# 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:** 23
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/441 "2013-01-02T20:11:04Z")
So, it looks like Hugo Chavez suffered complications from his surgery three weeks ago and has been kept alive on life support machines since then. I think I now have 2 people in a coma on life support. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/442 "2013-01-02T20:39:06Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > **Fear Itself** , **Eliahna** is indeed correct. Too bad, you posted so close to midnight and didn’t list any alternates. But you can still play with twelve, > [@The\_Vorlon](#): > > 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… NEXT year, get a place holder list up ahead of time for those last minute snafus. I feel for you with the cold hours, a cousin(s) of your knuckleheads did the same thing here early Christmas morning. About 150 houses out for 12 hours. Have a Plan Death. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/443 "2013-01-02T20:43:49Z")
> [@The\_Vorlon](#): > > 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… You should put up your list anyway. It won’t count officially but you can play along with the rest of us for fun. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/444 "2013-01-02T21:07:15Z")
Lindsey Lohan William Shatner Dennis Rodman Frederick Pohl Betty White Charley Sheen Warren Buffett Jerry Sandusky Keith Richards Justin Bieber Alan Alda Meadowlark Lemon Alternates… Billy Graham\* Vince Dooley Bobby Bowden\*\* \*I had Michael Jordan at this spot, then realized that centi-millionaires usually don’t die in their 40s. 😉 \*\* Really wanted to put “Best Buy” in this position, but didn’t know if companies were eligible. If I’m too late to submit, so be it. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2013, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/445 "2013-01-02T21:20:55Z")
> [@Rules](#): > > 1. All picks must be time- and date-stamped by midnight Chicago time, Dec. 31st, 2012. (That’s U.S. Central time, which is six hours behind Greenwich.) Yup. Too late. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/446 "2013-01-02T21:41:58Z")
**[Patti Page, Honey-Voiced '50s Pop Sensation, Dies at 85](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/arts/music/patti-page-singer-dies-at-85.html)** ---
**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, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/447 "2013-01-02T21:53:19Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > **[Patti Page, Honey-Voiced '50s Pop Sensation, Dies at 85](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/arts/music/patti-page-singer-dies-at-85.html)** Thought she died years ago. > [@BobArrgh](#): > > So, it looks like Hugo Chavez suffered complications from his surgery three weeks ago and has been kept alive on life support machines since then. I think I now have 2 people in a coma on life support. Me too. Would have preferred he went last year for points but I’ll take what i can get. And I would have liked to have had Sharon’s points in 2006 but what can you (legally) do? ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/448 "2013-01-02T22:52:23Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > If I’m too late to submit, so be it. We need to add a “Missed it by THAT much” award for the first list to come in after the deadline. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/449 "2013-01-02T23:14:15Z")
> [@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). Yeah, we’re a bunch of sick ghouls, but not _that_ sick! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/450 "2013-01-02T23:19:29Z")
> [@zoog](#): > > We need to add a “Missed it by THAT much” award for the first list to come in after the deadline. I can’t play, yet I’m still a winner. I love this game! 😉 See y’all next year. Is there a email “reminder” list that I can get on, sorta like the “Feud” lists? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/451 "2013-01-02T23:25:49Z")
In case I forget to say it throughout the year - Thank you, Baker!!! There. Now I don’t have to worry about that. ---
**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, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/452 "2013-01-02T23:25:57Z")
**JohnT** , entries start each December 1. So during the year you can tweak a list, then wait for the thread to open. A lot of us ghouls can’t wait to begin. For the last two years I’ve waited up for midnight to open the thread for entries. ---
**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, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/453 "2013-01-02T23:38:17Z")
Yay, I just learned something! A poster asked if I could send them the spreadsheets for 2012, so they could learn how to do stuff like this. I’m ashamed to admit I wan’t entirely sure how to do that, send a spreadsheet I mean. But I poked around and thought I figured it out. Just now got notice that the sheets went through! Those are the completed sheets from 2012, so they can see how I mark and list totals, the celebs chosen, and so on. I feel good. ---
**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, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/454 "2013-01-02T23:48:34Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Me too. Would have preferred he went last year for points but I’ll take what i can get. And I would have liked to have had Sharon’s points in 2006 but what can you (legally) do? Yes, when only the most quick witted of us had him! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/455 "2013-01-03T00:02:43Z")
Seventy three players have Chavez this year, only twenty five last year. ---
**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 3, 2013, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/456 "2013-01-03T00:04:17Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > “Baker, Our Beloved Death Mistress, determines that!” CP exclaimed, sucking up. Just thought the group could save her a bit of trouble with some “self-policing”. 😃 All hail the Beloved Death Mistress! ---
**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 3, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/457 "2013-01-03T00:17:15Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Just thought the group could save her a bit of trouble with some “self-policing”. 😃 > > All hail the Beloved Death Mistress! Were you a hallway monitor in school? :rolleyes: ---
**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 3, 2013, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/458 "2013-01-03T03:49:43Z")
[This is promising](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/02/venezuelans-rumours-hugo-chavez-death) for we seventy three, we happy few…er, happy whose name is legion. :rolleyes: ---
**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 3, 2013, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/459 "2013-01-03T12:57:31Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Seventy three players have Chavez this year, only twenty five last year. I think only 5 of us had Sharon in 2006. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/460 "2013-01-03T14:11:30Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I usually try to post my list with a little more description, but I’m kind of in a rush to get to a New Year’s Eve party, so I’ll just post the basic list. I have chosen for personal reasons to define celebrity as anyone who has their own Wikipedia page, for what that’s worth. > > Jack Pardee > George H.W. Bush > Peter Harvey > Hugo Chavez > Bonnie Franklin > Van Cilburn > Cardinal Francis George > Diem Brown > Ryan Buell > John Nash > Lindsay Lohan > Derryn Hinch > Sir Henry Cecil In case the Death Mistress missed it, I would like to point out a typo in my list: Van Cilburn should be Van Cliburn. Sorry about that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=24)