# 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:** 68
**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 15, 2007, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1341 "2007-12-15T23:14:02Z")
And my first correct pick (sort of)–she was on my cherry-popper list for 2008! Losing your virginity prematurely feels weird. ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1342 "2007-12-15T23:16:30Z")
Anyone else batting .000 still? ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1343 "2007-12-15T23:44:22Z")
[QUOTE=Fetchund] Anyone else batting .000 still? [/QUOTE] Yep. _sigh_ ---
**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:** [December 16, 2007, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1344 "2007-12-16T02:11:20Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] And my first correct pick (sort of)–she was on my cherry-popper list for 2008! Losing your virginity prematurely feels weird. [/QUOTE] And without the points, it’s like having your first sex without the orgasm. Not too uncommon, if it makes you feel any better. ---
**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 16, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1345 "2007-12-16T03:24:17Z")
[QUOTE=Fetchund] Anyone else batting .000 still? [/QUOTE] Dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1346 "2007-12-16T03:26:41Z")
I’m still 0 for 13. ---
**Author:** ![JohnnieEnigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@JohnnieEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnnieEnigma)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1347 "2007-12-16T03:35:42Z")
Sean Penn Larry David Benicio del Toro Mick Jagger Barbara Streisand Katie Couric Woody Allen Wolf Blitzer Bill Clinton Robert Byrd Carl Reiner Krist Novolesic Wesley Clark :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![JohnnieEnigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@JohnnieEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnnieEnigma)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1348 "2007-12-16T03:37:59Z")
I’m really afraid Mel Brooks will die soon. I don’t want him to die… ever. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1349 "2007-12-16T03:38:59Z")
[QUOTE=JohnnieEnigma] I’m really afraid Mel Brooks will die soon. I don’t want him to die… ever. ☹ [/QUOTE] He can’t die. Not until he’s mounted **Spaceballs: The Stage Musical** on Broadway ---
**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 16, 2007, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1350 "2007-12-16T03:58:56Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] He can’t die. Not until he’s mounted **Spaceballs: The Stage Musical** on Broadway [/QUOTE] No, no, no. History of the World, Pt. 2: Jews In Space. :rolleyes: Or is it Part 3? I can’t _breathe_ in this thing! ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1351 "2007-12-16T04:12:53Z")
[QUOTE=Fetchund] Anyone else batting .000 still? [/QUOTE] Silly question. .000 for 3 years now. And I am confident in my ability to continue my streak next year. ---
**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 16, 2007, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1352 "2007-12-16T04:21:37Z")
[QUOTE=Lok] And I am confident in my ability to continue my streak next year. [/QUOTE] I still think if we were allowed to list each other we would become immortal. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1353 "2007-12-16T11:07:11Z")
[QUOTE=Fetchund] Anyone else batting .000 still? [/QUOTE] 78 of 192 players are still without score. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1354 "2007-12-16T21:32:15Z")
[Dan Fogelberg](http://www.danfogelberg.com/news.html) will be singing that \*Same Old Lang Syne \* with backup from Ray Charles and Marvin Gaye this New Year’s. (Or Fogulburp, as Opus put it.) ---
**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:** [December 16, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1355 "2007-12-16T21:56:24Z")
[QUOTE=Nawth Chucka] [Dan Fogelberg](http://www.danfogelberg.com/news.html) will be singing that \*Same Old Lang Syne \* with backup from Ray Charles and Marvin Gaye this New Year’s. (Or Fogulburp, as Opus put it.) [/QUOTE] Holy crap I slipped one under the wire! (I did pick him didn’t I?) ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1356 "2007-12-17T02:16:57Z")
I picked him, too, and just had to update my 2008 list. ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1357 "2007-12-17T02:24:14Z")
[QUOTE=amarone] 78 of 192 players are still without score. [/QUOTE] Finally! I’m part of an actual **group!** 😃 ---
**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:** [December 17, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1358 "2007-12-17T02:33:06Z")
[QUOTE=BiblioCat] I picked him, too, and just had to update my 2008 list. [/QUOTE] This year I got one in January and now one in December. If only I could learn how to fill up the other 10 months I could win a major award. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1359 "2007-12-17T15:01:22Z")
I know it’s ten months out of date and no one picked her anyway, but David Edding’s wife and co-writer [Leigh](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Eddings) died in February. Now I know the start date of the Great Fantasy Author Die-Off of 2007. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/1360 "2007-12-17T15:34:38Z")
[QUOTE=SpazCat] I know it’s ten months out of date and no one picked her anyway, but David Edding’s wife and co-writer [Leigh](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Eddings) died in February. Now I know the start date of the Great Fantasy Author Die-Off of 2007. [/QUOTE] That is strange. I usually check the SFWA website from time to time and they always have obits for SF and Fantasy writers. Even ones I never heard of. Not one mention of this on there. But they did have an aritlce about David Eddings burning his office down. Weird. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=67) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=69)