# 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:** 94
**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, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1862 "2012-06-22T18:04:40Z")
Of course it’s a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1863 "2012-06-22T18:31:47Z")
Yeah, everyone knows that LeRoy Neiman played Geordi, not Spock. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1864 "2012-06-23T11:33:05Z")
> [@Sandusky guilty on 45 counts.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandusky-guilty-on-45-counts/626033/6): > > I’m predicting Sandusky will be dead before the end of the year. And not necessarily by murder or suicide. But he’s 68 years old, he’s had no prison experience, and he has nothing to live for. As I said over in the Sandusky thread, eleven players have Sandusky. If he dies this year, before his age changes, the most dramatic difference in the standings would be that Shirley Ujest would jump from a tie for twelfth place to sole possession of fourth place. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2012, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1865 "2012-06-23T11:38:23Z")
You do realise that if Sandusky dies this year, I will leap from equal last to… well still equal last. Now, that is great tipping! ---
**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:** [June 24, 2012, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1866 "2012-06-24T23:55:54Z")
[San Diego Padres](http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/8091556/san-diego-padres-bullpen-coach-akerfelds-dies-cancer) bullpen coach Darrel Akerfelds, who pitched for five seasons in the major leagues, died Sunday pancreatic cancer. He was 50. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1867 "2012-06-25T00:11:09Z")
> [@](#): > > Alex Trebek, host of the game show “Jeopardy!,” has been hospitalized and is under observation after suffering a mild heart attack Saturday. Trebek, 71, was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and is undergoing further testing, according to a statement from Sony Pictures Entertainment, which produces the show. [http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/alex-trebek-jeopardy-host-suffers-heart-attack-45356](http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/alex-trebek-jeopardy-host-suffers-heart-attack-45356) ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1868 "2012-06-25T00:13:08Z")
> [@](#): > > QUITO, June 24 (Reuters) - Lonesome George, the last remaining tortoise of his kind and a conservation icon, died on Sunday of unknown causes, the Galapagos National Park said. He was thought to be about 100 years old. Lonesome George was found in 1972 and had become a symbol of Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands, which attracted some 180,000 visitors last year. > > “This morning the park ranger in charge of looking after the tortoises found Lonesome George, his body was motionless,” the head of the Galapagos National Park, Edwin Naula, told Reuters. “His life cycle came to an end.” > > George was believed to be around 100 years old and the last member of a species of giant tortoise from La Pinta, one of the smallest islands in the Galapagos, the Galapagos National Park said. [Lonesome George Dead: Last-Of-His-Kind Galapagos Tortoise Dies At 100 | HuffPost Impact](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/24/lonesome-george-dead_n_1622816.html) ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1869 "2012-06-25T00:35:49Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > [http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/alex-trebek-jeopardy-host-suffers-heart-attack-45356](http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/alex-trebek-jeopardy-host-suffers-heart-attack-45356) **Obligatory joke warning :** Does this put his life into Jeopardy! ? ---
**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:** [June 25, 2012, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1870 "2012-06-25T00:44:44Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > “This morning the park ranger in charge of looking after the tortoises found Lonesome George, his body was motionless,” “Though we will let him be for a couple of weeks, just to be sure.” ---
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1871 "2012-06-25T03:08:09Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [San Diego Padres](http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/8091556/san-diego-padres-bullpen-coach-akerfelds-dies-cancer) bullpen coach Darrel Akerfelds, who pitched for five seasons in the major leagues, died Sunday pancreatic cancer. He was 50. He fought a couragous fight against a mighty foe. And in the end he put me in sole possession of first place, I believe. Apparently going off net is a good thing for death pooling, went camping for 4 days last month and had 2 people croak. Only gone for the weekend this time … but again points … and better yet, CAMJAY77 didn’t have him. Condolences to his family. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1872 "2012-06-25T18:13:03Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1873 "2012-06-25T20:20:18Z")
