# 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:** 141
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2802 "2012-11-27T22:10:46Z")
[Dr. Joseph E. Murray](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jBwClFr47QX18vFBWWW1bz237X8A?docId=19e833b2464247729565126f8df38317), first doctor to successfully transplant a kidney. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2803 "2012-11-27T22:46:27Z")
**Baker** has yet to come in and post in a really big number. She’s either cured or got her account unhijacked from the Count. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2804 "2012-11-27T23:07:52Z")
**4!** ---
**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:** [November 28, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2805 "2012-11-28T01:42:26Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **Baker** has yet to come in and post in a really big number. She’s either cured or got her account unhijacked from the Count. 😃 You just have to poke things with a stick, don’t you? 🙂 ---
**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:** [November 28, 2012, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2806 "2012-11-28T11:10:14Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > You just have to poke things with a stick, don’t you? > 🙂 _POKE_ ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2807 "2012-11-28T15:31:16Z")
from Twitter-verse: Motivational Speaker Zig Ziglar has motivated the Grim Reaper at age 85. (Zsa Zsa still lives.) No link other than a facebook page can be found. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2808 "2012-11-28T15:38:08Z")
Missed edit window: Correction, Zig Ziglar was 86 ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2809 "2012-11-28T20:55:06Z")
[Confirmed by NBC.](http://www.nbcnews.com/business/motivational-speaker-zig-zigler-86-dies-1C7308450) ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2810 "2012-11-28T21:18:20Z")
Did he live in a van down by the river? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2811 "2012-11-28T21:19:11Z")
\*\* 3!\*\* You know, I really should stay up until midnight on Friday, so I can begin the new thread as early as possible!😛 ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2812 "2012-11-28T22:21:50Z")
[Marvin Miller](http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/ex-players-association-exec-marvin-miller-dead-95-article-1.1208710), first executive director of the MLBPA dead at 95. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2813 "2012-11-28T22:35:39Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > [Marvin Miller](http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/ex-players-association-exec-marvin-miller-dead-95-article-1.1208710), first executive director of the MLBPA dead at 95. See post #2800!😃 ---
**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:** [November 29, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2814 "2012-11-29T00:22:49Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > \*\* 3!\*\* > > You know, I really should stay up until midnight on Friday, so I can begin the new thread as early as possible!😛 12! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2815 "2012-11-29T02:20:22Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > 12! 😕 ---
**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:** [November 29, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2816 "2012-11-29T02:46:17Z")
> [@baker](#): > > \*\* 3!\*\* **6** > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > 12! 479,001,600 ---
**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:** [November 29, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2817 "2012-11-29T03:13:48Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > 😕 With the death of…somebody…I am twelfth. Get it? Some BODY, as in dead body. 🙂 Major Whats-his-name. I Dream of Jeannie. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2012, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2818 "2012-11-29T03:19:08Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > With the death of…somebody…I am twelfth. Oh, wait, is it customary to send you chocolate or a standing rib roast when someone advances? I am terribly sorry to have neglected this in the past. Mea culpa. What is your PayPal account? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2819 "2012-11-29T10:11:05Z")
It’s the thought that counts, **carnivorousplant**. But did you know the scientific name for the tree that produces the cocoa pod is _theobroma cacao_? “Theobroma” is Greek for “food of the gods”. Someone really knew their scientific nomenclature when designating it!😃 ---
**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:** [November 29, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2820 "2012-11-29T16:22:48Z")
[Earl (Speedo) Carroll](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/arts/music/earl-carroll-lead-singer-of-the-cadillacs-dies-at-75.html?ref=obituaries&_r=1), Lead Singer of the Cadillacs, has doo wopped for the last time, age 75. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/2821 "2012-11-29T17:07:06Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > [Earl (Speedo) Carroll](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/arts/music/earl-carroll-lead-singer-of-the-cadillacs-dies-at-75.html?ref=obituaries&_r=1), Lead Singer of the Cadillacs, has doo wopped for the last time, age 75. I remember a few years ago when a local NYC affiliate discovered that he had been a school janitor for years. He seemed content with the way his life turned out. My favorite song of that era. [http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p9uZvrsAoyE](http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p9uZvrsAoyE) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=140) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=142)