# The Celebrity Death Pool 2013 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2012, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655 "2012-12-01T05:59:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 22
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/421 "2013-01-01T18:22:11Z")
Are any of my picks Unique? ---
**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:** [January 1, 2013, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/422 "2013-01-01T19:20:44Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Are any of my picks Unique? Just Bednarik, if the name is spelled correctly. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/423 "2013-01-01T19:29:04Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Just Bednarik, if the name is spelled correctly. If I’m thinking like you, there’s no “c” missing. Searching the thread, Doyle Brunson is also a unique pick for me. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/424 "2013-01-01T19:31:38Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > If I’m thinking like you, there’s no “c” missing. I don’t know who he is. I just did a search on this thread with your spelling; if somebody else has him with a different spelling, it wouldn’t show up. ---
**Author:** ![otisredn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@otisredn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otisredn)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/425 "2013-01-01T20:12:44Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > I would like to welcome OtisRedn to the Dead Pool. I’ve known Otis since Kindergarten, ten thousand years ago. First grade actually Shirley (went to Upton for kindergarten). So that would be 9,999 years 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/426 "2013-01-02T01:59:58Z")
George H.W. doesn’t even make it to March. Watch. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/427 "2013-01-02T03:01:49Z")
So if I submitted 10 celebs and 3 alternates (because I wasn’t paying attention) do those 3 now become part of my 13? Pretty Please? ---
**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:** [January 2, 2013, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/428 "2013-01-02T03:04:23Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > So if I submitted 10 celebs and 3 alternates (because I wasn’t paying attention) do those 3 now become part of my 13? Pretty Please? That’s how it’s been before. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/429 "2013-01-02T03:20:36Z")
I’m OK with that. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2013, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/430 "2013-01-02T03:28:44Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > I’m OK with that. “Baker, Our Beloved Death Mistress, determines that!” CP exclaimed, sucking up. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/431 "2013-01-02T03:57:13Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I don’t know who he is. I just did a search on this thread with your spelling; if somebody else has him with a different spelling, it wouldn’t show up. He was a football player in the 50’s. (BTW, Doyle Brunson is the poker icon) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/432 "2013-01-02T10:51:36Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > So if I submitted 10 celebs and 3 alternates (because I wasn’t paying attention) do those 3 now become part of my 13? Pretty Please? Yes, I do have you with thirteen, the ten plus the three. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/433 "2013-01-02T12:59:46Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > “Baker, Our Beloved Death Mistress, determines that!” CP exclaimed, sucking up. If you’re not going to suck up to someone with the title “Death Mistress”, then whom would you suck up to? ---
**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:** [January 2, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/434 "2013-01-02T13:47:15Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > If you’re not going to suck up to someone with the title “Death Mistress”, then whom would you suck up to? Damn straight! ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/435 "2013-01-02T13:55:20Z")
Thank goodness there’s a no under 18s rule. In another forum I frequent, people are listing the royal baby (albeit to a certain amount of protest). ---
**Author:** ![Bewildebeest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bewildebeest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bewildebeest)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/436 "2013-01-02T15:09:24Z")
> [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](#): > > Thank goodness there’s a no under 18s rule. In another forum I frequent, people are listing the royal baby (albeit to a certain amount of protest). Rule 3-d. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/437 "2013-01-02T16:43:03Z")
Looks like I get to play at home this year, one of the local knuckleheads decided to violate a law of physics with his car and a telephone pole NYE. Nothing says New Years Eve like sitting in the dark with six UPS’s meeping for three hours, and the house getting colder… ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/438 "2013-01-02T17:25:23Z")
Thank you, O Death Mistress! ---
**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:** [January 2, 2013, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/439 "2013-01-02T19:11:05Z")
> [@](#): > > ROTWOOD, Ohio (AP) David “Salt” Walther, the former auto and hydroplane racer who was severely burned in a spectacular crash in the 1973 Indianapolis 500, has died. He was 65.The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office confirmed the death Friday, saying Walther was reported dead Thursday night and that the cause of death hadn’t been determined.Walther also drove briefly in NASCAR, finishing 12th in the 1976 Daytona 500. [http://sports.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/racing/story.asp?i=20121228214304859043008](http://sports.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/racing/story.asp?i=20121228214304859043008) Last year’s death not reported. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/440 "2013-01-02T19:25:13Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > [http://sports.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/racing/story.asp?i=20121228214304859043008](http://sports.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/racing/story.asp?i=20121228214304859043008) > > Last year’s death not reported. It was mentioned [in last year’s thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15848791&postcount=2969) Also, [Ray Collins](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-ray-collins-20130102,0,3447047.story), who brought Frank Zappa into the Mothers of Invention, died on Christmas Eve at the age of 75. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=23)