# The Celebrity Death Pool 2009 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262 "2008-12-01T23:40:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/181 "2008-12-19T00:27:39Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Going for the unique picks, **Spiff**? He has 10, but **42fish** has 11. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/182 "2008-12-19T04:03:40Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > He has 10, but **42fish** has 11. And they said I was mad for choosing centenarians! BWAH-HA-HA-HA!! ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/183 "2008-12-19T04:24:05Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > He has 10, but **42fish** has 11. And **The Blue-Sighted Shadow** has 12. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/184 "2008-12-19T04:43:01Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > And they said I was mad for choosing centenarians! BWAH-HA-HA-HA!! I read once that the age at which you have less than 50% odds of surviving to your next birthday is 100. If that is true, you should expect to score with at least 7 of your nominees. In comparison, 8 of **Rachm Qoch’s** list have bitten the dust so far this year. So five celebrities are living (or not) in fear over the next 13 days. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/185 "2008-12-19T05:53:35Z")
> [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](#): > > For once I’ve actually remembered to get my list up in time. Not many unique people and many of the stock standards and holdouts from previous competitions: > > Claude Lévi Strauss > Fidel Castro > Osama Bin Laden > Amy Winehouse > Jack Kevorkian > Gough Whitlam > JD Salinger > Margaret Thatcher > Tom Lehrer > George H W Bush > Billy Graham > William Mark Felt > Brittany Spears > > **Alternates** > > Buzz Aldrin > Neil Armstrong > Michael Collins Replacing the deceased W. Mark Felt with Buzz Aldrin. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/186 "2008-12-19T05:54:55Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Paul Willson > Billy Graham > Harry Morgan > Jiang Zemin > Jack Lalane > Paul Wight > Eli Wallach > Peter Falk > W. Mark Felt > Les Paul > C. Everett Koop > Glen Benton > Michelle Trachtenberg > > I’ll repost if any of these die this month. Time to repost then. W. Mark Felt is gone. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/187 "2008-12-19T05:59:58Z")
Angela Lansbury Ted Kennedy Bob Barker Elizabeth Taylor Mary Tyler Moore Dick Clark Joanne Woodward Amy Winehouse Tim Conway Walter Cronkite Tina Louise Roger Ebert Chi Cheng Alternates Patrick Swayze OJ Simpson ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/188 "2008-12-19T16:26:59Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > Time to repost then. W. Mark Felt is gone. I will momentarily. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/189 "2008-12-19T16:29:27Z")
Paul Willson Billy Graham Harry Morgan Jiang Zemin Jack Lalane Paul Wight Eli Wallach Peter Falk Kirk Douglas Les Paul C. Everett Koop Glen Benton Michelle Trachtenberg I have replaced Mark Felt with Kirk Douglas. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/190 "2008-12-19T19:07:09Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Going for the unique picks, **Spiff**? Like the dung beetles of the world, I just like to do things differently! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_First_Time)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/191 "2008-12-19T20:45:41Z")
> [@Long\_Time\_First\_Time](#): > > If past years are any guide, people should pay me to list them - it ensures another 12 months of drawing breath and walking the earth. > > Here are my 2009 selections: > > 1. Barbara Bush > 2. Bettie Page > 3. Patrick Swayze > 4. Ted Kennedy > 5. Dick Vitale > 6. Kim Jon-il > 7. Roger Ebert > 8. Dick Cheney > 9. Jack LaLane > 10. John McCain > 11.Steve Ballesteros > 11. Nancy Reagan > 12. Dick Clark > > Alternate: Jerry Lewis Between formatting incorrectly and already losing an entry I’ll go again. New improved Death Pool entry: Dick Clark Nancy Reagan Steve Ballesteros John McCain Dick Cheney Jack LaLane Barbara Bush Patrick Swayze Ted Kennedy Dick Vitale Kim Jon-il Roger Ebert Alan Colmes Alternate: Jerry Lewis ---
