# 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:** 21
**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 11, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/401 "2008-01-11T00:50:30Z")
[QUOTE=Only Mostly Dead] Hillary was my oldest pick, but he was my pick all the same! [/QUOTE] Congratulations. I hate you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dinah\_Steeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@Dinah\_Steeler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinah_Steeler)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/402 "2008-01-11T04:53:52Z")
Wow, just 10 days into the new year and I’m already on the board. Not too bad for my first time playing. ---
**Author:** ![Intelligently\_Designed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intelligently_designed/32/20957_2.png) [@Intelligently\_Designed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intelligently_Designed)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/403 "2008-01-11T07:15:27Z")
Former U.S. figure skating champion [Christopher Bowman](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/more/01/11/obit.bowman.ap/index.html?cnn=yes) has died of a possible drug overdose at 40. ---
**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 11, 2008, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/404 "2008-01-11T12:23:21Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Congratulations. I hate you. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Jealousy is the highest form of flattery in the Dead Pool World. I hate you, too. 🙂 ---
**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 11, 2008, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/405 "2008-01-11T13:34:00Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] I hate you, too. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Me or him? ---
**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 11, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/406 "2008-01-11T13:43:50Z")
SHIT! Come into the Death Pool and see a post about Hilary dying! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/407 "2008-01-11T13:57:46Z")
[QUOTE=Intelligently Designed] Former U.S. figure skating champion [Christopher Bowman](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/more/01/11/obit.bowman.ap/index.html?cnn=yes) has died of a possible drug overdose at 40. [/QUOTE] Very sad news. He was an immensely talented athlete. ---
**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 11, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/408 "2008-01-11T17:42:01Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Me or him? [/QUOTE] Anyone who has scored this year with dead pool on someone I don’t have, I catagorically despise. _It’s nothing personal. It’s Dead Pool_. 🙂 Politics, sports, religion, I could care less. Dead People watching is good clean wacked out fun! Speaking of hating, has the Gold Plated Diamond Encrusted Belt Buckle for the Championship been awarded? Oh, wait, Rahm can just give it too himself. Not that I’m bitter about his list actually working at near 100% capacity. Has there been an official tally for 2007, so that I can at least rest on my one dead person laurels in smug satisfaction? ---
**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 11, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/409 "2008-01-11T18:03:44Z")
This is really going to shake up the presidential race. ---
**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 11, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/410 "2008-01-11T22:36:00Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Congratulations. I hate you. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Every year I try to tell myself I won’t be jealous when someone dies and I didn’t pick them, but someone else did. I should instead rejoice with them, share in their happiness of one of their picks dying. I need to be confident that with patience, I too will get to have that special thrill of hearing on the radio, or watching a news report, or reading online of a celebrity death that will mean something special to me. One that will make me smile everytime it is mentioned. One that will encourage me and remind me any day could be my lucky day. January is not even halfway over, so I need to remember there is still plenty of time for my guys and gals to die. Those of you who have been able to experience your first deaths already…well congratulations! For most of us, they are few and far between, so you should enjoy them when they happen, you don’t know how long it might be until your next one. And for now I will just have to live vicariously through you, knowing my day will come. ( only in the safety of the Celebrity Death Pool thread can one express such feelings, knowing others can relate…I am so going to hell…) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/411 "2008-01-11T22:42:19Z")
[QUOTE=Grits and Hard Toast] \…I am so going to hell…) [/QUOTE] you’ll be in such good company “Hell Dopefest, three weeks from Thursday - Who’s going?” ---
**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 12, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/412 "2008-01-12T00:57:59Z")
[QUOTE=Grits and Hard Toast] I should instead rejoice with them, share in their happiness of one of their picks dying. [/QUOTE] this thing may be getting out of hand… ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/413 "2008-01-12T03:48:52Z")
[QUOTE=Cazzle] No… no it won’t :smack: Deadline has come and gone. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news! [/QUOTE] Note to self - read the friggin’ rules… ---
**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 12, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/414 "2008-01-12T16:03:37Z")
[Carl Karcher, Founder of Carl’s Jr. Hamburger Chain, Dies at 90](http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=af6LlFeydVBc&refer=muse) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/415 "2008-01-12T17:22:04Z")
[Vampira is dead](http://laist.com/2008/01/11/vampira_goes_to.php), with no hope of rising. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/416 "2008-01-12T17:40:56Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] [Vampira is dead](http://laist.com/2008/01/11/vampira_goes_to.php), with no hope of rising. [/QUOTE] Hey! There’s a link to an obituary for her written by our very own **Eve**! ---
**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 12, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/417 "2008-01-12T23:40:05Z")
Jesus, anyrose, don’t scare me like that. I thought you meant [Elvira.](http://www.elvira.com/) ---
**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 12, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/418 "2008-01-12T23:45:27Z")
[QUOTE=Morgyn] Hey! There’s a link to an obituary for her written by our very own **Eve**! [/QUOTE] I want to write obits. Anywhoo, the pic for VAmpira sans makeup is great. She is a handsome woman and she is holding in her hand a rat and a cigerette. I guess smoking will kill her at a young age, huh. ---
**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 13, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/419 "2008-01-13T00:15:50Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] she is holding in her hand a rat and a cigerette. I guess smoking will kill her at a young age, huh. [/QUOTE] Perhaps rodents are an antidote to carcinogens. ---
**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 13, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/420 "2008-01-13T00:17:51Z")
Are you kidding? Have you ever tried to smoke rat fur? Yeccch! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439.md?page=22)