# 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:** 82
**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 20, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1621 "2012-05-20T23:04:52Z")
I’m sad for the death of Robin Gibb. Happy for the points, mind you, but sad another BeeGee is gone. However, I have 38 more points! YEEEEHAAAAAA!!! 😃 [sub]Is it suddenly very hot in here?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1622 "2012-05-20T23:05:47Z")
Given the news of his health, in hindsight, I guess his points were a Gibbme. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1623 "2012-05-20T23:09:46Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I’m sad for the death of Robin Gibb. Happy for the points, mind you, but sad another BeeGee is gone. > > However, I have 38 more points! YEEEEHAAAAAA!!! 😃 > > [sub]Is it suddenly very hot in here?[/sub] me, too 38 points! yay. But, boo that another musician, on whose music I grew up, is gone ---
**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:** [May 20, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1624 "2012-05-20T23:10:20Z")
> [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > Wow, two scores in one day. Doesn’t happen very often. No kidding. 6 deaths in 5 months for me. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1625 "2012-05-20T23:16:28Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Well, if it’s any consolation, you are in second place for those with a themed entry. Actually, yes it is some consolation… I didn’t know that! 🙂 And dammit, I didn’t have Robin Gibb either. Some people have gotten a lot of points today! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1626 "2012-05-20T23:20:35Z")
Actually I’m kind of sad Gibb has died. He had more picks than any other celebrity, over seventy. That’s going to be a lot of work for me. Also, I didn’t have him, so my time in the top ten has been short lived. **swampbear** , save me a seat by the fire. ---
**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 20, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1627 "2012-05-20T23:21:50Z")
This makes 65 points for me this year . The most I have ever had. I have had such illustrious year end points in the past as goose egg, seven and eighteen. I don’t remember last year’s but I believe it was my highest ever. Dare I hope for a hundred points this year? Dare I? **Baker** come sit by me. We’ll toast marshmallows and make 'smores. 😃 ---
**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 20, 2012, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1628 "2012-05-20T23:25:40Z")
Deuce! Deuce! ---
**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:** [May 20, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1629 "2012-05-20T23:28:28Z")
A 78-point day (so far)! ---
**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 20, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1630 "2012-05-20T23:54:09Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > A 78-point day (so far)! Yeah, it’s good. Google Alert hasn’t told me shi…either of them yet. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1631 "2012-05-20T23:54:12Z")
I never really cared for the BeeGees, but they seemed like decent folk… The pointage, however, is verrry nice. Locherbie Bomber dude, Burn in Hell, Motherfucker. ---
**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 21, 2012, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1632 "2012-05-21T00:02:17Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > Locherbie Bomber dude, Burn in Hell, Motherfucker. He’s there now, anyway, finding out about the 72 year old virgin. ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1633 "2012-05-21T00:33:22Z")
2 in one day. Do I hear three? The day is far from over. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1634 "2012-05-21T00:44:00Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Deuce! Deuce! Zsa Zsa for the hat trick? ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1635 "2012-05-21T01:15:41Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Zsa Zsa for the hat trick? And we haven’t even been teased with news about Zsa Zsa lately. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1636 "2012-05-21T01:19:41Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > And we haven’t even been teased with news about Zsa Zsa lately. Three days ago she was putting her house on the market. [http://www.skynews.com.au/showbiz/article.aspx?id=751455&vId=](http://www.skynews.com.au/showbiz/article.aspx?id=751455&vId=) And in less than three months we’ll mark her second anniversary of receiving the last rites. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1637 "2012-05-21T01:23:41Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Zsa Zsa for the hat trick? I think shes dead but no one can tell. Congratulations to all those celebrating points around 70. I’ll let it be known that the year is half over and I still don’t have one point! I have never ever got a point in this stupid game. (Okay, this is the first year I have entered). ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1638 "2012-05-21T01:24:53Z")
Ok, for the second time today I’m going to post standings. Your Death Mistress went from a tie for twelfth, to a tie for ninth, to sole possession of 20th place.☹ If anyone below what I’ve posted wants to know their standings I can post more. CAMJAY77 274 7 Registered at Last 274 7 Walkabout 192 5 Captain Lance Murdoch 191 5 Captain Klutz 180 5 Wheelz 178 5 GIGObuster 176 5 phungi 176 5 MsWhatsit 175 5 zoog 167 4 Hal Briston 163 5 Randy Seltzer 163 4 Shirley Ujest 163 5 Squonk 163 5 Tom Scud 163 5 5 time champ 157 4 Loach 152 5 42fish 148 5 Nurse Carmen 148 4 Baker 137 4 Tit Whistle 136 4 It’s Not Rocket Surgery! 123 4 Jack Batty 123 4 notfrommensa 123 4 Cazzle 120 3 Mahaloth 120 4 carnivorousplant 105 3 ---
**Author:** ![booklover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@booklover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/booklover)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1639 "2012-05-21T01:25:56Z")
Pleased to say my partner is finally catching onto the Death Pool, as she checked her phone after dinner and immediately asked if I had Robin Gibb 😛 Hooray! ---
**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 21, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1640 "2012-05-21T01:26:44Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > I’ll let it be known that the year is half over and I still don’t have one point! I have never ever got a point in this stupid game. (Okay, this is the first year I have entered). “If you wait long enough by the river, you will see the bodies of all your picks…er, enemies come floating by.” -Some Old Dead Chinese Dude. I kicked ass at this for a couple of years, and I’m a loser this year. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=81) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=83)