# 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:** 104
**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 21, 2012, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2062 "2012-07-21T03:29:08Z")
MMA Heavyweight Sherman Pendergarst, [dead of cancer at age 45.](http://espn.go.com/mma/story/_/id/8184080/heavyweight-sherman-pendergarst-45-dies-cancer) ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2063 "2012-07-21T04:57:20Z")
Ok, ok, I gotta remember this for next year’s picks. Chose people LIKELY to die, not people I merely want dead. 😛 ---
**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 21, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2064 "2012-07-21T13:56:22Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Ok, ok, I gotta remember this for next year’s picks. > > Chose people LIKELY to die, not people I merely want dead. 😛 This is business not pleasure. ---
**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, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2065 "2012-07-21T14:34:36Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > This is business not pleasure. Yes, points is points. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2066 "2012-07-21T15:22:11Z")
I am thinking of going in a slightly different direction. Not picking people that I want dead, but ones that if they do die, I won’t feel bad about it. When I got points for Dick Francis, it really sucked, because I didn’t want him to die. But while I don’t wish ill on Karl Rove, if he died, I wouldn’t feel bad. There have to be at least 13 people out there I can put on that kind of list. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2067 "2012-07-21T15:32:57Z")
_I_ wish ill on Karl Rove, although I don’t think he’s gonna die for a while yet. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2068 "2012-07-22T05:31:00Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Ok, ok, I gotta remember this for next year’s picks. > > Chose people LIKELY to die, not people I merely want dead. 😛 Or you know, we could ratchet up the goodies for those that play on theme and not age. -Meeko \*\*Whom has had (will have) a theme list for 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2069 "2012-07-22T05:38:42Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > This is business not pleasure. \*\* If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete. \*\* -Jack Welch, Former CEO of GE. Which is to say, If you are in this for “business” and your list is a copy of another list, you’re going to have a bad time. While you guys grind nickels, dimes and quarters, the winners will cash in half dollars and 75 cents. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2070 "2012-07-22T18:44:27Z")
One of my favorite actors from my childhood has died, according to the BBC; Simon Ward was 70 > **[The Tudors actor Simon Ward dies after long illness](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18947130)** > > The British screen and stage actor Simon Ward has died after a long illness, his agent confirms. I’ve never seen more than five minutes of the _Tudors_, which was some of his more recent work, but I was crazy about him as the dishy Duke of Buckingham in the 1973 version of the _Three Musketeers_ (although I’d hoped to marry Michael York when I grew up). ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2071 "2012-07-22T19:36:03Z")
Didn’t he play Winston Churchill, in _Young Winston_? I liked that movie. BTW, nobody had him. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2072 "2012-07-22T22:14:04Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Didn’t he play Winston Churchill, in _Young Winston_? I liked that movie. > > BTW, nobody had him. Yep. And he was the original James Herriot. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Uncle\_Goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Goat)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2073 "2012-07-23T06:55:15Z")
> [@Ms\_Boods](#): > > Yep. And he was the original James Herriot. ☹ Much to the chagrin of James Herriot. ---
**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 23, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2074 "2012-07-23T21:20:12Z")
Sally Ride, first American woman to fly in space, [has died at age 61.](http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8746225) ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2075 "2012-07-23T21:27:20Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Sally Ride, first American woman to fly in space, [has died at age 61.](http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8746225) :(. I attended a math and science program for girls that she sponsored. I remember her coming to speak and eating lunch with us. Of course, it didn’t take and I hate math to this day, but at least she tried. ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2076 "2012-07-23T21:47:42Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Sally Ride, first American woman to fly in space, [has died at age 61.](http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8746225) I sometimes imagined her going back to her high school reunion… “Hey, you guys remember when that song came out during my sophomore year and you all called me ‘Mustang Sally’ for the next three years? Well I went to space and you can all go fuck yourselves.” Also, while we’re on the subject, the wrong astronaut died today. Let’s go Oleg! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2077 "2012-07-23T22:08:14Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Sally Ride, first American woman to fly in space, [has died at age 61.](http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8746225) Sally rides no more? too soon? ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2078 "2012-07-23T22:22:19Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Sally Ride, first American woman to fly in space, [has died at age 61.](http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8746225) ☹ ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2079 "2012-07-23T22:53:21Z")
Sally Ride was a lesbian? I did not know that. RIP, Dr. Ride. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2080 "2012-07-23T23:26:52Z")
Seattle area local celebrity - [J.P. Patches](http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018749756_chriswedesobit23m.html) (real name, Chris Wedes) has died. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2081 "2012-07-24T00:08:28Z")
Wow it’s sad that Ms Ride has passed on. ☹ Rest in peace Sally. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=103) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=105)