# 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:** 131
**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:** [October 17, 2012, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2602 "2012-10-17T14:39:33Z")
Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2603 "2012-10-17T17:51:56Z")
For a minute there I thought someone had her, but it was a different female Guthrie, Janet, the Indy 500 driver. Hmm, though now I think on it the driver is 74. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2604 "2012-10-18T00:06:20Z")
It’s looking like I’m going to have at least as many deaths this year as I did last year, but…damn! I’m gonna need a plane crash involving Kim Jong Un, Lindsay Lohan, Ralphie May and Margaret Thatcher to get back into the game. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2605 "2012-10-18T00:31:56Z")
All I want is for one of my unique picks to come through for me, so I can claw my way back into the top 20. I’m currently 22nd. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2606 "2012-10-18T00:34:52Z")
**Tamex** -I need all the living Hall of Famers to be in the same building when it burns to the ground. A SCOTUS reunion tragedy would help too. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2607 "2012-10-18T00:35:07Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > We’ve gotten remarkably better at [del]killing off our celebrities[/del] predicting celebrity deaths over the past nine years. Hah! Not all of us. My theme of evil people isn’t getting me anywhere. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2012, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2608 "2012-10-18T00:42:15Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Hah! Not all of us. > My theme of evil people isn’t getting me anywhere. It’s because they’re evil so they live to taunt and torment you. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2012, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2609 "2012-10-18T01:14:22Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > It’s because they’re evil so they live to taunt and torment you. Damn right. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2610 "2012-10-18T01:19:25Z")
I started off great but none of my sports stars have died since February. Alex Karras was on my short list for 2013… dammit. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2012, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2611 "2012-10-18T05:08:03Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > [George McGovern](http://www.keloland.com/newsdetail.cfm/mcgovern-receiving-hospice-care-in-sioux-falls/?id=138512)circles the drain… [McGovern now swirling in the vortex.](http://news.yahoo.com/family-ex-sen-mcgovern-no-longer-responsive-193847961.html) ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2612 "2012-10-18T11:57:01Z")
[_Goodbye, Emmanuelle_](http://www.deadline.com/2012/10/sylvia-kristel-emmanuelle-dies/) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2613 "2012-10-18T18:54:30Z")
[Larry Sloan](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-larry-sloan-20121017,0,5076257.story), one of the (number) men who started Price Stern Sloan, has died in (city) at the age of 89. Sloan’s company is famous for such products as “Mad Libs” books, which have (verb) millions of readers since 1958. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2614 "2012-10-18T19:07:53Z")
I (_adjective)_ MadLibs. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2615 "2012-10-18T22:15:41Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > I (_adjective)_ MadLibs. not to be a grammar nazi or anything, but I think you mean ‘verb intransitive’ ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2616 "2012-10-18T23:56:21Z")
Mike Ilitch, owner of the Detroit Tigers, looks like he is circling the drain. Anyone got him? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2617 "2012-10-19T00:32:23Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Mike Ilitch, owner of the Detroit Tigers, looks like he is circling the drain. Anyone got him? Nope. But six people have McGovern, if and when. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2618 "2012-10-19T14:47:50Z")
Has [Fidel Castro](http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/10/18/3056621/fidel-castro-suffered-a-stroke.html) joined George McGovern in the swirl? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2619 "2012-10-19T15:44:06Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Has [Fidel Castro](http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/10/18/3056621/fidel-castro-suffered-a-stroke.html) joined George McGovern in the swirl? One can hope! And not just for Death Pool reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2620 "2012-10-19T16:15:26Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > One can hope! And not just for Death Pool reasons. Meh, it’s too late for much good to come from his death. He’s been effectively dead for a long time, perhaps even before he quit being President. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2621 "2012-10-19T18:58:25Z")
I want Castro to live, at least until 2013. I didn’t pick him this year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=130) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=132)