# 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:** 70
**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:** [April 18, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1381 "2012-04-18T20:46:02Z")
In the words of Dick Clark, “Happy dew year.” Happy Dew Year indeed Sir. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1382 "2012-04-18T21:22:21Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > **[Dick Clark Dies – Dead at 82](http://www.tmz.com/2012/04/18/dick-clark-dead-heart-attack/)** > > Cite. Not going to say I’m saddened, but this one will take a while to digest. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1383 "2012-04-18T21:27:37Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > Nah, they just need to open him up and spray his CPU with duster. > [@swampbear](#): > > I take Dick Clark off my list this year and he dies. Need more proof I am the angel of life? > [@The\_Total\_PKG](#): > > 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… flatline beeeeeeeeeeep… > [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Sad that one of the Founding Fathers has finally past. > [@Rebo](#): > > Oh, man. > > I took him off my list this year. It’s all my fault. “” Things the Deathpool will say upon Dick Clark’s Death. “” [[Cue Pyramid Music]] ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1384 "2012-04-18T21:43:45Z")
Meeko, I will save a place in Hell for you. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1385 "2012-04-18T21:43:48Z")
Ah well, RIP Mr. Clark … fortunately (for me, that is) you were still on my list for 2012. He has not looked well for some years, though, so it was not unexpected, I believe. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1386 "2012-04-18T21:46:50Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Meeko, I will save a place in Hell for you. There is no way you meant that as anything other than a compliment. And I approve. Even so, I botched the punchline it would have been better at “Things the Deathppol might Say.” ---
**Author:** ![poker\_in\_the\_rear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dc4da7/32.png) [@poker\_in\_the\_rear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poker_in_the_rear)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1387 "2012-04-18T21:51:37Z")
Can’t wait to see the Dick Clark hologram do the new year countdown. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1388 "2012-04-18T21:54:22Z")
> [@poker\_in\_the\_rear](#): > > Can’t wait to see the Dick Clark hologram do the new year countdown. I actually was thinking this too. Then again, CNN kinda has both stories on the front page. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1389 "2012-04-18T22:06:55Z")
Where’s his painting? It’s obviously no longer in his attic . . . 😃 ---
**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:** [April 18, 2012, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1390 "2012-04-18T22:51:40Z")
I’ve been expecting via celebrity death beeper all day for Gibbs or the Bomber guy to die and Dick Clark surprises us all. So long, Dick, thanks for all the music! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1391 "2012-04-18T22:58:08Z")
Hey - I just realized! I got points! YAY! ---
**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:** [April 19, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1392 "2012-04-19T00:03:39Z")
Here I was feeling giddy about my sure thing Levon Helm points and Dick Clark rains on my parade. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1393 "2012-04-19T01:20:56Z")
Yes, but Walkabout grabbed 32 points for Young-Woo Kang, making quite a leap up in the standings, to 7th place. Clark spread some points around and got a number of players on the board, but he didn’t change the standings all that much. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2012, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1394 "2012-04-19T02:10:40Z")
He should be worth more, being that he was the world’s oldest teenager. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1395 "2012-04-19T02:32:22Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > He should be worth more, being that he was the world’s oldest teenager. No, no, none of that. You’re trying to pad your points. Put down the remote, and step away from the Oldies DVD player. 🙂 ---
**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:** [April 19, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1396 "2012-04-19T03:12:46Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > He should be worth more, being that he was the world’s oldest teenager. I have to admit, I actually thought he was older than 82. I would have guessed 82 when he had the stroke, which would make him about 89 now. Huh. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1397 "2012-04-19T04:09:09Z")
[Paul Bogart](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-paul-bogart-20120418,0,1420026.story), who directed nearly 100 episodes of _All in the Family_, has died at the age of 92. Bogart won five Emmy Awards over his career, including one for the _AitF_ two-parter “Edith’s 50th Birthday”, in which Archie Bunker’s wife confronted a man who was attempting to rape her. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2012, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1398 "2012-04-19T13:03:28Z")
It figures. I pulled Dick Clark off the 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:** [April 19, 2012, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1399 "2012-04-19T13:15:33Z")
Maus Magill, Angel of Death. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1400 "2012-04-19T13:52:53Z")
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