# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2012, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/41 "2012-12-02T22:12:16Z")
My mostly evil theme didn’t work out so well for me this year, so I guess I need to rethink my strategy. Maybe I’ll just copy one from each of the next 13 posts. I couldn’t do much worse anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Bilbo1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@Bilbo1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bilbo1967)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/42 "2012-12-02T23:23:01Z")
No theme, just guesses. Queen Elizabeth Paul Gascoigne Alex Ferguson Britney Spears Stephen Hawking Joan Rivers Graham Norton Charlie Sheen Neil Tennant Neil Kinnock Jonny Buckland Mark Wahlberg Clint Eastwood ---
**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:** [December 3, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/43 "2012-12-03T15:05:36Z")
I’ve been following the Death Pool for years and now I want to dip my toe in. I’ve mostly picked old people so I guess I’m going for quantity, not quality. (I also wanted Koko the Gorilla but she’s disqualified under the Not Human rule. Phooey. How many 41-year-old gorillas are there?) So here’s my list. Let’s see how I do: Dan “Grizzly Adams” Haggerty Sandy Koufax Jerry Lewis Lindsay “Gen Y Train Wreck Female Poster Child” Lohan Edward Furlong, Lindsay’s male counterpart Bobby Brown June “Rocket J Squirrel” Foray Francine “Penny” Patterson, Koko’s Trainer Connie Stevens Annette Funicello Alternates Ed Asner Gavin MacLeod Abe “I ain’t never gonna die!” Vigoda Plain text form: Dan Haggerty Sandy Koufax Jerry Lewis Lindsay Lohan Edward Furlong Bobby Brown June Foray Francine Penny Patterson Connie Stevens Annette Funicello Ed Asner Gavin MacLeod Abe Vigoda ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/44 "2012-12-03T15:56:16Z")
And it all ended with a Big Bang (Bang!) Johnny Galecki Jim Parsons Simon Helberg Kunal Nayyar Kevin Sussman Wil Wheaton Kaley Cuoco Sara Gilbert Melissa Rauch Mayim Bialik Laurie Metcalf Carol Ann Susi Vernee Watson ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/45 "2012-12-03T16:08:28Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > I’ve been following the Death Pool for years and now I want to dip my toe in. I’ve mostly picked old people so I guess I’m going for quantity, not quality. (I also wanted Koko the Gorilla but she’s disqualified under the Not Human rule. Phooey. How many 41-year-old gorillas are there?) Thought koko had bought the farm. Wow. Guess not. One wonders if she will have meaningful “last words”. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/46 "2012-12-03T17:11:45Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > I’ve been following the Death Pool for years and now I want to dip my toe in. I’ve mostly picked old people so I guess I’m going for quantity, not quality. (I also wanted Koko the Gorilla but she’s disqualified under the Not Human rule. Phooey. How many 41-year-old gorillas are there?) > > So here’s my list. Let’s see how I do: > > Dan “Grizzly Adams” Haggerty > Sandy Koufax > Jerry Lewis > Lindsay “Gen Y Train Wreck Female Poster Child” Lohan > Edward Furlong, Lindsay’s male counterpart > Bobby Brown > June “Rocket J Squirrel” Foray > Francine “Penny” Patterson, Koko’s Trainer > Connie Stevens > Annette Funicello > > Alternates > Ed Asner > Gavin MacLeod > Abe “I ain’t never gonna die!” Vigoda > > Plain text form: > > Dan Haggerty > Sandy Koufax > Jerry Lewis > Lindsay Lohan > Edward Furlong > Bobby Brown > June Foray > Francine Penny Patterson > Connie Stevens > Annette Funicello > Ed Asner > Gavin MacLeod > Abe Vigoda You’ve got only ten names, plus three alternates. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/47 "2012-12-03T18:52:42Z")
N/M ---
**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:** [December 3, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/48 "2012-12-03T19:07:24Z")
Some comments for the less well known. [FONT=Trebuchet MS]David Miscavige (Scientology)[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Warren Jeffs [/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]James Dobson[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Tony Alamo (Sex w/minors - cult)[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Joseph Ratzinger[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Fred Phelps[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Jimmy Swaggart[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Charles Manson[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Kent Hovind (Tax protester - YEC)[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]W. V. Grant (Tax evasion - fake healer)[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Billy Graham (not the wrestler)[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]George Alan Rekers (Expert witness (not) - rent boy fame)[/FONT] [FONT=Courier New][FONT=Trebuchet MS]Pat Robertson[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Alts:[/FONT] [FONT=Courier New][FONT=Trebuchet MS]Franklin Graham (Billy’s son)[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Terry Jones (Koran burner - not Monty Python)[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Richard Roberts (Oral’s son)[/FONT] [/FONT] [/FONT] Clean List [FONT=Trebuchet MS]David Miscavige [/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Warren Jeffs [/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]James Dobson[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Tony Alamo [/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Joseph Ratzinger [/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Fred Phelps[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Jimmy Swaggart[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Charles Manson[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Kent Hovind [/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]W. V. Grant [/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Billy Graham [/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]George Alan Rekers [/FONT] [FONT=Courier New][FONT=Trebuchet MS]Pat Robertson[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Alts:[/FONT] [FONT=Courier New][FONT=Trebuchet MS]Franklin Graham[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Terry Jones [/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]Richard Roberts [/FONT][/FONT] [/FONT] ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/49 "2012-12-03T19:55:10Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > Dan “Grizzly Adams” Haggerty Wow, I thought he was already gone. [adds him to my 2013 list] ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/50 "2012-12-03T20:04:26Z")
