# 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:** 29
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/561 "2013-01-16T19:37:46Z")
Bain is a unique pick for **batsto**! ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/562 "2013-01-16T20:10:40Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > You could have gotten big odds in the late 80’s that the last surviving major cast member of Diff’rent Strokes would be Todd Bridges! Well… Charlotte Rae is still with us. Don’t know if she counts as “major.” ---
**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 16, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/563 "2013-01-16T20:54:17Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Bain is a unique pick for **batsto**! So does this mean **batsto**! had some Bain capital no one else had? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/564 "2013-01-16T21:41:30Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > Conrad Bain is dead: Did he have just one hemorrhage or a Series of Diff’rent Strokes? ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/565 "2013-01-16T23:47:07Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Did he have just one hemorrhage or a Series of Diff’rent Strokes? See, I would facepalm if it weren’t for the fact that I logged in hoping someone hadn’t beat me to the Diff’rent Strokes angle…so do you have room for another passenger in that handbasket that’s headed for the nether realms? ---
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/566 "2013-01-17T00:40:46Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > did he have just one hemorrhage or a series of diff’rent strokes? baaaaa haaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaa!! ---
**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 17, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/567 "2013-01-17T02:36:26Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Did he have just one hemorrhage or a Series of Diff’rent Strokes? Post 559. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/568 "2013-01-17T19:06:55Z")
[Pauline Friedman Phillips](https://t.co/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbigstory.ap.org%2Farticle%2Fdear-abby-advice-columnist-dies-age-94&sig=06ff83a41f5b8f906b67af0307d390fea494a28d), who under the name of Abigail Van Buren, wrote the long-running “Dear Abby” advice column that was followed by millions of newspaper readers throughout the world, has died. She was 94. ---
**Author:** ![Craneop2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Craneop2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Craneop2)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/569 "2013-01-17T19:09:17Z")
AHEM… That will be fifty points deducted from NFM’s SDMB poker standings score! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/570 "2013-01-17T19:28:01Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > [Pauline Friedman Phillips](https://t.co/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbigstory.ap.org%2Farticle%2Fdear-abby-advice-columnist-dies-age-94&sig=06ff83a41f5b8f906b67af0307d390fea494a28d), who under the name of Abigail Van Buren, wrote the long-running “Dear Abby” advice column that was followed by millions of newspaper readers throughout the world, has died. She was 94. Add her to the list of people I thought died a long time ago. Maybe that was her sister “Ann Landers” I was thinking of? ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/571 "2013-01-17T19:39:16Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > [Pauline Friedman Phillips](https://t.co/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbigstory.ap.org%2Farticle%2Fdear-abby-advice-columnist-dies-age-94&sig=06ff83a41f5b8f906b67af0307d390fea494a28d), who under the name of Abigail Van Buren, wrote the long-running “Dear Abby” advice column that was followed by millions of newspaper readers throughout the world, has died. She was 94. And snopes thanks her (and Paul Harvey) for their existence. Never saw a piece of folklore she couldn’t pass on as fact… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/572 "2013-01-17T19:55:18Z")
She’s a unique pick for Spazcat. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/573 "2013-01-17T21:54:55Z")
[Chris Cassatt](http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20130117/NEWS/130119881/1077&ParentProfile=1058), most recently the cartoonist for the “Shoe” comic strip, has died at 66. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2013, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/574 "2013-01-17T23:06:47Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > [Pauline Friedman Phillips](https://t.co/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbigstory.ap.org%2Farticle%2Fdear-abby-advice-columnist-dies-age-94&sig=06ff83a41f5b8f906b67af0307d390fea494a28d), who under the name of Abigail Van Buren, wrote the long-running “Dear Abby” advice column that was followed by millions of newspaper readers throughout the world, has died. She was 94. > [@Baker](#): > > She’s a unique pick for Spazcat. BOOYAH! Um…ahem…I mean, so sorry for the loss of Abby Sr. I heard this on NPR on my way home today. My first thought was “I got points!” My second thought was “I have to compose a memorial post for her on my advice column blog.” My third thought was “I wonder how many other people had her?” I am made of classy. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/575 "2013-01-18T01:04:32Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > BOOYAH! Um…ahem…I mean, so sorry for the loss of Abby Sr. > > I heard this on NPR on my way home today. My first thought was “I got points!” My second thought was “I have to compose a memorial post for her on my advice column blog.” My third thought was “I wonder how many other people had her?” I am made of classy. Re: “I am made of Classy” IMO: Real class would have wanted to share points as a second thought, not a third thought. 😃 ---
**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:** [January 18, 2013, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/576 "2013-01-18T01:27:37Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > BOOYAH! Um…ahem…I mean, so sorry for the loss of Abby Sr. > > I heard this on NPR on my way home today. My first thought was “I got points!” My second thought was “I have to compose a memorial post for her on my advice column blog.” My third thought was “I wonder how many other people had her?” I am made of classy. Is that the first “get” of the year? Did you win the opening round award? ---
**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:** [January 18, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/577 "2013-01-18T01:50:00Z")
No, Christopher Martin-Jenkins was the [first death this year.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15850269&postcount=417) This is the earliest I’ve ever scored, though. And since I mentioned it in my earlier post, here’s my [tribute to Dear Abby, Sr.](http://agonyauntryl.livejournal.com/62968.html) ---
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/578 "2013-01-18T02:00:44Z")
No points for this death since he was executed but I thought that Robert Gleason’s last words uttered in Irish Gaelic might be of interest to this crew: “Pog mo thoin”[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/17/robert-gleason-execution\_n\_2497080.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl11%7Csec1\_lnk2%26pLid%3D258569](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/17/robert-gleason-execution_n_2497080.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl11%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D258569) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/579 "2013-01-18T03:30:45Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > No, Christopher Martin-Jenkins was the [first death this year.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15850269&postcount=417) This is the earliest I’ve ever scored, though. > > And since I mentioned it in my earlier post, here’s my [tribute to Dear Abby, Sr.](http://agonyauntryl.livejournal.com/62968.html) And Conrad Bain was the second death. Three down, how many to go? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/580 "2013-01-18T21:53:30Z")
[Gussy Moran](http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-gussy-moran-20130118,0,1457993.story), a tennis player whose skill was overshadowed by her wearing of a short skirt and lace panties during the 1949 Wimbledon tournament, has died at the age of 89. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=28) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=30)