# The Celebrity Death Pool 2007

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620>\
**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")\
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**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:** [January 1, 2007, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/425 "2007-01-01T05:59:11Z")

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> As for Jeff Tonn, having a disease that (so far) can’t be identified by medical professionals is newsworthy in and of itself.

I disagree, both that having an unidentified disease is a newsworthy occurrence and that Jeff Tonn qualifies as a celebrity, but I have no cites to back up the former and I don’t make the rules so good luck with the latter.

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