# 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:** 29
**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:** [January 5, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/561 "2012-01-05T03:47:05Z")
Oh fuck, [Chavez](http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n267879) has been cured by aliens or Cubans or some shit! G-d hates me. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/562 "2012-01-05T04:01:03Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Oh fuck, [Chavez](http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n267879) has been cured by aliens or Cubans or some shit! > > G-d hates me. ☹ Yeah, we’ll see. Steve Jobs supposedly kicked the cancer too. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2012, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/563 "2012-01-05T04:42:37Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Oh fuck, [Chavez](http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n267879) has been cured by aliens or Cubans or some shit! > > G-d hates me. ☹ > [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Yeah, we’ll see. Steve Jobs supposedly kicked the cancer too. Well, I was thinking on putting him on my list, but the “he will die in a few months” originally came from an American diplomat with no medical training. Supposedly it was confirmed also from a former doctor of Chavez too; but that was also second hand, and they both said “likely”, one has to really read carefully and not just follow wishful thoughts or media spin. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/564 "2012-01-05T06:20:56Z")
Sumner Redstone Kirk Douglas Dick Cheney Karl Rove Newt Gingrich Charlie Sheen Mickey Rooney Morgan Freeman Clint Eastwood Bob Gunton Roger Mahoney Barry Bostwick Chad Everett ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/565 "2012-01-05T10:34:36Z")
> [@Buttercup\_Smith](#): > > I feel a little guilty and wonder if I’ll go to Hell…:dubious:. don’t worry - you’ll get over that soon enough - we all do 😃 ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/566 "2012-01-05T10:42:46Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > [Gene Bartow](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-gene-bartow-20120104,0,4837089.story), who spent two seasons as the immediate successor to legendary UCLA men’s basketball coach John Wooden, has died at the age of 81. Bartow had taken Memphis State to the 1973 national championship game, which he lost to Wooden, two years before replacing the “Wizard of Westwood”. After leaving UCLA under pressure despite a Final Four appearance and an overall 52-9 record, Bartow started the basketball program at Alabama-Birmingham, where he coached the Blazers from 1977 to '96. As I tweeted the other day - it’s an accomplishment to become a legend at one school, let alone THREE (and one pro team if you count the fact he was president of Hoops LP, the company that owns the Memphis Grizzlies and FedEx Forum)… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/567 "2012-01-05T10:44:04Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Sumner Redstone > Kirk Douglas > Dick Cheney > Karl Rove > Newt Gingrich > Charlie Sheen > Mickey Rooney > Morgan Freeman > Clint Eastwood > Bob Gunton > Roger Mahoney > Barry Bostwick > Chad Everett I’m sorry, vivalostwages, but entries for the game closed at the beginning of the month. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/568 "2012-01-06T17:08:23Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Oh, you are new. The way it works is, as soon as you put someone on your list, they start feeling much better, like Mario eating a mushroom. Yeah. I pretty much insured that everyone on my list survived last year, and I’m giving them a lease on life for this year as well. 😃 I haven’t had any luck in the DP since my long shot came in on Michael Jackson. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/569 "2012-01-06T17:36:32Z")
An early contender for the 2012 Zsa Zsa award: [Etta James Released From Hospital](http://www.hitfix.com/articles/etta-james-released-from-the-hospital) ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/570 "2012-01-06T17:48:35Z")
There should be a negative point “award” for the most selected celebrity who refused to die. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/571 "2012-01-06T20:47:27Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > An early contender for the 2012 Zsa Zsa award: > > [Etta James Released From Hospital](http://www.hitfix.com/articles/etta-james-released-from-the-hospital) Somewhere, there is an agency responsible for planting false stories in December about celebrities suffering terminal illnesses, then retracting them in January. The same agency also covers up actual celebrity terminal illnesses until circa February. This is done for the sole purpose of messing with Death Pools. Someone from the agency got fired over the 2009 Michael Jackson fiasco when they leaked the story that he needed a transplant to survive in December, retracted it in January and then he actually did die in June. ---
**Author:** ![Squonk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squonk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squonk)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/572 "2012-01-06T23:27:41Z")
Right band, wrong member (I have Mick Fleetwood) [former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Weston dead at 64](http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/06/us-bobweston-fleetwoodmac-death-idUSTRE8051KP20120106) ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/573 "2012-01-07T00:10:36Z")
Can’t put in the link because I’m on my phone but the BBC reports Bob Holness, host of the UK version of Blockbusters, just died at age 83. He’d been sick for some time…anybody on that side of the Atlantic have him? ---
**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/574 "2012-01-07T00:53:07Z")
I seem to have picked the wrong Bobs. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/575 "2012-01-07T01:54:22Z")
> [@Cazzle](#): > > Somewhere, there is an agency responsible for planting false stories in December about celebrities suffering terminal illnesses, then retracting them in January. The same agency also covers up actual celebrity terminal illnesses until circa February. This is done for the sole purpose of messing with Death Pools. > > Someone from the agency got fired over the 2009 Michael Jackson fiasco when they leaked the story that he needed a transplant to survive in December, retracted it in January and then he actually did die in June. Hmmm… maybe that’s the _true_ function of the Illuminati. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/576 "2012-01-07T02:15:56Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > An early contender for the 2012 Zsa Zsa award This should be an actual award. I would love for this to be an actual award. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/577 "2012-01-07T02:16:53Z")
Nobody seems to have had Weston or Holness. tick…tick…tick… ---
**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:** [January 7, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/578 "2012-01-07T02:34:08Z")
[Don Carter, bowler. Dead at 85.](http://news.yahoo.com/bowling-great-don-carter-dies-85-191948199--spt.html) ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/579 "2012-01-07T19:50:06Z")
Could someone please list the unique picks, along with user who made the pick? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/580 "2012-01-07T20:12:55Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Could someone please list the unique picks, along with user who made the pick? I don’t think you have any idea of how long a post that would be!😛 There are 653 unique picks. I keep two spreadsheets. One simply has celebrity names, and how many players chose them. The other sheet is a listing of the picks made by each player. It would be too much work to go through that and separate those 653 unique picks. If you do want to know whether or not a certain person has been selected, then the thread has a search function. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=28) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=30)