# 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:** 56
**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:** [March 1, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1101 "2012-03-01T18:03:41Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I believe the rest but maybe not the gay part. But they’re ALL gay in the White House! ---
**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:** [March 1, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1102 "2012-03-01T19:23:44Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > But they’re ALL gay in the White House! Obviously. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2012, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1103 "2012-03-01T22:06:22Z")
**[William Hamilton, who said ‘God is Dead,’ dies at 87](http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/story/2012-03-01/god-is-dead-theologian-william-hamilton-dies/53321722/1)** \*\*“\*\*Hamilton said he’d been haunted by questions about God since he was a teenager. Years later, when his conclusion was published in the April 8, 1966, edition of _Time Magazine_, he found himself at the center of a theological storm” ---
**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:** [March 1, 2012, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1104 "2012-03-01T22:54:19Z")
I hope he was right. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Uncle\_Goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Goat)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1105 "2012-03-02T03:49:06Z")
Never mind the article, look at the photo. [Proof being mean is bad for your health](http://www.commondreams.org/further/2012/03/01-6) So, 43 and dead. He looks like he’s in his 60s there. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1106 "2012-03-02T18:02:47Z")
> [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > Never mind the article, look at the photo. [Proof being mean is bad for your health](http://www.commondreams.org/further/2012/03/01-6) So, 43 and dead. He looks like he’s in his 60s there. Linky no worky. (404-y) ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1107 "2012-03-02T21:05:07Z")
Damn, a quarter of the year is gone and none of the jerks on my list are dead yet. Not even my alternates, which I chose because they were all old and seem like a sure thing. I might have to get creative if I have any chance at breaking out of the zeroes! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1108 "2012-03-02T21:15:24Z")
Three deaths in February, Gary Carter, Whitney Houston, and Dominique Mainon. zoog has surged into the lead! zoog 129 CAMJAY77 98 Captain Lance Murdoch 98 phungi 98 Registered at Last 98 Hal Briston 85 It’s Not Rocket Surgery! 85 Jack Batty 85 Loach 85 notfrommensa 85 Shirley Ujest 85 Squonk 85 Tom Scud 85 Wheelz 85 5 time champ 79 42fish 70 Captain Klutz 70 Nurse Carmen 70 Randy Seltzer 70 Dr. Girlfriend 58 Tit Whistle 58 GIGObuster 55 pohjonen 52 Fear Itself 43 Mean Mr. Mustard 43 VunderBob 43 appleciders 42 Baker 42 cheldie 42 Drain Bead 42 Duckster 42 Duke 42 Eleanor of Aquitaine 42 Jeep’s Phoenix 42 J-P L 42 Kitten Mitten 42 Kolak of Twilo 42 kunilou 42 Mahaloth 42 MsWhatsit 42 Quarter Lane 42 Rico 42 Sternvogel 42 Tamex 42 The Vorlon 42 Tristan 42 a35362 27 amarinth 27 anactoria 27 Andrew 21 27 arnesw 27 Avarie537 27 booklover 27 Borborygmi 27 Boyo Jim 27 cardboardbox 27 carnivorousplant 27 Cazzle 27 D N T 27 Dung Beetle 27 Dusty Rose 27 freckafree 27 Gleena 27 HappyLendervedder 27 lel 27 Little Nemo 27 malkavia 27 Monstera deliciosa 27 Mustardseed 27 Small Hen 27 superbia-acedia 27 swampbear 27 Tangent 27 The Librarian 27 tygre 27 Walkabout 27 Auntie Pam 15 cadolphin 15 candide 15 chizzuk 15 clipper 15 critter42 15 Enuma Elish 15 Hockey Monkey 15 Johnny L.A. 15 Labtrash 15 Long Time First Time 15 Lsura 15 MOIDALIZE 15 not what you’d expect 15 Sarabellum 15 Spiff 15 ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1109 "2012-03-02T21:17:08Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > Damn, a quarter of the year is gone and none of the jerks on my list are dead yet. Not even my alternates, which I chose because they were all old and seem like a sure thing. I might have to get creative if I have any chance at breaking out of the zeroes! :mad: Does it make you feel better than only ~17% of the year is gone? 😃 NFM-Doing his best to boost the “spirits” :eek: of the death pool participants. No monthly update yet? :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1110 "2012-03-02T21:44:29Z")
How many of us haven’t scored yet? _raises hand_ ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1111 "2012-03-02T21:50:03Z")
Well, it has been a few yea… Wait, you mean in the game? Been a few years for that too. ☹ ---
**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:** [March 2, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1112 "2012-03-02T21:53:21Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > How many of us haven’t scored yet? _raises hand_ Repeat after me… “Jump on bandwagons.” I made a final week in December substitution to jump on the Etta James bandwagon, and whoo! I have points. And I still have high hopes that the Robin Gibb and Penny Marshall bandwagons will start playing dirges soon. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1113 "2012-03-02T22:13:23Z")
Tied for 6th (or 3rd, depending on how you look at it)! With 3 deaths in two months, my entire list should be pushing up daisies by mid-September, right? Well, okay, maybe not. I was really counting on that stupid lying porn bitch for the _big_ points. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1114 "2012-03-02T22:28:10Z")
Zsa Zsa? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1115 "2012-03-02T22:43:09Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > No monthly update yet? :mad: Did you check the post right before yours? ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1116 "2012-03-02T23:05:02Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > How many of us haven’t scored yet? _raises hand_ The people on my list should be paying me longevity dues! ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1117 "2012-03-02T23:09:16Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Did you check the post right before yours? Ninja’ed!!! computer was acting wonky, I couldn’t scroll up after posting. sorry! ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1118 "2012-03-03T00:05:13Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Repeat after me… “Jump on bandwagons.” I made a final week in December substitution to jump on the Etta James bandwagon, and whoo! I have points. And I still have high hopes that the Robin Gibb and Penny Marshall bandwagons will start playing dirges soon. No thanks, I am perfectly capable of failing to score on my own. I prove it repeatedly. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2012, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1119 "2012-03-03T00:42:53Z")
Let us not forget the Hugo Chavez bandwagon. He is recovering well from surgery. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1120 "2012-03-03T00:54:46Z")
Yeah, well. I’ve been on some other bandwagons that haven’t worked out so well. The Ariel Sharon bandwagon – for several years. The Zsa Zsa bandwagon last year. On the plus side, I was on both the Patrick Swayze and Farrah Fawcett bandwagons, which were big payoffs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=55) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=57)