# 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:** 38
**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:** [February 19, 2013, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/741 "2013-02-19T04:01:30Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Laker’s owner Jerry Buss dead at 21 points. Aw crap! I missed the Buss! ---
**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:** [February 19, 2013, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/742 "2013-02-19T08:37:55Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Although I watched the PBS reruns of The Good Life more to look at Felicity Kendall. One of my first TV crushes. Me too. Coincidentally, I happened across an episode of The Good Life just the other night. First time I’d watched it in 15+ years. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/743 "2013-02-21T15:47:40Z")
[A Different World star Lou Myers dead at 77](http://www.13abc.com/story/21296375/a-different-world-star-lou-myers-dead-at-77) ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Andrew\_21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_21)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/744 "2013-02-21T22:17:14Z")
Self-help author [Debbie Ford](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/21/books/debbie-ford-57-author-of-motivational-books.html?_r=0) has died. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/745 "2013-02-21T23:04:44Z")
Guess she just couldn’t help herself. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/746 "2013-02-21T23:21:29Z")
^ That’s the thread winner! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/747 "2013-02-21T23:21:43Z")
And\*\* carnivorousplant\*\* gets 43 points, with the death of Ms. Ford. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/748 "2013-02-22T00:45:15Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > And\*\* carnivorousplant\*\* gets 43 points, with the death of Ms. Ford. Cool. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/749 "2013-02-22T01:17:15Z")
Here’s the current standings 1 CowPatty 63 1 1 2 carnivorousplant 43 1 1 3 Captain Klutz 33 1 0 3 Cumbrian 33 1 0 5 jeezums 29 1 0 5 Registered at Last 29 1 0 5 Spiff 29 1 0 8 Andrew21 20 2 0 9 CreaseMunky 12 1 0 9 kayT 12 1 0 9 Mehitabel 12 1 0 12 batsto 11 1 1 13 5 time champ 8 1 0 13 etv78 8 1 0 13 Tazmanian Devil 8 1 0 13 zamboniracer 8 1 0 17 Spazcat 6 1 1 ---
**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:** [February 22, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/750 "2013-02-22T02:36:19Z")
Top 20 finish last year, still in the top 20 this year. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/751 "2013-02-22T02:59:56Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Top 20 finish last year, still in the top 20 this year. So we are. :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:** [February 22, 2013, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/752 "2013-02-22T13:34:50Z")
Chavez breathing [problems](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/hugo-chavez-breathing_n_2737805.html). The problem is he’s still breathing. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/753 "2013-02-22T13:47:02Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Chavez breathing [problems](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/hugo-chavez-breathing_n_2737805.html). The problem is he’s still breathing. 🙂 ---
**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:** [February 22, 2013, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/754 "2013-02-22T15:57:27Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Chavez breathing [problems](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/hugo-chavez-breathing_n_2737805.html). The problem is he’s still breathing. The Doper vultures are circling again. Too many of us have been denied too long this year. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/755 "2013-02-22T18:34:15Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > The Doper vultures are circling again. Too many of us have been denied too long this year. Unlike normal vultures, Doper Vultures identify their prey in advance, and sometimes circle for years… ---
**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:** [February 22, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/756 "2013-02-22T20:35:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Cleotha Staples, one of the founding members of the renowned Chicago soul and gospel group the Staple Singers, died Thursday at the age of 78. She had been suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease for 12 years, and had been under 24-hour home care. Her longtime caretaker was with her when she died at 11:11 a.m. Thursday in her high-rise condominium on the South Side, according to her sister, Mavis Staples. [http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/turnitup/chi-cleotha-staples-dead-20130222,0,3210098.column](http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/turnitup/chi-cleotha-staples-dead-20130222,0,3210098.column) [I’ll Take You There](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHpoGK1aX5Y) from 1972. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/757 "2013-02-23T04:23:21Z")
> [@mehgs](#): > > [Mindy McCready Dead -- Country Music Star Dies of Suicide](http://www.tmz.com/2013/02/17/mindy-mccready-dead-dies-suicide/) > > Mindy McReady dies of apparent suicide. > > Dammit I missed this one. I was going for a theme of Dr Drew’s rehab patients and other high risk drug addicts but I forgot about Mindy. I missed too. She would have fit right into my themed list. It happens when you don’t research enough. Or at all. > [@Loach](#): > > Top 20 finish last year, still in the top 20 this year. And the way things are going again this year, this is the highest I will be. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2013, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/758 "2013-02-23T13:13:57Z")
Chris Snider, popular TV weatherman for Fox affiliate KQDS in Duluth, Minnesota, [dead at 29, from bone cancer.](http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/259556/) ---
**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:** [February 23, 2013, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/759 "2013-02-23T14:27:09Z")
Chavez update. [Oh, Hell.](http://www.voxxi.com/rigoberta-menchu-hugo-chavez-healing/) ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655/760 "2013-02-23T14:31:23Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Chavez update. > > [Oh, Hell.](http://www.voxxi.com/rigoberta-menchu-hugo-chavez-healing/) Woo-hoo! Once they start using Mayan crystals or whatever, you know they’re circling the drain. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=37) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655.md?page=39)