# 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:** 5
**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 4, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/81 "2011-12-04T15:00:15Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > (Version\*\* 4\*\*, I really thought I had checked this.) > > Michael Douglas > Zsa Zsa Gabor > Margaret Thatcher > Bridget Bardot > Ronnie Biggs > Dick Clark > Jerry Lewis > Phyllis Diller > Mel Gibson > Billy Ghraham the preacher > Henry Kissinger > Hugo Chavez > Andy Willams > > Alternate: > Lindsey Lohan OK, here it is last time. ---
**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 4, 2011, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/82 "2011-12-04T15:07:39Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > He’s putting _ **something** _ in there on a regular basis. _“I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while…”_ ~~Groucho Marx ---
**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 4, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/83 "2011-12-04T18:19:04Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > In all the years I’ve been entering the Death Pool, this is the first time I’ve realized what a horrible, cruel, sick game it is. Nothing bad had better to happen to Charlotte or Christopher, or I’m going to be very, very upset with you, **Annie-X-mas** I don’t wish anything bad on either one (or anyone else on my list), but they just fit in so well as a leaping lord and dancing lady. > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Ringo Starr > Ian Anderson > Christopher D’Amboise > Charlotte D’Amboise > Nadya Suleman > Michael Phelps > Charlie Sheen > Mike Tyson > Roger McGuinn > Bridget Bardot > Mark Volman > Prince > David Cassidy Third edit’s the charm. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/84 "2011-12-04T22:19:52Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > For those of you into soccer and the Death Pool it seems a former star player in South America is quite ill. And he’s not all _that_ old. > > [Soccer News, Highlights and Scores | FOX Sports](http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/latinamerica/story/socrates-critical-condition-brazil-hosptial-intestinal-shock-120311/) He’s dead already. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/85 "2011-12-04T23:13:30Z")
_It’s the most macabre time of the year! On Google we’re relying, to find celebs sick and dying and post our list here! It’s the most macabre time of the year!_ What? I say we _need_ a theme song! 😃 David Hasselhoff Andrew Lloyd Weber Robin Gibb Mohammed Ali Michael Douglas Fidel Castro Courtney Love Clarence Clemons Charlie Sheen Pamela Anderson Lady Gaga Mary Tyler Moore Lindsay Lohan Alternates: Billy Joel Robin Williams Dick VanDyke ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/86 "2011-12-04T23:19:03Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > He’s dead already. I posted about Socrates yesterday, just before he died, when I saw an article on MSN. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/87 "2011-12-04T23:28:42Z")
It’s M **u** hammad Ali, not M **o** hammad. ---
**Author:** ![Bewildebeest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bewildebeest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bewildebeest)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/88 "2011-12-05T00:46:45Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > \*It’s the most macabre time of the year! > … > Clarence Clemons > … He’s already dead. Or at least somebody with that name died 6/18/2011. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/89 "2011-12-05T01:10:42Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > It’s M **u** hammad Ali, not M **o** hammad. I think it can be either way, can’t it, since it wasn’t originally written in the Roman alphabet. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/90 "2011-12-05T01:15:33Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I think it can be either way, can’t it, since it wasn’t originally written in the Roman alphabet. The name of the prophet certainly can be. But the ex-boxer spells it Muhammad. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/91 "2011-12-05T01:21:54Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > The name of the prophet certainly can be. But the ex-boxer spells it Muhammad. 🙂 I see your point.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Enlightening\_Meditation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecc23a/32.png) [@Enlightening\_Meditation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enlightening_Meditation)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/92 "2011-12-05T05:47:49Z")
Margie Phelps Warren Jeffs Pete Doherty Lindsey Lohan Michael Lohan Axl Rose Game Nas T.I. Herman Cain Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Doug Stanhope Levi Johnston Alternates Bill O’Reilly George Lucas ---
**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:** [December 5, 2011, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/93 "2011-12-05T12:05:53Z")
OOPSIE about Clarence Clemons. I actually knew that but forgot to take him off. Why, yes, I have been thinking about this for several months. 😃 Also changed Mohammed Ali to Muhammed Ali just cause. David Hasselhoff Andrew Lloyd Weber Robin Gibb Muhammed Ali Michael Douglas Fidel Castro Courtney Love Charlie Sheen Pamela Anderson Lady Gaga Mary Tyler Moore Lindsay Lohan Billy Joel Alternates: Robin Williams Dick VanDyke ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/94 "2011-12-05T14:28:39Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > He’s dead already. Not “He’s Dead Already, Jim” ? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/95 "2011-12-05T16:38:30Z")
I’ve been looking at some of the other Celebrity Death Pool-type websites, and man! They’re ugly in more ways than one. White type on a black background. Blinky ads. Columns and boxes everywhere. Tiny pictures of the dead celebrity, summing up their identities in a few words. Just kind of cold and smarmy. Our game is much more matter-of-fact and fun, and we’re laughing at _ourselves_ instead of those poor dead suckers. And I can’t imagine _paying_ to enter a death pool. That raises the macabre to a whole 'nother level. :eek: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/96 "2011-12-05T17:44:38Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > You have 14 names, so you have to eliminate one or declare one an alternate. > > I assume you mean Michael Phelps, as Mark Phelps is the men’s basketball coach at Drake University. :smack: In that case, remove JoePa. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/97 "2011-12-05T17:45:59Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > And I can’t imagine _paying_ to enter a death pool. That raises the macabre to a whole 'nother level. :eek: ☹ Agreed. We do it for fun, not profit. This makes us better. We can be ghoulish _and_ sanctimonious. It’s all win-win at the SD death pool! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/98 "2011-12-05T19:55:31Z")
Barbara Bush (Sr) Nancy Reagan Fred Phelps Dick Clark Jonathan Rhys Meyers Michael Douglas Hugo Chavez Billy Graham (preacher) Jerry Lewis Michael Lohan Kate Major Brooke Mueller Warren Jeffs Alternates: William Shatner Axl Rose You are welcome for basically ensuring that Zsa Zsa will bite it on Jan 1. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/99 "2011-12-05T20:03:01Z")
I did not know that Jonathan Rhys Meyers has a drinking problem. Another young talent throwing his life away with both hands. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/100 "2011-12-06T02:14:21Z")
Michael Douglas Randy Quaid Lindsay Lohan Britney Spears Mel Gibson Joaquin Phoenix Robin Gibb Matthew Perry Jerry Lewis Tiger Woods Aretha Franklin Charlie Sheen Whitney Houston Alternate: Barack Obama Miley Cyrus Haley Joel Osment [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=6)