# 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:** 19
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/361 "2008-01-02T22:20:13Z")
Two minutes after posting my 2008 list, I calculated I was mathematically eliminated from any hope of finishing first. ☹ Geez, we’ve got some really sharp death pool players here. (and I’m certainly not counting myself as one of those). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/362 "2008-01-02T23:22:44Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] And very good chance at the Robbing the Cradle award. I smell a three-fer. [/QUOTE] It’s only January 2nd and we still have lots of people with Britney, Lindsey and Amy on their lists. There’s still a chance he won’t get that one. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/363 "2008-01-02T23:28:00Z")
[QUOTE=Quartz] And he gets the opening kick-off award too. [/QUOTE] Which I won the last two years. He can pry the trophy from my cold, dead - no, wait a minute, that’s tempting fate a bit too much. ---
**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 3, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/364 "2008-01-03T00:31:31Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] It’s only January 2nd and we still have lots of people with Britney, Lindsey and Amy on their lists. There’s still a chance he won’t get that one. [/QUOTE] God protects fools and drunks. They will all make to at least 40. People have been betting against Courtney Love for years, and she refuses to die; I think it will be the same with the current crop of diva delinquents. ---
**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 3, 2008, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/365 "2008-01-03T00:34:15Z")
I took Courtney off this year’s list. I expect to hear of her spectacular death any day now. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/366 "2008-01-03T01:30:56Z")
[QUOTE=42fish] The inevitable happens as Rachm Qoch gets his first points with the death of Korean boxer Yo-Sam Choi, age 35 ([Choi Yo-sam - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-Sam_Choi)) [/QUOTE] Is the Username “Grim Reaper” available? I propose a name change. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/367 "2008-01-03T01:55:10Z")
[QUOTE=amarone] Sorry **Mehitabel** - I’m going to stick with the stated rules and not allow late entries. Last year **severus** was not allowed to enter when his post was one minute late. [/QUOTE] :smack: I hadda run into a Doper with integrity! INTEGRITY!! :smack: Of course, you’re right, I totally zoned on posting my picks this time. Considering only one of my picks shook hands with St. Peter in '07 (poor Tammy Faye) it’s probably for the best. Oh well, being a spectator to the moral quandry that is the DP is almost as much fun as being in it. ---
**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 3, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/368 "2008-01-03T02:31:11Z")
[QUOTE=Mehitabel] I hadda run into a Doper with integrity! INTEGRITY!! [/QUOTE] I used to know a girl named Integrity… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/369 "2008-01-03T02:45:31Z")
Anybody have Salvatore ‘Bill’ Bonanno (son of Mafia boss Joe Bonanno) or Peter Caffrey (Irish actor)? ---
**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 3, 2008, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/370 "2008-01-03T09:26:41Z")
[QUOTE=Quartz] ITYM four - Winner, Opening Kick-off, Robbing the Cradle, and Inside Track. I guess the rest of us are just batting for the last one to die in 2008. Jeez, I’m all but declaring the contest a clean sweep only one day in. [/QUOTE] Cheer up – there’s always next year. ---
**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 3, 2008, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/371 "2008-01-03T10:56:06Z")
[QUOTE=Rachm Qoch] Cheer up – there’s always next year. [/QUOTE] I’ve already started my new list; how about you? ---
**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:** [January 3, 2008, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/372 "2008-01-03T12:15:38Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] I’ve already started my new list; how about you? [/QUOTE] Is **Rachm Qoch** on it? 😛 ---
**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 3, 2008, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/373 "2008-01-03T13:58:47Z")
[George MacDonald Fraser](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7169047.stm) has put the DP Game into play. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2008, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/374 "2008-01-03T15:06:59Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] I heard that the Kennedy Family yes, all of them died in a brutal shoot out at their Compound/trailer park. [/QUOTE] When it happens, I will do my Happy Dance. And how sick is that? ---
**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 3, 2008, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/375 "2008-01-03T15:15:30Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] When it happens, I will do my Happy Dance. And how sick is that? [/QUOTE] Pretty sick, given JFK and Bobby. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/376 "2008-01-03T15:17:34Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] [George MacDonald Fraser](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7169047.stm) has put the DP Game into play. [/QUOTE] Didn’t catch up on the tread before you posted, eh? **Rachm** ’s already won the damned thing. . . . ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/377 "2008-01-03T15:23:58Z")
[QUOTE=amarone] Sounds like he died in 2007 but was only declared dead in 2008… Hey, I only took the job in the hope it would give me enough power to invalidate some of **Rachm Qoch** ’s picks. [/QUOTE] Steve Fossett has not yet been declared dead. If the boxer counts then would Fossett also have been a valid pick? We know he’s dead, but the declaration will probably come some time this year. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/378 "2008-01-03T17:16:07Z")
[QUOTE=Rachm Qoch] Cheer up – there’s always next year. [/QUOTE] Wins the Internet. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/379 "2008-01-03T22:40:11Z")
I’m sure no one had him, and is pretty borderline “celebrity” but former Wisconsin Govenor Lee Dreyfus died Jan 2. He was 81 > **[Former Gov. Dreyfus dead at 81](https://lacrossetribune.com/newsupdate/former-gov-dreyfus-dead-at-81/article_c81a0e45-ce27-5f4b-b8fc-83a55a568c68.html)** > > MADISON - Former Gov. Lee Sherman Dreyfus, who served one term starting in 1979, died at his Waukesha home Wednesday night, his son said Thursday. He was 81. He’s often associated with waering a red vest. He’s also the only politician I can positivle say I have washed his dishes he ate a restaurant where I worked. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/380 "2008-01-04T09:41:05Z")
[Britney is about to be Baker Acted, looks like.](http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/04/spears/index.html) Don’t know if this increases or decreases her chances of surviving 2008. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439.md?page=20)