# 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:** 119
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2362 "2012-08-26T02:17:47Z")
[Warner Brothers little boy cartoon voice] I was only 3 1/2 years old. [WBlbcv] 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2363 "2012-08-26T02:41:58Z")
I was conceived then. I do have vague memories of Apollo 17. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2364 "2012-08-26T02:53:06Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I was conceived then. > > I do have vague memories of Apollo 17. I am posting with CHILDREN! I don’t see how your parents could have been that bored watching the first moon landing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2365 "2012-08-26T03:12:03Z")
not bored, horny ---
**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:** [August 26, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2366 "2012-08-26T03:20:50Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > not bored, horny My parents got me out of bed and propped me up on pillows in front of the TV. And he got REALLY mad for a bit when I was sick at night and knocked on the door a couple of years later… While I’ve got you here, what does it mean, “Woman of Valor”? I think it is something between “Every great man has a greater woman behind him” and “A woman must work twice as hard as a man for equal pay. Fortunately, this is not difficult.” ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2367 "2012-08-26T03:45:27Z")
context, please. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2012, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2368 "2012-08-26T04:01:17Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > context, please. When you bless everything in sight at the Shabbes dinner, one calls one’s Wife a Woman of Valor. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2012, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2369 "2012-08-26T04:04:50Z")
> [@arnesw](#): > > I just heard a report on Norwegian TV that Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, is dead. I’ve no cites yet. I’m glad he got the chance to punch out the Lunar Landing Hoax guy before he went. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2012, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2370 "2012-08-26T04:08:18Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I’m glad he got the chance to punch out the Lunar Landing Hoax guy before he went. That was Buzz Aldrin, second guy on the moon. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2371 "2012-08-26T04:09:09Z")
Second comes right after first! ---
**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:** [August 26, 2012, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2372 "2012-08-26T04:11:58Z")
Then I’m glad he got to see it! 😛 ---
**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:** [August 26, 2012, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2373 "2012-08-26T04:42:50Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Then I’m glad he got to see it! 😛 Yeah, me too. It was very cool. 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 26, 2012, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2374 "2012-08-26T04:44:11Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > Second comes right after first! Yes, Buzz was well aware of that. 🙂 This forum requires that you wait 60 seconds between posts. Please try again in 11 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2375 "2012-08-26T06:05:15Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Been there, done that: Was on my Ipad, I thought I scrolled up enough.:smack: Breaking News… \*\*Bicyclist Neil Young just died on the moon. \*\* Oh. Really? That settles it. Next year my list is going to have only one item: Meeko’s timing In critical condition as it is. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2376 "2012-08-27T10:01:21Z")
Of the twelve men to walk on the moon, eight are still walking on the earth: 1. Neil Armstrong: August 5, 1930 - August 25, 2012 2. Buzz Aldrin: January 20, 1930 - 3. Pete Conrad: June 2, 1930 - July 8, 1999 4. Alan Bean: March 15, 1932 - 5. Alan Shepard: November 18, 1923 - July 21, 1998 6. Edgar Mitchell: September 17, 1930 - 7. David Scott: June 6, 1932 - 8. James Irwin: March 17, 1930 - August 8, 1991 9. John Young: September 24, 1930 - 10. Charles Duke: October 3, 1935 - 11. Eugene Cernan: March 14, 1934 - 12. Harrison Schmitt: July 3, 1935 - ---
**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:** [August 27, 2012, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2377 "2012-08-27T12:10:09Z")
“That was a small one for Neil, but a big one for me.” -Pete Conrad. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2378 "2012-08-28T13:52:09Z")
\*\*[Burning-monk photographer Malcolm Browne dies](http://online.wsj.com/article/APebd24c66cc6143c4b5d855ee79904ed8.html) Browne spent most of his journalism career at The New York Times, where he put in 30 years of his four decades as a journalist, much of it in war zones. He was 82. Former Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter is in a battle for his life following a cancer diagnosis, [CNN reported Tuesday morning](http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/28/politics/arlen-specter-ill/index.html). He is also 82. \*\* ---
**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:** [August 28, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2379 "2012-08-28T15:03:34Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Former Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter is in a battle for his life following a cancer diagnosis, [CNN reported Tuesday morning](http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/28/politics/arlen-specter-ill/index.html). He is also 82. > \*\* Stop helping! ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2380 "2012-08-28T16:45:32Z")
**[Acclaimed Classical Pianist Van Cliburn Diagnosed With Cancer](http://www.spinner.com/2012/08/28/van-cliburn-cancer/)** Renowned classical pianist Van Cliburn has been diagnosed with advanced bone cancer and is resting comfortably at his Texas home, his publicist said Monday. He is 78. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2381 "2012-08-29T00:45:23Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > **[Acclaimed Classical Pianist Van Cliburn Diagnosed With Cancer](http://www.spinner.com/2012/08/28/van-cliburn-cancer/)** > Renowned classical pianist Van Cliburn has been diagnosed with advanced bone cancer and is resting comfortably at his Texas home, his publicist said Monday. He is 78. Can you do my homework for me? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=118) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=120)