# The Celebrity Death Pool 2012 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2011, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679 "2011-12-01T06:00:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 101
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2002 "2012-07-09T03:48:27Z")
> [@sco3tt](#): > > We could make him an honorary SDMB (or SMDb, if he prefers) member, thus ensuring he’ll never be a pick for our sick pastime. **I May, or May not have Patrick Norton on my 2015 list.** ((Yes, I’m that far ahead on my themes.)) You know, just in case we are calling Dibs on the Former Tech Tv crew. Anyone know where Martin Sargent ended up, while I’m at it? ---
**Author:** ![sco3tt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@sco3tt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sco3tt)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2003 "2012-07-09T03:52:31Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > \*\*Anyone know where Martin Sargent ended up, while I’m at it? Coincidentally Leo mentioned Martin Sargent during (IIRC) the Tech Guy show today. He said he’s a copywriter for an ad agency in San Francisco. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2004 "2012-07-09T23:44:46Z")
> [@sco3tt](#): > > Here’s [the clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzGdd2YZHH8&feature=youtu.be). über cool 🆒🆒🆒 ---
**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:** [July 10, 2012, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2005 "2012-07-10T14:23:31Z")
I think I’ve figured out how to get people dying: wait until my internet connection fubars. It’s been messed up since last Sunday and in that time both Andy Griffith and Tante Ernest Borgnine\* die. :mad: \*A title he earned in the [very last (aired) episode of MST3K](http://www.mst3kinfo.com/?p=5768), a high honor indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2006 "2012-07-12T20:02:21Z")
[Marion Cunningham](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/us/marion-cunningham-cookbook-author-dies-at-90.html) has died at 90. No, not Richie’s mom. (Marion Ross is still among the living at 83.) Cunningham was a celebrated cookbook author and food journalist. > [@](#): > > In one passage from “The Fannie Farmer Cookbook,” on how to crack fresh coconut, she suggested throwing it on a cement patio. > > “That’s how monkeys do it,” she wrote, “and they are professionals.” ---
**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 13, 2012, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2007 "2012-07-13T01:30:52Z")
[Dammit.](http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2012/07/12/mom-beats-cancer-molli-serrano-today-show/) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2008 "2012-07-13T23:38:33Z")
[Film producer Richard Zanuck dead at 77.](http://news.yahoo.com/film-producer-richard-d-zanuck-dies-age-77-204646572.html) ---
**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:** [July 14, 2012, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2009 "2012-07-14T01:02:48Z")
[Sage Stallone, Sylvestor’s son, has died. Age 36. He played Rocky’s son in Rocky V.](http://www.aintitcool.com/node/57014) Sad news. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2010 "2012-07-14T01:15:05Z")
If I’d been betting on the next Stallone to die, I’d have had my money on Sly’s 90 year old mother, Jackie. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2011 "2012-07-14T01:22:02Z")
When he started wearing that earring and sassing back to Talia Shire, I knew he was destined for a hard life. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2012 "2012-07-15T18:05:09Z")
> [@](#): > > **(CNN)** – Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm died at her home in New York on Sunday at the age of 95, her niece, Amy Phillips, confirmed. Holm, a star of the Broadway stage and movies, was admitted to New York’s Roosevelt Hospital a week ago, but her husband took her home to her Manhattan home on Friday, Phillips said. [http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/15/showbiz/celeste-holm-obit/index.html?hpt=hp\_t2](http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/15/showbiz/celeste-holm-obit/index.html?hpt=hp_t2) ---
**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 15, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2013 "2012-07-15T18:51:52Z")
More hope…er, bad news about[Andy Williams.](http://www.contactmusic.com/news/andy-williams-leaves-hospital-as-cancer-battle-worsens_1366003) ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2014 "2012-07-16T02:46:32Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > More hope…er, bad news about[Andy Williams.](http://www.contactmusic.com/news/andy-williams-leaves-hospital-as-cancer-battle-worsens_1366003) They should call up Claudine Longet to put him out of his misery ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2015 "2012-07-16T16:00:49Z")
Donald J. Sobol, the author of [Encyclopedia Brown](http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/54490_b54490), dead at 87. I loved those books as a kid. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2016 "2012-07-16T16:09:36Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > Donald J. Sobol, the author of [Encyclopedia Brown](http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/54490_b54490), dead at 87. I loved those books as a kid. I did, too. There’s one I remember where the bad guy filled gloves with cement and tied them to his shoes to make everyone think a paraplegic stole something. Very bizarre but cool! ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2017 "2012-07-16T17:02:08Z")
[Stephen Covey](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hogpvJxwbDHWugz2amPJFzmkwMsQ?docId=ba1c87b73c654366bc0119ddcb37cc35), author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, has died at 79 from complications from a bicycle accident. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2018 "2012-07-16T17:09:59Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > [Stephen Covey](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hogpvJxwbDHWugz2amPJFzmkwMsQ?docId=ba1c87b73c654366bc0119ddcb37cc35), author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, has died at 79 from complications from a bicycle accident. I guess safe operation of a bicycle wasn’t one of the seven. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2019 "2012-07-16T21:28:44Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I guess safe operation of a bicycle wasn’t one of the seven. That sucked the first time I read it on Yahoo News comments, and it sucks now. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2020 "2012-07-16T21:34:55Z")
Jon Lord, Deep Purple Keyboardist, [Dies At Age 71](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/16/jon-lord-dead-dies-deep-purple-guitarist-age-71_n_1677121.html) ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2021 "2012-07-16T22:38:12Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > More hope…er, bad news about[Andy Williams.](http://www.contactmusic.com/news/andy-williams-leaves-hospital-as-cancer-battle-worsens_1366003) His spiritual home of Branson, Missouri? What was his religion? The Holy Church of the Mystical Rhinestone?" [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=100) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=102)