# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/121 "2006-12-12T00:56:55Z")
[QUOTE=zamboniracer] Bonus points for the description. šŸ˜ƒ My picks 1. Kirk Douglas 2. Jerry Ford 3. Bob Feller (Baseball HOFer) 4. Stan Musial (Baseball HOFer) 5. Yogi Berra (noted sage) 6. Andy Rooney (CBS crank) 7. Mike Wallace (CBS) 8. Daniel Schorr (ex CBS, now NPR) 9. Liz Taylor 10. Paris Hilton Alternates: 1. OJ Simpson 2. Larry King [/QUOTE] You need 13, not 10, plus optional alternates. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/122 "2006-12-12T01:10:35Z")
Okay, you wanna hear reasons? 1. John Goodman ā€“ His weight is giving him serious health problems. 2. Shane McGowan ā€“ Itā€™s gotta catch up with him eventually. 3. Queen Elizabeth ā€“ Cā€™mon, sheā€™s outlived her mother and her younger sister. 4. Terry Gilliam ā€“ I have an awful premonition that the animator will suffer a fatal heart attack, the way he goes on. Iā€™m surprised (not disappointed, of course) that **Man of La Mancha** didnā€™t kill him. 5. Gerald Ford ā€“ Barely hanging on. 6. Ben Roethlisberger ā€“ All his good luck is on the field; always seems to have bad luck off of it. (Wear your damn helmet, Ben!) 7. Lindsay Lohan ā€“ If she doesnā€™t get help, and soonā€¦ 8. John Travolta ā€“ Pilot. Nuff said. 9. Michael Jackson ā€“ I donā€™t hope for his suicide, but it wouldnā€™t surprise me a bit. 10. Ruben Studdard ā€“ This was based on his weight, but I just now found out heā€™s lost 80 pounds. 11. Clay Aiken ā€“ Allergic to everything and terrified of water. 12. J.K. Rowling ā€“ Just because fate **would** have her choke on a chicken bone before she submits the last chapter of HP7. 13. Danny Bonaduce ā€“ See Lindsay Lohan. Alternates: Anna Nicole Smith ā€“ OD? Suicide? Falling down a flight of stairs? Somethingā€™s bound to happen. J.D. Salinger ā€“ Just because heā€™s old. Keith Richards ā€“ See Shane McGowan. ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/123 "2006-12-12T01:19:21Z")
1 Oral Roberts 2 Billy Graham 3 Ted Kennedy 4 Fidel Castro 5 Britney Spears 6 Steven Seagal 7 Abe Vigoda 8 Carol Channing 9. Christopher Plummer 10. Dick Clark 11. Kevin Federline 12. Jimmy Carter 13. Jane Fonda Alt: Muhammad Ali, Sally Struthers ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/124 "2006-12-12T01:20:46Z")
I have never done this before, so wish me luck! 1. Shane MacGowan 2. Gerald Ford 3. Olympia Dukakis 4. Peter Oā€™Toole 5. Ariel Sharon 6. Clint Eastwood 7. Sparky Anderson 8. Ernie Banks 9. Kirk Douglas 10. Margaret Thatcher 11. Ruth Bader Ginsberg 12. Eunice Shriver 13. Annette Funicello I hope I donā€™t jinx anybody! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**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 12, 2006, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/125 "2006-12-12T01:52:44Z")
[QUOTE=Rilchiam] Okay, you wanna hear reasons? 3. Queen Elizabeth ā€“ Cā€™mon, sheā€™s outlived her mother and her younger sister. [/QUOTE] I considered her, but I thought the British dopers would flame me. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/126 "2006-12-12T01:53:51Z")
[QUOTE=Kilvertā€™s Pagan] You need 13, not 10, plus optional alternates. [/QUOTE] My bad. Thanks for the correction! my corrected picks: 1. Kirk Douglas 2. Jerry Ford 3. Bob Feller (Baseball HOFer) 4. Stan Musial (Baseball HOFer) 5. Yogi Berra (noted sage) 6. Andy Rooney (CBS crank) 7. Mike Wallace (CBS) 8. Daniel Schorr (ex CBS, now NPR) 9. Liz Taylor 10. Paris Hilton 11. Walter Cronkite (I have it in for CBS, apparently) 12. Joe Garagiola 13. Bob Cousy (Basketball HOFer) Alternates: 1. OJ Simpson 2. Larry King ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/127 "2006-12-12T01:54:06Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] I considered her, but I thought the British dopers would flame me. [/QUOTE] Why should they? Theyā€™re free to pick our politcal figureheads ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/128 "2006-12-12T18:54:55Z")
