# 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:** 79
**Author:** ![Tazmanian\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tazmanian\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tazmanian_Devil)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1561 "2012-05-15T00:48:09Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > One of the stars of Swamp People [Mitchell Guist](http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20595426,00.html) has died. His remains will be chopped up and used as chum for gators. No age listed but I don’t think anyone had him. His age was listed as 47, so to those (if any) who had him, you get 53 points. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1562 "2012-05-15T00:52:35Z")
> [@Tazmanian\_Devil](#): > > His age was listed as 47, so to those (if any) who had him, you get 53 points. Holy shit he looked 80! Damn I look good for my age. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1563 "2012-05-15T00:55:34Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Holy shit he looked 80! Damn I look good for my age. And that is what living entirely off the land will do to you. I for one am glad for my technologically aided lifestyle, with things like modern medicine and large crop sizes so I don’t have to live like that. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1564 "2012-05-15T01:05:47Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Holy shit he looked 80! Yep. > [@Loach](#): > > Damn I look good for my age. Ehhhhh… ---
**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:** [May 16, 2012, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1565 "2012-05-16T00:42:48Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Ehhhhh… That hurt ☹ ---
**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:** [May 16, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1566 "2012-05-16T01:05:14Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > That hurt ☹ So do some of your posts. My post is my cite. 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 16, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1567 "2012-05-16T02:58:40Z")
[Carlos Fuentes](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/books/carlos-fuentes-mexican-novelist-dies-at-83.html), Mexican novelist, has died at 83. I’ve had Gabriel García Marquez on my list in years past, but never Carlos Fuentes. ---
**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:** [May 16, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1568 "2012-05-16T21:05:06Z")
[Musician Chuck Brown, the Godfather of Go-Go, dead at 75.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/chuck-brown-dies-the-godfather-of-go-go-was-75/2012/05/16/gIQAJAfPUU_story.html?wpisrc=al_national) ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1569 "2012-05-16T21:13:23Z")
[Peter Fuller](http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/other_sports/horse_racing/view.bg?articleid=1061131868&srvc=sports&position=recent) - son of a Massachusetts governor, car dealership owner, manager of boxer Tom McNeeley, and owner of the only Kentucky Derby winner ever to be disqualified\*, dies at age 89. \*It’s suspected that Fuller’s horse, Dancer’s Image, was disqualified on a drug positive due to Fuller’s pro-civil rights stance. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1570 "2012-05-16T22:05:19Z")
Another potential member of the Punk Band [The Dead Kennedys](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Kennedys) as the estranged wife of RFK, Jr has been found dead. [Mary Kennedy, Age 52](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/mary-kennedy-dead-dies_n_1522423.html?1337202324&icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D161564). since she was only a Kennedy by marriage, she will probably be a backup singer. ======= Reading the wiki entry on the Dead Kennedy’s , I got amused when I read this: [QUOTE=Wiki] In the mid-1980s, the band was embroiled in an obscenity trial in the United States over the artwork of their album Frankenchrist (1985), which included the explicit titular subject of H. R. Giger’s Penis Landscape. The band was charged with “distribution of harmful matter to minors”, but the trial ended with a hung jury. [/QUOTE] Obscenity Trial, Penis Landscape, Hung Jury? ---
**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:** [May 17, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1571 "2012-05-17T00:32:18Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Obscenity Trial, Penis Landscape, Hung Jury? All comedy gold! ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1572 "2012-05-17T01:04:43Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > [Musician Chuck Brown, the Godfather of Go-Go, dead at 75.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/chuck-brown-dies-the-godfather-of-go-go-was-75/2012/05/16/gIQAJAfPUU_story.html?wpisrc=al_national) Now known as the Godfather of the Gone-Gone. {somebody had to say it} ---
**Author:** ![Tazmanian\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tazmanian\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tazmanian_Devil)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1573 "2012-05-17T01:28:02Z")
Former senator James Abdnor dead at 89. > **[James Abdnor, GOP congressman and senator from South Dakota, dies at 89](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/james-abdnor-gop-congressman-and-senator-from-south-dakota-dies-at-89/2012/05/16/gIQAWMmoUU_story.html)** > > James Abdnor, a South Dakota Republican whose election to the Senate in 1980 ousted George McGovern, dies at 89 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1574 "2012-05-17T02:05:42Z")
We’re halfway through May and only one death so far. And a unique pick at that. Somebody out there is reading the Dope and getting healthy just to spite 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:** [May 17, 2012, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1575 "2012-05-17T12:12:08Z")
_Terminator 3_ star Nick Stahl, 32, has been [missing for a week.](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/nick-stahl-latest-victim-terminator-curse/story?id=16359817#.T7TqW8WTX90) > [@](#): > > Drugs may also be to blame for Stahl’s disappearance. Stahl’s wife, Rose Murphy, reported him missing earlier this week, saying the last time she saw him was May 9. She added that he had been frequenting Los Angeles’ Skid Row area recently. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1576 "2012-05-17T15:58:12Z")
Donna Summer has danced her last dance. > **[Donna Summer Dead -- Disco Legend Dies After Battle with Lung Cancer](https://www.tmz.com/2012/05/17/donna-summer-dead-last-dance/)** > > 8:48 AM 5/18/12 -- Donna's memorial is scheduled for next Wednesday in Nashville.9:27 AM PST- TMZ has learned ... Donna died from lung cancer. Several sources are telling us Donna believed she contracted it by inhaling toxic particles after the 9/11... ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1577 "2012-05-17T15:59:43Z")
> [@poker\_in\_the\_rear](#): > > Donna Summer has danced her last dance. > > [Donna Summer Dead -- Disco Legend Died After Battle with Lung Cancer](http://www.tmz.com/2012/05/17/donna-summer-dead-last-dance/) Summer is over. Winter is Coming Damn it, I think I have to start reading that series now. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1578 "2012-05-17T16:00:09Z")
> [@poker\_in\_the\_rear](#): > > Donna Summer has danced her last dance. > > [Donna Summer Dead -- Disco Legend Died After Battle with Lung Cancer](http://www.tmz.com/2012/05/17/donna-summer-dead-last-dance/) Whoa. I was expecting to have another zero-points year. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1579 "2012-05-17T16:00:44Z")
And confirmation for Summer [http://www.newser.com/story/146235/donna-summer-dead-at-63.html](http://www.newser.com/story/146235/donna-summer-dead-at-63.html) Wow, I just hit the 60 second limit in a non Mafia Non Haggle post… ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1580 "2012-05-17T16:04:24Z")
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