**Author:** ![Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckler_of_Swashing)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/192 "2008-12-20T01:00:31Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > Replacing the deceased W. Mark Felt with Buzz Aldrin. Thanks, amarone. May I replace Aldrin as an alternate with Bilawal Bhutto Zardar? ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/193 "2008-12-20T02:17:10Z")
> [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](#): > > Thanks, amarone. May I replace Aldrin as an alternate with Bilawal Bhutto Zardar? Sure - I don’t actually keep a record of alternates. It is easier just to search back through the thread if someone on a list dies. ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/194 "2008-12-20T20:21:33Z")
My 2009 list is the same as my 2008 list except for one change. Mikhail Gorbachev Hank Aaron Willie Mays Thomas Pynchon Raul Castro Steve Jobs John Updike Peter Orlovsky Sophia Loren Woody Allen E.O. Wilson Sean Connery Elizabeth Taylor ---
**Author:** ![El\_Perro\_Fumando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e9c0ed/32.png) [@El\_Perro\_Fumando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Perro_Fumando)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/195 "2008-12-21T18:46:31Z")
My witty comments shall be left to the reader’s imagination: Patrick Swayze Dan Brown Michael Jackson Farrah Fawcett Amy Winehouse Teri Garr Barbara Bush Nancy Reagan Richard Dawson Bob Barker Nicolas Sarkozy Ariel Sharon Fidel Castro Alternates: Eli Wallach Judi Dench To avoid any confusion, Dan Brown is the Defensive Coordinator at Fresno State, not the author of _The DaVinci Code_ and Barbara Bush is the older one without a twin sister. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/196 "2008-12-21T21:32:37Z")
Here is my all-political list. I somehow forgot to submit my picks for 2008 so this list is a re-hash of 2007 with a couple of replacements: 1. Ratu Josefa Iloilovatu Uluivuda (President of Fiji) 2. George Herbert Walker Bush (former President of the United States) 3. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (President of Cuba) 4. Ariel Sharon (former Prime Minister of Israel) 5. Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, etc 6. Kim Jong-Il (Dear Leader of the People’s Democartic Republic of Korea) 7. Joseph Alois Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) 8. Imelda Romualdez Marcos (former First Lady of the Philippines) 9. Robert Gabriel Mugabe (President of Zimbabwe) 10. King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques (King of Saudi Arabia) 11. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Tatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (former Primer Minister of the United Kingdom) 12. Lee Kuan Yew (former Prime Minister of Singapore) 13. Colonel Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi [Qadhafi/Qaddafi/Kaddafi - however you want to spell it] (de facto leader of Libya) PLAIN LIST: Josefa Iloilo George H.W. Bush Fidel Castro Ariel Sharon Queen Elizabeth II Kim Jong-il Pope Benedict XVI Imelda Marcos Robert Mugabe King Abdullah Margaret Thatcher Lee Kuan Yew Muammar al-Gaddafi ---
**Author:** ![Tazmanian\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tazmanian\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tazmanian_Devil)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/197 "2008-12-22T11:48:55Z")
My picks to croak: Ronnie Biggs Fidel Castro Karl Malden Kirk Douglas Fats Domino JD Salinger Jake LaMotta Jack Klugman Elizabeth Taylor Clive Dunn Yitzhak Shamir Ariel Sharon Billy Graham Alternates: Amy Winehouse Patrick Swayze ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/198 "2008-12-22T15:12:47Z")
I am revising my list. Clint Eastwood Ariel Sharon Fidel Castro Roger Ebert Chemical Ali Dick Clark Elizabeth Taylor Lionel Barrymore Steve Jobs Peter O’Toole Michael Jackson Elizabeth Edwards Barack Obama Alternates: Barbara Bush Mary Stewart Ray Bradbury ---
**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:** [December 22, 2008, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/199 "2008-12-22T15:12:54Z")
Michael Jackson O J Simpson Woody Allen Jerry Seinfeld Ted Kennedy George H W Bush Barbara Bush (the mother, not the daughter) Peter Falk Parick Swayze Whitney Houston Bobbie Brown Brittany Spears Billy Ray Cyrus Alternates: Keith Richards Mick Jagger ---
**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:** [December 22, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262/200 "2008-12-22T15:16:14Z")
ANNIE!!! You’ve diversified your list! I’m _SHOCKED!_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262.md?page=11)