# 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:** 83
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1641 "2012-05-21T01:26:54Z")
38 points, finally. I’m sorry he died, and what a rough way to go. RIP, Robin. It’s a tragedy. ---
**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, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1642 "2012-05-21T01:31:30Z")
Baker, the formatting isn’t coming out great for me- I guess the first figure is points, what does the 2nd (single) figure mean? And how many of us are elite and have no points (if it isn’t too much trouble- that isn’t important). ---
**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, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1643 "2012-05-21T01:36:41Z")
The second figure is how many deaders each player has! Fifty seven players are still virgins, this year anyway! ---
**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, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1644 "2012-05-21T01:38:19Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > what does the 2nd (single) figure mean? Body count. 26th! Moses and Aaron on a stick. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1645 "2012-05-21T01:39:22Z")
Back in the top 10! I guess that means my chances are…stayin’ alive. (Too soon?) ---
**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, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1646 "2012-05-21T01:39:34Z")
So CAMJAY77 and Registered at Last could very well tie for first place this year. Of their six remaining choices each, two match. After that, both of them have four celebrities that differ from each other. If I were one of those eight I’d be concerned. They are going to be the tiebreakers. Or not. ---
**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, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1647 "2012-05-21T01:41:12Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Back in the top 10! I guess that means my chances are…stayin’ alive. (Too soon?) No. Dammit, I wish I’d posted that… ---
**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, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1648 "2012-05-21T01:42:44Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > I never really cared for the BeeGees, but they seemed like decent folk.. The pointage, however, is verrry nice. Shirley, not to derail this thread, I made a comment [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=652477) And Baker, who said you can’t get it back! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1649 "2012-05-21T02:25:10Z")
I went for tied for twelfth place to…tied for twelfth place. Everybody above me picked Gibb dammit! ---
**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:** [May 21, 2012, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1650 "2012-05-21T02:27:06Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Fifty seven players are still virgins, this year anyway! Rapidly approaching the 2.5 year mark of death pool virginity. No paper hats at this party. Of course, my lists are always composed entirely of old people. It’s more of a gamble than googling “terminal stomach cancer” and seeing who pops up. ---
**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 21, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1651 "2012-05-21T02:32:01Z")
My celebrities are’t trying hard enough. How about some drunk drag racing?! ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1652 "2012-05-21T04:51:23Z")
I was quite proud of my efficiency – in the top 25 players, I have the highest average points per death. However, for no reason at all, this evening I checked one of my more whimsical picks, Edward Short, Baron Glenamara, and it turns out he passed away two weeks ago. [At the age of 99.](http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/browse/ne/uninews/2329114) This may seem like a piffling amount of points (to wit, one), but this moves me from a five-way tie for 11th place to sole possession of 11th place, and drops **Hal Briston** , **Shirley Ujest** , **Squonk** , and **Tom Scud** into 12th place. It also ruins my “efficiency.” Fooey. ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1653 "2012-05-21T05:03:01Z")
Checking back over all my picks, I found something interesting. This is over a month old, so sorry if somebody posted it and I missed it, but late popular bandwagon pick Raven Alexis has apparently had a “miraculous recovery” from her stage IV metastatic brain cancer and some are accusing her of having [faked the whole thing](http://aroundthe.net/random-wtf/raven-alexis-faked-having-stage-iv-terminal-brain-cancer/). ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1654 "2012-05-21T07:57:48Z")
So, Robin Gibbs is no longer “Staying Alive.” [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/05/20/bloomberg\_articlesM4CIBN0UQVI901-M4CJV.DTL](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/05/20/bloomberg_articlesM4CIBN0UQVI901-M4CJV.DTL) Should’ve twisted my theme list, “Saturday Night Dead”, to include him - he was often imitated on SNL. Plus, you know, the “Saturday Night Fever” thing. ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1655 "2012-05-21T09:52:27Z")
Well, last week was NOT the week to be a 71 year old Filipino comic book artist - we lost both [Ernie Chan](http://www.newsfromme.com/2012/05/18/ernie-chan-r-i-p/) and [Tony DeZuniga](http://www.newsfromme.com/2012/05/10/tony-dezuniga-r-i-p/) - Ernie on 5/16 and Tony on 5/11 ---
**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 21, 2012, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1656 "2012-05-21T11:41:49Z")
> [@Randy\_Seltzer](#): > > Checking back over all my picks, I found something interesting. This is over a month old, so sorry if somebody posted it and I missed it, but late popular bandwagon pick Raven Alexis has apparently had a “miraculous recovery” from her stage IV metastatic brain cancer and some are accusing her of having [faked the whole thing](http://aroundthe.net/random-wtf/raven-alexis-faked-having-stage-iv-terminal-brain-cancer/). Glad that was one band wagon I stayed off of. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1657 "2012-05-21T11:45:17Z")
> [@booklover](#): > > 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! Oh, that’s so sweet! 😉😛 ---
**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, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1658 "2012-05-21T12:52:51Z")
Let’s flash back to [Celebrity Deathpool 2001](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=1014695&postcount=150) for a moment and look at the top picks: 1. Ronald Reagan - died 2004 2. Robert Downey Jr. - still alive 3. Pope John Paul II - died 2005 4. Dudley Moore - died 2002 5. Dick Cheney - still alive 6. Boris Yeltsin - died 2007 7. Gerald Ford - died 2006 8. Mohammad Ali - still alive 9. Katharine Hepburn - died 2003 10. Darryl Strawberry - still alive 11. Kirk Douglas - still alive 12. Michael J. Fox - still alive 13. Bob Hope - died 2003 14. John Goodman - still alive 15. Richard Pryor - died 2005 16. Keith Richards - still alive 17. Elizabeth Taylor - died 2011 18. Yassir Arafat - died 2004 19. Johnny Carson - died 2005 20. Ted Kennedy - died 2009 21. Walter Cronkite - died 2009 22. George W. Bush - still alive 23. Andy Dick - still alive 24. Annette Funicello - still alive 25. Liza Minnelli - still alive 26. Paul Newman - died 2008 27. Strom Thurmond - died 2003 28. Dan Aykroyd - still alive 29. Johnny Cash - died 2003 30. Calista Flockhart - still alive 31. Stephen Hawking - still alive 32. Jesse Helms - died 2008 33. Adam Sandler - still alive 34. Ted Williams - died 2002 _Roughly half of the people we considered most likely to die in 2001 are still alive._ I can only conclude that we really suck at this game. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1659 "2012-05-21T12:55:13Z")
Not only are half still alive, but it looks like not a one actually died in 2001! ---
**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 21, 2012, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1660 "2012-05-21T13:03:54Z")
Dude, I’d forgotten how far gone Downey, Jr. was that we all assumed his death was imminent. Good on him for cleaning up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=82) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=84)