# 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:** 48
**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:** [July 14, 2008, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/942 "2008-07-14T18:19:40Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] I SCORED! [/QUOTE] Congratulations. I hate you. 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 14, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/943 "2008-07-14T18:23:12Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Congratulations. I hate you. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Schweeeeet! ---
**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:** [July 14, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/944 "2008-07-14T18:26:54Z")
[Ariel Sharon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_sharon) could possibly be circling the drain. barely contains excitment! ---
**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:** [July 14, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/945 "2008-07-14T18:28:48Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] Schweeeeet! [/QUOTE] You’re embarassing us. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/946 "2008-07-14T22:28:30Z")
[Red Foley,](http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=A9G_byI6zntID0sBCwWpu7YF?slug=ap-obit-foley&prov=ap&type=lgns) who worked as a sportswriter for the _New York Daily News_ for 34 years and was renowned as an official scorer of Major League Baseball games, has died at the age of 79. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/947 "2008-07-14T22:49:29Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] Sweet Mother of OG! I SCORED! I’m on the BOARD! I’ve Lost My 2008 DP CHERRY! [/QUOTE] I am not so sure. Didn’t you really nominate [this guy](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0811238/)? ---
**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:** [July 14, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/948 "2008-07-14T23:41:52Z")
[QUOTE=amarone] Didn’t you really nominate [this guy](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0811238/)? [/QUOTE] **HA!** ahem. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/949 "2008-07-15T01:57:22Z")
[Luke Kruytbosch, for the last decade race caller of the Kentucky Derby, has died at 46](http://www.courierpress.com/news/2008/jul/14/ellis-park-announcer-luke-kruytbosch-dies/) ---
**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:** [July 15, 2008, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/950 "2008-07-15T19:03:57Z")
[QUOTE=amarone] I am not so sure. Didn’t you really nominate [this guy](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0811238/)? [/QUOTE] - :::::::flings three day old trout at Amarone::::::::::::::\* ---
**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:** [July 15, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/951 "2008-07-15T19:05:51Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] **HA!** ahem. Sorry. [/QUOTE] Please get in line behind Amarone for your Trout Beating. TYVM. Wise guys. I’m surrounded by wise guys. Sheesh! ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/952 "2008-07-15T22:33:13Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] - :::::::flings three day old trout at Amarone::::::::::::::\* [/QUOTE] Nah, [died 8 years ago](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Trout), not 3 days. Still no points. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/953 "2008-07-16T00:00:38Z")
[QUOTE=amarone] Still no points. [/QUOTE] hide…must find place to hide… ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/954 "2008-07-16T02:00:12Z")
Some recent passings: [Bryan Cowgill, Controller of BBC One and Managing Director of Thames Television, at 81](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2303123/Bryan-Cowgill.html) [Les Crane, talk-show host of the 1960s, at 74](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/arts/television/15crane.html?_r=1&oref=slogin) [Gyorgy Kolonics, winner of four Olympic medals in canoeing and whom was planning on competing in his fifth Olympics, at 36](http://www.portfolio.hu/en/cikkek.tdp?cCheck=1&k=2&i=15299) ---
**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:** [July 16, 2008, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/955 "2008-07-16T09:14:17Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] Some recent passings: [Gyorgy Kolonics, winner of four Olympic medals in canoeing and whom was planning on competing in his fifth Olympics, at 36](http://www.portfolio.hu/en/cikkek.tdp?cCheck=1&k=2&i=15299) [/QUOTE] There is Olympic Canoeing? Is beer involved? Sidenote: tough last name. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2008, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/956 "2008-07-17T04:27:40Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] I’ve Lost My 2008 DP CHERRY! [/QUOTE] You can only be a vigin once. It doesn’t grow back. But the good news is that you aren’t a loser with no points now. > [@](#): > > Ariel Sharon could possibly be circling the drain. I’m not holding my breath. I’ve had him since before the coma. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2008, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/957 "2008-07-17T08:57:27Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] You can only be a vigin once. It doesn’t grow back. But the good news is that you aren’t a loser with no points now. I’m not holding my breath. I’ve had him since before the coma. [/QUOTE] On the 31st of December at 1159pm, everyone’s DP cherry is re-virginated. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2008, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/958 "2008-07-17T12:39:31Z")
Some of us are not so fortunate. I was really counting on [this guy.](http://wearecentralpa.com/content/fulltext/?cid=15781) :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/959 "2008-07-18T02:18:37Z")
[Jo Stafford, one of the most popular singers of the 1940s and early 1950s, has died at 90](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2306332/Jo-Stafford.html) ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/960 "2008-07-21T10:52:29Z")
Old news, but previously unreported: [Lyall Watson](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/science/21watson.html?partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss). Nobody had him. ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/961 "2008-07-22T06:18:19Z")
Ooh! I didn’t notice this until now, but apparently John Astin died years ago. That means my number one alt moves up, right? Which means I get Bobby Fischer points, right? Right? Eh, on further examination of wikipedia, I’m probably wrong. Stupid wiki. Never mind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439.md?page=47) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439.md?page=49)