# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/21 "2011-12-01T14:40:30Z")
> [@](#): > > The “Inside Track With the Grim Reaper” Award: awarded to the poster or posters who had the most unique picks that died. > > The “Opening Kickoff” Award: awarded to the poster or posters who pick the first listed celebrity to die in **2011**. > > The “Final Hours” Award: awarded to the poster or posters who pick the last listed celebrity to die in **2011**. > > The “Robbing the Cradle” Award: awarded to the poster or posters who pick the youngest celebrity to die in **2011** , but see rule 3.d. The OP needs to be changed to say 2012 instead of 2011. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/22 "2011-12-01T14:53:30Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > The OP needs to be changed to say 2012 instead of 2011. > > 😉 :smack: I can’t change it myself, but this should serve as notice that those three awards that say 2011 are 2012 instead!😛 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/23 "2011-12-01T14:58:01Z")
Reported to a Mod for correction. ---
**Author:** ![azraiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@azraiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/azraiel)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/24 "2011-12-01T15:34:29Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > On the thirteenth day of Christmas, my Death Pool celebrities: > > 6 geese a-laying–Wilt Chamberlain 😕 Is there another Wilt Chamberlain? ---
**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:** [December 1, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/25 "2011-12-01T15:37:10Z")
> [@azraiel](#): > > 😕 Is there another Wilt Chamberlain? Think lay-ups. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/26 "2011-12-01T15:51:34Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Think lay-ups. Think already laying up the daisies since 99. I’m not sure if I’m going to play. I’ve done this like 5 times and have yet to have anyone die on me. Maybe I should have people _pay_ me to be on the list. ---
**Author:** ![Bewildebeest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bewildebeest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bewildebeest)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/27 "2011-12-01T15:52:04Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > Michael Douglas > … > Elizabeth Taylor > … She’s already dead. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/28 "2011-12-01T15:53:36Z")
> [@Edward\_The\_Head](#): > > Think already laying up the daisies since 99. :smack: _\_ ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/29 "2011-12-01T16:13:13Z")
Oh, and yes, we can have a “theme” award. Just be sure to let me know, when you make your entry, that it’s a theme. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/30 "2011-12-01T16:14:58Z")
I haven’t decided if I am going to jump on any band wagons this year. I’ll be back with my list before the cutoff. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/31 "2011-12-01T16:23:46Z")
Thanks for all your hard work, **amarone** , and thanks for taking up the reins, **Baker**! I look forward to yet another delightfully morbid year of having friends and family members text me every time a celebrity dies to ask “Was he on your list?!” (The answer this year was all too frequently “no”, alas.) Will be posting my picks sometime on 12/31, as per usual. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/32 "2011-12-01T16:40:12Z")
Folks- this game humbles me. No matter how careful I am, I always make a mistake even in my entry. Please let me edit my list to read: Michael Douglas Zsa Zsa Gabor Margaret Thatcher Bridget Bardot Ronnie Biggs Ariel Sharon Dick Clark Betty Ford Phyllis Diller Mel Gibson Billy Ghraham Henry Kissinger Hugo Chavez Andy Willams Alternate: Lindsey Lohan ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/33 "2011-12-01T16:47:58Z")
I suggest that the “Opening Kickoff Award” be renamed the “Opening Kicked-Off Award.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bewildebeest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bewildebeest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bewildebeest)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/34 "2011-12-01T16:49:33Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > Betty Ford She’s already dead too. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/35 "2011-12-01T16:51:10Z")
> [@Bewildebeest](#): > > She’s already dead too. Also, **Paul** should probably specify whether he means Billy Graham the evangelist or “Superstar” Billy Graham the wrestler, as both showed up on people’s 2011 lists. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/36 "2011-12-01T16:59:46Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > Billy Ghraham Only because it was an issue before: are you talking about the wrestler or the preacher? Ed: missed that \*\*MsWhasit \*\*already noticed.. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/37 "2011-12-01T17:15:50Z")
Ned Beatty Don Rickles Rosalynn Carter Harry Morgan Conrad Bain Esther Williams G. Gordon Liddy Prince Philip Arnold Palmer David Crosby Jerry Lewis Mikhail Baryshnikov John Madden Alternates: Leonard Nimoy Ruth Buzzi ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/38 "2011-12-01T17:56:44Z")
Fidel Castro Abe Vigoda Bettie White Dick Clark Dick Cheney George H.W. Bush Eli Wallach Nelson Mandela Ernest Borgnine Jake LaMotta Kirk Douglas Olivia de Havilland Hugh Hefner Points, schmoints. I want a perfect score. And to make it interesting, a few of my picks might just be immortal. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/39 "2011-12-01T18:19:35Z")
Fidel Castro Jack T. Chick Michael Douglas Robin Gibb Christopher Hitchens Artie Lange Lindsay Lohan Shane MacGowan Prince Philip John Pinette Keith Richards Charlie Sheen Margaret Thatcher Alternates, in this order: 1. Jerry Lewis 2. Roger Ebert 3. Britney Spears If this list has a theme, it is “People Who Will Be Dead Soon.” Sincere, effusive thanks to **Baker** and to **amarone** for keeping our macabre little game going. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/40 "2011-12-01T18:35:07Z")
> [@azraiel](#): > > 😕 Is there another Wilt Chamberlain? > [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Think lay-ups. > [@Edward\_The\_Head](#): > > Think already laying up the daisies since 99. I didnot know he was dead! > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > On the thirteenth day of Christmas, my Death Pool celebrities: > > 12 drummers drumming–Ringo Starr > 11 pipers piping–Ian Anderson > 10 lords a-leaping–Christopher D’Amboise > 9 ladies dancing–Charlotte D’Amboise > 8 maids a-milking–Nadya Suleman > 7 swans a-swimming–Mark Phelps > 6 geese a-laying–Charlie Sheen > 5 golden rings–Mike Tyson > 4 calling birds–Roger McGuinn > 3 French hens–Bridget Bardot > 2 turtle–Mark Volman > Doves–The Artist formerly known as Prince > And a partridge in a pear tree–David Cassidy > > Ringo Starr > Ian Anderson > Christopher D’Amboise > Charlotte D’Amboise > Nadya Suleman > Mark Phelps > Charlie Sheen > Mike Tyson > Roger McGuinn > Bridget Bardot > Mark Volman > The Artist formerly known as Prince > David Cassidy Amended list [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=3)