Got a big fat goose egg so far this year. Since the odds of my winning are low, I decided to go with a theme for next year - all political figures. Here they are: 1. **Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr** (former President of the United States) 2. **George Herbert Walker Bush** (former President of the United States) 3. **Fidel Castro** (President of Cuba) 4. **Ariel Sharon** (former Prime Minister of Israel) 5. Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith ( **Queen Elizabeth II** ) 6. **Kim Jong-Il** (Dear Leader of the Peopleā€™s Democartic Republic of Korea) 7. Joseph Alois Ratzinger ( **Pope Benedict XVI** ) 8. **Imelda Romualdez Marcos** (former First Lady of the Philippines) 9. **Kurt Josef Waldheim** (former Secretary-General of the UN) 10. **Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud** (King of Saudi Arabia) 11. **Margaret Hilda Thatcher** , Baroness Tatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (former Primer Minister of the United Kingdom) 12. **Lee Kuan Yew** (former Prime Minister of Singapore) 13. Colonel **Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi** [Qadhafi/Qaddafi/Kaddafi - however you want to [spell it](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_264b.html)] (_de facto_ leader of Libya) Curses to **Augusto Pinochet** for being unable to hold on for a few weeks. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/129 "2006-12-12T20:04:33Z")
So far, four of my 2006 picks have been correct. Letā€™s see how these folks fare: 1. John Goodman, actor 2. Fidel Castro, Cuban dictator 3. Dabbs Greer, actor 4. Kirk Douglas, actor 5. Ariel Sharon, former PM of Israel 6. Gerald Ford, former US president 7. Suzanne Pleshette, actress 8. ā€œRowdyā€ Roddy Piper (aka Roderick Toombs), actor-wrestler 9. Jack Kevorkian, ex-doctor 10. Ray Harryhausen, animator 11. Jerry Lewis, actor-comedian-telethon host 12. Evel Kneivel, former daredevil 13. Tammy Faye Baker Messner, former televangelist Alternates: Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady Kurt Vonnegut, writer Fyvush Finkel, actor ---
**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 12, 2006, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/130 "2006-12-12T20:44:12Z")
[QUOTE=cbawlmer] 1. Jack Kevorkian, ex-doctor [/QUOTE] Did the state revoke his license? ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/131 "2006-12-12T20:54:55Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Did the state revoke his license? [/QUOTE] Not sure; I canā€™t find specific info on that. However, Iā€™m almost positive he isnā€™t keeping up with the required CE credits to keep renewing his license. Heā€™s pretty much retired even if not technically banned from practice. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/132 "2006-12-12T22:05:46Z")
[QUOTE=EJsGirl] I have never done this before, so wish me luck! 1. Shane MacGowan 2. Gerald Ford 3. Olympia Dukakis 4. Peter Oā€™Toole 5. Ariel Sharon 6. Clint Eastwood 7. Sparky Anderson 8. Ernie Banks 9. Kirk Douglas 10. Margaret Thatcher 11. Ruth Bader Ginsberg 12. Eunice Shriver 13. Annette Funicello I hope I donā€™t jinx anybody! šŸ˜ƒ [/QUOTE] Oops, I forgot alternates- a. Stephen Hawking b. James Garner c. Leona Helmsley ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/133 "2006-12-13T09:55:21Z")
I finally have my preliminary list of 30 celebrities. Time to go crunch some people! ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/134 "2006-12-13T12:50:01Z")
No score yet for 2006, maybe these will work for 2007: 1. Margaret Thatcher 2. 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) 3. Gerald Ford 4. Elizabeth Taylor 5. Fidel Castro 6. Ariel Sharon 7. Tammy Faye Baker Messner 8. Evel Knievel 9. Annette Funicello 10. Zsa Zsa Gabor 11. John Forsythe 12. Farrah Fawcett 13. Luciano Pavarotti Alternates: 1. John Goodman 2. Nancy Reagan 3. Mohammad Ali ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/135 "2006-12-13T13:14:45Z")
