# 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:** 39
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/761 "2008-05-16T15:12:29Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Lance Murdoch] Serial killer Daniel Lee Siebert died April 22nd at the age of 53. He was on death row, but died of natural causes. I was too distraught with anguish to write about it until now. Collecting the points will somehow help me get over my sense of loss. [http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1208938578226240.xml&coll=2](http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1208938578226240.xml&coll=2) [/QUOTE] Looks like Captain Lance is threatening The Qoch.I aint done yet,hope my serial killer dies. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/762 "2008-05-16T18:13:24Z")
[QUOTE=MadTheSwine] Looks like Captain Lance is threatening The Qoch.I aint done yet,hope my serial killer dies. [/QUOTE] While the good Captain moves into second place (supplanting me), he is not really threatening **RQ** because there was just one other person who also had Daniel Lee Siebert… ---
**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:** [May 16, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/763 "2008-05-16T18:59:05Z")
[QUOTE=amarone] While the good Captain moves into second place (supplanting me), he is not really threatening **RQ** because there was just one other person who also had Daniel Lee Siebert… [/QUOTE] Let me guess…RQ? ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/764 "2008-05-16T20:26:22Z")
[QUOTE=amarone] While the good Captain moves into second place (supplanting me), he is not really threatening **RQ** because there was just one other person who also had Daniel Lee Siebert… [/QUOTE] Oh NO! Didn’t even think to check that! ---
**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:** [May 16, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/765 "2008-05-16T22:08:07Z")
[California winemaking patriarch Robert Mondavi dies](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080516/ap_on_re_us/obit_mondavi_7) Looks like a unique pick for **anyrose**. ---
**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:** [May 16, 2008, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/766 "2008-05-16T23:00:30Z")
[QUOTE=MadTheSwine] Looks like Captain Lance is threatening The Qoch.I aint done yet,hope my serial killer dies. [/QUOTE] Oooooh, no fair! I have two people in Persisent Vegitative State and a couple of TOP Terrorists on my list and I HAVE NOTHING. It’s not like I have Abe Vigoda, Keith Richards and Stephen Hawkings. I mean, COME ON!!!111!! I am not bitter at all. not one freakin’ bit. On a less jaundiced and slightly more paranoid note, I bet Osama Bin Laden’s corpse will be trotted out just before Bush leaves office. Mark my words. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/767 "2008-05-17T13:27:46Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] [California winemaking patriarch Robert Mondavi dies](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080516/ap_on_re_us/obit_mondavi_7) Looks like a unique pick for **anyrose**. [/QUOTE] [del]'bout damn time, too! He’s been on my list for years![/del] I am sorry for his family’s loss. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/768 "2008-05-17T15:11:32Z")
Dang it! I’ve had Mondavi on my list for years. Until this year, when I bumped him to my list of alternates. ☹ ---
**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:** [May 17, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/769 "2008-05-17T15:48:49Z")
Ted Kennedy [airlifted to Boston hospital](http://kdka.com/national/senator.ted.kennedy.2.726415.html), condition unknown. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/770 "2008-05-17T16:03:56Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] Ted Kennedy [airlifted to Boston hospital](http://kdka.com/national/senator.ted.kennedy.2.726415.html), condition unknown. [/QUOTE] I’m on the polar opposite side of Teddy Kennedy politically, and I hope this news does not lead to a future announcement here. God bless him & bring him through. On Jan 1, 2007, I had a very mild stroke- I was OK later that week, but I know how scary even the mildest one can be. Now, if Senator Kennedy wants to step down because of this, that would be fine, but I certainly wish him the best in this situation. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/771 "2008-05-17T19:39:12Z")
I have ole Teddy boy on my list, but apparently he is gonna live… ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/772 "2008-05-19T02:08:17Z")
[Will Elder](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/arts/design/18elder.html) has died at the age of 86. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2008, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/773 "2008-05-19T12:25:58Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] I have ole Teddy boy on my list, but apparently he is gonna live… [/QUOTE] You were the first one I thought of when I heard the news about Ted. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2008, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/774 "2008-05-19T12:37:43Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] You were the first one I thought of when I heard the news about Ted. [/QUOTE] Amazingly enough, I was not dancing through the office screaming “Die Ted Die.” I lived in Boston during the Kennedy heyday, and the idea of Teddy dying actually made me kind of sad. There’s only three Kennedys of his generation alive–Teddy and sisters Jean Smith and Eunice Schiver. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/775 "2008-05-20T17:24:44Z")
[Sen. Ted Kennedy has malignant brain tumor](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080520/ap_on_re_us/kennedy_71) ---
**Author:** ![Critical\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/776 "2008-05-20T17:35:29Z")
I think that anyone in the Kennedy clan is a better than average pick. But Ted’s just moved into the low hangin’ fruit category. _adjusts 2009 prospects list_ Hang in there Ted. ETA “Hang in there” may have been a poor choice of words in this particular thread. But you know what I mean, right? ---
**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:** [May 20, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/777 "2008-05-20T18:55:59Z")
I have a Bush Deathpool for two years and nothing happens to any of them. I switch to the Kennedys and oh, shit! ---
**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:** [May 20, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/778 "2008-05-20T18:58:18Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] I have a Bush Deathpool for two years and nothing happens to any of them. [/QUOTE] That’s what happens when you choose the Undead. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/779 "2008-05-20T19:21:29Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Lance Murdoch] Serial killer Daniel Lee Siebert died April 22nd at the age of 53. He was on death row, but died of natural causes. I was too distraught with anguish to write about it until now. Collecting the points will somehow help me get over my sense of loss. [http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1208938578226240.xml&coll=2](http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1208938578226240.xml&coll=2) [/QUOTE] Dang, according to that link, you came very close to losing your points. > [@](#): > > 1. Persons under sentence of death will be valid for scoring points only if they die by means other than official execution. There appear to be a few victims’ family members that are dissappointed that he wasn’t executed. I’m glad that you got so many points out of it, though. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/780 "2008-05-20T20:19:39Z")
[QUOTE=Yllaria] There appear to be a few victims’ family members that are dissappointed that he wasn’t executed. [/QUOTE] What, he dies of natural causes, the Devil has ice water waiting? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439.md?page=40)