# 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:** 103
**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, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2042 "2012-07-17T10:01:02Z")
What about the Anti-Death Pool? You score points equal to a celebrities age at their Birthday in any given year you have them on your list. And if you DIDN’T go to “But Meeko, we can’t make jokes on that!” Then all I can say is : \*\* You! Out of the Deathpool!\*\* I just bought a ticket to a deeper circle of hell with this one, didn’t I? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2043 "2012-07-17T10:22:03Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > 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) I guess this means she is for real a [Honky Tonk Angel](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYij4OpOY6E). ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2044 "2012-07-17T12:04:14Z")
I took her off my list. ☹ Sorry, Kitty. ---
**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 17, 2012, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2045 "2012-07-17T12:20:05Z")
Motown bassist Bob Babbitt [dead at 74](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/16/bob-babbitt-dead-funk-brothers-74_n_1678162.html): > [@](#): > > Prominent Motown studio musician and Funk Brothers member Bob Babbitt, whose bass playing pounded through the Temptations hit “Ball of Confusion” and Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology),” has died. He was 74. > > … > > Well-known for decades among musicians, Babbitt laid down bass lines on Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered,” along with “The Tears of a Clown” by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, “Inner City Blues” by Marvin Gaye, and Edwin Starr’s “War.” > > … > > After leaving Motown, he recorded with Bette Midler, Jim Croce, Bonnie Raitt and Frank Sinatra. > In all, he played on more than 200 top 40 hits, including “Midnight Train to Georgia,” by Gladys Knight and the Pips and “Ready to Take a Chance Again” by Barry Manilow That is some discography. Except the Manilow. ---
**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, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2046 "2012-07-17T21:37:54Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Well, Andy Williams is still alive, so five, yes? I’m certain more than 5 people died. Most of them pointless, mind you. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2047 "2012-07-18T01:30:15Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > 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) Fit my theme, but didn’t make my list. Such is life. Or death, as the case may be. ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2048 "2012-07-18T19:36:48Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > Fit my theme, but didn’t make my list. Such is life. Or death, as the case may be. Who had the “name ends in -son” (I think that was it) theme last year where everyone and his brother whose name ended in -son died except those on the theme list? ---
**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 18, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2049 "2012-07-18T20:14:54Z")
[Rajesh Khanna](http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Rajesh-Khanna-For-fans-the-only-and-forever-superstar/articleshow/15035662.cms), huge Bollywood star, has died at age 69. ---
**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 19, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2050 "2012-07-19T01:06:40Z")
Andy Williams[news.](http://bransontrilakesnews.com/news_free/article_71c5870a-d05b-11e1-9a10-001a4bcf887a.html) dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2051 "2012-07-19T01:44:34Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Andy Williams[news.](http://bransontrilakesnews.com/news_free/article_71c5870a-d05b-11e1-9a10-001a4bcf887a.html) > > dammit. I thought that was the same person as Andy Griffith. Duh. ---
**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 19, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2052 "2012-07-19T22:55:49Z")
Tom Davis, half of SNL’s Franken & Davis, [has died of cancer](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/arts/television/tom-davis-saturday-night-live-comedy-writer-dies-at-59.html), at age 59. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2053 "2012-07-19T23:14:23Z")
Oh, wow. Franken named his daughter after him (Thomasina?). ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2054 "2012-07-19T23:49:23Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Tom Davis, half of SNL’s Franken & Davis, [has died of cancer](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/arts/television/tom-davis-saturday-night-live-comedy-writer-dies-at-59.html), at age 59. ☹ They were very funny together in the 70s ---
**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 20, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2055 "2012-07-20T00:23:35Z")
I know it’s their thing but the constant repetition of “Mr.” in the New York Times is annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2056 "2012-07-20T03:59:04Z")
[William Raspberry](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-william-raspberry-20120718,0,7727639.story), whose _Washington Post_ column was eventually syndicated to more than 200 newspapers, has died at the age of 76. In 1994, Raspberry became the second black journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for commentary. ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2057 "2012-07-20T17:50:26Z")
Sooooooooooooo, did anyone famous attend any midnight movies last night? Too soon? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2058 "2012-07-21T01:09:09Z")
Whoa, your DeathMistress is back. I’ve been having computer problems and have only been able to check this place out on the library computers. All these deaths but only one, Jon Lord, for 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 21, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2059 "2012-07-21T02:03:14Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Whoa, your DeathMistress is back. Were you gone? Oh, Hell. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2060 "2012-07-21T02:12:15Z")
> [@Enuma\_Elish](#): > > Sooooooooooooo, did anyone famous attend any midnight movies last night? > > Too soon? Wow. But, yeah, I laughed. ---
**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 21, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2061 "2012-07-21T03:20:48Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > All these deaths but only one, Jon Lord, for points. God, we suck at making picks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=102) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=104)