# 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:** 95
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1882 "2012-06-26T22:11:01Z")
[Nora Ephron.](http://www.wowowow.com/liz-smith/liz-smith-on-nora-ephron/) Uh, maybe,[not so dead…](http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2012/06/wowowow-prematurely-publishes-nora-ephrons-obituary/53949/) :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1883 "2012-06-26T23:28:02Z")
[50 Cent in the hospital.](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/50-cent-car-accident-hospital-341769) … Because the car behind his couldn’t stop on a Dime. …He was Quartered in the hospital for a few hours and later released. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1884 "2012-06-26T23:32:22Z")
I wouldn’t give a nickel for his chances. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1885 "2012-06-26T23:42:28Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I wouldn’t give a nickel for his chances. He’s already out. That, and he’s been shot something like 6 times. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1886 "2012-06-26T23:44:42Z")
What, should I have capitalized nickel? ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1887 "2012-06-26T23:46:48Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > He’s already out. > > That, and he’s been shot something like 6 times. Make that 9. Via Wiki; On May 24, 2000, Jackson was attacked by a gunman, alleged to be Darryl “Hommo” Baum, outside his grandmother’s former home in South Jamaica, Queens. He went into a friend’s car, but was asked to return to the house to get jewelry. His son was in the house, while his grandmother was in the front yard.[10] Upon returning to the back seat of the car and already seated, another car pulled up nearby. An assailant then walked up to Jackson’s left side with a 9mm handgun and fired nine shots at close range. \*\*He was shot nine times: in the hand (a round hit his right thumb, to where the bullet passed through and out his little finger), arm, hip, both legs, chest, and his face (his left cheek).[9][14][28] \*\* ---
**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 26, 2012, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1888 "2012-06-26T23:55:48Z")
Shot nine times? At a nickel per shot, it means then that the next shot will be the money one! Jumps into basket… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1889 "2012-06-27T00:15:40Z")
He sounds like prime DeathPool material but nobody has him. _“I’m not dead yet!”_ ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1890 "2012-06-27T00:16:57Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > [Nora Ephron.](http://www.wowowow.com/liz-smith/liz-smith-on-nora-ephron/) > Uh, maybe,[not so dead…](http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2012/06/wowowow-prematurely-publishes-nora-ephrons-obituary/53949/) :smack: My cousin is married to her niece! I would’ve heard about it! ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1891 "2012-06-27T00:43:04Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > My cousin is married to her niece! I would’ve heard about it! Well then I’m sorry to say that the [L.A. Times](http://www.latimes.com/news/breaking-nora-ephron-dies-20120626,0,4350695.story) and other major news outlets are now reporting her death. ---
**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 27, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1892 "2012-06-27T01:26:32Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > Well then I’m sorry to say that the [L.A. Times](http://www.latimes.com/news/breaking-nora-ephron-dies-20120626,0,4350695.story) and other major news outlets are now reporting her death. Wouldn’t be the first time they got something wrong because they got it off the internet. I’d wait until tomorrow to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1893 "2012-06-27T02:04:23Z")
Well, it won’t affect the pool, nobody has/had her. ---
**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 27, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1894 "2012-06-27T04:12:22Z")
Her passing is being reported on the NYT website now with confirmation by her son Jacob Bernstein. I think that settles it. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1895 "2012-06-27T21:53:12Z")
[Michael Jackson’s Tiger.](http://news.yahoo.com/michael-jacksons-tiger-dies-lung-cancer-201114884.html) Which, shouldn’t really surprise me. The cause of death, however, does. Lung Cancer Yeah. I don’t understand how that happens either. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1896 "2012-06-27T22:50:48Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > Yeah. I don’t understand how that happens either. Like [this](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UN7wPjdKdmc/TROMoF-0qhI/AAAAAAAAC3Q/wLeMrTrona8/s1600/smoking%2Btiger%2Bcropped.png)? ---
**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:** [June 28, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1897 "2012-06-28T00:48:55Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > Like [this](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UN7wPjdKdmc/TROMoF-0qhI/AAAAAAAAC3Q/wLeMrTrona8/s1600/smoking%2Btiger%2Bcropped.png)? [Or this](http://www.flickr.com/photos/28285678@N00/6271290299/) ---
**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:** [June 28, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1898 "2012-06-28T00:51:26Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > 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. I’m pulling for Sandusky to bite it! Go Jerry Go! Listen to the Voices inside your head! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1899 "2012-06-28T00:58:34Z")
We are _ **SO** _ going to Hell!😃 ---
**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 28, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1900 "2012-06-28T01:06:59Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > We are _ **SO** _ going to Hell!😃 But there is good company in the hand basket. Did anybody bring beer? ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679/1901 "2012-06-28T03:03:57Z")
[Don Grady](http://www.tmz.com/2012/06/27/don-grady-dies-my-three-sons-star-dead-at-68/), who played Robbie on My Three Sons, dead at age 68. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=94) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679.md?page=96)