Do people actually buy the MacCauley Culkin rumors? ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/51 "2012-12-03T20:13:52Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Do people actually buy the MacCauley Culkin rumors? Sure. They finally got Amy Winehouse right… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/52 "2012-12-03T20:26:00Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Do people actually buy the MacCauley Culkin rumors? It’s like lemmings. If so many people have it, it must be true. Ask that bitch from last year, Raven Alexis. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/53 "2012-12-03T22:21:23Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > You’ve got only ten names, plus three alternates. Sorry, brain fart. :smack: I’m used to lists being 10 of something plus alternates. At any rate I have my 13. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/54 "2012-12-03T23:22:46Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > And it all ended with a Big Bang (Bang!) > > Johnny Galecki > Jim Parsons > Simon Helberg > Kunal Nayyar > Kevin Sussman > Wil Wheaton > Kaley Cuoco > Sara Gilbert > Melissa Rauch > Mayim Bialik > Laurie Metcalf > Carol Ann Susi > Vernee Watson You getting points would make me sad. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/55 "2012-12-03T23:23:53Z")
**Baker** -In your term as Mistress, has anyone had a pick you’ve never heard of? ---
**Author:** ![applebetty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@applebetty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/applebetty)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/56 "2012-12-04T00:13:00Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > That looks an awful lot like my 2011 Laugh-In Alumni list. I got my list from IMDB and Wiki research- I swear I’m not smart enough to copy. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/57 "2012-12-04T01:43:37Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > **Baker** -In your term as Mistress, has anyone had a pick you’ve never heard of? Of the forty-three celebrities that have died so far in 2012, I’d say that about one in four were unfamiliar to me. So I do check the links on those but everything has been cool. See, I don’t know the world of sports well, and there have been some criminal and entertainment figures that are outside my sphere. I’m more into literary figures, movie actors, politicians and a few others. Here’s an example of a unique pick for Walkabout that I’d never heard of at all, but seems to have been a truly important figure(worth 32 points too!) [http://iamkoream.com/obituary-young-woo-kang-advocate-for-the-disabled-dies-at-68/](http://iamkoream.com/obituary-young-woo-kang-advocate-for-the-disabled-dies-at-68/) ---
**Author:** ![Carlos\_Spicy\_Weiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@Carlos\_Spicy\_Weiner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carlos_Spicy_Weiner)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/58 "2012-12-04T07:04:00Z")
Alright 2013 lets do this… as long as the rapture doesn’t happen on Dec 21st . Lindsay Lohan Amanda Bynes Nelson Mandela George H.W. Bush Clint Eastwood Paula Deen Zsa Zsa Gabor Joan Rivers Hugh Heffner Russell Brand Bobby Brown Yoko Ono Joseph Ratzinger Alts: Micheal Vick Angus T. Jones Manuel Noriega ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/59 "2012-12-04T11:49:03Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Do people actually buy the MacCauley Culkin rumors? Was wondering this too. Also, still can’t comprehend that the star of Home Alone is agoraphobic. The two compliment each other IMHO. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2012, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/60 "2012-12-04T14:39:19Z")
There’s a few revisions on my list this year. I found out one of my co-workers is also a celebrity death follower, although she doesn’t play in any pools. She gave me a couple of recommendations. Let’s see if between us we have half a mind! THE LIST [Eli Wallach](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Wallach) (1915) - AKA “The Ugly” who had the best line in the whole movie. (“When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.” Hey, it made me fall off the couch laughing.) [Kirk Douglas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Douglas) (1916) - Wikipedia calls him “one of the last surviving actors from Hollywood’s ‘golden age’.” Golden ages don’t last forever and neither will he. [Beverly Cleary](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Cleary) (1916) - She, however, will live forever through Ramona and that motorcycle-riding mouse. Did anyone else think he was less cool once he got the car? [Zsa Zsa Gabor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zsa_zsa_gabor) (1917) - How many more years do we have to make “one foot in the grave” jokes, Ms. Gabor? Really now. [I.M. Pei](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.m._pei) (1917) - He designed a building in [Downtown My Fair City](http://www.flickr.com/photos/phoebe1158/3623434473/). It’s very shiny. [Billy Graham](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_graham) (1918) – This would be the Rev. Graham who is spending his declining years letting his loudmouth idiot son throw his name around to lend credibility to his nonsense. [Pauline Philips](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Phillips) (1918) – Dear Abby Sr. Not the one who’s currently writing the column; that’s her daughter Abby Jr. [Al Jaffee](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jaffee) (1921) - The reason why the back page of your Mad Magazine was always creased. (Did anyone else think that Mad had a distinctive smell?) [Margaret Thatcher](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher) (1925) – Love her or hate her, she’s still on my list. [Nelle Harper Lee](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee) (1926) - She did what she did well and she only had to do it once. [Ariel Sharon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_sharon) (1928) - I won’t give up on you, Mr. Sharon. You were the Zsa Zsa tease before Zsa Zsa. [Gene Wilder](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wilder) (1933) – My co-worker suggested this pick. I’m choosing him on faith, but I’d hate to see him go. [Ruth Bader Ginsberg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsberg) (1933) – The pancreatic cancer pick. You have to have at least one. ALTERNATES [Mikhail Gorbachev](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev) (1931) - The Abe Vigoda of international politics [Morley Safer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morley_Safer) (1931) - His Wikipedia page is very educational. Through clicking links I discovered that Joseph Gordon-Levitt was Tommy on _Third Rock from the Sun_. I did not know that. THE OFFICIAL PLAIN LIST Eli Wallach Kirk Douglas Beverly Cleary Zsa Zsa Gabor I.M. Pei Billy Graham Pauline Phillips Al Jaffee Margaret Thatcher Harper Lee Ariel Sharon Gene Wilder Ruth Bader Ginsberg ALTERNATES Mikhail Gorbachev Morley Safer [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=4)