# 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:** 72
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1421 "2012-04-21T23:41:02Z")
[Where’s Hugo?](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hOIbwdSwL0fUpRlXCP6sankkFGaA?docId=447bf94bd34740678382213a84b4db4c) Maybe Robin Gibb woke up so Hugo Chavez could disappear… ---
**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 22, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1422 "2012-04-22T03:33:05Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > [Where’s Hugo?](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hOIbwdSwL0fUpRlXCP6sankkFGaA?docId=447bf94bd34740678382213a84b4db4c) > > Maybe Robin Gibb woke up so Hugo Chavez could disappear… Well I have both so I’m hoping for a double play. ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1423 "2012-04-22T12:25:12Z")
Helena, MT radio personality Susan Clark passed away on April 11. > **[Longtime Helena radio personality Susan Edwards, aka Susan Clark, loses...](https://helenair.com/news/local/longtime-helena-radio-personality-susan-edwards-aka-susan-clark-loses-article_d6f1ab62-839f-11e1-9a4f-001a4bcf887a.html)** > > Susan Edwards — better known on Helena’s radio airwaves as Susan Clark — passed away Tuesday morning at St. Peter’s Hospital. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1424 "2012-04-22T13:12:31Z")
CAMJAY77, what was her age? The articles I’ve seen don’t have a birthdate. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1425 "2012-04-22T13:45:36Z")
Okay, this article says she was 57, so that’s 43 points for three posters. > **[GRACEFUL GOODBYE](https://helenair.com/news/local/graceful-goodbye/article_424c65ba-165d-11e1-b0d2-001cc4c002e0.html)** > > Radio host faces terminal cancer with smile ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1426 "2012-04-22T13:51:19Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > CAMJAY77, what was her age? The articles I’ve seen don’t have a birthdate. You should had asked me first, I had the original article and her on the list, \*\*CAMJAY77 \*\*just copied several of my choices 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1427 "2012-04-22T13:51:27Z")
The Top 20 Current Players in the game. CAMJAY77 196 5 Registered at Last 196 5 Captain Lance Murdoch 153 4 Wheelz 140 4 zoog 129 3 Randy Seltzer 125 3 Loach 114 4 Walkabout 114 3 Captain Klutz 102 3 GIGObuster 98 3 phungi 98 3 Baker 97 3 MsWhatsit 97 3 Hal Briston 85 3 It’s Not Rocket Surgery! 85 3 Jack Batty 85 3 notfrommensa 85 3 Shirley Ujest 85 3 Squonk 85 3 Tom Scud 85 3 ---
**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 22, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1428 "2012-04-22T13:59:19Z")
Curses! Foiled again! ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1429 "2012-04-22T13:59:44Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > You should had asked me first, I had the original article and her on the list, \*\*CAMJAY77 \*\*just copied several of my choices 😛 She was 1 of the 2 picks I made that were gotten from others here. Had no notes on them going in. I can’t find it now, but I Think I had her year of birth as 1955. Whatever. Ponts is points ---
**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 22, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1430 "2012-04-22T14:03:02Z")
> [@CAMJAY77](#): > > Ponts is points 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1431 "2012-04-22T14:06:00Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb wakes from coma](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17798956) grumble,grumble,grumble…he must be attending that Class for Death Pool Trolling being taught by Zsa Zsa Gabor and Ariel Sharon ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1432 "2012-04-22T14:08:30Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > You should had asked me first, I had the original article and her on the list, \*\*CAMJAY77 \*\*just copied several of my choices 😛 I checked, and you two have/had seven choices in common. Is it possible that we will have a tie for a winner this year? But of those seven, you’ve used up five. I suspect the win will turn on those differences, not the common choices. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1433 "2012-04-22T14:14:50Z")
Whoops, my math is off. The posters I mentioned have four differences, but nine in common. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1434 "2012-04-22T15:01:34Z")
> [@CAMJAY77](#): > > Helena, MT radio personality Susan Clark passed away on April 11. > [Longtime Helena radio personality Susan Edwards, aka Susan Clark, loses battle with cancer](http://helenair.com/news/local/longtime-helena-radio-personality-susan-edwards-aka-susan-clark-loses-article_d6f1ab62-839f-11e1-9a4f-001a4bcf887a.html) > [@Baker](#): > > Okay, this article says she was 57, so that’s 43 points for three posters. > > [GRACEFUL GOODBYE](http://helenair.com/news/local/graceful-goodbye/article_424c65ba-165d-11e1-b0d2-001cc4c002e0.html) I didn’t realize we were playing the Local Celebrity Death Pool. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1435 "2012-04-22T15:23:37Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > I didn’t realize we were playing the Local Celebrity Death Pool. Sounds like someone is jealous! 😛 From the OP: > [@Baker](#): > > We have no rule about what constitutes “celebrity,” because it makes our heads hurt to think about this. Clark was in Montana, and two of the posters who picked her were in Arizona and Ontario, so Clark had some reaching influence it seems. ---
**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 22, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1436 "2012-04-22T15:29:11Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Sounds like someone is jealous! 😛 > > From the OP: > > Clark was in Montana, and two of the posters who picked her were in Arizona and Ontario, so Clark had some reaching influence it seems. I had a radio celebrity last year they wouldn’t let me keep. She croaked, too. :mad: 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1437 "2012-04-22T15:56:29Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Sounds like someone is jealous! 😛 > > From the OP: > > Clark was in Montana, and two of the posters who picked her were in Arizona and Ontario, so Clark had some reaching influence it seems. Susan Clark is also a Canadian actress, so you may want to confirm that the poster from Ontario actually picked the right one. And did this woman have a syndicated show of some type, or was she only heard in Montana (and maybe Idaho on a clear day)? I Googled “Susan Clark” and…well, I’m still clicking Next. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1438 "2012-04-22T16:11:06Z")
I’m aware of the two different Susan Clarks and did check back with the poster’s lists, before I confirmed the points. They, all three of them, were talking about the radio personality. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1439 "2012-04-22T17:26:15Z")
Don’t you find it fishy that this local radio personality doesn’t immediately come up when her name is Googled? I realize people do searches for “celebrity death pools” and find choices that aren’t immediately obvious, which is fine (though a tad ghoulish and contrary to the spirit of the game), but this smacks of someone who is famous solely for his or her terminal illness, which does violate rule 3(g). ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1440 "2012-04-22T17:30:17Z")
No, I don’t find it fishy, and the points will count. I also don’t think that “3g” is being violated. Remember, it’s just a game. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=71) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=73)