All right, no real sure things in my list, but a colorful blend of wildcards in my opinion: 1. **Jake ā€œThe Snakeā€ Roberts** , old + wrestler = ticking time bomb. 2. **John Paul Stevens** , oldest memeber of the Supreme Court. 3. **Gary Busey** , nuts and old drug habitsā€¦ will be sorely missed though. 4. **George Steinbrenner** , as a Red Sox fan Iā€™m not rooting for his death, but sorta expecting it. 5. **Ozzy Osbourne** , the man already spend something like 30 lives. 6. **Mike Tyson** , I wanted to pick Maurice Clarrett, but jail will keep him safe now. 7. **Pete Doherty** , many Americans havenā€™t heard of him, but in England heā€™s a train wreck. 8. **Ja Rule** , mandatory rapper included. 9. **Fidel Castro** , cā€™mon already (okay I picked one sure thing). 10. **John Madden** , hefty boy is getting oldā€¦ Boom! 11. **Ted Nugent** , i.e. hunting accident. 12.\*\* John Travolta\*\*, just because he flies everywhere, and a plane crash is such a celebrity way to go. 12. **Mohammed Ali** , at least ESPN will rebroadcast all of his matches, and that will be fun. Alternate 1. **David ā€œTankā€ abbott** Alternate 2. **Charleton Heston** Alternate 3. **Stephen Hawking** ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/136 "2006-12-13T18:33:37Z")
Aaauuuuguhhh!!! Actor Peter Boyle has [died](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061213/ap_en_tv/obit_boyle). He robbed me of 29 points. Iā€™d like to replace him, on my list, with Ray Bradbury (formerly one of my alternates). My list thus stands: Ariel Sharon Fidel Castro Charlton Heston Dick Clark Nancy Reagan Jean-Louis Trintignant Peter Oā€™Toole Ray Bradbury Dick Van Dyke Angela Lansbury Julie Andrews John le CarrĆ© Christopher Tolkein Alternates: James Ivory (of Merchant & Ivory) Stephen Hawking ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/137 "2006-12-13T18:57:24Z")
1. Dick Cheney many heart attacks 2. John Travolta 3. Molly Ivins not writing much now 4. Jack Kavorkian hope the Oakland co. prosecutors are pleased with them selves 5. Gerald Ford extremely old 6. Mike Wallace also 7. Kate Moss skeleton with drugs not a good combo 8. Dick Clark the music ends 9. keith Richards overdue 10. Oral Roberts connection to god gets closer 11 Ozzie Ozbourne paying the price 11. Boris Yeltsin its time 12. Andy Rooney crabbing ends Alt. Steven Hawking Liz Taylor miracle of medicine Danny Bonaduce does bad things to his body and mind ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/138 "2006-12-13T19:39:28Z")
[QUOTE=bigbabysweets2000] I wanted to pick Maurice Clarrett, but jail will keep him safe now. [/QUOTE] Donā€™t be shy about starting your 2009 list now **bb2k** , Maurice is only a guest for 3 years! ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/139 "2006-12-13T20:00:50Z")
My first foray into this madness. (I swear, I made my list before I knew about the cool new award.) 1. Gary Coleman (b. 1968) - famous diabetic security guard 2. Andy Dick (b. 1965) - famous dick 3. Janice Dickinson (b. 1955) - ā€œfirst supermodelā€ and oldest person on my list (I think. EVH?) 4. Robert Downey, Jr. (b. 1965) - famous actor, famous junkie 5. Michael J. Fox (b. 1961) - the only person I didnā€™t want to include 6. Tawny Kitaen (b. 1961) - famous handful 7. Artie Lange (b. 1967) - ā€œArtie you fat f\*$%!ā€ Howard Stern cohort 8. Courtney Love (b. 1964) - famous junkie 9. Ralphie May (b.1972) - One-time morbidly obese comic 10. Heather Mills (McCartney) (b. 1968) - do I have to have a reason? 11. Terrell ā€œT.O.ā€ Owens (b. 1973) - famous trouble maker 12. Nicole Richie (b. 1981) - famous for being famous, daughter 13. Anna Nicole Smith (b. 1967) - famous whack-job Alternates Danny Bonaduce (b. 1959) - famous self-described fuck-up Eddie Van Halen (b. 1955) - famous guitarist Darryl Strawberry (b. 1962) - old school famous trouble maker Todd Bridges (b. 1965) - Willis ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/140 "2006-12-13T20:09:35Z")
Your ā€œfirst foray into the madness,ā€ huh? Yeah, thatā€™s what everyone says for their 666th post, **DfrntBreign**! šŸ˜› And there is someone I wanted to substitute, but I canā€™t remember who it wasā€¦ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=8)