# 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:** 93
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1841 "2012-06-19T22:24:41Z")
If he’s really most sincerely dead then eight people have him. I’ll keep an eye on this story, so as to be ready to award points when the guy goes into the ground. Since I’m assuming he’s Muslim they have to bury him within a fairly short period after he dies. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1842 "2012-06-20T02:04:21Z")
> [@sco3tt](#): > > Hosni Mubarak is reported to be [“clinically dead”](http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10814232). 😃 ---
**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:** [June 20, 2012, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1843 "2012-06-20T04:44:42Z")
And in the latest news, Generalissimo Hosni Mubarak is still “clinically dead” ---
**Author:** ![Cugel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cugel/32/1199_2.png) [@Cugel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cugel)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1844 "2012-06-20T08:40:44Z")
So… if someone dies, and then comes back to life, do you still get the points? And more points if they die again? ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1845 "2012-06-20T10:44:38Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > And in the latest news, Generalissimo Hosni Mubarak is still “clinically dead” Perhaps they’ll given him a Dick Cheney Heart suit, and then put him on a North Korean train with a bottle of Michael Jackson’s ““Milk””. \*\* I think normal death is dying. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1846 "2012-06-20T10:45:53Z")
> [@sco3tt](#): > > Hosni Mubarak is reported to be [“clinically dead”](http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10814232). 'e’s only \*mostly \*dead! Do we have a new member of the Ariel Sharon Club? I think we just might! ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1847 "2012-06-20T10:46:37Z")
> [@Cugel](#): > > So… if someone dies, and then comes back to life, do you still get the points? And more points if they die again? Does this mean I can vote Zombies? What about Zombie Threads? ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1848 "2012-06-20T10:48:30Z")
> [@sco3tt](#): > > Hosni Mubarak is reported to be [“clinically dead”](http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10814232). He joins the list along other things Clinically dead including MySpace, Yahoo! and AOL. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1850 "2012-06-20T16:09:15Z")
> [@Cugel](#): > > So… if someone dies, and then comes back to life, do you still get the points? And more points if they die again? The Jesus Christ Rule of 1998 declares that any person coming back to life or existing in a zombie state doesn’t add or subtract from the original points scored. There is no double dipping in the Death Pool. Once you’re dead, you’re dead, no matter how many times you appear on TV after your burial. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1851 "2012-06-20T17:32:50Z")
> [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > The Jesus Christ Rule of 1998 declares that any person coming back to life or > existing in a zombie state doesn’t add or subtract from the original points scored. > There is no double dipping in the Death Pool. Once you’re dead, you’re dead, no matter how many times you appear on TV after your burial. 😕 The half of me that thinks this is not a woosh begs for context. Then again, the third half of me just did the math, and wonders who the SDMB ninety-eighters would be… ---
**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:** [June 20, 2012, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1852 "2012-06-20T18:08:39Z")
Well, we did have a board in 1998, but I do not remember a Death Pool at all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1853 "2012-06-21T04:33:13Z")
[LeRoy Neiman](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/arts/leroy-neiman-prolific-painter-of-sports-dies-at-91.html?_r=1&hp) dead at 91. Damn. I had him on one of my early lists but took him off because I thought Nancy Reagan was a better bet to kick ye olde bucket. Did anyone get the 9 points? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1854 "2012-06-21T09:27:31Z")
No. no posters selected Neiman. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1855 "2012-06-21T12:55:45Z")
**Neiman!** /J. Seinfeld (Yes. I know It wasn’t) ---
**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:** [June 22, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1856 "2012-06-22T00:51:37Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > [LeRoy Neiman](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/arts/leroy-neiman-prolific-painter-of-sports-dies-at-91.html?_r=1&hp) dead at 91. > > Damn. I had him on one of my early lists but took him off because I thought Nancy Reagan was a better bet to kick ye olde bucket. > > Did anyone get the 9 points? Damn. I loved him as Spock. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2012, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1857 "2012-06-22T14:12:32Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > Damn. I loved him as Spock. That’s awesome. Leonard Nimoy might not think so, but I like it. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1858 "2012-06-22T16:09:49Z")
> [@Uncle\_Goat](#): > > That’s awesome. Leonard Nimoy might not think so, but I like it. Nanu nanu! ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1859 "2012-06-22T17:02:23Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > Damn. I loved him as Spock. > [@Eliahna](#): > > Nanu nanu! Reported. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1860 "2012-06-22T17:28:22Z")
That’s a joke, right? ---
**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:** [June 22, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1861 "2012-06-22T17:41:03Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > That’s a joke, right? Hard to tell these days. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=92) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=94)