# 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:** 32
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/621 "2012-01-12T20:01:33Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Hey, all right… I’m in 7th place!!! > [@VunderBob](#): > > Me too. Move over. May I sit between youse? ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/622 "2012-01-12T20:19:27Z")
I’m tied for last. ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/623 "2012-01-12T20:22:38Z")
Our lead probably won’t last long. Good to be on the board early though. Natalie Holloway has been declared legally dead. ---
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/624 "2012-01-12T20:54:53Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Sharing the “Opening Kickoff Award” are 42fish, Captain Lance Murdoch, phungi, GIGObuster, Registered at Last, and CAMJAY77. Well, well, well. How do you like that … at least a part of the Opening Kickoff for the third year running! Oh yeah, my condolences to the family. and yes Boyo Jim … “Inoperable Tumor/tumour/cancer” are all good search strings. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/625 "2012-01-12T21:07:18Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > I’m tied for last. Me 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 12, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/626 "2012-01-12T21:11:09Z")
Well, well, after missing the president of Guinea-Bissau Malam Bacai Sanhá, Bill Janklow crashing makes it up for me. 28 points for me and for some blatant copycats 😉 He was mentioned early but I had my list made days before December. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/627 "2012-01-12T21:16:28Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > May I sit between youse? :becomes the Arte Johnson masher character from _Laugh In_: ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/628 "2012-01-12T21:25:28Z")
_kicks self for not copying off **GIGObuster** this year_ ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/629 "2012-01-12T21:26:14Z")
[Natalee Holloway, dead at 23.](http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/12/justice/alabama-natalee-holloway/index.html?hpt=hp_t1) [sub]What?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/630 "2012-01-12T21:29:54Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Well, well, after missing the president of Guinea-Bissau Malam Bacai Sanhá, Bill Janklow crashing makes it up for me. > > 28 points for me and for some blatant copycats 😉 > He was mentioned early but I had my list made days before December. It was 42fish who listed Janklow first. ---
**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 12, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/631 "2012-01-12T21:31:43Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > I’m tied for last. > [@Baker](#): > > Me too. You guys are glass-half-empty people, aren’t you? I like “7th place” better. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/632 "2012-01-13T00:05:01Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > [Natalee Holloway, dead at 23.](http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/12/justice/alabama-natalee-holloway/index.html?hpt=hp_t1) > > [sub]What?[/sub] Actually a situation like this came up before. Steve Fosset (rich adventurer) went missing, but his body wasn’t found till the next year. I think it may have had scoring implications. (but I could be misrememebering) Brian ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/633 "2012-01-13T00:11:45Z")
Nevermind, I read something wrong ---
**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 13, 2012, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/634 "2012-01-13T03:56:19Z")
[Heather Locklear has been taken to the hospital after a 911 call.](http://news.yahoo.com/actress-heather-locklear-hospital-911-call-032220438.html) ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/635 "2012-01-13T04:00:03Z")
> [@Randy\_Seltzer](#): > > I have twice raised objections to James Randi being picked, since he has posted here occasionally, but my objections have twice been overruled. Probably correct, since people like Randi and Phil Plait are not in the spirit of that rule. While Randi has only posted occasionally, like Butcher and Stirling, Phil was an active member for quite some time. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2012, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/636 "2012-01-13T13:18:37Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > Easy to say. You know we can’t pick you because you are a member here. Which brings to mind the question, what about the various celebrities that have posted here on occasion (e.g. Jim Butcher, S. M. Stirling), or that are former members (Phil Plait)? Butcher and Stirling posted here? When did I miss that? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/637 "2012-01-13T13:41:45Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > [Heather Locklear has been taken to the hospital after a 911 call.](http://news.yahoo.com/actress-heather-locklear-hospital-911-call-032220438.html) shoot, I mix 'script meds and alcohol all the time. She’s just been out of the limelight too long and needed some publicity. She’ll be fine. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/638 "2012-01-13T14:55:29Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > …Bill Janklow crashing makes it up for me. > > 28 points for me and for some blatant copycats 😉 > > He was mentioned early but I had my list made days before December. In my defense, I conducted numerous searches on “brain cancer” and “brain tumor” and had him “native” on my list… ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/639 "2012-01-13T16:52:33Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > You guys are glass-half-empty people, aren’t you? I like “7th place” better. How can you be “glass half full” when it is a death pool. ---
**Author:** ![Archeonomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Archeonomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archeonomist)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/640 "2012-01-13T17:04:03Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > While Randi has only posted occasionally, like Butcher and Stirling, Phil was an active member for quite some time. I was the source of that first objection. I was away on holiday during the discussion of it, but FWIW - I would have taken him off had I been aware of it in time. Rules are rules. Not that I wouldn’t have celebrated the points had he actually snuffed it that year… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=31) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=33)