# 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:** 102
**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, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2022 "2012-07-16T22:45:40Z")
And more bad…good news about [Molli Serrano](http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Cancer-Survivor-Determined-to-Compete-In-Ironman-World-Championship-162643186.html). :rolleyes: ---
**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, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2023 "2012-07-16T22:53:27Z")
> [@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. Viewing of Mr. Covey will be held all week except Sunday, so the funeral home can “sharpen the saw”. ---
**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, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2024 "2012-07-16T23:03:04Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Viewing of Mr. Covey will be held all week except Sunday, so the funeral home can “sharpen the saw”. I must not have read the book. 😕 ---
**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, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2025 "2012-07-16T23:21:57Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I must not have read the book. > 😕 All Franklin Covey stores are closed on Sundays due to the company philosophy that Sundays are for [“sharpening the saw”](https://www.stephencovey.com/7habits/7habits-habit7.php). ---
**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 16, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2026 "2012-07-16T23:28:22Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I must not have read the book. > 😕 I never even heard of him. ---
**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, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2027 "2012-07-16T23:51:42Z")
Kitty Wells, the first female superstar of country music, [has died at the age of 92.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/16/kitty-wells-dead-queen-of-country-dies_n_1677532.html) ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2028 "2012-07-17T00:30:21Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Viewing of Mr. Covey will be held all week except Sunday, so the funeral home can “sharpen the saw”. Was coming over here to make a ““Saw”” comment. … Today was brutal out there, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2029 "2012-07-17T00:32:12Z")
We had SIX people kick the bucket today? ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2030 "2012-07-17T00:34:50Z")
> [@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. Covey’s Estate posthumously added a 9th\* Habit of Highly Effective People - Breathing. - There was an entire book written on the 8th of the 7 Habits. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2031 "2012-07-17T00:44:31Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > We had SIX people kick the bucket today? There has got to be straight line for Zsa Zsa’s death, if I ever heard one. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2032 "2012-07-17T01:12:46Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > 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) I don’t play the game, and rarely comment in here, but man what a fantastic rock and roll keyboardist Jon was. I’ll play me some Highway Star on the drive to work tomorrow. (I just saw Deep Purple in concert last Feb. Not with Jon, obviously, but they still rocked. Machine Head is in my top ten, for sure.) ---
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2033 "2012-07-17T01:35:16Z")
You guys are killing it today. My sides are splitting. ---
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2034 "2012-07-17T01:49:13Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I guess safe operation of a bicycle wasn’t one of the seven. > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > His spiritual home of Branson, Missouri? What was his religion? The Holy Church of the Mystical Rhinestone?" > [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Viewing of Mr. Covey will be held all week except Sunday, so the funeral home can “sharpen the saw”. > [@Meeko](#): > > Covey’s Estate posthumously added a 9th\* Habit of Highly Effective People - Breathing. > > - There was an entire book written on the 8th of the 7 Habits. :rolleyes: > [@Kitten\_Mitten](#): > > You guys are killing it today. My sides are splitting. Here’s what I was referring to with the last post. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2035 "2012-07-17T02:08:48Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > We had SIX people kick the bucket today? Well, Andy Williams is still alive, so five, yes? ---
**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 17, 2012, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2036 "2012-07-17T02:10:02Z")
The sport of golf has given us the wonderful “gimme.” ---
**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, 2012, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2037 "2012-07-17T02:17:16Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Well, Andy Williams is still alive, so five, yes? Do you have him? ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2038 "2012-07-17T02:46:11Z")
[William Asher](http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118056655), director (I Love Lucy, Bewitched) and husband of the late Elizabeth Montgomery. So that makes six or is it seven? ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2039 "2012-07-17T02:49:18Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > [William Asher](http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118056655), director (I Love Lucy, Bewitched) and husband of the late Elizabeth Montgomery. Darren #1 or Darren #2? 😃 ---
**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:** [July 17, 2012, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2040 "2012-07-17T06:34:56Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > 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) Makes this my best year yet. For this game. Not because we lost a damned fine keyboardist. RIP Jon. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2041 "2012-07-17T09:56:21Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I guess safe operation of a bicycle wasn’t one of the seven. Gotta bump this one. Honestly didn’t see yours, **Boyo** , untill after I posted mine. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=101) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=103)