# 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:** 60
**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:** [March 11, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1181 "2012-03-11T02:30:06Z")
And Dick Van Dyke has married a woman 46 years younger than him. I fully expect him to shag himself to death before the end of the year. ---
**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 11, 2012, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1182 "2012-03-11T04:10:39Z")
> [@critter42](#): > > Artist Jean Giraud, better known as Moebius [has died](http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/03/jean-giraud-moebious-1938-2012). If you don’t recognize his name, click through to the article - you’ll almost certainly recognize his artwork - especially if you have ever read Metal Hurlant/Heavy Metal magazine anytime in the last almost 40 years. His work was also responsible for Americans to realize that other countries also made comic books. I liked the Airtight Garage the best. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2012, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1183 "2012-03-11T05:43:41Z")
[Ian Turpie](http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/ian-turpie-dies-at-age-68-reports/story-e6frfmqi-1226296257294), aged 68. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1184 "2012-03-13T20:19:43Z")
> [@](#): > > Doobie Brothers drummer [Michael Hossack died Monday at the age of 65](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/doobie-brothers-michael-hossack-dead-at-65-20120313), reports [RollingStone.com](http://RollingStone.com). Hossack, who had been struggling with cancer, lost his battle at his home in Dubois, Wyoming. > **[Doobie Brothers Drummer Dies At 65](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michael-hossack-dead-doobie-brothers_n_1342120)** > > Doobie Brothers Drummer Dies At 65 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2012, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1185 "2012-03-13T23:12:20Z")
[Don Mincher](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-don-mincher-20120306,0,4706014.story), the only man to play with both the Washington Senators baseball franchise that moved to Minnesota and the expansion Senators who became the Texas Rangers, has died at the age of 73. Mincher also helped the Oakland A’s win the 1972 World Series. [Harry Wendelstedt](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-harry-wendelstedt-20120310,0,5368331.story), who served as a Major League Baseball umpire from 1966 to '98 and founded a school that trained new generations of umps, passed away at 73. Wendelstedt helped keep Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale’s scoreless-inning streak alive in 1968 by ruling that Giants catcher Dick Dietz, who had been hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, had made no attempt to get out of the way of the ball and thus was not entitled to take first base. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1186 "2012-03-14T00:52:47Z")
We are almost halfway through March and no celebrity deaths from poster choices. Well, it was a fast start, I guess the powers that be were toying with us. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1187 "2012-03-14T01:28:30Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > We are almost halfway through March and no celebrity deaths from poster choices. Capt\*\*ain Klutz \*\*[had Ian Turpie](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14608964&highlight=turpie#post14608964). ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1188 "2012-03-14T02:24:36Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Capt\*\*ain Klutz \*\*[had Ian Turpie](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14608964&highlight=turpie#post14608964). Whoops! Since I hadn’t heard any gloating I hadn’t checked. Thanks for the heads up. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1189 "2012-03-14T02:35:03Z")
Thanks to Ian Turpie, Captain Klutz has 102 points, and is in second place behind zoog, who has 129. ---
**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 14, 2012, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1190 "2012-03-14T15:25:38Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Whoops! Since I hadn’t heard any gloating I hadn’t checked. Thanks for the heads up. This should be a lesson to all posters/participants. You should care for your list as you would a [del]sick relative[/del] [del]favorite potted plant[/del] password. Prayers, curses, coin wishes, chanting, voodoo doll piercing, etc… are not enough. Stick with it people. Remember the prime directive; “We’re not actually killing them!” ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1191 "2012-03-14T17:51:44Z")
No. No, we’re not. And nobody can prove otherwise. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1192 "2012-03-14T18:01:40Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > ; “We’re not actually killing them!” Until we get that rule changed. ---
**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 14, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1193 "2012-03-14T18:05:51Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > This should be a lesson to all posters/participants. You should care for your list as you would a [del]sick relative[/del] [del]favorite potted plant[/del] password. > > Prayers, curses, coin wishes, chanting, voodoo doll piercing, etc… are not enough. Stick with it people. Remember the prime directive; “We’re not actually killing them!” We’re not even violating one of the SDMB’s Prime Directives – don’t wish death on someone. We are not really _wishing_ for their deaths. We are merely profiting from their deaths. Which I think we can all agree is at least one step up the morality ladder from the “wishing” step. Our post-death giggling and chortling is really just another form of grief. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1194 "2012-03-14T20:23:22Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Our post-death giggling and chortling is really just another form of grief. It’s Kubler-Ross’s little known sixth step of grief. Denial, Chortling, Anger… ---
**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:** [March 15, 2012, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1195 "2012-03-15T22:12:00Z")
> [@](#): > > **(CNN)** – The comic Gallagher, known for smashing watermelons, is “slowly recovering” from a heart attack suffered just before he was to perform at a Texas club, his promotional manager said Thursday. > > “We will not know the outcome until sometime tomorrow,” said Christine Scherrer. Gallagher, 65, is listed in stable condition at an undisclosed Dallas-area hospital, Scherrer said. [http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/15/showbiz/gallagher-hospitalized/index.html?hpt=hp\_t3](http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/15/showbiz/gallagher-hospitalized/index.html?hpt=hp_t3) Apparently this may be his third heart attack. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1196 "2012-03-15T23:51:20Z")
Hope he’ll be OK… …because he sounds like a good candidate for next year’s list. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1197 "2012-03-16T22:56:27Z")
[Margaret Whitlam](http://www.news.com.au/national/margaret-whitlam-dies-aged-92/story-e6frfkvr-1226302286954), aged 92. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1198 "2012-03-17T03:07:19Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > [Margaret Whitlam](http://www.news.com.au/national/margaret-whitlam-dies-aged-92/story-e6frfkvr-1226302286954), aged 92. Damn. I had Gough on my list. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1199 "2012-03-17T15:13:59Z")
[John Demjanjuk](http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-03-17/nazi-german-guard-demjanjuk-dies/53585846/1) is toast. ---
**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 17, 2012, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1200 "2012-03-17T15:25:47Z")
[Red Bull co-founder and Thai tycoon Chaleo dies](http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ifKVfDLN-yUE2mqe4V4nOtc_aSpg?docId=CNG.317408e1a1ef32c6b68bb1a68c883be2.8c1) Billionaire Chaleo Yoovidhya, the co-founder of energy drink Red Bull and the second richest man in Thailand, died Saturday at the age of 89, a company spokeswoman said. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=59) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=61)