disease ---
**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:** [December 6, 2007, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1332 "2007-12-06T04:39:42Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] [Ginger Meggs creator, James Kemsley](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22864583-2,00.html), died 12/3/07 of a motor neuron disease [/QUOTE] [nitpick]Artist, not creator. Kemsley was the fourth artist to draw the strip[/nitpick] ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1333 "2007-12-07T20:36:11Z")
German composer [Karlheinz Stockhausen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Stockhausen) is dead, age 79. He was going to be on my 2008 list. 😛 ---
**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:** [December 12, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1334 "2007-12-12T22:06:43Z")
[Ike Turner is dead](http://music.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=288220>1=7702) ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1335 "2007-12-12T22:07:46Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] [Ike Turner is dead](http://music.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=288220>1=7702) [/QUOTE] Bah! I just came in here to post that. I did do a thread search and came up with **[gwendee](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8019516&highlight=turner#post8019516)** earning some points. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2007, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1336 "2007-12-12T22:12:14Z")
[QUOTE=Garfield226] Bah! I just came in here to post that.. [/QUOTE] _::::::::::::::spikes the football:::::::::::::::::::::::::_ ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1337 "2007-12-12T22:16:07Z")
[Peter Zinner](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/arts/19zinner.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/A/Academy%20Awards%20(Oscars)), a name nobody probably knows, but anyone who saw “The Hunt for Red October” will remember in possibly his only role as an actor: Admiral Podorin, who, after reading the letter Captain Ramius has sent him, knocks over his (coffee? hot tea?). ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1338 "2007-12-14T20:55:29Z")
[Bill Willis,](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/sports/football/29willis.html?em&ex=1196485200&en=76a70da365f3afbe&ei=5087%0A) who was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame after starring with the Cleveland Browns from 1946 to '53, died last month at the age of 86. I just learned this from my mother, who was supervised by Willis when she worked for Cleveland’s Summer Playground program as a high-school student. [Bill Hartack,](http://horseracing.sportsline.com/cbs/headlines/showarticle.aspx?articleId=23822) who won five Kentucky Derbies during his career as a jockey, was 74 when he passed away last month. Hartack won over 4000 races in the USA, and then spent a few years as a jockey in Hong Kong. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1339 "2007-12-15T21:45:49Z")
[Rep. Julia Carson,](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071215/ap_on_go_co/obit_carson_5;_ylt=Aj7w1JwueGaRSdz1.sBJSvkE1vAI) the first black and first woman to represent Indianapolis in Congress, died Saturday, a family spokeswoman said. She was 69. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1340 "2007-12-15T21:48:35Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] Julia Carson [/QUOTE] There goes my one sure thing for next year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=66) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=68)