# 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:** 125
**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:** [September 26, 2012, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2482 "2012-09-26T14:49:33Z")
I had him. Yay! ---
**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:** [September 26, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2483 "2012-09-26T15:28:06Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > [Andy Williams has died at age 84.](http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/09/26/andy-williams-dies-bladder-cancer-at-age-84/) Put me down in the, “He was still alive?” category. ---
**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 26, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2484 "2012-09-26T15:32:55Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Put me down in the, “He was still alive?” category. Put me down in the “Points is points” category. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2485 "2012-09-26T17:47:22Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > My team really needs to step it up. I guess my halftime speech wasn’t inspirational enough. Inspirational? Well, there’s your problem. Next time, give an _expirational_ speech. ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2486 "2012-09-26T18:43:01Z")
And on the Zsa Zsa front - She didn’t even know she was one leg short (excuse the pun)[for 6 months](http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/333403) I mean, READ this article - you can’t make this stuff up. My personal theory is that von Anhalt’s real name is Herbert West… ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2487 "2012-09-26T20:06:53Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Did anyone else have him? I did…I think. ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2488 "2012-09-26T20:12:54Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > The MTV quiz game show Remote Control used to have a recurring category > > Dead or Canadian? > > In which you had to answer if the given celebrity was Dead or Canadian. > > I wonder the legalese of a Canadian playing in that one. I remember when the subject was Guy Lombardo… ---
**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 26, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2489 "2012-09-26T21:40:01Z")
My current 2013 working list has 20 names. I just wish people would stop posting leads on here! :mad: This is not a game! Ok it _is_ a game. But its a serious game dammit! ---
**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:** [September 26, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2490 "2012-09-26T21:47:14Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > My current 2013 working list has 20 names. Heh. Mine has 33. ---
**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 26, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2491 "2012-09-26T23:48:47Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > My current 2013 working list has 20 names. I just wish people would stop posting leads on here! :mad: Hey, I play co-op Doom II. Cowboy up. They’re going to steal anyway. Look how many stole my Andy Williams selection. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2492 "2012-09-27T05:15:03Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Heh. Mine has 33. My 13 list has 11 names finalized, need to decide on the last two, from a short list of 5 remaining. My 14 list is very narrow, I don’t know if I can even have alternates on it. 15 had 3 people added to it three days ago Has anyone ever presented their list of 13, and immediately called an audible, to switch up with an alternate list? My 2013 list is themed, but one of the names … I doubt anyone has heard of… ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2493 "2012-09-27T05:17:55Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Hey, I play co-op Doom II. > Cowboy up. > They’re going to steal anyway. Look how many stole my Andy Williams selection. > 🙂 Doom 2 CTF still going big? Was the best semester of college, even on my older system. First real taste of multiplayer fps. The sad part? This was 2005 or so for me. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2494 "2012-09-27T12:40:14Z")
I so suck at this game. ---
**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 27, 2012, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2495 "2012-09-27T12:46:06Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I so suck at this game. Heh- you have been here a dogs watch. I have not yet got a single point in this game. ---
**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 27, 2012, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2496 "2012-09-27T12:48:04Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I so suck at this game. Hey, sixteen points didn’t put me in the top ten! 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 27, 2012, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2497 "2012-09-27T12:56:55Z")
Herbert Lom, Pink Panther star, [dies aged 95](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19745910) ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2498 "2012-09-27T14:41:58Z")
[Johnny Lewis](http://www.tmz.com/2012/09/27/sons-of-anarchy-actor-johnny-lewis-double-death-los-feliz-los-angeles/), of _Sons of Anarchy._ Apparently, he took his landlady with him. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2499 "2012-09-27T14:43:21Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Herbert Lom, Pink Panther star, [dies aged 95](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19745910) Clouseau strikes again! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2500 "2012-09-27T14:52:11Z")
FWIW, Johnny Lewis was age 72 points. His landlady was age 19 points. Too bad I never watch _Sons of Anarchy_. ---
**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 27, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2501 "2012-09-27T15:11:30Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Clouseau strikes again! Cheap shot! Funny as hell, wish I’d done it. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=124) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=126)