# 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:** 51
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1002 "2008-08-09T13:33:16Z")
According to CNN, Bernie Mac has died from complications of pneumonia. (No link as yet, just a breaking news blurb.) Very tragic, and unexpected. (And also points-free, as it appears nobody picked him.) ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1003 "2008-08-09T13:38:21Z")
Bernie Mac confirmed ([AP](http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gxU6PJjRqPOON16dBrcLCWEHcIXgD92EPOH80), among others) ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1004 "2008-08-09T14:08:25Z")
[QUOTE=MsWhatsit] According to CNN, Bernie Mac has died from complications of pneumonia. (No link as yet, just a breaking news blurb.) Very tragic, and unexpected. (And also points-free, as it appears nobody picked him.) [/QUOTE] I sense the beginning of a **Bad Santa** curse. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1005 "2008-08-09T14:26:20Z")
[QUOTE=MsWhatsit] Bernie Mac has died … [/QUOTE] I know where I am spending the weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seeker_of_Truth_and_Beauty)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1006 "2008-08-09T20:25:36Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] I know where I am spending the weekend. [/QUOTE] Being largely unfamiliar with Mac’s oeuvre, I’m curious. Does this have some meaning specifically to Bernie Mac fans? Or are you riffing on the [movie title](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098627/)? [sub]I know, I know – a joke loses it when it has to be explained. But I need to know, dammit![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1007 "2008-08-10T00:04:12Z")
[QUOTE=SpazCat] I sense the beginning of a **Bad Santa** curse. [/QUOTE] Who’s next? [Thurman Merman](http://film.onet.pl/_i/film/b/bad_santa/g/g03.jpg)? Joe ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1008 "2008-08-10T20:14:06Z")
[Isaac Hayes](http://www.wmcstations.com/Global/story.asp?S=8817903), 65 years old. Apparently collapsed while working out at home. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1009 "2008-08-10T20:25:21Z")
[QUOTE=Only Mostly Dead] [Isaac Hayes](http://www.wmcstations.com/Global/story.asp?S=8817903), 65 years old. Apparently collapsed while working out at home. [/QUOTE] Are you sure? Did he crap his pants? ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1010 "2008-08-11T00:28:56Z")
> [@](#): > > According to Hayes’ official Web site, the music icon was set to play himself in a musical comedy starring comedian Bernie Mac, who died Saturday. I guess anyone who believes in threes and is connected with this project is booking in to see their doctor this week. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1011 "2008-08-11T01:04:09Z")
Anyone have Hayes? ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1012 "2008-08-11T01:14:26Z")
[QUOTE=Only Mostly Dead] [Isaac Hayes](http://www.wmcstations.com/Global/story.asp?S=8817903), 65 years old. Apparently collapsed while working out at home. [/QUOTE] shit. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1013 "2008-08-11T02:40:45Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] Anyone have Hayes? [/QUOTE] Nope. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1014 "2008-08-12T13:41:53Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] Are you sure? Did he crap his pants? [/QUOTE] I just choked on a Peanut Butter M&M. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1015 "2008-08-13T18:29:57Z")
[Sandy Allen, 53, world’s tallest woman at 7’ 7"](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402741,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1016 "2008-08-13T18:58:50Z")
[QUOTE=Earl Snake-Hips Tucker] [Sandy Allen, 53, world’s tallest woman at 7’ 7"](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402741,00.html) [/QUOTE] No points for me, but I do want to say I knew her casually. We lived in the same neighborhood of east side Indianapolis. A very sweet woman who had a metric buttload of health problems. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1017 "2008-08-13T22:35:21Z")
[Christie Allen](http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=614036), at 54. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2008, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1018 "2008-08-15T18:25:45Z")
Atlantic Records’s [Jerry Wexler](http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aDNBys2r6PmU&refer=us) at 91. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1019 "2008-08-17T16:25:09Z")
Much decorated journalist Leroy Sievers has joined the choir at the age of 53. [Colon Cancer Claims Veteran Journalist Leroy Sievers - ABC News](http://www.abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=5197492&page=1) ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1020 "2008-08-17T16:42:34Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Lance Murdoch] Much decorated journalist Leroy Sievers has joined the choir at the age of 53. [Colon Cancer Claims Veteran Journalist Leroy Sievers - ABC News](http://www.abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=5197492&page=1) [/QUOTE] And the good captain is being coy about the fact that he had Leroy on his list. The only other person to do so was **WVmom** , who rises to sixth place. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2008, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439/1021 "2008-08-18T12:21:25Z")
Boxer [Ronney Vargas](http://wcbstv.com/topstories/Bronx.Boxer.Killed.2.797465.html) shot to death in a bar brawl, age 20. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439.md?page=50) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439.md?page=52)