# The Celebrity Death Pool 2008 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2007, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439 "2007-12-01T11:46:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**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:** [January 1, 2008, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/301 "2008-01-01T05:11:45Z")
50 minutes… ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/302 "2008-01-01T05:37:48Z")
Hey, Rachm Qoch has four picks in common with my list! I might get a second place this time. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2008, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/303 "2008-01-01T05:52:58Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] ALS [/QUOTE] …and what is ALS? ---
**Author:** ![Rachm\_Qoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Rachm\_Qoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachm_Qoch)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/304 "2008-01-01T05:56:34Z")
[QUOTE=42fish] Hey, Rachm Qoch has four picks in common with my list! I might get a second place this time. [/QUOTE] Could you settle for three? New list: Yo-sam Choi Orlando Thomas Randy Pausch Daniel Lee Siebert Erick Wujcik Steve Smith Doku Umarov Don Wittman Abu Ayyub al-Masri Christodoulos Tony Snow Sherrill Headrick Farrah Fawcett Alts: Leroy Sievers Abdul Aziz al-Hakim Sydney Pollack ---
**Author:** ![Etherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@Etherman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Etherman)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/305 "2008-01-01T05:59:46Z")
Fidel Castro Ariel Sharon Britney Spears Amy Winehouse Kirk Douglas Muhammad Ali Farrah Fawcett Courtney Love Dick Clark Nancy Reagan Jack Kevorkian Margret Thatcher Robert Redford ALT Pervez Musharraf ---
**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:** [January 1, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/306 "2008-01-01T05:59:48Z")
[QUOTE=Rachm Qoch] Could you settle for three? New list: [/QUOTE] Sneaky. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/307 "2008-01-01T06:00:42Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] …and what is ALS? [/QUOTE] [Lou Gehrigs disease](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis) SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![Rachm\_Qoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Rachm\_Qoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachm_Qoch)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/308 "2008-01-01T06:04:06Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] Sneaky. 😉 [/QUOTE] Nobody picked Dave Chappelle. I’m Insulted! ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/309 "2008-01-01T06:08:36Z")
[QUOTE=Rachm Qoch] Nobody picked Dave Chappelle. I’m Insulted! [/QUOTE] It was a trap! Totally appropriate, considering today’s classic [column](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_165.html). ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/310 "2008-01-01T06:09:47Z")
[QUOTE=Rachm Qoch] Could you settle for three? New list: [/QUOTE] You’re such a tease. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2008, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/311 "2008-01-01T06:53:01Z")
For probably the only time I can say it this year…I’m in first place. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/312 "2008-01-01T06:57:01Z")
I am currently checking all major news feeds for a bus crash with only 13 passengers. SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![Grits\_and\_Hard\_Toast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Grits\_and\_Hard\_Toast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grits_and_Hard_Toast)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/313 "2008-01-01T07:38:47Z")
OK, I admit… I came home from a great New Year’s Eve party to find that I had six picks, including alternates, the same as Rachm Qoch. I posted mine first, so I must have an inside track with the Grim Reaper! Whoo Whoo for me! But now I see, with revisions, I only have four. I am so sad now…I hope the rest of 2008 is not so disapointing… ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/314 "2008-01-01T07:52:40Z")
Damn. I must admit. The number of “players” has increased this year. There are some obviously well researched and insightful postings. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/315 "2008-01-01T08:22:07Z")
Well, mine ain’t. Sneaking in, it’s still December 31st in Hawaii and that’s in America, so: The Muckety-Mucks: 1. Fidel Castro 2. Pervez Musharraf 3. Ariel Sharon (legally still alive) 4. George Steinbrenner The Publicly Sick: 5) Elizabeth Edwards 6) Farrah Fawcett 7) Omar Abdel-Rahman (the blind terrorist sheik) 8) Margaret Thatcher The Ancients: 9) Walter Cronkite 10) Julie Wilson, cabaret singer The Geez, They’re Still Alive?! 11) Elizabeth Taylor 12) Whitney Houston 13) Charlton Heston I did so badly last year that I feel bad giving people like El Viejo an extended lifespan, but most of these folks I bear no ill-will to. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2008, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/316 "2008-01-01T15:06:52Z")
Yanno what is rather disturbing or funny ( depending on how you look at it.) is that I had a dream last night that Some Doper I have no idea who. called me on my cell to advise me I had the first official death of 2008 and it was one of my PVS peoples. Do you know how freakin’ happy I was in that dream? Am I mental or what? ---
**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:** [January 1, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/317 "2008-01-01T15:08:47Z")
Good luck to everyone this year! I am enjoying my new found DP Cherry. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/318 "2008-01-01T15:41:46Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] Yanno what is rather disturbing or funny ( depending on how you look at it.) is that I had a dream last night that Some Doper I have no idea who. called me on my cell to advise me I had the first official death of 2008 and it was one of my PVS peoples. Do you know how freakin’ happy I was in that dream? Am I mental or what? [/QUOTE] Yes you are mental. Why else would you be playin’ celebrity death pool. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/319 "2008-01-01T15:55:40Z")
[QUOTE=Mehitabel] Well, mine ain’t. Sneaking in, it’s still December 31st in Hawaii and that’s in America, so: [/QUOTE] that’d be up to **amarone** - but the rules in the OP clearly state, ad have stated every year, the deadline is midnight GMT-6 which is CST, where Chicago, the home of the Dope, is. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/320 "2008-01-01T16:04:20Z")
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