Yes, Registered at Last is now in sole possession of first place. Akerfelds had five players choose him and four of those are in the top five places. The following is a list of those with over 100 points. Registered at Last 324 8 CAMJAY77 274 7 Walkabout 242 6 MsWhatsit 225 6 Randy Seltzer 214 6 GIGObuster 211 6 Captain Lance Murdoch 191 5 Captain Klutz 180 5 Wheelz 178 5 phungi 176 5 zoog 167 4 Hal Briston 163 5 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 Fear Itself 131 3 It’s Not Rocket Surgery! 123 4 Jack Batty 123 4 notfrommensa 123 4 Eliahna 120 3 Mahaloth 120 4 carnivorousplant 105 3 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1874 "2012-06-25T22:21:52Z")
☹ what about the rest of us? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1875 "2012-06-25T22:28:10Z")
Rico 98 4 anyrose 96 3 Sarabellum 93 3 pohjonen 90 2 Dusty Rose 83 3 appleciders 82 3 Drain Bead 82 3 Tristan 82 3 VunderBob 81 2 cheldie 80 3 Duckster 80 3 Jeep’s Phoenix 80 3 J-P L 80 3 Kitten Mitten 80 3 Kolak of Twilo 80 3 kunilou 80 3 Quarter Lane 80 3 Tamex 80 3 candide 74 3 cadolphin 71 3 critter42 71 3 Borborygmi 67 2 Dolores Reborn 66 2 a35362 65 2 amarinth 65 2 Andrew 21 65 2 booklover 65 2 Boyo Jim 65 2 D N T 65 2 Dung Beetle 65 2 Gleena 65 2 HappyLendervedder 65 2 Little Nemo 65 2 Monstera deliciosa 65 2 Mustardseed 65 2 superbia-acedia 65 2 swampbear 65 2 Sternvogel 60 3 Dr. Girlfriend 58 2 Antigen 56 2 imthjckaz 56 2 BACI 55 1 clipper 53 2 Labtrash 53 2 malkavia 45 2 Tangent 45 2 Mean Mr. Mustard 43 1 Duke 42 2 Eleanor of Aquitaine 42 2 The Vorlon 42 2 Bewildebeest 38 1 cugel 38 1 Maus Magill 38 1 meghan 38 1 Mona Lott 38 1 Nefarious Chipmunk 38 1 rachelellogram 38 1 SpazCat 38 1 Spoiler Virgin 37 2 twickster 37 1 arnesw 34 2 Long Time First Time 33 2 anactoria 27 1 Avarie537 27 1 cardboardbox 27 1 freckafree 27 1 lel 27 1 Small Hen 27 1 The Librarian 27 1 tygre 27 1 sigmagirl 25 2 Johnny L.A. 24 2 audit1 21 1 drastic quench 18 1 etv 18 1 missred 18 1 Paul in Qatar 18 1 rucciface 18 1 tarragon 18 1 Idle Thoughts 16 2 Auntie Pam 15 1 chizzuk 15 1 Enuma Elish 15 1 Hockey Monkey 15 1 Lsura 15 1 MOIDALIZE 15 1 not what you’d expect 15 1 Spiff 15 1 garygnu 9 1 Paul Parkhead 9 1 zamboniracer 7 1 If Registered at Last can do this for a couple years more he’ll be up there with the legendary Rachm Qoch. I mean, RAL has broken the 300-point ceiling and has had eight of his thirteen picks pass. No unique picks, but still. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1876 "2012-06-25T22:30:03Z")
Cool. I’m in second place of the \<100 crowd. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1877 "2012-06-25T22:40:44Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > Cool. I’m in second place of the \<100 crowd. 🙂 Sole possession of 30th place!!!😃 ---
**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 26, 2012, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1878 "2012-06-26T00:09:20Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > Cool. I’m in second place of the \<100 crowd. 🙂 > [@Baker](#): > > Sole possession of 30th place!!!😃 23rd all by myself! ---
**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:** [June 26, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1879 "2012-06-26T00:16:31Z")
I have the highest score of all those with three decedents. ---
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1880 "2012-06-26T01:25:55Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > If Registered at Last can do this for a couple years more he’ll be up there with the legendary Rachm Qoch. I mean, RAL has broken the 300-point ceiling and has had eight of his thirteen picks pass. No unique picks, but still. Ahhm … I know the name is rather gender neutral (in fact I think of it as Reg) … but I am a she! Woo Hoo … First! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1881 "2012-06-26T01:35:57Z")
> [@Registered\_at\_Last](#): > > Ahhm … I know the name is rather gender neutral (in fact I think of it as Reg) … but I am a she! > > Woo Hoo … First! I should know better, so am I!:smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=93) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=95)