# 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:** 34
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/661 "2012-01-19T06:06:10Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > He must have been a good worker, staying ahead of his work. I dunno. Sounds like he was still learning the ropes. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2012, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/662 "2012-01-19T08:04:26Z")
Note to self: Never play tug-of-war with a wood chipper. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/663 "2012-01-19T14:20:40Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Note to self: Never play tug-of-war with a wood chipper. Good plan. Supplement with: “If you drop something in a wood chipper, even if it’s not running, leave it.” ---
**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 19, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/664 "2012-01-19T14:26:03Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Good plan. Supplement with: “If you drop something in a wood chipper, even if it’s not running, leave it.” Actually, I have a list of folks whose beer I would hold while they dig the something out. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/665 "2012-01-19T14:32:18Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Actually, I have a list of folks whose beer I would hold while they dig the something out. Odd! I have a similar list. ---
**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 19, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/666 "2012-01-19T14:36:17Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Odd! I have a similar list. We’re gonna need more wood chippers… ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/667 "2012-01-19T14:40:48Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > We’re gonna need more wood chippers… Marketing tool? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/668 "2012-01-19T19:15:39Z")
Good grief, we are almost three weeks into the game and only one celebrity has obliged us. Slow start this year people. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/669 "2012-01-19T19:25:45Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Good grief, we are almost three weeks into the game and only one celebrity has obliged us. Slow start this year people. They are giving you a chance to ease into it, before there is an avalanche of deaths later in the year. (I hope.) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/670 "2012-01-19T19:28:53Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > They are giving you a chance to ease into it, before there is an avalanche of deaths later in the year. (I hope.) Yeah! Like that Mayan thing. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/671 "2012-01-19T19:29:37Z")
[Johnny Otis](Johnny Otis), “godfather of rhythm and blues,” is hand jiving in heaven. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/672 "2012-01-19T20:32:52Z")
Nope, nobody had Otis. ---
**Author:** ![sco3tt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@sco3tt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sco3tt)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/673 "2012-01-19T21:13:11Z")
I just got a Google alert that teased me with my first points. My hopes rose as I read “Actor Jerry Stiller passed on” but then fell as the sentence concluded “the comic gene to his son, Ben Stiller.” Damn. So close. ---
**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 19, 2012, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/674 "2012-01-19T21:36:07Z")
[Skiier Sarah Burke dead at 29](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=145471440) I’d be surprised if someone had her. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/675 "2012-01-19T21:40:48Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > [Skiier Sarah Burke dead at 29](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=145471440) > > I’d be surprised if someone had her. If you run an [image search](http://www.google.com/search?q=Sarah+Burke), I’m betting someone did. But probably not from here. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/676 "2012-01-19T21:58:43Z")
Former Mets/Expos catcher Gary Carter is said to have taken a [turn for the worse](http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/gary-carter-fight-brain-cancer-takes-turn-worse-tumors-found-ny-mets-hall-famer-brain-article-1.1008797). ---
**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 19, 2012, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/677 "2012-01-19T23:02:15Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > If you run an [image search](http://www.google.com/search?q=Sarah+Burke), I’m betting someone did. But probably not from here. Oh, you are _so_ going to Hell. ---
**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 19, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/678 "2012-01-19T23:13:08Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Former Mets/Expos catcher Gary Carter is said to have taken a [turn for the worse](http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/gary-carter-fight-brain-cancer-takes-turn-worse-tumors-found-ny-mets-hall-famer-brain-article-1.1008797). I will not be happy to get those points same as when I got them from Bobby Mercer. But it’s better than not getting the points. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/679 "2012-01-19T23:28:45Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Former Mets/Expos catcher Gary Carter is said to have taken a [turn for the worse](http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/gary-carter-fight-brain-cancer-takes-turn-worse-tumors-found-ny-mets-hall-famer-brain-article-1.1008797). I wouldn’t be happy about those points either, but like **carnivorousplant** said, points is points. Hmmm… would losing my Death Pool virginity to Gary Carter be such a bad thing? ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/680 "2012-01-20T14:08:31Z")
Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke dies after training accident. Age 29. Suffered severe brain injury back on Jan 11. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=35)