# 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:** 123
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2442 "2012-09-06T00:44:36Z")
> [@Enuma\_Elish](#): > > Nope, I’ve mistaken Clothahump for a woman. Mainly because the name Clothahump always seems to me to be a reference to the 3rd handmaiden of some obscure Greek goddess from Edith Hamilton’s book on Mythology. NO WAY! That is exactly what I think of. How freaking weird. We had that book as a text in 10th grade English. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2443 "2012-09-06T03:45:34Z")
Oh, the Games People Play. [Joe South](http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1693242/singer-songwriter-joe-south-dies-at-age-72.jhtml) dead at 72. No one promised him a rose garden. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2444 "2012-09-06T05:02:50Z")
Art Modell evidently in multiple organ failure. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2445 "2012-09-06T05:46:03Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > There’s been a lot of things said about Clothahump on this board but I think this is the first time anyone has mistaken him for a woman. I for one, was always partial to that one winnie the pooh episode. ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2446 "2012-09-06T12:37:18Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Art Modell evidently in multiple organ failure. ESPN is reporting he [has died](http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8343621/former-ravens-owner-art-modell-dies-87) ---
**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:** [September 6, 2012, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2447 "2012-09-06T13:47:28Z")
> [@critter42](#): > > ESPN is reporting he [has died](http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8343621/former-ravens-owner-art-modell-dies-87) I thought I felt a disturbance in the Force. It was the entire population of Cleveland cheering. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2448 "2012-09-06T14:19:55Z")
Well, it certainly made a [banner headline](http://www.cleveland.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2449 "2012-09-06T15:18:23Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I thought I felt a disturbance in the Force. It was the entire population of Cleveland cheering. Dammit… he would’ve fit into my theme. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2450 "2012-09-06T15:31:21Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Oh, the Games People Play. > > [Joe South](http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1693242/singer-songwriter-joe-south-dies-at-age-72.jhtml) dead at 72. No one promised him a rose garden. He’s now covered up in flowers, in the back of a black limosine. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2451 "2012-09-06T18:50:45Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Oh, the Games People Play. > > [Joe South](http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1693242/singer-songwriter-joe-south-dies-at-age-72.jhtml) dead at 72. No one promised him a rose garden. I beg your pardon? (sorry, someone had to) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2452 "2012-09-07T00:43:15Z")
Okay, anyone else ever had a Celebrity Deathpool related dream? Last night I dreamed I signed on my computer and there was a news article that Hugh Hefner had died. And my first thought was that I didn’t have him on my list and wondering how many other people had picked him. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2453 "2012-09-07T02:37:03Z")
BTW, Little Nemo, eight people have Hefner. Sweet dreams!😛 ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2454 "2012-09-07T14:01:31Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > BTW, Little Nemo, eight people have Hefner. > > Sweet dreams!😛 You just made it a nightmare. 😃 ---
**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:** [September 7, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2455 "2012-09-07T14:02:50Z")
Bryce Courtney has only a few months to go according to his statements to the media. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2456 "2012-09-07T14:04:46Z")
Hang in there, Bryce, at least until January. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2012, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2457 "2012-09-07T14:24:50Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Sweet dreams!😛 Are you steal… Er, were you inspired by [Elvira, Mistress of the Dark?](http://www.elviramistressofthedark.com/) She signed off with “Unpleasant dreams!” 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 11, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2458 "2012-09-11T04:09:07Z")
> [@](#): > > Singer Dorothy McGuire, who with her two sisters made dozens of hit records in the 1950s and 1960s, has died in Arizona, her son said on Sunday.McGuire, 84, died on Friday at her home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, her son Rex Williamson told Reuters. She had suffered for some time from Parkinson’s disease, he said. > > Dorothy McGuire was the middle sister of The McGuire Sisters - Christine, Phyllis and Dorothy - who had hits with “Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite,” “Sincerely” and “Sugartime” and were often compared to their 1940s predecessors, The Andrews Sisters. [http://todayentertainment.today.com/\_news/2012/09/10/13777338-dorothy-mcguire-of-singing-mcguire-sisters-dies-at-age-84?lite](http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2012/09/10/13777338-dorothy-mcguire-of-singing-mcguire-sisters-dies-at-age-84?lite) ---
**Author:** ![Critical\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2459 "2012-09-11T05:01:30Z")
WWE’s [Jerry Lawler](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/more-sports/wrestling-commentator-lawler-in-montreal-hospital/article4535736/) collapses at wrestling event. ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2460 "2012-09-12T11:27:34Z")
> [@Critical\_Mass](#): > > WWE’s [Jerry Lawler](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/more-sports/wrestling-commentator-lawler-in-montreal-hospital/article4535736/) collapses at wrestling event. Looks like [dropped his strap](http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/sep/11/friends-colleagues-of-jerry-lawler-optimistic/) and will be (mostly) fine ---
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2461 "2012-09-14T22:21:20Z")
Am I the only Canadian playing this game? [Peter Lougheed](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2012/09/13/calgary-reaction-peter-lougheed.html), dead at 84. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=122) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=124)