# 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:** 37
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/721 "2012-01-21T02:51:59Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Why? Did he blow up? Partly blow up? Was someone trying to claim points based on gobbets of flesh strewn around? While that would be hilarious, no, I was responding to **Tamex** ’s post, one up from yours. 😛 ---
**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:** [January 21, 2012, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/722 "2012-01-21T06:02:33Z")
I expected to be winning by now. Not one lousy point. Die you bastards! ---
**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 21, 2012, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/723 "2012-01-21T06:03:44Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > I expected to be winning by now. Not one lousy point. Die you bastards! Us? Or them? ---
**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:** [January 21, 2012, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/724 "2012-01-21T06:08:42Z")
No one here. That’d be just sick. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2012, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/725 "2012-01-21T08:12:33Z")
> [@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. I just saw this- as Wheelz said, you will go to hell for that one 🙂 ---
**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 21, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/726 "2012-01-21T14:27:23Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > No one here. That’d be just sick. And they wouldn’t count. PIP. ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/727 "2012-01-21T15:00:43Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > WOOHOO!!! I’m in second place! 😃 NOT! You guys are in 7th place, not 2nd. ---
**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 21, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/728 "2012-01-21T17:29:26Z")
> [@CAMJAY77](#): > > NOT! You guys are in 7th place, not 2nd. **Baker** ,The Mistress of Death Her Ghoulish Self, says we have a massive tie for second. So There! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/729 "2012-01-21T18:03:43Z")
Well, swampy, now that CAMJAY77 points it out, I think he IS correct. Hurts me to say so though, because I am one of the ones in the bandwagon. Go console yourself with beer and cookies, and other things.:p:D ---
**Author:** ![booklover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@booklover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/booklover)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/730 "2012-01-21T21:18:30Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > Me too! Does it make you feel cheap that we lost our Death Pool virginity in a death orgy? I was kind of hoping for something a little more intimate. Me three! Personally, I’m thrilled that I lost my virginity to someone as awesome as Ms. James…I would feel kinda dirty if it were someone I didn’t like. Also crossing my fingers over here now that the Washington Post is reporting Marion Barry has gone in for [minor surgery](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/mike-debonis/post/marion-barry-to-undergo-minor-surgery/2012/01/20/gIQApFmKEQ_blog.html). ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/731 "2012-01-21T21:39:58Z")
> [@Tamex](#): > > Woo hoo! 🙂 > > IIRC, there were quite a few news stories at the end of last year about Etta James’s declining health. On the other hand, there were stories about Aretha Franklin’s pancreatic cancer at the end of 2010, and look where that got us. In fact, I replaced Aretha with Etta this year. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/732 "2012-01-21T23:15:14Z")
reading some tweets that Joe Paterno is on his death bed. Family called in ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/733 "2012-01-21T23:26:38Z")
Here is a[link to CBS Blogs](http://eye-on-collegefootball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/34494852?ttag=gen10_on_all_fb_na_txt_0001) with Paterno death bed ‘confirmation’ . ---
**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 21, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/734 "2012-01-21T23:39:25Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Here is a[link to CBS Blogs](http://eye-on-collegefootball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/34494852?ttag=gen10_on_all_fb_na_txt_0001) with Paterno death bed ‘confirmation’ . I’m not too proud to score off of low hanging fruit. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/735 "2012-01-22T00:20:03Z")
If Paterno dies before any other selected celebrities it will give 42fish sole possession of the lead. Of the six sharing the lead currently 42fish is the only one to have picked Paterno. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/736 "2012-01-22T00:24:13Z")
I had Etta James and Paterno. Not a bad weekend for me. ---
**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 22, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/737 "2012-01-22T00:37:12Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > I had Etta James and Paterno. Not a bad weekend for me. Me too. Two in one year is the best I have ever done. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/738 "2012-01-22T00:43:05Z")
Oh, man, I thought the bad health thing was smoke to keep the press away. Oh well, be’s not worth a lot of points, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/739 "2012-01-22T00:45:15Z")
I didn’t think it would be this quick. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/740 "2012-01-22T00:46:05Z")
Maybe they should have let him keep his job. He’d be gone anyway and they could have spared themselves a riot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=36) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=38)